It is exactly analogous to the way in which the truths of
astronomy and of geology have triumphed over universal
opposition. They were once anathematised as "infidel"; they
are now accepted as axiomatic. I cannot name a single student
or professor of any eminence in Great Britain who does not
accept, with more or less modification, the main conclusions
of the German school of critics.

This being the case, I ask, as a mere layman, what right has the
Bible to usurp the title of "the word of God"? What evidence can
be sharked up to show that it is any more a holy or an inspired
book than any book of Thomas Carlyle's, or John Ruskin's, or
William Morris'? What evidence is forthcoming that the Bible is true?




THE UNIVERSE ACCORDING TO ANCIENT RELIGION AND MODERN SCIENCE


The theory of the early Christian Church was that the Earth was flat,
like a plate, and the sky was a solid dome above it, like an inverted
blue basin.

The Sun revolved round the Earth to give light by day, the Moon
revolved round the Earth to give light by night. The stars were
auxiliary lights, and had all been specially, and at the same time,
created for the good of man.

God created the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Earth in six days. He created