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THIS book has value from one point of view only; it is a series of unscientific statements of the very first water. “Now if we suppose that the oceans of the earth are represented bv the bright sides of the discs of the radiometer, and the continents by the dark sides, we can understand how the sun attracts the water and repels the land, thus causing the earth to rotate upon its axis.” Even Mr. Allan's more specific attempts to “reconcile Science and the Bible” will provide the average reader with amusement more often than they will scandalise him. “The serpent which tempted Eve was probably a dinosaurian, and may possibly have been the Igua-nodon, a reptile which must have walked temporarily or permanently upon its hind legs, thus presenting a human appearance, to which its magnificent skill or robe of feathers would add considerable beauty. Eve, therefore, seeing this human-like animal eating of the tree, and suffering no harm, would readily forget the prohibition, and be tempted to try the fruit for herself without any actual speech passing between the two.”
Matter and Intellect: A Reconciliation of Science and the Bible.
By Andrew Allan. Pp. vi + 224. (London: A. Owen and Co., n.d.) Price 5s.
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Matter and Intellect: A Reconciliation of Science and the Bible . Nature 77, 341 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077341b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/077341b0