CELESTIAL EMPIRES CLASSIC REPRINT

ISBN: 9780282375256 Géneros: PG Sinópsis: Excerpt from Celestial EmpiresNot scientific to mm up science and religion in the same book Then God himself is unsci entific for he has so largely and legibly written himself into that Book of Nature that contains all the sciences that even the heathen are without excuse for not reading his eternal power and god head in the things that are made Is it scientific to attack religion from the side of science and unscientific to defend it from the same side Is it sc1entific to illustrate one science by another as is daily done without rebuke and unscientific to illustrate that supreme science which we call relrgron by that other science which we call as tronomy Is it scientific to notice the gigantic tracks of birds in the rocks of the Connecticut valley and unscientific to notice in both earthly and heavenly strata the still more gigantic foot prints of the Creator Was it scientific and in excellent taste for the scholar who in the year I 500 found an aged parchment in the monastery of Corwey in Westphalia to cry out so that all Europe heard him This reads like Tacitus and unscientific as well as in bad taste for the scholar who finds still more ancient inscriptionsAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works