THE GENESIS “DAY.”
To the Editor. Sir, —What is the use of defenders of the Bible trying to make out that the word “day” in Genesis means an indefinite period that we may make as long or as short as our fancy suits? The language of the Mosaic account of creation admits of no two meanings and to every reasonable person the six-times repeated refrain: “The evening and the morning were the . » . day” determines beyond question the intention of the writer to picture an ordinary day of 24 hours. This quite accords with the customary Jewish mode of reckoning from sunset to sunset. Falsehool cannot masquerade in the garb of truth for long without being detected, and this familiar attempt to make Genesis fit in with science by giving “day” a meaning it quite clearly does not possess has none of the elements of respectability about it. The statement made by one of your correspondents that “the Bible satisfies the finding of science” is so absurd and.untrue that one wonders how a seemingly educated person could commit it to writing. Science and the Bible can never be reconciled for the simple reason that natural law can never be made submissive to supernatural interference.—l am, etc.,
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Southland Times, Issue 20228, 13 July 1927, Page 3
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