Using Scripture in disputes about science (Burnet)
April 16th, 2007 | Published in Quotes, Religion, Science
’Tis a dangerous thing to engage the authority of Scripture in disputes about the Natural world … lest Time, which brings all things to light, should discover that to be evidently false which we had made scripture to assert.
–Rev. Thomas Burnet (1635? – 1715) quoted in Stephen Jay Gould, “A Darwin for All Reasons,” in I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History (2002), 221