2009-10-28

Day Without Yesterday quote


The writers of the Bible were illuminated more or less – some more than others – on the question of salvation. On other questions they were as wise or as ignorant as their generation. Hence it is utterly unimportant that errors of historic or scientific fact should be found in the Bible, especially if errors relate to events that were not directly observed by those who wrote about them.
The idea that because they were right in their doctrine of immortality and salvation they must also be right on all other subjects is simply the fallacy of people who have an incomplete understanding of why the Bible was given to us at all.

Georges Lemaître, answering a question in a 1933 interview (How does a priest-physicist reconcile his faith with his science?)


The Day Without Yesterday, Lemaître, Einstein and the birth of modern cosmology

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