The Reverend Dr. James Woodrow Last time I introduced the nineteenth-century idea of professorships devoted to exploring and improving the relations of science and scripture. They seemed like a good idea—but the first such chair ended up causing quite a ruckus. Interestingly, in view of the later Scopes Trial, which ever after gave the American…

Can Science and Scripture be Harmonized? The past history of a question often reveals it to be more complicated than we first imagined. So it is with the seemingly simple idea of fitting together, or “harmonizing,” the truths of science with the truths of scripture. Three Options for Harmonizing “All truth is God’s truth,” we rightly…