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Rh Fifth—That natural science is concerned with the developmental history, the structure and the functions of all living bodies, and not with any religious or any ethical questions.

Sixth—That the Bible simply states that God created the human body and the material he used in doing it, and not how he did so. There are at least four separate accounts of the creation of the human body in Genesis, and they can only be harmonized in accordance with this viewpoint.

Science has discovered the developmental history (evolution) of that body—i. e., the method by which God has brought it into being.

Another theory of some Biblical scholars is that the Bible interprets itself. In Roman iv:17 appears the statement that God "calleth things that be not as though they were."

For instance, some scholars would say, where the Bible states that man was made in the image of God, it refers only to Christ and His body, and in the Bible are found passages to uphold this. As an instance, in Philippians iii:21 is the statement concerning Christ, "Who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body?"

We can merely give illustrations. Genesis said, "Let there be 'light' and there was 'light'." According to some scholars, the word should be law. According to others, as appears in Psalms cxix:105, "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path,"—the word light should be construed in a different sense. In Psalms xcix:130, the statement is "The entrance of thy words giveth light, it giveth understanding unto the simple." In Psalms xliii:3 appears, "Send out thy light and thy truth." "Let there be light should be interpreted, these men say, as "let there be understanding," according to those other statements in the Bible. So, within the Bible itself, can be found many interpretations. Even those who do not chose to go outside the Book, interpret from within the Book. Innumerable illustrations might be given bearing upon almost every word in the Bible.

In other words, we should prove that the Bible is subject to various interpretations depending upon the learning and understanding of the individual, and that, if this is true, there is nothing necessarily inconsistent between one's understanding of the Bible and evolution. Many accept these statements in the Bible as legends or parables. They may accept them as legends or parables, and thus not find them inconsistent with any scientific theory.

In II Timothy iv:4 appears the following, according to the translation from the Greek of Prof. Godspeed, from the University of Chicago:

"For the time will come when they will not listen to wholesome instruction, but will overwhelm their whims and tickle their fancies, themselves with teachers to suit and they will turn from listening to the truth and wander off after diction."

(Biography.—Director of the School of Education and head of the Department of Education at the University of Chicago; has been in this position sixteen years. Prior to that was professor of psychology at Yale University. He was educated in Connecticut Wesleyan, a Methodist college, where the doctrine of evolution is taught by all of the instructors in the Science Department. He received the degree Ph.D. at Leipsig University, where he took comparative anatomy as a minor subject, with psychology as a major. In 1909 he was president of the American Psychological Association; was twice president of the Society of College Teachers of Education, president of the National Society for Study