Science

"We are invited, brethren, most earnestly to go away from the old-fashioned belief of our
forefathers because of the supposed discoveries of science. What is science? The method by
which man tries to conceal his ignorance. It should not be so, but so it is. You are not to be
dogmatical in theology, my brethren, it is wicked; but for scientific men it is the correct
thing. You are never to assert anything very strongly; but scientists may boldly assert what
they cannot prove, and may demand a faith far more credulous than any we possess.
Forsooth, you and I are to take our Bibles and shape and mould our belief according to the
evershifting teachings of so-called scientific men. What folly is this! Why, the march of
science, falsely so called, through the world may be traced by exploded fallacies and
abandoned theories. Former explorers once adored are now ridiculed; the continual
wreckings of false hypotheses is a matter of universal notoriety. You may tell where the
learned have encamped by the debris left behind of suppositions and theories as plentiful as
broken bottles." -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the renowned “prince of preachers,” in 1877: