tion of scientific facts that will cast
either denial or doubt on those fundamental doctrines which he now =knows=
are true, because they have been =supernaturally verified= to him through
the laboratory test of faith.

Take an illustration. Suppose an author on chemistry, who was also a
historian, should include in his textbook a history of the science of
chemistry. Now if a man puts his statements of chemical laws to an accurate
laboratory test and finds them true, he has the presumption established
that the history, which cannot be so tested, is also true.

Yes, that illustration breaks down, but only at the point of =human
fallibility= and =imperfection=. If that author were omniscient and
infallible the illustration would be perfect.

Now apply it to the Word. When a man, through the unfailing laboratory test
of honest faith, finds that the statements that can be put to the test of
experience are infallible truth, he has not simply the presumption but also
the =absolute certainty= established that all its other statements are
true, because the infallible and omniscient Author has given it to us as
His Word. It comes to us with a "Thus saith the Lord" ringing in our ears
from beginning to end, and not with the multiplied repetitions of "We may
well suppose" of the scientific guessers.

The man of scientific mind, therefore, will accept all the non-experiential
statements of the Bible as infallible truth, including scientific and
historical references and prophetic utterances. He will then accord the
place of primacy to all understood scientific references of the Bible over
all discoveries in the natural realm. He will do this by interpreting the
few and fragmentary discoveries of finite and fallible man in the light of
the statements that come to us as the Word of an infallible God, concluding
that if there is any apparent inharmony, it lies in the partial discoveries
or premature conclusions of scientists, rather than in any error of
statement in the Bible. In other words, he will interpret science in the
light of the Bible, and not the Bible in the light of science. And if at
any time a harmonizing of scientific discoveries with the Bible seems
impossible, he will withhold final conclusions until he has further
scientific light, realizing that when he knows enough science he will then
be able to understand the scientific references of the Bible, and the
apparent inharmony will vanish. Multiplied illustrations of