CHAPTER XV. The Bible and Miracles 245

THE BIBLE AND MIRACLES 245

Why Huxley Came to Write about the Bible--A Magna Charta of the Poor--The Theological Use of the Bible--The Doctrine of Biblical Infallibility--The Bible and Science--The Three Hypotheses of the Earth's History--Changes in the Past Proved--The Creation Hypothesis--Gladstone on Genesis--Genesis not a Record of Fact--The Hypothesis of Evolution--The New Testament--Theory of Inspiration--Reliance on the Miraculous--The Continuity of Nature no a priori Argument against Miracles---Possibilities and Impossibilities--Miracles a Question of Evidence--Praise of the Bible.