The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture Quotes

“6,000 years ago, the face of the earth was renewed and replenished for the habitation of man, the preceding geological ages being left entirely unnoticed.”
― Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter), The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture

“By no process of research, therefore, could man find out for himself the facts that are stated in the first chapter of Genesis. They must have been revealed. Science cannot inquire into them for the purpose of checking their accuracy; it must accept them, as it accepts the fundamental law that governs its own working, without the possibility of proof.”
― Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter), The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture

“Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord." From these words the Hebrews not only learned a great spiritual truth, but derived intellectual freedom. For by these words they were taught that all the host of heaven and of earth were created things—merely "things," not divinities—and not only that, but that the Creator was One God, not many gods; that there was but one law-giver; and that therefore there could be no conflict of laws. These first words of Genesis, then, may be called the charter of all the physical sciences, for by them is conferred freedom from all the bonds of unscientific superstition, and by them also do men know that consistent law holds throughout the whole universe. It is the intellectual freedom of the Hebrew that the scientist of to-day inherits.”
― Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter), The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture

“Law of Causality. It "cannot be proved, but must be believed; in the same way as we believe the fundamental assumptions of religion, with which it is closely and intimately connected. The law of causality forces itself upon our belief. It may be denied in theory, but not in practice. Any person who denies it, will, if he is watchful enough, catch himself constantly asking himself, if no one else, why this has happened, and not that. But in that very question he bears witness to the law of causality. If we are consistently to deny the law of causality, we must repudiate all observation, and particularly all prediction based on past experience, as useless and misleading.”
― Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter), The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture

“Professor Thiele, a leading Continental astronomer, states that— "Everything that exists, and everything that happens, exists or happens as a necessary consequence of a previous state of things. If a state of things is repeated in every detail, it must lead to exactly the same consequences. Any difference between the results of causes that are in part the same, must be explainable by some difference in the other part of the causes.”
― Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter), The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture

“But the necessary conditions for any great scientific development were lacking to Israel. A small nation, planted between powerful and aggressive empires, their history was for the most part the record of a struggle for bare existence; and after three or four centuries of the unequal conflict, first the one and then the other of the two sister kingdoms was overwhelmed.”
― Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter), The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture

“we should conclude that the Hebrews—though their calendar was essentially a lunar one, based upon the actual observation of the new moon—had never noticed that the moon changed its apparent form as the month wore on, for there is no mention in the Bible of the lunar phases.”
― Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter), The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture

“Italian astronomers, Prof. G. V. Schiaparelli, on this subject of "Astronomy in the Old Testament,”
― Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter), The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture

“Holy Scripture was not intended to give an account of the scientific achievements, if any, of the Hebrews of old. Its purpose was wholly different: it was religious, not scientific; it was meant to give spiritual, not intellectual enlightenment.”
― Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter), The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture