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This is remarkable because the theory cannot have been known by Moses.
Scholars have permitted themselves to look down on the Jews. To Tacitus and Gibbons they were the most contemptible of mankind; they cannot conceal their bitter scorn. Yet how is it that among the heaps of philosophers, poets, and historians since Moses, the only account of creation that survives are his own simple, sublime words?
Of those who wrote of the universe since Moses, where do you put them? Where Ptolemy?
If you seek to degrade the Hebrews, you only exalt unwittingly the God who spoke through them the things no one else knew.
What other document stands its ground like Genesis 1?
What other theory, up to now, gives such a graphic, comprehensive, or exact statement? And yet this is in a book meant for men, women, and children; a book designed to cast the light of God onto a world in moral darkness; a book capable of being understood from the first day it was written, yet at the same time so written that nothing shall be able to contradict it to the last day.
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