"So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day" (Josh. x, 12, 13). "Behold, I [the Lord] will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees" (Isaiah xxxviii, 8). The Bible teaches the geocentric theory that the sun revolves around the earth; Science teaches the heliocentric theory that the earth revolves around the sun. Luther, accepting the Bible and rejecting science, wrote: "The fool [Copernicus] wishes to reverse the entire science of Astronomy. But sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still and not the earth." "Biblical astronomy," says the celebrated Jewish commentator, Dr. Kalisch, "is derived from mere optical appearance." Geology. "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Gen. i, 1). "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit" (i, 11). "And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth" (i, 20). "And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle and creeping things" (i, 24). "And God said, Let us make man in our image" (i, 26). "In six days the Lord made heaven and earth" (Ex. xx, 11). According to the Bible, the earth was created in six days about six thousand years ago. Geology tells us that the earth was old six million years ago. To make room for the earth's development, theologians now contend that a vast period of time elapsed between the work recorded in the first verse and in those following. To this Bishop Colenso replies: "We are plainly taught in the book of Genesis, according to the simple, straightforward meaning of the words, that Elohim created the heaven and the earth in the beginning of these six days--that is, taking into account the chronological data of the Bible, about six thousand years ago" (The Pentateuch, Part IV, p. 94). Again, theologians claim that these six days were not six literal days, but six long epochs of time. The Rev. Moses Stuart, Professor of Sacred Literature in Andover Theological Seminary, one of the ablest Hebrew scholars, says: "When the sacred writer in Genesis i says, the first day, the second day, etc., there can be no possible doubt--none.... What puts this beyond all question in philology is that the writer says specifically, the evening and the morning were the first day, the second day, etc. Now, is an evening and a morning a period of some thousands of years? Is it, in any sense, when so employed, an indefinite period? The answer is so plain and certain that I need not repeat it. If Moses has given us an erroneous account of the creation, so be it. Let it come out, and let us leave the whole. But do not let us turn aside his language to get rid of difficulties that we may have in our speculations."