. Astronomy and the Bible; . CHAPTER IV The Atmospheric Heavens No one can have any adequate idea of astronomywithout some knowledge of the atmosphericheavens. The ignorant in past ages may havethought that the heavens encircling us were but platesthat held us in, parts of a huge crystal sphere. Had the Bible expressed this childish idea, thatwould at once suggest to us an earthly origin for thebook; but though it was written in times when all sortsof queer ideas were current, yet it is nowhere contami-nated by the folly of the times. Its pure stream flows unsullied down the ages. Itsadherence
. Astronomy and the Bible; . CHAPTER IV The Atmospheric Heavens No one can have any adequate idea of astronomywithout some knowledge of the atmosphericheavens. The ignorant in past ages may havethought that the heavens encircling us were but platesthat held us in, parts of a huge crystal sphere. Had the Bible expressed this childish idea, thatwould at once suggest to us an earthly origin for thebook; but though it was written in times when all sortsof queer ideas were current, yet it is nowhere contami-nated by the folly of the times. Its pure stream flows unsullied down the ages. Itsadherence to truth is so close and unbroken that thelives of some of its greatest men are told in all thesorrow and shame of their sometime lapses into sin. When the English translators a few centuries agorendered the Bible into English, they sometimes usedwords more in harmony with their own ideas of scienceand theology than with the original terms. One example of this is found in the first chapterof Genesis. God made the firmament,
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