Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

He was mistaken. What he readily accepted due to his lack of faith in the Bible is not “demonstrable fact” at all. It is tragic that through faulty evidence and reasoning he was convinced that the Bible was untrustworthy and became an agnostic and, finally, an atheist. Rejection of the Genesis account of creation was a key factor in his losing confidence in the veracity of the Bible. Such was the spiritual climate at Princeton Theological Seminary already in 1946, where many of the professors, such as B. B. Warfield and Charles Hodge accepted the “billions of years old” theory of the age of the Earth—and some, like Hodge, even embraced Darwinism. Templeton reasoned that if the Bible was in such error concerning the origin of mankind, how could it be trusted when it referred to human destiny?