Augustine

Je savais qu'un curé avait contesté les six jours de la création bien avant Darwin, mais je n'arrivais plus à mettre la main dessus. C'est chose faite. Maintenant il faut voir où trouver ses textes.

Let no one think that, because the Psalmist says, He established the earth above the uater, we must use this testimony of Holy Scripture against these people who engage in learned discussions about the weight of the elements. They are not bound by the authority of our Bible; and, ignorant of the sense of these words, they will more readily scorn our sacred books than disavow the knowledge they have acquired by unassailable arguments or proved by the evidence of experience. (pp. 47-48)