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Thomas Burnet
(c. 1635 - 27 Sep 1715)
English theologian who published The Sacred Theory of the Earth in Latin (1681) and English (1684) in which he tried to explain the Earth’s features, beginning with a period of chaos, followed by a deluge. He speculated the interior and surface of the Earth slowly undergo continual changes, from which the mountains resulted.
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Science Quotes by Thomas Burnet (1 quote)
…tis a dangerous thing to ingage the authority of Scripture in disputes about the Natural World, in opposition to Reason; lest Time, which brings all things to light, should discover that to be evidently false which we had made Scripture to assert.
— Thomas Burnet
The Sacred Theory of the Earth (1681)
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
