Apology for the 24-Hour Day

Science is no more to be blamed when it puffs up than a sword when it falls into the hands of a madman—John Calvin Beating a dead dog is always safe, generally satisfying, and seldom profitable.  If the belief which contends for creation days of millions and billions of years were, indeed, a dead dog, continual assaults upon it would, in turn, be so many (futile) thrashings.  But the opposite is true.  No dead dog is belabored, but a sacred cow.  And if beating carries unsavory connotations,...