Science v. Scripture.

One of the classic secularist canards is that religion causes religious minds to close down, oppose scientific advances in knowledge, and live in a state of perpetual cognitive dissonance.

But what is religion to do when an interpretation of sacred text is undermined by advances in knowledge of the material world?

It may be surprising to many that the answer, according to Aquinas, is to jettison the interpretation:

I answer that, In discussing questions of this kind two rules are to observed, as Augustine teaches (Gen. ad lit. i, 18). The first is, to hold the truth of Scripture without wavering. The second is that since Holy Scripture can be explained in a multiplicity of senses, one should adhere to a particular explanation, only in such measure as to be ready to abandon it, if it be proved with certainty to be false; lest Holy Scripture be exposed to the ridicule of unbelievers, and obstacles be placed to their believing.

Good advice from the 13 Century.