Author: Will Durant, Historian & Philosopher

Remembering American author, William James "Will" Durant on his day of birth ( November 5, 1885,  died November 7, 1981). What a mind! He not only wrote the 11-volume set, The Story of Civilization, etc. but he also said and/or wrote some profound things. Here are a couple:

As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory. (Will Durant, on Religion and Evolution, 1927)

The discoveries here summarized have restored considerable credit to those chapters of Genesis that record the early traditions of the Jews. In its outlines, and barring supernatural incidents, the story of the Jews as unfolded in the Old Testament has stood the test of criticism and Archeology; every year adds corroboration from documents, monuments, or excavations.... We must accept the Biblical account provisionally until it is disproved. (Will Durant, on History and Bible, 1963)

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