3  For  a  comprehensive  and  discriminating  survey  of  the  theories
regarding  the  Cosmogony  of  Genesis  from  the  exegetical  and  doctrinal
standpoint  see  The  Book  of  Genesis.  With  Introduction  and  Notes.
By  S.  R.  Driver,  D.D.  Westminster  Commentaries.  1904.  The  general
position  reached  by  Prof.  Driver  is  expressed  in  the  following  extract.
4  The  Cosmogony  of  Genesis  is  treated  in  popular  estimation  as  an
integral  element  of  the  Christian  faith.  This  is  not  the  case.  A
definition  of  the  process  by  which,  after  the  elements  composing  it  were
created,  the  world  assumed  its  present  condition  forms  no  article  in  the
Christian  Creed.  The  Church  has  never  pronounced  with  authority
upon  the  interpretation  of  the  narrative  of  Genesis.  It  is  consequently
open  to  the  Christian  teacher  to  understand  it  in  the  sense  which
science  will  permit,  and  it  becomes  his  duty  to  ascertain  what  that
sense  is.'  .  .  .  The  first  chapter  of  Genesis  '  neither  comes  into  collision
with  science,  nor  needs  reconciliation  with  it,'  p.  33.
