"As late as the middle of the eighteenth century, when Buffon attempted to state simple geological truths, the theological faculty of the Sorbonne forced him to make and to publish a most ignominious recantation which ended with these words: "I abandon everything in my book respecting the formation of the earth, and generally all which may be contrary to the narrative of Moses.""
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Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology Ch.3 p. 57, cited in: A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, 1896, p. 9.
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