For the past two and a half centuries the authority of the Bible has gradually withered from the onslaught of claims made by what is called science. Today any remaining biblical authority is rigidly confined to a religious ghetto. Even prominent evangelical scholars are hedging on the meaning of inerrancy. Why? At no time in all of Church history has there ever been more evidence of the trustworthiness of the Bible concerning all its claims—historical, philosophical, scientific—than now exists.