Abstract
In Australia, as in America, too little heed has been given to F. F. Bruce, who in his biblical scholar's advice to the Victoria Institute in 1954, urged the 'mathematician or natural scientist not to interpret early Genesis with either the exact literalism that leads to hasty dismissal or to spend needless toil in reconciling scientific knowledge with language which called for no such reconciliation' (Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute 86 [1954]: 77).