“CALVIN, though with a more rational frame of mind than Luther, was also carried away by his biblicism into scientific absurdities as he commented on Genesis 1. Certainly absurd was his claim that clouds did not fall on us and crush us only because God kept them aloft. This exercise in physics, very disreputable even around 1560, came two decades after Copernicus refused to agonize over why much heavier bodies than clouds did not crash into the earth. Calvin tried to be original in insisting that Moses had written for the uneducated, an observation that by then had been commonplace for more than a thousand years. At any rate, Calvin failed to implement that principle consistently. A case in point was his explanation of the relation of the sun and the light. Latter-day creationism owes much to the biblical literalism advocated by Calvin with sweeping diction and apparent rationality. Apparent indeed, because Calvin also stated that the laws of physics did not begin to operate until after the sixth day."
~Stanley L. Jaki: Bible and Science, Chap. 6—The Light of True Science.
