Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion. The twin sisters of terrestrial and celestial physics have thus been joint-heirs of intolerance and persecution — unresisting victims in the crusade which ignorance and fanaticism are ever waging against science.

More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian (1856)