Theological Views
Challis took issue with Charles Wycliffe Goodwin's views on Genesis expressed in Essays and Reviews (1860). Challis saw Genesis as an "antecedent plan" for creation, rather than a literal chronology, and argued that the biblical account could be reconciled with the geological record. He went on to interpret the word "law", as used in a spiritual sense by Saint Paul, in the sense of scientific law.
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