While it may often be the part of wisdom to approach
individuals or an audience from a standpoint of current
knowledge, it should never be overlooked that the Revelation of
the Manifestation of God is the standard for all knowledge, and
scientific statements and theories, no matter how close they may
come to the eternal principles proclaimed by God’s Messenger, are
in their very nature ephemeral and limited. Likewise, attempting
to make the Bahá’í Faith relevant to modern society is to incur the
grave risk of compromising the fundamental verities of our Faith
in an effort to make it conform to current theories and practices.
(7 June 1983 to an individual believer) [70]