The Age of the Earth Considered Geologically and HistoricallyFraser & Company, 1838 - 192 pages |
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... probable guess at their thickness , from the extreme confusion and irregularity of their position , and from the lines of cleavage being often mistaken for those of stratification . If these slatey masses , too , owe their laminar , and ...
... probable guess at their thickness , from the extreme confusion and irregularity of their position , and from the lines of cleavage being often mistaken for those of stratification . If these slatey masses , too , owe their laminar , and ...
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... probable , they have been uprooted and drifted by the current ; but , in either case , rapidly covered over with the enveloping sand and mud . If we thus , then , have proofs of strata , two hundred feet in depth , having been formed ...
... probable , they have been uprooted and drifted by the current ; but , in either case , rapidly covered over with the enveloping sand and mud . If we thus , then , have proofs of strata , two hundred feet in depth , having been formed ...
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... probable , but we must also bear in mind that a con- siderable number must have been collected by means of tidal and fluviatile currents already described . Another argument in favour of repeated crea- tions , and of preadamite worlds ...
... probable , but we must also bear in mind that a con- siderable number must have been collected by means of tidal and fluviatile currents already described . Another argument in favour of repeated crea- tions , and of preadamite worlds ...
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... probable combinations of orga- nization - the field for such variation is infinite - nor , with all the grouping and systematizing of natura- lists , is there any expectation of filling up and com- pleting the imaginary bounds and ...
... probable combinations of orga- nization - the field for such variation is infinite - nor , with all the grouping and systematizing of natura- lists , is there any expectation of filling up and com- pleting the imaginary bounds and ...
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... probable , that still we could glean nothing satisfactory of causes from mere physical appearances . Because the creative process must have been an operation totally different from all the other subsequent phenomena of nature , the ...
... probable , that still we could glean nothing satisfactory of causes from mere physical appearances . Because the creative process must have been an operation totally different from all the other subsequent phenomena of nature , the ...
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Page 102 - For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, 6 whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished...
Page 70 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 91 - And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man : All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Page 91 - And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me ; for the earth is filled with violence through them ; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Page 70 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth : and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Page 187 - Greek term chaos, and which may be geologically considered as designating the wreck and ruins of a former world. At this intermediate point of time the preceding undefined geological periods had terminated, a new series of events commenced, and the work of the first morning of this new creation was the calling forth of light from a temporary darkness, which had overspread the ruins of the ancient earth.
Page 186 - These few first words of Genesis may be fairly appealed to by the geologist as containing a brief statement of the creation of the material elements, at a time distinctly preceding the operations of the first day; it is nowhere affirmed that God created the heaven and the earth...
Page 185 - According to that history, we are bound to admit, that only one general destruction or revolution of the globe has taken place since the period of that creation which Moses records, and of which Adam and Eve were the first inhabitants. The certainty of one event of that kind, would appear from the discoveries of geologers, even if it were not declared by the sacred historian. But we are not called upon to deny the possible existence of previous worlds, from the wreck of which our globe was organized,...
Page 68 - The Author of Nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted in His works any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system, at some determinate period...
Page 121 - It is now thirty-five years since my attention was first directed to these considerations. It was then the fashion for science, and for a large part of the educated and inquisitive world, to rush into a disbelief of all written revelation ; and several geological speculations were directed against it. But I have lived to see the most hostile of these destroyed...