The Age of the Earth Considered Geologically and HistoricallyFraser & Company, 1838 - 192 pàgines |
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Pàgina 13
... continents . Thus a very important chain of evidence in determining the earth's antiquity is lost to us . We can only now extend our investi- gations to ― or , at least , geological investigations have only hitherto embraced those ...
... continents . Thus a very important chain of evidence in determining the earth's antiquity is lost to us . We can only now extend our investi- gations to ― or , at least , geological investigations have only hitherto embraced those ...
Pàgina 14
... continents , which had gradually gone on extending their boundaries into the surrounding ocean . Hence , facts connected with these circumstances early gave rise to theories of the successive appear- ance of the various classes and ...
... continents , which had gradually gone on extending their boundaries into the surrounding ocean . Hence , facts connected with these circumstances early gave rise to theories of the successive appear- ance of the various classes and ...
Pàgina 22
... continent into the Atlantic Ocean . Captain Sabine could distinguish the current of this immense river three hundred miles out at sea ; and , aided by an oceanic current flowing with the rapidity of four miles an hour , from south to ...
... continent into the Atlantic Ocean . Captain Sabine could distinguish the current of this immense river three hundred miles out at sea ; and , aided by an oceanic current flowing with the rapidity of four miles an hour , from south to ...
Pàgina 23
... continent . The alluvial plain of this great river is bounded on the east and west by great ranges of mountains , stretching along their respective oceans . Below the junction of the Ohio , the plain is from thirty to fifty miles broad ...
... continent . The alluvial plain of this great river is bounded on the east and west by great ranges of mountains , stretching along their respective oceans . Below the junction of the Ohio , the plain is from thirty to fifty miles broad ...
Pàgina 30
... immense size and of a higher class of vegeta- tion , which must have been borne down by the impetuosity of currents from more elevated grounds in the ancient continents . SECTION III . DIFFERENT FORMATIONS MAY BE CONTEMPORARY . THE.
... immense size and of a higher class of vegeta- tion , which must have been borne down by the impetuosity of currents from more elevated grounds in the ancient continents . SECTION III . DIFFERENT FORMATIONS MAY BE CONTEMPORARY . THE.
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 94 - 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...
Pàgina 62 - 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.
Pàgina 83 - 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.
Pàgina 83 - 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.
Pàgina 62 - 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.
Pàgina 178 - 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...
Pàgina 179 - ... up, and peopled in a manner fit for the reception of mankind. We have in this second verse, a distinct mention of earth and waters, as already existing and involved in darkness; their condition also is described as a state of confusion and emptiness (tohu bohu), words which are usually interpreted by the vague and indefinite Greek term chaos, and which may be geologically considered as designating the wreck and ruins of a former world.
Pàgina 60 - 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...
Pàgina 177 - 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 geologists, even if it were not declared by the sacred historian.
Pàgina 60 - How often these vicissitudes of decay and renovation have been repeated, is not for us to determine ; they constitute a series, of which, as the author of this theory has remarked, we neither see the beginning nor the end ; a circumstance that accords well with what is known concerning other parts of the economy of the world. In the continuation of the different species of animals and vegetables that inhabit the earth, we discern neither...