The Age of the Earth Considered Geologically and HistoricallyFraser & Company, 1838 - 192 pàgines |
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Pàgina 10
... globe is geologically unexplored - while all the general views which are to extend our classifications satisfactorily from one hemisphere to another , are still unformed - while the organic fossils of the tropics are almost unknown ...
... globe is geologically unexplored - while all the general views which are to extend our classifications satisfactorily from one hemisphere to another , are still unformed - while the organic fossils of the tropics are almost unknown ...
Pàgina 11
... globe beyond that definite period within which tradition and common belief has hitherto confined it . Yet if it be pleasing for the mind to forego the trammels of authority , and , starting with a few striking phenomena , to track ...
... globe beyond that definite period within which tradition and common belief has hitherto confined it . Yet if it be pleasing for the mind to forego the trammels of authority , and , starting with a few striking phenomena , to track ...
Pàgina 15
... globe , we shall find that other links of connection bind it to the great solar system of which it forms a part ; where its position , its laws of rotation , and attrac- tive forces , all so intimately adjusted to meet and accommodate ...
... globe , we shall find that other links of connection bind it to the great solar system of which it forms a part ; where its position , its laws of rotation , and attrac- tive forces , all so intimately adjusted to meet and accommodate ...
Pàgina 25
... globe were formed . Thus , suppose that our largest rivers accumulated one foot in depth of solid strata annu- ally , we would have , in two thousand years , a deposit of the same amount over the space which their waters covered . And ...
... globe were formed . Thus , suppose that our largest rivers accumulated one foot in depth of solid strata annu- ally , we would have , in two thousand years , a deposit of the same amount over the space which their waters covered . And ...
Pàgina 26
... globe , with considerable impetuosity , abrade the rocky depths and channels , and heap up and accumulate masses which , in many situations , are of very great magnitude . " So great , " says Mr Lyell , " is the quantity of matter held ...
... globe , with considerable impetuosity , abrade the rocky depths and channels , and heap up and accumulate masses which , in many situations , are of very great magnitude . " So great , " says Mr Lyell , " is the quantity of matter held ...
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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...