The Age of the Earth Considered Geologically and HistoricallyFraser & Company, 1838 - 192 pàgines |
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Pàgina 13
... species of exciting antiquarianism , compared to which the relics of Herculaneum and Pompeii are but as a tale of yesterday . It is from these circumstances that perhaps somewhat exaggerated views have been adopted regarding the size ...
... species of exciting antiquarianism , compared to which the relics of Herculaneum and Pompeii are but as a tale of yesterday . It is from these circumstances that perhaps somewhat exaggerated views have been adopted regarding the size ...
Pàgina 42
... species , it is unphilosophical to extend such an assumption to the past period of the earth's history . * That many species of plants and animals which once existed may have become extinct , however , is a cir- cumstance which readily ...
... species , it is unphilosophical to extend such an assumption to the past period of the earth's history . * That many species of plants and animals which once existed may have become extinct , however , is a cir- cumstance which readily ...
Pàgina 44
... species , yet there are some tribes of animals which range throughout the whole . Thus , various species of coral zoophytes are found in all the strata ; tere- bratulæ , also , are common through the whole ; ammonites extend throughout ...
... species , yet there are some tribes of animals which range throughout the whole . Thus , various species of coral zoophytes are found in all the strata ; tere- bratulæ , also , are common through the whole ; ammonites extend throughout ...
Pàgina 45
... species . They had certain localities which they frequented as being suited to their organization ; some inhabited deep seas ; some littoral situations , and others the shallow estuaries of rivers . And , when certain changes of the sea ...
... species . They had certain localities which they frequented as being suited to their organization ; some inhabited deep seas ; some littoral situations , and others the shallow estuaries of rivers . And , when certain changes of the sea ...
Pàgina 46
... species have been the cause . In the successive beds of some strata we find the same species repeatedly alternating with other dis- tinct species , and in some instances recurring in such numbers as to form the almost exclusive relics ...
... species have been the cause . In the successive beds of some strata we find the same species repeatedly alternating with other dis- tinct species , and in some instances recurring in such numbers as to form the almost exclusive relics ...
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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...