A Comparative Estimate of the Mineral and Mosaical Geologies, Volume 1J. Duncan, 1825 "Received well in religious circles, this work was severely censored as an unscientific attempt to treat the Book of Genesis as a manual of geology" - DNB. |
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... observations on The Primary Argument of the Iliad . The best apology which I can offer , is the assur- ance , that neither of these tracts has been newly or hastily taken into hand ; but , that they have lain by me for many years , and ...
... observations on The Primary Argument of the Iliad . The best apology which I can offer , is the assur- ance , that neither of these tracts has been newly or hastily taken into hand ; but , that they have lain by me for many years , and ...
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... observations relative to Caves in limestone - forma- tions , containing Fossil Animal Exuvia , which could not have been incorporated into that chapter without dispro- portionately enlarging it , and thereby encumbering the direct ...
... observations relative to Caves in limestone - forma- tions , containing Fossil Animal Exuvia , which could not have been incorporated into that chapter without dispro- portionately enlarging it , and thereby encumbering the direct ...
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... observe the per- plexities of those who search , in vain , in all the store- houses of theory and invention , for water enough to cover the earth , and who entirely overlook Him who only " calleth for the waters of the Sea , and poureth ...
... observe the per- plexities of those who search , in vain , in all the store- houses of theory and invention , for water enough to cover the earth , and who entirely overlook Him who only " calleth for the waters of the Sea , and poureth ...
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... observe , that amidst the numerous " relics of the elephant , the rhinoceros , the hippopota- mus , the ox , the horse , the deer , the hare , and the " rabbit , there should be no skeletons of the hyanas them- 66 1 See above , p . xxv ...
... observe , that amidst the numerous " relics of the elephant , the rhinoceros , the hippopota- mus , the ox , the horse , the deer , the hare , and the " rabbit , there should be no skeletons of the hyanas them- 66 1 See above , p . xxv ...
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... observed that the materials in which those remains occur , bear in general the appear- ance of sediment deposited in water , whereas those in which they never occur , wear a crystalline appearance ; their respective actual formations ...
... observed that the materials in which those remains occur , bear in general the appear- ance of sediment deposited in water , whereas those in which they never occur , wear a crystalline appearance ; their respective actual formations ...
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Page 153 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there : when He set a compass upon the face of the depth : when He established the clouds above: when He strengthened the fountains of the deep : when He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not pass His commandment; when He appointed the foundations of the earth : then I was by Him as one brought up with Him; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before him: rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth; and my delights were with the sons...
Page 252 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Page 206 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament : and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 33 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Page 258 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat :
Page 220 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Page 142 - WHO is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man ; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
Page 257 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 209 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Page 258 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.