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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... questions " the prudence of attempt- 66 ing to connect the discoveries of natural science with the " sacred writings ; " and he is " by no means certain , that " it would not be better to leave altogether untouched the connexion of ...
... questions " the prudence of attempt- 66 ing to connect the discoveries of natural science with the " sacred writings ; " and he is " by no means certain , that " it would not be better to leave altogether untouched the connexion of ...
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... question to be tried and proved in the following work ; I here only state them hypothetically , in order for common sense to judge , what weight they must have , if true , or even if supported by powerful moral and physical probability ...
... question to be tried and proved in the following work ; I here only state them hypothetically , in order for common sense to judge , what weight they must have , if true , or even if supported by powerful moral and physical probability ...
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... questions of the FIRST FORMATIONS and CHANGES of this Globe , than any that I have been able to collect from the instruc- tions of all the principal geological teachers of the age ; whose doctrines , nevertheless , I have with the ...
... questions of the FIRST FORMATIONS and CHANGES of this Globe , than any that I have been able to collect from the instruc- tions of all the principal geological teachers of the age ; whose doctrines , nevertheless , I have with the ...
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... questions this ? and what is it to the purpose ? This Reviewer reasons of power , which is cause , and of operation , which is effect , as if they were one and the same thing , and is totally in- sensible of his own entanglement . 23 ...
... questions this ? and what is it to the purpose ? This Reviewer reasons of power , which is cause , and of operation , which is effect , as if they were one and the same thing , and is totally in- sensible of his own entanglement . 23 ...
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... question in conflict with the sacred historian . 66 66 66 26. Our Critic advances to a consideration of the phe- nomena of the Deluge . " As the channel of the primitive ocean would be entirely emptied by the transference of " its ...
... question in conflict with the sacred historian . 66 66 66 26. Our Critic advances to a consideration of the phe- nomena of the Deluge . " As the channel of the primitive ocean would be entirely emptied by the transference of " its ...
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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.