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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Page xxiii
... origin , without an equal knowledge of the origin of the whole visible creation around him , would have left him essentially deficient in the knowledge of his Creator ; and therefore , God was pleased to impart to him special and ...
... origin , without an equal knowledge of the origin of the whole visible creation around him , would have left him essentially deficient in the knowledge of his Creator ; and therefore , God was pleased to impart to him special and ...
Page xxiv
... origin and formation of the earth and its appurtenances , and of the universal changes which it has undergone , are embraced within the professed scope of Divine Revelation . And , because they are presented for our knowledge , they are ...
... origin and formation of the earth and its appurtenances , and of the universal changes which it has undergone , are embraced within the professed scope of Divine Revelation . And , because they are presented for our knowledge , they are ...
Page lxiii
... ORIGIN - ARISING ENTIRELY OUT OF AN OBLIVION AND IGNORANCE OF CREATIVE POWER AND OPERATION .. 165 CHAPTER IV . TRANSACTIONS OF THE SECOND DAY : -CREATION OF THE AERIAL ATMOSPHERE - ASCENT OF THE AQUEOUS VAPOUR IN CLOUDS CHAPTER V ...
... ORIGIN - ARISING ENTIRELY OUT OF AN OBLIVION AND IGNORANCE OF CREATIVE POWER AND OPERATION .. 165 CHAPTER IV . TRANSACTIONS OF THE SECOND DAY : -CREATION OF THE AERIAL ATMOSPHERE - ASCENT OF THE AQUEOUS VAPOUR IN CLOUDS CHAPTER V ...
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... origin and revolu- tions of all terrestrial matter , mineral , vegetable , and animal . << 66 " The science , as it is perhaps improperly I called , of Geology , ( observes a recent learned Journalist , ) differs from all other sciences ...
... origin and revolu- tions of all terrestrial matter , mineral , vegetable , and animal . << 66 " The science , as it is perhaps improperly I called , of Geology , ( observes a recent learned Journalist , ) differs from all other sciences ...
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... origin , and can hardly be said to have existed in a state approaching to ma- turity , for much more than half a century ; it does not , indeed , pretend to oppose any record to that of the other , but , it aspires to establish a series ...
... origin , and can hardly be said to have existed in a state approaching to ma- turity , for much more than half a century ; it does not , indeed , pretend to oppose any record to that of the other , but , it aspires to establish a series ...
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