Nature and the Bible: Lectures on the Mosaic History of Creation in Its Relation to Natural Science, 2. köideClark, 1886 |
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... explanation of the Mosaic account of creation , raises the question whether " certain small animals " were also created on the fifth and sixth days , or whether they originated later from putrefied matter . " For , " he says , “ many ...
... explanation of the Mosaic account of creation , raises the question whether " certain small animals " were also created on the fifth and sixth days , or whether they originated later from putrefied matter . " For , " he says , “ many ...
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... explained the appearance of these animals , by the precipitation of small germs which were were floating in the air ; and in order to substantiate this statement , he quoted the results of a series of ingenious experiments . He killed ...
... explained the appearance of these animals , by the precipitation of small germs which were were floating in the air ; and in order to substantiate this statement , he quoted the results of a series of ingenious experiments . He killed ...
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... explain why the earth can now - a - days bring forth no living creature ; now it is in its old age , but when it was young , things were different . It is amusing to see how these men , who usually subject to the sharpest criticism the ...
... explain why the earth can now - a - days bring forth no living creature ; now it is in its old age , but when it was young , things were different . It is amusing to see how these men , who usually subject to the sharpest criticism the ...
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... explanation of it in a London paper : " " Nor is there a fact , or the shadow of a fact , supporting the belief that these elements , without the presence of any organic compounds , and acted on only by known forces , could produce a ...
... explanation of it in a London paper : " " Nor is there a fact , or the shadow of a fact , supporting the belief that these elements , without the presence of any organic compounds , and acted on only by known forces , could produce a ...
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... explain it , or even to point out its immediate cause . This fact no longer occurs in our time , and we have not been able to re- produce it even among the lowest species . On this subject , then , we are without those elementary data ...
... explain it , or even to point out its immediate cause . This fact no longer occurs in our time , and we have not been able to re- produce it even among the lowest species . On this subject , then , we are without those elementary data ...
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Page 87 - The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree. I believe this simile largely speaks the truth. The green and budding twigs may represent existing species ; and those produced during each former year may represent the long succession of extinct species.
Page 87 - The limbs divided into great branches, and these into lesser and lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was small, budding twigs; and this connection of the former and present buds by ramifying branches may well represent the classification of all extinct and living species in groups subordinate to groups.
Page 246 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 88 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page 326 - In the time of the Romans the Danish Isles were covered, as now, with magnificent beech forests. Nowhere in the world does this tree flourish more luxuriantly than in Denmark, and eighteen centuries seem to have done little or nothing towards modifying the character of the forest vegetation. Yet in the antecedent bronze period there were no beech trees, or at most but a few stragglers, the country being then covered with oak. In the age of stone again, the Scotch fir prevailed (see p.
Page 183 - And he said, Cursed be Canaan ; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 87 - ... in a fossil state. As we here and there see a thin straggling branch springing from a fork low down in a tree, and which by some chance has been...
Page 154 - The early progenitors of man were no doubt once covered with hair, both sexes having beards ; their ears were pointed and capable of movement ; and their bodies were provided with a tail, having the proper muscles.
Page 134 - It must not be overlooked, however, that there is a very striking difference in absolute mass and weight between the lowest human brain and that of the highest ape...