Nature and the Bible: Lectures on the Mosaic History of Creation in Its Relation to Natural Science, 2. köideClark, 1886 |
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... tion is possible , and really can occur , or has occurred . In the Biblical account of creation it is only said that the origin of the vegetable and animal world must be referred to the creative activity of God , and that God has taken ...
... tion is possible , and really can occur , or has occurred . In the Biblical account of creation it is only said that the origin of the vegetable and animal world must be referred to the creative activity of God , and that God has taken ...
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... tion . And the classes of organic beings , among which it was thought that spontaneous generation might exist , have become fewer and fewer under continuous observation , especially since the end of the seventeenth century . 3 The well ...
... tion . And the classes of organic beings , among which it was thought that spontaneous generation might exist , have become fewer and fewer under continuous observation , especially since the end of the seventeenth century . 3 The well ...
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... tion . In his time , for instance , it was commonly believed that insects could spring from putrefied plants and animals . If a piece of flesh is placed in the sun and allowed to putrefy , maggots will appear in it , from which will ...
... tion . In his time , for instance , it was commonly believed that insects could spring from putrefied plants and animals . If a piece of flesh is placed in the sun and allowed to putrefy , maggots will appear in it , from which will ...
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... tion if water was poured on to an organic substance , for instance , hay . Pasteur 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 ...
... tion if water was poured on to an organic substance , for instance , hay . Pasteur 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 ...
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... tion , however long it might be left , as all the germs in the air were deposited in the beginning of the bent neck . He then cut the tube close to the vessel , and allowed the ordinary air to have free and direct access ; and the ...
... tion , however long it might be left , as all the germs in the air were deposited in the beginning of the bent neck . He then cut the tube close to the vessel , and allowed the ordinary air to have free and direct access ; and the ...
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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...