Geognosy; Or, The Facts and Principles of Geology Against TheoriesF. Knight, 1855 - 412 páginas |
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... continents and islands scepticism which their theory is the means of generating ; while a still greater number - who , indeed , are of little consideration either on the score of religion or learning — will denounce it as the mere ebul ...
... continents and islands scepticism which their theory is the means of generating ; while a still greater number - who , indeed , are of little consideration either on the score of religion or learning — will denounce it as the mere ebul ...
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... continents and islands of an inhabited earth had taken place anterior to the Mosaic epoch . They find indubitable proofs in the depths of the earth , that light and dry land were contemporaneous with those races ; but none that at a ...
... continents and islands of an inhabited earth had taken place anterior to the Mosaic epoch . They find indubitable proofs in the depths of the earth , that light and dry land were contemporaneous with those races ; but none that at a ...
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... continents and islands by those agents , acting with their present energy , or a thousand times higher force , is equally absurd . It would involve the erosion or depression of every mountain and hill , and reduction of the sur- face ...
... continents and islands by those agents , acting with their present energy , or a thousand times higher force , is equally absurd . It would involve the erosion or depression of every mountain and hill , and reduction of the sur- face ...
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... continents and islands , and reduction of the globe to a geo- logical level , so that the whole was immersed in the ocean , is absurd ? CHAPTER V. Difficulties of Geologists in respect to an Extinction IRRECONCILABLE WITH GENESIS . 93.
... continents and islands , and reduction of the globe to a geo- logical level , so that the whole was immersed in the ocean , is absurd ? CHAPTER V. Difficulties of Geologists in respect to an Extinction IRRECONCILABLE WITH GENESIS . 93.
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... continents and islands ? We might justly expect that it would engage their profoundest atten- tion , and a satisfactory solution be felt to be indis- pensable before those supposed catastrophes would be assumed to be facts , and ...
... continents and islands ? We might justly expect that it would engage their profoundest atten- tion , and a satisfactory solution be felt to be indis- pensable before those supposed catastrophes would be assumed to be facts , and ...
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