Geognosy; Or, The Facts and Principles of Geology Against TheoriesF. Knight, 1855 - 412 páginas |
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... CONTRADICTS THE SACRED HISTORY OF THE CREATION • PAGE 1 5 9 · 28 CHAPTER III . FALSE NOTIONS OF GEOLOGY - IT IS NOT A SCIENCE - IT HAS NO LAWS - GEOLOGISTS HAVE NOT AN EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO TREAT OF THE SUBJECT CHAPTER IV . THE PRINCIPLES ...
... CONTRADICTS THE SACRED HISTORY OF THE CREATION • PAGE 1 5 9 · 28 CHAPTER III . FALSE NOTIONS OF GEOLOGY - IT IS NOT A SCIENCE - IT HAS NO LAWS - GEOLOGISTS HAVE NOT AN EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO TREAT OF THE SUBJECT CHAPTER IV . THE PRINCIPLES ...
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... contradicts and confutes in another . But we know , they assert , that the great volume of nature , the vast monuments of the material world , proceeded from his hand ; and on those indes- tructible tablets he has inscribed a record ...
... contradicts and confutes in another . But we know , they assert , that the great volume of nature , the vast monuments of the material world , proceeded from his hand ; and on those indes- tructible tablets he has inscribed a record ...
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... contradict the laws of matter likewise , to assume that the world was created in the form of gas . Matter with the exception of a few species - such as the elements of air and water - is raised to a gaseous form only by intense heat ...
... contradict the laws of matter likewise , to assume that the world was created in the form of gas . Matter with the exception of a few species - such as the elements of air and water - is raised to a gaseous form only by intense heat ...
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... contradicts the laws of heat and the formation of gaseous bodies . It is as unphilosophical and absurd to suppose the matter of the globe to have been created in the form of a gas , as it is to suppose that it was created in the form of ...
... contradicts the laws of heat and the formation of gaseous bodies . It is as unphilosophical and absurd to suppose the matter of the globe to have been created in the form of a gas , as it is to suppose that it was created in the form of ...
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... contradict ? What is the mischievous influence which it exerts ? Is what it asserts , a geological fact that is discovered by the eye , as the natures and numbers of the strata are ; or is it a mere inference from an hypo- thesis ...
... contradict ? What is the mischievous influence which it exerts ? Is what it asserts , a geological fact that is discovered by the eye , as the natures and numbers of the strata are ; or is it a mere inference from an hypo- thesis ...
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