Geognosy; Or, The Facts and Principles of Geology Against TheoriesF. Knight, 1855 - 412 páginas |
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... deluge , without deeming it necessary to offer any apology for stating and maintain- ing what the sacred word teaches on the subject , or pointing out the elements of their hypothesis , which are , in our judgment , at war alike with ...
... deluge , without deeming it necessary to offer any apology for stating and maintain- ing what the sacred word teaches on the subject , or pointing out the elements of their hypothesis , which are , in our judgment , at war alike with ...
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... deluge , and to have been the occasion of that catas- trophe ; but geologists treat it as wholly improbable . Some of them deny even that there are any evidences in the condition of the earth of the occurrence of the deluge itself ...
... deluge , and to have been the occasion of that catas- trophe ; but geologists treat it as wholly improbable . Some of them deny even that there are any evidences in the condition of the earth of the occurrence of the deluge itself ...
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... deluge . The sacred writer relates that " the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth , and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered . Fifteen cubits and upward did the water prevail ; and the mountains were ...
... deluge . The sacred writer relates that " the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth , and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered . Fifteen cubits and upward did the water prevail ; and the mountains were ...
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... deluge again thrown back into the seas and oceans which now surround them . The advocates of the geological theory , however , assign our present mountains and hills a far earlier date , and assert that many of them at least have * " If ...
... deluge again thrown back into the seas and oceans which now surround them . The advocates of the geological theory , however , assign our present mountains and hills a far earlier date , and assert that many of them at least have * " If ...
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... deluge , they reject as little better than a solecism . They are thus again in conflict with the sacred record . No hypothesis can reconcile them ; no artifice — if the theory is held to be true - can shield the text from the discredit ...
... deluge , they reject as little better than a solecism . They are thus again in conflict with the sacred record . No hypothesis can reconcile them ; no artifice — if the theory is held to be true - can shield the text from the discredit ...
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Geognosy; Or, The Facts and Principles of Geology Against Theories David Nevins Lord Vista completa - 1857 |
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