Geognosy; Or, The Facts and Principles of Geology Against TheoriesF. Knight, 1857 - 412 páginas |
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... supposition therefore 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 ...
... supposition therefore 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 ...
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... supposition that the materials of the strata , were drawn from mountains of granite , that were ten or fifteen miles above the level of the ocean . The strata of the earth are held by geologists , to be on an average , about ten miles ...
... supposition that the materials of the strata , were drawn from mountains of granite , that were ten or fifteen miles above the level of the ocean . The strata of the earth are held by geologists , to be on an average , about ten miles ...
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... supposition that vapors could have ascended to such a height , and fallen in the form of snow , they would for ever have remained congealed . No heat could have been developed there , sufficient to dissolve them . No rivers therefore ...
... supposition that vapors could have ascended to such a height , and fallen in the form of snow , they would for ever have remained congealed . No heat could have been developed there , sufficient to dissolve them . No rivers therefore ...
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... What is the first error from which they must keep free ? Specify one of their assumptions that is chargeable with that error . In what respect does the supposition that the earth was created in 2 THE CRITERIA OF ITS TRUTH . 25.
... What is the first error from which they must keep free ? Specify one of their assumptions that is chargeable with that error . In what respect does the supposition that the earth was created in 2 THE CRITERIA OF ITS TRUTH . 25.
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... supposition in which an error of that kind lurks . Why would it have been impossible that the materials of the strata should ever have been drawn from lands of such an elevation , as that supposition ascribes to the continents and ...
... supposition in which an error of that kind lurks . Why would it have been impossible that the materials of the strata should ever have been drawn from lands of such an elevation , as that supposition ascribes to the continents and ...
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Página 144 - Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Página 168 - And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man : All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Página 132 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years : 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth : and it was so.
Página 143 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Página 143 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Página 144 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
Página 125 - By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
Página 83 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Página 114 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters that were above the firmament: and it was so.
Página 41 - Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy: , Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy gates...