Geognosy; Or, The Facts and Principles of Geology Against TheoriesF. Knight, 1855 - 412 páginas |
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... prove that an immense series of ages must have been required for their formation . This inference of the age of the world , is thus founded on a theory of the sources from which the materials of the strata were derived , the agents by ...
... prove that an immense series of ages must have been required for their formation . This inference of the age of the world , is thus founded on a theory of the sources from which the materials of the strata were derived , the agents by ...
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... prove that it ever was in such a state , as it is to prove that it once existed in a gaseous form . To build an inference of the age of the world on such an assumption , is there- fore to build it on an hypothesis , of what cannot be ...
... prove that it ever was in such a state , as it is to prove that it once existed in a gaseous form . To build an inference of the age of the world on such an assumption , is there- fore to build it on an hypothesis , of what cannot be ...
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... prove . For if the strata were formed by no other agents , than those which are now acting on the land , and the sea , and their deposition proceeded at no more rapid rate , than similar strata are now forming at the bottom of the ocean ...
... prove . For if the strata were formed by no other agents , than those which are now acting on the land , and the sea , and their deposition proceeded at no more rapid rate , than similar strata are now forming at the bottom of the ocean ...
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... prove the great age of the world , by what they themselves are , irrespective of any specu- lations , in regard to the agents by which they were formed , they cannot prove it at all ; precisely as , if the nature and number of the ...
... prove the great age of the world , by what they themselves are , irrespective of any specu- lations , in regard to the agents by which they were formed , they cannot prove it at all ; precisely as , if the nature and number of the ...
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... Prove that the torrents and rivers that convey sand , mud , and vegetable matter to the ocean , are inadequate to distri- bute them over its bed . Point out a fifth ground which they must not make the basis of their inference of the ...
... Prove that the torrents and rivers that convey sand , mud , and vegetable matter to the ocean , are inadequate to distri- bute them over its bed . Point out a fifth ground which they must not make the basis of their inference of the ...
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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 142 - Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
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 131 - 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,
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 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 142 - 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 395 - And GOD created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and GOD saw that it was good.
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...