The Relation Between the Holy Scriptures and Some Parts of Geological Science |
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... thousand years ago , and professing to be a revelation from the Deity , in which it was stated that the colour of the paper of the very book now in the reader's hands is black , and that the colour of the ink in the characters which he ...
... thousand years ago , and professing to be a revelation from the Deity , in which it was stated that the colour of the paper of the very book now in the reader's hands is black , and that the colour of the ink in the characters which he ...
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... thousand years ago ? Will he say that all solicitude upon the question may be safely dismissed , and that he gains firm footing for his faith on this subject by reposing upon an inter- pretation of the Mosaic records , which though ...
... thousand years ago ? Will he say that all solicitude upon the question may be safely dismissed , and that he gains firm footing for his faith on this subject by reposing upon an inter- pretation of the Mosaic records , which though ...
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... thousand years ago ; it is evident that the two positions cannot both stand : one destroys the other . One of them must be an error ; both may be wrong ; only one can be right . Our first care must be to ascertain the true state of the ...
... thousand years ago ; it is evident that the two positions cannot both stand : one destroys the other . One of them must be an error ; both may be wrong ; only one can be right . Our first care must be to ascertain the true state of the ...
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... thousand points of meeting , and mutual and joyful recog- nition , will occur . " - Sir John Herschel's Presidential Address , at the Fifteenth Meeting of the British Association , at Cambridge , June 1845 . The sum of objects which we ...
... thousand points of meeting , and mutual and joyful recog- nition , will occur . " - Sir John Herschel's Presidential Address , at the Fifteenth Meeting of the British Association , at Cambridge , June 1845 . The sum of objects which we ...
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... thousand times more extravagant and op- posed to facts , than any opinions that have been entertained by the cultivators of this science .-- But these hypotheses require scarcely less perversion of the Sacred Records . " - After giving ...
... thousand times more extravagant and op- posed to facts , than any opinions that have been entertained by the cultivators of this science .-- But these hypotheses require scarcely less perversion of the Sacred Records . " - After giving ...
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Page 73 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 179 - And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people ; now, therefore, let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them ; and I will make of thee a great nation.
Page 177 - For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
Page 190 - There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured : coals were kindled by it.
Page 301 - And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: And I will declare thy greatness. They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, And shall sing of thy righteousness.
Page 74 - And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Page 177 - Is Ephraim my dear son ? is he a pleasant child ? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still : therefore my bowels are troubled for him ; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.
Page 204 - And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.
Page 178 - And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Page 74 - And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. And God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons