The Creation: The Earth's Formation on Dynamical Principles in Accordance with the Mosaic Record and Latest Scientific DiscoveriesDaldy, Isbister, 1874 - 664 pages |
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... mountain chains generally composed of amorphous masses . Their prevalence on the Earth's surface . Axes of elevation observable in mountain ranges , and the conical form which their eminences have assumed . Argument , founded on the ...
... mountain chains generally composed of amorphous masses . Their prevalence on the Earth's surface . Axes of elevation observable in mountain ranges , and the conical form which their eminences have assumed . Argument , founded on the ...
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... mountains , ' the others are on rough , stony , heathy mountains . ' " ' * Mr. Lyell explains Lycopodineœ as " Plants of an inferior degree of organization to coniferæ , some of which they very much resemble in foliage , but all recent ...
... mountains , ' the others are on rough , stony , heathy mountains . ' " ' * Mr. Lyell explains Lycopodineœ as " Plants of an inferior degree of organization to coniferæ , some of which they very much resemble in foliage , but all recent ...
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... mountains is so incompatible with these that they must either stand or fall together . The change in the position of ... mountain ranges , and the secondary ones tilted up and hanging on their shoulders , yet , when it is considered that ...
... mountains is so incompatible with these that they must either stand or fall together . The change in the position of ... mountain ranges , and the secondary ones tilted up and hanging on their shoulders , yet , when it is considered that ...
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... mountain ranges ; that there is a strong analogy between granite , trap , and por- phyry ; and that their common origin must be sought for in nearly the same source and from the same cause . " § A few illustrations bearing on these ...
... mountain ranges ; that there is a strong analogy between granite , trap , and por- phyry ; and that their common origin must be sought for in nearly the same source and from the same cause . " § A few illustrations bearing on these ...
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... mountains , so as to constitute , at the same time , the lowest and most elevated portions of the crust of the globe . * " It is , " says Dr. M'Culloch , " in the deeper regions of the globe , therefore , in those where we have found ...
... mountains , so as to constitute , at the same time , the lowest and most elevated portions of the crust of the globe . * " It is , " says Dr. M'Culloch , " in the deeper regions of the globe , therefore , in those where we have found ...
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Page 577 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind : and it was so.
Page 577 - 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. And let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Page 578 - 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.
Page 578 - 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.
Page 578 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Page 213 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Page 577 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth...
Page 52 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
Page 209 - that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distances from each other.
Page 577 - ... and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day.