Sinossi
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ... 14 GEOLOGY AND SCRIPTURE. 18. Geological Difficulties. No chapter of Scripture has, for the last twenty years, occasioned more controversy than the first chapter of Genesis. The grand difficulty has arisen from the fact, that geologists consider that it has been proved, that the globe is of much higher antiquity than the literal interpretation of Genesis seems to allow, and that animal and vegetable life must have existed on it, for many ages, perhaps centuries, before man was created. To meet this difficulty, it is generally proposed to separate the first two verses of the chapter from those which follow, so as to allow of a long interval of time between the primeval period, when the earth was "without form and void," and the commencement of the six days' work, which fitted the earth for the habitation of men. It is also proposed to consider the days mentioned in Genesis not as fixed periods of twenty-four hours, but as periods of indefinite length. But to this there are many objections; such a proposal renders it difficult to interpret the reason assigned for keeping the fourth commandment; it seems to do violence to the plain words of Scripture; and it, besides, affords no answer to the objections of the geologists. We cannot doubt that the two records, the one dictated by God to Moses, the other inscribed in the stony bosom of the earth, must, if rightly interpreted, teach the same thing; at present, however, no method of reconciling the apparent contradictions between the records has been proposed which has met with general acceptance. The whole subject ought to remind us of a truth sometimes overlooked, viz., that Scripture was not given to teach us science, but to make us wise unto salvation. In matters of science, Scripture...
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