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The Mosaical and Mineral Geologies, Illustrated and Compared

The Mosaical and Mineral Geologies, Illustrated and Compared

Higgins, William Mullinger

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General ScienceGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 1235749630
ISBN13: 9781235749636
Publisher: General Books
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.07 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832. Excerpt: ... progressive work. This will be best done by analogy, by comparing the work of creation in one instance with that in others. Animals, though they have existed for generations almost indefinite, have had a beginning, and must have been created. How far soever we may trace generated animals back, there was a moment in which they were first called into existence; and that moment must have been after the creation of the earth. Generated animal bodies undergo great changes in their progress from birth to maturity. Bone, for instance, when the animal is young, is soft, and somewhat flexible, but by the addition of ossifying matter, it becomes harder and harder, until it is perfect bone, capable of supporting the mature and healthy animal. Now in which of these states are we to suppose animals to have been created? They cannot, we think, have been formed in an imperfect state. Many animals are, in the early stage of their being, unable to provide themselves with food, and incapable of supporting life; and if they were created in this state, we must allow that a considerable time must have passed before they could have been capable of increase. It is, therefore, probable that, when animals were created, they were in a perfect and mature state, with all their functions in that condition best adapted to the objects of their being. The same argument may be applied to the vegetable creation; and by analogy we conclude that the earth itself was created in the same manner. Progression is inconsistent with the exercise of creative power, although it may be distinctly traced to a certain limit in all created things. Scripture and science are, therefore, agreed on this point, that the earth had a Creator, and that it was created at once, without the interference of any sec...

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