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Title: Outlines of natural theology for the use of the Canadian student (microform) : selected and arranged from the most authentic sources
Identifier: cihm_49136 (find matches)
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Bovell, James, 1817-1880
Subjects: Natural history; Natural theology; Sciences naturelles; Théologie naturelle
Publisher: (Toronto? : s. n. )
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!â ' !li â Hk. A*;- ^ 324 Now, to illustrate the fact of creative interfer- ence, and to substantiate the general truthfulness of the Mosaic record, we must appefjl to geology, in order to .'.scertain whether the earih has been renovated at various epochs, and its cUmatal coa- dition entirely changed, in conft iinity wii.i the. peculiar life forms whieli have lived during given times ; furnishiiiL': evideueo of adjustment, which the most daring believer in the mni'vellous cannot sap- pose to hi) ve arisen from chance cv a blind v. essity. S?r H. Marchison, in his Siluria, admirably illus- traieB .lie subject: " Passing over the earliest stiigoj? cf the planet, which are necessarily involved in obscurity, we begin with the iirst attainable evi- dence of the formation of sediments, composed of mud, sand and pebbles. It was shewn that the low- est accessible of these deposits, though of enormous dimensions, and occasionally less altered than strata formed after them, are almost entirely azoic, or void of traces of inliabitants of the seas in which they were accumulated. One solitary genus of zoophytes has been alone detected in such bottom rocks ; the heat of the surface, during those early periods, Iiuv* ing been, it is supposed, adverse to life. Proofs there are that, in the next formations, scarfcely dif* fering at all in mineral character n om those that preceded them, observers in v is regions had detect clear and unmistakt *: jigns of a contein' poraneous appearance ofaTii â¢, life, as shewn by

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