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Title: The Mosaic account of creation, the miracle of to-day, or, New witnesses to the oneness of Genesis and science : to which are added an inquiry as to the cause and epoch of the present inclination of the earth's axis, and an essay upon cosmology
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Warring, Charles Bartlett, 1825-1907
Subjects: Bible and science Cosmology Religion and science Creation
Publisher: New York : A. S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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overed. But since the water was carried by theatmosphere North and South, and then depositedas ice, any such catastrophe was rendered impos-sible. Instead of a deluge, there was more pro-bably a drought. One other fact is not out of place. If the con- CAUSE FOR INCREASE. 233 tinents retained their present altitude, the per-sistent ev^aporation, with consequent loss of heat,would of itself reduce the equatorial temperature,while the sinking of the surface of the ocean wouldproduce the same effect as elevating the land,giving it a rarer atmosphere, and less power ofretaining solar heat. Thus the movement by its own effects intensi-fied itself. Such effect, moreover, would explain thefact that the destruction of the higher pre-glacialanimal life appears to have been so universal. It remains only to supplement this discussionby showing that the present difference betweenthe inclination of the earths axis and that of themoons orbit is not in any large degree due to amovement of the latter.
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FlGUHE 3. Let Fig. 3 represent the Sun, Moon, and Earth,while the Moons orbit yet coincided with theplane of the Earths equator. We will supposetoo, that the axis PP was inclined in a sensible 234 INCLINATION OF EARThs AXIS. degree to tlie ecliptic, say 5°, a condition whoseorigin and cause will be considered in Cos-mology. At that epoch, then, the difference betweenthe inclination of the Earths axis and that of theMoons orbit, was null. It is evident that theSuns attraction upon M could not affect the meanposition of its orbit, for the decreased inclinationat M will be nearly counteracted at M, leaving asmall residual in favor of M, on account of its lessdistance from the Sun. This small residual willbe fully counterbalanced when the Earth hasmoved to the opposite side of its orbit, givingthen to M an exactly equal superiority over M,and leaving the total effect absolutely nothing, inexact harmony with La Granges Theorem. In ))recisely the same manner it can be shownthat the influen

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