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Philip Henry Gosse. Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot
Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot
Table of Contents
PREFACE
I
The Cause
II
The Witness for the Macro-Chronology
III
The Same—(continued.)
IV
The Cross-Examination
V
Postulates
VI
Laws
VII
Parallels and Precedents (Plants.)
VIII
Parallels and Precedents (Invertebrate Animals.)
IX
Parallels and Precedents (Vertebrate Animals.)
X
Parallels and Precedents (Man.)
XI
Parallels and Precedents (Germs.)
XII
The Conclusion
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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I
THE CAUSE
"Is there not a cause?"—1 Sam. xvii. 29
II
THE WITNESS FOR THE MACRO-CHRONOLOGY
III
THE WITNESS FOR THE MACRO-CHRONOLOGY
(CONTINUED.)
IV
THE CROSS-EXAMINATION
V
POSTULATES
VI
LAWS
VII
PARALLELS AND PRECEDENTS
(Plants.)
VIII
PARALLELS AND PRECEDENTS
(Invertebrate Animals.)
IX
PARALLELS AND PRECEDENTS
(Vertebrate Animals.)
X
PARALLELS AND PRECEDENTS
XI
PARALLELS AND PRECEDENTS
(Germs.)
XII
THE CONCLUSION
INDEX
MARINE. NATURAL HISTORY CLASS
Footnote
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Philip Henry Gosse
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Have they succeeded? If I thought so, I would not publish this book. Many, I doubt not, have been convinced by each of the schemes by which the discrepant statements have been sought to be harmonized. Each of them has had sufficient plausibility to convince its propounder; and, probably, others too. And some of them have attained a large measure of public confidence. Yet if any one of them is true, it certainly has not commanded universal assent. Let us examine how far they agree among themselves, who propose to reconcile Scripture and Science, "the Mosaic and the Mineral Geologies."
And first, it is, perhaps, right to represent the opinions of those who stand by the literal acceptation of the Divine Word. There have been some, indeed, who refuse to entertain the question of reconciliation, taking the high ground that, as the Word of God is and must be true, it is impious to set any evidence in competition with it. I cannot but say, my sympathies are far more with these than with those who, at the opposite pole of the argument, would make scientific deduction paramount, and make the Word go to the wall. But, then, we ought to be quite sure that we have got the very Word of God; and, so far from being impious, it seems highly proper and right, when conflicting evidence appears to flow out of what is indubitably God's work, to examine afresh the witnesses on both sides, that we may not make either testify what it does not.
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