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Sir John William Dawson. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science
The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science
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THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD
CHAPTER I. THE MYSTERY OF ORIGINS AND ITS SOLUTIONS "The things that are seen are temporal."—Paul
CHAPTER II. OBJECTS AND NATURE OF A REVELATION OF ORIGINS
CHAPTER III. OBJECTS AND NATURE OF A REVELATION OF ORIGINS—Continued
CHAPTER IV. THE BEGINNING "In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth."—Genesis i., 1
CHAPTER V. THE DESOLATE VOID "And the earth was desolate and empty, and darkness was upon the surface of the deep; and the Spirit of God moved on the surface of the waters."—Genesis i., 2
CHAPTER VI. LIGHT AND CREATIVE DAYS "And God said, Let light be, and light was; and God saw the light that it was good, and separated the light from the darkness; and God called the light Day; and the darkness he called Night. And Evening was and Morning was—Day one."—Genesis i., 3–5
CHAPTER VII. THE ATMOSPHERE "And God said, Let there be an expanse between the waters; and let it separate the waters from the waters. And God made the expanse, and separated the waters which are under the expanse from the waters which are over the expanse: and it was so. And God called the expanse Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day."—Genesis i. 6–8
CHAPTER VIII. THE DRY LAND AND THE FIRST PLANTS
CHAPTER IX. LUMINARIES
CHAPTER X. THE LOWER ANIMALS
CHAPTER XI. THE HIGHER ANIMALS AND MAN
CHAPTER XII. THE REST OF THE CREATOR
CHAPTER XIII. UNITY AND ANTIQUITY OF MAN
CHAPTER XIV. UNITY AND ANTIQUITY OF MAN—(Continued.)
CHAPTER XV. COMPARISONS AND CONCLUSIONS
APPENDIX. A.—TRUE AND FALSE EVOLUTION
B.—EVOLUTION AND CREATION BY LAW
C.—MODES OF CREATION
D.—PRESENT CONDITION OF THEORIES OF LIFE
E.—RECENT FACTS AS TO THE ORIGIN AND ANTIQUITY OF MAN
F.—BEARING OF GLACIAL PERIODS UPON THE INTERPRETATION OF GENESIS
G.—DR. STERRY HUNT ON THE CHEMISTRY OF THE PRIMEVAL EARTH
H.—TANNIN AND BHEMAH
I.—ANCIENT MYTHOLOGIES
K.—ASSYRIAN AND EGYPTIAN TEXTS
L.—SPECIES AND VARIETAL FORMS WITH REFERENCE TO THE UNITY OF MAN
FOOTNOTES
INDEX
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Sir John William Dawson
Published by Good Press, 2019
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It is known that similar creation myths existed among the Mexicans and other early civilized nations of America, and in ruder and more grotesque forms even among the semi-barbarous and hunter tribes. Their connection with the ancient Semitic and Turanian revelations of Asia is unquestionable.
We have thus in the Assyrian Genesis a relic of early religious belief belonging to a period when such widely separated stocks as the Assyrian and American were still one: to a period, therefore, presumably long anterior to that of Moses. Yet at this very early period the central portions at least of the Turanian race had already devised some means of recording their traditions in writing—probably the arrow-head writing, afterwards used by the Assyrians, had already been invented. Again, at this early period a complex polytheism had already sprung up, and this was connected with cosmological ideas, inasmuch as the primitive abyss, the firmament, the starry heavens, the principle of life, were all subordinate gods; and so were also some of the earliest of the patriarchs of the human race. It is possible, however, that this was among the early Chaldeans an exoteric representation for the vulgar, and that the priestly caste may have understood it in a monotheistic sense. In any case, the idea of a Supreme Creator remains behind the whole. Farther, in the early Chaldean record we have a more detailed and expanded document than that of the Hebrew Genesis, probably intended for the popular ear, and to include as much as possible of the current mythology. As an example, I quote the following in relation to the creation of the moon, being apparently a part of the narrative of that creative period corresponding with the fourth day of Genesis:
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