. God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible . s, we must right here be on our we find one bed, or stratum, lying above another,the lower one is, of course, the older of the two; but GODS TWO BOOKS 81 GEOLOGICAL AGES AND PERIODS(As commonly understood) Cenozoic Quaternary Age of Man,50,000 years Tertiary Age of Mammals,3,000,000 years Mesozoic Cretaceous Age of Reptiles,7,000,000 years Jurassic Triassic Palaeozoic Permian Age of Amphibians and Coal Plants, 5,000,000 years Carboniferous Devonian Age of Fishes,2,000,000 years Silurian Age of Invertebrates
. God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible . s, we must right here be on our we find one bed, or stratum, lying above another,the lower one is, of course, the older of the two; but GODS TWO BOOKS 81 GEOLOGICAL AGES AND PERIODS(As commonly understood) Cenozoic Quaternary Age of Man,50,000 years Tertiary Age of Mammals,3,000,000 years Mesozoic Cretaceous Age of Reptiles,7,000,000 years Jurassic Triassic Palaeozoic Permian Age of Amphibians and Coal Plants, 5,000,000 years Carboniferous Devonian Age of Fishes,2,000,000 years Silurian Age of Invertebrates,10,000,000 years Cambrian Azoic Algonkian (No fossils) Archaean 82 GODS TWO BOOKS whether laid down ten minutes earher or ten million yearsearlier, how are we to determine ? — The common way isby the fossils they contain, as will be explained later; but,as this method is based on a series of pure, unfoundedassumptions, its results have no weight whatever for uswho want facts, not theories. Hence we are compelledto say that there is absolutely no way of telling how long. Birds-eye view of the Niagara gorge. It is thought that thefalls have been steadily receding from the high bluff at Queens-ton Heights (Q. H.), and Lyell estimated the rate at about onefoot per annum, or about thirty-five thousand years in all. Morerecently, however, G. K. Gilbert, of the United States GeologicalSurvey, has estimated the average rate of recession at five feetper annum, and says that the maximum length of time sincethe birth of the falls by the separation of the lakes is only seventhousand years, and even this small measure may need significantreduction. Sir William Dawson says about the same thing;and hence there is no difficulty in believing that it could easilyhave taken place within the limits of Biblical time. When weonce get rid of the successive ages of uniformitarian geology,and admit the possibility of the Biblical deluge, all the old stockproblems of the science are solved with littl
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