Outlines of modern Christianity and modern science . Neptune, its first-born. As this planet is now 2,790,000,000 milesfrom our present sun, the great mother must at thistime have been considerably over 5,000,000,000miles in diameter. But, contrary to mammalianparturition, this outer ring must have opened this5,000,000,000 miles for the parent body to squeezethrough. Tt is difficult to see how the particles ofthe young planet could get together again after beingspread out over this immense area. One wouldthink that the parental affection of gravitation would 7 Page 72, et seq. (Italics supplie
Outlines of modern Christianity and modern science . Neptune, its first-born. As this planet is now 2,790,000,000 milesfrom our present sun, the great mother must at thistime have been considerably over 5,000,000,000miles in diameter. But, contrary to mammalianparturition, this outer ring must have opened this5,000,000,000 miles for the parent body to squeezethrough. Tt is difficult to see how the particles ofthe young planet could get together again after beingspread out over this immense area. One wouldthink that the parental affection of gravitation would 7 Page 72, et seq. (Italics supplied). For many of the argumentshere given in refutation of this statement of the nebular theory, Iam indebted to a suggestive work, The Earth and the World,How Formed? By A. G. Jennings, Flemming H. Revell Co.,1900. Scientific World-Building. 79 have a thousand times more power to draw these de-tached pieces of a ring back again to itself than thesescattered fragments of the new-born ring would haveof getting together so as to form one compact Diagram of Our Solar System. But then, I suppose, the instincts of a new-bornplanet must be equally marvelous with those of ter-restrial animals. After untold ages of watching and waiting, while 80 Modern Christianity and Modem Science. the rotating mass was condensing and contractingdown to the limits of the present orbit of Uranus,which is about one billion miles nearer the sun thanNeptune, this second of the planets is should expect, after this enormous shrinkage ofover two billion miles in diameter, that Uranusought to be a body vastly greater in size than it , however, have long searched in vainfor any other planet between it and Neptune. But it would never do to pass by the very schis-matic behavior of this planets four little satellites,or moons—grandchildren of the old mother everybody knows, the planets all revolve aboutthe sun from wTest to east, and rotate on their axesin the same gen
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