. God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible . e on the globe from the low to the high, and that relicsof these successive life-forms are pigeonholed in the rocksto reveal this fact to us. In succeeding chapters we shallsee how this idea, beginning as a crude and hasty generali-zation from a very few imperfectly understood facts, al-most instantly expanded into the iron dogma that it is to-day;how it has continued to pervert the teachings of sciencefor a hundred years, in spite of discoveries which have longsince put it out of court even as a hypothesis; and how t
. God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible . e on the globe from the low to the high, and that relicsof these successive life-forms are pigeonholed in the rocksto reveal this fact to us. In succeeding chapters we shallsee how this idea, beginning as a crude and hasty generali-zation from a very few imperfectly understood facts, al-most instantly expanded into the iron dogma that it is to-day;how it has continued to pervert the teachings of sciencefor a hundred years, in spite of discoveries which have longsince put it out of court even as a hypothesis; and how thisidea, in fixing upon any fossil type or types as intrinsicallyolder than all or any others, involved, from the very first,the utterly preposterous notion that, while one kind of fossilswas being deposited in one locality, another and very diversekind of life positively was not living or being fossilized inanother distant locality — preposterous, we say, for whowill claim to possess the supernatural knowledge of thepast involved in such a statement? 100 GODS TWO BOOKS. COUNT DE BUFFON (1707-1788) Buffon undertook to explain everything in the universe ; and hesucceeded about as well for his day, and according to the meagerscientific knowledge then available, as some modern writers havein our time, who persist in ignoring the only reliable guide wehave for such a task, the Revelation given by<-heOne Being CHAPTER VII The Successive Ages A BOUT a century and a half ago, the French naturalist,**• Buffon, who, by the way, was not a practical geolo-gist, put forth the generalization that, over all the continents,the remains of the large land quadrupeds occur near thesurface, showing that they lived in these regions at no veryremote age; whereas, the deeper lying remains of marinecreatures found as fossils are either entirely extinct, or arerelated to forms now found only in far-distant corners ofthe world. Crude and inaccurate as such a notion really is when ap-plied to the
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