Nature and the Bible A course of lectures delivered in New York, in December, 1874, on the Morse foundation of the Union theological seminary . at enclose these beds, thegrowth of so many peaty layers, often of greatthickness, with the production and entombmentof so many forests, and the time involved inthe emergences and subsidences of the landnecessary to their appearing as they now do, 82 THE SCIENCE OF THE EARTH must have required ages, compared with whichthe modern period dwindles into accumulation of even one bed of coalmay have required as long a time as thatcovered b
Nature and the Bible A course of lectures delivered in New York, in December, 1874, on the Morse foundation of the Union theological seminary . at enclose these beds, thegrowth of so many peaty layers, often of greatthickness, with the production and entombmentof so many forests, and the time involved inthe emergences and subsidences of the landnecessary to their appearing as they now do, 82 THE SCIENCE OF THE EARTH must have required ages, compared with whichthe modern period dwindles into accumulation of even one bed of coalmay have required as long a time as thatcovered by human history. Again, numerousgreat limestones, of immense thickness, andcovering vast areas, are composed altogetherof shells of mollusks or corals. Such lime-stones give us for the lowest estimate of timethe lapse of vast ages. Geological time thusgrows upon us the more that we examineits details. Plate II., showing the microscopicstructure of two great Silurian beds of lime-stone, is an illustration of this; and Table in a very general way the wholegreat series of formations, terminated by theHuman or historical Magnified Specimens of Lower Silurian Limestone, showing the manner in which it is made up of fragments of Corals, Cricoids and and the Bible. PLATE II. !>• 82. IN RELATION TO THE BIBLE. 83 Table II. — View of the Geological History of the Earth. Geological Periods. Animal Life. VegetableLife. Neozoic,or Tor- ,tiaryTime. Modern and Post-glacial. Post-pliocene, orGlacial. ^ Pliocene. Miocene. Eocene. Age of of Mammals. Age of Angio-sperms andPalms. M^ozoic f Cretaceous.±nne. { Triassic. Age of Reptilesand Birds. Age of Cycadsand Pines. PalaeozoicTime. , or , or >Primordial. Age of Amphibiansand Fishes. Age of Mollusks,Corals, and Crus-taceans. Age of Acrogensand Gymno-sperms. Age of Algae. „ . f Huronian?, -\ Upper ^ L
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