. God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible . riven backward from one point toanother over the long, thin line of this tax-onomic series of the ancient world, it stillcontests every inch of ground. Let us try the tree-ferns and cycads ofthe coal beds of the Paleozoic and Meso-zoic. In northern regions they do not oc-cur later than the Triassic and Jurassic,and doubtless it is the same with the rocksin the tropics, where the modern species nowlive in fair abundance. But how did they ^^^^ Triassiccome to shift to the tropics so many millions of years beforethe palm
. God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible . riven backward from one point toanother over the long, thin line of this tax-onomic series of the ancient world, it stillcontests every inch of ground. Let us try the tree-ferns and cycads ofthe coal beds of the Paleozoic and Meso-zoic. In northern regions they do not oc-cur later than the Triassic and Jurassic,and doubtless it is the same with the rocksin the tropics, where the modern species nowlive in fair abundance. But how did they ^^^^ Triassiccome to shift to the tropics so many millions of years beforethe palms, etc., of the Tertiaries thought it time to do thesame? The cHmate had not changed a degree. How didthey come to scent the Glacial age so much earher than theirmore highly organized fellows? The Challenger Expedition some years since fished upsome living Cyathophylloid corals from the bottom of theocean, where they are now building away as in the oldentime. Geologists were well acquainted with limestones corn-posed largely of their fossils, in Spitzbergen and ENCRINITESMONILIFORMIS Crinoid, Eng- GODS TWO BOOKS
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