. God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible . cy of Lyells ingeniousdivision of the Tertiary beds according to their contained percentages of hving or extinctmollusks. But, O, tell itnot in Gath! Going back now to ourmain subject, which was adenial of the reality of a life-succession and of the ages of the common text-books, wemust bear in mind that thepresent classification of thefossils was outlined in all itsgeneral detail when little ornothing was known of thecontents of the depths of theocean, or even of the landforms of Africa, Australia,and other foreign c
. God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible . cy of Lyells ingeniousdivision of the Tertiary beds according to their contained percentages of hving or extinctmollusks. But, O, tell itnot in Gath! Going back now to ourmain subject, which was adenial of the reality of a life-succession and of the ages of the common text-books, wemust bear in mind that thepresent classification of thefossils was outlined in all itsgeneral detail when little ornothing was known of thecontents of the depths of theocean, or even of the landforms of Africa, Australia,and other foreign shows how, up to 1 820,little or nothing of a scientificcharacter was known of anyof the classes of living ani-mals save mammals. Weneed not go into this subject atlength, but it may suffice to say that during the last half cen-tury or more a steady progress of discovery has resulted inshowing case after case where families and genera longboldly said to have been extinct since Paleozoic time arefound in thriving abundance and in little altered condition in. RIxNTG-TAILED LEMUR (Lemur catta) The lemurs are now con-fined to Madagascar and afew other localities thatskirt the Indian fossils are found onlyin the Eocene rocks of Eu-rope and America. Howthey managed to skip all theother formations from theEocene to the modern weare not informed. GODS TWO BOOKS 133 unsuspected places all over the world. Nor need we heredwell on the obvious absurdity of these inhabitants of themodern seas and the modern land, skipping all the uncountedmillions of years from Paleozoic times down to the recent;for, though found in profuse abundance in these older rocks,not a trace of many of them is to be found in all the subse-quent deposits. The lemurs, for example, are found fossil inthe Eocene rocks, and are living to-day in cestraciont sharks, alive now in the seas between Japanand Australia, are found as fossils only in the Mesozoicrocks, and thus skip the
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