. God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible . JAMES D. DANA, LL. D. (1813-1895)Late Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in Yale UniversityHis writings are clear, transparently candid and honest, and heas without doubt the best-known writer on geology in America. GOD^S TWO BOOKS 139 some four or five other facts about the fossil world whichare just as essential in the framing of a sound and safe in-duction. These facts must now be given: — The animal and vegetable relics found in thepolar regions uniformly testify^ that a warm cli-mate has in former times prevaile
. God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible . JAMES D. DANA, LL. D. (1813-1895)Late Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in Yale UniversityHis writings are clear, transparently candid and honest, and heas without doubt the best-known writer on geology in America. GOD^S TWO BOOKS 139 some four or five other facts about the fossil world whichare just as essential in the framing of a sound and safe in-duction. These facts must now be given: — The animal and vegetable relics found in thepolar regions uniformly testify^ that a warm cli-mate has in former times prevailed over the wholeglobe. NORDENSKIOLD, IN GEOLOGICAL MAG-AZINE, Vol. XII, PAGE 531. 1. All ofthe fossils(save a veryfew of thes o-call edGlacial age,and theyadmit o fexpl a n a-other easytion) giveus proofs ofa n almosteternalspring hav-i n g pre-vailed in the arctic regions, and semitropical conditions innorth temperate latitudes; in short, they give us proofs of asingular uniformity of climate over the globe, which we canhardly conceive possible, let alone account A large mollusk (Machirea magna), often eightinches in diameter, with other Paleozoic the Silurian rocks. 140 GODS TWO BOOKS
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