Identifier: godstwobooksorpl00pric (find matches)
Title: God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Price, George McCready, 1870-1963
Subjects: Religion and science Evolution
Publisher: Washington, Review and Herald
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ere many times larger. more. The same platform in Orkney as at Cromarty isstrewed thick with remains, which exhibit unequivocally themarks of violent death. The figures are contorted, con-tracted, curved; the tail in many instances is bent round tothe head; the spines stick out; the fins are spread to the full,as in fish that die in convulsions. ... In this attitude nine tenths of the Pterichthes of the lowerold red sandstone are to be found.— Old Red Sandstone,pages 48, 221, 222. 156 GODS TWO BOOKS The conditions indicated here are evidently those of deepwater, with sediment falHng so rapidly through it from aboveas to literally bury these fish alive. But this author ex-presses his astonishment at the quiet conditions in the waters,indicated by the fineness of the sediment, and the perfectcondition of the fossil remains, combined with the amazingextent of the catastrophe. In what could it have originated? By what quiet butpotent agency of destruction were the innumerable existences
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A gigantic dragon-fly (Titanophasma fayoli), from the Car-boniferous rocks of France. It was about sixteen inches long. of an area perhaps ten thousand square miles in extent anni-hilated at once, and yet the medium in which they hadlived left undisturbed by its operations? Conjecture lacksfooting in grappling with the enigma, and expatiates inuncertainty over all the known phenomena of death.— Id. Surely Howorth is talking good science when he saysthat his masters Sedgwick and Murchison taught him — that no plainer witness is to be found of any physical factthan that nature has at times worked with enormous energyand rapidity, and that the rocky strata teem with evidenceof violent and sudden dislocations on a great scale.—* Nightmare,^^ preface, page 15. GODS TWO BOOKS 157 We have spoken only of the fishes, but what other classof the animal kingdom will not point us a similar lesson?Reptiles and amphibians, to say nothing of the larger mam-mals, are also found in countless myri

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