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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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geology, its sup-posed foundation, fading from our vision, it is surely withrenewed courage and faith that we turn to the dear oldBook which has told the one story all these years. Theyonly are truly scientific who take Gods written Word asthe key in studying his larger book of nature. How appro-priate that, at such an intellectual and religious crisis asthis, the Lord should send a special message to the world that when he began to write on geology and described the exact order of these successive creations and destructions, his word be-came law for nearly half a century. Instead of the mineral onion-coats of Werner, he substituted onion-coats of fossils, and theworld has blindly followed this absurd idea for nearly a century.His doctrine of Catastrophism went into oblivion under the teach-ings of Lyell and the other uniformitarians, but his successiveages of advancing forms of life have been carefully nursed andjoined together into the modern doctrine of Evolution. 74 GODS TWO BOOKS
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SIR CHARLES LYELL (1797-1875) Lyell came on the stage when the world was getting tired ofthe waste of energy involved in Cuviers theory of Catastrophism.He collected much data regarding the work that the elements arecontinually doing in our modern world, following out the sameline of thought as Hutton had given to the world some forty yearsbefore. He taught that the present action of the elements is the GODS TWO BOOKS 75 about his created works: Fear God, and give glory tohim; for the hour of his judgment is come; and worshiphim that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the foun-tains of waters. Rev. 14:7. And, above all, how ap-propriate that the Creator is now giving anew to the worldhis Sabbath as the souvenir, or reminder, of a creationbrought about, not on the instalment plan, as the geologistshave taught, but in six literal days,— a reminder also ofhis power to re-create or redeem us from sin and its con- sequences same as the world has always experienced. This theory, kno

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