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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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ying in onelocality, another and very diverse kind of life, say numulites,could not have been living and dying in another localityon the other side of the globe. Even to-day the science hasnot yet outgrown the childish nonsense of this last alternative.But another astonishing trick of logic must now be men-less that they represented a real order of creation. But Wernersonion-coats Vv^ere becoming discredited somewhat, and so geologistswere eager to find some better way of distinguishing the variousrocks than by their mineral or mechanical make-up; and thisnew idea of Smiths seemed so simple and useful that it waseagerly adopted in England. And as the great Cuvier was at thisvery time teaching the same thing in France, it was not long be-fore their onion-coats of fossils were substituted for the mineralonion-coats of Werner. This absurd notion is still the greatincubus on modern geology, and has furnished all the basis thereever has been for the doctrine of Evolution. 72 GODS TWO BOOKS
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GEORGES CUVIER (1769-1832) In geology his name is chiefly associated with the doctrine ofCatastrophism, in which he taught that the world has experienceda great many successive creations and complete destructions orcatastrophes. By his scholarly work in comparative anatomy andzoology he had made himself the greatest scientist of his age, so GOD^S TWO BOOKS 7Z • tioned; for, of course, the whole geological succession hasnever been found in any one locality; only a very smallfraction have ever been found together in any given verticalsection of strata. In piecing together samples from distantlocalities, Agassiz and others adopted as a guiding test themodern embryonic life of the individual, and arranged thedetails and the exact order in which the members of anygiven group must have appeared, by comparison with thisembryonic development. Now, in our own days, the Evo-lutionists, led by Haeckel and Spencer, prove their theoryof Evolution by showing that the modern embryonic lifeof the i

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