Voices from the Rocks: or, proofs of the existence of man during the Palæozoic or most ancient period of the earth. A reply to the late Hugh Miller's “Testimony of the Rocks.” [By W. E. Taylor.]Judd & Glass, 1857 - 147 Seiten |
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Seite 94 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth : and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Seite 13 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Seite 17 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Seite 9 - ... that the second period of the geologist was peculiarly and characteristically a period of whale-like reptiles of the sea, of enormous creeping reptiles of the land, and of numerous birds, some of them of gigantic size ; and, in meet accordance with the fact, we find that the second Mosaic period with which the geologist is called on to deal was a period in which God created the fowl that flieth above the earth, with moving [or creeping] creatures, both in the waters and on the land, and what...
Seite 8 - In no other age did the world ever witness such a flora : the youth of the earth was peculiarly a green and umbrageous...
Seite 4 - Jan. l857, p. 76. and plants of the later extinct creations, there occurred no break or blank ; but that, on the contrary, many of the existing organisms were contemporary during the morning of their being with many of the extinct ones during the evening of theirs.
Seite 66 - All these fish must have died suddenly on this fatal spot, and have been speedily buried in the calcareous sediment then in the course of deposition. From the fact that certain individuals have even preserved traces of colour upon their skin, we are certain that they were entombed before decomposition...
Seite 7 - I ask, is the reply ? All geologists agree in holding that the vast geological scale naturally divides into three great parts. There are many lesser divisions, — divisions into systems, formations, deposits, beds, strata; but the master divisions, in each of which we find a type of life so unlike that of the others, that even the unpractised eye can detect the difference, are simply three, — the Paleozoic, or oldest fossiliferous division; the Secondary, or middle fossiliferous division ; and...
Seite 8 - The geologic evidence is so complete as to be patent to all, that the first great period of organized being was, as described in the Mosaic record, peculiarly a period of herbs' and trees, ' yielding seed after their kind.
Seite 8 - The middle great period of the geologist — that of the Secondary division — possessed, like the earlier one, its herbs and plants, but they were of a greatly less luxuriant and conspicuous character than their predecessors, and no longer formed the prominent trait or feature of the creation to which they belonged. The period had also its corals, its crustaceans, its molluses, its fishes, and in some one or two exceptional instances its dwarf mammals.