 | 1837 - 684 pàgines
...originally created by the power of the Almighty." — " It is no where affirmed that God created the heavens and the earth in the first day, but in the beginning...physical operations disclosed by geology were going on." — " No limit is fixed to the time during which these intermediate events may have been going on:... | |
 | Henry Thomas De La Beche - 1837 - 394 pàgines
...to by the geologist, as containing a brief statement of th creation of the material elements, at a time distinctly preceding the operations of the first...may have been an. epoch at an unmeasured distance, folowed by periods of undefined duration, during which all the physical operations disclosed by Geology... | |
 | John Leland - 1837 - 784 pàgines
...affirmed, that God created the heavens and the earth in the first day, but in the beginning ; and that this beginning may have been an epoch at an unmeasured...followed by periods of undefined duration, during which the physical operations disclosed by geology were going on. The system of opinion which bears the name... | |
 | George Redford - 1837 - 702 pàgines
...statement of the creation of the material " elements, at a time distinctly preceding the ope" rations of the first day ; it is nowhere affirmed " that God created the heavens and the earth in the " first day, but in the beginning; this' beginning " may have been an... | |
 | Brantz Mayer - 1844 - 478 pàgines
...the earth," it is not affirmed that God created the heaven and the earth on the first day, but that " this ' beginning ' may have been an epoch, at an unmeasured...physical operations disclosed by geology were going on."* This is certainly satisfactory as to the formation of the earth — a mere fulcrum for the development... | |
 | Brantz Mayer - 1844 - 478 pàgines
...earth on the first day, but that "this 'beginning' may have been an epoch, at an unmeasured dfstance, followed by periods of undefined duration, during...physical operations disclosed by geology were going on."* This is certainly satisfactory as to the formation of the earth — a mere fulcrum for the development... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1846 - 660 pàgines
...celebrated " Bridgewater Treatise," in alluding to the first verse of the first chapter of Genesis, says, " it is nowhere affirmed that God created the heaven...may have been an epoch at an unmeasured distance, (millions and millions of years, he further states) followed by periods of undefined duration, during... | |
 | 1855 - 900 pàgines
...the material elements at a time distinctly preceding the operations of the first day ; it is no where affirmed that God created the heaven and the earth...physical operations disclosed by geology were going on.1" These " physical operations" are intended to include the crea1 Bridgcwatcr Treatise, Ch. 2, $... | |
 | Dominick McCausland - 1856 - 248 pàgines
...construction ; and consequently, if such be the true construction, that, as Dr. Buckland expresses it, " the beginning may have been an epoch at an unmeasured...physical operations disclosed by Geology were going on." It may be, that, consistently with the Mosaic phraseology, " the Earth was " (became), at the close... | |
 | Creative week - 1856 - 414 pàgines
...to by the geologist, as containing a brief statement of the creation of the material elements, at a time distinctly preceding the operations of the first...affirmed that God created the heaven and the earth on the first day, but in the beginning; this beginning may have been an epoch at an unmeasured distance,... | |
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These few first words of Genesis may be fairly appealed to by the geologist as containing a brief statement of the creation of the material elements, at a time distinctly preceding the operations of the first day; it is nowhere affirmed that God created... 
