Creation, Or, the Biblical Cosmogony in the Light of Modern Science
Creation, Or, the Biblical Cosmogony in the Light of Modern Science
James Dwight Dana
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God was not only at the head as the source of power, but also in every movement, and creatively in each new step of progress. And how much more God-like is such a system of development than the making of the fifth-day motley assemblage of life at the spoken word ! The very words in the first chapter of Genesis, as Guyot observes, sustain this interpretation. Nowhere is there taught that abrupt creation of species which pre- judging exegesis so generally finds. The narrative reads, with referenc...e to plants, " Let the earth bring forth " ; not let certain kinds, or all kinds, of plants exist ; but " Let the earth bring forth"; and the creation begun in the fiat on the third day was continued on afterward, through the earth's period of growth and development. So, again, Vol. XLII. No. 166. 2 2i8 Creation. [April, with regard to the lower animals, with fishes, reptiles, and flying things, it says " Let the waters bring forth," insti- tuting thus a course of development, and not fixing its limits ; and conforming in the command " Let the waters '* to the geological fact that the earliest animal species were all of the waters, and a great part of those that followed these throughout Paleozoic time.
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