...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:...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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, $...

...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...

...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,...