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The foes of our faith, and how to defeat them
The foes of our faith and how to defeat them Author:James Grant Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. THE ORIGIN OF MAN—THE DELUGE. In the previous chapter I have endeavoured to prove, and I trust with success, that, so far as the creation of th... more »e world is concerned, there exists no discordance whatever between the Works and the Word of God. I believe I have shown that there is not the slightest jarring between Genesis and Geology,—no antagonism between Scripture and Science. It is right I should now advert to the great fact that in no one single instance have those who assail the Mosaic account of the creation of our world, on the ground of its alleged inaccuracies, ventured to bring forward any hypothesis of their own which, even in their estimation, would account for the origin of the earth which we inhabit, as we now see it. This is a matter of great importance. The fact that theopponents of the Mosaic account of the creation, one and all shrink from the substitution of any other theory of the earth, ought surely to make them less dogmatic when affirming that the narrative given in the first two chapters of Genesis is incorrect. And their diffidence ought greatly to increase when they are constrained to confess that, not only have they no hypothesis of their own, in which they have confidence, to offer relative to the original formation of our earth, but that they know of no theory ever advanced by any one else, whether in ancient or modern times, which could at all compare, in point of rationality, with that of the Hebrew historian and lawgiver. Let us look for a brief space at some of the other theories which have been advanced with the view of accounting for the creation of the earth. The Egyptians laid claim to a very great antiquity, and Baron Bunsen concedes to them a history extending as far back as twenty thousand years; but the supposition is...« less