Voices from the Rocks; Or, Proofs of the Existence of Man During the Pal Ozoic, or Most Ancient Period of the Earth. a Reply to H. Miller's 'Testimony of the Rocks'.

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: 1l CHAPTER III. DIFFICULTIES OF THE FOREGOING THEORY. We have given Mr. Miller's scheme of reconciliation in his own words, that we may be free from any suspicion of misrepresenting his meaning. We have now to request the reader's attention whilst we point out such parts of the theory as appear to us altogether at variance with the testimony of Scripture. The most extraordinary feature in the scheme of creation put forth by this eminent geologist is the circumstance, that the creation of one of the most numerous and most important orders of the animal creation, is completely ignored. As Mr. Miller views the first chapter of Genesis, no part of the narrative mentions the creation of fishes! Not the slightest reference is anywhere made to the production of those countless shoals of creatures which people the rivers, seas, and oceans of our globe! Is not this a most marvellous fact ? Can any explanation of the omission be given ? Are the finny tribe of so small importance in number, or do they occupy so low a rank in the scale of being, as to be unworthy of notice? Neither of these allegations can be sustained. The cause of the omission lies far deeper?and is to be found in the admitted fact, that the theories of modern geology are altogether incompatible with that part of the Mosaic record which describes the creation of fishes as taking place on the fifth day. It is an axiom of modern geology, that the fossil contents of an inferior stratum are the remains of organized beings that existed at a period antecedent to that represented by the overlying strata. Now the work of the fifth day, according to Mr. Miller, " extended over those Oolitic and Cretaceous periods, during which the great sea-monsters and birds were created" (p. 175). But it is well known that fishes ar...