 | 1850 - 806 pages
...that he was the first religious teacher in Scotland MEMOIRS OF DR. CHALMERS. who expressed his belief that the writings of Moses do not fix the antiquity of the globe, but that geology, in its tracings of cause and effect, in the strata and general structure of the earth,... | |
 | Scotland - 1857 - 922 pages
...authority as the Testimony of the Rocks. This interpretation concurs in Dr Chalmers's celebrated dictum, " that the writings of Moses do not fix the antiquity of the globe." It further agrees with him in prefixing the opening sentence of Genesis to the geologic periods ; but,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 642 pages
...defended the science from the charge of infidelity brought against it — broadly laying down the rule, that " the writings of Moses do not fix the antiquity of the globe ; if they fix anything at all, it is only the antiquity of the species." Chemistry and geology were followed by the study of botany... | |
 | William Hanna - 1849 - 572 pages
...the Bible, and in all the animating prospects of immortality which it unfolds. This is a false alarm. The writings of Moses do not fix the antiquity of the globe. If tkey fix anything at all, it is only the antiquity of the species. It is not the interest of Christianity... | |
 | William Hanna - 1850 - 542 pages
...the Bible, and in all the animating prospects of immortality which it unfolds. This is a false alarm. The writings of Moses do not fix the antiquity of the globe. If they fix anything at all, it is only the antiquity of the species. It is not the interest of Christianity to repress liberty... | |
 | William Hanna - Clergy - 1850 - 538 pages
...the Bible, and in all the animating prospects of immortality which it unfolds. This is a false alarm. The writings of Moses do not fix the antiquity of the globe. If they fix any thing at all, it is only the antiquity of the species. It is not the interest of Christianity to... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1850 - 910 pages
...tramtm-U of the time, and that he was the first religious teacher in Scotlam! who expressed his belief that the writings of Moses do not fix the antiquity of the globe, but that geology, in its tracings of cause and effect, in the strata and general structure of the earth,... | |
 | 1850 - 622 pages
...driven to it by any geological difficulties.' Dr Chalmers, in 1 804, announced it as his opinion ' that the writings of Moses do not fix the antiquity of the globe.' Dr Bnckland, Mr Sedgewick, Dr M'Culloch, eminent practical geologists, all of them, agree with him.... | |
 | Theology - 1857 - 992 pages
...directing attention to the bold and almost prophetlike statement of Dr Chalmers in the year 1804, " The writings of Moses do not fix the antiquity of the globe," In 181 4, Dr Chalmers produced a more elaborate scheme of reconciliation between the divine and the... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Bible - 1854 - 60 pages
...and distinguished men, who all alike came early to the conclusion, with the lecturer of St. Andrews, that " the writings of Moses do not fix the antiquity of the globe." In 1814, ten years after the date of the St. Andrews' lectures, Dr. Chalmers produced his more elaborate... | |
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This is a false alarm. The writings of Moses do not fix the antiquity of the globe. If they fix anything at all, it is only the antiquity of the species. 
