374 On the Mosaic account of the Creation. 



tions, differing so widely as they do, both in their imbedded 

 fossils and in their structure. 



Thus the false position taken up by the Mosaic geologists 

 may be said in a certain degree to give colour to, and war- 

 rant, the still worse doctrines of the mineralists ; for if they 

 who advocate the scriptural outline of events, thus by their 

 contradictions overthrow their own theories, no wonder that 

 the opposite sect should reject them, and seek for other causes 

 to explain the phenomena of the earth's strata. 



But although the foregoing views of the Mosaic geologists 

 are thus seen to be entirely founded in error, yet it must not 

 be forgotten that in many other respects they are decidedly 

 correct, and especially so in declaring that no system of geo- 

 logy which is not strictly and reasonably founded on the 

 Mosaic records, will eventually stand. 



Truth will prevail as our knowledge of the subject advances 

 to maturity, and the discoveries of science will prove that the 

 phenomena presented to our view in the various strata of the 

 earth, are all such as may be clearly and reasonably account- 

 ed for in the doctrines of Holy Writ. 



Let us therefore now proceed in the first place to disprove 

 what appear to be the erroneous views of either sect, and 

 then endeavour to build up a more orthodox theory founded 

 upon the statements contained in the Mosaic writings, and 

 supported by the strong collateral testimony of geological 

 phenomena. 



" During a long time/' says Cuvier, " two events or epochs 

 only, — the Creation and the Deluge, were admitted as compre- 

 hending the changes which have been operated upon the 

 globe."* These, as we have already seen, are the revolu- 

 tions contended for by the Mosaic geologists, but which 

 Cuvier justly thinks are insufficient, although he has errone- 

 ously and arbitrai-ily pronounced them to ee have been nu- 



merous." 



Jameson's Cuvier's Theory of the Earth, p. 38. 



