450 CONSISTENCY OF GEOLOGY WITH SACRED HISTORY. 



Table of Coincidences between the Order of Events as described in Genesis^ and 

 that unfolded by Geological hivestigation. 



In Genesis. 



1 



Discovered by Geology. 



Gen. I. 1,2. In the begin- 

 ning God created the heav- 

 ens and the earth. And the 

 earth was without form and 



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on the face of the deep; and 

 the Spirit of God moved up- 

 on the face of the waters. 



1 



It is impossible to deny, that the waters of the 

 sea have formerly, and for a long time, covered 

 those masses of matter which now constitute our 

 highest mountains; 



3, 4, 5. Creation of light. 



6, 7, 8. Creation of the ex- 

 pansion or atmosphere. 



9, 10. Appearance of the 

 dry land. 



2 



and, 



further, that these waters, during a long time, did 

 not support any living bodies. — Cuvier^s Theory 

 of the Earth, sect. 7. 



11, 12, 13. Creation of 

 shooting plants, and of seed- 

 bearing herbs and trees. 



3 



1. Cryptogamous plants in the coal strata. — Ma- 

 ny observers. 



2. Species of the most perfect developed class, 

 the Dicotyledonous, already appear in the period 

 of the secondary formations, and the first traces of 

 them can be shown in the oldest strata of the sec- 

 ondary formation ; while they uninterruptedly in- 

 crease in the successive formations. — Prof. Jame- 

 son's remarks on the Ancient Flora of the Earth. 



14 to 19. Sun, moon and 

 stars made io be for signs, 

 and for seasons, and for 

 days, and for years. 







20. Creation of the inhab- 

 itants of the waters. 



4 



Shells in Alpine and Jura limestone. — Hum- 

 boldVs tables. 



Fish in Jura limstone. — Do. 



Teeth and scales offish in Tilgate sandstone. — 

 Mr. Mantell. 



Creation of flying things. 



5 



Bones of birds in Tilgate sandstone. — Mr. Man- 

 tell, Geological Transactions, 1826. 



Elytra* of winged insects in calcareous slate, at 

 Stonesfield. — Mr. Mantell. 



21. The creation of great 

 reptiles. 



6 



It will be impossible not to acknowledge as a 

 certain truth, the number, the largeness, and the 

 variety of the reptiles, which inhabited the seas or 

 the land at the epoch in which the strata of Jura 

 were deposited. — Cuvier's Ossem. Foss. 



There was a period when the earth was peopled 

 by oviparous quadrupeds of the most appalling 

 magnitude. Reptiles were the lords of Creation. — 

 Mr. Mantell. 



24,25. Creation of the 

 mammalia. 



7 



Bones of mammiferous land quadrupeds, found 

 only when we come up to the formations above the 

 coarse limestone, which is above the chalk.t — Cu- 

 vier's Theory, sect. 20. 



26, 27. Creation of man. 



8 



No human remains among extraneous fossils. — 

 Cuvier^s Theory, sect. 32. 

 But found covered with mud in caves of Bize. — 



Journal. 



Genesis, VII. The flood 

 of Noah, 4200 years ago. 



9 



The crust of the globe has been subjected to i 

 great and sudden revolution, which cannot be da- 

 led much farther back than five or six thousand 

 years ago. — Cuvier's Theory, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 

 Buckland's Reliq. Diluv. 



* Sheaths. 



t One solitary exception is since discovered, in the calcareous slate of Stonesfield, in the bones 

 of a didelphis, an opossum, a tribe whose position may be held intermediate between the ovipa- 

 rous and mammiferous races. 



