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Scripture in answer to tlie charge of scientific inaccuracy ; the 
firsts as will be seen, admitting the foundation of the chaige 
to the full, but retorting the inference upon the assailant ; the 
second denying the foundation, by modifying the interpreta- 
tion of Scripture so as to make it harmonize with Science ; the 
third admitting in part both foundation and inference, bm 
regarding the latter as trivial and unimportant. 
II. We pass now to the second and- far more important 
group, of objections levelled against certain historical events 
recorded in Scripture, on the ground of- further information 
touching these events, or inconsistent with them, which 
Science is said to have elucidated. This charge is founded, 
with very slight exception, upon the contradiction asserted to 
exist between the statements of the first eleven chapter s of the 
book of Genesis and the conclusions of scientific research, 
more especially in the departments of Geology, Anthropology, 
Ethnology, and Natural History. It will be convenient, 
therefore, to review the objections under this head in the 
order which their connection with these chapters of Genesis 
naturally suggests. . . n 
The Cosmogony, or history of creation contained m Gen. 1 - 
ii. 4, furnishes the scientific objector, then, with the following 
charges : — 1st, and chiefly, a stupendous discrepance in regard 
to time ; Genesis teaching that the whole work of creation, 
in respect both to heaven and earth, was performed in the 
short space of six days ; Geology proving incontestibly that it 
must have occupied a succession of ages altogether surpassing 
human powers to measure or conceive. 2nd. It is urged, that 
not only is there this fundamental and insuperable discord 
between them in regard to time, but there are also . certain 
notable errors in Genesis as to the order of creation; m 
particular, the late position assigned to the creation of the. 
sun, moon, and stars, as subsequent .to that of the earth, oi 
light, of the dry land, and of vegetation ; also the precedence 
of plants before fishes and reptiles ; both which, it is asserted, 
are contrary to the plain teaching of Science. Then, 3rd, it is 
objected, that Genesis- is wrong in regard to manner, since it 
speaks of the creation of living things as taking place in 
single defined groups, consisting (we must suppose) of all the 
species ever existing belonging to that group; whereas 
Geology shows us that living things have made their appear- 
ance on the earth very gradually* one kind dying out and 
being superseded by others, and this many times over throug 
enormous periods utterly unlike one another, those living 
beings which now inhabit the earth being no more than the 
last group of a long, nay, almost infinite, series. Lastly, some 
