Lectures on the harmony of science and revelation
Lectures On The Harmony Of Science And Revelation Lecture I. Introductory: how apparent contradictions between science and revelation arise -- Present want of harmony -- Advances of modern science -- No real discord -- The Bible does not reveal scientific truth -- Lecture II. The history of the eart...
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James Barnes
1856
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| Online Access: | http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns2/id/78477 |
| Summary: | Lectures On The Harmony Of Science And Revelation Lecture I. Introductory: how apparent contradictions between science and revelation arise -- Present want of harmony -- Advances of modern science -- No real discord -- The Bible does not reveal scientific truth -- Lecture II. The history of the earth as discloed by geology -- Changes through which the surface of the globe has passed -- Internal heat -- How a continent is formed -- Same forces at work now as formerly -- Vast age of the earth -- Lecture III. Change the law of the universe -- Processes going on at the bottom of the ocean -- Composition of the earth's crust -- Divisions of geology -- Organic remains -- Progress of creation -- Lecture IV. Vegetable and animal creations of the past -- Extinct species -- Progression in the condition of the earth -- Theory of "the vestiges of creation" -- Lecture V. Harmony of the geological and scriptural history of creation -- The earth's age not revealed in scripture -- The six days' work and geology -- Dr. Chalmers' theory now insufficient -- Miller's scheme of harmonizing the two records -- The Mosaic vision of past creations -- Lecture VI. The universal law of death -- Death in the world before man's creation -- Its connection with sin -- Harmony of the Bible with geology -- Lecture VII. The deluge -- Are there any geological traces of it? -- Not universal -- Examination of the scriptural record -- Lecture VIII. The resurrection viewed in the light of modern science -- Difficulties -- The destiny of our globe and race as discoverable by science -- Lecture IX. Extent and grandeur of the universe as disclosed by modern astronomy -- Lecture X. Are there other inhabited worlds besides our own? -- Evidence of astronomy and geology -- Lecture XI. Difficulties connected with the doctrine of a plurality of worlds |
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