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Available
Publication
Cincinnati: Published for the Free Presbyterian Synod, 1860, 312 pp
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Physical description
vii, 312 p.; 20 cm
Local notes
Gordon: Free Presbyterian and active abolitionist.
In section on geology expresses suspicion of "infidel" science of geology.
133: "We neither admit or deny the assumption of the geologists that the “earth’s monuments prove her to be tens of thousands of years old.” It seems to us quite too soon to make such assertions with overweening confidence. Geology is too young, and. hitherto, too confined in her researches to speak as those who know whereof they affirm the age of the world. Let her votaries content themselves with examining phenomena, collecting and classifying facts, and thus laying the foundations of a true science When the entire field of investigation open to their research has been thoroughly explored, it will be time enough to call in question the hitherto received interpretation of the Mosaic cosmogony. That they have yet furnished any thing approximating a “*demonstration*” that the earth is more than six thousand years old we deny.”
In section on geology expresses suspicion of "infidel" science of geology.
133: "We neither admit or deny the assumption of the geologists that the “earth’s monuments prove her to be tens of thousands of years old.” It seems to us quite too soon to make such assertions with overweening confidence. Geology is too young, and. hitherto, too confined in her researches to speak as those who know whereof they affirm the age of the world. Let her votaries content themselves with examining phenomena, collecting and classifying facts, and thus laying the foundations of a true science When the entire field of investigation open to their research has been thoroughly explored, it will be time enough to call in question the hitherto received interpretation of the Mosaic cosmogony. That they have yet furnished any thing approximating a “*demonstration*” that the earth is more than six thousand years old we deny.”