Creation's dawn / by "Kish" ; with a preface by A. H. Sayce.

  • Kish, pseud.
Date:
1908
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Credit: Creation's dawn / by "Kish" ; with a preface by A. H. Sayce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that standard which limits our day of twenty-four hours. This is plainly shown in the Chapter ii. verse 4: “ These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.” Here the time taken up for the whole of the Creation is called one “day.” In the second Chapter of Genesis, we come to an entirely different Creation of Man, of vegetable life, of beasts of the field, and of fowl of the air, and finally we come to the last of all the Creations, Woman. Posteriorly to these events, there was a Universal Deluge, the data being given so accurately, the date at which it commenced and at which it ended being so precisely stated, that there cannot be any doubt about the fact, that it WcLS intended to convey the idea that it was actuality and not fable or myth. Either this Universal Deluge did take place, or it did not. It is also stated that the world was repopulated from a place in Armenia shortly after the Deluge, and the details of the descendants of Noah are accurately given, together with the land which they occupied, so that no mistake can be made as to this having been stated as fact and not as allegory. Either the world was repopulated from this spot in Armenia, or it was not. If in those early days men had been ignorant un- lettered savages, it might be allowed that these stories 33
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