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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    But we DO find it ! Another seeming proof of the Biblical Creation’s supposed unveracity is, that the different layers of the earth’s crust do not contain the different organisms in the order of sequence in which the Bible states that they were created. For instance, Great Whales, and “ Winged fowl,” should be found at lower positions in the earth’s strata than terrestrial animals and “ creeping things.” But this is not so. There is one Terrestrial Catastrophe which the Biblicist has omitted, when attempting to contro- vert Science, and that cataclysm is “ The universal DELUGE.” The proofs of a Deluge are the next points which Mull engage our attention, for if this Deluge ever took place it must leave traces of its occurrence not only geologically, but historically. There are two countries, the histories of which we are now cognisant of, both before and after the dates at which the Biblical Deluge is said to have taken place (b.c. 2348, or thereabouts), and these countries are Babylonia and Egypt. It follows, therefore, that, if the Deluge took place, it must have swept away the population of these two countries, and the consequence is that we should find a “Gap,” in the histories of both these countries. The time at which this “ Gap ” or “ break ” in the continuity of the history