The Story of the Earth and Man
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The Story of the Earth and Man is credited to John William Dawson. The preface calls the science of the earth, as illustrated by geological research, one of the noblest outgrowths of our modern intellectual life. The text says that under the crust vast oceans of molten rock may still remain, but a solid interior nucleus is being crystallised in the centre.
The text describes the exterior crust sinking downward with terrible earthquake-throes, wrinkling up into huge folds between which are vast sunken areas into which the waters subside, and says so arose the first dry land. The text names the genera Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus, and says the catalogues of British fossils include eleven species of the former genus and eighteen of the latter. The text says that neither theist nor evolutionist can doubt that these changes had a relation to the advent of man.
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- John William Dawson
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- 147
- Language
- English
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