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    • CHAPTER 5

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    FROM GENESIS TO GEOLOGY

  • I Growth of Theological Explanations
    — Germs of geological truth among the Greeks and Romans
    — Attitude of the Church toward science
    — Geological theories of the early theologians
    — Attitude of the schoolmen
    — Contributions of the Arabian schools
    — Theories of the earlier Protestants
    — Influence of the revival of learning

  • II Efforts to Suppress the Scientific View
    — Revival of scientific methods
    — Buffon and the Sorbonne
    — Beringer’s treatise on fossils
    — Protestant opposition to the new geology, the works of
    — Burnet, Whiston, Wesley, Clark, Watson, Arnold, Cockburn, and others

  • III The First Great Effort of Compromise, based on the Flood of Noah
    — The theory that fossils were produced by the Deluge
    — Its acceptance by both Catholics and Protestants
    — Luther,
    — Calmet Burnet, Whiston, Woodward, Mazurier, Torrubia,
    — Increase Mather
    — Scheuchzer
    — Voltaire’s theory of fossils
    — Vain efforts of enlightened churchmen in behalf of the scientific view
    — Steady progress of science the work of Cuvier and Brongniart
    — Granvile Penn’s opposition
    — The defection of Buckland and Lyell to the scientific side
    — Surrender of the theologians
    — Remnants of the old belief
    — Death-blow given to the traditional theory of the Deluge by the discovery of the Chaldean accounts
    — Results of the theological opposition to science

  • IV Final Efforts at Compromise
    — The Victory of Science complete.
    — Efforts of Carl von Raumer, Wagner, and others
    — The new testimony of the caves and beds of drift as to the antiquity of man
    — Gosse’s effort to save the literal interpretation of Genesis
    — Efforts of Continental theologians
    — Gladstone’s attempt at a compromise
    — Its demolition by Huxley
    — By Canon Driver
    — Dean Stanley on the reconciliation of Science and Scripture

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