The Abyss of Time, Changing Conceptions of the Earth's Antiquity After the Sixteenth CenturyFreeman, Cooper, 1980 - 251페이지 |
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... existence has given such evident marks of his good - will towards man " ( 30 ) . Hutton was no atheist : he was a deist and providentialist . Hutton declined to speculate on how the earth began or how it may end . He attempted no ...
... existence has given such evident marks of his good - will towards man " ( 30 ) . Hutton was no atheist : he was a deist and providentialist . Hutton declined to speculate on how the earth began or how it may end . He attempted no ...
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... existence of the race , and of thousands of ani- mals that never were contemporaneous with his species ” ( 9 ) . " Thousands of ages " is about as close as Cuvier came to estimating the duration of geologic time , but it was enough to ...
... existence of the race , and of thousands of ani- mals that never were contemporaneous with his species ” ( 9 ) . " Thousands of ages " is about as close as Cuvier came to estimating the duration of geologic time , but it was enough to ...
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... existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase . . . . Hence , as more individuals are produced than can possibly survive , there must in every case be a strug- gle for existence , either ...
... existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase . . . . Hence , as more individuals are produced than can possibly survive , there must in every case be a strug- gle for existence , either ...
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