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Hugh Miller Old Red Sandstone ; or New Walks in an Old Field
Hurst & Company, Publishers 1858 Hardcover Used: Good Missing Hardcover
Ex-library book with usual faults, No dust jacket, brick pictorial boards, gilt lettering on spine, moderate wear, spine ends frayed, binding tight, pages endpages have soiling, pages occasionally foxed.From Wikipedia: Among his geological works are The Old Red Sandstone (1841), Footprints of the Creator (1850), The Testimony of the Rocks (1856), Sketch-book of Popular Geology. Of these books, perhaps The Old Red Sandstone was the best-known. The Old Red Sandstone is still an expression used to describe sedimentary rock deposited after the Caledonian Orogeny in the late Silurian, and before the Carboniferous Period.Miller held that the Earth was of great age, and that it had been inhabited by many species which had come into being and gone extinct, and that these species were homologous; although that species were progressing with time. He denied the Epicurean theory that new species occasionally budded from the soil, and the Lamarckian theory of development of species, as lacking evidence. He argued that all this showed the direct action of a benevolent Creator, as attested in the Bible - the similarities of species are manifestations of types in the Divine Mind; he accepted the view of Thomas Chalmers that Genesis begins with an account of geological periods, and does not mean that each of them is a day; Noah's Flood was a limited subsidence of the Middle East. Geology, to Miller, offers a better version of the argument from design than William Paley could provide, and answers the objections of skeptics, by showing that living species did not arise by chance or by impersonal law.[3] Though he had no academic credentials, he is today considered one of Scotland's premier paleontologists.
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47.50 USD
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