CHAPTER I.

THREE THEORIES OF CREATION REVIEWED IN THE LIGHT OF ADMITTED FACTS 9

SECTION 1.

The Plutonic or fire theory stated 15

Centro-centrifugal theory 16

Heated Nebulous theory 17

The increase of heat in mining shafts no evidence of a hot center 19

The admitted sedimentary nature of primitive granite destroys the Plutonic theory 22

The theories of metamorphic rock not sustained 23

Mining shafts increase in heat according to chemical action 25

Causes of volcanoes and geysers explained 26

Geologists dissatisfied with the fire theory. Submarine volcanoes 28

Diatoms found in the earliest stratified rock 31

SECTION 2.

The Neptunian theory stated 32

All matter created at once in cold gas. God’s power needed to move matter. The first cosmological division 33

Probable length of it. The first condition of our globe in form 35

SECTION 3.

The facts of science support the Neptunian theory. In quantity, order and constituent elements of rock 36

The three ways that gases combine into rock 36

How rock can swim in water 38

Explorations made of the Atlantic 39

We once had a hemisphere of land, and one of water 40

The climate was tropical, as attested by shells, coral, coal, and saurians 41

Also by tropical animals, flowers, and tropical vegetation 42

Water raised the mountains 45

Sea bottom seen there 46

Rise and depressions of earth. Cause of glacial epoch 48

SECTION 4.

Such a world physically adapted to man 50

The accumulating evidence that our earth is essentially a ball of water 53

The reasons the Antediluvians had no rainbow 54