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Darwinism. The Noachian Flood / A lecture delivered before the Torquay Natural History Society, Jan. 31st, 1870

Chapter 2: FOOTNOTES.
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A lecture evaluates tensions between evolutionary science and the traditional account of a universal flood, arguing that biblical writers used ordinary, nontechnical language and that words like all should not be read as literal universals. It surveys linguistic usage and everyday examples to show how general expressions require contextual interpretation, and it confronts geological and physical objections to a recent global deluge, noting that the proposed mechanisms could not produce waters high enough to cover the highest mountains. The speaker argues the narrative is consistent with a non-universal or locally understood flood and that scripture need not assert scientific claims about Earth’s physical history.

 

BY THE REV. T. R. R. STEBBING.

DARWINISM:

A Lecture delivered before the Torquay
Natural History Society,

Feb. 1st, 1869.

London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co.
Oxford: T. and G. Shrimpton.
Torquay: E. Cockrem, 10, Strand.

 

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FOOTNOTES.

[16]  Lyell, Principles of Geology, ii. 332.

[17]  Lyell, ii 344.

[19]  Lyell, ii. 336.

[20]  ‘The Malay Archipelago,’ vol. ii. p. 448.

[23]  ‘Genesis of the Earth and of Man,’ p. 117; quoted in Sir J. Lubbock’s ‘Prehistoric Times,’ p. 314.

[26a]  A religious and supremely orthodox poet of the last century enquires, ‘Where is the dust that has not been alive?’—Young, ‘Night Thoughts,’ Night IX. l. 87.

[26b]  ‘Mushrooms and Toadstools.’—Worthington E. Smith, p. 17.

[27a]  ‘Genesis of the Earth and of Man,’ pp. 113, 114.

[27b]  Genesis, chap. xi.

[28]  Sir John Lubbock, ‘Prehistoric Times,’ pp. 338, 346, 452; Herodotus, iv. 26.

[29]  See Mill’s ‘History of British India,’ book ii. ch. i. and notes.

[31a]  ‘Prehistoric Man,’ Dr. Daniel Wilson, p. 101.

[31b]  ‘The Daughter of Galileo,’ by the author of ‘Mary Powell,’ p. 283.