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The work surveys competing creation theories—especially fire-based and water-based accounts—and argues that geological and paleontological evidence best supports a Neptunian model in which matter formed cold and rock developed by sedimentation, aquatic deposition, and uplift. It examines volcanic and geyser activity, glacial episodes, and fossil, shell, coral, and coal records to reconstruct an early tropical, water-dominated globe and mechanisms for mountain-raising. Biblical cosmological passages, particularly poetic and prophetic texts, are reinterpreted to harmonize scripture with this geological reading, with a broader aim of reconciling natural science and theological belief.

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Title: The Neptunian, or Water Theory of Creation

Author: J. M. Woodman

Release date: August 27, 2021 [eBook #66153]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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The Neptunian or Water Theory of Creation

The Neptunian or Water Theory of Creation.
By
Rev. J. M. Woodman,
Professor in Natural Science, Chico Academy, Cal.
Author of “God in Nature and Revelation,” “The Song of Cosmology,”
“Star Dates of Human History,” “The Song of the Morning
Stars in Creation’s Grand March.”
If they speak not according to thy word it is because
there is no truth in them.
San Francisco:
Bacon & Company, Book and Job Printers,
Corner of Clay and Sansome Streets.
1888.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year A. D. 1888,
By J. M. Woodman,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.