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 I moved the following paragraph from the article to here.  What does this have to do with Dana? 
 "Both Biblical scholars and Christian scientists sought to harmonize the Bible with the most recent scientific developments. John O. Mears was one of such scholars who proposed several models which varied from a creation-gap (a gap of millions of year, followed by a creation of 24 hour periods, or a mixture thereof) to the day-age creationism theory where a day would not last 24 hours but have some indefinite time frame. Mears chose for the latter theory and quickly received support from Dana who also wanted to harmonize science with the Bible. He published a number of manuscripts on the topic between 1856 and 1857 and which are called Science and the Bible".