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in a moment of time, by the_ original creative fiat ofJeli-
vali. But they cannot examine them in their native beds
without seeing at once that the opinion is untenable.
Now, it is an interesting coincidence with geology,
that the Scriptures describe-the work of creation' as occu-
pying six successive days. Whether we are to under-
standthese as literal days of twenty-four hours, or whe-
ther geology demands a period longer than six natural
days, are questions not necessary to be discussed in this
place. The argument requires only that it should be ad-
mitted, as all must admit, that Moses represents the
work of creation as progressive. He does not indeed
represent any new matter as brought into existence after
" the beginning, in which God created the heavens and
the earth." He describes the animals and plants as pro-
duced out of pie-existing matter. And geology teaches
the same.

Geology and relevation agree in the fact that man was
the last of the animals created.

The geologist finds several thousand species of plants
and aninials'entombed, and their forrits preserved
rocks; and Soine of their very far down in the series.
BUt no remains of man occur until we arrive at the high:
est strata. It is only. in the loose sand and gravel that
cover the surface that human remains have been found at
all; and tO this day it is doubtful whether any of them
can be referred to a period as far back as the last general
deluge. At least, it is only in'one or two instances that
the bones of antediluvians have been exhausted. Now,
human bones are more liable to decay than those of other
animals, and they are as easily petrified. Why, then, if
man existed with the animals now entombed in the
secondary and tertia rocks, are they not found as they
are with post diluvian remains? The conclusion is
irresistible, that he was not their contemporaty. And
probably before the last deluge he scarcely existed out Of
Asia; and hence, among the antediluvian animals of
America, England, and Germany, he has not been found.
In the south of France only (unless perhaps in Belgium)
have human remains been discovered so connected with
antediluvian quadrupeds, as to render their existence at
the same epoch probable. Man, therefore, must have
been among the last of the animals that were created.
And it is needless to say, that this conclusion coincides
precisely with the revealed record.
Finally,:geology furnishes similar -confirmatory evi-
dence as to the manner in which relevation declares the
earth will at. last be destroyed.
Recent discoveries and reasonings have rendered it
probable that the internal parts of the earth still contain
an immense amount of heat sufficient in the opinion of
some to keep the interior in a melted state • and sufficient,
whenever God shall permit it to break from its prim,
" to melt the elements, and burn up the earth, and the
things therein." Geology also renders it probable, that
the consequences of such a catastrophe would be the
formation of "a new heavens and a new earth." But we
have no time at present to give a more full development
of these ideas suggested by modern geology.--:Ameriean
Treatise of Professor Hitchcock.