Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1842-01-01
Post One Department,
Dec. - b, 1871.
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According to the geology o. the earth, there
appears t. he several different STRATA or layers
on the surface of the globe, which have every
appearance Of being made by the washing of vi
tiers, With must have covered the face Of the
earth, some considerable depth, at tho time that
those layers or s%trattas were formed. And II also
appears evident, from a close examination of those
straitas or layers, that there has been n long
space of time interviewed between the formation
Of those several different, myers but of what
length ,ha, time has been IN Them, there is no
trace to tell. Bat by astronomy it also appears
very plain, that there has been times when the
sen must have covered that par, of the earth
which is now dry land, near three miles deep.
and for il long space of time, VIZ: for more than
one hundred thousand years. which of consc-
qnencc must make our earth 10 be much older
than the time generally supposed TO be set by
Moses for It's craatjon. Bat when we como 10
examine what Moses says about the creation 1t
has a different face from VIVA; 1t is generally sup
posed to have, for Moses goes on and tells us that
IN the beginning God created the earth and all
things that were on II, in six days aud tina, on
the seventh day he rested from all his works
which he had nnde. and saw that they were
very good, and blessed them; after which NJ
ses goes on and tells US that God had no; caused
II TO rain, md that there was u great drough,.and
that nothing grew which he had made. and that
man, which he had made, male and female, had
ceaseii to exist. and that there was not one 10 tll
the ground. Moses, then likewise, tells US tha,
the Lord God caused the earth to be w|atered aud
that he again made man and all beasts, cattle and
bob, H., r-ou Int -, E.ba- s.. 49, Ill -,
been DESTROYED by the drought. (Seo Is, Fad
and 81 chapters of Genesis) Bu. Noses does
not tell US how long this drough, lasted. But, at
all events, il must have lasted longer than the
day on which God rested, and easily may have
lasted a million of years. 1t Is therefore plain
from geology and astronomy, ard allowed Of by
Moses, that our earth is Of great antiquity, and
We are bound TO believe the sciences true, aud
that the earth has been peopled and repeop1ed
millions OF years before the time Moses has fix
ed Tor The creation of Adam aud Eve, and that
the globe, as astronomy dictates, has existed
from time ~immemorial. aud changed its seas and
oceans 10 different places on is surface. rs the
vast orbits to which it IS subjected dictate, for i,
is plain, to every informed mind, that The earth
performs lis orbit round the san IN one year.
carrying lis satellite, the moon, along with II,
aad that owing to the situation Of the ear,h's az
Is to the plane Of this orbi', the different seasons
OF winter and summer are produced-in So INNER
filling our soil with beauty and ,egetai.Cn, and
IN winter milking II a barren waste-changes
That would appear very strange to us if we were
not yearly accustomed 10 them. So likewise the
sun performs n vast orbit round a vastly grea,
and distant globe Of most prod uieus SIZE. in com
parison To the sun itself, carr,Inr the " hole So,
lar system along with It,at the rate Of about nine
ty thousand miles per hour. performing It's whole
revolution IN something more than twenty five
thousand years from which IT appears plain, that
we carnot again occupy The same portion Of space
tha, we now do, in less than twenty-five thou
Sand years. The most importan, phenomenon