Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1854-07-02

know but little aud care a great deal less Bu
from observation, and experiments one thing, W.
feel justiGable in saying that geology is blind
guide IN tis matter, and that We cannot help view
ing it as ptiful, and We would fain hope the Iasi
resort of infdelity. This gIobe, on which we live
Is composed ofdG,rent earths, or elementary parts
viz: Barytes, stroatites, lime, magnesia, aIumina
silica, glucina zirconia, yttria; and Belzelius has
added tenth, which he calls thorina. These ele
mentary parts differ from each other in weight and
selubility; and when dissolved in water, some Of
them will float longer, aud some shorter period
Of time. And when they settle overthe Ssme area,
form stratums, differing materially from each other
in appearance, and also in their nature This may
beproven by very simple process on small
scale. Take vessel of suitable size and dissolve
in it sufficient quantity of earthly matter, and
when the sediment has completely settled to the
bottom, drain off the water, and divide the sedi-
ment perpendicularly. And then look at the di-
vided edges through magnifyng glass, and we
think that you will be convinced of the truth of
the foregoing remarks These experiments on a
small scale prepares to dsprove the infdel ideas
drawn from geological calculations on large ones
Almost every person has seen the rain descend in
such torrents on this earth that it dissolved con-
siderable area of the surface and hoated off the
standing corn, and deposited it on some place
where the water had become eddy. One ear per-
haps foot deep Under the first sediment, and a
second several inches above the first, covered by
the second sediment and third by the third. &c.
&C. Now suppose, some of these geological gen.
| fICmnn fhic To
in the earth, and find the deposited corn their CAL
culations would perhaps be this, with regard to
the time when this first ear was buried. They
would doubtless suppose, that before the field in
which the corn grew could be subject to wash, that
il must have been cultivated five years At the
end of which the first ear was buried, and as such
Hoods do not often happen, the second ear some
twenty-five or thirty years after that, &c. Until
| they arrive at tho conclusion, that it had taken
two or three thousand years to accomplish the
| burying of the last ear. When in reality the
| whole was the worl; of few hours We men
tion this to show the uncertainty Of geological cal
culations. And we have endeavored to do it in
such simple manner that every farmer may see
the truth OF our remarks. And if human fossil
was found at New Orleans, or any place, else buri-
ed sixteen, or even sixty feet below ten cypress
forests the Book of God accounts for it in the
most plain and simple manner imaginable. 1t
tells US, that the earth and its inhabitants were
once delUged with water. Noah and his family ex-
cepted This food of water undated the tops of
the highest mountains this earth to the depth
/ OF at least twenty-seven feet. And we have shown
that this earth is composed of different elementary
parts differing in sOlubility, and also In weight
And when dissolved in water sink at different pc
riods OF time And it must be evident to every
rejecting mind. that at the time of Noah ; food a
portion of the surface of this earth was dissolved
and for time foated in the water. But at the
breaking up of the food this sediment sunk at diff
ferept periods, and at different places ON this globe
And carried down with it not only the bodies of
men, but also large quantities of timber of every
description. This accounts for the deep cavities
cut in the sides of mountains, and other places -
and also the filling up of deep sinks in the earth
In which, when an excavation is made, we find DIFF
ferent strata of earth, and sometimes quantities of
timber, together with the bodies Of both man and
beast. Now who is so blind to the laws ofnatare,
not to see, that the weight of such quantity of
water, Noah's food, when abating would carry
off considerable portion of the surface of the
hills and deposit the sediment In the sinks and fats
of the earth, and fill up great many deep cavities
that were at that time in the earth-and also di-
minish the hills and mountains to a .siderable
extent in bulk We think no one, " but those Irho
do not like TO retain God IN their knolrledge and are
giren ouer 10 beieUe lie that they may BE- damned"
I II Al A.. -
New Orleans is built, was before Noah's food,
covered by the gulf of Mexico. And was, as are
many other gulfs and arms of the ocean, filed up
with sediment, at the ahating of the food and
both men and timber buried in them under the
sediment Proof of the foregoing is to Je seen, in
nearly all of the fiat country near the ocean and
particularly near Augusta, Georgia. In that coun-
try about 80 miles from the sea bed of Oyster
! shells has been discovered. This bed commences
/ at Eutav Springs, South Carolina, and extends
west to the Chckasaw bluffs. Doubtless all the
/ fiat country in the Southern States and the whole
! of Florida before the food, were covered by the
ocean. Discard the idea of Noah's food, and no
! one under the shining heavens, can account for
! these curiosities But just admit the Bibles evil
dence on this subject and all is plain, simple, and
I
! easily explained But we must conclude our ar
ticle for the present, by asking those geological
caculators, how these oyster-shells got up SO far
from the ocean? For you know that they are BIZ
valvular she'll. fish. o say they by an overflow
| of water. Not quite so fast gentlemen May it
not have been the work of some of those pre-Ad-
antics? May they not have eamped at that place
some 60 or 20 thousand years ago and carried these
oysters up from the to eat and deposited the
shells along for several hundred miles? And also
the Oystershe found in large quantities the top
| of mountain in Scotland, 20 miles from the sea-
Had the volcanoe Vesuvius ceased its flames some
thousand years ago, and the crater been concealed
and the cities Herculaneum and POmpei been dis
covered, as they were in the l689 buried 20 feet
below the surface Of the earth and no Greek and
Latin MSS in them to give the data of their pros
perity and near the time of their burial. And
some of those geological (infdeD gentlemen been
allowed loose reiga in their calculatiOns-they
would have made the age of the world G00,000
years in place of 100000 And o what host
of pre- Adamites, and preAdamite works would
have been here, to he arrayed against the Book Of
God But fortunately, for infdelity these MSS lei
| the cat out of the sack And lust SO il would