Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-21

Mosaic deluge cannot be identified as to its period effect
or character with any Of the geological deuges or con
yusive revolutions Of the globe. Rev. Dr. Fleming, IL
speaking of the MosaSdeuge says We should "feel oui
respect for the authority Of revelation heightened when
the present surface no memorials OF the event
Jamesons Philosophical Journal No. 20, p. 2l4) Prof
Jameson also supports the opinion that the Mosaic deuge
has left no trace of its occurrence" subordinate
argument the purport is seen in the familiar IL
lusration Vide Certantes Of Geoogy) that of the
Egyptian pyramids is built Of nummulitc limestone,
formation almost wholly composed OF fossil shells Ac
these structures among the earliest records
of mankind The time Of their erection seems to have
been unknown to the Egyptian priests only fifteen hun
bred years after the food is the general opinion Of
biologists that these fossils could have been formed
into solid stone either during after the Deluge but
must have been product of an earlier period The illus
trious Cuvier than whom higher authority can be
given the point to which he here teses states it to
be of the best established conclusions in geology that
previous the dluvan period the countries in which
fossils found Judging from the different orders OF
animals whose remains discern in fossil state, had
experienced at least two three rrupons of the sea-
(Cited in Gsson's Cert Of Geol) To show further, the
great antiquity of the at work. Cuver speaks of
the revolutions which have copered these bones not
only but of those commissions and the more or less
considerable masses of rock by which they were en-
ombed which have laid open the strata which envelope
them and which the last that the globe has been
subjected to-" Vide Cert. Of Geol)
But aside from all other facts resulting from geoogi-
cal researches that which of itself to be perfectly
conclusive this point showing that the great convu-
sye changes Of the earth in which myrads Of Of the
lower animals are found mbedded in her rocky strata
could not have been produced at the era Of and by the
Mosaic deluge is the important fact in which all agree
that no fossil Of The human species have ever been
discovered in these strata. This We deem perfectly
conclusive.
The great purpose Of the Mosaic deuge to destroy
guilty generation Myriads of the human race, oil but
eight souls, were destroyed. The great body of the
lower animals also persisted These universally ad
mitted facts Now, if the Deuge imbedded the lower
rafv
ably expect find human remains also? What reason
can be given why we should not? But we do find the
in great abundance, and never the other What is
the only rational conclusion Why plainly the solution
advanced by geology that the commissions which made
these animal depostes and the subsequent commissions
which exhumed them prior to the deuge which de-
stroyed No fact is better settled in geology than
that many species Of animals lived and persisted before
man had " local habitaton and name" This, taken
with the other facts which all biologists attest that
while trace Of man is seen the lower species in great
numbers found that the several changes which
buried and revealed these deposites anterior to the
deluge-anterior to This is the only consistent
vew while Parkinson states in his Introduction 10 the
Study Of Organic Remains, and Baron Culver in his Dis
course nothing more, probably than auval changes
occasioned by the Mosaic deluge.
Facts and testimonies might be given to almost any
extent did time and space permit further to confirm the
point generally if not universally acknowledged by geoo-
gsts, that the remains of animals found in the fossil
state mbedded in the rocky strata Of the earth
tombed anterior to the diluvian PERIOD and that
such effects Justly ascrbed to the Mosaic deuge but
those cited must Suffice with single remark from
Prof Gibson, who says that the language of the globe
and that of the sacred record perfectly reconcile
able,' and that he silence of scripture" matters
only revealed by geology is sufficiently explained by the
fact that such anterior revolutions occurred in periods
Of which nothing could have been known to mankind but
by of geological induction" and such events,
if they had been known foreign to the sub
ect Of those sacred records, which designed
reveal the moral obligations of the human race Cert
Of Geol PIP. 205, 207, 209.)
1t only required show that the fossil remains
Of the lower animals found in the strata Of the Anne
rcan Western continent similar to those found in those
of the Eastern But the fact is well known to every
conversant with the deductions Of geology, and
have already extended this communication to such
length, that dismiss the point by two authori-
ties Cuvier says "The fossil remains of land animals
are found in the greatest of Europe ASIA and 4mer
ca" Discourse p. S5, English Translaon One testi-
mony Of this kind is conclusive though many might be
brought. We will give other statement, for which
there have been several authorities and let the reader
take it for what he deems it WORTH promising that the
argument is in way dependant upon it. Prof Gibson
says: In Africa and in the southern parts of North
America trees Of magnificent growth yet fourishing
which know by certain evidence have been standing
before the Deuge carrying back the period Of that
event to the remotest assigned by learned chronoo
gists" Cert of Geol p. 1881
Now, in view of the numerous facts and the many au
thorties going to show that the fossil remains Of several
species of land animals found mbedded in the earhs
been deposited earlier than the Mosaic deuge and the
further fact that similar remains, entombed under like
circumstances, found in the greatest part Of Ame
rica what becomes of the position Of Mr.. Mills,
boldly put forth. Though it is not original with him.,
that at the period of the Mosaic deluge there the
creation the Western continent" and that at the
creation the Eastern continent only raised above the
waters 2"
We close by single citation from Prof Gibson, from
his Cert Of Gsol., PIP. 1873, 1874:
"The theory that the Deuge the land and changed
place that what existing continents of land before the
Deuge sank upon that below the waters while that
which the bed of the ocean, and had since the creation
been covered by the simultaneously above its
face, theory utterly and obviously inconsistent
with actual facts and wholly incapable to account for the
existence Of terrestrial and marine remains beneath the
face Of existing land for the of animal and
table remains there enclosed and for the general the dc
sve and unequvoca phenomena of qualification. That the
DRY only incapable of accounting for these phenomena
but is fatty disproved by their unquestonable testimony
And it il astonishing therefore, that exravagant method
should have been proposed by persons who pretended
knowledge Of geological facts"
WASHINGTON, OCTOBER H. 1854.
nRJGIN OE THE DEIUGE Sc