Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-09-14

Darwinian theory of the development
of all animals and men from mineral
monads, conducting the examination
from a purely scientific standpoint.
He finds the theory in all its parts
unsupported by facts, contradicted by
the most recent discoveries, disproved
by the fundamental principles OF me-
chanics, chemistry and hydrostatics,
and utterly uL Ljcienti6c.
One of his lectures on the geologic
al division of the subject, "The Aque-
Gus Formation of Granite and Conse-
quent Revolution in Geology" was
published in the April number Of the
American Presbyterian Review. 1t
gives resume of the most recent dis
coveries in geology, authenticated by
references to the first authorities in
Europe nd acknowledgements
which completely overturn the hypoth-
esis of globe of molten granite, on
which all the infdel attacks on Gene
sis have been based. These discov-
cries are attested by such geologists
as Sir Charles Lyell, Sir Robert Muir
Gibson, Professor Ansted, Messieurs
Ellie de Beaumont, Rose, Lorby, Dau-
bree, &C., the very first names in that
science. They go to show that there
never was any basis Of facts for the
current infdel theory, which, indeed,
never was accepted by Lyell, nor by
several other first-class geologists
that granite is not a primary rock,
having been found overflowing second
airy and tertiary strata: that the three
ingredients of which it is composed
are of different specific gravities, and
so could never have been in a state OF
igneous fusion, in which the heaviest
would have settled to the bottom
that black lead, and even fossils, have
been found in granite rocks, which
have been decomposed at heat less
than that required to melt granite
that when the experiment is tried,
granite 1rIt not melt, but quartz con-
tained in it will be converted into a
mineral of a different specific gravity
and finally and conclusively, granite
can be manufactured by the aqueous
process, Messrs. Rose and Daubree
having actually made feldspar, the
base of granite, By mixing kaolin with
hot water holding alkali in solution
under pressure; while mica and
quartz, the other ingredients of gran
lite, are coniessedly of aqueous forma
ton.
Such are the facts exhibited by Lyel
in his address to the British Associa
tion; but which strange to say. oul
American geologistS seem not to have
heard Of They can hear the first
whisper of anything likely to be an
tagonistic to the Bible; for instance
the Abbeville jawbone hoax; but
about such discoveries as these, which
remove objections to Scripture, they
are most industriously silent. The
alleged fundamental fact of the mod
ern geological system proves not to be
a fact, and the whole process of the
earths formation is the very reverse
of that so confidently asserted as sci
ence and as contradictory to Scrip
ture. When will vain man cease tt
be wise in his own conceit ? Wher
will self-conceited savans cease tC
abuse the Bible because it does no
agree with their silly dreams, and i'm
possible facts, and absurd theories
This science of modern geology date
from 1925, and already a writer il
the Atlantic Monthly gives us theor.
exactly the reverse of a cooling globe
our earth, according to him, is heating
up, getting ready to melt, and to ex
pand into nebul9. 1t would not b.
more wonderful than what we hav'
witnessed, if, before twenty years, thi
should become the creed of scientif
superstition and should challenge th
Church to reconcile Genesis with thi
new geology. Scientific superstition
is the most catholic form of credulity
-Neac York Observer.