Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-03-06
The Deluge.
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execution. And to those who argue
partial deluge, it is but proper for me t
q ask IN their mode of argument, and at th
risk of similar foolishness with inquisitiv
humanity, Why the order for birds t
enter the ark? Had they lost their powe
OF I'll yht? Had the animals so little loco
motion they could not travel out of val
Ieys and over mountains? Could no
Noah emigrate as well as Abraham an
f others? Why one hundred years in build
ing an ark to save representative pairs O
creation, and eight of the human family
when the former could have followed th
family of Noah out into some othe
country, and let the rest stay and perish
The WHY'S rest alone in the desier
as named to be, that sinful humanity be
ing so corrupt, and the "earth so filled
with violence through them" that God il
his wisdom chose his own manner for iudj
cial reckoning, and declared 1.-The destruc
ton of all flesh" Men who irreverently
I ask: chow could Noah collect the speci.
hnens of all animals and fowls(and thereby
exhibit their ignorance of divine truth
are answered with tie emphatic declara-
ton, they Went in unto Noah" They
were led by the same power that led them
before the first great naturalist that he
might name them. His exhibition of the
phenomena of nature was as much above
Agazzis as "His ways are above our
ways" This whole proceeding is but the
marvellous exertion of power over and
above the experience Of man, the ''un
known" as the unrevealed in this particu-
lar, touching his manner of doing things.
Yet the impossibility of the deluee is
nevertheless urged but, by whom: Only
they who follow that one, who in one SEN
tence urges that it would take water to
the deptheS of five and one half miles
above the present level of the sea, and
yet on partial deluge says: "An eleva-
ton of the Persian and Indian Seas. or a
subsidence of the inhabited land toward
the South, the drainage ofwhich he would
effect by the return OF the bed of the sea to a
a lower level, or by the elevation of
some tracts of land which would
leave channels, and slopes for the larger
part Of the waters to flow back into the
Indian Ocean,
Accepting this argument and reservinr
the right to reject its exclusive applica
ton, it is still plain it does not affect stbe
mosaic narrative. What will the supposi
ton that ocean beds were raised, and high
lands sunk, give us but an argument, that
will easily make the deluge universal with
a little more of that power that has done
this much
Who gave the laws that rule thus far.
out that being of whom the geologist has
such profound conceptions-"that no ge
ologist can be an atheist" Ianswer it
is He who is far above the pantheist's
God. NO geologist can be an atheist.n
How many are pantheists (9) Is there no
injustice inimDure science arguing against
the sacred narrative, and then to account |
for a favorite theory,f"take the liberty to |
sink mountains, raise the ocean beds, |
and affirm ''all creation is built up of ex-
tinct life, and thus abolish all scripture |
as if monopoly of Almighty, |
mechanism was guaranteed for special |
private advantage.
In the light of demonstrated scientific /
deductions, men can not be too careful in |
asserting the impossibility of the submer-
yence of the world by water over five
thousand years ago.
An eminent scientific writer argues from
he forces of nature the possibility, in
engthy article IN the Encyclopedia Bri
anica, which George Smith, T. S. A.,
member of the Royal Asiatic Society of
Great Britain and Ireland, also member
If the Royal Society of Literature and of
The Irish Archaeological Society, &c
quotes in has views Of the deluge. and says |
we do not say the deluge must have oc-
,urred in this maner. At least it shows
hat an ample magazine of means is at the
disposal of the great Governor of the uni
verse, which, directed by his wisdom, and
Welded by his power, would be amply
sufficient to produce the effects which his
word has described.' The article is too
engthy for quoting at this time.
But here would ask how far are those
biologists agreed who say: there was no
leluge." Far be it from me to disparage
he results of proper geological research,
md if anything be true ii is this, that |
IN not at all slow in receiving the demon
trated principles thereof. While know
he interpretations of geology by some
nen may no more be the principles of
zoology, than the interpretations of the
Bible by others, be the Bihle-I have the
ight-and it is not Oily my privilege,
,ut duty, to be slow to receive articles of
,elief concerning the ''origin of man." the
antiquity of man" and the earth. and
Gods record of furnishing sin from men,
Who openly avow revelation is no author
ty whatever" in these matters.
cAl.