Anti Darwin / by the author of "Ceylon, ancient and modern".

  • Suckling, Horatio John
Date:
1888
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Credit: Anti Darwin / by the author of "Ceylon, ancient and modern". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    but called the first man, because the law commenced with him.” 1 This work was one of the first attempts to solve the alleged difficulty of reconciling the Cosmogony, and some statements of the Bible, with geological facts and science—man and the animal creation having evidently existed much longer than Genesis would lead us to suppose. It should be remembered however; that Moses does not specify any date, for the events he records in the first part of Genesis. He merely says, “ In the begi- nning,’’and his description implies a gradual creation from chaos—also traditions may have existed in his time, which have since been lost. • The Hindus from time immemorial have stigmatised NOTE 1 Prceadamitoe sive Exercitatio super cap. v. Epist. Paul ad Rom. [Quoted by Moore in his Irish Gen. ] : Moses in Genesis vi. seems to allude to two ante- diluvian species of mankind, whose intermarriage gave birth to “giants.” Moores poem,‘ The Loves of the Angels,’ is founded on a similar idea which existed among the Persians and Sabean Gnostics, vide D’Herbelot.
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