MAN IN GENESIS AND IN GEOLOGY: Or, the Biblical Account of Man's Creation, Tested by Scientific Theories of His Origin and Antiquity de THOMPSON, Joseph P - 1870

New York: Samuel R. Wells, Publisher, 1873. Fair. Cloth. Unknown. 12mo (up to 7½" tall). 149pp. Black cloth boards, gilt text, gilt decoration, blind stamps. Heavy wear to corners. Both spine ends chipped away, exposing band. Spine spit horizontally in three other spots. Gilt on spine mostly rubbed away. Text block is square, tight, toning with age, clean. Previous owner's name written to FFEP. Foxing to front endpapers and a couple of fox spots internally..

New York: Samuel R. Wells, Publisher,, 1870. Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 149p. A very good copy, the ends of the spine of which have a little wear.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

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New York: Samuel P. Wells, 1870. Small Octavo. 119 pages. The debate on evolution was crossing scientific, political and religious lines. Yet it was not until 1871 that Darwin's Descent of Man would be published. Here Joseph P. Thompson would write: "in the present state of science, I may safely lay down the postulate that Man had a beginning and that Nature is not proved adequate to have caused that beginning." So initially many in the Christian world were not troubled by The Origin of Species. This book appeared just before Darwin's second bombshell appeared and now you had those who condemned that man had evolved as well as the vast majority of scientists and theologians who accepted Darwin as authoritative. Even Alfred Russell Wallace felt there was a miraculous element that could not be accounted to by science alone. When Darwin's book was read by the leaders of Princeton, Yale, Columbia and virtually every other institution it was condemned. The charge was led by Charles Hodge, Princeton's most… Leer más

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