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The grand old Book of God still stands and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the Sacred word.
James Dwight Dana
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James Dwight Dana
Age: 82 †
Born: 1813
Born: February 12
Died: 1895
Died: April 14
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A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration of volcanic operations. Our sublimest volcanoes would rank among the smaller lunar eminences and our Etnas are but spitting furnaces.
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Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet.
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The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.
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Are coral reefs growing from the depths of the oceans? ... [The] reply is a simple negative and a single fact establishes its truth. The reef-forming coral zoophytes, as has been shown, cannot grow at greater depths than 100 or 120 feet and therefore in seas deeper than this, the formation or growth of reefs over the bottom is impossible.
James Dwight Dana
There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the earlier telling of God-made harmonies coming up from the deep past, and rising to their height when man appeared, the later teaching man's relations to his Maker, and speaking of loftier harmonies in the eternal future.
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