"Geologically" Quotes from Famous Books
... hand, progressive modifications of the artiodactyl feet may be traced geologically up to the different stages presented by living ruminants, in some of which it has proceeded further than in others. For instance, if we compare the pig, the deer, and the camel (Fig. 82), we immediately perceive that the dwindling of the two rudimentary digits has proceeded ... — Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) • George John Romanes
... HAVE LESS CONTROL OVER, eating and drinking, swallowing, breathing, seeing and hearing, which were acquisitions of our prehuman ancestry, and for which we had provided ourselves with all the necessary apparatus before we saw light, but which are still, geologically speaking, recent, or ... — Life and Habit • Samuel Butler
... by Mr. LYELL metamorphic rocks. Some of them are composed exclusively of one of the materials of granite; the mica schist, for example, of mica; the quartz rocks, of quartz. In the metamorphic rocks no organic remains have been found, and they are geologically below all the rocks that do contain ... — An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" • Anonymous
... perhaps unfair, to surmise that, we will only have patience, its own difficulties, as those of so many other branches of science, will be eventually solved. One thing is clear,—that, if the Bible be true and geology be true, that cannot be geologically true which is scripturally false, or vice versa; and we may therefore laugh at the polite compromise which is sometimes affected by learned professors of theology and geology respectively. All we demand of either—all that is needed—is, that they refrain from a too hasty ... — Reason and Faith; Their Claims and Conflicts • Henry Rogers |