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Illogical Geology
The Weakest Point in
The Evolution Theory
BY
GEORGE McCREADY PRICE
Editor of "The Modern Heretic," and Author of"Outlines of Modern Science" and "Modern Christianity."
The Modern Heretic Company
Illogical Geology
The Weakest Point in
The Evolution Theory
BY
GEORGE McCREADY PRICE
Editor of "The Modern Heretic," and Author of "Outlines ofModern Science and Modern Christianity."
The Modern Heretic Company
257 S. HILL STREET, LOS ANGELES, CAL.
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ILLOGICAL GEOLOGY
THE WEAKEST POINT IN THE EVOLUTION THEORY
To the Reader.
This Advance Edition has been issued by the Publishersin this cheap form to enable them to get out severalthousand copies for critical review at comparatively smallexpense. Succeeding editions will be in regular book form,and will be sold at the usual rates for bound volumes.
"It is a singular and a notable fact, that while most otherbranches of science have emancipated themselves from the trammelsof metaphysical reasoning, the science of geology still remainsimprisoned in 'a priori' theories."—Sir Henry Howorth: "TheGlacial Nightmare and the Flood." Preface. VII.
THE MODERN HERETIC COMPANY
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1906
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BY
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PART I
PREFACE
This book is not written especially for geologists or other scientistsas such, though it deals with the question which it discusses from a purelyscientific standpoint, and presupposes a good general knowledge of the rocksand of current theories. It is addressed rather to that large class of readersto whom geology is only an incident in larger problems, and who are notquite wholly satisfied with those explanations of the universe which arenow commonly accepted on the testimony of biological science. I am freeto say that my own conviction of the higher value and surer truth of otherda