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OR,

AN EXAMINATION

OF THE

GEOLOGICAL THEORY OF THE ORIGIN AND
ANTIQUITY OF THE EARTH,

AND OF THE

CAUSES AND OBJECT OF THE CHANGES IT HAS
UNDERGONE.

BY A LAYMAN.

NEW-YORK:

ROBERT CARTER, 58 CANAL-STREET.

MDCCO XLIII.

Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1843,

BY ROBERT CARTER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York,

H. LUDWIG, PRINTER 72 Vesey-st., N. Y.

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II. Methods of reconciling the Scriptures to the
Geological Theory of Antiquity, advanced

by different writers, examined.

III. Object or reason of Geological changes as re-

presented by Geologists, different from that

indicated in the Scriptures

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IV. Quotations from Geological writers of passa.
ges in which their theory is expressed
V. Objections to their theory founded on its
deficiencies in some respects, and the
inadequacy of the causes assigned to pro-
duce the phenomena ascribed to them
VI. The probability of the Geological changes
having been occasioned by the apostacy of
man, considered

VII. Further observations on the same subject
VIII. Inadequacy of Geological causes, and exclu-
sion of moral reasons of physical changes,
considered

IX. Comments on the methods pursued by geolo.

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