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And here let it be noted that one of the most interesting skirmishes in this war occurred in New England.

Prof.Stuart, of Andover, justly honoured as a Hebrew scholar, declared that to speak of six periods of time for the creation was flying in the face of Scripture; that Genesis expressly speaks of six days, each made up of "the evening and the morning," and not six periods of time.
To him replied a professor in Yale College, James Kingsley.

In an article admirable for keen wit and kindly temper, he showed that Genesis speaks just as clearly of a solid firmament as of six ordinary days, and that, if Prof.Stuart had surmounted one difficulty and accepted the Copernican theory, he might as well get over another and accept the revelations of geology.

The encounter was quick and decisive, and the victory was with science and the broader scholarship of Yale.( 150) (150) See Silliman's Journal, vol.xxx, p.

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Perhaps the most singular attempt against geology was made by a fine survival of the eighteenth century Don--Dean Cockburn, of York--to SCOLD its champions off the field.