So far, he rendered a great service both to science and religion; but, this done, the text of the Old Testament narrative and the famous passage in St.Peter's Epistle were too strong for him, and he, too, insisted that the fossils were produced by the Deluge.

Aided by his great authority, the assault on the true scientific position was vigorous: Mazurier exhibited certain fossil remains of a mammoth discovered in France as bones of the giants mentioned in Scripture; Father Torrubia did the same thing in Spain; Increase Mather sent to England similar remains discovered in America, with a like statement.
For the edification of the faithful, such "bones of the giants mentioned in Scripture" were hung up in public places.

Jurieu saw some of them thus suspended in one of the churches of Valence; and Henrion, apparently under the stimulus thus given, drew up tables showing the size of our antediluvian ancestors, giving the height of Adam as 123 feet 9 inches and that of Eve as 118 feet 9 inches and 9 lines.( 156) (156) See Cuvier, Recherches sur les Ossements fossiles, fourth edition, vol.ii, p.

56; also Geoffrey St.-Hilaire, cited by Berger de Xivery, Traditions Teratologiques, p.

190.
But the most brilliant service rendered to the theological theory came from another quarter for, in 1726, Scheuchzer, having discovered a large fossil lizard, exhibited it to the world as the "human witness of the Deluge":( 157) this great discovery was hailed everywhere with joy, for it seemed to prove not only that human beings were drowned at the Deluge, but that "there were giants in those days." Cheered by the applause thus gained, he determined to make the theological position impregnable.