In touching terms he bewailed the defection of the President of the Geological Society and Dean Buckland--protesting against geologists who "persist in closing their eyes upon the solemn declarations of the Almighty" Still the geologists continued to seek truth: the germs planted especially by William Smith, "the Father of English Geology" were developed by a noble succession of investigators, and the victory was sure.

Meanwhile those theologians who felt that denunciation of science as "godless" could accomplish little, laboured upon schemes for reconciling geology with Genesis.

Some of these show amazing ingenuity, but an eminent religious authority, going over them with great thoroughness, has well characterized them as "daring and fanciful." Such attempts have been variously classified, but the fact regarding them all is that each mixes up more or less of science with more or less of Scripture, and produces a result more or less absurd.

Though a few men here and there have continued these exercises, the capitulation of the party which set the literal account of the Deluge of Noah against the facts revealed by geology was at last clearly made.( 165) (165) For Fairholme, see his Mosaic Deluge, London, 1837, p.358.For a very just characterization of various schemes of "reconciliation," see Shields, The Final Philosophy, p.

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One of the first evidences of the completeness of this surrender has been so well related by the eminent physiologist, Dr.W.B.Carpenter, that it may best be given in his own words: "You are familiar with a book of considerable value, Dr.W.Smith's Dictionary of the Bible.