But, while the fabric reared by Mr.Gladstone had been thus undermined by Huxley on the scientific side, another opponent began an attack from the biblical side.

The Rev.Canon Driver, professor at Mr.Gladstone's own University of Oxford, took up the question in the light of scriptural interpretation.

In regard to the comparative table drawn up by Sir J.W.
Dawson, showing the supposed correspondence between the scriptural and the geological order of creation, Canon Driver said: "The two series are evidently at variance.

The geological record contains no evidence of clearly defined periods corresponding to the 'days' of Genesis.

In Genesis, vegetation is complete two days before animal life appears.
Geology shows that they appear simultaneously--even if animal life does not appear first.