The Deluge and the Ark Seekers
Historical Blindness
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The Origins of Fossils
Fossils challenged two biblical notions, that no life existed prior to creation and that death did not exist until after the fall of man. As early as the sixth century b c e, philosopher xenophanes of colophon recognized that fossils were the remains of living creatures. In the seventeenth century, nicholas steno pioneered the science of stratigraphy,. And in the eighteenth century, the father of modern geology, james hutton, first began to recognize the enormity of the geologic time scale. Despite some orthodox hold s, like cotton mather and others in the nineteenth century who believed mastodon bones were actually the bones of nephylim giants destroyed in the
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