Creation and Its Records: A Brief Statement of Christian Belief with Reference to Modern Facts and Ancient ScriptureBaden-Powell, B. H. (Baden Henry)
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Creation and Its Records: A Brief Statement of Christian Belief with Reference to Modern Facts and Ancient Scripture
Baden-Powell, B. H. (Baden Henry)
Bible and science; Creation; Religion and science
(6) We find that the Persian Gulf once extended more than one hundred
miles farther inland than it does now. That there was no joint outflow
of Tigris and Euphrates, but, though they did join their streams above,
they parted again and had still separate mouths--of the Tigris branch
one, of the Euphrates several.
(7) Lastly, Professor Delitzsch finds two channels which answer to Pison
and Gihon.
(8) He proves these two to be the right ones by considering the
countries which they "compass:" and actually finds the one that he
supposes to be the "Gaihûn," called, in the cuneiform clay tablets,
"Kahán or Gaghân-dé."
It is really only in (7) and (8) that there is any room for doubt and
for further inquiry.
At any rate, the credibility of the narrative, and a belief in its
purpose, as a topographically exact statement of fact, not an allegory
or legend, is established.
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