The Neptunian or Water Theory of Creation The Neptunian or Water Theory of Creation. By Rev. J. M. Woodman, Professor in Natural Science, Chico Academy, Cal. Author of “God in Nature and Revelation,” “The Song of Cosmology,” “Star Dates of Human History,” “The Song of the Morning Stars in Creation’s Grand March.” “_If they speak not according to thy word it is because there is no truth in them._” San Francisco: Bacon & Company, Book and Job Printers, Corner of Clay and Sansome Streets. 1888. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year A. D. 1888, BY J. M. WOODMAN, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C. TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THREE THEORIES OF CREATION REVIEWED IN THE LIGHT OF ADMITTED FACTS 9 SECTION 1. The Plutonic or fire theory stated 15 Centro-centrifugal theory 16 Heated Nebulous theory 17 The increase of heat in mining shafts no evidence of a hot center 19 The admitted sedimentary nature of primitive granite destroys the Plutonic theory 22 The theories of metamorphic rock not sustained 23 Mining shafts increase in heat according to chemical action 25 Causes of volcanoes and geysers explained 26 Geologists dissatisfied with the fire theory. Submarine volcanoes 28 Diatoms found in the earliest stratified rock 31 SECTION 2. The Neptunian theory stated 32 All matter created at once in cold gas. God’s power needed to move matter. The first cosmological division 33 Probable length of it. The first condition of our globe in form 35 SECTION 3. The facts of science support the Neptunian theory. In quantity, order and constituent elements of rock 36 The three ways that gases combine into rock 36 How rock can swim in water 38 Explorations made of the Atlantic 39 We once had a hemisphere of land, and one of water 40 The climate was tropical, as attested by shells, coral, coal, and saurians 41 Also by tropical animals, flowers, and tropical vegetation 42 Water raised the mountains 45 Sea bottom seen there 46 Rise and depressions of earth. Cause of glacial epoch 48 SECTION 4. Such a world physically adapted to man 50 The accumulating evidence that our earth is essentially a ball of water 53 The reasons the Antediluvians had no rainbow 54 CHAPTER II. THE NEPTUNIAN THEORY WAS FIRST BROUGHT TO LIGHT IN THE BOOK OF JOB, DATED IN THE STARS. EPIDRAMATIC ORATORIO 55 Orient the place for such a poem 57 First question established 58 The indictment against piety amended 59 The prologue ended with Satan confounded 59 These persons all representative characters 60 Starting the drama of history. Piety endures the trials of all ages 61 Job rewarded on the field. Flood passed 64