The Testimony of the Rocks Or Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies Natural and Revealed Hugh 18021856 Miller Making of America Project 9781374335202 Books
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The quality of this reprint is high. I was a bit wary of how the beautiful hand-drawn figures would turn out in the reprint, and they remain as stunning as they did in the original. In some cases, the dark pencil marks do merge together, but overall the beautiful illustrations remain quite powerful. The text itself is very readable, and there are only a few places where letters run together. I did not have any issues reading this text.The content itself is also excellent. Hugh Miller seems to be largely unknown today, but there is a vocal crowd advocating acknowledgement of the genius of this man. They do so for good reason. Miller saw beyond his time to look ahead at where discoveries were taking people. His critique of young earth creationism is incisive and masterful, and his exegesis is astonishingly insightful. Of course, this work was written in the 1800s and so Miller's scientific knowledge does, at times, reflect that. That said, the book is well worth reading not just for its historical import, but for its arguments--many of which remain thought-provoking to this day. Miller should be read more than he is, and this reprint is a fantastic place to start.
The only major problem with this work is that they did leave out several pages of memorial material which was placed in the original edition. Hugh Miller's tragic death led to a record of several people writing to his wife or eulogizing him in papers, and these historical records are not found in this reprint. It is not a loss in the content of the work itself, but it would have been nice to have those remain in this reprint.
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The Testimony of the Rocks Or Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies Natural and Revealed Hugh 18021856 Miller Making of America Project 9781374335202 Books Reviews
Hugh Miller (1802-1856) was a self-taught Scottish geologist, whose strong Christian convictions expressed in his writings helped to make the new geological science palatable to the 19th century. He also wrote Footprints of the Creator. [NOTE page numbers below refer to a 454-page hardcover edition.]
He states in the "To the Reader" section of this (posthumously-published) 1857 book, "I certainly did once believe with Chalmers and with Buckland that the six days [of creation in Genesis] were simply natural days of twenty-four hours each... and that the latest of the geologic ages was separated by a great chaotic gap from our own... the conclusion at which I have been compelled to arrive is, that for many long ages one man was ushered into being, not a few of his humbler contemporaries of the fields and woods enjoyed life in their present haunts, and that for thousands of years anterior to even THEIR appearance, many of the existing molluscs lived in our sea. That DAY during which the present creation came into being, and in which God ... at length terminated the work by moulding a creature in His own image... was not a brief period of a few hours' duration, but extended over mayhap millenniums or centuries." (Pg. x-xi)
He explains, "I come before you ... as a student of geological fact, who, believing his Bible, believes also that, though theologians have at various times striven hard to pledge it to false science, geographical, astronomical, and geological, it has been pledged by its Divine Author to no falsehood whatsoever... However great your skill as linguists, your reading of what you term the scriptural geography or scriptural astronomy must of necessity be a false reading, seeing that it commits Scripture to what, in my character as a geographer or astronomer, I know to be a monstrously false geography or astronomy." (Pg. 122-123)
He rejects the interpretation of Noah's Flood as a worldwide one on the basis of texts such as Gen 721 "There are some instances in which the Scriptures themselves ... limit the meaning of the metonymic passages. They do so with respect to the passage... regarding the stranger Jews assembled in Jerusalem at the Pentecostal feast---'out of every nation under heaven.' ... The reader ... can form a probable conjecture regarding the extent of that 'all the earth' which sought the presence of Solomon [1 Kings 1024], or a correct estimate respecting the limits of that 'all the world' which Caesar Augustus could have taxed [Lk 21]. And to this last class... the passages respecting the Flood evidently belong." (Pg. 261)
He points out, "Had [the Flood] been universal... all the animals preserved by NATURAL means by Noah would have had to be returned by SUPERNATURAL means to the regions whence by means equally supernatural they had been brought. The sloths and armadilloes---little fitted by nature for long journeys---would have required to be ferried across the Atlantic... Nor will it avail aught to urge... that during the cataclysm, sea and land changed their places... A continuous tract of land would have stretched ... between the South American and Asiatic coasts. And it is just possible that, during the hundred and twenty years in which the ark was in building, a pair of sloths might have crept by inches across this continuous tract... to where the great vessel stood. But after the flood had subsided... there would remain for them no longer a roadway... their voyage homewards could not be other than miraculous. Nor would the exertion of miracle have had to be restricted to the transport of the REMOTER traveler. How, we may well ask, had the Flood been universal, could even such islands as Great Britain and Ireland have ever been replenished with many of their original inhabitants? Even supposing it possible that animals such as the red deer and the native ox MIGHT have swam... the feat would surely have been beyond the power of such feeble natives of the soil as the mole, the hedge-hog, the shrew, the dormouse, and the field-vole." (Pg. 304-305)
He states, "No true geologist ever professes to deduce his geology from Scripture. It is from the earth's crust, with its numerous systems, always invariable in their order, and its successive groups of fossil remains, always ... of a certain determinable character---not in a revelation never intended by its Divine Author to teach any natural science as such---that he derives the materials with which he builds." (Pg. 342-343) He rejects the "anti-geologists," arguing that "it is surely one thing to 'undertake to deny the truth of the Holy Scriptures,' and quite another and different thing to hold that the Niagara Falls may have been at Queenston ten thousand years ago; or further, that it seems not in the least wise to stake the truth of Revelation on any such issue." (Pg. 378)
This book will be of great interest to those studying the history of Christian responses to geological and astronomical science.
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This seems to be one of the oldest attempts to reconcile the Bible and evolution that I've found. (If that's not true, someone please correct me.) If you've never heard of the theory about the "seven days of Creation" being a metaphor for millions of years -- this is a very well-done and convincing argument in its favor. Not necessarily the most up-to-date, since Miller is from the 19th century, but a good place to start -- and a wonderful way to learn more about Victorian science.
It's a good edition, which is NOT true of most of these Internet publishers -- no flaws or typos to drive you crazy and very well-bound.
The quality of this reprint is high. I was a bit wary of how the beautiful hand-drawn figures would turn out in the reprint, and they remain as stunning as they did in the original. In some cases, the dark pencil marks do merge together, but overall the beautiful illustrations remain quite powerful. The text itself is very readable, and there are only a few places where letters run together. I did not have any issues reading this text.
The content itself is also excellent. Hugh Miller seems to be largely unknown today, but there is a vocal crowd advocating acknowledgement of the genius of this man. They do so for good reason. Miller saw beyond his time to look ahead at where discoveries were taking people. His critique of young earth creationism is incisive and masterful, and his exegesis is astonishingly insightful. Of course, this work was written in the 1800s and so Miller's scientific knowledge does, at times, reflect that. That said, the book is well worth reading not just for its historical import, but for its arguments--many of which remain thought-provoking to this day. Miller should be read more than he is, and this reprint is a fantastic place to start.
The only major problem with this work is that they did leave out several pages of memorial material which was placed in the original edition. Hugh Miller's tragic death led to a record of several people writing to his wife or eulogizing him in papers, and these historical records are not found in this reprint. It is not a loss in the content of the work itself, but it would have been nice to have those remain in this reprint.
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