Instances of the Power of God as Manifested in His
Animal Creation. By Professor R. Owen, D.C.L., F.R.S. (Longman and Co.)—A very admirable address delivered before the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation, and which must have "scattered wild dismay" among the members of that rather narrow-minded body. The Professor tramples on the literal interpretation of the early chapters of Genesis—on the notion that the world was created only 5,860 years ago—that physical death entered the world after the creation of man—that the rainbow was created after the Noachian deluge—that the deluge was universal —and that all the animals in the world have spread from the point of earth on which the Ark finally rested. There is of course nothing new in these views, nor anything in them which is really in' conflict with Christian truth, as no one insists more strongly than Professor Owen.
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