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The Lights of the Church and the Light of Science by Thomas Henry Huxley
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(7) Commentary on Genesis, by the Bishop of Ely, p. 77.

(8) Die Sintflut, 1876.

(9) Theologie und Naturwissenschaft, ii. 784-791 (1877).

(10) It is very doubtful if this means the region of the
Armenian Ararat. More probably it designates some part either of
the Kurdish range or of its south-eastern continuation.

(11) So Reclus (Nouvelle Geographie Universelle, ix.
386), but I find the statement doubted by an authority of the
first rank.

(12) So far as I know, the narrative of the Creation is not now
held to be true, in the sense in which I have defined historical
truth, by any of the reconcilers. As for the attempts to stretch
the Pentateuchal days into periods of thousands or millions of
years, the verdict of the eminent Biblical scholar, Dr. Riehm
(Der biblische Schopfungsbericht, 1881, pp. 15, 16) on
such pranks of "Auslegungskunst" should be final. Why do the
reconcilers take Goethe's advice seriously?--
"Im Auslegen seyd frisch und munter!
Legt ihr's nicht aus, so legt was unter."
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