Summary of The Book
The book is organized as follows:
- Introduction, discussing the text of Creation according to Genesis
- Book I: Lematta, discussing the premises and assumptions on which his argument is based;
- Book II: Hypotheses, discussing his model for the origin of the Earth;
- Book III: Phaenomena, discussing evidence predicted by his model;
- Book IV: Solutions, discussing how his model explains the evidence;
- Appendix: An abstract of his theory drawn from various sources.
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