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Topic:
Eden
As Located At The North Pole
Dr. William F. Warren has with prodigious learning attempted to show
that the original Eden was at the North Pole, a theory which has too
many considerations in its support to be cast aside unceremoniously, for
it certainly is true that in preglacial times a warm climate surrounded
the North Pole in all the lands which have been explored. In Northern
Greenland and in Spitzbergen abundant remains of fossil plants show that
during the middle of the Tertiary period the whole circumpolar region
was characterized by a climate similar to that prevailing at the present
time in Southern Europe, Japan, and the southern United States (see Asa
Gray's lectures on "Forest Geography and Archaeology" in the
American Journal of Science,CXVI , 85-94, 183-96, and Wright, Ice Age in
North America, 5th edition, chapter xvii). But as the latest discoveries
have shown that there is no land within several hundred miles of the
North Pole, Dr. Warren's theory, if maintained at all, will have to be
modified so as to place Eden at a considerable distance from the actual
pole. Furthermore, his theory would involve the existence of
"Tertiary man," and thus extend his chronology to an
incredible extent, even though with Professor Green (see ANTEDILUVIANS )
we are permitted to consider the genealogical table of Gen 5 as
sufficiently elastic to accommodate itself to any facts which may be
discovered.
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