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Geologist from Scotland, known for his significant contributions to the development of geology. He discovered many important fossils and authored several geological works.

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“No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be, through the miracle of creation. From the evidence furnished by these rocks we are shut down either to belief in miracle, or to something else infinitely harder of reception, and as thoroughly unsupported by testimony as it is contrary to experience. Hume is at length answered by the severe truths of the stony science.”

Source: The Foot-prints of the Creator: Or, The Asterolepis of Stromness

“That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain.”

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Book:The Foot-prints of the Creator: Or, The Asterolepis of Stromness

Source: The Foot-prints of the Creator: Or, The Asterolepis of Stromness

“Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with its annals, possesses its realms of dim and shadowy fields, in which troops of fancies already walk like disembodied ghosts in the old fields of Elysium, and which bid fair to be quite dark and uncertain enough for all the purposes of poesy for centuries to come.”

Source: Popular Geology: A Series of Lectures Read Before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh, with Descriptive Sketches from a Geologist's Portfolio