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William Buckland, a renowned British geologist, was born on March 12, 1784, and died on August 14, 1856. He was a pioneer in the field of geology, known for his research on fossils and contributions to stratigraphy.

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“The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the taste for National and Local Antiquities. Geology gratifies a larger taste of this kind; it inquires into what may appropriately be termed the Antiquities of the Globe itself, and collects and deciphers what may be considered as the monuments and medals of its remoter eras.”

Source: Vindiciæ Geologicæ: The Connexion of Geology with Religion, Explained in an Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before University of Oxford, May 15, 1819, on the Endowment of Readership in Geology

“With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the human race; the evidence of all facts that have yet been established in Geology coincides with the records of Sacred History and Profane Tradition to confirm the conclusion that the existence of mankind can on no account be supposed to have taken its beginning before that time which is assigned to it in the Mosaic writings.”

“No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire series of geological formations.”

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Book:Geology and Mineralogy: Considered with Reference to Natural Theology

Source: Geology and Mineralogy: Considered with Reference to Natural Theology