This geologist, Wallace Pratt, also noted that the order of eventsfrom the origin of the oceans, to the emergence of land, to the appearance of marine life, and then to birds and mammalsis essentially the sequence of the principal divisions of geologic time.
This geologist, Wallace Pratt, was also a fundamentalist creationist who believed that the book of Genesis was literal in the sense than modern "creation scientists" do. IOW, he had abandoned the scientific method in this area. (Interestingly, he was famous for his ability fo find oil fields, using principles that are in conflict to YEC).
The quote is from 1928. Somewhat interesting as history, but not relevant to modern geology.
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