cosmogony

Japanese: cosmogony
cosmogony

…However, scholars at that time did not stray beyond the bounds of Christian doctrine, so fossils of living things created by God were placed in the traditional historical timeline that began with the creation of the world and Noah's flood. In the 18th century, naturalists further refined this theory of the beginning of the universe, while at the same time promoting systematic classification of fossils with excellent drawings, laying the groundwork for paleontology. 18th century naturalists had a rough understanding of the relationship between fossils and the rock types of the strata that contained them, but W. Smith (1769-1839) established the method of biostratigraphy (fossil stratigraphy), which revealed the value of fossils for comparing strata over a wide area. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "cosmogony" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…とはいえ,当時の学者はキリスト教の教義の枠からはみ出ることはなかったので,神の創造による生物の化石は天地創造とノアの洪水から始まる伝統的歴史年表の中に位置づけられた。18世紀になると,博物学者らによってこのような宇宙開闢(かいびやく)説cosmogonyに磨きがかけられる一方,化石の優れた写生図を伴った体系的分類が進められ,古生物学への下地を作った。18世紀の博物学者らは化石とそれを含む地層の岩質との対応関係をおおまかに知っていたが,W.スミス(1769‐1839)によって生層位学(化石層位学)の方法が確立され,広域の地層対比のための化石の価値が明らかにされた。…

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