To suppose that there is a mysterious power which breaks a little fraction off each of the bioplasts of which we are asserted to be the sum; that having collected these fractions it arranges them all in the right order within the compass of a single germ, and from that germ reproduces the parent organism, is an hypothesis compared with which the creation of the world in its entirety six thousand years ago, including the fossils and remains of aeonian civilizations, is lucid and intelligible.
"The Faith of the Millions (2nd series)"
George Tyrrell
If the days of Genesis mean indefinite periods of aeonian duration, how is the seventh day of rest to be understood?
"Creation and Its Records"
B.H. Baden-Powell
This church of Kilkhaven, old and worn, rose before me a history in stone-so beaten and swept about by the "wild west wind," "For whose path the Atlantic's level powers Cleave themselves into chasms," and so streamed upon, and washed, and dissolved, by the waters lifted from the sea and borne against it on the upper tide of the wind, that you could almost fancy it one of those churches that have been buried for ages beneath the encroaching waters, lifted again, by some mighty revulsion of nature's heart, into the air of the sweet heavens, there to stand marked for ever with the tide-flows of the nether world-scooped, and hollowed, and worn like aeonian rocks that have slowly, but for ever, responded to the swirl and eddy of the wearing waters.
"The Seaboard Parish Volume 1"
George MacDonald
