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In addition to his positions at Amherst, Hitchcock was a well-known early , 1851 ). In this book, he found somewhat tortured ways to make the Bible agree with the latest geological theories. For example, he knew that the earth was at least hundreds of thousands of years old, vastly older than the 6,000 years posited by Biblical scholars. Hitchcock actually found a way to read the original Hebrew so that a single letter in Genesis -- a v', meaning "afterwards" -- implied the vast timespans during which the earth was formed. Hitchcock left his mark in paleontology. He published papers on Fossil ized tracks in the Connecticut Valley that were later associated with Dinosaur s, though he believed, with a certain prescience, that they were made by gigantic ancient birds. His son, Edward "Doc" Hitchcock, named one of the earliest dinosaurs discovered in America, ''Megadactylus polyzelus.'' Later it was Reclassified as the Type specimen of '' Anchisaurus polyzelus'' (ACM 41109), a Prosauropod . WRITINGS
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