The Bible, rocks and time :

Young, Davis A.

The Bible, rocks and time : geological evidence for the age of the earth / Davis A. Young & Ralph F. Stearley. - Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, c2008. - 510 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The age of the earth through the seventeenth century -- Investigation of the earth in the seventeenth century -- The emergence of modern geology -- Harmonizing geological chronology and Scripture in the nineteenth century -- Antiquity of the earth: twentieth century to the present -- The Bible and the antiquity of the earth -- The nature and nurture of the stratigraphic record -- Fossil graveyards: a rumble in the jumble? -- Sands through the hourglass: sedimentation, ancient environments and time -- Of time, temperature and turkeys: clues from the depths -- Time and the stratigraphy of the Michigan basin: a case study -- Illumination from the range of light: the Sierra Nevada -- Radiometric dating -- Uniformitarianism, catastrophism and empiricism -- Creationism, evangelism and apologetics.

0830828761 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780830828760 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2008017282


Bible and geology.
Creationism.


Earth (Planet)--Age.

BS657 / .Y679 2008 BS657 / .Y679 2008

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