List of Figures and Tables
Introduction 19
Pt. 1 Historical Perspectives
1 The Age of the Earth Through the Seventeenth Century 27
2 Investigation of the Earth in the Seventeenth Century 47
3 The Emergence of Modern Geology 71
4 Harmonizing Geological Chronology and Scripture in the Nineteenth Century 101
5 Antiquity of the Earth: Twentieth Century to the Present 132
Pt. 2 Biblical Perspectives
6 The Bible and the Antiquity of the Earth: Part One 165
7 The Bible and the Antiquity of the Earth: Part Two 184
Pt. 3 Geological Perspectives
8 The Nature and Nurture of the Stratigraphic Record 213
9 Fossil Graveyards: A Rumble in the Jumble? 243
10 Sands Through the Hourglass: Sedimentation, Ancient Environments and Time 288
11 Of Time, Temperature and Turkeys: Clues from the Depths 312
12 Time and the Stratigraphy of the Michigan Basin: A Case Study 341
13 Illumination from the Range of Light: The Sierra Nevada 365
14 Radiometric Dating: Part One 388
15 Radiometric Dating: Part Two 415
Pt. 4 Philosophical Perspectives
16 Uniformitarianism, Catastrophism and Empiricism 447
17 Creationism, Evangelism and Apologetics 475
Name Index 496
Subject Index 501
Scripture Index 509