The Bible, rocks, and time : geological evidence for the age of the earth /

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, 2008 - 510 p. : ill., maps ; 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

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


Bible and geology
Creationism

Earth --Age

BS657 / .Y67 2008