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The Rocks Don´t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah´s Flood
David R. Montgomery
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Description for The Rocks Don´t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah´s Flood
Paperback. How the mystery of the Bible's greatest story shaped geology: a MacArthur Fellow presents a surprising perspective on Noah's Flood. Num Pages: 320 pages, 12 illustrations; 4 maps. BIC Classification: PDZ; RBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 262.
In Tibet, geologist David R. Montgomery heard a local story about a great flood that bore a striking similarity to Noah’s Flood. Intrigued, Montgomery began investigating the world’s flood stories and—drawing from historic works by theologians, natural philosophers, and scientists—discovered the counterintuitive role Noah’s Flood played in the development of both geology and creationism. Steno, the grandfather of geology, even invoked the Flood in laying geology’s founding principles based on his observations of northern Italian landscapes. Centuries later, the founders of modern creationism based their irrational view of a global flood on a perceptive critique of geology. With an explorer’s ... Read more
In Tibet, geologist David R. Montgomery heard a local story about a great flood that bore a striking similarity to Noah’s Flood. Intrigued, Montgomery began investigating the world’s flood stories and—drawing from historic works by theologians, natural philosophers, and scientists—discovered the counterintuitive role Noah’s Flood played in the development of both geology and creationism. Steno, the grandfather of geology, even invoked the Flood in laying geology’s founding principles based on his observations of northern Italian landscapes. Centuries later, the founders of modern creationism based their irrational view of a global flood on a perceptive critique of geology. With an explorer’s ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
261g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393346244
SKU
V9780393346244
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About David R. Montgomery
David R. Montgomery is a professor at the University of Washington and a 2008 MacArthur Fellow.
Reviews for The Rocks Don´t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah´s Flood
"An excellent example of how a serious, even sympathetic, engagement with religion need not threaten reason or compromise scientific integrity."
Daily Beast "The Rocks Don’t Lie traces the history of the field of geology through the thinking that progressively debunked the great-flood myth and left behind, temporarily, what would be resurrected 150 years later as Creationism. . . . ... Read more
Daily Beast "The Rocks Don’t Lie traces the history of the field of geology through the thinking that progressively debunked the great-flood myth and left behind, temporarily, what would be resurrected 150 years later as Creationism. . . . ... Read more