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Up until the end of the 18th century Classical British scholarship was theologically based, using the Bible as a basic source for world history and chronology. [8] Early work in the developing science of geology sought "theories of the Earth" combining mechanical physical laws in the natural philosophy of René Descartes with belief in the global flood as described in Genesis 6-8. [9]
The history of geology is concerned with the development of the natural science of geology. ... perhaps like the biblical deluge, had created all geological strata.
Noah prepares to leave the antediluvian world, Jacopo Bassano and assistants, 1579. In the Christian Bible, Hebrew Torah and Islamic Quran, the antediluvian period begins with the Fall of the first man and woman, according to Genesis and ends with the destruction of all life on the earth except those saved with Noah in the ark (Noah and his wife, his three sons and their wives).
After opening with the declaration that "the Bible is the infallible Word of God", [14] Whitcomb's section provides biblical arguments for a universal flood [15] as well as attempting to refute non-geological difficulties with the biblical account. [16]
Flood geology (also creation geology or diluvial geology) is a pseudoscientific attempt to interpret and reconcile geological features of the Earth in accordance with a literal belief in the Genesis flood narrative, the flood myth in the Hebrew Bible.
James Barr, 1984–85. "Why the World Was Created in 4004 BC: Archbishop Ussher and Biblical Chronology", Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 67:575–608. William R. Brice, 1982. "Bishop Ussher, John Lightfoot and the Age of Creation", Journal of Geological Education 30:18–24. Stephen Jay Gould, 1993.
The local flood interpretation of Noah's flood became accepted by many Christians after 19th century scientific findings. [citation needed] The view was defended by 19th century Scottish geologist Charles Lyell, in his book Principles of Geology (1833), where he concluded that the Genesis flood must have been a regional affair and not a global deluge.
He added extensive editorial notes to the translation, explicitly linking the latest of Cuvier's revolutions with the biblical flood. The resulting essay was extremely influential in the English-speaking world. [6] Buckland spent much of his early career trying to demonstrate the reality of the biblical flood using geological evidence.