Rocks Don't Lie A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood

Name: Rocks Don't Lie A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood
Price: 4.6 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780393346244

ISBN-10: 0393346242

ISBN-13: 9780393346244

Edition: 2013

Authors: David R. Montgomery

List price: $17.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $15.23

Marketplace

4 new & used from $4.60

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

In Tibet, geologist David R.Montgomery heard a local story about a great flood that bore a strikingsimilarity to Noah’s Flood. Intrigued, Montgomery began investigating theworld’s flood stories and—drawing from historic works by theologians, naturalphilosophers, and scientists—discovered the counterintuitive role Noah’s Floodplayed in the development of both geology and creationism. Steno, thegrandfather of geology, even invoked the Flood in laying geology’s foundingprinciples based on his observations of northern Italian landscapes. Centurieslater, the founders of modern creationism based their irrational view of aglobal flood on a perceptive critique of geology. With an explorer’s eye and…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Preface



Buddha's Dam


Discovering evidence for an immense Tibetan flood shows the author that folktales can have an element of truth.



A Grand Canyon


A hike out of the deepest hole in North America reveals Earth's antiquity and fundamental problems with the creationist view of earth history.



Bones in the Mountains


Early Christians see evidence for Noah's Flood in fossils and rocks.



World in Ruins


Seventeenth-century savants lay the foundation for modern geology through imaginative theories of how God triggered the Flood.



A Mammoth Problem


Recognition of fossils as the bones of extinct animals invalidates grand Flood theories.



The Test of Time


An eighteenth-century Scottish farmer discovers geologic time and Christians reinterpret Genesis to accommodate an ancient world.



Catastrophic Revelations


Nineteenth-century geologists refute the idea of a global flood as the most recent of a series of world-shattering catastrophes.



Fragmented Stories


An introverted Englishman zealously reassembles cuneiform puzzles, proving that the biblical flood story is a Babylonian hand-me-down.



Recycled Tales


Scholars uncover the evolution of the Bible as anthropologists probe the roots of flood stories around the world.



Dinosaurs in Paradise


A trip to the Creation Museum sheds light on the twentieth-century resurrection of creationism.



The Heretic's Flood


A geologist rediscovers grand catastrophes and creationists refuse to believe geologists have discovered Noah's Flood.



Phantom Deluge


Modern creationists recycle seventeenth-century ideas to explain geological problems and miss the plate tectonics revolution.



The Nature of Faith


The greatest story never told-the way we read earth history shapes how we see the world.


Notes


Sources


Acknowledgments


Index