The Bible, Rocks and Time

Geological Evidence for the Age of the Earth

By Davis A. Young and Ralph Stearley

(paperback)

Product Details

Line: IVP Academic
Length: 510 pages
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Binding: paperback
Published: August 2008

ISBN-10: 0-8308-2876-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-2876-0
IVP Order Code: 2876

Related Subjects

Creation, Evolution & Intelligent Design
Science and Faith

Preface

List of Figures
List of Tables
Abbreviations

Introduction

Part One: Historical Perspectives
1. The Age of the Earth Through the Seventeenth Century
2. Investigation of the Earth in the Seventeenth Century
3. The Emergence of Modern Geology
4. Harmonizing Geological Chronology and Scripture in the Nineteenth Century
5. Antiquity of the Earth: Twentieth Century to the Present

Part Two: Biblical Perspectives
6. The Bible and the Antiquity of the Earth: Part One
7. The Bible and the Antiquity of the Earth: Part Two

Part Three: Geological Perspectives
8. The Nature and Nurture of the Stratigraphic Record
9. Fossil Graveyards: A Rumble in the Jumble?
10. Sands Through the Hourglass: Sedimentation, Ancient Environments and Time
11. Of Time, Temperature and Turkeys: Clues from the Depths
12. Time and the Stratigraphy of the Michigan Basin: A Case Study
13. Illumination from the Range of Light: The Sierra Nevada
14. Radiometric Dating: Part One
15. Radiometric Dating: Part Two

Part Four: Philosophical Perspectives
16. Uniformitarianism, Catastrophism and Empiricism
17. Creationism, Evangelism and Apologetics

Index of Names
Index of Subjects