Author:
Young, Davis A.
Imprint:Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, c2008.
Description510 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Note: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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
