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Young, Davis A.

The Bible, rocks, and time : geological evidence for the age of the earth / Davis A. Young & Ralph F. Stearley. - Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, c2008. - 510 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

ISBN: 9780830828760 (pbk.) 0830828761 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2008017282

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB056825 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015326206 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Bible and geology.
Creationism.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Earth--Age.

LC Class. No.: BS657 / .Y679 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 231.7652