Geology and Religion: A History of Harmony and HostilityMartina Kölbl-Ebert, Geological Society of London The book discusses this long-standing relationship from a historical point of view, which in the past has been sometimes indifferent, sometimes fruitful and sometimes full of conflict. The relationship continues well into the present. While Christian fundamentalists attack evolution and related palaeontological findings as well as the geological evidence of the age of the Earth, mainstream theologians strive for a fruitful dialogue between science and religion. Much of what is written and discussed today can only be understood, when the historical perspective is added. This book considers the following topics: the development of geology from mythological approaches towards the European Enlightenment, Biblical or Geological Flood and the age of the Earth, geology within 'religious' organizations, biographical case studies of geological clerics and religious geologists, religion and evolution, historical aspects of creationism and its motives. |
Contents
a historical perspective on current problems | 7 |
From mythological approaches towards the European Enlightenment | 17 |
BARBARO P Explanations of the Earths features and origin in preMeiji Japan | 37 |
geological worldviews and religious | 95 |
the amicable dissociation of geology | 103 |
Geology within religious organizations | 135 |
Chinese glaciology during the Mao Tsetung | 145 |
Geological clerics and Christian geologists | 155 |
VIOHL G K Franz X Mayr the spiritual father of the JuraMuseum | 211 |
Hermann | 217 |
the scientific career of an English Darwinian | 245 |
Franz Unger and Sebastian Brunner on evolution and the visualization of Earth | 259 |
History of creationism | 277 |
faith and geology at | 301 |
its membership and motivations | 317 |
B An Anglican priests perspective on the doctrine of creation in the church today | 339 |
Some nineteenth and twentiethcentury Australian geological clerics | 171 |
MAYER W Geological observations by the Reverend Charles P N Wilton 17951859 | 193 |
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