- Subjects
- Published
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press
2014.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- ix, 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-337) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780226203935
- Introduction
- 1. Making History a Science
- The science of chronology
- Dating world history
- Periods of world history
- Noah's Flood as history
- The finite cosmos
- The threat of eternalism
- 2. Nature's Own Antiquities
- Historians and antiquaries
- Natural antiquities
- New ideas about fossils
- New ideas about history
- Fossils and the Flood
- Plotting the Earth's history
- 3. Sketching Big Pictures
- A new scientific genre
- A "sacred" theory?
- A slowly cooling Earth?
- A cyclic world-machine?
- Worlds ancient and modern?
- 4. Expanding Time and History
- Fossils as natureÆs coins
- Strata as nature's archives
- Volcanoes as nature's monuments
- Natural history and the history of nature
- Guessing the Earth's timescale
- 5. Bursting the Limits of Time
- The reality of extinction
- The Earth's last revolution
- The present as a key to the past
- The testimony of erratic blocks
- Biblical Flood and geological Deluge
- 6. Worlds Before Adam
- Before the Earth's last revolution
- An age of strange reptiles
- The new "stratigraphy"
- Plotting the Earth's long-term history
- A slowly cooling Earth
- 7. Disturbing a Consensus
- Geology and Genesis
- A disconcerting outsider
- Catastrophe versus uniformity
- The great "Ice Age"
- 8. Human History in Nature's History
- Taming the Ice Age
- Men among the mammoths
- The question of evolution
- Human evolution
- 9. Eventful Deep History
- "Geology and Genesis" marginalized
- The Earth's history in perspective
- Geology goes global
- Towards the origin of life
- The timescale of the EarthÆs history
- 10. Global Histories of the Earth
- Dating the Earth's history
- Continents and oceans
- Controversy over continental "drift"
- A new global tectonics
- 11. One Planet Among Many
- Exploiting the Earth's chronology
- The return of catastrophes
- Unraveling the deepest past
- The Earth in cosmic context
- 12. Conclusion
- Earth's deep history: a retrospective
- Past events and their causes
- How reliable is knowledge of deep history?
- Geology and Genesis re-evaluated
- Appendix
- Creationists out of Their Depth
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- Bibliography
- Sources of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Index
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