The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood (41 page)

cuneiform tablets, 143–50,
144,
152–54, 222–23

Cuvier, Georges, 83–84, 87–91, 137

catastrophism of, 119–20, 121–22, 125, 130, 133

comparative anatomy practiced by, 87, 88, 89, 127

geological eras recognized by, 118–20

geologic time recognized by, 88–90

regional map created by, 118–19

Daniel, Book of, 50

Danube River, 222

Darrow, Clarence, 190–91

Darwin, Charles, 13, 103, 126, 140, 177, 236

dating methods, 191–93

fossil succession, 90, 118–20, 124–25, 132–33, 187, 191, 194, 196, 229–30, 232–33, 243

radiometric, 5, 17–19, 28, 29, 32, 185, 191–93, 195, 196, 197, 198, 230–31;
see also
radiocarbon dating

tree-ring record, 181, 193, 231

David, King, 165

day-age theory, 123, 184, 186, 188, 236, 250

Dead Sea, 197

deformation, 17, 21, 31, 33–34,
65,
71, 93–95,
94,
95,
102, 131, 260
n

folding, 189, 195–96, 232, 233

orientation of, 94–95, 233–34

rigid, 243

tilting, 19, 60, 71, 94–95, 105, 189

uplift, 19, 94–95, 134, 136, 232, 239

deposition, 8, 21, 26, 59–60, 93, 101–2, 114, 136, 181

of British gravel blanket, 121–22

grand cycle of, 103–9, 110

as horizontal, 20, 60, 61, 71, 105, 108

order of, 20, 26–27, 59, 60, 61, 77, 90, 132–33, 191

Descartes, René, 53–54, 60

soul located in pineal gland by, 57

Deucalion and Pyrrha, 158–59, 172, 217–18

Devonian Period, 95–96,
95

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
(Galileo), 49

Dictionary of the Bible,
170

dikes,
see
granite veins

diluvialism, 80–84, 120–28, 137–39

diluvium, 122, 128

dinosaurs, 23, 26, 44, 230, 252

in creationism, 179, 180, 181, 189

extinction of, 79, 91, 180, 232, 259
n

fossil trackways of, 181, 231–32

Discourse on the Revolutions of the Globe
(Cuvier), 119–20

Dissertation on Solids Naturally Enclosed in Solids
(Stensen, “Steno”), 61

Dodh Kosi River, 31

Dranse River, 119

drill cores:

of Black Sea floor, 221–22

ice, 181, 213

of Marmara Sea, 222

of sedimentary rock from oil wells, 195

Earth:

age of, xii, 9, 10, 11, 12–13, 18, 28, 40, 49, 53, 90, 96–98, 133, 141, 184, 190–97, 225–37, 249, 250;
see also
geologic time

in biblical translations, 166–67

Buffon’s cometary origin theory of, 99, 101

Cartesian theory of origin of, 53–54

as center of universe, 45–50, 198

climate changes of, 256

as flat, 50, 191, 198

as habitable ark, 251

internal heat of, 17, 32, 105, 106–7, 110, 196

Latin word for, 167

magnetic field of, 240, 242

predicted end of, 56, 96–98

as prediluvian perfect sphere, 39–40, 65–69, 75–76

rotation of, 83

theoretical cooling of, 239

total water supply of, 55, 66

Ussher’s birthdate for, 64

earthquakes, 53, 111, 134, 135, 172, 229, 232

deep, 242–43

global distribution of, 240, 242–43

nuclear tests vs., 242

tsunamis produced by, 215–17

ecological zonation, 196

Edinburgh, University of, 95, 102, 107

Edinburgh Philosophical Journal,
126–27

Egypt, 89, 96–97, 190, 193, 217–18

flood stories lacked by, 172, 176

Eichhorn, Johann, 164

elephants, 84, 86, 87, 88, 110

old, death position of, 193

Elijah, 97

Elijah ben Asher Levita, 161

Elohim, 166

Encyclopedia Biblica,
168

Engels, Friedrich, 236

England, 65–76, 85–86, 95, 101, 120–41, 143–54, 212, 213

fossils of, 70–71, 80, 118

sedimentary rock in, 103, 118

English Channel, 212

Enki, 155

Enlightenment, 164–65

Enlil, 155

Epochs of Nature
(Buffon), 100

“eretz,” 166–67

erosion, 8, 16, 17, 19–20, 21–22, 23, 24, 26, 53, 60–61, 74, 101, 102, 117, 134, 135, 181, 195, 249

grand cycle of, 103–9, 110

of mountains, 93, 95–96, 99

Essay on the Theory of the Earth
(Cuvier), 119

Essay Toward a Natural History of the Earth
(Woodward), 69, 70, 71–73, 75

Euphrates River, 146,
147,
150–52, 153, 169, 170, 171, 175–76, 223

Evangelical Quarterly,
244

evaporation, 55, 67, 196–97

evaporites, 196–97

Everest, Mount, 9, 17, 31–34

base camp of, 31

fault zones of, 31, 32

height of, 260
n

Lhotse Detachment of, 32

name of, 260
n

North Col Formation of, 32

Qomolangma Fault of, 32

Qomolangma Formation of, 32–33

radiometric dating of, 32

Ronbuk Formation of, 31–33

Yellow Band of, 32

Everest, Sir George, 260
n

evolution, 11, 13, 36, 88–91, 182, 185, 196, 249, 252, 256

Buffon as proponent of, 99

creationist opposition to, 179–80, 182, 185, 186–87, 189–91, 194, 226, 227, 235, 236–37

Creation Museum version of, 179–80

Scopes trial and, 190–91

Examination of Dr. Woodward’s Account of the Deluge, An
(Arbuthnot), 72–73

extinctions, 79–91, 118, 126, 138, 185, 263
n

of dinosaurs, 79, 91, 180, 232, 259
n

of fossil species, 27, 79–80, 87, 88–89, 243

mass, 90–91, 141

species changes shown by, 88–91

Fairbridge, Rhodes, 218

faith, 247–57

reason vs., xii, 34, 36–38, 42–43, 67, 69, 76, 85, 170, 178

faults, 31, 32, 33, 233

fault zones, 31, 32, 233

feldspar, 17

Ferdinand II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 58–59, 60

field mapping, 194

Fijians, 172, 215

fish, 81–82, 252

Fishes’ Complaint and Vindication, The
(Scheuchzer), 81–82

Fleming, John, 126–27, 128

flood control, 153

in China, 173–74

flood geology, 10, 176–77, 178, 185–98, 225–39

apparent age doctrine in, 231

fossil record and, 187–89, 191, 228–35, 243

geologic record in, 189, 228–35

Kulp’s refutation of, 194–97, 226

flood geology (
continued
)

mammoths invoked in, 185, 188–89, 193–94

miracles invoked by, 187, 228, 238

radiocarbon dating disputed by, 230–31

science vs., 187, 188, 191–98, 226–35, 236, 237–39

vapor canopy theory of, 74, 228, 230, 235, 245

Young’s criticisms of, 237–38

see also
Price, George McCready

Flood Myths of Early China, The
(Lewis), 173–74

flood-prone estuaries,
147,
150–53, 175–76

floods, catastrophic, 8–14, 115–17, 135, 169–74, 198–99, 201–23

backwater, 204, 208–9, 210–11, 213

at Baghdad, 153, 169

of Black Sea, 11, 135, 219–23,
219,
248, 253

deglaciation as source of, 218–23;
see also
glacial ice dams

geological signature of, 119, 199

geologists’ denials of, 203–4

in Grand Canyon, 28–29

in Hindu cosmology, 159–60

of Irrawaddy River delta, 153

on Mars, 210, 211

in Mesopotamia, 150–53, 160, 169, 170, 171, 174, 175–76, 177, 222–23, 248, 253

see also
tsunamis

flood stories, xi–xiv, 8–14, 143–60, 168–78, 199, 212–23, 247–53

actual events transmitted by, 8–9

Akkadian, 154–56

Babylonian, 143–50,
144,
153, 154–59, 168, 170–72

Chinese flood control in, 173–74

compilations of, 171–74

culture-to-culture transmission of, 159, 175

deglaciation as source of, 218–23

differences in, 146–47, 149, 159–60, 170–71