The Historical Development of the Old-Earth Geological Timescale
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This chapter will summarize the historical development of geology and in particular the development of the modern uniformitarian view of the geological record and the millions-of-years time-scale. The important proponents of old-earth thinking (including Werner, Smith, Hutton, Cuvier, and Lyell) along with some of the opponents of this view as it was developing (the scriptural geologists) will be discussed, as well as the key ideas in the development of the “geological column”. This historical context is useful in assessing both the current evolution-creation controversy and the debate among creationists about the validity and role of the “geological column” in their models.1
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