Ebook: The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood

A MacArthur Fellow presents a surprising perspective on Noah's Flood and how the mystery of the Bible's greatest story shaped geology.;1. Buddha's dam : discovering evidence for an immense Tibetan flood shows the author that folktales can have an element of truth -- 2. A grand canyon : a hike out of the deepest hole in North America reveals Earth's antiquity and fundamental problems with the creationist view of earth history -- 3. Bones in the mountains : early Christians see evidence for Noah's flood in fossils and rocks -- -- 4. World in ruins : seventeenth-century savants lay the foundation for modern geology through imaginative theories of how God triggered the flood -- 5. A mammoth problem : recognition of fossils as the bones of extinct animals invalidates grand flood theories -- 6. The test of time : an eighteenth-century Scottish farmer discovers geologic time and Christians reinterpret Genesis to accommodate an ancient world -- 7. Catastrophic revelations : nineteenth-century geologists refute the idea of a global flood as the most recent of a series of world-shattering catastrophes -- 8. Fragmented stories : an introverted Englishman zealously reassembles cuneiform puzzles, proving that the biblical flood story is a Babylonian hand-me-down -- 9. Recycled tales : scholars uncover the evolution of the Bible as anthropologists probe the roots of flood stories around the world -- 10. Dinosaurs in paradise : a trip to the Creation Museum sheds light on the twentieth-century resurrection of creationism -- 11. The heretic's flood : a geologist rediscovers grand catastrophes and creationist refuse to believe geologists have discovered Noah's flood -- 12. Phantom deluge : modern creationists recycle seventeenth-century ideas to explain geological problems and miss the plate tectonics revolution -- 13. The nature of faith : the way we read earth history shapes how we see the world.