The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood (43 page)

gravity, suspended, 71

graywacke sandstone, 93–96,
95,
102, 107–8

Great Barrier Reef, 26

great white shark, 58–60

Greek Bible, 98, 161–62, 167, 250, 263
n

Greeks, ancient, 41, 43, 49, 63, 89, 96, 157–59, 217–18, 219

Babylonian flood story known by, 157–58

flood story of, 158–59, 172

Greeks, ancient (
continued
)

fossils as viewed by, 34–36

king list of, 217

Greenland ice cores, 213

Gulf Stream, 213

Guru Rimpoche, 5–7

gypsum (calcium sulfate), 196–97

Hall, Sir James, 107–8, 111, 130

Halley, Edmund, 73–75, 228

Hammurabi, King of Babylon, 154

Haran, 152

Havasupai people, 23

Hebrew Bible, 157, 161–62, 165, 167, 250

vowels and spaces lacked by, 161, 252

Hebrew language, 39, 63, 161, 166–67, 252, 263
n

Herbarium of the Deluge
(Scheuchzer), 82

heresy, 9, 45–50, 99, 100, 162–63

geological, 203–4, 206–9

Hermit Shale, 25

Herod, King of Judea, 98

Himalaya mountains, 33–34, 159

Hindu flood stories, 159–60, 171–72

Histoire Naturelle
(Buffon), 99

Ho-ko-ma-ta, 23

Homo diluvii testis,
82–84,
83

Hutton, James, 93–96,
95,
102–14, 137, 239

background of, 102–3

critics of, 109–11, 112

death of, 109–10, 129

at Glen Tilt site, 106, 111

grand cycle posited by, 103–9, 110, 130

at Siccar Point site, 93–96,
94,
95,
102, 107–8, 109, 111, 113–14

uniformitarianism espoused by, 108–9, 119, 120, 130, 133

Huxley, Thomas, 177–78

hydraulic sorting, 229–30, 235

hydrological cycle, 55

ice ages (glaciations), 5, 140, 185, 218–19, 229

deglaciation at end of, 218–23

Quaternary extinction event of, 91

ice dams,
see
glacial ice dams

ice drill cores, 181, 213

ice giants, 214–15

Iceland, 215

Idaho, 208, 212

Ides, Ysbrand, 84

igneous rock, 20, 260
n

Illogical Geology
(Price), 187

Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth
(Playfair), 111–13

India, 33, 84, 110

flood stories of, 159–60, 171–72

Indian elephants, 84, 87, 88

Indian Gardens, 22–23

Indonesia, 8, 216

Inquisition, 47, 48–49

Institute for Creation Research, 237

intelligent design, xiii, 254

Introduction to Geology
(Bakewell), 123, 129–30

Introduction to the History of Minerals
(Buffon), 99

Irrawaddy River, 153

isotopes, radioactive, 17–19, 192–93, 198, 231, 259
n

James, Epistle of, 162

Jamieson, Robert, 167

Japan, 216

Jefferson, Thomas, 86–87

Jerome, Saint, 38–39, 161, 162–63, 166–67

Jerusalem, destruction of Temple in, 96–97

Jesuits, 45, 54–55

Jesus, 10, 96–98

Jewish Bible, 161–64

Jews, 34, 35, 36, 39, 43, 50, 89, 149, 161

Babylonian exile of, 156–57, 165, 166, 168, 170–71

exodus of, 96–97

oral traditions of, 152, 165, 166

traditional Sabbath of, 98

John Paul II, Pope, 49–50, 64

Jordan, David Starr, 187

Josephus, 98

Joshua, Book of, 46

Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation,
194

Jude, Epistle of, 162

Judges, Book of, 167

Julius Africanus, 96–97

Jupiter, moons of, 46

Kaibab Limestone, 26, 27

Keill, John, 75–76

Khoikhoi (Hottentot) people, 175

King James Bible, 98, 167, 263
n

Kircher, Athanasius, 54–55, 60

Kirkdale Cave site, 124–25, 127

Kirwan, Richard, 109, 110–11, 112–13

Kish, 151–52

Klamath Indians, 176

Kulp, J. Laurence, 194–97, 226

lahars, 116

lakes, ancient, 2–7,
2,
4,
6,
207–12,
208

Langdon, Stephen, 151–52

Latin Bible, 39, 161, 162–63, 166–67, 263
n

lava dams, 28

lava flows, 131–32,
132,
202

lead, 18–19

Lectures on Genesis
(Luther), 44

Lenormant, François, 171–72

Leonardo da Vinci, 41–42, 43, 103

Leviticus, Book of, 167

Lewis, Mark, 173–74

Lhotse Detachment, 32

Libby, Willard F., 192–93,
192,
194

limestone, 19, 195, 245

Kaibab, 26

metamorphosed, 32

Muav, 23–24, 27

Redwall, 24, 27

Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963), 242

Lucian, 158–59

Luther, Martin, 43–45, 46, 162–63

Lyell, Charles, 129–37, 139, 140, 169

fieldwork of, 131–33,
132

geologic time defended by, 132–37

Huxley’s support for, 177–78

uniformitarianism of, 133–35, 136, 178, 203, 235

magnetometers, 242

Mallowan, Max, 152–53

Malone, Dudley Field, 191

mammoths, 84–87, 88, 90, 91, 110–11, 118, 127, 261
n
–62
n

in Big Bone Lick site, 86, 88

deaths suffered by, 185, 193–94

in flood geology, 185, 188–89, 193–94

radiocarbon dating of, 185, 193

Siberian, 84, 86, 88, 100, 110, 112–13, 127, 178, 185

mammoth teeth, 84, 85–86, 88, 261
n
–62
n

Manu, 159–60, 171–72

mapping, geological, 118, 194, 233

marble, 32

Marmara Sea, 222

Marriott, Alice Lee, 175

Mars, 210, 211, 256

Marx, Karl, 236

mass extinctions, 90–91, 141

mass spectrometers, 18–19, 259
n

mastodons, 88, 261
n
–62
n

Mather, Cotton, 84–85, 86, 231

Matthew, Gospel of, 50, 264
n

Mazama, Mount, 176

Medici family, 58, 63

Mediterranean Sea, 11, 35, 217–23

Black Sea and, 219–23,
219

tsunami in, 217–18

megafauna, 91

Memoir on the Geology of Central France
(Scrope), 131

Mesopotamia, 141, 143–60,
147,
169–77

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

first farmers’ arrival in, 222, 223

India’s trade relationship with, 159

metamorphic rock, 20, 260
n

of Everest, 31–32

Metamorphoses
(Ovid), 158

Methodists, 182

mica, 17

Mid-Atlantic Ridge,
241

Middle Ages, 40, 97

mid-ocean ridges, 240, 241,
241,
242, 243

millennialism, 41

Miller, Arthur, 188

Miocene epoch, 82

missionaries, 168, 169–70, 172–73, 175, 212, 216–17

Missoula, Lake, 207–11,
208,
212–13

Missouri River, 213

Moken people (sea gypsies), 8

Moon, 46–47

Moore, James, 244

moraines, glacial, 4–5,
4,
6,
215

Morris, Henry, 225–39

Moses, 44, 48, 65, 67–68, 74, 85, 96, 99, 106, 114, 120, 121, 123, 163, 164, 166

Moses Coulee, 202–3

mountains, 1–7, 93–96, 112, 135, 239

ancient, 17, 20, 26

changed attitudes toward, 77

erosion of, 93, 95–96, 99

formation of, 239–44;
see also
plate tectonics