Scriptural geologists (or Mosaic geologists) were a heterogeneous group of writers in the early nineteenth century, who claimed "the primacy of literalistic...
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deluge, but by 1830 geologists increasingly found that the evidence supported only relatively local floods. So-called scriptural geologists attempted to give...
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Thomas Gisborne (section Scriptural geologist)
scenery of Needwood Forest, which bordered his estate at Yoxall. A scriptural geologist, Gisborne wrote two books which criticised the trend of geology away...
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Granville Penn (category English geologists)
(9 December 1761 – 28 September 1844) was a British author, and scriptural geologist. He was a grandson of William Penn and a great-grandson of Admiral...
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(18 May 1778 – 2 January 1857) was a Scottish physician, chemist, scriptural geologist, and early business theorist who founded the Garnet Hill Observatory...
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curate for several churches in England and a scriptural geologist who wrote a two volume book called Scriptural Geology. Bugg was baptized in the Anglican...
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development of the study of geology, the periods were thought by scriptural geologists to correspond to the Biblical narrative, the rocks of the Tertiary...
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British naturalists in the late 18th century, starting with the work of the geologist James Hutton in his many books including Theory of the Earth. Hutton's...
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John Murray (science lecturer) (redirect from John Murray (geologist))
1786 – 1851) was a British science writer, lecturer, traveller and scriptural geologist during the early years of scientific development. He was born in...
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understanding of the Genesis flood narrative) can be traced to "Scriptural geologists," a heterogeneous group of writers from the early 19th century,...
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Fairholme (1789–1846), a land owner, banker, traveller, naturalist and scriptural geologist. His siblings included George Knight Erskine Fairholme (1822–1889)...
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FRS (7 June 1787 – 12 August 1857), dean of Llandaff, was an English geologist, palaeontologist and clergyman. He is probably best known for his ground-breaking...
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George Fairholme (category Scottish geologists)
(1789–1846) was a land owner, banker, traveller, naturalist and scriptural geologist, born in Lugate, Midlothian, Scotland on 15 January 1789. His father...
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in biblical archaeology Religiously motivated pseudoarchaeology Scriptural geologist Society of Biblical Archaeology The Bible's Buried Secrets The Bible...
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defended the new geology against the Reverend Sir William Cockburn, a Scriptural geologist. He turned down several invitations to review Vestiges, pleading...
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for Helston from 1802 to 1805, and Granville, who was a writer and scriptural geologist who was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1836. John...
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James Mellor Brown (1796–1867) was a British cleric, known as a scriptural geologist. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica, the son of James Brown (died 1816)...
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system of assumptions had already waned." In the 1820s and 30s the scriptural geologists had fought a battle against the rise of uniformitarianism and indeed...
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School, Stoke Green, (1855-1913). Granville Penn (1761–1844), author, scriptural geologist and civil servant, resident at Stoke Park (1761-1844).: 61 John...
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Congregational minister James Mellor Brown (1796–1867), British cleric and scriptural geologist J. Anthony Brown (born 1945), American comedian and actor James Brown...
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Adam Sedgwick (category English geologists)
for immortality may ultimately rest on it. He stated in 1830 that scriptural geologists proposed "a deformed progeny of heretical and fantastical conclusions...
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grew in acceptance. This 19th century trend was contested. The scriptural geologists and later the founders of the Victoria Institute opposed the decline...
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Scottish architect James Mellor Brown (1796–1867), British cleric and scriptural geologist This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same...
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George Bugg (1769–1851), Anglican deacon and curate in England and a Scriptural geologist James Bugg (1882–1964), Australian politician Jace Bugg (1976–2003)...
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early 19th century, "a heterogeneous group of writers," known as scriptural geologists, arose to oppose these discoveries, and the Gap Theory. Their views...
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Advocate of Cambridge University from 1803 to 1810. He was also a vocal scriptural geologist. William Cockburn was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon...
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Jean-André Deluc (category 19th-century Swiss geologists)
Jean-André Deluc or de Luc (8 February 1727 – 7 November 1817) was a geologist, natural philosopher and meteorologist from the Republic of Geneva. He...
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William Buckland (category English geologists)
Buckland DD, FRS (12 March 1784 – 14 August 1856) was an English theologian, geologist and palaeontologist. His work in the early 1820s proved that Kirkdale...
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George Young (Presbyterian minister) (category Scottish geologists)
edition 1928) Young, George (1838). Scriptural Geology. Williamson, W.C. (1884). "Biographical Notices of Eminent Geologists". Proceedings of the Yorkshire...
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Bernard Palissy (category French geologists)
figurines, he made a large number of dishes and plaques ornamented with scriptural or mythological subjects in relief. He seems to have made reproductions...
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