Index

Abduction, 7     and, 23, 85–86; Lyell and, 23, 130;
Actualism, 120, 127, 128, 151, 173     textbook myths on, 23-24, 26, 51, 67,
Agassiz, Louis, 115–117, 126, 128, 129,     104, 127; and uniformity of law, 127.
    179     See also Sacred Theory of the Earth
Age of mammals, 155–156Butterfield, Herbert, 4–5
Alhambra of Granada, 197
Alvarez hypothesis, 176,. 177
Analogy, 198Canterbury, 200, 202, 207
Aristotle, 42, 49, 74, 75Carboniferous period, 145
Cardboard histories, see Textbooks
Basin and Range (McPhee), 3, 61, 68–69Catastrophism, 7, 13, 29, 112–117,
Bible, 5, 6, 11–12; Burnet and, 5, 23–40     122–140 passim, 175–178
    passim, 50, 51, 58, 127; Steno and,Causes, 74–78, 130–132; final, 75–78,
    52, 53–54, 58; Lyell and, 112–113.     79, 95, 97; efficient, 76, 77, 78, 79;
    See also Genesis     modern, 128, 146
Blackwood's Magazine, 73Cenozoic Era, 86, 150
Bodies, human, 82–83, 141, 142Chartres, 206, 208
"Book of Sand" (Borges), 48–49Christian traditions, 10, 11. See also Bible
Borges, Jorge Luis: Borges's dilemma,Clerk, John, of Eldin, 60, 70
       48–49, 56, 92, 196Climate: Lyell on, 140–141, 144–146
Bradley, S. J., 68Comets, 41, 176–177
Bretz, J Harlen, 176Conflagration: Burnet and, 36–38, 50
Buckland, Frank, 98, 100–101, 141Cornell, Ezra, 25
Buckland, William, 98, 99–100, 101,Creation: days of, 5, 38–40; vs.
     129     evolution, 9, 169, 172, 194
Buffon, G., 94Creationism, "scientific," 23–24
Burnet, Thomas, 4–15 passim, 20–59,Cretaceous-Tertiary transition, 175–176
     84, 195–196, 208; and time's arrow,CRM Books, 68
     15, 22, 27, 41, 42–46, 49, 58, 82,Crustal collapse, theory of, 31–32, 33,
     184, 187, 192; and time's cycle, 15,     34, 53, 57, 58
     22, 41, 46–48, 49–51, 58, 80, 82,Curiosities of Natural History (Buckland),
     184, 187, 192; context of, 17; Hutton     98, 100–101

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