GEOLOGY AND RELIGION

By P. FASIO

CONTENTS GEOLOGY AND RELIGION: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON CURRENT PROBLEMS JEAN-ANDRÉ DE LUC (1727–1817): AN ATHEIST’S COMPARATIVE VIEW OF THE HISTORIOGRAPHY WATER AND INCA COSMOGONY: MYTHS, GEOLOGY AND ENGINEERING IN THE PERUVIAN ANDES EXPLANATIONS OF THE EARTH’S FEATURES AND ORIGIN IN PRE-MEIJI JAPAN THE PROVIDENCE OF MINERAL GENERATION IN THE SERMONS OF JOHANN MATHESIUS (1504–1565) EARTHQUAKES AS GOD’S PUNISHMENT IN 17TH- AND 18TH-CENTURY SPAIN THE IDIOM OF A SIX DAY CREATION AND GLOBAL DEPICTIONS IN THEORIES OF THE EARTH THE FOSSIL PROBOSCIDEANS OF UTICA (TUNISIA), A KEY TO THE ‘GIANT’ CONTROVERSY, FROM SAINT AUGUSTINE (424) TO PEIRESC (1632) FLOOD CONCEPTIONS IN VALLISNERI’S THOUGHT DISCUSSING THE AGE OF THE EARTH IN 1779 IN PORTUGAL ON THE EARTH’S REVOLUTIONS: FLOODS AND EXTINCT VOLCANOES IN NORTHERN ITALY AT THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY VON HALLER AND DE LUC: GEOLOGICAL WORLD-VIEWS AND RELIGIOUS BACKGROUNDS IN OPPOSITION OR COLLABORATION? BIBLICAL FLOOD AND GEOLOGICAL DELUGE: THE AMICABLE DISSOCIATION OF GEOLOGY AND GENESIS ‘OUR FAVOURITE SCIENCE’: LORD BUTE AND JAMES PARKINSON SEARCHING FOR A THEORY OF THE EARTH CUVIER’S ATTITUDE TOWARD CREATION AND THE BIBLICAL FLOOD JESUITS’ STUDIES OF EARTHQUAKES AND SEISMOLOGICAL STATIONS ‘RED AND EXPERT’: CHINESE GLACIOLOGY DURING THE MAO TSE-TUNG PERIOD (1958–1976) ADAM SEDGWICK (1785–1873): GEOLOGIST AND EVANGELICAL SOME NINETEENTH- AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL CLERICS GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS BY THE REVEREND CHARLES P N WILTON (1795–1859) IN NEW SOUTH WALES AND HIS VIEWS ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE FRANZ X MAYR, THE SPIRITUAL FATHER OF THE JURA-MUSEUM RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS AS SUPPORT IN DANGEROUS EXPEDITIONS: HERMANN ABICH (1806–1886) AND HEINRICH BARTH (1821–1865) REVERENT AND EXEMPLARY: ‘DINOSAUR MAN’ FRIEDRICH VON HUENE (1875–1969) JAMES BUCKMAN (1841–1884): THE SCIENTIFIC CAREER OF AN ENGLISH DARWINIAN THWARTED BY RELIGIOUS PREJUDICE FRANZ UNGER AND SEBASTIAN BRUNNER ON EVOLUTION AND THE VISUALIZATION OF EARTH HISTORY; A DEBATE BETWEEN LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE CATHOLICS GEOLOGY AND GENESIS IN NINETEENTH- AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY ITALY: A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT NATURAL THEOLOGY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, AS EXEMPLIFIED IN THE WRITINGS OF ÉLIE BERTRAND (1713–1797), A SWISS NATURALIST AND PROTESTANT PASTOR THE RECEPTION OF GEOLOGY IN THE DUTCH REFORMED TRADITION: THE CASE OF HERMAN BAVINCK (1854–1921) FROM THE BEGINNING: FAITH AND GEOLOGY AT EVANGELICAL WHEATON COLLEGE THEODICIC CREATIONISM: ITS MEMBERSHIP AND MOTIVATIONS THE HISTORY OF THE DOCTRINE OF CREATION; A CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVE AN ANGLICAN PRIEST’S PERSPECTIVE ON THE DOCTRINE OF CREATION IN THE CHURCH TODAY