A geologist on the flood: book request

Ben

I came across this video, which is a presentation at Harvard by David Montgomery, a geology prof at the University of Washington (Seattle) . 

It's a presentation of intellectual and geological history. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMaUzNlDnSY 

His book looks very accessible, and I'd love to see it in Logos. https://amzn.to/2YlVsuf 

Other related readings (none available in Logos, sadly):
* Stiling, “Scriptural Geology in America.” In Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective (ed. Mark Noll and David Livingstone, both prominent scholars)

* Moore, James R. “Geologists and Interpreters of Genesis in the Nineteenth Century.” In God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science, ed. by David C.Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers. (Again, both prominent scholars in this area.)

* Rudwick, Martin J.S. “The Shape and Meaning of Earth History.” In ibid., 296–321

* van Der Meer, “George Cuvier and the Use of Scripture in Geology” in Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions: 1700-Present. This is the second in a 2-volume set. It's Brill, so of course it's ludicrously expensive in paper. 

* Stiling, The Diminishing Deluge:Noah's Flood in nineteenth century American thought PhD Diss, UW-Madison, 1991. Written under Ronald Numbers, so again, a good one.

DMB

I've no disagreement, etc

But your suggestion would merit a larger view (I think). I spend much time (and dirty fingernails) in geology. But I grew up in a preacher family, where a creator's quite able to create perceived history. Quarks and bones. As the human discovers each, their dissonance is with previous humans who knew even less, not the creator. The creator is unaffected. (Not arguing that this logic is necessarily true).

But the broader issue would certainly be worthwhile (the interface of discovery and religion).

I've been looking at the macro-ness of brainwave detection vs behavioral feedback. And a 'brain' scientist made this observation (Galen/Roman):

"Galen used dissection and produced detailed hand-drawn maps of the brain and the spinal cord. Galen believed that the soul and mind consisted of pneumo, or spirits emanating from the heart, and that the role of the brain was to ennoble these spirits in human beings. Galen’s “hydraulic” view of spirits moving around the body like fluids was to dominate thinking into the Renaissance."

It never really dawned on me, the Bible authors 'didn't know'. I knew heart, etc. from Egypt, I'm not sure how Judean dead bones played out (OT 7th century BCE).