Was There a Worldwide Flood?
In geology, scientists are divided into two groups, Uniformitarianists and Catastrophists. The word uniformitarian is derived from the assumption that uniform environmental conditions have worked together to affect the environment in predictable ways.
Deep Time: Darwin’s Theory
Some people think that Darwin’s Theory of Evolution in 1859 set the stage for the millions-to-billions of years of time necessary for molecules to become men. They would be wrong. The seeds of “deep time” were sown a century earlier as geologists began to question the biblical timeline of 6,000-year history inferred in the biblical record.