Be warned in the early 1800s there were many coal-pitts for people to fall
in. It's my favourite period (see my PSCF article ofr Dec 99)
I t's also highly complex as some geologists still did not accept the vast
age of the earth George Young etc and so some young earthers then changed
their minds in a decade or so. It is far more understandable for people at
that time to be young earth than today.
I have lots ready to be pushed out into publication. Paper due Next year
and others in the wings.
As I read you on Penn I thought of de saussure as I have visited his sites
in the Alps and sure enough his name came up.
Remember things were more fluid then (pun!), but by 1850 scarcely anyone
and espec Anglican and Scots clergy believed in a young earth.
I could reply at length but have exams to mark.
Another point beware of the rubbish on this period published by AD White
and also any rubbish history which says Lyell introduced ideas of the age
of the earth in 1830 (and of course Pennock).
I will put my oar in again.
Keep freezing in the granite city.
Michael
Michael Roberts,
Chirk Vicarage,
Trevor Road
Chirk, Wrexham
LL14 5HD
Wales
United Kingdom
Phone 01691-778519
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