Creation Quote by Charles Lyell

Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited.

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite…

— James Dwight Dana

[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has…

— Edward Forbes

The more clearly the immensely speculative nature of geological science is recognized, the easier it becomes to remodel our concepts of any inferred terrestrial…

— William Morris Davis

Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the…

— Charles Lapworth

[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as a creative…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

“An interesting contrast between the geology of the present day and that of half a century ago, is presented by the complete emancipation of…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology.

— Goldwin Smith

Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with…

— Charles Lapworth

Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that…

— Anonymous

If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the…

— John Burroughs

The facts of paleontology seem to support creation and the flood rather than evolution. For instance, all the major groups of invertebrates appear "suddenly"…

— Enoch