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    Discussion leader: Lisa 

    Assigned reading:

    Martin J. S. Rudwick, "The shape and meaning of earth history," from God and Nature, 296-321.

    Ad hoc challenge: using your best Google Fu, find the earliest geology textbook (e.g., Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology [1830]) in your primary research language which presents a long-chronology earth history. (Given the wide variance in digitization practices, do not expend undue effort if there are not good options readily available to you.) 

    Suggested reading:

    Charles Gillispie, Genesis and Geology (1951).

    Mott Greene, "Genesis and geology revisited," in When Science and Christianity Meet (2003), 139-160.

    Martin J. S. Rudwick, Earth's Deep History (2014).

    Benjamin Silliman, "Consistency of geology with sacred history," editor's supplement to Robert Bakewell, An Introduction to Geology (1833), 389-466.