Geologie contra Genesis – Schöpfungsmythen um 1800

Geology versus Genesis – Creation Myths around 1800 When geology as a genuine science was established in the period around 1800, its development was not without conflict, as its findings and hypotheses about the formation of the earth and about the immensely long periods of the earth’s history were in blatant contradiction to the Christian religious account. The transformations within the history of ideas and discourse were not linear, however, but were marked by numerous, sometimes reciprocal connections and