Abstract
George Fairholme was an enthusiastic and competent geologist, well read in the leading geological literature of his time, British and foreign. His original first-hand geological investigations involved years of travel in Britain and abroad. He participated in scientific meetings, interacted with leading contemporary geologists and other scientists, and published in reputable scientific journals. His two books on geology were based on a deep conviction of the truth of Scripture, historical, theological and moral. He refuted the arguments of long-age geologists, which were not only contradictory to Scripture but also to the Scientific facts. He believed that old-Earth reinterpretations of Genesis destroyed faith in the rest of the Bible. He argued that, although Genesis does not teach a system of natural philosophy or even of geology, it does provide reliable beacons for geological study. His geological and geographical areas of interest included valley systems, waterfalls, coastal erosion, human fossils, polystrate fossil trees, and insensible transitions between strata. From these he showed that the strata were not formed by modern processes operating over millions of years but by the Flood about 5,000 years ago.