Abstract
George Young was the most geologically competent of the scriptural geologists, and his writings show that he was well read in geological and scientific literature. He made very thorough investigations of the geology of his home area of Yorkshire, where a great percentage of the so-called 'geological column' was exposed in the mines and on the sea coast. The published results of these observations were praised for their accuracy by the leading old-earth geologists in 1828. However, George Young's most seasoned reflections on geology and the Bible, Scriptural Geology (1838, 78 pages) and Appendix to Scriptural Geology (1840, 31 pages), were essentially ignored in the following decades.