Abstract
Terry Mortenson, now with Answers in Genesis (Florence, KY), has done a great service by providing his scholarly analysis of the historical roots of modern creationism to be found in the "Scriptural geology" movement. Many scientists and clergy of the period 1820 to 1860 in England and America countered the uniformitarian, non-catastrophists approach of the fledgling science of geology with an approach to earth history based upon three premises: