Science vs. scientism in historical geology | Morris, HM. 1965.
CRSQ 2(2):19-27. CELD ID 3648Abstract The study of historical geology holds great fascination for many people who are neither historians nor geologists. This discipline occupies a uniquely interesting and important position in human thought. Among the humanities, the study of history surely is of singular significance and, among the sciences, geology, dealing as it does with the very earth itself, is similarly of unique interest. When the two are combined in historical geology, which professes to be able to decipher the mystery of the origin and history of the earth and its processes, the resulting panorama is of marvelous interest and significance. Such a picture, in fact, is of far more than historical and geological pertinence. Anything which elucidates origins is necessarily of philosophical and theological interest, with strong implications regarding meanings and purposes and destinies as well.
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