Abstract
An evangelical Anglican pastor, George Bugg faced difficulties and controversies within the church because of his uncompromising stand on the Scriptures as 'strictly and literally true'. In his Scriptural Geology he insisted the Scriptures are not a science textbook, but do provide an inerrant historical outline of the history of creation, and that geological facts based on observations must be distinguished from interpretations of the facts based on philosophical assumptions. He particularly took issue with old-Earth creationists, such as Buckland and Cuvier, and vehemently argued against the global extrapolations of Cuvier from his sketchy field work in the Paris Basin and his use of the fossils in his theory. Bugg was absolutely convinced of a recent Creation and a global Flood, and staunchly defended these and the six literal days of Creation against the Day-Age and Gap Theories. He clearly saw the crucial connection between the literal truth of Genesis and the Gospel.