Abstract
Thomas Gisborne was a highly respected and nationally influential evangelical Anglican minister in early nineteenth century Britain. He was also a gifted writer and a knowledgeable student of plant and animal life. Although he did not personally investigate the geological features of the earth, his writings show an accurate understanding of the leading geological books and journal articles of his day. He was not opposed to the study of geology or the confirmed facts of its investigations. But he firmly opposed the old-earth interpretation of those facts, because such theories were irreconcilable with Scripture, and because the geological facts were capable of alternative, more logical interpretations consistent with a literal understanding of Genesis 1-11, as he sought to demonstrate.