The principal of McGill University leads readers through the ages of the earth as geology then understood them, from the earliest rocks through the coal forests, the reign of reptiles and the rise of mammals, to the appearance of human beings. Dawson writes as a devout Christian and a critic of Darwinian evolution, reading the fossil record as a planned creation.
A document of Victorian science and faith in conversation, by one of Canada’s leading geologists. Download the free EPUB.