Sunday, August 18, 2013

Aug 19 Tip: Reading the Rocks and Deep Time

From Sounds True: "Reading the Rocks and Deep Time"

(The August 19 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace)

http://www.onbeing.org/program/reading-the-rocks/5851

The push and pull between religion and science has shaped advances in geology from the beginning. David Montgomery set out to debunk Noah’s Flood; instead he discovered this biblical story was the plate tectonics of its day. He tells us how the evolution of landscapes and geological processes shape ecology and humanity. And, how we should read rocks for the stories they tell about who we are and where we came from. 

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