William Buckland

William Buckland (12 March, 1784 - 24 August, 1856) was a prominent English geologist and palaeontologist who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur, a proponent of Old Earth creationism and Flood geology who later became convinced by the glaciation theory of Louis Agassiz.

Bridgewater Treatise

He was commissioned to contribute a section to the set of eight Bridgewater Treatises "On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation". This took him almost five years work and was published in 1836 with the title Geology and Mineralogy considered with reference to Natural Theology. His section was a detailed compendium of his theories of day-age, gap theory, and theistic evolution. In response computing pioneer Charles Babbage produced his "Ninth Bridgewater Treatise".

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Bridgewater Treatises "On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation" - 1836 - Charles Babbage

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