THE HEAVENS DECLARE THE GLORY OF GOD!
Charles Lyell was a British lawyer and geologist who lived during the nineteenth century. He published a three-volume work called Principles of Geology, which promoted his ideas of an old earth, geologic ages, and uniformitarianism. This is the belief that the present is the key to the past. He believed that the slow and gradual processes we see today are the same processes that shaped our planet’s geology over millions of years.
Lyell outright rejected the Bible as God’s Word and rejected it as an accurate account of earth’s history. He actually wrote that he wanted to “free the science of geology from Moses.” Lyell was probably best described as a deist. He believed in a distant God who did not intervene in the Universe. Without a God, everything had to be explained naturally, and uniformitarianism gave Lyell a way to explain what we see in the world without appealing to God or His revelation to us in the Bible.
Lyell soon gained a young admirer—the naturalist Charles Darwin. While on board the Beagle, the ship that took him around the world, Darwin had copies of Lyell’s books and he says he “studied [them] attentively” and that they were “of the highest service to [him] in many ways.”
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Lyell outright rejected the Bible as God’s Word and rejected it as an accurate account of earth’s history. He actually wrote that he wanted to “free the science of geology from Moses.” Lyell was probably best described as a deist. He believed in a distant God who did not intervene in the Universe. Without a God, everything had to be explained naturally, and uniformitarianism gave Lyell a way to explain what we see in the world without appealing to God or His revelation to us in the Bible.
Lyell soon gained a young admirer—the naturalist Charles Darwin. While on board the Beagle, the ship that took him around the world, Darwin had copies of Lyell’s books and he says he “studied [them] attentively” and that they were “of the highest service to [him] in many ways.”
Darwin didn’t invent his evolutionary ideas... » Learn more
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