The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood write by David R. Montgomery. This book was released on 2012-08-27. The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How the mystery of the Bible's greatest story shaped geology: a MacArthur Fellow presents a surprising perspective on Noah's Flood. In Tibet, geologist David R. Montgomery heard a local story about a great flood that bore a striking similarity to Noah’s Flood. Intrigued, Montgomery began investigating the world’s flood stories and—drawing from historic works by theologians, natural philosophers, and scientists—discovered the counterintuitive role Noah’s Flood played in the development of both geology and creationism. Steno, the grandfather of geology, even invoked the Flood in laying geology’s founding principles based on his observations of northern Italian landscapes. Centuries later, the founders of modern creationism based their irrational view of a global flood on a perceptive critique of geology. With an explorer’s eye and a refreshing approach to both faith and science, Montgomery takes readers on a journey across landscapes and cultures. In the process we discover the illusive nature of truth, whether viewed through the lens of science or religion, and how it changed through history and continues changing, even today.
Noah's Flood
Noah's Flood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Noah's Flood write by William Ryan. This book was released on 1998. Noah's Flood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Basing their research on geophysics, oral legends, and archaeology, the authors offer evidence that the flood in the book of Genesis actually occurred.
The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health
The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health write by David R. Montgomery. This book was released on 2015-11-16. The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Sure to become a game-changing guide to the future of good food and healthy landscapes." —Dan Barber, chef and author of The Third Plate Prepare to set aside what you think you know about yourself and microbes. The Hidden Half of Nature reveals why good health—for people and for plants—depends on Earth’s smallest creatures. Restoring life to their barren yard and recovering from a health crisis, David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé discover astounding parallels between the botanical world and our own bodies. From garden to gut, they show why cultivating beneficial microbiomes holds the key to transforming agriculture and medicine.
Believing Bullshit
Believing Bullshit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Believing Bullshit write by Stephen Law. This book was released on 2011-04-01. Believing Bullshit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book identifies eight key mechanisms that can transform a set of ideas into a psychological flytrap. The author suggests that, like the black holes of outer space, from which nothing, not even light, can escape, our contemporary cultural landscape contains numerous intellectual black-holes—belief systems constructed in such a way that unwary passers-by can similarly find themselves drawn in. While such self-sealing bubbles of belief will most easily trap the gullible or poorly educated, even the most intelligent and educated of us are potentially vulnerable. Some of the world’s greatest thinkers have fallen in, never to escape. This witty, insightful critique will help immunize readers against the wiles of cultists, religious and political zealots, conspiracy theorists, promoters of flaky alternative medicines, and others by clearly setting out the tricks of the trade by which such insidious belief systems are created and maintained.
Dirt
Dirt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dirt write by David R. Montgomery. This book was released on 2007-05-14. Dirt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dirt, soil, call it what you want—it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations explores the compelling idea that we are—and have long been—using up Earth's soil. Once bare of protective vegetation and exposed to wind and rain, cultivated soils erode bit by bit, slowly enough to be ignored in a single lifetime but fast enough over centuries to limit the lifespan of civilizations. A rich mix of history, archaeology and geology, Dirt traces the role of soil use and abuse in the history of Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, China, European colonialism, Central America, and the American push westward. We see how soil has shaped us and we have shaped soil—as society after society has risen, prospered, and plowed through a natural endowment of fertile dirt. David R. Montgomery sees in the recent rise of organic and no-till farming the hope for a new agricultural revolution that might help us avoid the fate of previous civilizations.
