In The Rocks Don’t Lie, David Montgomery looks to religious texts and local legends for clues about real historical events
WHEN a book’s subtitle mentions a geologist and Noah’s flood, alarm bells ring. Will this be creation science, peddling flood geology and ideas of a “young Earth”? Not in the case of The Rocks Don’t Lie. As head of the geomorphology group at the University of Washington, Seattle, David Montgomery is well placed to provide the scientific evidence underlying ancient tales of floods.
This book may not change the minds of any creationists, but with luck it may cause…
