This hardcover book edited by Martina Kölbl-Ebert is in excellent condition (like new). It was published in 2009 by the Geological Society London (Special Publication 310). Contributors mostly from the geological sciences but also from religion explore the relationship between geology and mostly Christianity from the perspectives of the shift from mythology to the European Enlightenment, The Flood and the age of the Earth, geology within religious organizations, geological clerics and Christian geologists, evolution, the history of creationism, and theology and creationism. Among the topics are explanations of the Earth's features and origins in pre-Meiji Japan, an amicable dissociation of geology and Genesis regarding the Biblical Flood and the geological deluge, studies by Jesuits of earthquakes and seismological stations, some Australian geological clerics of the 19th and 20th centuries, the scientific career of English Darwinian James Buckman (1841-84) thwarted by religious prejudi