Before Darwin : reconciling God and nature / Keith Thomson.

New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 2005.

xiv, 314 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-293) and index.

Charles Darwin and William Paley -- An age of science, an age of reason -- Problems at home -- John Ray : founding father -- Difficulties with the theory, and the argument extended -- Fossils and time : Dr. Plot's dilemma -- Sacred theories -- Unfinished business : mountains and the Flood -- This is atheism -- Gosse's dilemma and Adam's navel -- Good and evil : concerning the mind of God -- Paley, Malthus and Darwin -- The beginning of the end -- Appendix: The account of creation in Genesis.