David Montgomery — Reading The Rocks: Flood Stories and Deep Time (Aug 1, 2013)

The push and pull between religion and science has shaped advances in geology from the beginning. Geomorphologist David Montgomery set out to debunk Noah’s Flood; instead he discovered this biblical story was the plate tectonics of its day. He tells us how the evolution of landscapes and geological processes shape ecology and humanity. And, how we should read rocks for the stories they tell about who we are and where we came from: "Geology really is, essentially, the scientific creation story. How did it really work? What can we tell from the nature of the universe around us that would inform us in our thinking about how we got to the place we are now? I think that really is central to our sort of view of ourselves as a species, our place in the universe, as well as sort of your personal relationship to the universe. What am I doing here?" See more at www.onbeing.org/program/reading-the-rocks/5851