Book Review: A Creationist Review and Preliminary Analysis of the History, Geology, Climate, and Biology of the Galápagos Islands
Year: 2007
Type: book-review
Abstract: thorough review of Darwin’s own writings on the subject, Dr Wood makes a convincing argument that Darwin’s visit to the Galápagos contributed to his acceptance of transmutation but not his ideas on natural selection. This is a striking claim because of persistent myths to the contrary. Chapter three gives a thorough, yet at times technical, review of the geology and climate of the Galápagos Islands. Dr Wood brilliantly applies the Catastrophic Plate Tectonics model of Austin et al (1994) to the specifi c geology of the Galápagos and concludes that the islands are entirely post-Flood in origin. The climate section of this chapter focuses on the extreme climate variations of the modern islands produced by the El Niño Southern Oscillation.
Author: Timothy R. Brophy
Institution: Liberty University
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1483165296