TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gosse,Philip Henry
TI  - Omphalos
AV  - QH 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Evolution (Biology)
KW  - Creation
KW  - Bible and geology
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalos_(book); Release date is 2012-06-03; Produced by Mark C. Orton, Jana Srna, Josephine Paolucci
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
http://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot" by Philip Henry Gosse is a book written in 1857 that presents a striking theory about creation and the fossil record. Gosse argues that God created the world with built-in evidence of a false past—like giving Adam a navel despite having no mother. The book attempts to reconcile geology with Genesis by suggesting all fossils represent an illusory pre-existence. Though logically consistent, it was immediately rejected and ridiculed by both religious and scientific communities. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39910
ER  -