The New Gospel

I trust it may be shown not only that there is no inconsistency between our interpretation of the phenomena of nature and of the Mosaic narrative [in particular, the Great Flood of Noah], but that the results of geological inquiry throw important light on parts of this history, which are otherwise involved in much obscurity … If in this respect, geology should seem to require some little concession from the literal interpreter of Scripture, it may fairly be held to afford ample compensation for this demand, by the large additions it has made to the evidences of natural religion, in a department where revelation was not designed to give information.