William Buckland | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-05

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00:01:09 1 Early life
00:02:37 2 Rejection of flood geology and Kirkdale Cave
00:06:50 3 iMegalosaurus/i
00:07:43 4 Marriage
00:08:49 5 The Red Lady of Paviland
00:09:50 6 Coprolites and the Liassic food chain
00:12:31 7 Bridgewater Treatise
00:14:32 8 Glaciation theory
00:16:24 9 Illness and death
00:17:30 10 Known eccentricities
00:19:04 11 Legacy
00:19:50 12 See also



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William Buckland DD, FRS (12 March 1784 – 14 August 1856) was an English theologian who became Dean of Westminster. He was also a geologist and palaeontologist. He wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur, which he named Megalosaurus. His work proved that Kirkdale Cave had been a prehistoric hyena den, for which he was awarded the Copley Medal. It was praised as an example of how scientific analysis could reconstruct distant events. He pioneered the use of fossilised faeces in reconstructing ecosystems, coining the term coprolites.
Buckland followed the Gap Theory in interpreting the biblical account of Genesis as two widely separated episodes of creation. It had emerged as a way to reconcile the scriptural account with discoveries in geology suggesting the earth was very old. Early in his career Buckland believed he had found evidence of the biblical flood, but later saw that the glaciation theory of Louis Agassiz gave a better explanation, and played a significant role in promoting it.