Download or read book Omphalos, 1857 written by Philip Gosse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gosse argued that fossils are not really the remains of creatures which existed. God had created the world in six days, but had made it look like it was already ancient, complete with the remains of non-existent pre-historic life. Gosse's work was popular with neither Christians nor evolutionists.