question: Philip Henry Gosse argued that God must have created the Earth and what other affront to evolution?
answer: fossil record is not evidence of evolution
context: Title: Red-headed macaw
  Passage: The red-headed macaw or Jamaican green-and-yellow macaw ("Ara erythrocephala") may have been a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae that lived in Jamaica, but its existence is hypothetical.  Rothschild based it on a description which a Mr. Hill had sent to Philip Henry Gosse:
  Title: Argument from morality
  Passage: The argument from morality is an argument for the existence of God.  Arguments from morality tend to be based on moral normativity or moral order.  Arguments from moral normativity observe some aspect of morality and argue that God is the best or only explanation for this, concluding that God must exist.  Arguments from moral order are based on the asserted need for moral order to exist in the universe.  They claim that, for this moral order to exist, God must exist to support it.  The argument from morality is noteworthy in that one cannot evaluate the soundness of the argument without attending to almost every important philosophical issue in meta-ethics.
  Title: Sagartia
  Passage: Sagartia is a genus of sea anemones in the family Sagartiidae.  The genus was first described by Philip Henry Gosse in 1855 and the image is his painting of several species found in British waters included in his book, "A history of the British sea-anemones and corals."
  Title: Omphalos hypothesis
  Passage: The Omphalos hypothesis is the pseudoscientific argument that God created the universe recently (within the past ten thousand years, in keeping with flood geology), but also introduced false evidence that the universe is of great age.  It was named after the title of an 1857 book, "Omphalos" by Philip Henry Gosse, in which Gosse argued that in order for the world to be "functional", God must have created the Earth with mountains and canyons, trees with growth rings, Adam and Eve with hair, fingernails, and navels ("omphalos" is Greek for "navel"), and that therefore "no" evidence that we can see of the presumed age of the Earth and universe can be taken as reliable.  The idea saw some revival in the 20th century by some creationists, who extended the argument to light that appears to originate in far-off stars and galaxies.
  Title: Philip Manson-Bahr
  Passage: Sir Philip Henry (or Heinrich) Manson-Bahr, MA Cantab, MB BChir, MD, MRCP, FRCP (born Philip Henry Bahr, 26 November 1881 – 19 November 1966) was an English zoologist and physician known for his contributions to tropical medicine.  He changed his birth name to Manson-Bahr after marrying Edith Margaret Manson, daughter of the doyen of tropical medicine Sir Patrick Manson.  Following his father-in-law, he devoted much of his career to tropical medicine.  He was a Consulting Physician, and held high offices at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and at the London Hospital.  He was knighted in 1941.
  Title: Philip Henry Gosse
  Passage: Philip Henry Gosse (6 April 1810 – 23 August 1888), known to his friends as Henry, was an English naturalist and popularizer of natural science, virtually the inventor of the seawater aquarium, and a painstaking innovator in the study of marine biology.  The aquarium craze was launched in early Victorian England by Gosse who created and stocked the first public aquarium at the London Zoo in 1853, and coined the term "aquarium" when he published the first manual, "The Aquarium: An Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea", in 1854.
  Title: Twentieth Century (Alabama album)
  Passage: Twentieth Century is the eighteenth studio album of country music band Alabama, released in 1999 by RCA Records.  It produced the singles "(God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time on You", a collaboration with 'N Sync, "Small Stuff", "We Made Love" and "Twentieth Century", which respectively reached numbers 3, 24, 63, and 51 on the Hot Country Songs charts.  In addition, "(God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time on You" was the band's last top ten hit on the country charts.
  Title: Omphalos (book)
  Passage: Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot is a book by Philip Gosse, written in 1857 (two years before Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"), in which he argues that the fossil record is not evidence of evolution, but rather that it is an act of creation inevitably made so that the world would appear to be older than it is.  The reasoning parallels the reasoning that Gosse chose to explain why Adam (who would have had no mother) had a navel: Though Adam would have had no need of a navel, God gave him one anyway to give him the appearance of having a human ancestry.  Thus, the name of the book, "Omphalos", which means 'navel' in Greek.
citations: Omphalos (book) Omphalos hypothesis