Individually and collectively, through books, pamphlets, public lectures and debates, these creationists took their message to their constituents. The third major group, the Institute for Creation Research (ICR), was organized in 1970 with Henry M. Soon after The Genesis Flood was published, two of the major creationist organizations, the Bible-Science Association and the Creation Research Society, were formed. In it and subsequent books, the creationists have offered arguments to show that the earth is only six to ten thousand years old and that all forms of life were separately created. This book argues that the Noachian Deluge accounts for the geological evidence better than conventional geology. Some trace its origin to the publication of The Genesis Flood by theologian John C. Since scientific creationism represents a continuation of a long tradition, it is difficult to assign a date to its genesis. Its ambitious aim is to reestablish Genesis as the ultimate authority in geology, biology, and cosmology. "Scientific creationism" is the watchword of Bible-science. The alarmed Bible-scientists launched an attack on conventional science that continues to this day. Such ideas directly contradicted a literal interpretation of the first chapters of Genesis.
And finally, in 1859, Charles Darwin presented a huge amount of evidence that life on earth had indeed evolved, and he proposed a theory that accounted for the proliferation of life on earth in terms of natural processes. Secondly, geologists could find no evidence of a world-wide Deluge (the universal Flood of Noah). First, a mass of evidence had convinced most geologists that the earth was very old and that various forms of life had appeared (and most became extinct and disappeared) on it sequentially over a long period of time. Then they were confronted with a triple threat. By the early nineteenth century, most Bible-scientists had resigned themselves to living on a spherical earth that orbits the sun. In the last two centuries, flat-earthers, geocentrists, and young-earth creationists have adopted a label for their dogmas: "Bible-science." This term was embraced in nineteenth-century England, for example, by the flat-earth "Bible-Science Defence Association" and in twentienth-century America by the creationist "Bible-Science Association."īible-scientists have waged war on mainstream science. On scriptural grounds, some have rejected (and continue to reject) the sphericity of the earth, the Copernican system, and the evolution of life on an ancient earth (c. They have judged and rejected scientific evidence and explanations according to the standard of their own religious beliefs. Godfrey (Norton paperback, 1984)įor two thousand years, various groups of biblical dogmatists have tried to force the universe to fit their interpretation of Scripture. Schadewald in Scientists Confront Creationism, edited by Laurie R. General Summary-Application-Cui Bono"Parallax" And His Teachings.Young Earth Creationists, Geocentrists, and Flat Earthers The Evolution of "Bible-Science" : Young Earthers, Geocentrists, and Flat EarthersĪdapted from the chapter by Robert J.
Examination of the So-Called "Proofs" Of the Earth's Rotundity.-Why a Ship's Hull Disappears Before the Mast-HeadXV. The Earth's True Position in the Universe Comparatively Recent Formation Present Chemical Condition And Approaching Destruction by FireXIV. Cause of Sun Appearing Larger When Rising and Setting Than at NoondayXI. Cause of Day and Night, Winter and Summer And the Long altErnations of Light and Darkness at The Northern CentreIX. The Sun's Path Expands and Contracts Daily for Six Months AlternatelyVIII. The Sun's Motion, Concentric With the Polar CentreVII. The True Form and Magnitude of the EarthV. Experiments Demonstrating the True Form of Standing Water, and Proving the Earth to Be a PlaneIII. Zetetic and Theoretic Defined and ComparedII. This classic includes the following chapters: I.
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