I'll probably be criticized for saying this, but the more I read of Morris's
writings, the less respect I have for the man. I honestly can't help believing
that he knowingly perpetuates falsehoods for (in his mind) the cause of Christ.
I think the YEC movement has a love-hate relationship with people like Steve
Austin and Kurt Wise. On the one hand, they have legitimate PhDs in science
which lends credibility to the YEC movement, but on the other hand they've
started coming into conflict with the old guard people (like Morris) since
they won't support some of the more questionable YEC apologetic arguments.
Then Morris retaliates by essentially accusing them of flirting with atheism
because they actually have the nerve to try to look at rocks (well, maps
according to Glenn's post, they haven't gotten to real rocks yet, but we
won't quibble) to try to answer geological questions. They should have
just stuck with Morris's interpretation of the Bible for answers.
Incidentally, placing the flood/post-flood boundary at the K-T boundary
would have some interesting implications...
- Dinosaurs died in the flood. This is the opposite of what other YECs
like Ken Ham and Gary Parker claim (that dinos rode the ark).
- All of the large extinct Tertiary-Pleistocene mammals (most people don't
realize how many existed) somehow developed after the flood (no earlier
fossils) and then experienced the mother of all explosive evolutionary
radiations.
- That leaves a period of time of mild climate between the flood (which
is represented by Tertiary flora and fauna) and the great ice ages of
the Pleistocene. I was under the impression that YECs called for ice
ages immediately after the flood.
In other words, they have a lot of work to do before they should have the
gall to call this stuff "science."
- Steve.
-- Steven H. Schimmrich KB9LCG s-schim@uiuc.edu Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 245 Natural History Building, Urbana, IL 61801 (217) 244-1246 http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/s-schim Fides quaerens intellectum