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After taking a hiatus, I am back to the task of reviewing Glenn Morton’s evidence for humanity extending back 5.5 million years, which is when Morton believes Adam and Noah lived.  In Does “Full Humanity” Predate Homo Sapiens? (Part 1 - Altars), I concluded that it was reasonable to consider Altars as evidence of humanity.  Even Hugh Ross uses that as a criterion for dating the beginning of humanity, though he only goes back 24,000 years.  Then, in Does “Full Humanity” Predate Homo Sapiens? (Part 2 - Neanderthals), I reviewed …

Well, I had posted some guidelines that I was going to follow during my review of Tom DeRosa’s “Evidence for Creation”, but I have not been able to follow them.  The problem is that, as it appears to me anyway, DeRosa is making comments about science that he doesn’t understand.  His approach appears to be to explain why the science is unreliable and cannot be proven.  Therefore, simply open the one true Word of God, and go from there.  To be honest, I am not enjoying this review.  I feel like I am watching my brother in Christ just shut himself off from all rational reason, and yet that is exactly what he thinks all Evolutionists (from Darwinian to Theistic) …

As discussed, here is a reminder of my ground rules: “Evidence for Creation” (Review) - Ground Rules for the Review
Because I believe DeRosa’s opening paragraphs exclude discussion of any viable form of Theistic Evolution…

I will weigh DeRosa’s anti-Evolution arguments as they pertain to Darwinian Evolution, separately from a (for lack of a better term) Geocreationist Theistic Evolution.
I will be weighing DeRosa’s pro-Creationist arguments as they pertain to Creationist theories in general, and specifically Geocreationist Theistic Evolution.
I am knowingly excluding all other specific Creationist and Evolutionary theories, though I realize there are other theories that are worthy of discussion.

“Why does the Same Evidence Lead to Opposite Conclusions?”

DeRosa’s …

(Lesson learned if you have a WordPress blog: This is my second writing of this.  First time, I was in the process of posting it.  I interrupted the publish however because I forgot to assign categories.  But, it had published enough already that it was showing up on the blog.  So, I then opened a second window to delete what was posted.  I then came back into my first window, picked my categories, and then published, and then whoosh.  The post was gone, and hitting the back button showed a blank post.  Apparently, I deleted my post out from under myself.  Argh.  I will never do that again.  As embarrassing as that is, I publish my stupidity so that …

In trying to weigh the evidence for a recent global flood, versus a prehistoric local flood, I recently came across a blog I was unfamiliar with, criticizing Glenn Morton for ignoring YEC evidence for the flood.  It seems that about 10 years ago, Glenn Morton wrote Burrows cause problems for the Flood.  It concluded that the burrows we see fossilized in the earth’s crust could not be explained by the flood.  8 years later, in 2006, John Woodmorappe wrote a paper addressing burrows and the flood, entitled Are soft-sediment trace fossils (ichnofossils) a time problem for the Flood?  So, I decided to review both papers and see what conclusions I could come up with …

I am about to do something risky.  I am about to evaluate the scientific evidence presented by Glenn Morton for the likelihood of Adam, Noah, and the flood being 5.5 million years ago.  The reason this is risky is because I do not have the scientific background to judge the validity of Morton’s evidence.  Of course, that hasn’t stopped me from evaluating other scientific positions, so why let it stop me here?

In my readings, I have now seen several critiques of his theory.  In my opinion, these critiques fall into two major camps.  Camp #1 is scientifically knowledgeable; often exceptionally knowledgeable.  They do not necessarily refute or misunderstand the existence of Morton’s evidence, but they do not think it proves …

Continuing my thoughts from Identifying a Reasonable Approach to Evolution and the Great Flood, I have to figure out how to take a position without requiring 3 more college degrees, to stake out some ideological territory and be taken seriously for it.

One of the challenges is figure out the proper place for experts.  Every expert says something different, and I cannot find one who can decisively answer these important questions we all have about the flood:

When was the flood?
Where was the flood? Was it local or global?
Was the entire human race killed?
Is the genealogy from Adam to Noah complete?  Is the genealogy from Noah to Abram complete?

Let me address these …

When I first started the Geocreationism blog, I already had a theory for many of the Genesis 1 events… and I have posted on most of it.  Not much of my theory has changed thankfully, though further study has caused some adjusting here and there.  Admittedly, I have never been certain on how to account for the Great Flood, but that hasn’t stopped me from posting through Day 5.  I must say however that Day 6 is another matter, because unlocking the time, place, and scope of the flood can impact the believed time frame of Adam’s existence, not to mention ones understanding of Abram’s genealogy back to Noah and then Adam, as well as other critical events recorded or implied in Genesis.

Now, …