The Young Earth

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Summary: Excellant Science!!
Review: This is a well written scientific book that debunks the evolution and "old earth" myths. This is a book that you will want to read more than once and keep permanently in your collection. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is that the author left me wanting more. You won't be disappointed with this book. I would also recommend reading books by this author's father (Dr. Henry M. Morris).

Rating:
Summary: Excellant Science!!
Review: This is a well written scientific book that debunks the evolution and "old earth" myths. This is a book that you will want to read more than once and keep permanently in your collection. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is that the author left me wanting more. You won't be disappointed with this book. I would also recommend reading books by this author's father (Dr. Henry M. Morris).

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Summary: GOOD
Review: This is one book that really needed to be written. This is the only book I know of that deals specifically with the scientific evidences for a young earth. Dr. Morris presents the evidences in a clear manner and documents all of his research for further study. What I enjoyed most about this book was Dr. Morris' philosophy on science in the first few chapters. He clearly explains that it is not the evidence that he disagrees with, but the INTERPRETATIONS of the evidence. John also makes it clear that all of the "evidences" for a young earth are interpreted by fallible humans and should not be trusted dogmatically because science is always changing. Instead, he says that we should trust the authority of the bible, which is never changing, which clearly says that the earth is young. That is why I, along with many other creationists, fear for "progressive creationists" who are trusting the fallible ideas of man rather than the plain teaching of scripture.

Dr. Morris gives many of the classic arguments for a young earth, like the Magnetic Field, short-period comets, helium decay, etc. and does so in an easy to understand manner. Some of the material may require atleast a college level geology course to fully understand, but most of it is fairly simple. Skeptics may think that they have refuted all of these young earth arguments and thus declared them to be based on faulty assumptions, but what they fail to realize is that Creationists have offered rebuttals to all of the skeptic's objections. Most of these rebuttals can be found online(trueorigins.org)or in creationist journals(TJ).

Lastly, Dr. Morris dealt with the supposed "evidences" for an old earth and refutted them successfully. Many skeptics critisise creationists for dealing with areas that are outside the author's area of expertise, but this will not be the case here. John Morris is a PHd Geologist who has taught in Universities and published in secular peer reviewed scientific journals. Almost all of the scientific material in this book deals with Geology, so if anyone is qualified to have an opinion on this, it is John Morris. Overall, I would recommend this book to Christian and skeptic alike, but if someone wants a more technical approach to these evidences, look elsewhere, because this book was written for the laymen in mind. A better place to find this technical information would be the technical monographs that ICR offers(icr.org).

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Summary: young earth
Review: very interesting, doas not sound like a man of prior convictions like i thought these people to be of, i just don't see how this man came to belieive subsequantly that God had a son etc.