YOUNG EARTH CREATIONISM by Timothy L. Dane B. S., UNLV.
You can read a more complete summary of each person's experience — Ed Paul Smith Joshua Zorn Glenn Morton Hill Roberts — by clicking the source-link following each excerpt: Ed, a former young-earth creationist, outlines a problem and a solution: Creation science had become a passion for me almost from the day that I was introduced to it.
The dissertation reads like that of an 8th grader. gave it a quick glance over, basically it's just a rant against evolution and old-earth theory and drawing from the Bible and random scientific ideas to make his point. seriously, i know students that pull undergraduate papers out of their ass that hold more water than this. no wonder it wasn't released for peer review, it would be demolished!
Young Earth creationist argumentative strategy.. who had been a young-Earth creationist. He was taught that it was vitally important to defend the idea of a young Earth because that was based on a biblical chronology and if that was taken as metaphorical, then that would open the floodgates for thinking that everything, even the resurrection.
The Literal Interpretation of the Genesis One Creation Account by Rich Deem Introduction. Get out your Bibles and be prepared for a shock. You are about to read the Genesis creation account and see (probably) for the first time what the text really says. My only request is that you pray for spiritual guidance, since the Holy Spirit can teach us what our pride usually rejects. Holy Spirit.
Young-earth creationists seem to me to be so committed to what they take to be a literal reading of Genesis that they are bound to defend it regardless of what counter-evidence may emerge. But this is not something one can infer simply from the fact that they are have supernatuarlist commitments. Both naturalists and supernaturalists can attempt to insulate their convictions from.
Percival Davis is the co-author of two earlier books, both taking the young earth creationist view. He was the co-author in 1967 with Wayne Frair of The Case for Creation. He was the co-author of the later edition of that book with Mr. Frair, 1983, called A Case For Creation.
Book Summary. Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design presents the current 'state of the conversation' about origins among evangelicals representing four key positions: Young Earth Creationism, Old Earth (Progressive) Creationism, Evolutionary Creation, and Intelligent Design.