Controversy of the Ages: Why Christians Should Not Divide over the Age of the Earth by Theodore J. Cabal & Peter J. Rasor

Author:Theodore J. Cabal & Peter J. Rasor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Weaver Book Company

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1. Henry M. Morris, Scientific Creationism (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 1985), 255.

2. François Ellenberger, History of Geology, vol. 2, The Great Awakening and Its First Fruits—1600–1810, ed. Marguerite Carozzi (Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema, 1999), 341.

3. William Vance Trollinger, Creationism in Twentieth-Century America: The Antievolution Pamphlets of William Bell Riley (New York: Routledge, 1995), ix, xiii. Rimmer also advocated for a geographically local flood. J. David Pleins, When the Great Abyss Opened: Classic and Contemporary Readings of Noah’s Flood (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 47. See also Ronald Numbers, The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992), 99.

4. John M. Lynch, “Introduction,” in Creationism and Scriptural Geology, 1817–1857, 7 vols., ed. and intro. John M. Lynch (Bristol, England: Thoemmes Press, 2002), 1:x; and Rodney L. Stiling, “Scriptural Geology in America,” in Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective, ed. David N. Livingston, D. G. Hart, and Mark A. Noll (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 178.

5. Henry M. Morris, The Genesis Record: A Scientific and Devotional Commentary on the Book of Beginnings (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1976), 46.

6. Ronald L. Numbers, Darwinism Comes to America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998), 81; Thomas J. Nettles, James Pettigru Boyce: A Southern Baptist Statesman (Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R, 2009), 346–47.

7. Numbers, Darwinism, 52–53, 80–81. In the middle of the nineteenth century, the term “creationists” referred to those who believed God specially created every human soul at conception rather than its having been inherited from parents (traducianism). During anti-evolutionism’s heyday, the term probably languished due to so many versions of creationism. Ronald L. Numbers, “Creating Creationism: Meanings and Uses since the Age of Agassiz,” in Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective, ed. David N. Livingstone, D. G. Hart, and Mark A. Noll (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 235.

8. Lynch, “Introduction,” 1:x.

9. Michael Roberts, “Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873): Geologist and Evangelical,” in Geology and Religion: A History of Harmony and Hostility, ed. Martina Kölbl Ebert (London: The Geological Society, 2009), 161–62. See also Stiling, “Scriptural Geology,” 177–92.

10. Stiling, “Scriptural Geology,” 179.

11. George Fairholme, A General View of the Geology of Scripture (London: James Ridgway, 1833), 222, vol. 4 in Creationism and Scriptural Geology, 1817–1857, 7 vols., ed. and intro. John M. Lynch (Bristol, England: Thoemmes Press, 2002). See also John Murray, A Portrait of Geology (London: Relfe and Fletcher, 1838), 3, vol. 5 in Creationism and Scriptural Geology, 1817–1857, 7 vols., ed. and intro. John M. Lynch (Bristol, England: Thoemmes Press, 2002).

12. J. Mellor Brown, Reflections on Geology (Edinburgh: The Edinburgh Printing and Publishing Co, 1838), 17–19, vol. 1 in Creationism and Scriptural Geology, 1817–1857, 7 vols., ed. and intro. John M. Lynch (Bristol, England: Thoemmes Press, 2002).

13. Roberts, “Adam Sedgwick, 166.

14. Terry Mortenson, The Great Turning Point: The Church’s Catastrophic Mistake on Geology—Before Darwin (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2004), 202–203.

15. Fairholme, General View, 74. Penn was the grandson of Quaker founder of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, William Penn.

16. Mortenson, Turning Point, 75. Mortenson goes to some

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