Cedarville Magazine, Spring 2017

I grew up in a Christian home and was first attracted to geology when my eighth-grade Earth Science class took a weeklong field trip around Ohio collecting fossils. I went on that trip again the next year and was hooked; I wanted to become a paleontologist. A year later, I traveled to the Grand Canyon for the first time. I’ll never forget looking over the edge; I couldn’t believe something could be that big! I studied geology at Kent State University, where I first encountered potential challenges between my faith and geology. In a paper I wrote for my freshman honors English class on Darwin’s Origin of Species , I compromised. I tried to put evolution and millions of years within the Genesis account. I wasn’t happy with this approach because I knew Scripture didn’t clearly suggest such a view, but I didn’t know what else to do. I believed that both were true: conventional geology and Genesis, and so I tried tomash the two together. YOUNG EARTH FLOOD GEOLOGY IN THE GRAND CANYON by John Whitmore 10 | Cedarville Magazine