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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
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