John C. Whitcomb studied at Princeton University and has a Ph.D. from Grace Theological Seminary. Henry M. Morris was president of the Institute for Creation Research, Santee, California. He studied at Rice University, obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, and served on the faculties of several major universities. John C. Whitcomb studied at Princeton University and has a PhD from Grace Theological Seminary.
"I have been privileged to have witnessed the rising biblical
creation movement for the past forty years and have seen it used
mightily by God to blossom into a major international force. The
movement not only has shaken the evolutionary, "millions of years"
establishment, but more importantly has equipped the church to
share our Christian faith with renewed boldness. The publishing of
The Genesis Flood fifty years ago is the recognized birthdate of a
movement blessed by God, and this classic work is also now
recognized as a monumental milestone in the fight against
compromise in the church and for biblical inerrancy in general
during our skeptical modern era. Finding a copy of The Genesis
Flood in an Australian bookstore and devouring its contents was a
key event that led me to join the modern biblical creation movement
in the 1970s. Drs. Whitcomb and Morris became real 'heroes of the
faith' for me. I saw them as giants in Christian apologetics."--Ken
Ham, BSc (Environmental Biology), President, Answers in Genesis and
The Creation Museum
"When The Genesis Flood was published it was the combined voice of
two courageous men crying, as it were, in the wilderness. They
dared to take a stand against the pervading compromise on the issue
of creation and the flood by robustly tackling head-on the
uniformitarian geological assumptions that underpin the secular
worldview on origins that had mesmerized so many Christians into
compromising the opening chapters of God's Word. Single-handedly
these men with this book kindled a fire that today is still raging.
Little did they know the global impact this book would have. Like
so many others I know, I read this book as a young Christian in my
teenage years when I was already a budding geologist, and it
totally resolved my ongoing struggle to reconcile the geology I was
learning in the secular textbooks with the true account of earth's
history in God's Word. Not only did this book convince me that
God's Word provides the only reliable basis for understanding
geology, but it was foundational in igniting my passion for and
calling into full-time creation ministry to uphold the truth of
God's Word and defend it from compromise, beginning at the very
first verse. This book remains a classic work that is a must-read
for those who would be informed and equip themselves both to stand
on the authority of God's Word in every area of life and knowledge
and to defend their Christian faith."--Andrew Snelling, BSc
(Applied Geology) PhD (Geochemical Geology)
"The Genesis Flood by Morris and Whitcomb is one of the most
important books of the past century. Prior to its publication in
1961, evangelicals were for the most part unprepared to answer
evolutionists' and modern geologists' claims about the antiquity of
the earth. Many blithely assumed that the days of creation in
Genesis 1 represented long ages; others held to the 'gap
theory'--the idea that vast eons elapsed between the initial
creation of the heavens and earth (Genesis 1:1) and the formation
of life as we know it (starting in Genesis 1:2). The Genesis Flood
showed why such theories don't do justice to the inspiration and
authority of Scripture. The book revived evangelicals' interest in
flood geology, demonstrating that most of the geological phenomena
usually cited as 'proof' of the earth's antiquity are better
explained as evidence of a catastrophic universal flood, as
described in Genesis 6-8. In recent years young-earth creationism
has come under heavy attack in evangelical circles again, and The
Genesis Flood is as timely, thought-provoking, and helpful as ever.
. . . A tour de force and a must-read resource for pastors,
teachers, scientists, and anyone who is troubled by the conflict
between the biblical account of creation and the ever-changing
claims of modern evolutionary theory."--John MacArthur, President,
The Master's University and Seminary
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