PART 2:
The second is a book I recently finished (and shared here in the past): Carved in Stone by Timothy Clarey (Carved in Stone - Institute for Creation Research):
This was an excellent book to read. I highly recommend it to fellow YECs here. Here’s a quote from the excerpt:
Cultures around the world retain the memory of this great deluge, but secular geologists insist it’s a myth - there never was a global flood. But they’ve never looked at the rock record across multiple continents simultaneously.
Later in the book he makes this statement [emphasis mine]:
The megasequences tell the story of a single, progressive flood event that began slowly in the Sauk, peaked in the flood event Zuni, and receded in the Tejas. Each of the three continents shows the same general pattern. This is what makes these data so compelling. It is not just one continent that shows this pattern but three, and three that show it simultaneously. This is the strongest evidence I have ever witnessed in my 35 years as a geologist that indicates a global flood has occurred. How can anyone look at these data, these maps, and not realize it is showing the exact same pattern and timing of global flooding? This is truly compelling evidence of worldwide activity. It should be shouted from the rooftops!
So in this book, he did extensive comparison on three continents: North America, South America, and Africa, and found compelling evidence for the Global Flood. Not only was he able to build a compelling narrative of rock layers matching The Flood narrative in scripture, this pattern matched very well on three different continents. This kind of commonality in disparate locations reminds me of discussions on consilience. Why should the rock layer patterns on these independent locations match so well? It’s difficult to read this book and not look at the world through a global-flood view. I’m looking forward to him finishing the rest of the continents.
I know I’m not actually providing details from this book (and certainly not doing it justice), but I’m mentioning it, along with that previous interview, to highlight one thing:
I see a trend, or more like a TRAJECTORY:
Things have changed over the past few decades.
I’ve mentioned this before, but want to again: This personal account from Glenn Morton has been posted multiple times here in PS to try to show the limited amount of evidence for YEC:
What stood out to me was that his doubts about YEC grew stronger “by 1986”. That was a while ago.
Personally, I started following this topic in the 90s, and can attest back then the evidence for YEC was not as strong. But thankfully I had a “wait and see” approach.
Since then, I’ve seen a great increase in compelling evidence for The Flood (and an increase in YECs like the one interviewed above). And I truly believe there’s more coming. So to those out there still undecisive on YEC but leaning that way, this should be encouraging to you. I’m sure you’ve heard the adage: Science changes, scripture doesn’t. Global Flood geology is an example.