A New Look at an Old Earth

This is an excellent read for both the scientific expert, and layman alike.As other fellow Christians have expressed here, I am absolutely heartbroken at the level of damage which the fraud purveying "Young Earth" cult has done within the Christian church. Not only damage to the Christian witness and affirmation of absolute truth, but the creation of absurd and unecessary "stumbling blocks" which YEC'ers insist on placing in the way to faith in the Christian Gospel. All while using fraud, deception, anti science, phony credentials, untested and/or fully discredited arguments, false information, and an embrace of virtual gnosticism in their total denial of empirical reality.If the Christian community could somehow come together on this creation issue and focus on the battle against Atheistic Darwinism (which truly has a huge number of discrediting scientific problems)...instead of arguing over the age of the Earth and the Universe (which are simply not in dispute per any rational approach to the incontravertible mountain of undisputed evidence), then the Christian voice would have credible access to the "creation" debate. Within science, academia, the media, the educated unbeleiver mission field, etc etc etc.It is inexcuseable, that a book like this even needs to be written, but, nonetheless it certainly did need to be. Couple this book with Hugh Ross's "Genesis and Time" among many others, and you can rest once again on the firm foundation of reasoned faith, matching transcendant truth and matching physical reality. And put aside the absurd and discredited claims of the YEC cult. I don't understand how this book can be out of print now, considering the demand. Have to check with the publisher. I need several more copies to loan out and give away. This is the single and only topic area, where certain small elements of the Christian church have fully embraced the abomination of absolute deception, instead of embracing the light of general revelatory truth. As such, this battle needs to be fought, and fought well, (with the truth in the spirit of love).This YEC business is simpy a repeat of inquisition era Geocentrist type thought, which has no place in the arena of God's revealed truth. Come together brethren and let's unite around God's revelation, instead of ruining our collective witness by coupling it to pseudo scientific!

Many Christians blindly subscribe to young-earthism, never looking at old-earth creationism. The YEarthers continue to confuse Christians and turn away skeptics. "The world is only 5000 years old!" they so, no wonder they turn people away and confuse others! Read this book and remove this stumbling block from Christianity. Also check out Ross' "a matter of days" & "the genesis question" Stop the YECs and you will stop the skeptics!

This book fights the spiritual war against the "end-justifies-the-means" young earth cult. If you paid hard-earned money to send your children to a Christian school (as I have) only to have them exposed to hideous Kent Hovind videos, you will appreciate this book's clear exposition of the young earth fallacy. I never understood how World War II Germany could follow Hitler until the young earth propaganda machine deceived so many Christians. I hope others will join me in loaning a copy of this book to a young earth follower in their area. This book does a great job in challenging us to reduce the young earth following by taking a stand for God's truth.

For years, I held on to the YE position. I read Gish, Morris, Ian Taylor and a few others. As a YE, I equated an OE with evolution. An OE was a compromise in my mind. With that view in mind, I decided to read the book with much skepticism. Upon completion of the book, I walked away a believer of an OE!! Don uses an illustration that I feel needs mentioning. He demonstrates that God's Creation and His Word are revelations of Himself to us. Theology is the interpretation of God's Word. Science is the interpretation of God's Creation. Since both of them, Creation and the Bible, are created by Him a contradiction CANNOT occur. If there is one, we need to re-evaluate our interpretation, whether it is theological or scientific. As a Christian, I believe I had to re-evaluate my interpretation of the Bible. Just as Christians had to re-evaluate their stance about geocentricism, we must do the same with the age of the universe. There is too much evidence pointing towards an OE. I argued YE tooth and nail with my secular friends. In retrospect, I am embarassed I even used them. Don sheds light on YE arguments and explains how they are deficient. As a YE at the time, I stood in amazement that all of the scientists, geologists, anthropologists, astronomers, and etc. could be wrong about the earth (ie rock dating and fossils) and the universe. The earth, according to the Bible (my interpretation), was created in six 24 hour days. Don gives an alternative explanation for creation which I found enlightening (He does NOT support theistic evolution!!). He also explains how science uses carbon dating, potassium argon, and other methods of dating for rocks and bones in a way anybody can understand. This book is a must read for every Christian. As Christians we are to make disciples of every tongue and tribe. I sincerely believe that God was patient during His creation just as He is patient and long suffering with us. Let us not make the age of rocks the stumbling block for future disciples, but the Eternal ROCK we love to worship named Jesus Christ.

An excellant, well thought out book that gives, what I believe, to be a far more logical straight forward understanding of the Creation account recorded in Genesis. The author has succeeded in showing how the creation does indeed deomonstrate the incredible glory of God's eternal nature and attributes and how science does not need to be the enemy of Christianity that many have been led to believe it is. If nothing else, it'll make you set up and think instead of acting like a sponge; absording everything your told by Christian "leaders". Christianity is in dire need of more intelligent, critical thinking that a book like this inspires.