the flood is in the book of genesis of the bible.
the flood is in the book of genesis of the bible.
what book of the bible is the flood in?
book of genesis
as a tactic to gain the same scientific status as evolution, flood geology proponents had effectively relabeled the bible-based flood geology of george mccready price as "creation science" or "scientific creationism" by the mid 1970s. at the crs board meeting in the spring of 1972, members were told to start using "scientific creationism", a phrase used interchangeably with "creation science"; morris explained that preferences differed, though neither was ideal as "one simple term" could not "identify such a complex and comprehensive subject." in the 1974 icr handbook for high-school teachers titled "scientific creationism", morris used the two-model approach to support his argument that creationism could "be taught without reference to the book of genesis or to other religious literature or to religious doctrines", and in public schools only the "basic scientific creation model" should be taught, rather than biblical creationism which "would open the door to wide interpretations of genesis" or to non-christian cosmogonies. he did not deny having been influenced by the bible. in his preface to the book dated july 1974, morris as editor outlined how the "public school edition" of the book evaluated evidence from a "strictly scientific point of view" without "reference to the bible or other religious literature", while the "general edition" was "essentially identical" except for an additional chapter on "creation according to scripture" that "places the scientific evidence in its proper biblical and theological context."
flood geology
historian of science michael d. gordin has called "the genesis flood" "one of postwar america's most culturally significant works about the natural world. it was read by hundreds of thousands, spawned its own research institutes, and remains absolutely rejected by every mainstream biologist and geologist." "the genesis flood" also "became a best-seller in the fundamentalist world and polarized evangelical opinion." in 25 years, "the genesis flood" went through 29 printings and sold more than 200,000 copies. an old-earth creationist book, written specifically to challenge young-earth geological theories, called the late twentieth-century revival of interest in flood geology "astonishing and perplexing," especially "in the face of increasing geologic and astronomical evidence for the vast antiquity of the earth and the universe." again, in the words of a critic, arthur mccalla, the growth in young-earth creationism occurred not because modern fundamentalists were more ignorant than in previous generations but because young-earth creationism "better defended a plain-sense reading of the inerrant bible than did the old-earth creationism of ramm and the earlier fundamentalists...legions of bible believers responded gratefully to whitcomb and morris because their system eliminated once and for all the need for interpretative contortions that twist and bend the words of the bible in order to reconcile them with the findings of modern science."
the genesis flood