This is the online edition of In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood, 8th Edition (2008), by Dr. Walt Brown. It is designed to be read online.
Copyright © 1995–2008, Center for Scientific Creation. All rights reserved.
Click here to order the hardbound print edition of this online book.
Final Thoughts
Before we examine the “grandest of canyons” in the greatest geological laboratory on earth, we should reflect on how the “Two Faulty ‘Principles’” described on page 176 produced centuries of confusion within the earth sciences. Without understanding the powerful events of the flood that produced global and massive liquefaction, one had to assume that the slow, relatively uniform events we see today operated throughout earth’s history (uniformitarianism), so each layer and its fossils were laid down sequentially worldwide over a long period of time (superposition). Therefore, without understanding that layers and fossils were rapidly sorted by liquefaction during the flood, people had to assume that vast amounts of time were needed for a “magically produced” single cell to somehow develop into all plants and animals (evolutionism). Correcting these errors, now ingrained in the world’s social fabric, will require a willingness by many to study, educate others, and follow the evidence wherever it leads.