It seems I owe Ken Keathley an apology.
In Ken Keathley and the cancer of compromise, I stated that
“Old-earth creationists seem to have an obsession with [George McCready] Price and over-emphasize his influence upon those of us who actually believe that God created the universe in six days, and that the global flood was actually, well, global.”
Ken Keathley is at it again. His latest blog post, “The Extent of Noah’s Flood: the Geological Evidence (Part 1)”, is an excerpt from the book he coauthored with Mark Rooker, 40 Questions about Creation and Evolution. I addressed some of the major concerns with the book in a review for Journal of Creation (see Irreconcilable records of history and muddled methodology). But even with a relatively high upper limit of 3000 words, I could only scratch the surface of the book’s problems. Keathley’s July 13th 2018 post provides an opportunity to make some further commentary on old-earth creationism.
Controversy of the Ages (2017) by Theodore J. Cabal and Peter J. Rasor II has been praised by various Christian scholars and displays some noteworthy endorsements. The book is, for the most part, another episode of old-earth creationists rebuking those who insist that the biblical creation narrative be taken literally (while out of the other side of their mouths offering an interpretation that amounts to little more than a condescending, ‘let’s just agree to disagree’). Continue reading…