On Prehistory
I n my previous book, Science, Scripture and the Beauty of God , I sought to understand how the various popular theories of Natural History could be reconciled with the Bible. Until I took on that project, I was an adamant Young Earth Creationist because the Young Earth view was self-consciously formed by the contents of Genesis 1. I have shifted to now being what I call a “Who Knows” Earther because I think the language that God uses in the early chapters of Genesis is purposefully vague and could encompass Young and Old Earth Creationism as well as Theistic Evolution. But though I’ve become more neutral on the amount of earth-time it took God to create the universe in the 6 God-days that are spelled out in Genesis 1; and I’ve become open to the possibility that God’s command “Let the Earth Bring Forth” could speak to Him using a material process to bring about plants, animals and perhaps the material aspects of people (though I am sure to spell out that what makes man un...
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