Terry Mortenson — Blog — Dr. Tim White

Hugh Ross wrote that “many of the early Church Fathers and other biblical scholars interpreted the creation days of Genesis 1 as long periods of time.”[1] However, the Church Fathers endorsed a six-twenty-four-day creation to combat “Greek thought [that] included kinds of evolutionary and uniformitarian concepts even before the time of Christ.”[2]

For example, Lactantius (c A.D. 250-325), a rhetorician who tutored Constantine’s son wrote, “Plato and many others of the philosophers, since their ignorance of the origin of all things, and of that primal period at which the world was made, said that many thousands of ages had passed since this beautiful arrangement of the world was completed .... Therefore let the philosophers, who enumerated thousands of ages from the beginning of the world, know that the six thousandth year is not yet completed.”[3]

In the Foreword, Henry M. Morris writes “that there are many good scientific evidences pointing to special creation, a young earth, and the global Flood, and these have been persuasively advanced by creationist scientists in debates, seminars, and conferences for many years and with great results. But the compelling and definitive evidences are biblical, not scientific.” Why is this observation true? Because “No one has ever observed any genuine evolution taking place (macro-evolution) in the thousands of years of recorded history --- so it is certainly not a part of observational science (and real science should involve observation and repetition) .... Furthermore, despite certain disputable claims, no one has ever demonstrated an authentic evolutionary transitional series among all the billions of fossils preserved in the sedimentary rocks of the earth’s crust.”