Let's Talk Creation

Episode 120: Scriptural Geologists: Creationism for over 200 years with Warren Johns

We often hear the claim that creationism is a recent theological error, but there have been young age creationists for most of the history of the church. In this episode, Todd and Paul chat with Warren Johns about the Scriptural Geologists, a group of creationists active during the earliest growth of the science of geology. Back before geologists were geologists, there were still creationists holding the faith! Learn all about them in this week's episode of Let's Talk Creation!Materials mentioned in this episodeJohns, Warren H. “Scriptural Geology, 1820-1860: An Essay and Review.” Origins, no. 62 (Jan. 1, 2008). Online link: https://www.grisda.org/origins-62042Johns, Warren H. “Scriptural Geology, Then and Now.” Answers Research Journal, vol. 9 (2016). Online link: Scriptural Geology, Then and NowMortenson, Terry. 2004. The Great Turning Point. https://a.co/d/9xeZ6i2Young, George, and John Bird. 1822. A Geological Survey of the Yorkshire Coast. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/title/44925.Haber, Francis. 1959. Age of the World: Moses to Darwin. https://a.co/d/hMgPjS4The list of Terry Mortenson’s articles on the scriptural geologists are found at the bottom of his biography hosted by Creation Ministries International.https://creation.com/en/people/dr-terry-mortensonNelson, Byron. 1931. The deluge story in stone: A history of the flood theory of geology. https://creation.com/en/people/dr-terry-mortensonMcIver, Tom. 1992. Anti-Evolution: A Reader's Guide to Writings Before and After Darwin. https://a.co/d/h0sFClc🏫Support Paul’s work at Biblical Creation Trust and the Cambridge House Project at https://www.biblicalcreationtrust.org/⛺Come to our Fall RetreatTheme: The FallSpeaker: Todd WoodGet Tickets here: https://coresci.org/smokies🔬📖Donate to Support the Mentoring of the Next Generation of Creation Scholars https://coresci.org/index.php/sanders-scholars/🔬Join Todd’s Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/researchreports🎁Give to the Core Academy general fundhttps://coresci.org/donate🎁Please consider supporting this work by going to https://coresci.org/connect or https://biblicalcreationtrust.org📫Send questions to podcast@coresci.org🎁Support the podcast by going to https://letstalkcreation.orgEmail us with comments or questions at: podcast@coresci.orgCheck us out on social media and consider donating to support this podcastCore Academy of Science Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/coresci.org Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreacademyofscience/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CoreacadInfo Website: https://coresci.org/ Biblical Creation Trust Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/biblicalcreationtrust Twitter: https://twitter.com/bct_origins Website: https://www.biblicalcreationtrust.org/For questions and comments email podcast@coresci.org Please consider supporting this work by going to https://coresci.org/connect orhttps://biblicalcreationtrust.org*Disclaimer: Things mentioned in the Show Notes are not endorsements of people, places, or things discussed in the podcast, but rather a record of what was spoken about and helpful links to material for our listeners.

Episode 119: Creationist Plate Tectonics??? With Sarah Peterson

Plate tectonics tells us all about how the continents are drifting along at a centimeter or two a year, ever so gradually reshaping the surface of the earth, remaking the ocean floor, and causing earthquakes and volcanoes the world over. But what if it went a lot faster? In this episode, Todd and Paul chat with geophysicist Sarah Peterson about the CATASTROPHIC version of plate tectonics that has become the leading model of how the Flood happened. Sarah walks us through both the basic concepts of tectonics and how Catastrophic Plate Tectonics explains even more than the slow, conventional version. If you've ever wondered how volcanoes, earthquakes, and continental drift fit in the creation model, this episode is for you!Papers mentioned in this episodePetersen, Sarah and Baumgardner, John (2023) "Catastrophic Plate Tectonics and the Tectonics of Western North America," Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism: Vol. 9, Article 33.DOI: 10.15385/jpicc.2023.9.1.54Available at: https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/icc_proceedings/vol9/iss1/33Austin, Steven A.; Baumgardner, John R.; Humphreys, D. Russell; Snelling, Andrew A.; Vardiman, Larry; and Wise, Kurt P. (1994) "Catastrophic Plate Tectonics: A Global Flood Model of Earth History," Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism: Vol. 3, Article 56.Available at: https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/icc_proceedings/vol3/iss1/56Baumgardner, John R. (1994) "Computer Modeling of the Large Scale Tectonics Associated With the Genesis Flood," Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism: Vol. 3, Article 15.Available at: https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/icc_proceedings/vol3/iss1/15Baumgardner, John R. (1994) "Runaway Subduction as the Driving Mechanism for the Genesis Flood," Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism: Vol. 3, Article 14.Available at: https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/icc_proceedings/vol3/iss1/14🏫Support Paul’s work at Biblical Creation Trust and the Cambridge House Project at https://www.biblicalcreationtrust.org/🎁Please consider supporting this work by going to https://coresci.org/connect or https://biblicalcreationtrust.org📫Send questions to podcast@coresci.org⛺Come to our Fall RetreatTheme: The FallSpeaker: Todd WoodGet Tickets here: https://coresci.org/smokies🔬📖Donate to Support the Mentoring of the Next Generation of Creation Scholarshttps://coresci.org/index.php/sanders-scholars/🎁Give to the Core Academy general fundhttps://coresci.org/donate📘Search the Core Academy Library https://coresci.org/library🎁Support the podcast by going to https://letstalkcreation.org🔬Join Todd’s Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/researchreportsEmail us with comments or questions at: podcast@coresci.orgCheck us out on social media and consider donating to support this podcastCore Academy of Science Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/coresci.org Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreacademyofscience/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CoreacadInfo Website: https://coresci.org/ Biblical Creation Trust Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/biblicalcreationtrust Twitter: https://twitter.com/bct_origins Website: https://www.biblicalcreationtrust.org/For questions and comments email podcast@coresci.org Please consider supporting this work by going to https://coresci.org/connect orhttps://biblicalcreationtrust.org*Disclaimer: Things mentioned in the Show Notes are not endorsements of people, places, or things discussed in the podcast, but rather a record of what was spoken about and helpful links to material for our listeners.

Episode 118: Churning up Deep Time: The Mystery of the Missing Burrows featuring Leonard Brand

Sometimes the fossil record preserves some really astonishing traces of past life, including footprints and even burrows! But how can there be burrows if the fossil record were formed by a singular, catastrophic flood? Leonard Brand wondered this very same question and set out to try to understand how much of a problem this really is. Todd and Paul chat with him about his research on fossil burrows and learn the shocking reality of the fossil record. There just aren't that many burrows at all! What does this mean for the flood or for long age geology? Find out in this latest episode of Let's Talk Creation! #creationism #creationscienceMaterials mentioned in this episodeBrand, Leonard and Art Chadwick. Faith, Reason, and Earth History:A Paradigm of Earth and Biological Origins by Intelligent Design, 3rd edition. 2016Hardcover: https://a.co/d/2VodNGjFree EPUB: https://cdn.ministerialassociation.org/cdn/eldersdigest.org/files/Faith,%20Reason,%20and%20Earth%20History%20by%20Leonard%20Brand%20and%20Arthur%20Chadwick.pdf Östring , Sven. Rising Waters, Enduring Faith: Investigating the Historical & Global Reality of the Biblical Flood. 2025.https://a.co/d/3IQcdAz Bromley RG. Trace Fossils: Biology, Taphonomy and Applications. 3rd ed. London: Chapman and Hall; 1996. https://archive.org/details/tracefossilsbiol0000brom 🏫Support Paul’s work at BiblicalCreation Trust and the Cambridge House Project at  https://www.biblicalcreationtrust.org/ ⛺Come to our Fall RetreatTheme: The FallSpeaker: Todd WoodGet Tickets here: https://coresci.org/smokies 🔬📖Donate to Support the Mentoring ofthe Next Generation of Creation Scholars https://coresci.org/index.php/sanders-scholars/ 🔬JoinTodd’s Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/researchreports 🎁Give to the Core Academy general fund https://coresci.org/donate 🎁Please consider supporting thiswork by going to https://coresci.org/connector https://biblicalcreationtrust.org 📫Send questions to podcast@coresci.org 🎁Support the podcast by going to https://letstalkcreation.org Emailus with comments or questions at: podcast@coresci.orgCheck us out on social media and consider donating to support this podcast CoreAcademy of Science Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/coresci.org Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/coreacademyofscience/ Twitter:https://twitter.com/CoreacadInfo Website:https://coresci.org/  Biblical Creation Trust Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/biblicalcreationtrust Twitter:https://twitter.com/bct_origins Website:https://www.biblicalcreationtrust.org/ For questions and comments email podcast@coresci.org Please consider supporting this work by going to https://coresci.org/connect or https://biblicalcreationtrust.org *Disclaimer: Things mentionedin the Show Notes are not endorsements of people, places,or things discussed in the podcast, but rather a record of what was spoken about and helpful links tomaterial for our listeners.

Episode 117: Tyrannosaurus rex: King of the Dinosaurs featuring Matt McLain

With yet another Jurassic Park movie in the theaters, popular attention once again turns to dinosaurs, so Todd and Paul made a dinosaur episode! Special guest and T. rex expert Matt McLain tells us all about these "tyrant kings." Where do they come from? What were they like? And most importantly, how can a creationist understand the place of Tyrannosaurus in God's good creation? Check out this latest episode to get the full scoop on T. rex, king of the dinosaurs! Materials mentioned in this episode Schweitzer, M., Zheng, W., Zanno, L. et al. Chemistry supports the identification of gender-specific reproductive tissue in Tyrannosaurus rex. Sci Rep 6, 23099 (2016).https://doi.org/10.1038/srep23099 Dinosaurs that did not die: Evidence for Paleocene dinosaurs in the Ojo Alamo Sandstone, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, GSA Special Papers By: James E. Fassett, Robert A. Zielinski, and James R. Budahnhttps://doi.org/10.1130/0-8137-2356-6.307 The Valley of Gwangi. Movie with stop motion by Ray Harryhausen.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Valley_of_Gwangi Fossils and the Flood by Paul Garner and Jeanne Elizabethhttps://a.co/d/4yG96BL Past Podcast episodeshttps://youtu.be/OgpNJpoJEOQEpisode 34: Dominion: How Creationists Approach the Jurassic World(feat. 3 PhD. Paleontologists) 🏫Support Paul’s work at BiblicalCreation Trust and the Cambridge House Project at  https://www.biblicalcreationtrust.org/ ⛺Come to our Fall RetreatTheme: The FallSpeaker: Todd WoodGet Tickets here: https://coresci.org/smokies 🔬📖Donate to Support the Mentoring ofthe Next Generation of Creation Scholars https://coresci.org/index.php/sanders-scholars/ 🔬JoinTodd’s Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/researchreports 🎁Give to the Core Academy general fund https://coresci.org/donate 🎁Please consider supporting this work by going to https://coresci.org/connector https://biblicalcreationtrust.org 📫Send questions to podcast@coresci.org 🎁Support the podcast by going to https://letstalkcreation.org  Email us with comments or questions at: podcast@coresci.org Check us out on social media and consider donating to support this podcast Core Academy of Science Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/coresci.org Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/coreacademyofscience/ Twitter:https://twitter.com/CoreacadInfo Website:https://coresci.org/  Biblical Creation Trust Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/biblicalcreationtrust Twitter:https://twitter.com/bct_origins Website:https://www.biblicalcreationtrust.org/ For questions and comments email podcast@coresci.org Please consider supporting this work by going to https://coresci.org/connect or https://biblicalcreationtrust.org *Disclaimer: Things mentioned in the Show Notes are not endorsements of people, places, or things discussed in the podcast, but rather a record of what was spoken about and helpful links to material for our listeners.

Episode 116: Who is Core Academy of Science?

When Todd isn't recording podcasts with Paul, what does he do all day? Find out in this episode as Paul learns all about the ministry of Core Academy. From scholarships to retreats to student mentoring, Core Academy is dedicated to training up a new generation of creation scholars. Find out more at coresci.org! Please excuse our sound quality, we are working to fix the issue.Core Academy of Science Important Links and Information⛺Come to our Fall RetreatTheme: The FallSpeaker: Todd WoodGet Tickets here: https://coresci.org/smokies🔬📖Donate to Support the Mentoring of the Next Generation of Creation Scholarshttps://coresci.org/index.php/sanders-scholars/🎁Give to the Core Academy general fundhttps://coresci.org/donate📘Search the Core Academy Library https://coresci.org/libraryContact Core Academy at info@coresci.org if you want more information about the holdings of the Core Academy Library. Many of our archive materials are not catalogued online yet.Materials includedThe Papers of Wayne FrairEphemera pertaining to the Scopes TrialEphemera pertaining to the movie and play Inherit the Wind🏫Support Paul’s work at Biblical Creation Trust and the Cambridge House Project at https://www.biblicalcreationtrust.org/🎁Please consider supporting this work by going to https://coresci.org/connect or https://biblicalcreationtrust.org📫Send questions to podcast@coresci.org🎁Support the podcast by going to https://letstalkcreation.org🔬Join Todd’s Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/researchreportsEmail us with comments or questions at: podcast@coresci.orgCheck us out on social media and consider donating to support this podcastCore Academy of Science Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/coresci.org Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreacademyofscience/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CoreacadInfo Website: https://coresci.org/ Biblical Creation Trust Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/biblicalcreationtrust Twitter: https://twitter.com/bct_origins Website: https://www.biblicalcreationtrust.org/For questions and comments email podcast@coresci.org Please consider supporting this work by going to https://coresci.org/connect orhttps://biblicalcreationtrust.org*Disclaimer: Things mentioned in the Show Notes are not endorsements of people, places, or things discussed in the podcast, but rather a record of what was spoken about and helpful links to material for our listeners.