Why I Am a Creationist
I became a creationist by observing the complexity of nature around us. I came to realize that everything is tremendously complex at both the micro- and macro-scale level.
I was taught the evolution of man in a Catholic high school, including that Piltdown Man was one of our ancestors—10 years after it was exposed as a fraud! But I really never had a chance or the interest to investigate whether creation was true or not. After graduating with an M.S. in atmospheric science from the University of Washington, I decided to look into the creation/evolution issue. At that time being a fairly new Christian, I was fully prepared to believe in “theistic evolution,” if I found that the evidence for evolution was overwhelming. Of course, evolution is believed as a fact at the universities. After investigating the issue, I was surprised to discover that there was hardly any evidence to back up macroevolution (molecules to man evolution). It was taken more on faith by believers in evolution. I also discovered that the evidence form biology overwhelmingly supports creation. Later on, I was pleased to find a reasonable amount of evidence for the Flood, but I soon realized that the amount of evidence for the Flood was too little. My curiosity of such a radical dichotomy was aroused enough to slowly become involved.
So, my interest in the creation/evolution issue grew from a curiosity to becoming more and more a passion. However, I have not been led to bash evolution, which is easy to do and many others are fulfilling that calling. I have been led to solve earth science problems presented to creationists by evolutionists.
So as of 2009, I have spent over 35 years doing research in creationist earth sciences, starting with an event related to my field of atmospheric science, which is the Ice Age. This endeavor led me slowly into many other fields of earth sciences, including geology, geophysics, glaciology, geomorphology, etc. So, I have slowly become involved in research on the Flood, including answering challenges to the Flood. My life goal is to develop a sophisticated model of the Flood by first gathering as much observed and experimental data as possible before developing a hypothesis to test.
I made an amazing discovery in research in that going backwards in time gave insight into previous events in creation earth science. For instance, the Ice Age provided information on the late Flood. Geomorphology, which is related to the late Flood runoff, gave information on early and mid Flood features in the sedimentary rocks, which are still under development.
