Mick Hartley

Here’s Dr. Emil Silvestru, a Romanian geologist now resident in Canada, and one of the speakers at the 2005 Creation Mega Conference:

‘Although philosophically and ethically I accepted a literal Genesis from my conversion, at first I was unable to match it with my “technical” side.’

However, email discussions with qualified creationist geologists, creationist books, Creation magazine and especially the TJ helped him realise what he calls ‘two essential things’:

1. Given exceptional conditions (e.g. the Genesis Flood) geological processes that take an extremely long time today can be unimaginably accelerated.

2. The Genesis Flood was global, not regional.

‘These factors were immensely important in my conversion and my Christian life. I am now convinced of six-day, literal, recent, Genesis creation. That doesn’t mean that there are not still some unanswered problems, but researching such issues is what being a scientist is all about.’

Jason Rosenhouse is reporting on the conference at The Panda’s Thumb.