Dr. Henry Morris has died
by KrauzeAccording to this article at Answers in Genesis, Henry Morris has died at 87. As a co-author of The Genesis Flood, Morris was more than anyone responsible for the birth of creationism, and as founder and president for the Insitute for Creation Research he kept the issue alive in the mind of the public.
I've never met Morris, but he still had some roundabout influence on me, as it was my opposition to creationism that led me to intelligent design. Years ago, I went to the local library, where I found a copy of What Is Creation Science?, written by Morris and Parker. I wasn't very impressed by the arguments, and as a young atheist who loved to argue, I soon found myself involved in discussions about evolution and creation on the internet. It were these discussions who would later lead me to intelligent design, which I found far more interesting that those arguments against evolution and an old earth which Morris and Parker had presented. And it was my interest in intelligent design which led me to the crew here at Telic Thoughts.
I'm sure thousands of stories could be told of good old Morris' influence. If he could see what his work had accomplished, I hope he would see the humor of it all and have a good laugh.
February 27th, 2006 at 9:57 pm
I was an old-Earth Darwinist in high school, but my senior year my pastor mentioned materials from Henry Morris's organization, ICR. I don't think it took me but a couple hours, and I became a creationist for ever after.
Oddly enough, I remained an old-Earth creationist for many years, and grew quite irritated with the ICR YECs who first enlightened me because of their dogmatism. But now, I am now quite symathetic to YEC.
Henry Morris made it possible for YECs to become respectable members of the modern, high-tech world. I hold out hope that many of his scientific ideas will eventually be vindicated by empirical science.
Thank you, Henry. God rest your soul.
Comment by Salvador T. Cordova — February 27, 2006 @ 9:57 pm