Studies in Flood Geology a Compilation of Research Studies Supporting

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Summary: Thoughtful, comprehensive, compelling.
Review: Young earth creationists are often accused of being unscientific or ignorning the facts. Anyone who says that has obviously never read this book. It is thoroughly scientific and carefully researched, drawing mostly from the general (non-creationist) scientific literature. A must-have for the serious student of origins issues (evolution/creation). The book convincingly refutes a large number of commonly-heard objections to the "young earth" creationist position, including:
1. explaining bio-geography by post-flood migrations
2. showing that there is not too much coal, oil, limestone, or too many vertebrate fossils, etc., to be explained by a young earth position
3. an extremely thorough study of the actual distribution of index fossils throughout the world with a creationist explanation for the "fossil succession" on a young earth
4. a well-developed case study on the stratigraphic distribution of cephalopods (molluscs, like the nautilus) showing how what is mis-interpreted as temporal succession (evolutionary replacement through time) is actually environmental sorting (animal buried in different layers because they lived in different places, not different times)
5. an explanation of how cyclotherms could have formed (and, indeed, must have formed) rapidly.
These are technical studies, but accessible to the serious layperson. There are only two things that I wish were better. Some of the articles are themselves compilations and contain a few points not thoroughly supported. More than that, I wish some of the articles were updated, but the author is busy with new research.
I own the book and I highly recommend the it, especially in the newly re-typeset version sold here.