Who we are; Why this web page exists

The founders of the Young Earth Creation club are a Christian family of the Reformed Presbyterian faith from Gahanna, Ohio. However, while we are the founders, we are associated with several others in Ohio and several other states.

This web site is a ministry for us and a way for others to have their scientific and biblical research featured. We work with other local and national young earth creation organizations to promote materials that refute evolution, and provide Biblical and scientific evidence that God created the universe, and that it is quite young (about 6,000 years old). Many of those who we work with and quote on our web site have strong scientific and/or theological credentials. One way to describe the purpose of this site is to think of it as a computer based training course. It's content rich, and intended to be a site you can spend some time in exploring many aspects of the creation/evolution debate. Also, because we lack the staff that some of the large creation organizations have, this site is more of a "self-serve" than a "full service" site. What that means is that we typically do not have the time to engage in lengthy e-mail discussions or debates.

We have five sons ages 20, 18, 13 and 8 and a 4-years and one daughter age 1.5. We originally had our two oldest children attending public schools. But after becoming alarmed at the increasing anti-Christian liberalism in the public schools, we started home schooling the three oldest children several years ago. A second motive for home schooling them was so that they could see and hear both sides of the scientific debate concerning evolutionism. For instance, we recently purchased a 12 video series of debates between various evolutionists and creation scientists. This will allow our oldest children to hear the scientific arguments being presented by experts on both sides. It is unfortunate that most public school children currently do not have the same opportunity. When our children were in the public schools, they were hearing only the arguments from the evolutionism perspective.

We see the scientific and religious battles against evolution as being waged on two completely different battlefields. One is the secular battle that deals primarily with ending the censorship of the scientific arguments and evidence against evolution in the public schools and the media. The other deals with the religious aspects of the debate, which is primarily concerned with Bible interpretation issues.

Like many Christians today, we believe evolution to be a false religion. Under the most ideal circumstances, we don't believe that any child should be forced to learn it, or any teacher forced to teach it. However, we realize that the reality today is that children are being forced to learn it, and teachers are being forced to teach it in the public schools. Since they are being forced to learn/teach it, we are working towards the goal of them at least being allowed to hear/present all of the evidence for and against it. If teachers who consider evolution to be a fairy tale have the academic freedom to present the mountains of scientific arguments and evidence against evolution, we believe in the long run that evolution will not survive as a viable scientific theory.

While we consider evolutionism to be a false religion, we personally feel that it can be helpful for children to hear both sides of the issue from a scientific perspective, so long as they are also hearing arguments from teachers who consider evolution to be a myth. There are three reasons for this.

"Christianity has fought, still fights, and will fight science to the desperate end over evolution, because evolution destroys utterly and finally the very reason Jesus’ earthly life was supposedly made necessary. Destroy Adam and Eve and the original sin, and in the rubble you will find the sorry remains of the son of god. Take away the meaning of his death. If Jesus was not the redeemer who died for our sins, and this is what evolution means, then Christianity is nothing!"

G. Richard Bozarth (evolutionist). From "The Meaning of Evolution," American Atheist (February 1978), page 30.

We suspect that a major reason that so many people are rejecting the Bible today is that they believe that "science" has proven the Bible wrong on the issue of origins (see some of our hate mail for evidence of this). And if the Bible is wrong on this issue, how can it be trusted on any other issues? Many well-meaning Christians have compromised with evolutionists in a misguided attempt to make the Christianity more acceptable to the lost world they're trying to lead to Christ. However, we believe this to be a serious mistake. The Bible is quite clear on the issue of creation, and these compromises simply do not hold up to sound interpretation of the scriptures. They are also in sharp contrast to the historical interpretation of the these Bible verses.

So what are you supposed to do if you're a pastor of a church, and you realize that evolution has become a serious stumbling block to people accepting the Bible. You can either dismiss the creation issue as a side-issue and ignore it, as many churches have done, or you can do as God tells pastors to do and refute the false beliefs it's built upon. But how can a pastor, or the average Christian refute a scientific theory that so many scientists "believe" in? After all, few churches are fortunate enough to have church members who are creationists, and who have strong scientific credentials. The problem that many pastors, scientific lay persons and churches in general face today is that while they're religious organizations, their main threat is coming from a secular, and often atheistic, agnostic and/or humanist scientific community.

One way lay persons can deal with this issue is to get familiar with, and promote creation materials that have been authored by people with strong scientific credentials. We are fortunate to live in a time where such materials are available in abundance. One reason this web site exists is to show lay persons that they don't need to feel intimidated by someone with strong scientific credentials when witnessing to them about this issue. While lay persons often cannot engage in deep technical discussions with people far over their heads scientifically, they can understand the concepts behind what's wrong with evolution, and what kind of evidence exists for creation. For instance, one doesn't need to know the inner workings of a bacteria to know that macroevolution has never been observed. One doesn't need a degree in physics to know that no scientist has ever observed matter creating itself from nothing, or a degree in biology to know that they've never observed life arising on its own from dead chemicals.

Lay persons can suggest materials for their highly technical friends or relatives who believe in evolution (or a compromise mixture of creation and evolution) to review. Someone who's seriously looking at the issue will review the materials. Someone who's just interested in venting and name-calling probably won't. We're not going to try to reinvent the wheel. There are already a lot of good materials available, and we want to set an example for other lay persons for how these materials can be used to witness to others. That's a major reason for the existence of this web site.

Another reason we decided to create this web site, and air the creation TV programs is to counter the evolutionist propaganda coming from the Columbus Dispatch. We've noticed that the Dispatch has allowed many evolutionists to promote their misinformation in their paper, but have not allowed any young earth creation scientists to present an opposing view. They've allowed a few token letters to the editor to be printed, but we've never seen any of the heavy hitters in the creationist movement allowed to write even a single op-ed article for the Dispatch as they often allow evolutionists to do. This in spite of the fact that scientific polls show that 81% of Americans favor teaching creation in the public schools, and some of the 50 surveys on creation show there are about 10,000 scientists in America who profess to be creationists, and who don't believe in atheistic evolution. Additionally, Ohioan's have inundated the Department of Education with e-mails and letters in an overwhelming show of support to end the censorship of the scientific evidence against evolution.

This media bias against creationists became especially apparent to me in May of 1997. After seeing yet another evolution propaganda story in the Dispatch, I called the editor of that section of the newspaper and asked him a few questions. I asked him why the Dispatch wasn't printing any opposing views to the evolution stories they were running. He cited a couple reasons. First, he said that he'd seen a story in the Washington Post that pretty much convinced him that evolution was true, and that creation wasn't. He then equated creationists with UFO enthusiasts, and explained that he couldn't allow every "fringe" group out there the opportunity to present their views in the paper. I'm paraphrasing what he said, but it's pretty close.

I was familiar with the Washington Post article he most likely was talking about. Answers in Genesis posted a response to the Washington Post article at this link. I then asked him if he knows how much evolution conflicts with the Biblical account of creation? He replied, and this is an exact quote, "I'm not a Christian." At this point I realized I was not going to get anywhere with trying to convince him to allow our side of this story to be told by those who can tell it the best. I did not ask him any more questions that I can recall. His bias against creationists and for evolutionists was obvious. But I must admit that I was left wondering, if he wasn't a Christian, then what was he, and how might it be affecting his decision to not allow Creationists the opportunity to have a say in his section of the Dispatch?

Since then, we have continued to witness a pattern of pro-evolutionary propaganda by the Dispatch, and we still haven't seen a single op-ed article written by a creationist scientist in that paper. We prayed about this and thought about what we as a family could do to help get the truth out about the lies of evolution, and that the Biblical account of creation in the Bible can be trusted. This web site and the creation TV programs were an obvious choice for us.

At this time, we feel that the best use of our time is to keep fresh information on the web site. Unfortunately, we do not yet have the resources to get involved in political lobbying, or to engage in a lot of e-mail debates with those who disagree with our position. When we receive requests to engage in debates, our best option in most cases is to refer those persons to materials that deal with their particular questions or objections. That way, they're getting the best information possible, and we are able to stay focused on getting good information out to the masses, while still having enough time for family and other obligations.

"I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. Faith, being belief that isn't based on evidence, is the principle vice of any religion.”

Dr. Richard Dawkins (evolutionist), "Is Science a Religion?" The Humanist, vol. 57 (January/February 1997), page 26

Our web site could not exist were it not for the hard work of others who have gone before us, and who's expertise we often tap into. We wish to especially thank the following organizations for the advice we've received from some of them, and for others their excellent materials and prayer support. Some of these organizations are familiar with us. Others are not; we've just used their materials and referred others to them. These organizations include: