Creationism - National Center for Science Education

Christianity, then emigrated to Canada where he became an ardent creationist after
hearing Henry Morris speak. He founded the Creation Science Association of Ontario
before moving to California, where he works as an engineer, and has presented at
national creation conferences.
LIBERAL-CONSERVATIVE SPECTRUM OF BIBLE-SCIENCE BELIEFS
Fundamentalist Bible-science includes various beliefs and doctrines which can be
arranged in a spectrum from the most narrowly literalist and reactionary to the
(relatively) liberal. Old-earth creationists of various sorts constitute the “liberal” wing of
creationism. Strict young-earth creationists occupy the middle; even more conservative
are the geocentrists, with flat-earthers on the extreme right. All these Bible-science types
insist that the Bible is inerrant in the realm of science as well as religion, and that these
doctrines are straightforward readings of Scripture. Each type advocates the Biblescience
doctrines of those to their left, but insists that they have not gone far enough.
Old-earth creationists reject evolution because the Bible plainly teaches creationism, but
young-earth creationists further insist that it clearly teaches recent creation in six literal
days. Geocentrists reject evolution just as strenuously as other creationists, but argue that
for these same reasons we should accept geocentricity, which the Bible clearly
presupposes. Each type also argues that Bible-scientists to their right on the spectrum are
mistakenly trying to force literal interpretations on passages which are obviously
metaphorical or phenomenological. Recall that fundamentalist Bible-scientists insist that
the Bible is wholly inerrant, but all admit that some passages cannot be taken literally.
Those on the conservative end of the spectrum are more thorough-going literalists than
those on the liberal end.
Creationists, of course, have gained widespread public recognition and support
(though most people mistakenly assume that all creationists are young-earthers), but
geocentrists constitute a large and growing minority among creationists. Walter Lang,
long-time head of the Bible-Science Association, is sympathetic to geocentrism. Harold
Armstrong, editor of the Creation Research Society Quarterly from 1973 to 1983, is a
geocentrist. Modern geocentrist creationists advocate the Tychonian system rather than
the Ptolemaic. Tycho Brahe converted Copernicus’s heliocentric system back to
geocentrism by conceding that the planets all revolved around the sun, but insisted that
the sun revolved around the earth, which remained motionless in the center.
Gerardus Bouw, who has a Ph.D. in astronomy from Case Institute of Technology
(now Case-Western) and now teaches computer science at Baldwin-Wallace College in
Ohio, is editor of the Bulletin of the Tychonian Society, a geocentrist journal. The
Society’s Statement of Belief reads:
The Tychonian Society holds that the only absolutely trustworthy information about the origin and purpose
of all that exists and happens is given by God, our Creator and Redeemer, in His infallible Word, the Bible.
All scientific endeavor which does not accept this Revelation from on High without any reservations,
literary, philosophical or whatsoever, we reject as already condemned in its unprovable first assumptions.
We believe that Creation was completed in six twenty-four hour days and that the world is not older than
about six thousand years, but beyond that we maintain that the Bible teaches us an Earth that cannot be
moved...and hence absolutely at rest in the centre of the Universe.