In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood (8th Edition) Hardcover – December 1, 2008

(1) Dr. Walter Brown is a highly qualified creation scientist who received his Ph.D. from MIT and was a professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy. His book “In The Beginning” is excellent, well researched and well documented. I recommend this book very much, and I encourage everyone to read it – it’s also available online on his creationscience.com website. Dr. Brown uses clear scientific evidence from all over the earth to support the theory of a young earth/universe as well as the geographically universal Flood of Noah. Many of his scientific predictions, based on his “Hydroplate Theory,” have already been verified by recent scientific discoveries (documented in his book). Dr. Brown was actually an evolutionist for much of his life, and then, after years of study, he became convinced of the scientific validity of creation science and a global flood. Some of his debates against atheists and evolutionists are available on YouTube.----As Dr. Brown clearly demonstrates in his book, scientific evidence is actually against the big bang theory of cosmic evolution. For scientists themselves admit that, according to the laws of physics and the scientific evidence they have, there is no way that galaxies, nebulae, stars and planets could have formed and developed in the universe. The reason is because there is simply not enough mass/matter in the universe to have provided the gravitational forces and effects necessary to pull matter together to form into stars and galaxies. Scientists say that only 15% - 20% of the necessary matter is present; the other 80% is missing. It’s not there.----To solve this dilemma, scientists invented a fictional substance called “dark matter,” i.e., matter that must be there, but is invisible, undetectable and cannot be found. It’s an unknown substance which emits no light, heat, radio waves, nor any other kind of radiation. Scientists say that the presence of dark matter can be “inferred” from the gravitational pull it exerts on visible matter, because “something” must be there holding the universe together for the last 13.7 billion years.----But scientists were faced with another dilemma. In 1998, a shocking discovery was made and confirmed: the universe’s expansion is not decelerating as was previously thought. Rather, it is accelerating. Therefore, to protect their Big Bang theory once again, scientists invented another fictional substance called “dark energy,” which overpowers the gravitational forces of dark matter and continually accelerates stars and galaxies away from each other—but they don’t know how or why.----Neither dark matter nor dark energy has been seen or measured, even with the world’s best telescopes and most sophisticated experiments. Scientists say they are not able to test, prove or disprove their theories / explanations of dark matter, dark energy, the Big Bang, etc., but they must be taken on faith. Well, this is not true science, but rather science fiction and fantasy (like Star Trek’s “fluidic space” and “sub-space”), because true science is based on clear evidence. To say we must “believe” in invisible, unproveable substances that have no evidence of existence would turn science into a “religion of scientism.”---- To defend their position, scientists often respond by saying, “Just because there is no evidence yet to prove the existence of dark matter, it doesn’t mean there isn’t any; we just haven’t discovered it yet; science is still discovering and learning new things all the time!” However, this is the same kind of false argument used by evolutionists to defend the so-called “missing link” between apes and man. The real reason why a “missing link” hasn’t been discovered is because it doesn’t exist.----Also, in Science Daily we read: “Dark matter makes up 83 percent of all matter in the universe and does not interact directly with electromagnetic or strong and weak nuclear forces. Light does not bounce off of it, and ordinary matter goes through it with only the feeblest of inter-actions. Essentially invisible, it has been termed dark matter, yet its interactions with gravity produce striking effects on the movement of galaxies and galactic clusters.” (See the article: “New Theory of Stealth Dark Matter May Explain Universe's Missing Mass,” Sept. 24, 2015).----However, this kind of reasoning is a "circular argument" which fails to prove anything. For it basically says: “The Big Bang theory is true because dark matter has enabled the cosmic evolution of stars and galaxies over billions of years; and dark matter is true because, according to the Big Bang theory, the universe has evolved into stars and galaxies over billions of years” – or more simply stated: “The Big Bang theory is true because of dark matter, and dark matter is true because of the Big Bang theory.”----For this reason, some modern scientists are beginning to admit that dark matter (or missing matter) may not exist: “Of all the many mysteries of modern astronomy, none is more vexing than the nature of dark matter. Most astronomers believe that large quantities of some unidentified material pervade the universe... Yet this dark matter has eluded every effort by astronomers and physicists to bring it out of the shadows. A handful of us suspect that it might not really exist, and others are beginning to consider this possibility seriously.” (See: Mordehai Milgrom, “Does Dark Matter Really Exist?” Scientific American, Vol. 287, August 2002, p. 43).(2) Dr. Brown points out (on p. 37): “For the last 150 years, the age of the Earth, as assumed by evolutionists, has been doubling at roughly a rate of once every 15 years. In fact, since 1900 this age has multiplied by a factor of 100! Evolution requires an old earth, an old solar system and an old universe. Nearly all informed evolutionists will admit that without billions of years, their theory is dead... Actually, most dating techniques indicate that the Earth and solar system are young.”----With regard to Creation Science and a young universe, St. Thomas Aquinas gives the main reason why God can create the universe in a highly developed condition without the need of long periods of time to form into stars, galaxies and planets. He says: “God produces being in act out of nothing, and can, therefore, produce a perfect thing in an instant, according to the greatness of His power” (STh, I,66,1,2). This principle applies to all being, whether cosmic, chemical or biological. Thus, if God created the universe this way, then even though it would have the physical perfection and development of an ancient universe, it would actually be very young.----For example, the light produced by stars and galaxies would have extended great distances quickly across the universe without the need of millions/billions of years. Thus, we read in Isaiah 44:24: “I, the Lord, am the Maker of all things, stretching out the heavens by Myself, and spreading out the earth all alone.” (See also Isaiah 45:12). Similarly, the human body of Adam and Eve, along with the formation and development of the brain, vital organs, etc., did not need the normal 25-30 years necessary for development from an embryo to adulthood. Then, once God’s work of creation was finished and He rested on the “seventh day,” the universe—with its cosmic, chemical and biological perfection—would simply continue in its existence and operation according to the normal Laws of Physics established by God.(3) Big Bang / cosmic evolution is also contrary to sound philosophical principles. According to the Big Bang theory, all the natural forces / causes of the universe, e.g., matter, energy, atoms, molecules, gases, gravity, electricity, magnetism, etc., have the ability, by their own natural powers and capacities, and guided solely by the laws of physics (thus excluding any causality from God), to form and develop themselves into the complex order and design of galaxies, stars and planets. However, the logical conclusion of this position is that order comes from chaos, i.e., the intelligent order and design of the universe is produced by non-intelligent blind forces. But this is impossible and irrational, since order is not a result of chance but of intelligence. (Interestingly, the phrase “order from chaos” is the motto of the 33rd degree of Freemasonry).----With regard to our solar system, even Isaac Newton, in his Principia Mathematica, declares: “Though these bodies [planets] may indeed continue in their orbits by the mere laws of gravity, yet they could by no means have at first derived the regular position of the orbits themselves from those laws… This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.”(4) Even the “theistic” form of cosmic evolution, which says that God created the Big Bang and then guided / pre-programmed cosmic evolution for billions of years, is impossible. The reason is because God’s natural causality only moves secondary causes according to their natural mode of operation. As St. Thomas Aquinas says: “Whatever is received is received according to the mode of the receiver.” But secondary causes of the universe, i.e., matter and energy, atoms, molecules, gases, gravity, etc., are non-intelligent and blind forces by nature. Thus, the natural motion they receive from God does not move them towards complex order and intelligent design. It’s true that they possess a certain degree of intrinsic design (e.g., atomic structure, ordered mode of operation, etc.), but scientific evidence shows that they are not naturally predetermined, pre-programmed or “fine-tuned” to act intelligently and develop into the complex and beautiful design we see in the universe.----Consequently, even though secondary causes can produce various effects with beauty and simple design (e.g., the formation of mountains, landscapes, oceans, lakes and rivers, waterfalls, the Grand Canyon, etc.), they cannot organize themselves and develop into the complex order and design of stars, galaxies and planets without the direct and special causality of God. This supernatural/special action of God is precisely His “six-day” work of creation and formation of all things in the universe, as revealed in Genesis and explained by St. Thomas Aquinas and the Fathers of the Church.

Author Walt Brown covers "Compelling Evidence..." in great detail in his book of 447 pages, divided into three Parts with many technical notes and detailed indexes. In Part I, he lays out his "Scientific Case for Creation", with 50 pages of Life Sciences and 43 pages of Earth Sciences. With over 260 references and notes in Part I alone, he builds a very strong case for Creation. The eight central sections of this amazing book (Part II) beginning at page 105 constitute the heart of Brown's Flood thesis. The Flood began when a crack split the Earth's crust at a location probably between Alaska and what is now the North Pole, from which jetted the "Fountains of the Great Deep." In hours, this crack completely encircled the globe and these immensely powerful jets shot great distances above the Earth. The violent rains and hail lasting 40 days were the major source of the catastrophic waters that overwhelmed our planet at the time of Noah. The roughly 10-mile-thick crusts of the Earth are considered to be "hydroplates" that (lubricated by super-critical water) rapidly moved by the force of gravity to slide many hundreds of miles away from the upward-buckling Mid-Atlantic ridge. With the rigor typical of an engineer who is Bible-centered, Brown covers these details in 210 pages of extremely interesting text, illustrated with 122 expertly crafted figures and 14 tables. Scientific principles are explained in more than 15 equations for readers who desire mathematical detail. He refers to 679 publications, elaborate notes and Biblical passages, to explain intricate effects of gravity, hydrodynamics and electrical phenomena. A critical reader is carefully led through principles of geology, frictional heating, flash cooling and freezing of large objects (mammoths and other beasts), and quite a bit of astronomy, including tidal forces between large bodies of the solar system. Brown, probably a polymath, succeeds as a bold mentor to teach the reader how the Earth was blasted by the "Mabbul" (Hebrew word). The present processes already familiar to an engineer, such as earthquakes, mountain building, and liquefaction of settled sediments, carbonate chemistry (limestone), and angular momentum have rapidly shaped the waters and stones of our planet in the last few millennia. But few readers will probably have envisioned before reading Brown's book how awe-full the catastrophic Mabbul was - and how a carefully constructed Ark saved a remnant of the originally created air-breathing creatures and mankind while they were sequestered for 375 days. There are many questions that arise as a careful student considers what such a Mabbul calamity entails: What caused it? Where did the water come from - and where did it finally go? What is the origin of the Mid-Atlantic ridge? What formed the deep ocean trenches in the Pacific? How did the Pacific "Ring of Fire" form? And how do volcanoes form? How did the marvelous structures around the world and in the US southwest form (Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Zion Park, and many others? What caused dramatically high mountain ranges to form on Earth? What about the pure silica sand beaches near Bryce Canyon and even in Illinois? Can you explain the "Riddle of the Frozen Mammoths"? And is any of this related to the astronomical phenomena of comets, asteroids, meteorites, and perhaps water erosion on presently arid planet Mars? These are a sampling of the many questions for which Brown provides rigorous answers in this excellent book. Finally, Part III consists of "Frequently Asked Questions". Brown carefully answers these questions in 98 pages and covers many other details in his carefully written book, "In The Beginning..." He provides engineering answers to the amazing six-chapter Genesis account of the Biblical Flood. It is an exciting story of a time when, by the grace of God, only a few of our forebears survived the worst known physical calamity on Earth. NBrockmeier, PhD Chem Eng, MIT 1967

This is actually my second copy of this book. I made the mistake of loaning my first copy out and never got it back. It is a must-have with fabulous documentation explaining from a science perspective many of the "mysteries" of the Bible, while remaining in perfect harmony with the Bible itself. I share the information contained within this book whenever a good opportunity arises. Lots of people are interested, and it makes them think!Since it is now out of print, I purchased a "used, very good" copy. As I have come to expect from Amazon, delivery was on time and the book is indeed nearly mint condition!

I cannot speak too highly of this book. It covers in remarkable detail all aspects of the great flood and the technicalities of how it happened, about which its author is exceptionally well qualified to write. He covers the geophysical, biological, and cosmological aspects in sufficient detail to give the reader every confidence that he knows what he is talking about, and he appends comprehensive FAQ and technical reference sections which must surely cover any and all questions ever likely to be encountered! The book is also very well printed and bound, which for a book on this subject today is sadly unusual, and all at a very attractive price. This book should be in the hands, hearts, and minds of everybody involved in teaching the truths of Biblical creation. I believe it to be unsurpassed in its field.

I couldn't put this book down. Like most people, I believed what I was taught in school and read in books was cut and dried when it came to evolution, the age of the Earth and the universe, etc. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that not only could the biblical version of creation and the flood be explained scientifically by evidence in nature but that this evidence is so compelling that it can't be ignored. It turned me from a believer in evolution to a serious doubter. It's like a whole new world has opened up to me and I diinetely want to learn moreabout creation science.

Excellent evidence showing evolution is establishment lies and brainwashing still in full flow with the likes of attenborough and the BBC not to mention our esteemed educational and research establishments which are completely compromised by satanic money. What is not given enough exposure are the miracles in nature where animal, insect and plan t organisation and behaviour are beyond their "mental" capacities. He also does not expose the evidence for a flat earth which is also suppressed by the establishment. Why does the establishment go to such lengths to conceal evidence for intelligent creation? Because God created everything and knows everything about everyone and once you know that he protects you, you become powerful and if you live by his standards you receive eternal life. For truth read the KJV Bible.

Gave this book to a friend of mine, a teacher in high school. He holds a Master's in chemistry and was a self proclaimed agnostic and believed only in evolution. In less than a month, not only was he convinced that God was the creator, but the material in the book provided him all that he needed to demonstrate to the students in the classroom that only creation is a viable model based on science. I highly recommend this book.

The information in this book is written in a language that can be understood with only a basic understanding of physics. It has answers that conform with the Word of God, and the solutions to many problems are supported with good arguements. I plan to reread the book in another month - I have just completed the first reading, and I know I will get more from the second reading. I will recommend the book to anyone interested in science supporting creation!