Episode 1: Lost in the Flood (Young Earth Creationism)
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Sectstra Credit is a Sects Ed side project that we plan to produce periodically to profile individual religious figures and facets of faiths. For our inaugural episode, we collaborated with the Activist History Review, an online publication dedicated to the simple principle that the past is relevant to the present. First, we wrote an article about the fundamentalist Christian belief in young Earth creationism. You can check it out on their website here. We also recommend reading a complementary piece on the political workings of the fundamentalist Christian right by historian Charles Richter here. We then sat down with Cory James Young, media editor of TAHR, to discuss the history of young Earth creationism and intelligent design in the United States. If you have not already listened to that conversation, you can do so here.
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In writing our article, we consulted the following primary and secondary sources:
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Primary Sources
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Ham, Ken. "The End of an Era, But..." Answers in Genesis, April 1, 2006. URL (accessed June 15, 2017).
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Ham, Ken. "'I Got Excited at Mount St. Helens,'" Answers in Genesis, June 1, 1993. URL (accessed June 15, 2017).
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Mauk, Sally. "U.S. House Candidate Greg Gianforte on Public Lands, Trump, Social Issues, and More," Montana Public Radio, April 17, 2017. URL (accessed June 15, 2017).
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Morris, ​Henry M. "Design Is Not Enough!" Acts and Facts 28, no. 7 (1999). Available online here.
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Price, George McCready. The New Geology. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1923. Available online here. ​
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Whitcomb, John C., and Henry M. Morris. The Genesis Flood: The Biblical Record and Its Scientific Implications. Phillipsburg, NJ: P and R Publishing, 2011. Sample available online here. ​
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White, Ellen G. Spiritual Gifts: Important Facts of Faith, in Connection with the History of Holy Men of Old. Battle Creek, MI: Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association, 1864. Available online here.
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Secondary Sources
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Blumenstyk, Goldie. "A Task Force With Falwell Is Happening, White House Says." The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 11, 2017. URL (accessed June 15, 2017).
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Bull, Malcolm, and Keith Lockhart. Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-day Adventism and the American Dream. 2nd ed. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2007.
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Butler, Jonathan M. "The Making of a New Order: Millerism and the Origins of Seventh-day Adventism." In The Disappointed: Millerism and Millenarianism in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Jonathan M. Butler. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987.
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Inbody, Kristen. "Dinosaurs, the Bible, and a Glendive Museum," Great Falls Tribune, April 28, 2016. URL (accessed June 15, 2017).
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Lynch, John. "'Prepare to Believe': The Creation Museum as Embodied Conversion Narrative." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 16, no. 1 (2013).
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Matzke, Nick. "But Isn't It Creationism? The Beginnings of 'Intelligent Design' in the Midst of the Arkansas and Louisiana Litigation," In But is it Science? The Philosophical Question in the Creation/Evolution Controversy. Edited by Robert T. Pennock and Michael Ruse. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2009.
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Numbers, Ronald L. The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006.
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Rosenhouse, ​Jason. Among the Creationists: Dispatches from the Anti-Evolution Front Line. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
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Sober, ​Elliott. "What is Wrong with Intelligent Design?" In But is it Science? The Philosophical Question in the Creation/Evolution Controversy. Edited by Robert T. Pennock and Michael Ruse. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2009.
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Swift, Art. "In U.S., Belief in Creationist View of Humans at New Low," Gallup, May 22, 2017. URL (accessed June 15, 2017).
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Wong, Julia Carrie, and Sam Levin. "Republican Candidate Charged with Assault After 'Body-Slamming' Guardian Reporter." The Guardian, May 25, 2017. URL (accessed June 15, 2017).