Death of Henry Morris

Subject: Henry Morris

Friends of Henry Morris say the founder of the modern Christian creationist movement has died in California at the age of 87. Kentucky-based Answers in Genesis says Morris's son sent an e-mail notifying friends and associates that his father died Saturday night in the presence of his children. Henry Morris had been hospitalized earlier this month after suffering a series of strokes. Morris's 1961 book, The Genesis Flood, helped launch the modern creationist movement, which holds to belief in a seven-day creation less than ten-thousand years ago and a biblical worldwide flood. He also founded the Institute for Creation Research, where he remained president emeritus after his retirement. [AP]


Personal Note: Many years ago a young teacher took one of Henry Morris's books to a security job position at a landfill where business was very slow and it was okay to read while keeping an eye on the place. The name of the book was Scientific Creationism. It was a heavy book and not easy reading for a person soaked in evolutionary thought. That book, however, broke a bondage the public schools and OSU imposed on the young man. His eyes were opened to the truth of Genesis. Decades later the remembered joy of that eye-opening experience is still worth celebrating. The gray-haired man loves the Lord who made all things. Without Christ, nothing was made that is made.

Many Christians have not been liberated from world system lies. Every time they go to the Bible they go with mistrust of the One who inspired it. Every time they try to insert millions and billions of years in between verse 1 and 2 of Genesis 1, or insert long ages in among the literal six days of creation, they call their Savior and Lord a deceiver.

Please examine what the soldiers of Creation science are presenting. Hundreds and hundreds of them were once evolutionists like the young man with that heavy book at the landfill. Henry Morris helped lead them out of darkness. He blazed a trail for the Truth. We won't forget him.