The Scientific and Biblical Fault Lines: Key Errors in Henry Morris’s The Genesis Flood
When Henry Morris and John Whitcomb published The Genesis Flood in 1961, they didn’t just write a book; they launched the modern Young Earth Creationist (YEC) movement. While the work was culturally transformative for fundamentalist theology, it built its foundation on a series of scientific and hermeneutical missteps. By attempting to force geological data into a literalist, year-long hydraulic event, Morris introduced errors that remain points of contention in the dialogue between faith and science. Here are ten key errors found within the framework of Morris’s seminal work. 1. The Rejection of Uniformitarianism Morris’s primary target was uniformitarianism—the principle that the same natural laws and processes that operate in our present-day observations have always operated in the past. Morris argued that the Flood was a unique, catastrophic intervention that rendered modern geological dating useless. However, his error lies in confusing "methodological uniformitarianism"...