Creation, Not Macroevolution – Mind the Gap

By Gavin Basil McGrath
B.A. LL.B. (Sydney University)
Dip. Ed. (University of Western Sydney)
Dip. Bib. Studies (Moore Theological College).

 


Bridges Island, Beagle Channel, named after Anglican Protestant Missionary, Thomas Bridges (d. 1898). His son, E. Lucas Bridges wrote “Uttermost Part of the Earth” (citing Acts 1:8), March 2013.		  
Gavin with Sea Lions of Bridges Island behind him, Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, South America, March 2013. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Genesis 1:1).


Contents:
 
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VOLUME 1:
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Preface to Volume 1: Preface & Dedication

PART 1: THE BIBLICAL TEACHING OF GENESIS 1-11.

The Biblical teaching: Chapters 1-6
The Biblical teaching: Chapters 7-10


PART 2: THE SCIENTIFIC DATA RELATIVE TO THE BIBLICAL TEACHING OF GENESIS 1-11.

The scientific data: Chapters 1-3
The scientific data: Chapters 4-5
The scientific data: Chapters 6-10
The scientific data: Chapters 11-16
The scientific data: Chapters 17-21


APPENDIX:

Appendix to Volume 1, Parts 1 & 2: Dedication Sermons


PHOTOS:

Photos for Volume 1: Photos

 

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VOLUME 2:
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Preface to Volume 2: Preface & Dedication
 

PART 3: THE ANCIENT & MODERN CREATIONIST SCHOOLS ET AL.

The creationist schools et al: Chapters 1-5
The creationist schools et al: Chapters 6-8
 

PART 4: SIX NOTABLE PROTESTANT GAP SCHOOLMEN HONOURED.

Six Notable Gap Schoolmen: Chapters 1-6
 

PART 5: SOME SPIRITUAL & MORAL TRUTHS IN GENESIS 1-11.

Spiritual & Moral Truths: Chapters 1-5a
Spiritual & Moral Truths: Chapters 5b-7
 

PART 6: OLD TESTAMENT CHRONOLOGY.

OT Chronology: Part 6A Chapters 1-10 & Part 6B Chapters 1-6
OT Chronology: Part 6C Chapters 1-5
 

APPENDICES:

Appendix 1 to Volume 2, Parts 3-6: Dedication Sermon & Volume 1 Corrigenda
Appendix 2 to Volume 2, Parts 3-6: Print your own tracts / pamphlets

YOU! ... Yes YOU! ... Does God have a job for YOU (Rom. 12:4,6; Heb. 6:10)? Pray & consider if you should be a volunteer tract distributor of Appendix 2 tracts. "Hear the tramp! tramp! tramping of the army, ... I'm in this army, this glorious army, At the front of the battle you will find me" (From the Christian hymn, "At the Battle Front").



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EXPLANATION of the following Dinosaur Park photos. God created a succession of “worlds” (Heb. 1:2; 11:3) in “the generations of the heavens and of the earth” (Gen. 2:4) in the time-gap between the first two verses of Genesis. This included e.g., the Triassic World (245 to 208 million B.C.), Jurassic World (208 to 144 million B.C.), & Cretaceous World (144 to 66.4 million B.C.).
   


Gavin at Dinosaur Park, London, in front of a Megalosaurus from the Jurassic World in c. 175 million B.C. . Crystal Palace, London, UK, Dec. 2005.
E.g., the larger creature to the right is a Teleosaurus reptile found from the time of the Late Triassic World to the Cretaceous World. Middle background: Pterodactyls of the Jurassic to Cretaceous Worlds. Middle foreground: Plesiosaurus of Jurassic to Cretaceous Worlds. Dec. 2005.
     

Thomas Chalmers was of Edinburgh. The Royal Mile Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, Dec. 2001.
Gavin in front of a very Scottish looking music shop, on The Royal Mile, Edinburgh, Dec. 2001.
     

Plaque celebrating 150 years (1846-1996) since New College Principal, old earth creationist Gap Schoolman, Thomas Chalmers (d. 1847), Principal of New College & Moderator Free Church of Scotland, laid foundation stone (see next photo). Unveiled by Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip in 1996, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, Dec. 2001.
This became both the Faculty of Divinity of New College, Edinburgh University, & the debating chamber of the Scottish Parliament. Its foundation stone was laid by Thomas Chalmers. Dec. 2001
     

Gavin at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford University. This College Chapel is the Cathedral for the Anglican Diocese of Oxford. William Buckland resided here, and was made a Canon of the Cathedral in 1825. England, UK, October 2003.
Inside the Natural History Museum at Oxford University, the core of the geological collection comes from old earth creationist Gap Schoolman, William Buckland (d. 1856). He was Reader in Geology and Mineralogy at Oxford University, where he was appointed Professor of Mineralogy in 1813. He endorsed “the highly valuable opinion of Dr. Chalmers” concerning “an interval of many ages between” the first two verses of Genesis 1. Oxford University, England, UK, Oct. 2003.
     

Gavin next to a bust of Adam Sedgwick at Trinity College, Cambridge University, Dec. 2003.
The Sedgwick Museum of Geology is named after the old earth creationist Gap Schoolman, Adam Sedgwick (d. 1873). It is the oldest museum at Cambridge University, England, UK. Dec. 2003.
     

Gavin at the site of the old Homerton Academy / College, where old earth creationist Gap Schoolman, J. Pye Smith (d. 1851) was Principal. The site in Homerton High Street, London, is now occupied by flats. UK, Dec. 2003.
New College Court in New College Parade (Finchley Road) is in the former general area of New College, London University (1850-1924). Local Earth Gap Schoolman, Pye Smith laid the foundation stone for New College in 1850 - his final year as Principal of one of its predecessors, Homerton College, affiliated with London Univ. from 1840.
     

St. Michael’s Stockwell in London, where Henry Jones Alcock was Church of England Curate (1872-1876). London, UK, Oct. 2003.
Gavin next to Baptismal Font at St. Michael’s Stockwell, London, UK, Oct. 2003.
     

The Old Mission Church, Calcutta, India, in Oct. 2012, containing the memorial plaque of old earth Gap School creationist, Archdeacon John Pratt (d. 1871), & final earthly church that retired Anglican clergyman & Gap School creationist, Henry Jones Alcock (d. 1915) came to.
Gavin in Oct. 2012 at Old Mission Church, next to plaque of Anglican Archdeacon John Pratt (d. 1871), who under the white British Raj was Archdeacon of Calcutta (1850-1871).
     

Six Notable Protestant Christian old earth creationist Gap Schoolmen honoured in this work: one for each of the six creation days of Genesis 1 “Wherefore the Lord God … saith, … them that honour me I will honour …” (I Sam. 2:30)
 


1) Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847). Presbyterian, Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland.
Global Earth Gap Schoolman.
2) William Buckland (1784-1856). Anglican, Mineralogy Professor at Oxford Univ.
Global Earth Gap Schoolman.
3) Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873). Anglican, Geology Professor at Cambridge Univ.
Global Earth Gap Schoolman.
       

4) J. Pye Smith (1774-1851). Congregationalist, sometime Principal of Homerton College (earlier called “Academy”), London, UK; Theology Faculty incorporated into New College, London University (1850-1977); & reconstituted as a teachers' college, now Homerton College, Cambridge University. Local Earth Gap Schoolman.		  


5) John Pratt (1809-1871). Anglican, Archdeacon of Calcutta, India, Central Asia, when it was British Empire’s “2nd city” (after “the 1st city” of London, UK). Local Earth Gap Schoolman (1856-8); then Global Earth Gap Schoolman; then by 1871 non-committal on Local or Global earth, leaving matter to “be decided” “by scientific” work. Honorary
Local Earth Gap Schoolman.
6) Henry Jones Alcock (1837-1915). Anglican clergyman, sometime Church Missionary Society Principal of Fourah Bay College, later Sierra Leone Univ., Freetown, when it was British Empire’s capital city for west Africa, where by tradition this portrait’s original was hung in the Principal's Office of sub-Saharan west Africa's oldest university.
Local Earth Gap Schoolman.