Job Opportunity fir a Geologist at Creation Museum

Speaker and Researcher of Geology

Reports to: Mark Looy (for the moment)

Duties and Responsibilities

• Speak to layperson (and occasional science) groups across the country as requested through AiG Outreach Dept. Expected travel a minimum of 25%.
• Literature and field research.
• Write regular articles for web and other AiG publications.
• Produce books, DVDs, curriculum materials, etc.

Education, Experience and Skill Requirements

• Doctorate in geology preferred, or some other related scientific discipline (e.g., paleontology).
• Minimum of 5 years’ field or teaching experience in study discipline.
• Extremely strong knowledge of creation – understanding both the biblical and scientific arguments.
• Articulate and engaging speaker is a must, along with the willingness to be mentored in order to become an even better speaker (i.e., to be “teachable”).
• Ability to express concepts in writing

Items needed for possible employment

• Resume
• Salvation testimony
• Creation belief statement
• Confirmation of your agreement with the AiG Statement of Faith

Please send, with cover letter, to:
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Should I apply?

I actually think there is value in looking at the "Bible" as a source for scientific questions. The problem for the Creationist community is that any scientific alternatives to the current Darwin/Big Bang model, will indubitably bear no resemblance to any specific biblical myth.

Take for example the flood. On SeattleJew I posted a link to the ad at the Craetion Museum for a geologist. That add includes a REQUIREMENT that the geologist beleive there was world wide flood. Trouble is this makes no sense, as it is described in the Torah.

There is a Jewish approach that i think may interest you and would make the Discovery Institute a lot more sane. Maimonides and Spinoza both taught that science IS revelation and is MORE reliable than the recorded records of revelations. So, when discrepancies exist, the jobh of a true intellectual is to do their best at reconciling the differences.

There is, IMHO, a scientific reason for accepting this approach. That is the evidence that the Torah is old enough to reflect flecks of exp0eriences “we” have experienced. This is especially important for discussions about archeology. Dever has argued that there are numeorus pieces of data in books of Judges and Kings that combine well with scientific archaelogy to create hypothesis about the history of Canaan. This is good scieece.

I would go further. there are many reaisns, in my opinion, to link the Torah to more ancient things, including human evolution. Closest in time is the myth of Moses. Whether Moses did or did not exist, the semitic::Egyptian interplay is now well documented and included a period, the Hyksos, where Semites were actiually rulers in Egypt. Sound familiar?

My most extreme idea is that there may be a link between the Torah (and other ancient writings) and human evolution. The idea is this … “we” have only spoken for about 100,000 years and given the way evolution works, it is unlikley that this happened in one miraculous event. Speech, however, seems to have incuded a lot of other stuff .. including myth making. Dis any of these earliest myths survive long enough t be recorded in the Vedas or the Torah? While there eas no world wide floood, could there have been floods or similar disasters that isolated subgroups of use as geneticists call “choke points?” Could one of those be the ancient semites?

The point is that the Torah, the Vedas, and Egyptian writings are the oldest documents we have. Leaving aside divinity, it makes good sense to use these as a source of data.