concerted effort to repackage Price's flood geology--biblical creationism, if you will--as creation science, or scientific creationism. This was simply biblical creationism stripped of all references to the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve, and Noah's flood. (McArthur 108)
When Numbers refers to flood geology in the above passage, he is referring to a theory restricting the history of life on earth (and in some accounts the history of the entire universe) to no more than ten thousand years. If one accepts flood geology, one can take the genesis story--as well as the story of Noah and the universal flood that destroyed most of life on earth--literally.
A recent creation science convention in Calgary concerned differences in theory among those who are all "creationists," in principle. Such creationists differ in their explanations as to how life first appeared, in all of its diversity, on earth. However, at Calgary's First Alliance Church, they were united on one point: creationism must be presented as fact in the public schools.
...