Do not think the author of this book has a low view of Scripture. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have no time for higher criticism or the notion that the Bible contains the word of God. I believe it literally is the Word of God, and that every jot and title is there for a reason. This makes me an outsider in every church I know of.
I am not Catholic, yet I believe in the Eucharist. It is the actual body and blood of Jesus because Jesus said it was. He also said that unless you eat his body and drink his blood, there is no life in you.
I believe in both infant and adult baptism. My reasoning is that since the Bible is not clear on the subject, they both must be true. I believe it is a sin to be addressed with a religious title like Rabbi, Pastor, Father, or Teacher, and it is a sin to use them for others because Jesus commanded this in Matthew 23. And in Matthew 18, when Jesus said that if your eye causes you to sin, you should gouge it out, he was not speaking in hyperbole, and there will be many in hell who will one day attest to this.
It is because of this high view of Scripture that I set out to write this book. I believe that it is the source of truth. It is 100% right in all places and at all times. Nothing can contradict it, not logic, not reason, and not science.
This was not an easy book to write. I would say the beginning of it was thirty years ago, when I was introduced to the work of Kent Hovind and Ken Ham. It was eye-opening to say the least, and since then, I have read many books on young-earth creation. I am a contrarian by nature, and I often checked their work to make sure they were not twisting the truth.
About ten years ago, I was introduced to Hugh Ross and the notion that the universe was billions of years old. Of course, I knew that was what the godless atheists thought, but he did not appear to be in that camp.
I have wrestled with the problem of the age of the universe ever since. I realized long ago that this was the weak spot of young-earth creation and was the only question I could not easily refute.
A couple of years ago, I decided I was going to write a book reconciling the Bible with creation. I had concluded that both are sources of truth and that both are 100% accurate. All solid scientific evidence had to agree with the Bible.
I worked on the book for several months, trying to bend science to the Bible. I researched and read all about the Big Bang and the weirdness of water. I discovered that light was hard to even define, and I tried to wrap my brain around quantum physics. I was looking for the weak point of science that I could exploit in order to make it fit the young-earth model. I thought I was making progress, but I could not figure out what to do with water on the second day.
I decided to take a break from that and write another book on a different topic. This took about a year, and when I finished, I started back at it.
This time, I focused on the Creation story. I looked at every phrase and every word. I analyzed and processed them to the best of my ability. I went back to my roots and took everything in the most literal sense, believing that Genesis 1 was the way God actually created the world, and that he was speaking plainly. This book is the result.