Old-Earth Article Review
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Old-Earth Article Review
Introduction
This paper is a review of an article titled “The Origin of Old-Earth Geology and its Ramifications for Life in the 21st Century.” This article was written by Dr. Terry Mortenson in August of 2003. After reading this review, one will have an idea of what the article was about as well as its main points. One will also have an understanding of the author’s strong points and where the article could have been better. Finally the reader of this paper will understand my own opinion of this article.
Brief Overview and Main Points This article was written to give the audience an idea of how people have different opinions of the age of the Earth. The article briefly describes several people including their background and their view on the age of the Earth. It gives several scientific views that range from “The Big Bang Theory” to “Darwinism.” This article then discusses how almost every opinion on the age of the Earth completely ignores and goes against what the “Holy Bible” teaches us.
Article Strengths This article has many points in which one would consider them to be strong, valid, and well written. Doctor Mortenson, who is the author of this article, gives a clear view of how the opinions on the age of the Earth have changed with time. While discussing the changes of views he makes it not too short but not too long. The article is well organized with the scientific theories of each person mentioned being chronologically organized by the dates of their deaths. There were very few noticeable grammatical errors found when reviewing the article. When reading the conclusion, the reader is completely sure of how the author feels; the Earth was created by God as explained in the “Holy Bible” and would be a much better place if the people of the world would just turn their hearts back to their creator.
Article Weaknesses Although there were numerous good things to talk about after reading this article, there were a few things that had down falls. Doctor Mortenson states “Almost everyone living today takes for granted that the universe and earth are billions of years old.” When first starting to read this article and after reading the whole introduction, one would be led to believe that Doctor Mortenson believes that the Earth is older than the Bible describes but in the conclusion he contradicts this by telling us “The only hope for the halt and reversal of the increasing moral decadence and hopelessness in the West and in the East is the return of individuals to God and His Word, which gives us the true history of the world.” When reading the article, it mentions the Bible many times along with the book of Genesis: the view of a young Earth could have been made substantially stronger if direct scripture references would have been used instead of just saying in the book of Genesis.
Conclusion
In conclusion, this article in my own opinion seems to be well written except for a few small things. It seems like since this article was written by someone with a Ph.D. those small thing would have been corrected. There were many references used during the writing of this article which were easily found at the bottom of the article, which is a big plus. I would definitely recommend this article to someone who wants to expand their knowledge on how the view of Earth’s age has changed as a society over a long period of time.

References
Dr. Mortenson, T. (2003, August 5). The origin of old-earth geology and its ramifications for life in the21st century. Retrieved from http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/tj/v18/n1/-old-earth-geology