You are here Geologists Explain Evolution On December 16, 2000,
geologists at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical
Union (AGU) in San Francisco held a special session entitled
"Explaining Evolution". It was a spectacular success, if we can
judge from the attendance — standing room only for the whole
morning. The atmosphere was charged, with an attentive audience,
which included at least one vocal creationist, John R
Baumgardner from the Fluid Dynamics Program of Los Alamos
National Laboratory. Brent Dalrymple, the author of that well-
known text The Age of the Earth, began by discussing "The
Creation/Evolution Issue: Why Should Earth and Space Scientists
Care?" He pointed out that young-earth creationists (YECs)
include the history of the earth in their definition of
evolution. They try to accommodate the expansion of the universe
and radiometric dating within their 10,000-year time frame by
arguing that, since the Fall of Adam, the speed of light has
increased by a factor of 200 million and radioact