He wrote to the DGS, gently rebuffing affiliation, but expressing a desire for amicable cooperation. Everest had himself already joined the DGS, but thereafter specifically requested that he be listed as a "subscriber" rather than a "member". The influence of flood geology on the ASA was finally exorcised when, in 1948, Everest approached J. Laurence Kulp to explore the topic in the ASA's upcoming annual convention. Kulp presented a paper on the "Antiquity of Hominoid Fossils" at this convention and on "Deluge Geology" at the next convention, resulting in the discomfiture and isolation of Flood Geologists within the ASA. In 1996 he was nominated for the Templeton Prize by a fellow member of the American Scientific Affiliation.