Posted on 02/26/2006 1:26:29 PM PST by Tim Long
Dr. Henry Morris, founder and president emeritus of the Institute for Creation Research and the “father” of the modern creationist movement (especially with The Genesis Flood, which he co-authored in the early 1960s) had in recent days suffered a series of debilitating small strokes, and passed into the presence of his Creator and Savior, Jesus Christ, on Saturday evening (February 25).
Dr. Morris, 87, had been receiving care in a San Diego area convalescent hospital. According to his son, Dr. Henry Morris III (Executive Vice President of the Institute for Creation Research), the elder Dr. Morris “remained cogent and alert up until the last few moments. My brother John (President of ICR), my sister Mary, and my sister Rebecca were with him just prior to his passing.”
In a note emailed late Saturday night to ICR board members and friends of the family, Dr. Morris III shared that “Dad has had a wonderfully full life, much blessed by our Lord, and we are rejoicing and celebrating his ‘well done’ now in the presence of his Lord.”
Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis–USA and co-founder of Answers in Genesis–Australia, wrote to AiG leadership that
Dr. Morris is one of my heroes of the faith. He is the man the Lord raised up as the father of the modern creationist movement. The famous book The Genesis Flood, co-authored by Dr. Morris and Dr. Whitcomb, was the book the Lord used to really launch the modern creationist movement around the world. It was the first major creation book I read, and had a special place, therefore, in the beginnings of the creationist movement in Australia. Our prayers are with the family. Please pray for the family, the staff of the Institute for Creation Research, and for all those whose lives continue to be changed by the many books and articles authored by this great man of God during his long and productive life.
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Prayers go out for his family.
Prayers for his survivors.
Wow, that's disgusting.
Reaching the age of 87 is a good, long life for any man. I'm sure that many will miss him.
Kind of took my breath away. He was a good man of great faith. I learned so much from his writings.
>>Wow, that's disgusting.<<
What does he mean? I can't seem to reply to that poster.
His comment was removed.
Good!
Amen.
If one believes that an intelligence had and exercised power to intervene in evolution, then the processes used to develop innocuous varients of disease germs are not valid, and thus, vaccines would not work.
If one gets vaccines, then one is placing faith in those processes, and thus has no faith in divine intervention.
I would hope that his children and grandchildren get vaccines, rather than await divine intervention.
Indeed. I wonder if you can get kicked off for things like that?
Well, I can't see what he said but I can tell you, probably not. There are people on FR who grossly violate the rules every day and nothing ever happens to them. We even have a couple of members who have made posts that deserve a U.S. Secret Service visit and they're still allowed to post.
I think you're an excellent argument against Intelligent Design.
That's just about the goofiest argument yet on these threads. All sorts of natural cures exist for everything. That we don't have access to all of them we can thank "scientists" and big drug companies. By the way can you mail me what you said in post 4, I would sure like an insight into your mind.
Excuse me Mr. Carter but a man has died. Let’s not turn this into another Coretta Scott King funeral.
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