DICKENS PUBLICATIONS
Earth history: discernment is needed
There is great complexity in mapped geology (both the Precambrian and the Phanerozoic) and it needs explaining and correlating with the Bible. Events in Creation Week as well as Noah’s Flood Year, and its aftermath, may be correlated with geology.
It is important to consider the time order of event stages evident from both the biblical and geological records, and then consider how to correlate them. Consideration of type stratigraphic sections may assist in this regard.
There is a need to avoid conflating (lumping together) of geology that is not closely related, as this is a poor witness.
Earth history is not just about the marine transgression aspect of Noah's Flood, but includes the effects/product of Events/processes:
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Early Creation Week Events1
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Day One - submarine foundations
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Day Two - separation of waters
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Day Three- appearance of dry land and seas
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Noahic Flood Year Events
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fountains bursting forth
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rain (enormous continental erosion)
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death and rubbing/blotting out of land vertebrates and man
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primary marine transgression [and secondary regressions due to regional tectonism2]
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primary marine regression [and secondary transgressions due to regional tectonism2]
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drying phase
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Continental drift.
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Ice
1There was the initial miraculous Creation Ex Nihilo (Genesis 1:1) but there followed on Days One to Three the fashioning of the Earth, getting it ready for man to live on.
2Through Earth history, tectonism has occurred on a variety of scales and in a variety of regions. It is a key factor in mountain-building, sedimentary basin formation and filling, and relative sea level changes. It needs to be factored into regional geological history models.
Geological history is forensic science. There is a need to distinguish observations in the present from interpretations about the past. (e.g. many geologists assume that Neoproterozoic mixtites are "glacial" but alternatively these deposits may be interpreted as mass flows and have indicators of warm conditions.)
A publication on archaeology
Bruce, R.H. 1991. The relevance of archaeology for the study of both old and new testaments.
This short essay aims to demonstrate the relevance of archaeology to the study of the Bible for particular periods of history: from the account of Creation in the Old Testament to the times of the Christian church in the New Testament.
Publications on (rapid) petroleum formation in secular journals:
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Loewenthal, D., Bruce, R.H. and Bruner, I.1993. Are Millions of Years Necessary for Petroleum Formation? Israel Geological Society Annual Meeting. 15-18 March 1993, Arad, Israel.
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Bruce, R.H., Middleton, M.F., Holyland, P., Loewenthal, D. and Bruner, I., 1996, Modelling of Petroleum Formation associated with Heat Transfer due to Hydrodynamic Processes, PESA Journal No. 24, pp 6-12.
https://www.pesa.com.au/library/pesa_journal_no-_24_p6-12-pdf/
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Then invited to present on this at the International Conference on Coal Seam Gas and Oil, Brisbane.
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Essentially reprinted in Coalbed Methane: Scientific, Environmental and Economic Evaluation. 1999. Edited by M. Mastalerz, M. Glikson and S.D. Golding. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Netherlands.
O LORD our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building you a house for your holy name comes from your hand and is all your own (1 Chronicles 29:16 ESV).
Publications in peer-reviewed Creation journals by “Harry Dickens”. See following references:
Dickens, H., and A.A. Snelling. 2008. Precambrian Geology and the Bible: A Harmony. Journal of Creation 22 (1): 65–72.
https://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j22_1/j22_1_65-72.pdf
Dickens, H., and A. A. Snelling. 2015. Terrestrial Vertebrates Dissolved Near Flood Fountains. Answers Research Journal 8: 437–447. [land animals blotted/rubbed out in Flood]
Dickens, H. 2016. The ‘Great Unconformity’ and Associated Geochemical Evidence for Noahic Flood Erosion. Journal of Creation 30 (1): 8–10.
https://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j30_1/j30_1_8-10.pdf
Dickens, H. 2017a. Banded Iron Formations Formed Rapidly. Journal of Creation 31 (2): 14–16.
http://www.journalofcreation.com/journalofcreation/2017_volume_31_issue_2?pg=16#pg16
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Response to a letter to the editor by C.Froede regarding this BIF article - is recommended reading.
https://creation.com/journal-of-creation-313 pp 56-57.
Dickens, H. 2017b. Colossal Water Flows During Early Creation Week and Early Flood. Answers Research Journal 10:221–235.
Presentation at DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.11245.69602
Dickens, H. 2018a. Evidence for Flood fountains adjacent to the cratonic margin of southwestern Australia" Journal of Creation. 32(1):16-20.
https://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j32_1/j32_1_16-20.pdf
Presentation at: DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.11593.16488
Dickens, H. 2018b. North American Precambrian geology–A proposed young earth biblical model. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Creationism, ed. J.H. Whitmore, pp. 389–403. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Creation Science Fellowship.
https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/icc_proceedings/vol8/iss1/49/
Presentation at: DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.23595.49441
Dickens, H. and Hutchison, A. 2020. No to NOE: Neoproterozoic Oxygen in the Early Flood Year. Journal of Creation Theology and Science Series C: Earth Sciences 10:1-4 (Creation Geology Society Annual Conference Abstracts 2020).
https://www.coresci.org/jcts/index.php/jctsc/issue/view/27
Presentation: Bruce, R.H. 2020. Neoproterozoic oxygenation but not of the atmosphere. (leads to Dickens & Hutchison slides for Origins 2020). DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.27972.04483
Dickens, H. and Hutchison, A. 2021. Geochemical and related evidence for early Noah’s Flood year. Journal of Creation 35(1):78-88.
Presentation: Bruce, R.H. 2021. Neoproterozoic to Ordovician geochemistry: a proposed early Flood Year model.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.12989.38880
Note: Powerpoint slide presentations on some of the above topics.
