Dr Henry Madison Morris (born 1918) is an American young earth creationist and considered the father of the "creation science" movement.

Biography

Morris grew up in Texas in the 1920s and 1930s and was a religiously indifferent youth. Morris graduated from Rice University with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1939. Shortly afterwards he became a Christian and adopted Biblical literalism.

On January 24 1940 he married Mary Louise ..?.. and they later had six children. From his graduation to 1942 he was a a hydraulic engineer working with the International Boundary and Water Commission, El Paso, Texas. He then returned to Rice University to teach civil engineering from 1942 until 1946. Between 1946 and 1951 he worked at the University of Minnesota, where he was awarded a master's degree in hydraulics in 1948 and a PhD in hydraulic engineering (with a minor in geology and mathematics) in 1950. In 1951 he became professor and head of civil engineering at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette until 1956. He was then professor of applied science at Southern Illinois University 1956–1957. Following that he was professor of hydraulic engineering and chairman in civil engineering at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

In 1961 Morris, with Bible scholar John C. Whitcomb, wrote a book entitled The Genesis Flood that brought to widespread attention the concepts of creation science and flood geology. Two years later he founded the Creation Research Society with nine other like-minded individuals. In 1970, he founded the Institute for Creation Research (ICR).

Morris believes that science can be used to study God's creation, though the mainstream scientific community rejects it as baseless pseudoscience.

Morris has written many other books, including

• Scientific Creationism (editor) (1974)
• The Genesis Record, A scientific and devotional commentary on the book of beginnings (1976)
• What is Creation Science? (1982) (with Gary E. Parker)
• The Biblical Basis for Modern Science (1986)
• The Long War Against God (1989)

His son John D. Morris (born 1946) took over presidency of ICR when his father retired.

External links

• Institute for Creation Research (http://www.icr.org)
  • CV (http://www.icr.org/creationscientists/hmorris.html)

• biography of Henry M. Morris (http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/morrish.html) (anti-creationist)