Proof The Bible Is True

How ‘lies’ confounded an evangelist

by Dean R. Marshall

Published: 16 October 2014 (GMT+10)

Doubt can be a severe problem and was something that both Billy Graham and Charles Templeton faced.1,2

They were good friends, both famous evangelists, and they discussed those doubts.

Those same doubts eventually caused Charles Templeton to say goodbye to God.1–3 And the basis for Templeton saying farewell to God stems from the ideas of Charles Lyell.

Lyell’s motive and method

Lyell wrote in a letter4 to one of his friends: “I had conceived the idea, five or six years ago, that if ever the Mosaic Geology [chronology] could be set down5 [set aside] without giving offense it would be in an historic sketch”. He basically set out to discredit Moses’ history and geology by making up his own history and geology.

When visiting Niagara Falls,6 Lyell found out that they were gradually ‘moving’ up-river. He questioned a long-time resident who had observed the falls over many years, and seen that the rate at which the Falls were eroding was about three feet (one metre) per year. This rate gave an age of the earth that was too close to the biblical record, so Lyell rejected the resident’s observed rate, and instead conjectured a rate of one foot (30 cm) per year in his Principles of Geology (“never let the facts spoil a good theory”).7 We now know that the rate was much faster.8

Read More Templeton confounded by Lyell – creation.com.