FOR more than a decade, my life has been dominated by creationists. I did not
plan it this way. It was just that as a professor of geology at the University
of Melbourne, I got fed up watching them using what I consider to be bad science
to stand up their claims.
It all came to a head in 1992 when Allen Roberts, a creationist in Sydney,
embarked on a lecture tour claiming he had found the remains of Noah’s Ark. I
attended two of these lectures to ask questions about his geological evidence,
and about the speaker’s claims to…
