2011 William R. Rice Lecture Series
Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Speaker: Dr. Terry Mortenson
Theme: “Millions of Years and the Compromise of the Theologians”
Lectures:
Audio recordings (MP3) for each of the lectures, along with video presentation files (PDF and PPT), are available for free download.
Millions of Years and the Compromise of the Theologians, part 1 – PDF (11MB) PPT (25MB) MP3
Millions of Years and the Compromise of the Theologians, part 2 – PDF (10MB) PPT (19MB) MP3
Millions of Years and the Compromise of the Theologians, part 3 – PDF (20MB) PPT (24MB) MP3
Ape-men: The Grand Illusion – PDF (9MB) PPT (14MB) MP3
About Our Speaker:
Like most people, Dr. Mortenson grew up in an education system that taught evolution as fact. During his first year at the University of Minnesota (where he majored in math) and shortly after becoming a Christian, he began to see the fallacy of the idea of millions of years of evolution.
With a PhD in the history of geology from the Coventry University in England and an M.Div. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago, Dr. Mortenson has lectured on the creation-evolution controversy in 19 countries since the late 1970s.
He has spoken in homes, churches, schools, secular universities, Bible colleges, and seminaries. Several of his popular lectures have been produced as DVDs and as TV programs. He has also participated in seven formal debates with PhD evolutionary scientists in secular venues in four countries.
He is the author of numerous magazine and journal articles and several book chapters. The revised version of his PhD thesis was published as The Great Turning Point: the Church’s Catastrophic Mistake on Geology—Before Darwin (Master Books, 2004). With a deep burden for seminary professors and students, he co-edited and contributed two chapters to the scholarly 14-author book, Coming to Grips with Genesis: Biblical Authority and the Age of the Earth (Master Books, 2008).
He is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society, has presented six creation-related papers at ETS annual meetings, and spear-headed the formation of—and co-chairs the steering committee for—the “Creation Consultation” paper sessions at the ETS annual meeting beginning in 2008. He has also helped to organize and lead three heavily scholarship-focused, by-invitation-only, 7-day rafts trips down the Colorado River through Grand Canyon for seminary and Christian university professors and other key Christian leaders from America and several other countries.
He and his wife, Margie, have been happily married since 1976 and have eight children and five grandchildren.
