Henry M. Morris
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Henry Morris
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| Born |
October 6, 1918 Dallas, Texas, United States |
| Died | February 25, 2006 (aged 87) Santee, California |
| Alma mater |
Rice University (B.S.) University of Minnesota (M.S., PhD) |
| Occupation | President of the Institute for Creation Research |
| Successor | John D. Morris |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Louise Beach (m. 1940) |
| Children | Henry Morris III Kathleen John D. Morris Andrew Mary Rebecca |
Henry Madison Morris (October 6, 1918 – February 25, 2006) was an American young Earth creationist, Christian apologist, and engineer. He was one of the founders of the Creation Research Society and the Institute for Creation Research. He is considered by many to be "the father of modern creation science." He is widely known for coauthoring The Genesis Flood with John C. Whitcomb in 1961.
As Morris believed in the literal inerrancy of the Bible, he opposed the billions-of-years time scales of evolution, the age of the Earth, and the age of the Universe that he saw as being contrary to it. Morris' influential approach, while adopted widely by the modern creationist movement, continues to be rejected by the mainstream scientific community, as well as old Earth creationists and theistic evolutionists.
Morris was born in Dallas on October 6, 1918, grew up in Texas in the 1920s and 1930s, and graduated from Rice University with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1939. He married Mary Louise on January 24, 1940, and they later had six children. They were married until Morris's death in 2006.
While Morris was religiously indifferent during his youth, shortly after his graduation from Rice in 1939, Morris became a Christian and accepted the Bible, from Genesis through Revelation, as the infallible and literal word of God.
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