Scientist John Woodmorappe
John Woodmorappe is the author of three acclaimed books:
Noah's
Ark: A Feasibility Study
The Mythology of Modern Dating Methods
Noah's Ark worked! It is possible for 8 people to manage
16,000 animals. Learn about animal keeping methods, global catastrophes,
ancient menageries, etc.
The global Flood and geologic catastrophism are seen as unconventional science.
To others, the work of this pro-Biblical scholar as a key to understanding
Bible mysteries and other secrets of antiquity.
Biography and Testimony of John Woodmorappe:
Life was a challenge for John Woodmorappe from the very beginning. Born in the
USA to Polish immigrant parents who had lost everything in World War II, he had
to adapt to a new language and culture. In addition, John has a neurological
disorder called Tourette's syndrome, which causes him to have spells of torso
rocking and finger wiggling. But the grace of God has given him an
extraordinary ability in the area of scientific research.
John has had an insatiable curiosity in scientific matters ever since he was a
toddler. At age 10-11, he could identify tens of trees in the neighborhood, and
even knew the Latin names of most of them. His friends said he sounded like a
priest. An 80-year old retired botanist would visit him, and they would go on
walks together to talk about and examine different trees. By junior high, he was
going to the state fairs with his science projects. Next, he went to one of the
most academically demanding high schools in the whole nation.
Far from being a fundamentalist, John Woodmorappe had not been raised to
believe in Scriptural inerrancy in any way. Nothing drove him to unconventional
science. He attended a college-preparatory Jesuit school, which was liberal
theologically as well as politically. There he was taught that Genesis was myth
and that organic evolution was a proven fact of science. Not knowing any
better, he accepted it.
In his sophomore year, he took an advanced biology course. After organic
evolution, John studied ecology, and was taught all the scare-stories of
radical environmentalists as proven fact. Having learned that DDT and other
organic chlorocarbons accumulate in the biosphere because they do not break
down, John Woodmorappe wrote his teacher a paper. He suggested that scientists
breed bacteria, after subjecting them to radiogenic mutations generation after
generation, in progressively greater concentrations of DDT. Finally, we would
have a strain of bacteria that not only breaks down DDT but also is dependent
on it. When released into the biosphere, these bacteria would consume all the
accumulated DDT. The teacher replied that this would probably not work, unless
perhaps millions of years were available. This planted the first seed of doubt
towards organic evolution in John's mind, because it showed that the notion of
natural selection culminating in unlimited variation is something less than
factual.
While a freshman in college, a member of Campus Crusade for Christ won John to
the Lord. He eagerly went for follow-up. During one of these sessions, he asked
some offhand questions about organic evolution, the global Flood, etc. The
Crusade staff man lent him a copy of the GENESIS FLOOD (Whitcomb and Morris
1961). John studied this, and more. John became fascinated at what he saw. When
he was first exposed to Creationist research, he went into "creation
shock." This leads to such thoughts as: "Why did no one ever show me
this before? I never realized that evolution was so full of holes! I never
imagined that there are qualified scientists who question or reject organic
evolution. And to think that the global Flood actually took place."
As earlier in life, John Woodmorappe was intensely curious. He wanted to go
deeper. He decided to major in both geology and biology because of the pivotal
role of these two disciplines in the study of origins. Then again, he had
geology in his blood, as his grandfather had been a geologist who had owned an
oil well (at Boryslaw, now in the western Ukraine). He ended up with a BA in
Biology, a BA in Geology, and an MA in Geology. Woodmorappe is constantly
learning new things on his own, and conducting scientific research. He now has
numerous publications, including the following three books:
1: STUDIES IN FLOOD GEOLOGY
2: NOAH'S ARK: A FEASIBILITY STUDY.
3: THE MYTHOLOGY OF MODERN DATING METHODS.