5. Ryle, 1892, ix.
6. Ibid., 112-13.
7. Lenormant, 1883, 488.
8. Frazier, 1918, 335, 359.
9. Lewis, 2006, 30.
10. Ibid., 31.
11. Huxley, 1893, 215.
10. Dinosaurs in Paradise
1. Numbers, 1982, 74.
2. Numbers, 1982, 540.
3. Schofield, 1917, 3.
4. Miller, 1922, 701, 702, 703.
5. Ibid., 1922, 702.
6. Price, 1923, 280.
7. Numbers, 1982, 540.
8. Ramm, 1956, iii.
9. Ibid., 32.
10. Ibid., 177.
11. The Heretic’s Flood
1. Bretz, 1978, 2.
2. Baker, 1978, 14.
3. Bretz, 1978, 1.
12. Phantom Deluge
1. Whitcomb and Morris, 1961, preface to the sixth printing.
2. Ibid., 118.
3. Ibid., 214.
4. Ibid., 124.
5. See Numbers, 1992, 265-67, and Mayor, 2005, 339-41, for further discussion of this and other fossil frauds perpetrated by creationists.
6. Like that between Matthew 1:17, which states that there were fourteen generations from Abraham to David, and 1 Chronicles 1-2, where thirteen generations are listed.
7. Young, 1977, 106.
8. Chamberlain, 1928, 87.
9. Moore, 1973, 141.
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