Received M.S. at Pennsylvania State University, 1965
Acquired Ph.D. at Brown University, 1969
Professional experience
Began teaching at New York University (1968-1973)
Switched to University of North Carolina at Wilmington (1973-1978)
Began teaching at Calvin in 1978
Retired in Tuscan, AZ, in 2004
Returned to Grand Rapids in 2014
Co-author of 10 books on the history of geology and the relationship between christian faith and geology
2009 Mary C. Rabbit History of Geology Award Recipient
Biography
Hometown: Abington, Pennsylvania
Hobbies include birding (life list of 1000 species), and listening to music by Gustav Mahler and Anton Bruckner
Academic interests
Publication of For Me to Live Is Christ, a biography of my father, Old Testament scholar, Edward J. Young.
Editing of Recollections of a Petrologist, a 500+ page autobiographical memoir byJoseph Paxson Iddings, America’s premier igneous petrologist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Research on the doctrine of creation in regard to the scientific enterprise.
The history of igneous petrology
The integration of science and Christian faith
Publications
2008, Origin of the American quantitative igneous rock classification: Part 1, Earth Sciences History, v. 27, p. 188-219.
2008, (with Ralph F. Stearley) The Bible, Rocks and Time: Geological Evidence for the Age of the Earth. Downers Grove, I, InterVarsity Press.
2009, The reception of geology in the Dutch Reformed tradition: the case of HermanBavinck (1854-1921), in Martina Kölbl-Ebert, ed., Geology and Religion: A History of Harmony and Hostility. Geological Society Special Publication 310, p.289-300.
2009, The historical reconstruction of geohistorical reconstruction, Perspectives on Scienceand Christian Faith, v. 61, p. 116-125.
2009, Origin of the American quantitative igneous rock classification: Part 2, Earth SciencesHistory, v. 28, p. 175-203.
2010, Origin of the American quantitative igneous rock classification: Part 3, Earth Sciences History, v. 29 p. 264-290.
2011, Origin of the American quantitative igneous rock classification: Part 4, Earth Sciences History, v. 30, p. 1-38.
2012, Origin of the American quantitative igneous rock classification: Part 5, Earth Sciences History, v. 31, p. 1-49.
2012, Good News for Science: Why Scientific Minds Need God. Oxford, MS, Malius Press.
