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Henry M. Morris, the man who would revive the creationist movement in 1961 with a popular book promoting the idea of a worldwide flood and then, two years later, found the Institute for Creation Research, grew up in the Texas of the 1920s and 1930s as a religiously indifferent youth.  Shortly after his graduation from Rice in 1939, however, Morris accepted the Bible, from Genesis through Revelation, as the infallible and literal word of God.

Morris spent the next two decades as a member of the civil engineering faculty of four different universities, before taking a job as the head of the department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1959.  He taught hydraulic engineering, and that interest, coupled with his belief that the Bible provided an accurate account of history, led him to ponder how the Great Flood reported in Genesis might be explained in scientific terms.  Morris’s determination to provide support for Genesis came from seeing “historical geolog