User:Brundon

I grew up in the Detroit, Michigan area and lived there for about the first 18 years of my life. I graduated from Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Elementary and High School. Here, I learned a lot about Christianity, and Catholicism specifically. As I learned more about Catholicism and as I grew older, I was convicted to believe in Evangelical Protestantism, a form of Christianity that accepted the Bible as the sole source of God's revelation. I was baptized into a Wesleyan church in 2006. However, currently, I am digging deeper into Reformed Theology, wondering which systematic Theology is more Bible-based. I became a Creationist in 2007 during an American Literature class. We were studying myths of Native American cultures, specifically their creation stories. During one of the teacher's lectures, she asked "Brandon, what about Genesis? Is this, too, a creation myth?" Up until this point, I had always found it easy to believe in an old-earth viewpoint, believing that the Earth was billion of years old and that evolution had spawned all forms of life. Though I wasn't convinced either way, YEC or OEC, I didn't find it wrong to believe that Genesis was just poetry, not a historical account. However, when my teacher asked me this question, the word "myth" was unsettling. I realized that by believing that Genesis was just a story (albeit a God-inspired fairy tale), I was really watering down the Bible. After a couple of seconds of thought, I decided that I could believe in nothing but Young-Earth Creationism. When I graduated high school, I moved to Rapid City, SD to pursue a career in paleontology at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. I have loved paleontology since I was a child and I hope to use it to glorify God.

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