members, and interested friends, and it is hoped that it will be instrumental in helping the organization achieve its primary purpose of witnessing to the truth of the Scriptures and elucidating the relationship of both the ideology and fruits of science thereto.

Furthermore we confidently expect that in the publication of papers presented at the convention and others received from the membership at large, a real service will be rendered each of us in creating an enlarged appreciation and understanding of the Christian position in other fields of science than that of our own specialization.

It carried Bernard Ramm's view that the theory of evolution had logical weakness,[6] a 1949 article on "presuppositions in evolutionary thinking" by Young Earth creationist E. Y. Monsma,[7][8] J. Laurence Kulp's 1950 indictment of "Deluge Geology",[9] and Henry M. Morris's anonymous reply to it.

He asserted that the "major propositions of the theory are contraindicated by established physical and geological laws" and focused on "four basic errors":[9] Kulp's conclusion was that a Christian was faced with two choices.

"To ensure that no readers missed his point," the journal "ran boldfaced sidebars by evangelical geologists applauding van de Fliert's bare-knuckled approach.