Advocatus Diaboli

One fundie needs names and field of science of former creationists. How else could one believe that a creationist would step away from the Truth. I think that there must be some, but who?

AndresDeLaHoz

Didn't that guy Denton (the one who wrote a book, I think it was "a theory in crisis") eventually accept evolution?

Oolon Colluphid

Michael Denton, and yes, I gather he did. Can't remember the exact details, but I think Ed may have brought him up (only to, as 't were, choke on his own vomit ). Try a search on him at TO, or a simple Google.

Oolon

acidphos

Glenn Morton is ex-ICR.

emotional

I don't know if it counts for a whole step away from creationism, and I don't know if he's still a creationist or not, but Gerald Aardsma of the ICR had an issue about the age of the earth with his organisation. The ICR says the earth is from 6000 to 10,000 years old, and Aardsma was led, due to his observation of tree-ring data, to conclude that the earth is at least 12,000 years old. Due to observation of data, and never mind what the Bible clearly says - I regard this as an important step towards recognising evolution.

Source:

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/ce/2/part1.html

Dr.GH

Dr. Roger C. Wiens is an other example. Although, he is now more of an Old Earth creationist.

Radiometric Dating A Christian Perspective by Roger C. Wiens -- A resource paper of the American Scientific Affiliation
http://asa.calvin.edu/ASA/resources/Wiens.html

beausoleil

I didn't know Roger had been a young earth type. I find it hard to believe. (I've met him a few times and know his work.)

Dr.GH

I am basing that on his earlier church affiliations, some of which are YEC on Statments of Faith doctrine.

Advocatus Diaboli

Thank you for the replies. If anyone knows more, then please, let me know.

excreationist

AndresDeLaHoz:
As far as I know, Denton never was a young-earth creationist (at least when he wrote books critical of evolution) (also see the rest of my post)

10,000 would be about their upper limit but it seems they lean more towards 6000 years.
At icr.org's Dr. John's Q&A's, part of John's answer to How Old is the Earth According to the Bible? is "...most likely close to 6000 years..."

Answers In Genesis has in its list of arguments which should definitely not be used [emphasis theirs]:
Here is a chart of Bible genealogies that I created myself. It shows that Noah was born about 1056 years after Adam was created, and the Flood happened when Noah was 600, which was 1656 years after Adam was created.

from Answers in Genesis - The Date of Noah's Flood
Adam was created about 1656 years earlier... so based on that Answers in Genesis article, Adam would have been created at about 3960 BC. And the universe would be a few days younger.

BTW, I don't know about any ex-creationist scientists. Apparently many people studying science at universities give up their young earth beliefs... I did. If they do that then they are ex-creationists before they even become fully qualified scientists.