Hobbies include birding (life list of 1000 species), and listening to music by Gustav Mahler and Anton Bruckner
Education
Received B.S.E. at Princeton University, 1962
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
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鈥檚 premier igneous petrologist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Research on the doctrine of creation in regard to the scientific enterprise.
