1. He bought Thorndike's Most Frequently Used Words, a book that categorized words by how frequently they appeared in print. With it, Walt quickly spotted the most frequently used words that he didn't know, and he marked them in his unabridged dictionary with a paper clip. He kept 100 paper clips in his dictionary, and every day he flipped to each paper clip and studied the words. He added new words as soon as he mastered the old ones.
2. National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships are awarded to study physical, biological and social sciences; mathematics; engineering; and the history and philosophy of science. The fellowships lead to a master's or doctoral degree that is research-based.
3. Pronounced “Fu-KEP.”
4. Walter T. Brown, Jr., In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood, seventh edition (Phoenix, Arizona: Center for Scientific Creation, 2001), p. 527.
5. Jim Lee was a Seventh-Day Adventist. The Adventists were very strong in the creation movement, long before it became popular in mainstream Christianity. They were also active in the hunt for Noah's Ark.
6. See Dr. Brown's book, In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood, for answers to these questions.
7. For more parallels between Christ and the Ark, see In the Beginning, p. 555.
8. The Army is more manpower oriented and the Air Force is more technically oriented. The Air Force grew out of the Army. It was the Army Air Corps during WWII.
9. The Army and Air Force have the same rank designations. Typically, an officer is a second lieutenant for a year and a half, first lieutenant for two and a half years, captain for four to seven years, major for six to nine years, then lieutenant colonel until he or she retires sometime between their twentieth and thirtieth year of service. About 30 percent of the lieutenant colonels make full colonel before their thirtieth year of service. A few full colonels make general before their thirtieth year. Generals start with one star. About half of them make two stars before retiring; a few make three, and some four. Only in wartime will there be a five star general.
10. James Hutton, considered the father of uniformitarian geology, trained as a medical doctor. Sir Charles Lyell, who popularized the idea of long geological ages, studied law.
11. For over a hundred years, geologists have known that if a large lake begins to erode a point on its rim, canyons can be carved in days. Another geologist had similar ideas. He published Dr. Brown's data on the elevation, name, location, and breach point of the Grand Lake without proper crediting, and then backdated his publication to a year before Dr. Brown's publication. This geologist also claimed that an even earlier, obscure publication of his contained this explanation for the Grand Canyon. It does not contain this explanation. The claims of this geologist have caused confusion as to who first published the data and who first set forth this explanation for the formation of the Grand Canyon. Careful examination of the evidence indicates that Dr. Brown was the first.
12. Brown, p. i from endorsement page.
13. Brown, p. i from endorsement page.
14. Dr. Brown's website is www.creationscience.com. Brad Anderson, a science education major and now a computer expert, set up the website because he wanted more people to know about Dr. Brown's work.
15. Dr. Brown has a tremendous range of contacts. He met many influential people when he worked at the Air Force Academy, the Air War College, and Benét Labs. He finds that other scientists are happy to talk to him when they see his interest, even though he is a creationist.
16. Brown, p. v from the Preface and personal communication with the author