Abstract

This PhD by Portfolio Thesis is a culmination of a life’s experience in education and creationist research, in which the speciality of linkological theory has been developed. The portfolio is constructed to reveal the progressions from mainstream learning experiences and biological study, to the synthesis of biblical accounts through the lenses of natural sciences. The synoptic discussion, How Genesis ring-fences human disobedience with the origin of death on Earth is encountered first in the thesis, being the higher order discussion stemming from all the underlying research in Projects 1, 2 and 3.

The retrospective research: Project (1) ‘A life of Learning’ discusses 86 years of personal learning experience, 45 years of which have been in mainstream education spanning from 1940 as a pupil; before the Butler Act of 1944, to the Educational Reform Act of 1988 and introduction the New National Curriculum (GHD retired from teaching in 1986). Project (2) ‘The Creationist Catalogue’, discusses the research behind 40 publications of linkological studies, which evidence a high level of original thought and synthesis between biblical story telling, noted entitles / instances in the physical world, and advanced scientific / mathematical theory. Project (3) ‘Linkological Analysis in Action’ is a step-by-step guide to the mathematical workings and mapping involved in linkological analysis, with two applied examples of linkological studies to illustrate the process: (i) Making Sense of The Duck Billed Playpus and (ii) Making Sense of The Common Frog.

The research concludes on three points: (i) that the origin of physical death on Earth as recorded in the Book of Genesis originally comes from a part of the Holy Bible that is not attributable to any human source. (ii) That the sequence of land forming on Day Three even before the creation of any form of biological life on Earth, means that on Day Six when Adam and Eve walked barefoot upon that land, that there was not any fossil whatsoever embedded into that rock. (iii) A third conclusion seeks to account for there existing two accounts of the length of time since the world began.