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Timothy H. Heaton
Timothy H. Heaton, Ph.D., is a professor of earth sciences at The University of South Dakota (USD), Vermillion, specializing in archaeological geology. Having grown up near the Grand Canyon, much of Dr. Heaton’s work is focused on the Great Basin as well as on forming chronologies for the extinction of many Ice Age animals; He discovered a new species of fossil skunk (Brachyprotoma) at Crystal Ball Cave, Utah.〔Heaton, Timothy H. 1985. Quaternary Paleontology and Paleoecology of Crystal Ball Cave, Millard County, Utah: with emphasis on mammals and description of a new species of fossil skunk. The Great Basin Naturalist 45(3) Provo, Utah. Brigham Young University: 337-390.〕 Dr. Heaton has also devoted much of his time evaluating the scientific merits of young-Earth creationist geology and the application of biblical evidence to understanding the earth’s prehistory. He is most widely known for his work at On Your Knees Cave located in Prince of Wales Island in southeast Alaska where early humans remains ca. 10,300 years old were found. This find is one of the oldest human genetic samples recovered in the Americas. The site record further supports the possibility the first people into the Americas south of the ice sheets traveled along the Alaskan coast by boat rather than overland through central Canada.
==Background==
Dr. Heaton grew up in Utah and was fascinated by the desert canyons of the Colorado River drainage, which led him to pursue a career in geology. He soon became an active hiker and caver in the Grand Canyon. As a graduate student, Heaton learned that the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) was conducting tours through the Grand Canyon teaching that the Earth was only a few thousand years old. This notion fueled his study of the canyon and also led to his review of a publication titled Grand Canyon: Monument to Catastrophe edited and primarily written by Steve A. Austin, the chairmen of ICR’s geology department. In Dr. Heaton’s review of Austin’s publication, Heaton refuted Austin’s assertion that the Grand Canyon was formed by a single flood event as well as objections to Austin’s theory of a young earth.〔Heaton, Timothy H. 1995. A review of Grand Canyon: Monument to Catastrophe by Steven A. Austin, editor. Institute for Creation Research, Santee, CA, 1994. 284 pp. Skeptical Inquirer 19(3): 33-36.〕
Dr. Heaton received his bachelor's and master's degrees in geology at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He soon went on to earn a Ph.D. in geology at Harvard University. He did post-doctoral study at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., prior to joining University of South Dakota’s Department of Earth Sciences.〔"USD Scientist Timothy Heaton to Present Harrington Lecture." The University of South Dakota - USD. Web. 03 Apr. 2011. .〕
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