turned out to be premature. Shortly thereafter, The Genesis Flood began to ignite a resurgence of belief among evangelicals in six-day-young-earth creation, which annoyed and embarrassed not just atheists and irreligionists, but many fellow evangelicals as well. Since the mid-twentieth century, debate over the age and origin of the universe has continued within evangelicalism. Evangelicals have remained confident that God exists and is the Creator of our universe. But