Our Story
How this started.
I am Robert Mihin: a grandfather, former business executive, and lifelong student of science with a long habit of asking why. This is the question that brought my faith and scientific curiosity into the same room—and the path it opened.
In Genesis, Scripture records that God judged the world through a global Flood. Noah, his family, and the animals remained aboard the ark for more than a year. Could that account be literal history? Did Noah and the Flood happen as described—or is the story allegory or myth?
For most of my life I kept two answers in two separate rooms. The science I trusted in one, the faith I held in the other, and one quiet question standing between them.
“Do I have to keep half my brain anchored in science and the other half in faith?”Robert Mihin
Then the questions came from my grandchildren.
A funny thing happened somewhere between middle age and beyond. I had children. Then one of those children had children—and suddenly the questions multiplied.
Why is the sky blue? Did dinosaurs really exist? What does God look like? Suddenly, answers that had been good enough for me were not good enough for them. I had to understand not only what I believed, but why.
As I tried to bring science, Scripture, and faith into the same room, I returned to an idea I had encountered in modern physics: scientific models. A model lets us organize observations, make assumptions visible, and test how well an explanation accounts for the evidence.
“That was my “aha” moment: I could take the conventional ancient-Earth account, treat it as a model, and test its explanation against the observations.”Robert Mihin
What I noticed changed everything.
What began to change was not the observations themselves, but my understanding of the interpretations placed around them. The observations were real; the model was the attempt to explain them.
Those interpretations could be scientifically informed and still depend on assumptions about processes and events no one directly witnessed. If the assumptions changed, the explanation could change with them.
My career taught me to examine complex systems, make assumptions visible, and look for where an explanation succeeds or fails. I began applying that discipline to Earth’s past. What started as a question I believe God placed on my heart became years of investigation, Genesis Modeled, and eventually Paradigm Earth.