Donald Wesley Patten was born on 1929 in Conrad, Montana. He attended the University of Montana (1947-1950) and the University of Washington (1950-1952, 1960-1961.) In addition to having a minor in History, he has two degrees in Geography, the B.A. and the M.A., both from the University of Washington.

He is a veteran of the Korean War. Married, he is the father of one daughter and six sons, and the proud grandfather of 13. He is the founder of both Microfilm Service Company (Seattle and Portland), and Patten Corporation (Seattle). Recently retired, he serves as Chairman of the Board of both firms. His hobbies include basketball, chess and gardening.

His two major publications include:

• The Biblical Flood and the Ice Epoch (1966)
• The Long Day ofJoshua and Six other Catastrophes (1973)

This last work was co-authored with Ronald Hatch and Loren Steinhauer. He has also served as editor of the six-volume series entitled Symposium on Creation. (1968-1977.)

He is a regular contributor to the periodical Catastrophism and Ancient History, and he has been an occasional contributor to The Creation Research Society Quarterly, Kronos and Aeon. Among his essays are the following:

• (Catastrophism and Ancient History)
  • "The Scars of Mars, Parts I and II"
  • "The Origin and Decay of the Earth's geomagnetic Field"
  • "The Flood of Mars" (The Scars of Mars Part II)
• (Creation Research Society Quarterly)
  • "A Comprehensive Theory on Aging, Gigantism and Longevity"
• (Creation Research Society Quarterly)
  • "Symposium on the Origin of Mountain Systems"
• (Kronos and Aeon)
  • "The Organization of the Solar System, Parts I and II"

The last issue published by Aeon is co-authored with Samuel R., Windsor, an engineer. It proposes a catastrophic model of capture of the planets by the Sun and also a theory as to how the planets acquired spin rates, by pairs as it so happens. It also addresses the themes of the shrinking Sun and the Sun's acquisition of spin. Part I of this two-part essay is a refutation of the widely-taught nebular hypothesis.

Selected Bibliography

• Abell, George, Exploration of the Universe, New York: Holt,Rinehart & Winston, 1964.
• Apollodorus, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univ. Press, 1921. Translator, Sir James George Frazer.
• Baly, Denis, The Geography of the Bible, New York: Harper & Bros., 1957.
• Barnes, Thomas G., Origin and Destiny of the Earth's Magnetic Field, El Cajon, Calif.: Creation Research Institute, 1973.
• Baxter, John and Thomas Atkins, The Fire Came By, New York: Warner Books, 1976.
• Berggren, W. A. and John A. Van Couvering, Catastrophes and Earth History, The New Uniformitarianism, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
• Boorstein, Daniel J., The Discoverers, New York: Random House, 1983.
• Bozarth, Richard M., Ferromagnetism, New Jersey: D. Van Nostrand Co. Inc., 1951.
• Ceram, C. W., Gods, Graves and Scholars, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951.
• Chang, K. C., Early Chinese Civilization: Anthropological Perspectives, Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1976.
• Clark, Robert E. D., Science and Christianity, A Partnership , Mountain View, Calif.: Pacific Press, 1972.
• Custance, Arthur C., Noah's Three Sons, Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1975.
• DeGrazia, Alfred, The Burning of Troy, Princeton: Metron, 1984.
• DeGrazia, Alfred, Solaria Binaria, Princeton: Metron, 1984.
• DeGrazia, Alfred, Cosmic Heretics, Princeton: Metron, 1984.
• Dewar, Douglas, The Transformist Illusion, Murfeesboro, Tenn.: Dehoff, 1957.
• Filby, Frederick A., The Flood Reconsidered, Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1970.
• Force, James E., William Whiston: Honest Newtonian, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1985.
• Freeman, Otis W., Geography of the Pacific, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1951.
• Ginzberg, Louis, The Legends of the Jews, Vols. I -VII, Philadelphia: Jewish Publ. Society of America, 1937.
• Goldsmith, Donald et al., Scientists Confront Velikovsky, New York: Norton, 1977.
• Gross, M. Grant, Oceanography, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1972.
• Hallam, Anthony, Great Geological Controversies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.
• Hartshorne, Richard, Perspective on the Nature of Geography, Chicago: Rand McNally, 1959.
• Heroditus, New York: Doubleday, 1929. Editor, Gordon King.
• Himmelfarb, Gertrude, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, New York: Norton, 1959.
• Homer, The Iliad, Roslyn, New York: Walter Black, 1942.
• Josephus, Flavius, The Antiquities of the Jews, Bridgeport, Conn.: M. Sherman, 1828.
• Kaula, William, An Introduction to Planetary Physics, New York: John Wiley, 1968.
• Kuiper, Gerard P., The Earth as a Planet, Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1954.
• Kuiper, Gerard P., Planets and Satellites, Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1961.
• Livius, Titus, The Annals of the Roman People, Philadelphia: McKay, 1872.
• Luckerman, Marvin A., Proceeds of the First and Second Seminars, Catastrophism & Ancient History, Los Angeles, 1983.
• MacBeth, Norman, Darwin Retried, Boston: Gambit Books, 1971.
• Mavor, James W. Jr., Voyage to Atlantis, New York: Putnam, 1969.
• MacCraig, Hugh, The 200-Year Ephemeris, Richmond Va.: Macoy Publishing, 1949.
• McDowell, Charles, "Catastrophism and Puritan Thought," Symposium on Creation VI, Seattle: Pacific Meridian, 1977.
• Melchior, Paul, The Earth Tides, New York: Pergamon Press, 1966.
• Merrill, Ronald T. and Michael W. McElhinny, The Earth's Magnetic Field, New York: Academic Press, 1983.
• Moore, Patrick, Atlas of the Solar System, Chicago: Rand McNally, 1983.
• Nelson, Byron, The Deluge Story in Stone, Minneapolis, Augsburg, 1931.
• Ovid, Metamorphoses, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana Uni. Press, 1958.
• Pickering, James S., 1001 Questions Answered About Astronomy, New York: Dodd-Mead, 1959.
• Price, George MeCready, Common Sense Geology, Mountain View, Calif.: Pacific Press, 1946.
• Price, George McCready, Evolutionary Geology and the New Catastrophism, Mountain View, Calif: Pacific Press, 1926.
• Rehwinkel, Alfred M., The Flood, St. Louis: Concordia, 1951.
• Richardson, Robert S., Mars, New York: Harcourt Brace, 1964.
• Runcorn, S. K., Study of the Earth, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1962.
• Scheidegger, Adrian E., Principles of Geodynamics, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1958.
• Seneca, Thyestes.
• Strong, James, Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, Nashville: Abingdon, 1890.
• Struve, Otto and Velta Zebergs, Astronomy of the 20th Century, New York: MacMillan, 1962.
• Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver's Travels, Cleveland, World Syndicate.
• Takahashi, Kozo, "On the Relation Between the Solar Activity Cycle and the Solar Tidal Force Induced by the Planets," Solar Physics 3, 1968.
• Thiele, Edwin R., The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1951.
• Thompson, William I. I, "Extraterrestrial Origin of the Ice Age", Symposium on Creation VI, Seattle: Pacific Meridian, 1972.
• Velikovsky, Immanuel, Ages in Chaos, New York: Doubleday, 1952.
• Velikovsky, Immanuel, Earth in Upheaval, New York: Doubleday, 1955.
• Velikovsky, Immanuel, Worlds in Collision, New York: Doubleday, 1951.
• Weber, Max, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, New York: Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1948.
• Whiston, William, A New Theory of the Earth, Seattle: Pacific Meridian, 1696. (From Microfilm)
• Whiston, William, Astronomical Principles of Religion, Seattle: Pacific Meridian, 1717. (From Microfilm).
• Zeitl, Helmut, "Tiahuanco and the Deluge," Catastrophism and Ancient History, VI 2, July 1984.