BCM’s Paul Garner recently attended the Sixth International Conference on Creationism (ICC), a gathering of creationist scholars from many different countries that takes place every four to five years. About 40 papers were presented at the conference, on topics ranging from biology to astronomy to the social sciences. In addition, there were four evening sessions open to the public. The evening speakers were Dr Russell Humphreys, Dr John Baumgardner, Dr Steven Austin and Dr Andrew Snelling.

During the ICC, Paul co-presented a paper with Dr John Whitmore which sought to develop suites of criteria to recognize pre-Flood, Flood, and post-Flood strata in the geological record. These criteria were then applied to the rocks in Wyoming, USA. All the conference papers have been published in a proceedings volume. For details of how to purchase this publication, contact the Creation Science Fellowship of Pittsburgh.

Following the ICC, Paul also attended Frontiers in Creation Research, a joint meeting of the creation biology and creation geology groups. The keynote speaker was Dr Leonard Brand, who spoke about various palaeontological projects with which he had been involved.

Sixteen short research talks were given, including Paul’s own contribution on submarine sandwaves as a model for reinterpreting the Coconino Sandstone of the Colorado Plateau.

The biology abstracts can be downloaded as Occasional Paper 11 from the Creation Biology Study Group website. It is hoped that the geology abstracts will shortly be published on the Cedarville University website.

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