Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Creationism (2023)

 

2018 ICC – Table of Contents

PREFACE J.H. Whitmore (editor)


ASTRONOMY PAPERS

How should recent creationists be responding to dark matter and dark energy

D.R. Faulkner

Craters and cracks caused by accelerated nuclear decay heat throughout the solar system

D. Stenberg


BIBLE STUDIES AND PHILOSOPHY PAPERS

Human history from Adam to Abraham: Integrating paleoanthropology with a Young-Age Creation perspective

M. Ross, P.S. Brummel, and T.C. Wood

Essentialism and the human kind, or experiments in character weighting

T.C. Wood


BIOLOGY PAPERS

Testing the cavefish model: an organism-focused theory of biological design

M.J. Boyle, S. Arledge, B. Thomas, J.P. Tomkins, and R.J. Guiluzza

A preliminary evaluation of ape baramins

P.S. Brummel, and T.C. Wood

Genealogical vs phylogenic mutation rates: Answering a challenge

R.W. Carter

Molecular baraminology of marine and freshwater fish

M. Cserhati

Allometric and metabolic scaling: Arguments for design…and clues to explaining pre-Flood longevity?

B. Hebert

A creation model of design: Applications of an interface systems model in key global symbiotic relationships

T. Hennigan, R. Guliuzza, M. Ingle, and G. Lansdell

A review of CRS eKINDS predictive success and known genetic mechanisms affecting the prevalence of alleles in a population: Meiot- ic drive as a compiling explanation for patterns attributed to natural selection

J.K. Lightner

Hominin baraminology reconsidered with postcranial characters

T.C. Wood, and P.S. Brummel


ENGINEERING AND PHYSICS PAPERS

A rapid Ice Age and transition to ice sheet growth

S.M. Gollmer

Cause of large post-Flood jump in earths carbon-14

D.R. Humphreys

Human brain function above all other and the creation model

J.D. Johansen

Language, coded instructions and the interaction with thermodynamics

A.C. McIntosh

Tapping the hourglass: Disequilibrium relaxation following accelerated nuclear decay

N. Mogk


GEOLOGY PAPERS

Shoreline transgressive terraces: Tufa-encrusted landformsIndicate rapid filling and failure of Hopi Lake, western Bidahochi Basin, northeastern Arizona

S.A. Austin, E.W. Holroyd III, T.F. Folks, and N. Loper

The role of large tsunamis in the in the formation of the Flood sediment record

J. Baumgardner, and E. Navarro

How often do radioisotope ages agree? A preliminary study of 29,000 radioisotope ages in the usgs national geochronological database

M.D. Beachy, B.R. Kinard, and P.A. Garner

A Progressive Global Flood Model Confirmed by Rock Data Across Five Continents

T.L. Clarey and D.J. Werner

Receding Noahic Flood waters led to seafloor spreading: A proposed geological model

H. Dickens

Testing the order of the fossil record: Preliminary observations on stratigraphic-clade congruence and its implications for models of evolution and creation

K. McGuire, S. Southerden, K. Beebe, N. Doran, T.C. Wood, and P.A. Garner

A Preliminary analysis of archosauromorph baraminology

M.A. McLain, C. Clausen, T. Perez, K. Beebe, and A. Ahten

Radiohalos through earth history- What clues can they provide us?

A.A. Snelling

Developing a comprehensive model of global Flood paleontology: Integrating the biostratigraphic record with global megasequence deposition

J.P. Tomkins, and T.L. Clarey

Can sandstone cross-bed dip inclinations determine depositional environment?

J.H. Whitmore

What biostratigraphic continuity suggests about earth’s history

K.P. Wise, and D. Richardson


ASTRONOMY ABSTRACTS

Four comets of 2020 are first returning ice bodies from the wave which brought water to earth at the time of Noah’s Flood

T. Holt

Expansion of the cosmic fabric model to the inelastic case

C. Ward, M.F. Horstemeyer, and T.G. Tenev


ARCHAEOLOGY ABSTRACTS

Why ancient worldwide pyramid complexes support the biblical babel account

A. Habermehl

The place of radiocarbon dating in a young earth framework

D. Petrovich


BIBLE, EDUCATION, LAW, AND PHILOSOPHY ABSTRACTS

That the Book of Job describes events prior to Abraham and coincides with the end of the Ice Age

D.S Bolls

CreationeeringTM: A K-12 educational system that integrates engineering-business from a biblical perspective

M.F. Horstemeyer

A mathematical description of the Christian God

M.F. Horstemeyer

Holy Spirit’s refreshing our bodies via biological redemption and the creation model

J.D. Johansen

The role of and limits on uniformitarian principles in creationist sedimentology research

S.A. Maithel

The effect of American law on creation research and education: Using grassroots organization to respond

S.C. Policastro Jr

The Septuagint vs. the Masoretic text … A statistical perspective

S.J. Smithers, T. Specht, and E.M. Smith


BIOLOGY ABSTRACTS

New analyses suggest that all horses (Perissodactyla: Equidae) belong to a single holobaramin

T.R. Brophy, and J.R. Gregory

Molecular and morphological analyses confirm that all loons (Aves: Gaviiformes) form a single holobaramin

T.R Brophy, M.-C.A. Matthews, M.M. Guillory and A.M. Ramerth

A novel software for organelle genome-based baraminology studies

M. Cserhati

Messages in the genetic code: The DRAm form

J.M. DeMassa

The exquisite design of somatic hypermutation to enhance antibody diversity, binding affinity and self-tolerance

F. Maas


ENGINEERING ABSTRACTS

Bacterial chemotaxis control illustrates an engineering framework in the creation model

J.D. Johansen


GEOLOGY ABSTRACTS

Does the fossil record of non-mammalian synapsid digits show an increasing “mammal-ness?”

E. Anderson, and M.A. McLain

Noah’s Arks and viking funeral ships: A creationist look at the biogeographic patterns of tetrapods in the collisions of South America/North America and India/Asia

R. Frields, C. LePore, and M.A. McLain

Do fossil data suggest greater animal longevity in the pre-Flood world?

L. Hebert III

After awhile…crocodile?: An assessment of crocodylians as living fossils

C. LePore

Hypogene Speleogenesis of Ozark Caves

J. Miller

Catastrophic plate tectonics and the tectonics of western North America

S. Petersen and J. Baumgardner

A creationist model of dinosaur paleobiogeography

M. Surtees

Groundwater flow and the resulting heat transfer from the sea floor, immediately after the Genesis Flood

D.M. Winsberg

Effects of hot post-Flood groundwater flow from the sea floor

D.M. Winsberg

Long tree-ring chronologies: The role of “bridge” tree-ring series

J. Woodmorappe


ASTRONOMY POSTERS

A creationist model of impacts throughout the solar system

T. Holt


BIOLOGY POSTERS

Testing the cavefish model: An organism-focused theory of biological design

M.J. Boyle, S. Arledge, B. Thomas, J.P. Tomkins, and R.J. Guiliuzza

Hybridization and genetic distances suggest one large monobaramin in the gourd family (Cucurbitales: Cucurbitaceae)

T.R. Brophy, J.R. Gregory, and B. Townsend

Paleo-ontogenetic growth curves: Evidence for extreme past animal longevity?

L. Hebert III


EDUCATION POSTERS

Is there still a need for a creation based graduate school?

J. Bielecki


ENGINEERING AND PHYSICS POSTERS

Dynamic recrystallization and grain size effects on catastrophic motion of the earth’s mantle during the Flood: Advancement of “ma- terial models”

H. Cho, J. Baumgardner, M. Lee, C. Miller, and M.F. Horstemeyer

Modeling the process of rapid geomagnetic reversal during the Genesis Flood

E. Katzaman, and J. Baumgardner

FE analysis of tsunami generation during the Genesis Flood

T. Lewis and J. Baumgardner

Genesis of the Creation Research Engineering Association

J. Swan


GEOLOGY POSTERS

Using stromatolites to rethink the Precambrian-Cambrian Pre-Flood/Flood boundary

K.P. Coulson

Gastropod evolutionary phylogeny

P. Doran, and N.A. Doran

Diverse assemblage of arthropods in amber from Upper Cretaceous Tarheel Formation near Goldsboro, North Carolina

D.J. Goodnight

A decade of ICR Ice Age research

L. Hebert III

The layered Castile probably originated from salt magma

S.J. Heerema, G.-J. van Heugten, and T. Clarey

Can radiometric dating fit a biblical timescale?

M. Jordan

Orthocone cephalopods as paleocurrent indicators in the Ordovician Kimmswick Formation of northeastern Missouri

Z.A. Klein

Physical evidence for a post-Flood lacustrine depositional environment for Hopi/Bidahochi Lake

N. Loper

Quantum computing in creation geoscience

M. McGuire, and K. McGuire

Unresolved issues in hypothetical fish-to-amphibian evolution

D. Prentice

The regression of the Flood in Virginia

J.C. Rakestraw, and J. Melnick

Geologic analysis of Ice Age simulation results

E.G. Sultan, and S.M. Gollmer

K-feldspar sand grain rounding in eolian and subaqueous transportation

E.G. Sultan, and E. Henze

Re-evaluating the measurements of radioactive decay

C.A. Wolcott Jr