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