Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Creationism (2003)

2003 ICC – Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements


Astro-Sciences

Accelerated Decay: Theoretical Models

Chaffin, Eugene F. Ph.D.

Hypercanes Following the Genesis Flood

Vardiman, Larry, Ph.D.

Temperature Profiles for an Optimized Water Vapor Canopy

Vardiman, Larry, Ph.D.

The Ubiquity of the Divine (Golden) Ratio and Fibonacci Numbers Throughout the Heavens and Earth

Willson, Fredrick A., M.S.


Earth and Planetary Sciences

Nautiloid Mass Kill and Burial Event, Redwall Limestone (Lower Mississippian), Grand Canyon Region, Arizona and Nevada

Austin, Steven A. , Ph.D.

Origin of Chemical Elements from Water

Boudreaux, B.S., M.S., Ph.D.

Catastrophic Plate Tectonics: The Physics Behind the Genesis Flood

Baumgardner, John R., Ph.D.

Measurable 14C in Fossilized Organic Materials: Confirming the Young Earth Creation-Flood Model

Baumgardner, John R., Ph.D., and Snelling, Andrew A., Ph.D., and Humphreys, D. Russell, Ph.D., and Austin, Steven A., Ph.D.

Fossil Equidae: A Monobaraminic, Stratomorphic Series

Cavanaugh, David P.

What Initiated the Flood Cataclysm?

Horstemeyer, Mark F., Ph.D., and Baumgardner, John R., Ph.D.

Will Mechanics Allow a Rapid Ice Age Following the Flood?

Horstemeyer, Mark F., Ph.D., and Gullett, Phil, Ph.D.

Helium Diffusion Rates Support Accelerated Nuclear Decay

Humphreys, D. Russell, Ph.D., and Austin, Steven A., Ph.D., and Baumgardner, John R., Ph.D., and Snelling, Andrew A., Ph.D.

Paleohydrology of Jurassic Conglomerate of the Crimean Peninsula

Lalomov, Alexander V., Ph.D.

The Oklo “Natural Nuclear Reactors” – Evidence of Variable Constants?

Matthews, Mark Z.

Evidence for Only One Gigantic Lake Missoula Flood

Oard, Michael J.

A Hydrothermal Model of Rapid Post-Flood Karsting

Silvestru, Emil G., Ph.D.

Radiohalos – A Tale of Three Granitic Plutons

Snelling, Andrew A., Ph.D. and Armitage, Mark H.

Radioisotopes in the Diabase Sill (upper PreCambrian) at Bass Rapids, Grand Canyon, Arizona: An Application and Test of the Isochron Dating Method

Snelling, Andrew A., Ph.D. and Austin, Steven A., Ph.D., and Hoesch, William A.

The Relevance of Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd and Pb-Pb Isotope Systematics to Elucidation of the Genesis and History of Recent Andesite Flows at Mt. Ngauruhoe, New Zealand, and the Implication for Radioisotopic Dating

Snelling, Andrew A., Ph.D.

Whole-rock K-Ar Model and Isochron, and Rd-Sr and Pb-Pb Isochron, “Dating” of the Somerset Dam Layered Mafic Intrusion, Australia

Snelling, Andrew A., Ph.D.

Flow Dynamics of an Enormous Subaqueous Dune within the Anchor Limestone, Las Vegas Range, Clark County, Southern Nevada

Stansbury, Darry D.

Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth

Vardiman, Larry, Ph.D., and Austin, Steven A., Ph.D., and Baumgardner, John R., Ph.D., and Chaffin, Eugene F. Ph.D., and DeYoung, Donald B, Ph.D., and Humphreys, D. Russell, Ph.D., and Snelling, Andrew A., Ph.D.

Initial Flood Deposits of the Western North American Cordillera: California, Utah and Idaho

Wingerden, C. Van, M.S.

Hydrothermal Biome: A Pre-Flood Environment

Wise, Kurt P., Ph.D.

The Pre-Flood Floating Forest: A Study in Paleontological Pattern Recognition

Wise, Kurt P., Ph.D.


Foundations of Science

Reflections on the Post-Huttonian Relevance of the Words: “Worship Him Who Made the Heaven, and the Earth, and the Sea and the Fountains of Waters” (Revelation 14:7)

Baldwin, John T., Ph.D.

Hebrew and Geologic Analysis of the Chronology and Parallelism of the Flood: Implications for Interpretation of the Geologic Record

Barrick, William D., M.Div., Th.M, Th.D. and Sigler, Roger, M.S.

The Genre of Genesis One

Fouts, David M., Th.D.

Septuagintal Versus Masoretic Chronology in Genesis 5 and 11

Young, J. A.


Life Sciences

The Organosubstrate of Life: A Creationist Perspective of Microbes and Viruses

Francis, Joseph W., Ph.D.

The Cognitum: A Perception-Dependent Concept Needed in Baraminology

Sanders, Roger W., Ph.D. and Wise, Kurt P., Ph.D.

Pain and the Adam Bomb

Speck, Patricia, L., D.V.M.

Rafting: A Post-Flood Biogeographic Dispersal Mechanism

Wise, Kurt P., Ph.D., and Croxton, Matthew

Perspectives on Ageing, A Young-Earth Creation Diversification Model

Wood, Todd Charles

Collapsing the Long Bristlecone Pine Tree Ring Chronologies

Woodmorappe, John, MA, BA

Unconventional Gene Behavior and its Relationship to Pseudogenes

Woodmorappe, John, MA, BA


Social Sciences

Do Creation and Flood Myths Found World Wide Have a Common Origin?

Bergman, Jerry, Ph.D.

Effects of a YEC Apologetics Class on Student Worldview

Deckard, Steve, Ed.D., Ph.D., and DeWitt, David A., Ph.D., and Cargo, Sharon E., D.V.M.

Early 19th Century British “Scriptural Geologists”: Opponents of the Emerging Old-Earth Theories of Geology

Mortenson, Terry, Ph.D.

The Significance of Caves in Post-Flood History of Mankind

Silvestru, Emil, Ph.D.

The Significance of the Ancient Standing Stones, Villages, Tombs on Orkney Island

Schroeder, Lawson L., D.D.S., and Schroeder, Philip L.

The Idea of Progress

Taylor, Ian T., A.I.M.


Addendum

Tidal Dissipation and the Age of IO

Spencer, Wayne, R, M.S.