Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Creationism ( 2013)

2013 ICC – Table of Contents

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Acknowledgements


Earth Sciences

Explaining the Continental Fossil-Bearing Sediment Record In
Terms of the Genesis Flood: Insights from Numerical Modeling of Erosion, Sediment Transport and Deposition Processes on a Global Scale

John Baumgardner

South Fork and Heart Mountain faults: Examples of Catastrophic, Gravity-driven overthrusts, Northwest Wyoming, USA

Timothy L. Clarey

Superfaults and Pseudotachylytes: Evidence of Catastrophic Earth Movements

Timothy L. Clarey, Steven A. Austin, Stephen Cheung and Raymond Strom

Double-Beta-Decay – An Indicator of the History of Accelerated Decay?

Eugene Chaffin

Baraminological Analysis of Jurassic and Cretaceous Avialae

Paul Garner, Todd Wood and Marcus Ross

A Review of Creation Research Regarding The Earth’s Magnetic Field Along With A Thorough Statistical Analysis Of The Data And Suggestions For Future Research

Robert Hill

Planetary Magnetic Dynamo Theories: A Century of Failure

D. Russell Humphreys

The Temporal, Geographical and Geological Ubiquity of Excess Argon with a Young-Earth Analysis

Richard Overman

Survey of Microbial Composition and Mechanisms of Living Stromatolites of the Bahamas and Australia: Developing Criteria to Determine the Biogenicity of Fossil Stromatolites

Georgia Purdom and Andrew Snelling

The Giant 1912 Eruption of Novarupta-Katmai: Laboratory Illustrating Earth’s Catastrophic Past

David Shormann

How Does an Underwater Debris Flow End?: Flow Transformation Evidences Observed Within the Lower Redwall Limestone of Arizona and Nevada

Darry Stansbury

A Review of Original Tissue Fossils and Their Age Implications

Brian Thomas

The Potential for and Implications of Widespread Post-Flood Erosion and Mass Wasting Processes

John Whitmore

Australopithecus Sediba, Statistical Baraminology, and Challenges to Identifying the Human Holobaramin

Todd Wood


Engineering and Applied Sciences

The Biocentric Design Model: How Features of Living Things Go Beyond Irreducible Complexity and Specified Complexity, and How Creation Science Could Foment New Discoveries in Biology

E. H. Chia

Initial Conditions for a Post-Flood Rapid Ice Age

Steven M. Gollmer

Evaluation of the Noah’s Ark: Wood Mechanical Properties Affected by Water Immersion

Mark Horstemeyer, Jinshu Shi, Sheldon Q. Shi and Stephen Horstemeyer

The Woodpecker’s Beak: An Optimally Designed Structure/Material for Energy Absorption and Shock Mitigation

NaYeon Lee, M.F. Horstemeyer, Denver Seely and Lakiesha N. Williams

New Material Model Reveals Inherent Tendency in Mantle Minerals for Runaway Mantle Dynamics

Jesse A. Sherburn, John R. Baumgardner and Mark F. Horstemeyer

Numerical Simulations of Winter Storms, Tropical Cyclones, and Nor’easters During the Ice Age Using the NCAR WRF Model With a Warm Ocean

Larry Vardiman

Noah’s Ark: Longitudinal Strength Based on Trusses

John Woodmorappe


Foundations of Science

Verses in Amos and Job Provide New Insights Into the Mechanisms Behind Noah’s Flood

Gavin Cox

What is the Eternal?

Steven Gollmer

The Language of Creation: Confronting the God Plus Evolution Myth

Doug Hamp


Life Sciences

The Chasm Between the Human and Chimpanzee Genomes: A Review of the Evolutionary Literature

Jerry Bergman and Jeffery Tomkins

Chromosome Number Changes Within Terrestrial Mammalian Families

Karen Bedinger

A Creationists Perspective on the Origin of Pathogenic Vibrio Cholerae and Vibrio Cholerae Toxin

Joeseph W. Francis and Todd Charles Wood

Transcription of Human Endogenous Retroviruses During the Menstrual Cycle Suggests Coordinated Hormonal Regulation

Emily Mackey, Olivia Mueller, David Chadwick, Brittany Thompson, Philip Taylor and Yingguang Liu

The Fossil Record of Angiosperm Families in Relation to Baraminology

Roger Sanders

Using Numerical Simulation to Better Understand Fixation Rates, and Establishment of a New Principle: Haldane’s Ratchet

Christopher L. Rupe and John C. Sanford

New Research Evaluating Similarities Between Human and Chimpanzee DNA

Jeffery Tomkins

A Review of the Last Decade of Creation Biology Research on Natural History, 2003-2012

Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of Three Terrestrial Mammal Baramins (Equidae, Felidae, and Canidae) Implies an Accelerated Mutation Rate Near the Time of the Flood

Todd Charles Wood


Social Sciences and the Humanities

Egypt’s Hieroglyphs Contain a Cultural Memory of Creation and Noah’s Flood

Gavin Cox

Ancient Egypt, the Ice Age, and Biblical Chronology

Anne Habermehl

Revising the Egyptian Chronology: Joseph as Imhotep, and Amenemhat IV as Pharaoh of the Exodus

Anne Habermehl

Stability and Change in Students’ Views of the Origin of the Universe: A Selected Review of the Literature

Sarah Walsh


Stellar and Planetary Sciences

Seeing Distant Stars in Near-Real Time

Mark Amunrud

Counting Back to Zero. A Review of Cosmological Models That Begin Under Conditions of Zero Entropy.

Keith Davies

A Model Explaining Some of the Catastrophic Effects of a Wave of Ice Bodies Passing Through the Solar System to Bring Water to Earth at the Time of Noah’s Flood

Trevor Holt

The Mars Desert Hypothesis and The Mars-RATE Connection

Ron Samec