1ST AND 3RD SATURDAY OF EACH MONTH @ 7:30-9:30PM
3095 RED HILL AVENUE, COSTA MESA, CA 92626
Please enter the Fellowship Hall through building's northernmost door, the one facing Fischer Avenue.
January 3, 2026
We will * watch two video presentations,
one by Discovery Science titled, The Origin of Animal Body Plans with Stephen C. Meyer, Ph.D. (2025 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith);
one by Discovery Science titled, The Origin of Animal Body Plans with Stephen C. Meyer, Ph.D. (2025 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith);
January 17, 2026
Helmut Welke, BS, MS Industrial Engineering, will give* a live, in-house presentation titled, "Biblical Cosmology: Understanding the First Four Days of Creation."
About our speaker:
Helmut is a retired engineering manager with a Fortune 100 company. He holds BS and MS degrees in industrial engineering from the University of Illinois and has held positions in a variety of national and international assignments. He is a certified engineering manager and in 2006 was elected to the board of trustees of IISE – an international society serving the Industrial & Systems Engineering profession. In 2012 he was honored as a “Fellow” of the IISE society.
Helmut is also president of Tennessee Creation Fellowship and a past president of the Quad-City Creation Science Association. Both are local Creation groups dedicated to telling the truth in science education. He is also a member of the Creation Research Society and has been named an Ambassador/Speaker for Logos Research Associates. In recent years he has become a popular speaker on Creation Science topics as well as Atheism and Intelligent Design. He has spoken to churches, youth groups, on college campuses and civic organizations throughout the Midwest USA, but also in France, Germany, Hungary and Poland.
Polls indicate that over 2/3 of Evangelical Youth walk away from the church after college. Our churches need to provide the apologetics and training to overcome the atheistic teaching to help the next generation develop a Christian worldview and the convictions that last a lifetime. Helmut’s presentations cover some technical information, but are designed for average audiences of all ages to comprehend and gain insight into our Created world. So that they too may become winsome case-makers for the Gospel and Biblical Creation.
Please contact Helmut at: [email protected] Or cell: 563-940-5360 There are no set fees for speaking engagements.
About our speaker:
Helmut is a retired engineering manager with a Fortune 100 company. He holds BS and MS degrees in industrial engineering from the University of Illinois and has held positions in a variety of national and international assignments. He is a certified engineering manager and in 2006 was elected to the board of trustees of IISE – an international society serving the Industrial & Systems Engineering profession. In 2012 he was honored as a “Fellow” of the IISE society.
Helmut is also president of Tennessee Creation Fellowship and a past president of the Quad-City Creation Science Association. Both are local Creation groups dedicated to telling the truth in science education. He is also a member of the Creation Research Society and has been named an Ambassador/Speaker for Logos Research Associates. In recent years he has become a popular speaker on Creation Science topics as well as Atheism and Intelligent Design. He has spoken to churches, youth groups, on college campuses and civic organizations throughout the Midwest USA, but also in France, Germany, Hungary and Poland.
Polls indicate that over 2/3 of Evangelical Youth walk away from the church after college. Our churches need to provide the apologetics and training to overcome the atheistic teaching to help the next generation develop a Christian worldview and the convictions that last a lifetime. Helmut’s presentations cover some technical information, but are designed for average audiences of all ages to comprehend and gain insight into our Created world. So that they too may become winsome case-makers for the Gospel and Biblical Creation.
Please contact Helmut at: [email protected] Or cell: 563-940-5360 There are no set fees for speaking engagements.
February 7, 2026
We will watch* the video,
INCREDIBLE New Evidence Noah’s Flood REALLY Happened, by Answers in Genesis, with Andrew Snelling, Ph.D. Geology.
About this video's featured speaker:
Dr. Andrew Snelling holds a PhD in geology from the University of Sydney, Australia. Dr. Snelling is active in research, writing and also speaking on topics such as the flood, fossils, the Grand Canyon, and the radioactive dating of rocks.
His interest in geology began very soon after his conversion to Christianity at nine years of age. Andrew was raised in a Christian family in Sydney, Australia, and his interest in geology began very soon after his conversion to Christianity at nine years of age. His very firm conviction in the authority and veracity of the Scriptures brought him to the creation/evolution controversy early in his teens, so that by the commencement of university studies, Andrew already had a clear scriptural perspective on the literalness of creation and Noah’s flood and an unmistakable call from the Lord for a life-long involvement in creationist ministry early in his university training.
Andrew completed a Bachelor of Science degree in applied geology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, graduating with first class honors in 1975. His PhD in geology was awarded in 1982 by The University of Sydney, Australia, for his research thesis titled “A Geochemical Study of the Koongarra Uranium Deposit, Northern Territory, Australia.” Between studies, Andrew worked for six years in the exploration and mining industries in Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory, variously as a field, mine, and research geologist for three different companies.
Andrew commenced in full-time creation ministry at the end of 1983, first working from Brisbane with the Creation Science Foundation of Australia (later Answers in Genesis–Australia) until late 1998, including three years with Ken Ham before Ham moved to the USA. From 1983 to 1992, Snelling was still required to be a geological consultant to the Koongarra uranium project for Denison Australia PL, subsidiary of the Canadian mining giant Denison. He was also involved in research projects with several Australian CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organization) scientists, and for more than ten years in a major international collaborative research effort, funded by the US Department of Energy, with ANSTO (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization) and university scientists across Australia and with university and government scientists from the USA, Britain, Japan, Korea , Sweden, and the International Atomic Energy Agency, to investigate the Koongarra uranium deposit as a natural analog of a nuclear waste disposal site. As a result of these research endeavors, Andrew was involved in writing numerous scientific reports and scientific papers that were published in international science journals and books.
Dr. Snelling has led tours to the Grand Canyon, England, Yosemite, and Death Valley.
In late 1998, Andrew joined the Institute for Creation Research (then near San Diego, CA) as professor of geology. His responsibilities included teaching master’s degree geology courses in ICR’s graduate school; leading tours to the Grand Canyon, England, Yosemite, and Death Valley; and research and writing projects. Andrew was a principal investigator in the eight-year, ICR-led RATE (Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth) research project, to which he made major contributions in rock-dating studies using radioisotopes and in studies of radiation halos (radiohalos) and tracks (fission tracks) in various minerals. He was a contributor of two chapters to the first RATE technical volume in 2000 and three chapters to the second RATE technical volume in 2005, as well as primary production editor of both volumes. Andrew’s time at ICR was also spent writing a major two-volume book on Earth’s Catastrophic Past: Geology, Creation, and the Flood (Dallas, TX: Institute for Creation Research, 2009), the sequel to the Whitcomb and Morris classic, The Genesis Flood.
In the Grand Canyon, Dr. Snelling could stand on rocks from creation week and then touch the first deposits laid down during the flood. This contact line between pre-flood rocks and flood deposits is known as the Great Unconformity—a sober reminder that God judges sin.
In June 2007, Andrew’s employment began with Answers in Genesis–US as their Director of Research. He initially resided in Brisbane, Australia, and commuted regularly as necessary to the USA. But in mid-2011 he moved with his wife to live in Northern Kentucky. As a result of joint research, he has contributed to and jointly edited (with Dr. Steven W. Boyd) the book Grappling with the Chronology of the Genesis Flood (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2014).
Dr. Snelling’s talents have enabled him to be involved in extensive creationist research in Australia, the USA, Britain, New Zealand, and elsewhere, majoring on radioactive methods for dating rocks (and radiocarbon dating of fossils) and evidence for the flood of Noah. Such research has included the formation of igneous and metamorphic rocks (for example, granites and schists, respectively), all types of mineral and gem deposits, sedimentary strata and fossil graveyards, and landscape features (for example, Grand Canyon, USA, and Ayers Rock or Uluru, central Australia) within the biblical framework of earth history. Technical papers by Dr. Snelling on regional metamorphism and rock dating have won the prestigious “Technical Excellence Award” as best technical papers at the 1994 Third and 1998 Fourth International Conference on Creationism respectively. As well as writing regularly and extensively in many international creationist magazines, journals and publications, Andrew was founding editor in 1984 and served as editor for almost 15 years of the Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal (now Journal of Creation), served as the editor-in-chief for the Sixth International Conference on Creationism in 2008, and served as founder and editor-in-chief of the online Answers Research Journal from its inception in 2008 to 2024.
Andrew has traveled around Australia, the USA, and widely overseas (Canada, Britain, Spain, Romania, Moldova, New Zealand, South Africa, Peru, Korea, Indonesia, Hong Kong, and China), speaking in schools, churches, colleges, universities, and public meetings to both lay and technical audiences on the overwhelming scientific evidence consistent with the biblical account of creation and the Genesis flood, based largely on his own research.
Dr. Snelling is included in the controlled group of scientists who have been permitted to remove rock samples from the Grand Canyon. Unfortunately, his latest research project in Grand Canyon required a successful lawsuit (which drew national and international media attention) to obtain the permit to collect samples from sedimentary layers deep in the Canyon that have in places been spectacularly bent (folded) smoothly without shattering. The results of the analytical and extensive microscope work on these samples confirm that not only were these layers deposited rapidly, but they were bent only months later at the end of the Genesis flood, which wipes out more than 500 million years of claimed geologic ages.
Andrew’s research has thus demonstrated that the global Genesis flood about 4,300 years ago explains many rock layers and most fossil deposits found around the world. Building from that foundation, he has made predictions as to what should be found if a catastrophic global flood actually happened (for example, the existence of extensive, fossil-bearing rock layers deposited right across continents). Additionally, Andrew’s research has indicated that radioactive decay rates have not been consistent in the past, having been grossly accelerated, so the radioactive methods for dating rocks at millions and billions of years old are not reliable, polonium radiohaloes indicate granites and metamorphism of rocks occurred rapidly, and the rock evidence overall is consistent with a young earth. He has also investigated the radioisotope dating of meteorites, and currently is also researching radiocarbon dating in conjunction with the geologic context of archeological investigations in Jordan and Israel.
Andrew remains an avid fan of cricket and still enjoys the occasional Australian roast lamb dinner.
In 2024, Andrew and his wife Kym returned to their home country, where they have three adult children and seven grandchildren. One son and his family are serving in campus ministry with the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students on the Macquarie University, Sydney campus; another son is a pediatrician and emergency department doctor at the Gold Coast University Hospital; and a daughter is serving in campus ministry with the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students on the Griffith University Gold Coast campus. Andrew remains an avid fan of cricket and still enjoys the occasional Australian roast lamb dinner.
INCREDIBLE New Evidence Noah’s Flood REALLY Happened, by Answers in Genesis, with Andrew Snelling, Ph.D. Geology.
About this video's featured speaker:
Dr. Andrew Snelling holds a PhD in geology from the University of Sydney, Australia. Dr. Snelling is active in research, writing and also speaking on topics such as the flood, fossils, the Grand Canyon, and the radioactive dating of rocks.
His interest in geology began very soon after his conversion to Christianity at nine years of age. Andrew was raised in a Christian family in Sydney, Australia, and his interest in geology began very soon after his conversion to Christianity at nine years of age. His very firm conviction in the authority and veracity of the Scriptures brought him to the creation/evolution controversy early in his teens, so that by the commencement of university studies, Andrew already had a clear scriptural perspective on the literalness of creation and Noah’s flood and an unmistakable call from the Lord for a life-long involvement in creationist ministry early in his university training.
Andrew completed a Bachelor of Science degree in applied geology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, graduating with first class honors in 1975. His PhD in geology was awarded in 1982 by The University of Sydney, Australia, for his research thesis titled “A Geochemical Study of the Koongarra Uranium Deposit, Northern Territory, Australia.” Between studies, Andrew worked for six years in the exploration and mining industries in Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory, variously as a field, mine, and research geologist for three different companies.
Andrew commenced in full-time creation ministry at the end of 1983, first working from Brisbane with the Creation Science Foundation of Australia (later Answers in Genesis–Australia) until late 1998, including three years with Ken Ham before Ham moved to the USA. From 1983 to 1992, Snelling was still required to be a geological consultant to the Koongarra uranium project for Denison Australia PL, subsidiary of the Canadian mining giant Denison. He was also involved in research projects with several Australian CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organization) scientists, and for more than ten years in a major international collaborative research effort, funded by the US Department of Energy, with ANSTO (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization) and university scientists across Australia and with university and government scientists from the USA, Britain, Japan, Korea , Sweden, and the International Atomic Energy Agency, to investigate the Koongarra uranium deposit as a natural analog of a nuclear waste disposal site. As a result of these research endeavors, Andrew was involved in writing numerous scientific reports and scientific papers that were published in international science journals and books.
Dr. Snelling has led tours to the Grand Canyon, England, Yosemite, and Death Valley.
In late 1998, Andrew joined the Institute for Creation Research (then near San Diego, CA) as professor of geology. His responsibilities included teaching master’s degree geology courses in ICR’s graduate school; leading tours to the Grand Canyon, England, Yosemite, and Death Valley; and research and writing projects. Andrew was a principal investigator in the eight-year, ICR-led RATE (Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth) research project, to which he made major contributions in rock-dating studies using radioisotopes and in studies of radiation halos (radiohalos) and tracks (fission tracks) in various minerals. He was a contributor of two chapters to the first RATE technical volume in 2000 and three chapters to the second RATE technical volume in 2005, as well as primary production editor of both volumes. Andrew’s time at ICR was also spent writing a major two-volume book on Earth’s Catastrophic Past: Geology, Creation, and the Flood (Dallas, TX: Institute for Creation Research, 2009), the sequel to the Whitcomb and Morris classic, The Genesis Flood.
In the Grand Canyon, Dr. Snelling could stand on rocks from creation week and then touch the first deposits laid down during the flood. This contact line between pre-flood rocks and flood deposits is known as the Great Unconformity—a sober reminder that God judges sin.
In June 2007, Andrew’s employment began with Answers in Genesis–US as their Director of Research. He initially resided in Brisbane, Australia, and commuted regularly as necessary to the USA. But in mid-2011 he moved with his wife to live in Northern Kentucky. As a result of joint research, he has contributed to and jointly edited (with Dr. Steven W. Boyd) the book Grappling with the Chronology of the Genesis Flood (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2014).
Dr. Snelling’s talents have enabled him to be involved in extensive creationist research in Australia, the USA, Britain, New Zealand, and elsewhere, majoring on radioactive methods for dating rocks (and radiocarbon dating of fossils) and evidence for the flood of Noah. Such research has included the formation of igneous and metamorphic rocks (for example, granites and schists, respectively), all types of mineral and gem deposits, sedimentary strata and fossil graveyards, and landscape features (for example, Grand Canyon, USA, and Ayers Rock or Uluru, central Australia) within the biblical framework of earth history. Technical papers by Dr. Snelling on regional metamorphism and rock dating have won the prestigious “Technical Excellence Award” as best technical papers at the 1994 Third and 1998 Fourth International Conference on Creationism respectively. As well as writing regularly and extensively in many international creationist magazines, journals and publications, Andrew was founding editor in 1984 and served as editor for almost 15 years of the Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal (now Journal of Creation), served as the editor-in-chief for the Sixth International Conference on Creationism in 2008, and served as founder and editor-in-chief of the online Answers Research Journal from its inception in 2008 to 2024.
Andrew has traveled around Australia, the USA, and widely overseas (Canada, Britain, Spain, Romania, Moldova, New Zealand, South Africa, Peru, Korea, Indonesia, Hong Kong, and China), speaking in schools, churches, colleges, universities, and public meetings to both lay and technical audiences on the overwhelming scientific evidence consistent with the biblical account of creation and the Genesis flood, based largely on his own research.
Dr. Snelling is included in the controlled group of scientists who have been permitted to remove rock samples from the Grand Canyon. Unfortunately, his latest research project in Grand Canyon required a successful lawsuit (which drew national and international media attention) to obtain the permit to collect samples from sedimentary layers deep in the Canyon that have in places been spectacularly bent (folded) smoothly without shattering. The results of the analytical and extensive microscope work on these samples confirm that not only were these layers deposited rapidly, but they were bent only months later at the end of the Genesis flood, which wipes out more than 500 million years of claimed geologic ages.
Andrew’s research has thus demonstrated that the global Genesis flood about 4,300 years ago explains many rock layers and most fossil deposits found around the world. Building from that foundation, he has made predictions as to what should be found if a catastrophic global flood actually happened (for example, the existence of extensive, fossil-bearing rock layers deposited right across continents). Additionally, Andrew’s research has indicated that radioactive decay rates have not been consistent in the past, having been grossly accelerated, so the radioactive methods for dating rocks at millions and billions of years old are not reliable, polonium radiohaloes indicate granites and metamorphism of rocks occurred rapidly, and the rock evidence overall is consistent with a young earth. He has also investigated the radioisotope dating of meteorites, and currently is also researching radiocarbon dating in conjunction with the geologic context of archeological investigations in Jordan and Israel.
Andrew remains an avid fan of cricket and still enjoys the occasional Australian roast lamb dinner.
In 2024, Andrew and his wife Kym returned to their home country, where they have three adult children and seven grandchildren. One son and his family are serving in campus ministry with the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students on the Macquarie University, Sydney campus; another son is a pediatrician and emergency department doctor at the Gold Coast University Hospital; and a daughter is serving in campus ministry with the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students on the Griffith University Gold Coast campus. Andrew remains an avid fan of cricket and still enjoys the occasional Australian roast lamb dinner.
February 21, 2026
Program to be determined.
March 7, 2026
Program to be determined.
March 21, 2026
Professor Joseph Kezele, M.D., will give* a live, in-house presentation titled, "Prodigious and Protective Plant Properties"
This presentation gives a variety of fascinating properties of plants that could only have resulted from purposeful design by the greatest intelligence in the universe, Jesus Christ, our Creator and Savior.
About our speaker:
Degrees and Experience
Joseph Kezele studied the sciences and music at the University of Arizona in addition to obtaining his undergraduate degree in Russian. After Medical School and Residency, he practiced Emergency Medicine for 25 years in the Phoenix area and was the Assistant Medical Director of the Emergency Department at Banner Thunderbird Hospital. There he participated in the training of medical students and Emergency Medicine Residents. He is now retired from the practice of medicine and serves as President of the Arizona Origin Science Association. Dr. Kezele is also a Logos Research Associate, and had the privilege of participating in a dinosaur dig in Montana and excavated a triceratops horn and the triceratops cervical condyle from which intact osteocytes in soft tissue were isolated.
At Arizona Christian University Dr. Kezele currently teaches Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry, Nutrition and Wellness, Pathophysiology and Creation Science Evangelism.
He has participated in 24 foreign mission trips, teaching medicine, standard evangelism and creation science evangelism in India, Zambia, Mexico, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Ukraine, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Armenia and Moldova. In Eastern Europe Dr. Kezele had the honor of being a guest lecturer in many State Universities and Medical Schools as well as teaching in Bible Colleges and seminaries.
Dr. Kezele teaches Creation Science Evangelism at Black Mountain Baptist Church in Cave Creek, Arizona, where he and his wife Patty attend. There he served as Chairman of the Deacon Board for 22 years, Their three adult children live and work in the Phoenix area.
Publications and Presentations
This presentation gives a variety of fascinating properties of plants that could only have resulted from purposeful design by the greatest intelligence in the universe, Jesus Christ, our Creator and Savior.
About our speaker:
Degrees and Experience
- B.A. in Russian, University of Arizona
- M.D., University of Arizona
- Pediatric Residency, Phoenix Hospitals Affiliated Pediatric Program
- Diplomate of the American Board of Emergency Medicine (Retired)
- Fellow, American College of Emergency Physicians (Retired)
Joseph Kezele studied the sciences and music at the University of Arizona in addition to obtaining his undergraduate degree in Russian. After Medical School and Residency, he practiced Emergency Medicine for 25 years in the Phoenix area and was the Assistant Medical Director of the Emergency Department at Banner Thunderbird Hospital. There he participated in the training of medical students and Emergency Medicine Residents. He is now retired from the practice of medicine and serves as President of the Arizona Origin Science Association. Dr. Kezele is also a Logos Research Associate, and had the privilege of participating in a dinosaur dig in Montana and excavated a triceratops horn and the triceratops cervical condyle from which intact osteocytes in soft tissue were isolated.
At Arizona Christian University Dr. Kezele currently teaches Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry, Nutrition and Wellness, Pathophysiology and Creation Science Evangelism.
He has participated in 24 foreign mission trips, teaching medicine, standard evangelism and creation science evangelism in India, Zambia, Mexico, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Ukraine, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Armenia and Moldova. In Eastern Europe Dr. Kezele had the honor of being a guest lecturer in many State Universities and Medical Schools as well as teaching in Bible Colleges and seminaries.
Dr. Kezele teaches Creation Science Evangelism at Black Mountain Baptist Church in Cave Creek, Arizona, where he and his wife Patty attend. There he served as Chairman of the Deacon Board for 22 years, Their three adult children live and work in the Phoenix area.
Publications and Presentations
- Kezele is one of the principal presenters in the Institute for Creation Research’s 4 DVD series Made in His Image.
- You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby! DVD on the changes in the circulatory system at birth.
- The Age of the Earth
- The Age of the Universe
- Amber and the Flood
- Are Dinosaurs More Recent Than You Think
- Ape-men to Humans – Is a Monkey Your Uncle?
- Astronomy for the Creationist
- Bacteria and Antibiotic Resistance
- Christian Men of Science
- Creation – The Eyes Have It!
- Creation Science Evangelism in Eastern Europe
- Dinos to Birds? – Horse Feathers!
- Do You Have a Date with Carbon-14?
- Does God Exist?
- Does Sickle Cell Anemia Provide Evidence for Evolution?
- Fossils and Noah’s Flood
- Fossil Tales
- From Darwin to Dictatorship
- Genetics in Genesis
- Geologic Catastrophes
- Grand Canyon – The Whole Truth
- Häckel, Hitler and the Medical Consequences of Evolutionary Thought
- Honeybees and Honey
- How Many Races Are There?
- The Ice Age and the Wooly Mammoths
- Information
- The Miller-Urey Experiment
- Origins for a Trade School
- The Perfectly Providing Placenta
- Programmed Filling and Speciation – Having Fun with Dogs
- Sea Horses, Woodpeckers and Monarch Butterflies
- Using Creation Science to Witness
- Valuable and Vicious Viruses
- Vestigial Organs
- What We Are Up Against
- Where Do the Thousands of Languages Come From?
- Why the Big Bang Didn’t Happen.
April 4, 2026
Program to be determined.
April 18, 2026
Jay Seegert, B.S. Physics, B.S. Engineering Technology, will give* a live, in-house presentation, topic to be determined.
About our speaker:
As the Keynote Speaker and Managing Director for The Starting Point Project, Jay Seegert is an international speaker and author who holds degrees in both Physics and Engineering Technology (Univ. of Wisconsin-Whitewater & John Brown University). He is also former President of Logos Research Associates, Speaker for the Creation Science Association of Fiji, and a Representative Speaker for Ratio Christi.
As Former adjunct speaker for Creation Ministries International and former President of the Creation Science Society of Milwaukee, Jay has been speaking on the authority of Scripture for over 30 years.
He and Amy, his wife of over 30 years, reside in Wisconsin. They have two married children: son Taylor and daughter Toni.
Jay has a passion for helping Christians strengthen their faith, while also offering a gracious challenge to the sincere skeptic.
About our speaker:
As the Keynote Speaker and Managing Director for The Starting Point Project, Jay Seegert is an international speaker and author who holds degrees in both Physics and Engineering Technology (Univ. of Wisconsin-Whitewater & John Brown University). He is also former President of Logos Research Associates, Speaker for the Creation Science Association of Fiji, and a Representative Speaker for Ratio Christi.
As Former adjunct speaker for Creation Ministries International and former President of the Creation Science Society of Milwaukee, Jay has been speaking on the authority of Scripture for over 30 years.
He and Amy, his wife of over 30 years, reside in Wisconsin. They have two married children: son Taylor and daughter Toni.
Jay has a passion for helping Christians strengthen their faith, while also offering a gracious challenge to the sincere skeptic.
MAY 2, 2026
Program to be determined.
may 16, 2026
President of the Creation Research Society, Joel Brown, Ph.D. Genetics, will give*
a live, in-house presentation, (Topic to be determined).
About our speaker:
Growing up, Dr. Joel Brown experienced two different worlds. As a pastor’s son, he was exposed to a Biblical understanding of the world and chose to serve and follow Christ from a young age. After completing an undergraduate degree in Biology Education at Pensacola Christian College, his love for science took him into academia where he spent ten years in a secular research environment. He earned a master’s degree in biology from the University of West Florida, followed by a PhD in Molecular Biology from Cornell University. During his PhD, researchers used mice to explore genes and molecular pathways that impact early mammalian development. After completing an additional year of postdoctoral research at Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. Brown turned his attention to science education.
He spent five years teaching biology in the public school system in the greater St. Louis area and was blessed to have one of the most unique classrooms in the entire country… a 100-acre forest! This 100-acre outdoor classroom, called Little Creek Nature Area, was a natural oasis tucked into the heart of the St. Louis suburbs. The mission at Little Creek was to help city kids experience nature and learn how nature works. This was a unique, wonderful experience, but something was missing.
Although Dr. Brown loved teaching in the public schools, Ecclesiastes 12:1 reminded him to “remember now thy creator in the days of thy youth.” He decided to take his research and teaching background and fully invest in studying and sharing the Biblical message of creation by joining the mission of the Creation Research Society (CRS). As Director of CRS, his goal is to perform and promote sound scientific research that glorifies the Creator. As a scientist, teacher, and Christian, the conflict between the Biblical and Secular worldviews fascinates Dr. Brown. Rather than avoiding this conflict, he wants to help churches, believers, and young people think through one of the greatest questions of all, the question of our past.
a live, in-house presentation, (Topic to be determined).
About our speaker:
Growing up, Dr. Joel Brown experienced two different worlds. As a pastor’s son, he was exposed to a Biblical understanding of the world and chose to serve and follow Christ from a young age. After completing an undergraduate degree in Biology Education at Pensacola Christian College, his love for science took him into academia where he spent ten years in a secular research environment. He earned a master’s degree in biology from the University of West Florida, followed by a PhD in Molecular Biology from Cornell University. During his PhD, researchers used mice to explore genes and molecular pathways that impact early mammalian development. After completing an additional year of postdoctoral research at Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. Brown turned his attention to science education.
He spent five years teaching biology in the public school system in the greater St. Louis area and was blessed to have one of the most unique classrooms in the entire country… a 100-acre forest! This 100-acre outdoor classroom, called Little Creek Nature Area, was a natural oasis tucked into the heart of the St. Louis suburbs. The mission at Little Creek was to help city kids experience nature and learn how nature works. This was a unique, wonderful experience, but something was missing.
Although Dr. Brown loved teaching in the public schools, Ecclesiastes 12:1 reminded him to “remember now thy creator in the days of thy youth.” He decided to take his research and teaching background and fully invest in studying and sharing the Biblical message of creation by joining the mission of the Creation Research Society (CRS). As Director of CRS, his goal is to perform and promote sound scientific research that glorifies the Creator. As a scientist, teacher, and Christian, the conflict between the Biblical and Secular worldviews fascinates Dr. Brown. Rather than avoiding this conflict, he wants to help churches, believers, and young people think through one of the greatest questions of all, the question of our past.
* All plans are subject to, "... if the Lord will..." in accordance with James 4:13-15.