1ST AND 3RD SATURDAY OF EACH MONTH @ 7:30-9:30PM
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september 16, 2023
Tim Standish, Ph.D. (Environmental Biology and Public Policy) will give* a presentation titled "SIGNS OF DESIGN"
Abstract:
Philosophers struggle with what evidence might be a sign of design, but normal people don’t have that problem. It would take a lot of “education” to become blinded to the fact that a Boeing 787 aircraft, or even the worst book ever written, was designed. The same is true of the signs of design we see in life. We will look at some evidence from recent papers about living thing, you can decide whether or not there are signs of design, but be sure to ask yourself if your evaluation is a result of the evidence and logic, or something else.
About our speaker:
Dr. Standish is Adjunct Associate Professor of Earth and Biological Sciences in the Loma Linda University's School of Medicine. He holds a B.S. in zoology from Andrews University, an M.S. in biology from Andrews University, and a Ph.D. in biology and public policy from George Mason University (University of Virginia), Charlottesville, Virginia.
Abstract:
Philosophers struggle with what evidence might be a sign of design, but normal people don’t have that problem. It would take a lot of “education” to become blinded to the fact that a Boeing 787 aircraft, or even the worst book ever written, was designed. The same is true of the signs of design we see in life. We will look at some evidence from recent papers about living thing, you can decide whether or not there are signs of design, but be sure to ask yourself if your evaluation is a result of the evidence and logic, or something else.
About our speaker:
Dr. Standish is Adjunct Associate Professor of Earth and Biological Sciences in the Loma Linda University's School of Medicine. He holds a B.S. in zoology from Andrews University, an M.S. in biology from Andrews University, and a Ph.D. in biology and public policy from George Mason University (University of Virginia), Charlottesville, Virginia.
october 7, 2023
Greg Morgan, retired Nuclear Safety Engineer with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), will give* an in-house presentation titled, FLOOD CURRENTS FROZEN IN STONE.
Greg Morgan writes: Does it matter whether the Earth is young? It mattered to me. I could not accept salvation until I had a reason to believe that I needed a savior.
In a seventh grade science class, I decided that evolution was true. The film strips we were watching said as much. My teachers agreed. I accepted it as a fact, not just a theory. I believed that we all evolved from chemicals to goo to apes to men. I maintained that position through high school and as I earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. My geology, biology, and chemistry classes all affirmed that position.
Was salvation enough to reject evolution? Not for me.
Can Genesis and evolution be reconciled?
How could the plants survive billions of years without the sun? Why were so many things developed in the opposite order? Evolutionary science says the sun came before the earth; and reptiles before birds; and the other stars long before the earth.
Genesis presents the opposite order.
Jesus says in Mark 10:6 that God created us male and female “from the beginning of creation”. If we were created after billions of years, how is this “at the beginning of creation”? These doctrinal problems were enough for me to reject the theory of evolution.
I then adopted the “days of revelation” interpretation. The novelty here was that I came up with this one on my own, while I had heard the others from other people.
This was where I stood, until I took my son to a Back to Genesis seminar from the Institute for Research (ICR). There, in about 12 hours of lectures, I was presented with the assumptions behind the scientific theory of evolution, and how they could be shown to be false. More important for me, we were also presented with an overall description of how the initial creation, the Flood, and the post-Flood era can explain everything we see in the universe. This description allows Genesis and what science observes to be reconciled, and shows the earth to be young.
I was stunned. Here were PhD level scientists, believers in the inerrancy of Scripture, who could explain why everything was consistent with the Bible. They explained where dinosaurs came from, and where they went; where Cain got his wife; how the continents split apart; how we can see starlight from distant galaxies; everything was consistent.
I am embarrassed to admit that this process, from salvation to Young Earth Creationism, took 15 years. I hope it takes others much less time.
The Grand Canyon illustrates an important fact about the controversy. There are 10 major rock layers, each of which is believed by evolutionists to have been raised to the surface of the earth, where they were eroded to the present thickness, before the area was submerged beneath the seas, and another layer was laid down on top. This should result in river beds being visible on the top of each layer. Based on road atlases, there should be a river bed every 31 miles, atop each layer. There are none, as shown in the photos. This was one of the best evidences I discussed in a church where I was invited to speak.
The next Monday, I saw a photo of The Wave at Paria Canyon, and my blood ran cold. Here, I thought, was a clear river bed between the layers of rock. I broke out in a cold sweat, because I thought that I had just given false testimony. I prayed about it, and analyzed it, for two weeks before realizing that The Wave is actually excellent evidence for the Global Flood.
Being a Berean Christian, I did not want to use the Wave as evidence for the Flood without seeing it with my own eyes. I have now been there three times. The Wave at Paria is indeed excellent evidence for the Global Flood, as described in the Bible.
Go through 66 photos, taken by myself (Greg Morgan), describing how they support belief in the Flood.
First, three photos from the North Rim. None show any between-layers river beds. Next, there is a photo of a sixteen-year-old Greg Morgan at the base of Ribbon Falls. I would like to go back, and compare to see how much travertine has built up in fifty years. Then comes a photo from the North Kaibab Trail, of the thick and streaked Kaibab Limestone. Why is the top of it so flat? Then comes a photo of the North Rim bookstore, where they are selling “Grand Canyon: A Different View” by Tom Vail, which has beautiful photos and numerous articles by PhDs examining the evidence for the Flood. Then comes a photo of Greg Morgan looking upriver from the Grand Canyon, toward Marble Canyon and the Navajo Sandstone where the Wave is found. Again, why is the topography so flat? Thunderstorms should have worn streambeds and river beds here, if the evolutionary timeline is accurate. Then comes a photo of the Vermillion Cliffs, above which is the Wave. Then comes a photo of the diagram of the Grand Staircase, the arrangement of cliffs and flat lands from the Grand Canyon north. There was once thirty thousand feet of sediment above the Grand Canyon; where are the talus piles or other erosional deposits? They are in the Gulf of California, but the Colorado cannot have taken them there. The last part of the Flood did – the retreat from the continents. Then come three photos of the rout into the Wave. And the 14th through 17th photos show the entrance into The Wave, one of which was in my Answers article about the Wave. The 18th through 28th photo show a panorama of The Wave. These show how magnificent, and how iridescent, the Wave is.
Navaho Sandstone contains 30% granite, ground down to sand-sized particles. The Wave outdoes that – Dennis Bokovoy and Peter Nurre found that the Wave sandstone is nearly 100 percent granite, and all that granite is spherical beads.
That is what makes the Wave iridescent. It is made up of granite, which is often iridescent; and the size and arrangement of the tiny particles may add to the iridescence, similarly to how spherical silica give opals an “iridescence” in their color play.
Then comes a photo which I call “The Blue Man at The Wave”; Someone I never met gives interest, color contrast, and scale to a photo which shows The Wave and the 3,000 foot Coyote Buttes. The Wave has two whirlpools and much twisted geology. The Coyote Buttes behind The Wave show sliding features, flow patterns, and much other evidence that they were laid down on one massive event, probably in turbidity current. Layers in the Buttes have areas where one layer intrudes into another. All geologists agree that such interbedding show that the layers were laid down at the same time. 3,000 feet of layers, covering 300 miles by 300 miles, laid down at the same time means – the Global Flood.
Slide 29 through 55 show bent, twisted, and shaken sandstone. They illustrate the end result of the Flood, and give clues as to how the erosion happened to expose The Wave. The water escape pockets show that the erosion occurred before significant cementing of the quartz and granite particles, so it happened rapidly, sometime in the first 200 years after the global Flood.
The final slides show: a map of the Vermillion Cliffs, showing where Cottonwood Cove and Paws Hole are. Then a photo of a mountain lion track, taken a quarter mile from the Wave trailhead. She and her cub made these tracks less than fifteen minutes before we walked past them. Then, eight photos of sandstone teepees at Paws Hole, showing similar geology to The Wave (unfortunately, I got trapped in deep sand and did not make it to Cottonwood Cove. The photos I have seen show that Cottonwood Cove is two Waves on top of each other.).
Slide 66 is of Arches National Park, showing that the Entrada Sandstone below the Navajo Sandstone has been shaken by a massive earthquake, while still wet sand.
Slide 67 is of the Silk Tomb in Petra, Jordan. This slide is from another photographer, and I may not have legal authority to show it. I will ensure that I do, or I will not show it.
Next comes a question and answer period.
I would like to end with:
Other locations with wave-like geology – bent and slid formations:
The Wire Pass entrance, four miles north; The Second Wave, 2 miles south; Paw Hole teepees, five miles south;
Cottonwood Cove , two Waves on top of each other, three miles south; White Pocket, ten miles east; Kanab Canyon, stretching from 30 miles west to 100 miles northwest. (All of these are in Navaho Sandstone); Arches National Park, 200 miles northeast – Entrada Sandstone; The Silk Tomb, Petra, Jordan, 19,000 miles away. (This is in Tapeats Sandstone [The same as the bottom layer in the Grand Canyon; the massive, multiple-continent sedimentary layer argues strongly for the Flood, even if it was not made of bent layers with several whirlpools of different colors]).
Does anyone here know of other such geological formations?
About our speaker: Greg Morgan is a retired nuclear safety engineer. From his salvation, it took him 15 years to convert from ancient-earth-creationist to biblical, young earth creationist. Following his BSME degree, he earned a BS in theology and is now dedicated to helping others become biblical young earth creationists in far less time and to develop into mature Christians.
Greg Morgan writes: Does it matter whether the Earth is young? It mattered to me. I could not accept salvation until I had a reason to believe that I needed a savior.
In a seventh grade science class, I decided that evolution was true. The film strips we were watching said as much. My teachers agreed. I accepted it as a fact, not just a theory. I believed that we all evolved from chemicals to goo to apes to men. I maintained that position through high school and as I earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. My geology, biology, and chemistry classes all affirmed that position.
Was salvation enough to reject evolution? Not for me.
Can Genesis and evolution be reconciled?
How could the plants survive billions of years without the sun? Why were so many things developed in the opposite order? Evolutionary science says the sun came before the earth; and reptiles before birds; and the other stars long before the earth.
Genesis presents the opposite order.
Jesus says in Mark 10:6 that God created us male and female “from the beginning of creation”. If we were created after billions of years, how is this “at the beginning of creation”? These doctrinal problems were enough for me to reject the theory of evolution.
I then adopted the “days of revelation” interpretation. The novelty here was that I came up with this one on my own, while I had heard the others from other people.
This was where I stood, until I took my son to a Back to Genesis seminar from the Institute for Research (ICR). There, in about 12 hours of lectures, I was presented with the assumptions behind the scientific theory of evolution, and how they could be shown to be false. More important for me, we were also presented with an overall description of how the initial creation, the Flood, and the post-Flood era can explain everything we see in the universe. This description allows Genesis and what science observes to be reconciled, and shows the earth to be young.
I was stunned. Here were PhD level scientists, believers in the inerrancy of Scripture, who could explain why everything was consistent with the Bible. They explained where dinosaurs came from, and where they went; where Cain got his wife; how the continents split apart; how we can see starlight from distant galaxies; everything was consistent.
I am embarrassed to admit that this process, from salvation to Young Earth Creationism, took 15 years. I hope it takes others much less time.
The Grand Canyon illustrates an important fact about the controversy. There are 10 major rock layers, each of which is believed by evolutionists to have been raised to the surface of the earth, where they were eroded to the present thickness, before the area was submerged beneath the seas, and another layer was laid down on top. This should result in river beds being visible on the top of each layer. Based on road atlases, there should be a river bed every 31 miles, atop each layer. There are none, as shown in the photos. This was one of the best evidences I discussed in a church where I was invited to speak.
The next Monday, I saw a photo of The Wave at Paria Canyon, and my blood ran cold. Here, I thought, was a clear river bed between the layers of rock. I broke out in a cold sweat, because I thought that I had just given false testimony. I prayed about it, and analyzed it, for two weeks before realizing that The Wave is actually excellent evidence for the Global Flood.
Being a Berean Christian, I did not want to use the Wave as evidence for the Flood without seeing it with my own eyes. I have now been there three times. The Wave at Paria is indeed excellent evidence for the Global Flood, as described in the Bible.
Go through 66 photos, taken by myself (Greg Morgan), describing how they support belief in the Flood.
First, three photos from the North Rim. None show any between-layers river beds. Next, there is a photo of a sixteen-year-old Greg Morgan at the base of Ribbon Falls. I would like to go back, and compare to see how much travertine has built up in fifty years. Then comes a photo from the North Kaibab Trail, of the thick and streaked Kaibab Limestone. Why is the top of it so flat? Then comes a photo of the North Rim bookstore, where they are selling “Grand Canyon: A Different View” by Tom Vail, which has beautiful photos and numerous articles by PhDs examining the evidence for the Flood. Then comes a photo of Greg Morgan looking upriver from the Grand Canyon, toward Marble Canyon and the Navajo Sandstone where the Wave is found. Again, why is the topography so flat? Thunderstorms should have worn streambeds and river beds here, if the evolutionary timeline is accurate. Then comes a photo of the Vermillion Cliffs, above which is the Wave. Then comes a photo of the diagram of the Grand Staircase, the arrangement of cliffs and flat lands from the Grand Canyon north. There was once thirty thousand feet of sediment above the Grand Canyon; where are the talus piles or other erosional deposits? They are in the Gulf of California, but the Colorado cannot have taken them there. The last part of the Flood did – the retreat from the continents. Then come three photos of the rout into the Wave. And the 14th through 17th photos show the entrance into The Wave, one of which was in my Answers article about the Wave. The 18th through 28th photo show a panorama of The Wave. These show how magnificent, and how iridescent, the Wave is.
Navaho Sandstone contains 30% granite, ground down to sand-sized particles. The Wave outdoes that – Dennis Bokovoy and Peter Nurre found that the Wave sandstone is nearly 100 percent granite, and all that granite is spherical beads.
That is what makes the Wave iridescent. It is made up of granite, which is often iridescent; and the size and arrangement of the tiny particles may add to the iridescence, similarly to how spherical silica give opals an “iridescence” in their color play.
Then comes a photo which I call “The Blue Man at The Wave”; Someone I never met gives interest, color contrast, and scale to a photo which shows The Wave and the 3,000 foot Coyote Buttes. The Wave has two whirlpools and much twisted geology. The Coyote Buttes behind The Wave show sliding features, flow patterns, and much other evidence that they were laid down on one massive event, probably in turbidity current. Layers in the Buttes have areas where one layer intrudes into another. All geologists agree that such interbedding show that the layers were laid down at the same time. 3,000 feet of layers, covering 300 miles by 300 miles, laid down at the same time means – the Global Flood.
Slide 29 through 55 show bent, twisted, and shaken sandstone. They illustrate the end result of the Flood, and give clues as to how the erosion happened to expose The Wave. The water escape pockets show that the erosion occurred before significant cementing of the quartz and granite particles, so it happened rapidly, sometime in the first 200 years after the global Flood.
The final slides show: a map of the Vermillion Cliffs, showing where Cottonwood Cove and Paws Hole are. Then a photo of a mountain lion track, taken a quarter mile from the Wave trailhead. She and her cub made these tracks less than fifteen minutes before we walked past them. Then, eight photos of sandstone teepees at Paws Hole, showing similar geology to The Wave (unfortunately, I got trapped in deep sand and did not make it to Cottonwood Cove. The photos I have seen show that Cottonwood Cove is two Waves on top of each other.).
Slide 66 is of Arches National Park, showing that the Entrada Sandstone below the Navajo Sandstone has been shaken by a massive earthquake, while still wet sand.
Slide 67 is of the Silk Tomb in Petra, Jordan. This slide is from another photographer, and I may not have legal authority to show it. I will ensure that I do, or I will not show it.
Next comes a question and answer period.
I would like to end with:
Other locations with wave-like geology – bent and slid formations:
The Wire Pass entrance, four miles north; The Second Wave, 2 miles south; Paw Hole teepees, five miles south;
Cottonwood Cove , two Waves on top of each other, three miles south; White Pocket, ten miles east; Kanab Canyon, stretching from 30 miles west to 100 miles northwest. (All of these are in Navaho Sandstone); Arches National Park, 200 miles northeast – Entrada Sandstone; The Silk Tomb, Petra, Jordan, 19,000 miles away. (This is in Tapeats Sandstone [The same as the bottom layer in the Grand Canyon; the massive, multiple-continent sedimentary layer argues strongly for the Flood, even if it was not made of bent layers with several whirlpools of different colors]).
Does anyone here know of other such geological formations?
About our speaker: Greg Morgan is a retired nuclear safety engineer. From his salvation, it took him 15 years to convert from ancient-earth-creationist to biblical, young earth creationist. Following his BSME degree, he earned a BS in theology and is now dedicated to helping others become biblical young earth creationists in far less time and to develop into mature Christians.
october 21, 2023
Ross Anderson, Ph.D. (Molecular Biology) will give* an in-house presentation titled, THE FORMATION OF ANTIBODIES.
With all the Covid stuff behind us more people have become familiar with antibodies, but how many really know what an antibody molecule is, how they are formed and what triggers their release? A brief look at some of the intricacies of the immune system reveal design at the highest most complex levels. We will briefly take a closer look into the extreme complexity and design of just one small but very important aspect of the immune system.
Also, we have invited Christine Anderson, Dr. Ross's lovely wife, to perform a handbell-ringing concert for our edification.
About our speaker:
Dr. Anderson is newly retired from The Masters University. Dr. Anderson’s expertise is in the area of biochemistry and molecular biology. He has taught Biochemistry and helped to direct research projects of graduate and medical students at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. Dr. Anderson was a post-doctoral researcher in the Molecular Genetics Division of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Houston Neurosensory Center.
Dr. Anderson was a member of both the undergraduate and graduate faculty at Lamar University, Beaumont, TX. There he taught and directed the research activities of undergraduates and Masters of Science degree candidates in Biology.
Dr. Anderson’s research interests include structure-function studies of DNA polymerizing enzymes and the synthesis and expression of synthetic human genes in bacterial hosts. He has authored or co-authored several publications in major, peer-reviewed journals. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and Sigma Xi Research Society. Dr. Anderson is also a Logos Research Associate.
With all the Covid stuff behind us more people have become familiar with antibodies, but how many really know what an antibody molecule is, how they are formed and what triggers their release? A brief look at some of the intricacies of the immune system reveal design at the highest most complex levels. We will briefly take a closer look into the extreme complexity and design of just one small but very important aspect of the immune system.
Also, we have invited Christine Anderson, Dr. Ross's lovely wife, to perform a handbell-ringing concert for our edification.
About our speaker:
Dr. Anderson is newly retired from The Masters University. Dr. Anderson’s expertise is in the area of biochemistry and molecular biology. He has taught Biochemistry and helped to direct research projects of graduate and medical students at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. Dr. Anderson was a post-doctoral researcher in the Molecular Genetics Division of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Houston Neurosensory Center.
Dr. Anderson was a member of both the undergraduate and graduate faculty at Lamar University, Beaumont, TX. There he taught and directed the research activities of undergraduates and Masters of Science degree candidates in Biology.
Dr. Anderson’s research interests include structure-function studies of DNA polymerizing enzymes and the synthesis and expression of synthetic human genes in bacterial hosts. He has authored or co-authored several publications in major, peer-reviewed journals. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and Sigma Xi Research Society. Dr. Anderson is also a Logos Research Associate.
About our concert bell-ringer (from the website, Voicesinbronze.com):
The solo handbell artistry of Christine D. Anderson is world-renowned. With finesse, grace and dexterity, Christine's solo handbell artistry has thrilled audiences in 25 countries and 50 states, and her fans around the world will tell you that you'll never be the same after hearing and seeing Christine play.
Christine began her handbell ringing career at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, in late 1972. After completing a B.A. in music at Florida Atlantic University, she directed 6 handbell choirs at Coral Ridge and began conducting workshops and festivals around the country.
Christine rang her first handbell solo, "The Lord’s Prayer," in 1980, discovering the gift that would define her life’s work and produced a video called "Voices in Bronze®." She writes for several music journals, is on the editorial board for “Creator Magazine”, and serves the Southern Baptist Convention as Editor for "Handbells" magazine. Christine has published over 120 solo handbell arrangements, all reflecting her commitment to excellence in handbell ringing. She has been an annual recipient of the ASCAP Standards Award for compositions and performances for many years.
The solo handbell artistry of Christine D. Anderson is world-renowned. With finesse, grace and dexterity, Christine's solo handbell artistry has thrilled audiences in 25 countries and 50 states, and her fans around the world will tell you that you'll never be the same after hearing and seeing Christine play.
Christine began her handbell ringing career at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, in late 1972. After completing a B.A. in music at Florida Atlantic University, she directed 6 handbell choirs at Coral Ridge and began conducting workshops and festivals around the country.
Christine rang her first handbell solo, "The Lord’s Prayer," in 1980, discovering the gift that would define her life’s work and produced a video called "Voices in Bronze®." She writes for several music journals, is on the editorial board for “Creator Magazine”, and serves the Southern Baptist Convention as Editor for "Handbells" magazine. Christine has published over 120 solo handbell arrangements, all reflecting her commitment to excellence in handbell ringing. She has been an annual recipient of the ASCAP Standards Award for compositions and performances for many years.
November 4, 2023
Russ Humphreys, Ph.D (Nuclear Physics) will give* a ZOOM presentation titled "A MORE BIBLICAL COSMOLOGY" from his home in Tennessee.
About our speaker: (The following text was taken from the Creation Ministries International website)
Dr Humphreys was born on 2 February 1942 in Wyandotte, Michigan, U.S.A., and was raised in a scientifically aware but non–Christian household. Not surprisingly, Russell himself always had a love for science, and in 1959, he was one of the 40 winners of the Westinghouse National Science Talent Search.
He received a B.S. degree in physics at Duke University, 1959–1963. After this, he moved to Louisiana State University (LSU) to study postgraduate physics. In 1969, while doing his dissertation research for LSU in the mountains of Colorado, he committed his life to Christ. In 1972, he was awarded a Ph.D. in physics, on cosmic rays and ultrahigh energy nucleon–nucleon interactions, by which time he was a fully convinced creationist due to both the biblical and scientific evidence. For the next 6 years he worked in the High Voltage Laboratory of General Electric Company, designing and inventing equipment and researching high–voltage phenomena. While there, he received a U.S. patent and one of Industrial Research Magazine’s IR–100 awards.
Dr Humphreys has been married since 1963, and they have three children.
Research
Beginning in 1979 he worked for Sandia National Laboratories (New Mexico) in nuclear physics, geophysics, pulsed-power research, and theoretical atomic and nuclear physics. In 1985, he began working with Sandia’s ‘Particle Beam Fusion Project’, and was co-inventor of special laser-triggered ‘Rimfire’ high-voltage switches, now coming into wider use.
The last decade at Sandia saw greater emphasis on theoretical nuclear physics and radiation hydrodynamics in an effort to help produce the world’s first lab–scale thermonuclear fusion. Besides gaining two other U.S. patents, Dr Humphreys has been given two awards from Sandia, including an Award for Excellence for contributions to light ion–fusion target theory.
Overall, Dr Humphreys’ reseach has been very wide-ranging:
Creationist work full-time
Dr Humphreys retired from Sandia in 2001 to work full-time for the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) where he was appointed an Associate Professor of Physics. In this time, he operated mainly from his home office in Albuquerque, NM, USA, while still continuing to write for Journal of Creation (formerly TJ) and assisting several other creationist organizations with questions and information concerning physics, astronomy and cosmology.
In August 2008 he resigned from ICR to work for Creation Ministries International (USA) while continuing to be mostly located in New Mexico, continuing his research, plus writing and speaking ministry.
Dr Humphreys has been a longtime member of the Creation Research Society and is on its Board of Directors.
Education
B.S., Duke University, Durham, NC, 1963
Ph.D., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1972
Honors/Awards/Associations
Creation Science Fellowship of New Mexico, board member and past President
Two of Industrial Research Magazine’s IR-100 awards
Award for Excellence for contributions to light ion-fusion target theory
Adjunct professor of the Institute for Creation Research in San Diego
Board member of the Creation Research Society
Member, American Geophysical Union
Dr. Humphreys is also a Logos Research Associate.
About our speaker: (The following text was taken from the Creation Ministries International website)
Dr Humphreys was born on 2 February 1942 in Wyandotte, Michigan, U.S.A., and was raised in a scientifically aware but non–Christian household. Not surprisingly, Russell himself always had a love for science, and in 1959, he was one of the 40 winners of the Westinghouse National Science Talent Search.
He received a B.S. degree in physics at Duke University, 1959–1963. After this, he moved to Louisiana State University (LSU) to study postgraduate physics. In 1969, while doing his dissertation research for LSU in the mountains of Colorado, he committed his life to Christ. In 1972, he was awarded a Ph.D. in physics, on cosmic rays and ultrahigh energy nucleon–nucleon interactions, by which time he was a fully convinced creationist due to both the biblical and scientific evidence. For the next 6 years he worked in the High Voltage Laboratory of General Electric Company, designing and inventing equipment and researching high–voltage phenomena. While there, he received a U.S. patent and one of Industrial Research Magazine’s IR–100 awards.
Dr Humphreys has been married since 1963, and they have three children.
Research
Beginning in 1979 he worked for Sandia National Laboratories (New Mexico) in nuclear physics, geophysics, pulsed-power research, and theoretical atomic and nuclear physics. In 1985, he began working with Sandia’s ‘Particle Beam Fusion Project’, and was co-inventor of special laser-triggered ‘Rimfire’ high-voltage switches, now coming into wider use.
The last decade at Sandia saw greater emphasis on theoretical nuclear physics and radiation hydrodynamics in an effort to help produce the world’s first lab–scale thermonuclear fusion. Besides gaining two other U.S. patents, Dr Humphreys has been given two awards from Sandia, including an Award for Excellence for contributions to light ion–fusion target theory.
Overall, Dr Humphreys’ reseach has been very wide-ranging:
- Designed and theoretically analyzed thermonuclear fusion targets using radiation hydrodynamic codes.
- Designed key high-voltage parts of Sandia’s 100-Terawatt Particle Beam Fusion Accelerator II and conducted fusion power experiments on it. Same designs are in use today on Sandia’s Z machine.
- Research on low-temperature solids and studies on superconductors.
- Nuclear weapons projects, including stockpile engineering for W87 firing set.
- Helped design new inkjet printer component and shared patent on it.
- Developed high repetition-rate neutron tube driver and gamma-ray spectrometer for borehole logging applications. Patent on high-voltage power supply for it.
- Patents on wide-bandwidth electric field sensor and high-voltage neutron tube supply.
- Designed lightning current waveform recorder which won IR-100 Award.
- Studied electric fields and ion currents under ultrahigh voltage DC transmission lines.
- Theoretical studies of relativistic velocity dependence of nuclear forces.
Creationist work full-time
Dr Humphreys retired from Sandia in 2001 to work full-time for the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) where he was appointed an Associate Professor of Physics. In this time, he operated mainly from his home office in Albuquerque, NM, USA, while still continuing to write for Journal of Creation (formerly TJ) and assisting several other creationist organizations with questions and information concerning physics, astronomy and cosmology.
In August 2008 he resigned from ICR to work for Creation Ministries International (USA) while continuing to be mostly located in New Mexico, continuing his research, plus writing and speaking ministry.
Dr Humphreys has been a longtime member of the Creation Research Society and is on its Board of Directors.
Education
B.S., Duke University, Durham, NC, 1963
Ph.D., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1972
Honors/Awards/Associations
Creation Science Fellowship of New Mexico, board member and past President
Two of Industrial Research Magazine’s IR-100 awards
Award for Excellence for contributions to light ion-fusion target theory
Adjunct professor of the Institute for Creation Research in San Diego
Board member of the Creation Research Society
Member, American Geophysical Union
Dr. Humphreys is also a Logos Research Associate.
november 18, 2023
Joseph Kezele, MD, will give* a LIVE, IN-PERSON presentation titled, GOD'S AMAZING CREATURES #1This talk presents fascinating features of sperm whales, the web-footed salamander of the Sierra Nevada, how octopodes change color and texture, and specifics about the mimic octopus. These are great examples of fauna that fracture the fairy tale of evolution.
december 2, 2023
Calvary Chapel Central Orange County honors the Lord's birth with a flurry of special events and activities throughout the month of December. In order to accommodate these extra activities, the Creation Science Fellowship has agreed to skip meeting in the month of December and to resume regular programming on the first Saturday of 2024.
december 16, 2023
Calvary Chapel Central Orange County honors the Lord's birth with a flurry of special events and activities throughout the month of December. In order to accommodate these extra activities, the Creation Science Fellowship has agreed to skip meeting in the month of December and to resume regular programming on the first Saturday of 2024.
date TO BE DETERMINED
John R. Baumgardner, Ph.D. Geophysics and Space Physics, will * give a presentation, titled
RATE REVISITED: C-14 EVIDENCE THAT THE EARTH IS YOUNG
Carbon-14, with a half-life of only 5,730 years, is generally applied only to carbon-containing samples at or near the Earth’s surface. It rarely is applied to samples from deeper within the Earth’s since in most cases other radioisotope methods, which use isotopes with long half-lives and are suitable only for igneous rocks, give ages of millions to billions of years. An issue for C-14 dating is the small relative
abundance of C-14 relative to C-12 in today’s atmosphere, of only about one C-14 atom for every 1.2
trillion non-radioactive C-12 atoms. This makes it impossible with the best technology today to measure C-14 levels beyond about 17.5 half-lives, or 100,000 years of C-14 decay. When accelerator mass
spectrometry (AMS) technology was introduced in the 1980’s, it was expected that the dating limit would be extended from 50,000 years to nearly 100,000 years. It was shocking when researchers discovered that essentially all carbon-bearing samples they tested, even from deep in the rock record, consistently gave C-14 ages significantly less than 100,000 years. The RATE team confirmed this result with ten coal samples from Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic settings. They also demonstrated that diamonds likewise display C-14 levels well above the C-14 measurement threshold. They showed that a
recent episode of rapid nuclear decay readily accounts for this unexpected radiocarbon throughout the rock record. Episodes of extremely high rates of nuclear decay, as documented by the RATE team, imply that (1) dates provided by standard radioisotope methods are in error by large factors and (2) the true age of the Earth is only a few thousands of years instead of billions.
This talk will also summarize many of the examples of excellent soft tissue preservation in fossils that
support the reality of the Genesis Flood as well as a young age for the earth.
RATE REVISITED: C-14 EVIDENCE THAT THE EARTH IS YOUNG
Carbon-14, with a half-life of only 5,730 years, is generally applied only to carbon-containing samples at or near the Earth’s surface. It rarely is applied to samples from deeper within the Earth’s since in most cases other radioisotope methods, which use isotopes with long half-lives and are suitable only for igneous rocks, give ages of millions to billions of years. An issue for C-14 dating is the small relative
abundance of C-14 relative to C-12 in today’s atmosphere, of only about one C-14 atom for every 1.2
trillion non-radioactive C-12 atoms. This makes it impossible with the best technology today to measure C-14 levels beyond about 17.5 half-lives, or 100,000 years of C-14 decay. When accelerator mass
spectrometry (AMS) technology was introduced in the 1980’s, it was expected that the dating limit would be extended from 50,000 years to nearly 100,000 years. It was shocking when researchers discovered that essentially all carbon-bearing samples they tested, even from deep in the rock record, consistently gave C-14 ages significantly less than 100,000 years. The RATE team confirmed this result with ten coal samples from Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic settings. They also demonstrated that diamonds likewise display C-14 levels well above the C-14 measurement threshold. They showed that a
recent episode of rapid nuclear decay readily accounts for this unexpected radiocarbon throughout the rock record. Episodes of extremely high rates of nuclear decay, as documented by the RATE team, imply that (1) dates provided by standard radioisotope methods are in error by large factors and (2) the true age of the Earth is only a few thousands of years instead of billions.
This talk will also summarize many of the examples of excellent soft tissue preservation in fossils that
support the reality of the Genesis Flood as well as a young age for the earth.
date to be determined
John C. Sanford, Ph.D. will speak *on a topic to be determined.
About our speaker: (The following biography is borrowed and modified from www.amazon.com/Genetic-Entropy-John-C-Sanford/dp/0981631606.) Dr. John Sanford was a Cornell University Professor for more than 30 years. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in the area of plant breeding and plant genetics. While a professor at Cornell, John trained graduate students and conducted genetic research at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, NY.
At Cornell, John bred new crop varieties using conventional breeding and then became heavily involved in the newly-emerging field of plant genetic engineering. John has published over 100 scientific publications and has been granted several dozen patents. His most significant scientific contributions during the first half of his career involved three inventions: the biolistic ("gene gun") process, pathogen-derived resistance, and genetic immunization. A large fraction of the transgenic crops (in terms of numbers and acreage) grown in the world today were genetically engineered using the gene gun technology developed by John and his collaborators. This work came from John's heartfelt desire to end world hunger. Today, the Smithsonian Institute displays Dr. Sanford's gene gun prototype.
John also started two biotech enterprises derived from his research, Biolistics, Inc., and Sanford Scientific, Inc.
John organized a collaboration with Drs. John R. Baumgardner, Wesley H. Brewer, Paul Gibson, and Walter J. ReMine in to develop "Mendel's Accountant," an advanced numerical simulation program for modeling genetic change over time. MENDEL is a genetic accounting program that allows realistic numerical simulation of the mutation/selection process over time. It is available for free download at http://mendelsaccount.sourceforge.net/.
With the proceeds of his successes as an inventor, John retired early, but continued to hold a position at Cornell (Courtesy Associate Professor), where he organized the 2011 symposium, BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION - NEW PERSPECTIVES. He then co-edited the symposium's 563 page Proceedings. Later, he authored a highly compressed synopsis with commentary on each of the symposium's 24 papers. John started a small non-profit organization, Feed My Sheep Foundation (FMS), and co-founded Logos Research Associates, a fellowship of scholars and scientists dedicated to the proposition that "Good science affirms Scripture." Through FMS and LogosRA, John has organized and conducted research in the areas of theoretical genetics and bioinformatics, and in geology. He has authored and co-authored three additional books: Genetic Entropy, Contested Bones, and The Sexual Holocaust.
About our speaker: (The following biography is borrowed and modified from www.amazon.com/Genetic-Entropy-John-C-Sanford/dp/0981631606.) Dr. John Sanford was a Cornell University Professor for more than 30 years. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in the area of plant breeding and plant genetics. While a professor at Cornell, John trained graduate students and conducted genetic research at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, NY.
At Cornell, John bred new crop varieties using conventional breeding and then became heavily involved in the newly-emerging field of plant genetic engineering. John has published over 100 scientific publications and has been granted several dozen patents. His most significant scientific contributions during the first half of his career involved three inventions: the biolistic ("gene gun") process, pathogen-derived resistance, and genetic immunization. A large fraction of the transgenic crops (in terms of numbers and acreage) grown in the world today were genetically engineered using the gene gun technology developed by John and his collaborators. This work came from John's heartfelt desire to end world hunger. Today, the Smithsonian Institute displays Dr. Sanford's gene gun prototype.
John also started two biotech enterprises derived from his research, Biolistics, Inc., and Sanford Scientific, Inc.
John organized a collaboration with Drs. John R. Baumgardner, Wesley H. Brewer, Paul Gibson, and Walter J. ReMine in to develop "Mendel's Accountant," an advanced numerical simulation program for modeling genetic change over time. MENDEL is a genetic accounting program that allows realistic numerical simulation of the mutation/selection process over time. It is available for free download at http://mendelsaccount.sourceforge.net/.
With the proceeds of his successes as an inventor, John retired early, but continued to hold a position at Cornell (Courtesy Associate Professor), where he organized the 2011 symposium, BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION - NEW PERSPECTIVES. He then co-edited the symposium's 563 page Proceedings. Later, he authored a highly compressed synopsis with commentary on each of the symposium's 24 papers. John started a small non-profit organization, Feed My Sheep Foundation (FMS), and co-founded Logos Research Associates, a fellowship of scholars and scientists dedicated to the proposition that "Good science affirms Scripture." Through FMS and LogosRA, John has organized and conducted research in the areas of theoretical genetics and bioinformatics, and in geology. He has authored and co-authored three additional books: Genetic Entropy, Contested Bones, and The Sexual Holocaust.
DATE TO BE DETERMINED
Joseph Kezele, MD, will give* a LIVE, IN-PERSON presentation titled,
BRAINS AND BRAWN
The human brain’s capabilities of optimization, computational power, processing speed, energy efficiency, memory capacity, memory storage, multidimensional processing, biophoton communication and where we play and laugh are presented. This is followed by the different types of muscle, the longest, smallest, largest, strongest, fastest, slowest, and most powerful muscles, how human and chimp facial muscles differ, how muscle serves as a sensory organ, and how the mechanism of muscle contraction works.
BRAINS AND BRAWN
The human brain’s capabilities of optimization, computational power, processing speed, energy efficiency, memory capacity, memory storage, multidimensional processing, biophoton communication and where we play and laugh are presented. This is followed by the different types of muscle, the longest, smallest, largest, strongest, fastest, slowest, and most powerful muscles, how human and chimp facial muscles differ, how muscle serves as a sensory organ, and how the mechanism of muscle contraction works.
* Subject to James 4:13-15 - " . . . For ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that."
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