November 20-21st
It can be argued that Charles Darwin advanced the cause of atheism and weakened the faith of countless believers more than anyone in history. As you know, 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of his book, Origin of Species. While Universities and the popular media are celebrating The Year of Darwin, promoting his anti-biblical worldview, we think it is time to let the world know – Darwin was wrong!
Calvary Chapel Kauai will be rebroadcasting a Creation Science Seminar on November 20-21st. This seminar will air live at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa on November 13-14 and can be viewed here. CC Kauai will be rebroadcasting the video feed starting Friday night, November 20th at 6:30 PM and will end at 9:00 PM. The seminary will resume on Saturday morning at 8:30 AM and run till 3:30 in the afternoon. A $5 lunch will be provided by the Bible College.
This DVD seminar will include presenters from all over the science community. Topics will include: geology, microbiology, sociology. Here is a list of the speakers.
John Baumgardner, Ph.D. in Geophysics, will introduce the conference, revealing that science is now debunking every aspect of Darwin’s hypothesis.
E. Thomas McMullen, Ph.D. in History and the Philosophy of Science, will show that Darwin used creative speculation and unbounded extrapolation in place of the scientific method, and that his approach was the antithesis of good science.
Steve Austin, Ph.D. in Geology, will show that Darwin was profoundly wrong about the origin of the Santa Cruz River Valley in Patagonia, and about the geologic record in general. Darwin’s speculations of slow and gradual biological change were based on the false idea of slow and gradual geologic change.
Marcus Ross, Ph.D. in Paleontology, will point out that while Darwin admitted the fossil record in his day contradicted his theory, he held out hope that future discoveries would come to his rescue. Now, 150 years later, the problem of missing intermediates is even more glaring.
Robert Carter, Ph.D. in Marine Biology, will speak on Darwin’s naïve belief that life is fundamentally simple. Since Darwin’s day, science has revealed life to be so staggeringly complex as to render Darwin’s foundational speculations clearly untenable.
John Sanford, Ph.D. in Plant Breeding and in Plant Genetics, will show that Darwin was wrong about natural selection. Darwin proposed that heritable variation and natural selection account for all biological complexity. But he knew nothing of genetics, of mutations, or, most crucially, of the extreme limitations of natural selection.
Jerry Bergman, Ph.D. in Human Biology, will show that Darwin was wrong about his proposed “Tree of Life” – a diagram purporting to show how all life forms diverged over eons of time from a primordial common ancestor. DNA studies are not supporting well-defined lines of descent among major groups of ancestors as Darwin imagined. The confused and scrambled genomic patterns instead imply a tangled bush. In other words, genetic evidence for common ancestry is missing!
Dr. Charles Ware, President of Crossroads Bible College, will show that Darwin regarded “races” other than his own as inferior and destined for extinction. But DNA studies reveal genetic differences between major people groups are only superficial, smaller than variations within these groups. Genetically, we are one race – the human race.
Robert Carter, Ph.D. in Marine Biology, will return to discuss Darwin’s speculation that humans descended from ape-like ancestors. Contrary to Darwin’s speculations, modern genetic evidence points to a “Mitochondrial Eve” and a “Y-Chromosome Adam” only thousands of years ago, and also to a very recent divergence of the world’s major people groups out of the Middle East.
