International Conference on Creationism

The International Conference on Creationism (ICC) is a conference in support of young earth creationism, sponsored by the Creation Science Fellowship (CSF). The first conference occurred in 1986 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Subsequent conferences have been held in 1990, 1994, 1998, 2003, 2008, 2013 and 2018.

Conferences

1986 Conference

Austin, S., Mount St. Helens and Catastrophism

Austin, S., Tight Folds and Clastic Dikes as Evidence for Rapid Deposition and Deformation

Avila, R., Is the Precession of Mercury's Perihelion a Natural (Non-Relativistic) Phenomenon?

Baumgartner, J., Numerical Simulation of the Large-Scale Tectonic Changes Accompanying the Flood

Bergman, J., The Problem of Time

Bixler, R. Does the Bible Speak of a Vapor Canopy

Brown, R., Radiometric Dating from the Perspective of Biblical Chronology

Brown, W., The Fountains of the Great Deep

Cook, M., How and When Pangea Ruptured and Continents Shifted

Frangos, A. Ch., The Great Delusion

Gentry, R., Radioactive Halos: Implications for Creation

Gish, D., The Origin of Life

Humphreys, R., Reversals of the Earth's Magnetic Field During the Genesis Flood

Jue, D.S., The Myths of Cranial Capacity and Intelligence

Lester, L. & Bohlin, R., After His Kind: The Biological Unit of Creation

Lucas, C., A New Unified Theory of Modern Science

Morris, J., Identification of Ichnofossils in the Glen Rose Limestone, Central Texas

Morton, G., Geologic Challenges to a Young Earth

Northrup, B., A Walk Through Time: A Study in Harmonization

Northrup, B., There Really Was An Ice Age

Oard, M., An Ice Within the Biblical Time Frame

Overn, W., Radiometric Dating - An Unconvincing Art

Overn, W., The Truth About Radiometric Dating

Reed, J.G., Stretching Time: The Magic In Evolution

Vardiman, L., The Age of the Earth's Atmosphere Estimated by Its Helium Content

Vardiman, L., The Sky Has Fallen

Walsh, R., Biblical Hermeneutics and Creation

Whitelaw, R., Recent Creation and Worldwide Flood: The Perfect Agreement Between Biblical Chonology, Recorded History, and Other Extra-Biblical Geochronometers

Wise, K., How Fast Do Rocks Form

Wise, K., The Way Geologists Date!

Woodmorappe, J., The Antidiluvian Biosphere and Its Capability of Supplying the Entire Fossil Record

Robert Schadewald emphasized the influence Kurt Wise has had on shaping a more candid and rigorous approach to creationism, particularly praising a talk entitled "How Geologists Date Things" as absolutely straight Geology 101 mixing introductory geology with a debunking of creationist misconceptions. Wise has labored tirelessly by example and persuasion to convince his creationist colleagues to study the facts carefully and find new ways to interpret them. Besides technical and educational tracks, ICC86 featured a "basic creationism" track that included Walter Brown's Hydroplate Model (some creationists privately referred to it as the "wacky track").

1990 Conference

Aardsma, Radiocarbon, Dendrochronology and the Date of the Flood

Ackerman, Paul D., Human Creativity or Biblical Creation?

Arndts, Russell T., Logic and The Interpretation of Fossils

Austin, S. & Humphreys, R., The Sea's Missing Salt: A Dilemma for Evolutionists

Baumgartner, J., 3-D Simulation of the Global Tectonic Changes During Noah's Flood

Bergman, Jerry, The Biological Theory of Atavism and its Influence on Social Policy

Bergman, Jerry, The Fall of the Natural Selection Theory

Chaffin, A Study of Roemer's Method for Determining the Velocity of Light

Chittick, Donald E., Age of the Earth: Biblical & Scientific Implications

Clark & Voss, Resonance and Sedimentary Layering in the Context of a Global Flood

Davey, Eigenvalue Analysis of the Magnetic Field of the Earth and Its Implications on Age and Field Reversals

DeYoung, The Earth-Moon System

Dritt, James O., Ph.D., Man's Earliest Beginnings: Discrepancies in Evolutionary Timetables

Dusenbury, A Reconsideration of the Photoelectric Effect Alpha Decay

Eidsmoe, John, The Evolutionary Worldview and American Law

Frangos, Apostolos Ch., Some Necessary Remarks on Scientific Knowledge

Hedtke, Randall, Should Students Be Taught How To Question The Evolution Evidence?

Holroyd, Cavitation Processes During Catastrophic Floods

Holroyd, Missing Talus on the Colorado Plateau

Humphreys, R., A Physical Mechanism for Reversals of the Earth's Magnetic Field During the Flood

Jorgenson, Technical Feasibility of the Biblical Canopy

Miller, The Paluxy River Footprints Revisited

Molen, Diamictites: Ice Ages or Gravity Flows

Myers, Ellen, M.A., The Breakdown of Philosophy and the Modern Evolution-Creation Debate

Northrup, Bernard E., Identifying the Noahic Flood in Historical Geology: Part One

Northrup, Bernard E., Identifying the Noahic Flood in Historical Geology: Part Two

Oard, M., The Evidence for Only One Ice Age

Paiva & Slusher, Cavitation: An Integral Agent of Energetic Geomorphological Process

ReMine, Discontinuity Systematics: A New Methodology of Biosystematics Relevant to the Creation Model

Reynolds, John M., Creationism and the Armies of the Night: A Response to Dr. Isaac Asimov

Rugg, Detachment Faults in the Southwestern United States: Evidences for a Short and Catastrophic Tertiary Period

Rush & Vardiman, Pre-Flood Vapor Canopy Radiative Temperature Profiles

Scheven, Joachim, Stasis in the Fossil Record as Confirmation of a Belief in Biblical Creation

Scheven, Joachim, The Flood / Post Flood Boundary in the Fossil Record

Stillman, The Lifetime and Renewal of Comets

Swift, Dennis L., The Rocks Begin to Speak

Taylor, Ian T., Effectively Sowing the Seeds of Doubt: The Age of the Earth

Taylor, Ian T., The Ultimate Hoax: Archaeopteryx Lithographica

Tyler, A Tectonically Controlled Rock Cycle

Vardiman, L., The Mechanism of Ice Crystal Growth and the Theory of Evolution

von Fange, Erich A., Are There Two Potassium / Argon Dating Systems

Whitmore, The Hartford Basin of Central Connecticut: Multiple Evidences of Catastrophism

Wilkerson & Wakefield, The Geological Setting of Polonium Halos

Wise, K., Baraminology: A Biosystematic Method Specific to a Young Earth Creation Model

Woodmorappe, J., Causes for the Biogeographic Distribution of Land Vertebrates after the Flood

The second ICC, held in 1990, was marginally better, but evolution-bashing and "wacky track" nonsense still were abundant. The 1990 conference featured a debate between Gregg Wilkerson, an old-earth creationist geologist and Steven A. Austin, chairman of geology at the Institute for Creation Research. Wilkerson urged the conference attendees to drop the young Earth viewpoint and accept the "ample scientific evidence" that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old. Austin stated that Wilkerson was misinterpreting the data and that a young Earth viewpoint remained feasible.

1994 Conference

Aardsma, Gerald E., Search for Radiocarbon in Coal

Aardsma, Gerald E., The Exodus Happened 2450 B.C.

Ackerman, Paul D., Preventing Out-of-Wedlock Teenage Pregnancy: Current Practice Versus the Experimental Social Psychology Research Base

Auldaney, Jeremy, Catastrophic Fluvial Deposition at the Asphalt Seeps of Rancho La Brea, California

Austin, Steven A. & Wise, Kurt P., Pre-Flood / Flood Boundary: As Defined in Grand Canyon and East Mojave

Barnette, Daniel W., & Baumgardner, John R., Patterns of Ocean Circulation Over the Continents During Noah's Flood

Baumgardner, John R., Computer Modeling of the Large Scale Tectonics Associated with the Genesis Flood

Baumgardner, John R., Runaway Subduction as the Driving Mechanism for the Genesis Flood

Bergman, Jerry, An Update of the Courts, Academic Freedom and Creationists: The Peloza, Johnson, and Bishop Cases

Bergman, Jerry, Magnetic Monopoles and Grand Unification Theory

Berthault, Guy, Experiments on Stratification

Boudreaux, Edward A., Particle Interaction Analysis of Solar Formation and Stabilization

Brown, Robert H., Mixing Lines - Considerations Regarding Their Use in Creationist Interpretation of Radioisotope Age Data

Cadwallader, Mark W. , A Biblical Creation Model and Response for Environmental Difficulties

Chaffin, Eugene F., Are Fundamental Constants of Physics Really Variables?

Clark, M. E. & Voss, H.D., Towards and Understanding of the Tidal Fluid Mechanics Associated with the Genesis Flood

Culp, G. Richard, Do Birds of Prey Demonstrate Stability of Species?

Davies, Keith, Distribution of Supernova Remnants in the Galaxy

Fischer, J. Michael, A Giant Meteorite Impact and Rapid Continental Drift

Forgay, Warren F., Values Clarification: An Evaluation

Frangos, Apostolos Ch., A Different Approach to the Problem of Scientific Knowledge

Green, Terry R., Prescience Prophecy: A Pyrrhic Victory

Harsh, Robert W., Biblical Naturalism: A Time for Paradigm Change

Holroyd, III, Edmond W., A Remote Sensing Search for Extinct Lake Shore Lines on the Colorado Plateau

Humphreys, D. Russell, Progress Toward a Young-Earth Relativistic Cosmology

Humphreys, D. Russell, A Biblical Basis for Creationist Cosmology

Jorgensen, Greg S., The Canopy, the Moon, the Earth's Tilt and Pre-Flood Ice Age

Lucas, Charles W., Jr., with Lucas, Joseph C., The Origin of Atomic Structure

Lumsden, Richard D., and Francis, Noel D., Evolutionary Origin of Life Scenarios: Paradox of the Plasma Membrane

Maas, Frank, Immune Functions of the Vermiform Appendix

McLeod, Kevin C., Knee Design: Implications for Creation vs. Evolution

Molen, Mot, Mountain Building and Continental Drift

Montgomery, Alan, A Determination and Analysis of Appropriate Values of the Speed of Light to Test the Setterfield Hypothesis

Myers, Ellen, Creation: The Key to History

Northrup, Bernard E., Some Questionable Creationist Axioms Reexamined

Oard, Michael J., Submarine Mass Flow Deposition of Pre-Pleistocene Ice-Age Deposits

Palmer, Suzanne S., Lack of Evidence for Hand Dominance in the Nonhuman Primate: Difficulty for the Theory of Evolution

Powell, C. Diane, Mechanisms for Gender Role Stasis

ReMine, Walter J., The Biotic Message: An Introduction

Reynolds, John Mark, Gosse and Omphalos: The Bible & Science

Reynolds, John Mark, The Bible and Science: Toward a Rational Harmonization

Scherer, Siegfried, Basic Types of Life

Snelling, Andrew A., Regional Metamorphism within a Creationist Framework: Garnet Composition

Snelling, Andrew A., U-TH-PB: An Example of False Isochrons

Speck, Patricia L., The Kidney: A Designed System for Plasma Homeostasis

Spencer, Wayne R., The Origin and History of the Solar System

Taylor, Ian, Sir Francis Bacon & The Geological Society of London

Tyler, David J., Tectonic Controls on Sedimentation in Rocks from the Jurassic Series in Yorkshire, England

Tyler, Sheena E. B., The Genesis Kinds: A Perspective from Embryology

Vardiman, Larry, A Conceptual Transition Model of the Atmospheric Global Circulation Following the Genesis Flood

Vardiman, Larry, An Analytical Young-Earth Flow model of Ice Sheet Formation During the Ice Age

Walker, Tasman Bruce, A Biblical Geologic Model

Wise, K.; Austin, S.; Baumgardner, John R.; Humphreys, R.; Snelling, A.; Vardiman, L., Catastrophic Plate Tectonics: A Global Flood Model of Earth History

Wisniewski, Mark. E., The World-View Approach to Critical Thinking

Woodmorappe, John, The Biota and Logistics of Noah's Ark

Young, Judy A., Archaeology and Creation Science

Following ICC90, the Pittsburgh Creation Science Fellowship (CSF) established a refereeing system. Wise and philosophers Paul Nelson and John Mark Reynolds convinced CSF that evolution-bashing never has advanced and never will advance a real "creation model." As a result, ICC94 was dramatically better.

1998 Conference

Ackerman, P., Worldview of Aquinas, Luther, and Calvin: Modern Message Theory and the Creation Model

Akridge, J., A Flood-Based Origin of Little River Canyon near Ft. Payne, Alabama

Armitage, M., Complex Life Cycles In Heterphyid Trematodes...

Austin, S. & Snelling, A., Discordant K-Ar Model and Isochron Ages

Bergman, D., Conflict of Atomism and Creationism in History

Bergman, J., The Unbridgeable Chasm Between Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes

Bielecki, J., Search for Accelerated Nuclear Decay and Spontaneous Fission of (238) U

Brown, R., Metorites and a Young Earth

Cuozzo, J., What Happens to the Craniofacial Structure .. Neandertals

Curtis, W., A New Look at Genesis 1-5: A Coherent Model of Natural and Biblical History

Curtis, W., A New Look at Genesis 6-11: A Coherent Model of Natural and Biblical History

Deckard, S., Toward the Development of an Instrument for Measuring a Christian Creationist Worldview

Dennis, P., Probability and Quantum Mechanics

Faulkner, D., State of Creation Astronomy (The)

Fouts, D. & Wise, K., Blotting Out and Beaking Up: Hebrew Studies...

Frair, W., Effects of the 1981 Arkansas Trial on the Creationist Movement

Fritsche, T., Impact of the Cretaceous / Tertiary Boundary (The)

Goertzen, J., Rhamphorhynchoid Pterosaur Scaphognathus Crassirostris (The)...

Guikema, A., K-Ar Derived (238) U Fission Decay Constants...

Holroyd, E., Charcoal Bedding as a Tool for Stratigraphic Interpretation

Honeyman, J., Biblical Chronology and Egyptian History

Horstmeyr, M., Use of History Dependent Material Models for Simulating Geophysical Events

Houser, R., Creation Jurisprudence as a Means to Discover the Divinely Created Natural Law

Javor, G., Life, An Evidence for Creation

Kaufmann, D., Two Natures of DNA: Conceptless Code and Conceptual Aliveness

Kenyon, D., Hierarchal Information Content...in Coding and Non-Coding DNA Sequences

Klevberg, P. & Oard, M., Palehydrology of the Cypress Hills Formation and Flaxville Gravel

Lucas, C. & Lucas, J., A New Foundation for Modern Science

More, E., Created Kind (The): Noah's Doves, Ravens, and Their Descendants

Montgomery, A., Towards a Biblically Inerrant Chronology

Oard, M. & Klevberg, P., A Diluvial Interpretation of the Cypress Hills Formation, Flaxville Gravel, and Related Deposits

Overman, R., Comparing Origins Belief and Moral Values

Powell, D., Man & Message Theory: The Social Implications

Robinson, S., Flood in Genesis (The): What Does the Text Say?

Rugg, S. & Austin, S., Evidences for Rapid Formation and Failure of Pleistocene Lava Dams...

Sigler, R. & Wingerden, V., Submarine Flows and Slide Deposits in the Kingston Peak.

Snelling, A., Cause of Anaomalous K-Ar Ages for Recent Andesite Flows (The)...

Snelling A. & Woodmorappe, J.. Cooling of Thick Igneous Bodies on a Young Earth (The)

Speck, P., Paradox of Pregnancy: A Tribute to Design

Spencer, W., Catastrophic Impact Bombardment Surrounding the Genesis Flood

Spencer, W., Geophysical Effects of Impacts During the Genesis Flood

Stewart, A., Global Iodine Deficiency Disorders in the Light of the Biblical Flood

Vardiman, L, & Bousselot, K., Sensitivity Studies of Vapor Canopy Temperature Profiles

Vardiman, L., Numerical Simulation of Precipitation Induced Hot Mid-Ocean Ridges

Wise, K., Is Life Singularly Nested or Not?

Wise, K. & Cooper, M., A Compelling Creation: A Suggestion for a New Apologetic

Woodmorappe, J., Hypercanes a Cause of the 40 Day Global Flood Rainfall

At ICC98, the transformation was virtually complete. Most presentations tried either to advance a model in some way or at least to honestly review the evidence that needs explaining. This requirement was stated in the call for papers and enforced in the refereeing process, Anyone whose only exposure to creationism is a Gish Gallop would not have recognized a single presentation at ICC98. Larry Witham described it as having "become the preeminent meeting of its kind in the world." Its goal is to provide a peer-review forum wherein the Creation model could be rigorously developed. He states that the conferences express similar disdain for both "slipshod" populist young earth creationism, and for smuggling in "antiquity and evolution". He describes as "astounding" their presupposition that God "used processes which are not now operating anywhere in the natural universe." They state they cannot discover by scientific investigation anything about the creative processes used by the Creator.

Reception

Mathematics professor Jason Rosenhouse writes expressing sadness that while generally impressed with attendees "personality and temperament", that they are "hopelessly ignorant of science. This ignorance is exacerbated by the annoying fact that so many of them fancy themselves highly knowledgeable indeed."

External links

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