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Origins 2011 Full Schedule

Events color-coded in blue are for the technical CGS/CBS conference, and events color-coded in yellow are for the general Origins 2011 conference. Registration for the technical conference and/or the Wednesday field trip (blue events) can be found here. Registration for the Origins 2011 general conference (yellow events) can be found here.  If you would like to register for both, visit this page.


Wednesday, July 27
8:30 am - 5 pm Field Trip, with stops in Deadwood, Lead, Lake Pactola, Mt. Rushmore, and Hermosa
Thursday, July 28
9:10 - 10:10 am Biology Technical Session #1
  • Survey of Microbial Composition and Mechanisms of Living Stromatolites of the Bahamas and Australia, Purdom & Snelling
  • Creationist Interpretation of Fossil Pollen Assemblages of the K-Pg Boundary, Sanders
  • Biological Origins in Christian Textbooks: Problems and Suggestions for Improvement, Lantzer & Daniels
10:10 - 10:20 am Break
10:20 - 11:20 am Biology Technical Session #2
  • An ANOPA Study of Coelurosaurian Theropods, Cavanaugh
  • Detecting Discontinuity in the Dinosauria using Baraminic Distance Correlation, Wood, Ross, & Garner
  • Preliminary Baraminological Analysis of Jurassic and Cretaceous Avialae, Wood, Ross, & Garner
11:30 am - 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 pm Biology Technical Session #3
  • The Hebrew Taxonomy of Living Things, Daniels
  • Application of the Post-Flood Continuity Criterion to Flowering Plants, Sanders
  • The Chimpanzee Genome is Nearly Identical to the Human Genome, Wood
2:00 - 3:00 pm Biology Technical Session #4
  • A Biblical View of Australopithecines and Paleoanthropological Data, Klenck
  • Does Biblical Similarity Inform Biological Similarity?, Francis & Chou
  • The Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a Mammal, Wood
3:00 - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 - 5:30 pm Poster session #1: Presenters from the first day should display posters during this session.
5:30 - 7:00 pm Dinner
7:00 - 8:00 pm Dinosaurs of the Black Hills
Art Chadwick
Professor of Geology, Southwest Adventist University
8:30 - 9:30 pm CGS & CBS Board Meetings
Friday, July 29
9:10 - 10:10 am Geology Technical Session #1
  • Overthrust Faulting: A Mechanical Paradox Explainable Only in a Flood Context, Clarey, Strom, & Cheung
  • Fractures in Central Wyoming: Indicators of a Single Orogenic Event and Its Subsequent Collapse, Thompson
  • Pseudotachylyte and Superfaults: Evidence of Catastrophic Earth Movements, Clarey & Austin
10:10 - 10:20 am Break
10:20 - 11:20 am Geology Technical Session #2
  • The Geomorphology of the Uinta Mountains and Its Implications, Oard
  • Seismic and Volcanic Data Supporting a Global Catastrophic Event with Implications for Catastrophic Plate Tectonics, Cavanaugh
  • Biogeography and Biostratigraphy: Coupled Constraints on the Placement of the Post-Flood Boundary, Ross
11:30 am - 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 - 1:30 pm CGS & CBS business meetings
1:30 - 2:30 pm Geology Technical Session #3
  • New Finds in the Coconino Sandstone, Arizona, Whitmore, Forsythe, Strom, & Garner
  • Role of Aerosols in a Post-Flood Ice Age, Gollmer & Shirey
  • Baraminological Analysis of the Caseidae (Synapsida: Pelycosauria), McLain
2:30 - 2:50 pm Break
2:50 - 3:30 pm Biology Technical Session #5
  • Balancing Imago Dei with Dominion: A Biblical Understanding of Conservation Ethics, Elaine
  • A Just Holy War ... with Animals? Genesis 9, Deuteronomy 20, and a Conservation Ethic for a Creation under a Curse, Demme
3:30 - 5:30 pm Poster session #2: Presenters from the second day should display posters during this session.
5:30 - 7:00 pm Dinner
7:00 - 8:00 pm Fifty years of Impact: The Genesis Flood and the growth of young-Earth creation
John Morris
President, Institute for Creation Research
Saturday, July 30
9:00 am - 10:00 am Frontiers in Creation Biology
Todd Charles Wood
Director, Center for Origins Research, Bryan College
10:00 am - 11:00 am Catastrophe! Seeing Noah's Flood through Geology
Steven Austin
Austin Research Consulting, Inc.
11:00 am - 12:00 noon Made in His Image
Randy Guliuzza
Lecturer, Institute for Creation Research
12:00 noon - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 pm Microbes and the Matrix
Joe Francis
Professor of Biological Sciences, The Master's College
1:30 - 2:30 pm The Lost World of Noah's Flood
Kurt Wise
Professor of Biology, Truett-McConnell College
3:30 - 4:00 pm Break
4:00 - 6:00 pm Panel Discussion: Creation, education, and the future
Joe Francis, The Master's College
Marcus Ross, Liberty University
John Whitmore, Cedarville University
Todd Charles Wood, Bryan College