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ORIGINS 2019


Conference Schedule

As in previous years, all of our talks are taking place on Friday. Our first meal is Thursday dinner, and we’ll have time for meeting each other and discussing a topic that evening before we start talks the next morning. New this year is a Saturday general conference entitled “Reclaim Wisdom Beginning with Creation” (https://physicsteam.cedarville.org/ReclaimWisdom/). If you have registered for Origins, then you were automatically registered for the Reclaim Wisdom conference.

 

THURSDAY – JULY 18

 

Morning Fossil Collecting Field Trip – 8:00 – 10:00 am (tentative, this is an unofficial pre-conference trip)

Afternoon Ark Encounter Field Trip – 10:00  3:00 pm (tentative, this is an unofficial pre-conference trip)

Dinner – 5:00 – 6:30 pm

Meet and Greet/Discussion – 6:30 – 7:30 pm


FRIDAY – JULY 19

Breakfast – 8:00 – 9:00 am

Session 1 – 9:00 – 10:30 am

                Smith – Genesis 1:1 according to the Masoretic text

Radmacher – Psalm 104 and animal death before the fall

                Johansen – An example of man’s Imago Dei mission being supported by molecular biology:

the importance of understanding the Image of God in biology

                Break (15 minutes)

Session 2 – 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

                Lay & McLain – Preliminary results from reanalyzing the cynodont to mammal transitional sequence

                McLain & Doran – Baraminological analysis of Choristodera

                Frederico & McLain – Baraminological analysis of fossil and extant Eusuchia

                Break (15 minutes)    
     

Lunch – 12:00 – 1:30 pm

Session 3 – 1:30 – 3:00 pm

Guliuzza – Continuous Environmental Tracking: a creationist explanation for biological anticipatory systems

                Wise – Biblical death as cessation of function

                Coulson – Special Creation: introducing tempus elapso

                Break (15 minutes)

Session 4 – 3:00 – 4:30 pm

                Hutchison – The Biblical concepts of potential Dei ordinate and potential Dei absoluta in the development of chemistry

                Whitmore – Lithostratigraphic correlation of the Coconino Sandstone (Permian) and its equivalents, western United States

                Break (30 minutes)

Dinner – 5:00 – 6:30 pm

Public Outreach Discussion – 6:30 – 7:30 pm

SATURDAY – JULY 20


Breakfast – 7:00 – 8:30 am

Reclaim Wisdom Conference – 9:00 am – 5:30 pm

https://physicsteam.cedarville.org/ReclaimWisdom/