Posted on 05/17/2004 10:46:51 AM PDT by yonif
CLARKSBURG -- Was the earth really created in six days? What happened to the dinosaurs? Where do fossils come from?
According to Ken Ham, president and founder of Answers in Genesis, the answers are all found in the first book of the Bible, Genesis.
Ham will be speaking at the Answers in Genesis conference May 21-22 at Robert C. Byrd High School.
"It is a blessing for the Christian community to have such a world-renowned speaker come to our area," said Jay Wolfe, chairman for the event. "The best part is that it's free. Typically, it costs $35 per family."
Ham, a native Australian who now resides near Cincinnati, is one of the most in-demand Christian speakers in North America. He is the author of numerous books on Genesis, the accuracy and authority of the Bible, and creationism vs. evolution.
His radio show, "Answers with Ken Ham," is heard on 680 stations worldwide. He is also a contributing author for Creation magazine. A former teacher, Ham is concerned with how education teaches the theory of evolution as fact and how the whole scientific aspect of the Bible is being ignored.
Others from Answers in Genesis participating in the conference are Buddy Davis, Michael Oard and Stacia McKeever.
Davis is a dinosaur sculptor, author/speaker and popular musician. He is also an accomplished paleo-artist, specializing in building life-sized dinosaur sculptures for Answers in Genesis's Creation Museum near Cincinnati.
He will sing selections from his eight CDs.
An expert on Noah's Flood, the Ice Age and Mammoths, Oard recently retired from the National Weather Service as a meteorologist. He'll give illustrated talks on the compelling evidence for Noah's Flood and the Ice Age that resulted, and how the woolly mammoth connects to biblical history.
He is also author of a children's book, "Life in the Great Ice Age," and a book for teens and adults, "The Weather Book."
McKeever is an author and children's speaker. She'll lead workshops for ages 4-6 using a variety of hands-on activities, taking children on a journey through the "7Cs of History."
She graduated summa cum laude in biology and psychology, and has been working full-time for Answers in Genesis (USA) since 1997. She is also a co-author of the Answers for Kids section in Creation magazine, and has written or co-authored a number of articles for that magazine and also for the AiG Web site.
Local church pastors and lay leaders are excited about the conference.
In March, Ham spoke to a standing-room-only crowd at a breakfast/planning meeting held at the Holiday Inn in Bridgeport. At that time, the planning committee and local church leaders set out to raise enough money to bring the conference to Clarksburg at no cost to the community.
"We have raised over $14,000 so we can offer it to the community for free," Wolfe said.
Wolfe added that he felt it was important for everyone to attend the conference.
"There are two world views -- God is or God isn't -- creation or evolution," Wolfe said. "Which one is the predominant world view, espoused by most information media?"
He added that the church must take responsibility for allowing the creation world view to be defeated in our culture. It is time, he said, to "equip ourselves with the sword of the spirit, which is the truth of God's word, and enter the science arena to battle for the hearts and minds of the young people of this generation."
Wolfe said that he realizes that the creation world view is controversial.
"Some will be skeptical," he said. "But the people who are still open-minded even though they now believe in evolution can come out and hear a specialist. They can then analyze for themselves the creation point of view."
Rev. David Hulme of Clarksburg Baptist Church said that hearing Ham speak and reading his books has radically changed the way he looks at some issues facing the church and society.
"I have his book and DVD series, and we've watched it at church," he said. "There seems to be a lot of interest. I think it's because he uses the whole of scripture, not just the creation."
Tressa Shaw of Bridgeport is hoping that everyone attends Answers in Genesis.
"Everyone should come and see that God's word is truth from beginning to end," she said.
Ham will also speak May 23 at Calvary Baptist and Trinity Assembly of God churches. To pre-register for workshops or for more information, call 622-2241.
Sigh -- the Fallacy of the False Dichotomy rides again...
The majority of evolutionists are Christian, so obviously something is wrong with with his "either-or" notion, and with his trying to equate evolution with atheism.
Is that who I think it is? If so, what kind of guy has a school named after him while he's STILL ALIVE?!?!
My first guess is it wasn't Robert C. Byrd.
I submit that the chemical artillery shells found in Iraq naturally evolved from ordinary artillery shells.
you are correct.
It took God 6 days to create everthing. How long was each day?
If you let go of a ball it will fall to the floor. Did God cause the ball to drop to the floor? Or did God create gravity, and gravity pulled the ball to the floor?
You can say that this is an example of "intelligent action". I.E. the ball went to the floor rather than across the room because the intelligence sent it in one particular direction (down) rather than across the room.
I'd call this an "intelligent process".
So if a creature with slightly superior capabilities than another survives because of those capabilities, is that Darwin's "Natural Selection"? Or is it "intelligent design"?
Just as the ball dropped because of gravity as created by God, "Natural Selection" occurs by the life processes as created by God.
Bottom line: there is no conflict between Genesis and Evolution. Just as God created Gravity, he created Evolution. The chapters of Genesis that describe creation are only a few hundred words. Not nearly enough to describe any details, leaving plenty of room for Evolution.
When Christians fight Evolution, they marginalize themselves, and aid the anti-Christian bigots by giving them something to criticize.
Sigh the fallacy of the fallacy of the false dictomony rides again and again....
God either is or he isn't....
If he is then evolution is lie....
The bible tells me so....
:)
Classic. He is dead, but typical of Dimocrats that have the dead on the voting rolls, in this case they just propped up a dead politician and elected him.
Byrd has a bunch of stuff named after him in WV.
Robert C. Byrd High School
Robert C. Byrd Highway
Robert C. Byrd Hardwood Technology Center
Robert C. Byrd National Technology Transfer Center
Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center (WVU)
etc...
There's also a giant bronze statue of him in the rotunda of our State Capital.
Makes me proud to be a West Virginian.
/sarcasm
"And let computers multiply throughout the land. Be they used for running car engines or for the running of video games. Let them become numerous and be sold cheaply."
The rest deals with the availability of pornography so I won't address it here.
Can you point me to an ID source that does not mention a deity?
Well said, and thanks for saying it.
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