(Father’s Day)

CAPS Meets at Bellevue Church of Christ

10419 SE 11th St., Bellevue 98004

2:00 pm: Refreshments, buy books, videos, lending library.

2:30 pm: DVD – DEBATE: “Is Evolutionary Science Reliable? Atheists (Dr. John Perkins & Dr. Richard Doyle) vs. Christians (Craig Hawkins, M.Sc, John Mackay, B.Sc.) 125 min. with Q&A but we will show first 75 min up to Q&A then do our own Q&A.

Also: Creation Activities (pre-K to 6) by SS teacher Dorothy Rozzell

In June 2006 the Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc ran a series of advertisements on commercial televisions in Tasmania. They stated that religion is based on superstitions and ultimately leads to oppression. As a result, the Combined Baptist Church of Launceston challenged the atheists to a debate on Origins. Held in Launceston, Tasmania on 29 Sep. 2006, a packed audience of over 400 people heard both sides present their case on the question: “Is Evolutionary Science Reliable?”

Leading International speaker on evidence for the Creator Jesus Christ, John Mackay of Creation Research, was joined by Craig Hawkins who has worked as a professional forester and fish breeder of pipe fishes and seahorses. For the Atheist Foundation were Dr. John Perkins, a Melbourne-based mathematical economists and co-founder of the Secular Party of Australia, and Dr. Richard Doyle, a soil scientist from the University of Tasmania.

Debate Format: Primary talk of 13 minutes for each of four speakers, followed by 5-minute rebuttals and a further question from one side to the other side. Questions from the audience are addressed to one of the speakers with an alternate opinion allowed from the other view.

The entire DVD is 125 minutes, but we plan to break off after the presentations and rebuttals to handle Q&A from our own audience. Afterwards, we will continue with the DVD Q&A if people want to continue further.

Bios:
Dr John L Perkins, PhD is a Mathematical Economist, and one of the founding members of the Secular Party, a Melbourne economist, mathematical modeller, software developer and writer. He has qualifications from universities in Melbourne and London, and is a member of the Humanist Society of Victoria, the Rationalist Society of Australia, and the Atheist Foundation of Australia.

Dr Richard Doyle has a PhD in Soil Science, Erosion and Stratigraphy (UTas) M.Sc. (Awarded with distinction) in Geology (VUW, NZ) B.Sc. (Hons) in Geology (VUW, NZ) Sir Theodore Rigg Award (1992) – for exceptional merit of Masters thesis – New Zealand Soil Science Society

Craig Hawkins, M.Sc., has worked in professional forestry and fish breeding. He runs a company that supplies seahorses and lectures on Creation and Sealife – see: http://www.seahorse-australia.com.au/

John Mackay is an international speaker and is the Australian Director of Creation Research. He has been lecturing on the subject of origins and doing field research worldwide for the last 30 years. In March 2005 John debated the UK’s leading theistic evolutionist, Dr John Polkinghorne in a lively clash, hosted by popular BBC commentator Roger Phillips. The entire debate was professionally filmed and adds to the long list of John’s debates against leading evolutionists. During 2004, John was asked to debate 3 New Zealand professors at once. His opposition included Dr David Penny who had just been awarded NZ’s highest science prize in genetics. In the preceding 4 years, John debated such notable opponents as Cambridge geologist Dr Trevor Emmet at the Mumford Lecture Theatre Cambridge, Geology Professor Dr Tim Astin at Reading University and Harvard University Professor Chris Di Carlos at Guelph University, Canada. During January 1999 he was pitted against Dr Eugenie Scott, head of the National Center for Science in the USA. At a Technical level John has addressed geologists at the Sydney Basin Coal Conference (1984) on the evidence for rapid coal formation and pursued this topic for a poster paper at the International Coal Conference (1985). In 1991, he addressed the Association of Geological and Earth Sciences at Oxford (UK) on the topic „The Evidence for Noah‟s Flood‟. In 1995 he gave a presentation on the same theme to the Tennessee Division of Geology, Tennessee (USA). In 1999 he presented a lecture to the Cambridge University Union (UK) on “The History of Brief Time” – the evidence the world did not evolve over millions of years. His science degree (B.Sc.) was obtained at the University of Queensland (Australia). John Mackay was for many years a science teacher in both state and private secondary education systems in Queensland, Australia. He also lectured in Geology at Tertiary level for Technical Education and was instrumental in establishing Creation Research in Australia, and is currently the International Director of Creation Research. His many years in teaching have enabled him to communicate well to all ages.
http://www.creationresearch.net/PDF%20files/JM_bio_2008.pdf

John is one of the few creationists who have been interviewed by the prominent British atheists Chris Tyler and Richard Dawkins.

• John MacKay & Chris Tyler Creation vs Evolution Debate
• Richard Dawkins: John Mackay Interview (1 of 2)
• Richard Dawkins: John Mackay Interview (2 of 2)

He also participated a Major debate: between John Polkinghorne (theologian, physicist, theistic evolutionist) and John Mackay (Creation geologist, creationist), two parts: http://www.premier.tv/channels/films/creationevolutiondebate.aspx

• Reviews of this DVD Debate

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CAPS Meets at Bellevue Church of Christ
10419 SE 11th St., Bellevue 98004http://www.bellevuechurchofchrist.org/
2:00 pm: Refreshments, buy books, videos, lending library.
2:30 pm: Spike Psarris presents Our Created Universe: Solar System, Stars and Galaxies and the

Also: Creation Activities (pre-K to 6) by SS teacher Dorothy Rozzell

Spike Psarris was previously an engineer in the United States’ military space program. He entered that program as an atheist and an evolutionist. He left it as a creationist and a Christian. Spike now writes and speaks on Biblical creation. He has published six articles in Creation magazine, and one in CMI’s Technical Journal. He has his own web site now and free emailed Creation Astronomy Newsletter at http://www.creationastronomy.com/

He is the author of the DVD: “What you aren’t being told about astronomy, Volume I: Our Created Solar System.” You can purchase copy of his video at this lecture (CAPS Bookstore) or from the NWCreation store online athttp://store.nwcreation.net/ourcrsosy1.html

This comprehensive new talk will be in three parts: the Solar System, Stars and Galaxies and the Universe as a whole. Science books, programs, and other media tell us that we ‘know’ the Universe is billions of years old. We’re told that it formed all by itself in a Big Bang event, with no Creator being involved. But here’s what they aren’t telling you. The secular model actually predicts that most of the things we see in space, including stars, galaxies, and the planets of our Solar System… cannot exist. The secular model fails to explain the heavens. Rather, the heavens declare the glory of God. In this presentation, full of beautiful photographs from NASA and other sources, you’ll discover what you aren’t being told about astronomy.

Astronomy article links by him and others follow at the end. This lecture includes new data beyond lectures from the Seattle Creation Conferences. You can watch or download these videos or purchase a copy. These are also on youtube.com, but are lower resolution.

http://creationwiki.org/Our_Created_Solar_System (2006)

http://creationwiki.org/Our_Created_Universe (2007)

Astronomy Articles by Spike Psarris

• Jupiter: king of the planets and testament to our Creator. Creation 30(3):38-40, June 2008
• Saturn: the ringed planet. Creation 30(4):18-20, September 2008
• Mercury—the tiny planet that causes big problems for evolutionCreation 26(4):36–39 September 2004
  • Translated into Spanish
• Neptune: monument to creation Creation 25(1):22–24 December 2002
• Uranus: The strange planet Creation 24(3):38–40 June 2002

Other Science Articles by Spike Psarris

• Fire In the Air, TJ (Technical Journal of Crea tion), 17(2) 2003

Relevant Astronomy articles by others (some Technical)

• Refuting Evolution: A handbook for students, parents, and teachers countering the latest arguments for evolution by Jonathan Sarfati, Ph.D., F.M.
• Astronomy – First published in Refuting Evolution, Chapter 7
• Astronomy and the Bibleby Donald B. DeYoung
• In Six Days – Why 50 Scientists Choose to Believe in CreationEdited by Dr John Ashton,Chapter by Danny R. Faulkner, astronomy
• Enceladus: Saturn’s sprightly moon looks young by Tas Walker,Creation 31(3):54–55, June 2009
• NASA pictures support biblical origin for Moon by Tas Walker (2 September 2010)
• Lunar volcanoes rock long-agetimeframe by Tas Walker and David Catchpoole, 4 May 2009
• The heavens declare a different story! by John G. Hartnett,TJ 17(2):94–97, August 2003
• On the origin of lunar mariaby Ronald G. Samec – Journal of Creation 22(3):101–108, December 2008
• Problems for ‘giant impact’ origin of moon by Michael Oard ,TJ 14(1):6–7, April 2000
• Ganymede Magnetic Moon by Wayne Spencer, Journal of Creation23(1):8–9, April 2009
• The earth’s magnetic field by Jonathan Sarfati, Creation 20(2):15–17,March 1998
• The moon: the light that rules the night, Creation, 20(4):36–39,September 1998
• Planets and migrating theories by Wayne Spencer, JOURNAL OF CREATION 21(3) 2007
  • http://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j21_3/j21_3_12-14.pdf
  • http://creation.com/planets-and-migrating-theories
• The existence and origin of extrasolar planets, by Wayne R. Spencer, Journal of Creation 15(1):17–25, April 2001
• Extrasolar planets suggest our solar system is unique and young, by Rod Bernitt, TJ 17(1):11–13, April 2003
• Earth is ‘too special’? by Jonathan Sarfati, Creation 28(3):42–44, June 2006
• Globular clusters and the challenge of blue straggler stars,by Rod Bernitt, Journal of Creation 16(2):5-7, August 2002
• Quasar riddle for big bang astronomy, John G. Hartnet TJ 19(2) 2005
• The Creation of Planetary Magnetic Fields (Technical Article)by D. Russell Humphreys, CRSQ Volume 21, Number 3 (December 1984)
• A different view of the universe by Bill Worraker & Andrew C. McIntosh
  • A review of the two books on Quasars by Halton Arp: Quasars, Redshifts and Controversies by Halton Arp
    Interstellar Media, Cambridge University Press, 1987
  • Seeing Red: Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science by Halton Arp Apeiron, Montreal, 1999
    Technical Journal, 14 (3):46–50, December 2000
• Galaxy-quasar ‘connection’ defies explanation by Andrew Snelling,TJ 11(3):254–255, December 1997
• Rapid planet formation by Wayne Spencer , TJ 17(3) 2003
• Extrasolar planets with organic materials by Wayne Spencer, JOURNAL OF CREATION 22(2) 2008

Creation Association of Puget Sound (CAPS) Meeting  

Sunday, Mar. 20, 2010, 2 pm

CAPS Meets at Bellevue Church of Christ
10419 SE 11th St., Bellevue 98004 http://www.bellevuechurchofchrist.org/

Agenda:
2:00 pm:  Refreshments, buy books, videos, lending library.

2:30 pm:  Chris Ashcraft presents: 

The Heavens Declare 

Also: Creation Activities (pre-K to 6) by SS teacher Dorothy Rozzell

Description: (Note Control click on highlighted words link to articles on CreationWiki)

Modern astronomy offers mankind a look at the cosmos never before seen. The size and beauty of astronomical bodies is a testimony to the magnificence that is our Father in heaven.  

This presentation aptly uses the scale of the cosmos to guide viewers to a better appreciation of the Glory of God as is revealed by the heavens. Drawing from images taken by space telescopes and spacecraft, we will tour the solar system, distant nebulae, and galaxies that testify of the Creator’s power.

• Bachelor of Science in biology from Wayland Baptist University, 1989.
• Masters of Science in biology from Texas Tech University, 1996.
• Masters of Education from University of Washington, 2008

Chris teaches high school science and creation apologetics at North Sound Christian School.  He is the founder of the Northwest Creation Network (and webmaster of nwcreation.net), and organizer of the Seattle Creation Conference.

Biography Details at: http://www.nwcreation.net/ashcraft/biography.htm

Other presentations and resources at  http://www.nwcreation.net/ashcraft

For past presentations see Chris Ashcraft’s videos:

• Love Your God With All Your Mind, SCC Aug. 2007

http://www.nwcreation.net/videos/Love_Your_God.html

• Wonders of the Cell, SCC, Oct. 2009

http://www.nwcreation.net/videos/Wonders_of_the_Cell.html

• Genetic Variability by Design, DSA, July 2003

http://nwcreation.net/videos/genetic_variability.html

• Amazing Animals, SCC, Oct. 2009

http://www.nwcreation.net/videos/amazing_animals.html

• For other Creation videos see

http://nwcreation.net/videos/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVTAhtVt0dk

John Johnson PhD

President, Creation Assoc. of Puget Sound

425-868-2107