Report on the Creation Conference in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan

January 15, 16 & 17, 2010.

by Rudi Fast

  Session 1

In the first presentation at the International Bible College (which is affiliated with the Church of God) Mike Oard spoke about the effects of the Flood of Noah on the landscape of southern Alberta and Saskatchewan. He indicated that the 371-day lifespan of the Flood of Noah could be separated into two events, namely, the advance and the recession of the waters. He indicated that the sedimentary rocks and fossils in the area were deposited by the advance of the waters, and that the receding waters caused much erosion on the earth. The flat top of the Cyprus Hills is a planation surface that was leveled by fast currents carrying quartzites coming from the Rocky Mountains. Under the level top of the Cyprus Hills there are millions of tons of rounded quartzite rocks that were formed and transported there under at least 50 meters of Flood waters traveling at over 105 kmph. Such conditions are necessary for the percussion marks to form as they appear on billions of the rounded rocks in the plains regions.

 

Session 2

In the second session at International Bible College, Mike indicated that there are 30 terms in Genesis that suggest the Flood was worldwide. During the recession period the waters cut channels between large obstructions called water gaps. Wind gaps were also formed, but were not eroded down enough to have a stream or river flow through, but only wind. The rainbow is God’s promise that never again will there be a world wide Flood. After the Flood the ice age began, lasting about 700 years. Even the years 1400 – 1880 AD are known as the little ice age. He noted that after the Flood mankind probably lived in caves, and hence we have much evidence of “cave men” having lived after the Flood. However, they were fully human.

Session 3

This session took place at the Church of God Friday evening. It was called “Is Evolution a Fact?” He indicated that the Finches on Galapagos Island have had beak size and shape changes from natural selection, not because of evolution. In true science the world is observed in great detail in the course of investigation. Evolution (increasing complexity) has not been observed, so it cannot be a valid scientific theory. Ancient animals such as the trilobite had extremely complex eyes. No ancestor having simple eyes can be found to those having such complex eyes. Mike concluded that macroevolution is not observed, so therefore it cannot be accepted as a scientific theory.

 

Session 4

This second session in the Church of God is when Mike spoke about “Global Warming.” It was noted that 95% of warming in regions on earth are caused by water vapor and less than 5% by CO_2. It was noted that southwest Greenland was colonized by the Vikings in the middle ages. The globe seems to have been cooling in the last seven years. Weather models are very incomplete and inaccurate when trying to predict the temperature rise from a doubling of carbon dioxide. The data used to place into large computers is very sparse and the Russians have complained that some of their data has not even been used from their cold regions. Computer models cannot make accurate forecasts if their database is incomplete. This was a very timely topic for people today.

 

Session 5

The first session on Saturday evening in the First Free Methodist Church dealt with evidences of the early part of the Flood. Some scientists believe there was no global Flood. There are many Flood traditions (more than 200) and many of them have parallel facts. The Grand Canyon is a monument to the Flood. There are hundreds of miles of horizontal layers extending across the USA. Secondly, there are fossil graveyards. The swiftness of the Flood’s appearance is seen where a mother fish is buried and fossilized giving birth to a baby; they were both suddenly encased in mud as can be seen in the fossil record. Mount St. Helen’s erupted and in a matter of days produced a million trees floating in Spirit Lake. After a short period of time the floating trees became water logged and slowly submerged in an upright posture. Sedimentation of the lake pressed them into place producing the same features as the petrified “forests” in Yellowstone National Park.

 

Session 6

In the second session Saturday, Mike spoke about the retreating stage of the Flood. This seems to have taken place from day 150 to day 371 according to Scripture. In places in the USA there are 17,000 feet of erosion deposits between mountains. According to Psalm 104:6-9 “…the mountains rose and the valleys sank,” which would result in the Flood water draining off the future continents. In many places on the earth there are marine fossils on top of mountains. Tall erosional remnants or solidified molten rock chimneys can be found standing in the plains of USA and other countries that were made under water and still stand, many hundreds of feet above the flat plains. All around them the ground has eroded. Monument Valley in the USA has many “Devil’s Towers.” Quartzite layers from the western Rocky Mountains were eroded underwater and spread across the prairies. They leveled rough and uneven surfaces and then when the currents slowed down, a thin layer of rounded quartzite rocks capped those surfaces by the millions. Such surfaces are not being formed today. Some of these rounded rocks were deposited in deep cracks up to 500 cubic miles in volume in northwest Wyoming.

 

Session 7

In the adult Sunday School class in the First Free Methodist Church, Mike spoke about how only the Bible could explain the Ice Age. 1 Thessalonians 5:21 challenges us to “…test everything and hold onto what is good.” There is no doubt that our present surface land features testify to the ice age of the past. There are horseshoe shaped moraines, erratic rocks, and rocks having glacial striations. There needs to be a drop in temperature of 50^oF in the northern hemisphere areas to produce an ice age. It was absolutely necessary to have cool summers. Some areas in Canada and southern England were not glaciated. The ice thickness in North America was up to 800 meters. In the Antarctica it was 950 meters. There was only one ice age. We need to examine facts very carefully.

 

Session 8

In the final session during the Sunday worship service, Mike spoke on “Why are young People Leaving The Churches?”  This topic came from Ken Ham’s book “Already Gone”. Ken Ham interviewed 1000 young people that left the churches, ages 20 – 29. 40% had doubts about the Bible and 72% still believed in Genesis. Ken Ham’s survey suggested the “millions of years” issue is the main cause of the young people leaving the churches after high school or university. Mike then asked if it might be possible to fit the “millions of years” concept into the bible. Mike recalled that Jesus used Genesis 1 & 2 to establish the marriage relationship. Also, if Genesis 3 is true, then we need a Savior. The fruit (shown in the shape of a hand grenade) was eaten by Adam and Eve and there was an “explosion” in the plan for mankind. Romans 5:12 shows that death came by one man. In the USA 106 out of 108 colleges were started by men of the Bible. When looking at a sand castle in the sand or a beautiful man made sand structure, the work cries out ”…CREATED!”  They do not give evidence of being formed by millions of years of erosion.  If we look at protein molecules in DNA folding we see something a computer would take two years to do, yet it is happening all throughout our bodies every second.  Carbon 14 dating, and other dating methods show the earth to be young. Romans 1:20 says, “From the creation of the world, God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly observed in what He made. As a result people have no excuse.” Renowned scientists like Anthony Flew have come to believe in God by what they observe about the exquisite creation around us. The Spirit can do the same for us.

  During sessions 3, 5, 6 & 8, Barbara Miller presented concurrent lessons to the children on topics such as “Dinosaurs and the Bible,” “Fossils” and “A Bird’s Eye View of Creation Week.”

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