Welcome to the Portland Area Creation Conference! We're so glad you're here! Come stop by the registration booth and get check in, then you can take a look around at the resource and ministry tables.

Please join us in the Worship Center for the start of our conference!

This dynamic message will ask and answer three important questions relevant to the creation-evolution debate that every Christian should know.

1. How do you interpret and understand Genesis 1 and 2?
2. What is your take on Darwinian evolution and its compatibility with the Christian faith?
3. Are you open to the natural world pointing to design? Why or why not?

You could be asked these same basic questions by a coworker, your next-door neighbor, or the person worshipping next to you at church. Come and enjoy a whiteboard talk that will prepare you with the biblical and scientific tools to answer your friends with confidence.

In this presentation, Dr. Clarey shows how sedimentary evidence across several continents confirms the occurrence of a global flood. He presents oil industry data compiled into maps and diagrams that illustrate the progression of the Flood and match the biblical narrative. He provides biblically based scientific explanations for large-scale sedimentary deposits that were rapidly formed by catastrophic activity. This abundant evidence supports a worldwide flood that happened just thousands of years ago.

We hope you have enjoyed this evening's sessions, join us tomorrow for Day 2 of the Portland Area Creation Conference!

Welcome to Day 2 of the Portland Area Creation Conference! We're so glad you're here! Come stop by the registration booth and get check in, then you can take a look around at the resource and ministry tables.

Please join us in the Worship Center for the start of Day 2 of our conference!

During his six months aboard the International Space Station in 2006, Colonel Jeffrey N. Williams orbited the earth more than 2,800 times and took more photographs of earth than any astronaut in history. Every view from the window of the Space Station contains countless vivid lessons about the meticulous goodness of divine providence, God's care for His creation, and His wisdom in ordering the universe. Col. Williams has had the rare privilege of studying the earth from heaven's perspective.

Throughout this conference we will split off into breakout sessions. During these times you get to take your pick from the available presentations and attend the one that strikes your interest. Each breakout session will only be given once.

This lecture will introduce you to a groundbreaking new model called continuous environmental tracking (CET) that explains how organisms adapt. It is the first fully organism-focused, design-based explanation of adaptation to be developed by any organization. Christians should know that the latest scientific research is fully on the side of a design-based explanation of adaptation... and evolutionists are trying to force-fit it into their theory. Some Intelligent Design advocates and creationists still see organisms as having been designed in part by a Designer and in part by nature, but there's no scientific reason for this. CET brings clarity and eliminates the mysticism inherent in all selection-based notions. Properly identify the true cause of organisms' dramatic capacity to self-adjust to different environments and you are on your way to the most powerful argument for a beneficent Intelligent Designer consistent with the God of the Bible. 

Are dinosaurs mentioned in the Bible? How big were they? Could they fit on the Ark? Dr. Clarey discusses the uniqueness of God's created dinosaurs and answers many of the questions young people encounter in secular media and even in children's books.

In this two-part workshop, Judy Salisbury considers whether the creation account in Genesis is allegorical or historical. Decide which makes more sense, a Theistic Evolution or Biblical Creation explanation. Was the flood a local or global event? learn why these topics are important and the implications and impact of holding to either position.

Part 1:
What do theistic evolutionists say?
What do the Scriptures say?
What confirms the creation account?

The Bible plainly affirms that people in both the pre-Flood and immediate post-Flood worlds routinely attained ages of hundreds of years. Other ancient historians have corroborated the Bible's claim in this regard. Moreover, unless this longevity was supernatural, it seems that animals also would have experienced much greater longevity, because it is difficult to conceive of a natural cause for greater longevity (fewer harmful mutations, abundant food, different atmospheric composition, etc.) that would not also have affected the animal kingdom. Growth bands in fossil oysters show direct evidence of greater longevity than in their living descendants. Moreover, longevity studies in living animals have shown that giantism and delayed maturation are often associated with greater longevity, and there is abundant evidence for both in the fossils.

Sedimentary "particles" such as boulders, houses, cars, and lots of mud were on the move during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. Bill Hoesch draws from personal experience in explaining how fossils, including dinosaurs, logs, nautiloids, ichthyosaurs, and even the organic debris that became fossil fuels, were also once "sedimentary particles" in the very same sense. Before becoming part of the ancient rock record, these objects were transported in conditions that can only be described as extreme. Sedimentologists have a tough job to explain the ancient rock record in terms of "slow and gradual" deposition over millions of years. Come and see how Mount St. Helens continues to be an open door for rational discussion for a historical Genesis Flood of extreme power.

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Throughout this conference we will split off into breakout sessions. During these times you get to take your pick from the available presentations and attend the one that strikes your interest. Each breakout session will only be given once.

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Curious sandstone pillars standing in southern Utah ought to arrest the attention of Bible believers. So called "injectites", including some far greater in scale, have long been appreciated by experts to require sudden past movements of soft sand. But because such movements are impossible in a timescale involving millions of years, they have also been dismissed as "anomalies". Today they are no longer ignored, for the same structures buried in the subsurface have proven to be fantastic oil reservoirs! They are the targets of drillers worldwide. Like the pillars in Utah, sandstone injectites stand  as an enduring testimony to a recent creation and worldwide flood. This was the subject of Mr. Hoesch's 1990 Masters of Science thesis for the ICR Graduate School.

In this two-part workshop, Judy Salisbury considers whether the creation account in Genesis is allegorical or historical. Decide which makes more sense, a Theistic Evolution or Biblical Creation explanation. Was the flood a local or global event? learn why these topics are important and the implications and impact of holding to either position.

Part 2:
What confirms the flood account?
What does it matter?
What is the impact?

Did Earth experience an ice age? If so, how many, and how do they fit into biblical history? Learn how secular scientists have difficulty explaining an ice age, how the secular ice age theory  contributes to climate change alarmism, why deep ice cores do not prove an old earth, and how the Bible gives us a convincing explanation for the Ice Age.

Many Christians divorce science from faith because they're told that scientific and other evidence contradict what the Bible says about creation. Is Genesis really this wrong about our origins? How should Christians deal with claims that the first part of the Bible is myth and not fact? In this talk, Dr. Thomas reveals three ways that science actually confirms Genesis as history. Bible believers can have more confidence than ever in the truth of the Bible and find new freedom to live their lives in light of Genesis.

Now is your chance to get that burning question answered! All of our speakers will be available during this time to answer your questions.

We are so grateful that you've joined us this weekend for the Portland Area Creation Conference, and pray that this event has been encouraging to you and your family, and honoring to our Creator, Savior, and Coming King, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Welcome to the Portland Area Creation Conference! We're so glad you're here!

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We hope you have enjoyed this evening's sessions, join us tomorrow for Day 2 of the Portland Area Creation Conference!

Welcome to Day 2 of the Portland Area Creation Conference! We're so glad you're here!

Mr. Napier exposes the evolutionary ideas that have become strongholds within the creation community. Compromising Christians add millions of years and random mutations to creation, in order to appease conventional science. The outcome is that they malign the character of God, make the cross of Christ irrelevant, and disagree with good observational science. Walk away from this talk firm in your faith and emboldened in your witness, knowing that all living things were designed to glorify.

Mr. Napier clears up misunderstandings surrounding the global flood. So many people think that 40 days and 40 nights of rain just couldn't have that much effect on the earth. However, the Bible tells us that this was nothing like the Sunday School we were told. The global flood, recorded in the Bible, was a year-long, catastrophic event that changed the face of the earth forever. As we lay out the evidence, we look at the Bible, history, geology, and radiometric dating. Each of these topics points us to a one-of-a-kind event with a whole lot of water - water that God says was there in the beginning. You will walk away with a better understanding of how the geological formations of the earth are best explained by the global flood.

In 1980, Mount St. Helens dropped an outdoor laboratory in geologists' laps, forcing them to accept catastrophic events as major contributors to Earth's overall geologic story. Since the initial eruptions, Mount St. Helens has provided further empirical data that support catastrophism and refute strict uniformitarianism. Creation geologists continue to use Mount St. Helens as a living example of the devastating effects of geological events like the global Flood. Mount St. Helens truly is a lasting monument to catastrophe.

Polls show that illustrations of ape-like human ancestors convince more Americans of evolution than any other single subject. Dr. Thomas shows how ape-man candidate fossils fall into three Genesis-friendly categories.

Who doesn't like dinosaurs? There's only one thing bad about them. Every time you hear about them it's "65 Million Years ago...". The truth is, we have evidence of man living with dinosaurs. If dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, like we are told, how did people know what they looked like? This fun and engaging presentation is meant for all ages and discusses the evidence that dinosaurs are in the Bible, lived with man, and walked the earth in recent history. The observable evidence points to a recent creation.

This concludes the Youth Track for this conference. The youth will now join their parents in the Worship Center for Q&A with our speakers.

Welcome to the Portland Area Creation Conference! We're so glad you're here!

Explore some of our favorite animals and sea creatures. Let's look together at these beautiful creatures and see what features our Creator Jesus gave them that help them to both survive and thrive in their unique environments.

Explore how the geological record shows evidence of a global flood and supports the Biblical account of Noah's Ark. Join us as we see what God says about the flood, explore 3 evidences the rock layers show of the global flood, and even make an ark animal.

We hope you have enjoyed this evening's sessions, join us tomorrow for Day 2 of the Portland Area Creation Conference!

Welcome to day 2 of the Portland Area Creation Conference! We're so glad you're here!

"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork." Psalm 19:1. Have you ever gazed up at the night sky and stood in wonder at the beautiful sight? How did the stars and planets get there? And what do they tell us about creation and the power of the Lord Jesus? Join us as we explore space for evidences of creation.

Have you ever imagined that you are a brave knight fighting off a dragon or a princess being held hostage by the vicious creature awaiting your rescue? Some of our favorite stories, fairy tales, and art are based on history and myth that these creatures (dragons and dinosaurs) lived with man - but did they? Join us as we explore 4 evidences in history, art, the fossil record, and the Bible that dinosaurs existed with man. You may even get the chance to meet an ICR Scientist!​​​​

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From the galaxies in the heavens to all that is on the earth below, the "invisible attributes of God" are displayed in His creation. Gaze in wonder at the character and nature of our infinitely wise and vast God. Yet, this infinite God is also intimately acquainted with each of us. In light of all these truths, beauty, and wisdom on display, what should our response as image-bearers of God be?

We are so grateful that you've joined us this weekend for the Portland Area Creation Conference, and pray that this event has been encouraging to you and your family, and honoring to our Creator, Savior, and Coming King, the Lord Jesus Christ.