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. 

Dr. Clarey refutes the notion of dinosaur evolution and ancestry by examining four common dinosaur myths. He exposes each one using scientific evidence and concludes that dinosaurs were created just thousands of years ago. Dinosaurs were not feathered and likely not warm-blooded as most secularists seem to believe. The evidence supports the idea that all dinosaur kinds were created fully-formed by God on Day 6 of the creation week.

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.

Catered lunch boxes from Chick-fil-A will be made available at registration. If you do not wish to purchase a boxed lunch from Chick-fil-A there are several local fast food restaurants available to choose from.

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.

Contrary to popular thinking, the Age of Science came about because of the biblical worldview held by many of the scientists that energized it and their drive to steward their calling in science. We'll examine the history that brought about the perception of "conflict" between Scripture and science, which still exists. And using the illustrations of space flight to demonstrate the remarkable ordering of God's provisioned creation that made the historic advances possible, we'll show how and why scientific endeavor flourishes in the soil of biblical presuppositions and the moral sanction given by the dominion mandate.

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!

Information coming soon.

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

The youth will be with the adults for the keynote and breakout sessions, and there will not be an independent youth track on Saturday.

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!​​​​

May 18th, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted causing devastation for miles around the area... and changing the field of geology forever. In this session, we will examine the eruption that rocked the way geologists look at rapid sediment deposition, erosion and canyon formation, and the way ecosystems rapidly recovered after the catastrophe. You'll see the wisdom, care, and provision of our Creator Jesus who designed these ecosystems to recover quickly after a catastrophe like a volcanic eruption. We will also explore how Mount St. Helens can help us understand and interpret the evidence found on every continent that point to the Global Flood of Genesis.

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.