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Young people raised in many churches are told that the Bible teaches a recent six-day
creation, and that evidence for an ancient earth or evolution is weak. When confronted with the actual evidence in college or later in life, they often experience a crisis of faith.
The scientific evidence is so overwhelming, many determine it must be their faith that was mistaken. Questioning non-believers likewise face a monumental obstacle to faith when told that to accept Christ, they must reject what seems to be reason itself.
Tragic stories like these are what motivated the development of these Creation Workshops. It is the speakers' conviction that an honest study of both Scripture and nature not only leaves ample room for the legitimacy of modern scientific theories, but that the agreement between God’s written and natural creations can be breathtaking!
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About the speakers
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 Dr. Gregg Davidson
• Expertise in isotopes and carbon-14 dating
• Author of When Faith and Science Collide:A Biblical Approach to Evaluating Evolution and the Age of the Earth
• Christian – heart, mind, and soul
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 Dr. Ken Wolgemuth
• Professional geologist in the oil industry for over 30 years
• University professor for 7 years, and now international short-course instructor for oil industry
• Expertise in geochemistry and radioactive isotope dating
• Christian – heart, mind, and soul |
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Workshop Topics
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- Primacy of Scripture!
- How have Christians in the past resolved apparent conflicts between faith and science?
- Three-question approach to evaluating science and Scripture anytime they appear to disagree.
- Using Scripture to understand what Scripture has to say about nature.
- Evidence for an ancient earth and evolution (for non-scientists!): tree rings, varves, carbon-14, ice cores, sea floor spreading, magnetic reversals, salt, extinct radionuclides, fossil sequences, how assumptions are tested, and more.
- Apparent age
- Young-Earth Creationism
- Intelligent Design
- Cost of being wrong
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| We Believe and Affirm |
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the authority and infallibility of Scripture
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the reality of miracles
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the deity, virgin birth, and resurrection of Christ
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literal Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve, and original sin
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the need for the atoning blood of Jesus
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that science is not necessary to understand the intended meaning of Scripture, but can be useful in weeding out unintended secondary interpretations.
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