The Best Presentation on Dinosaurs Living with Man, a Young Earth, and a Worldwide Flood!

This is a MUST-WATCH video on the best evidence for the co-existence of dinosaurs and man, a young earth, and the worldwide flood of Genesis!! Featuring Dr. Dan Biddle from Genesis Apologetics. Hosts - Donny (Standing For Truth Ministries) and Sam (Redefine Living).

Design, Deluge and Dilemma - Dr. Jonathan Sarfati

http://creation.com | Jonathan Sarfati - Ph. D. Physical Chemistry, author and speaker for Creation Ministries International - compares the secular models of history to the ultimate standard for history - the Word of God.

Jesus is the Creator, as well as the Kinsman-Redeemer, meaning that He must be our blood relative. This means that all humanity must come from Adam, also the ancestor of Jesus, the Last Adam. Adam's sin brought death, so Jesus brought Resurrection—Rom. 5 and 1 Cor. 15 make an explicit connection.

Since death came through sin, fossil record must pre-date Adam. Explained by Genesis global Flood, which has other evidences.
 
Design in nature, including micro-machines. Coded information stored on DNA.

Goo-to-you evolution requires information increase, but what we see are sorting out already-existing information, natural selection culling information, and mutations corrupting information.

Noah's Flood...The evidence in Australia & Worldwide - John MacKay

http://askjohnmackay.com

Filmed at the Creation Conference in Brisbane Australia.

John Mackay is International Director of Creation Research.  His background is in geology and teaching.  He has an extensive teaching ministry on creation/evolution issues and continues to carry out research on evidence for creation and Noah’s flood.  He debated many academics and theologians on the creation/evolution issue, including Richard Dawkins and John Polkinghorne.  Much of John’s teaching and research is available on the extensive range of DVD’s and CDs available from Creation Research.

Sept. 4, 2014 to Sept. 6, 2014 in West Bromwich, West Midlands

with Ken Ham, Steve Ham, Brian Edwards, Prof. Stuart Burgess, Prof. Andy McIntosh , John Mackay, Paul Garner, Ray Comfort, Steve Lloyd

The UK Creation Mega Conference will bring together creationist speakers from 5 different organizations for 15 sessions over 3 days and will feature 9 acclaimed speakers from the UK and around the world... as well as breakout sessions for children (ages 5-11).
Join us as we stand our ground against the lies of our day and proclaim the truth for the glory of Christ!

Fossils: History in Contention - Chris Ashcraft

Seminar by Chris Ashcraft M.S., M.Ed., MTMS
Seattle Creation Conference, September 2013
Woodin Valley Baptist Church, Bothell WA.

Description:
Secular geologists have rejected Biblical history and assert that there has been no global flood as described in Genesis. But vast quantities of fossils and sedimentary rock provide a monumental testimony to this historical event and God's recent judgment. Is the worldview of these geologists causing them to "deliberately ignore that the world was deluged with water and perished" (2 Peter 3:3-6)?

This presentation provides the Biblical answer to the fossil record and an encouragement for Christians to trust in the Bible as authoritative on early Earth history. Numerous examples of fossils are provided that defy conventional explanation and interpretation in support of the theory of evolution. When examined, we can easily see that the fossils have been misinterpreted by naturalistic scientists and are much more consistent with catastrophic activity and a young Earth.

About the Speaker:
Chris Ashcraft is a Christian educator, creation scientist, and speaker employed as high school science teacher at Cedar Park Christian Schools where he provides instruction in Biology, Chemistry, Human Anatomy and Physiology, and Life Science.

Formerly, Chris was a research technician, specialized in plant tissue culture, and genetic transformation technology. He served as a research technician at the Cotton Fiber Production Laboratory at Texas Tech University, he then provided technical support at the Plant Transformation Facility at Oklahoma State University, and lastly was employed as the Plant Transformation Specialist for EDEN Bioscience in Bothell Washington .

He obtained a Bachelor of Science in biology from Wayland Baptist University in 1989, a Master of Science in biology from Texas Tech University in 1996, a Master of Education from the University of Washington in 2008, and a Master is Teaching Math and Science from Seattle Pacific University in 2012.

Chris moved from research science into the teaching profession to serve God in Christian education. His decision was motivated by the impact that secular science is having on people of faith. Today, close to 50% of Christian students lose their belief in God while attending secular schools. This tendency could be lessened if the Church was better equipped to defend the authority of Biblical teachings (1 Peter 3:15). To be prepared for these challenges, it is important that Churches provide regular educational programs on creation and other Bible apologetics.

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This video was recorded during the Seattle Creation Conference, which is organized each year by the Northwest Creation Network

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Bothell, WA 98011

Latest Carbon 14 Results Prove Dinosaur Bones are Not Millions of Years Old!

New breath-taking book just released!

The evidence will stun you, your family and friends!

"Vance Nelson's coffee table book Flood Fossils, in his Untold Secrets of Planet Earth series, is a truly amazing book that for the first time documents Noah's Flood through stunning photographic fossil evidence from around the world. His 237 evidence photos will not only amaze you, but soundly refutes fossilization theories held by many scientists and evolutionists." —David W. Balsiger, Author / TV Documentary Producer

Untold Secrets of Planet Earth: Flood Fossils This is the new companion to the Dire Dragons dinosaur book in the same series. A superb layout and stunning images combine with a fascinating subject to show how the evolutionary explanation of fossils is not sustainable. The book covers evidence of fast fossil formation, the preservation of soft tissues within fossils, plastic deformation of sedimentary strata and the large bones they sometimes contain, and groundbreaking laboratory results from the carbon dating of dinosaur bones. Also included is a long section on Noah’s Ark, the way the Bible describes it, and possible modern sightings of it on Mt. Ararat. Only $32 Get the popular companion book as well!   Untold Secrets of Planet Earth: Dire Dragons In the evolutionary ‘Age of Dinosaurs’, man and dinosaurs did not coexist and were separated by millions of years. But if dinosaurs and humans were both created on Day 6, they clearly coexisted, and there should be evidence of that. Using hundreds of incredible photographs from around the world, Dire Dragons provides stunning evidence that the ancients saw dinosaurs and depicted them, calling them ‘dragons’. One of the best books on the subject ever produced. Only $30

Creation Geology: The Key To Unraveling Earth History - Patrick Nurre

Seminar by Patrick Nurre.
Apologetics Forum of Snohomish County
Atonement Free Lutheran Church, Arlington, WA.
January 24th, 2014

Description:

If the world is truly billions of years old, we would expect to see this in the geologic record - the rocks, minerals and fossils. Secular geologists tell us emphatically that the earth is billions of years old, having been sculpted by slow and gradual geologic processes, punctuated by brief, local catastrophes. But is this view based on scientific facts or a philosophy framed by biases? Come take a journey with us as we unravel this history and discover just how accurately the Book of Genesis explains the geology of the earth. We will look at 1) how the rocks and minerals fit within a Genesis view, 2) the significance of fossils, and 3) how the global flood explains geologic formations around the world. 

About the Speaker:

Patrick Nurre was trained in the secular view of geology. Over the past 40 years he has been actively involved in the Creation/Evolution issue in the field of geology. He has spoken to hundreds of college students, and is a popular speaker at many conventions and homeschool conferences. In 2005, Patrick created Northwest Treasures to provide opportunities to study geology from a Biblical perspective. In the fall of 2012, he opened the Geology Learning Center, a geology museum/educational center located in Mountlake Terrace, WA. Patrick leads field trips each year to many geological sites including his annual field trip to Yellowstone Park in August.

Visit his website at Northwest Treasures. 

Post Flood Ice Age - Michael Oard on Origins

Michael Oard explains what conditions are required for an ice age, shows how the secular scientists dating of the ice age(s) are just bad guesses, and that they have no idea how an ice age could have taken place in their paradigm. But it does fit perfectly right after the worldwide flood in a biblical creationist view.

Download the episode guide for this broadcast or view below.

Dinosaur Challenges Explained - Michael Oard on Origins

Michael Oard talks about dinosaur footprints and their evidence for a young earth.
Episode Guide here.

Michael Oard

Michael Oard became interested in creationism after reading Whitcomb and Morris's The Genesis Flood in the early 1970s. Having a focus on research, his interest grew to the point that he asked himself what he could contribute. That is when the idea of an Ice Age model started. The first paper on the Ice Age was published in 1979 in the Creation Research Society Quarterly. Since then dozens of articles and about six books have been published on the Ice Age. Research on the Ice Age ignited an interest in glaciology, geology and geophysics, which he has been ardently studying for over 35 years.

Michael has a B.S. and M.S. degree in atmospheric science from the University of Washington. He was a research meteorologist for 6 years at the University of Washington. In 2001, he retired as a lead forecaster with the National Weather Service in Great Falls, Montana. Since then he has been doing full time research in creationist earth science. Over the years, he has learned to speak to lay adults and children on a variety of subjects in the earth sciences.

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Michael has published eight papers or technical monographs in the secular technical literature of the American Meteorological Association and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association. Since becoming a creationist, he has published about 200 articles in the creationist technical literature and has authored, coauthored, or been editor of fourteen published creationist books for different ages on the Flood, the Ice Age, weather, geology, and National park guides. He is on the board of the Creation Research Society.

Michael has been married to Beverly for over 40 years, and they have four grown children with 10 grandchildren. All but the youngest son live close by in Bozeman, Montana.

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Defense for Accelerated Decay - Andrew Snelling, Ph.D

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Part 2

One of the reasons so many Christians have come to accept an old Earth is they believe that science does not support a global Flood and a young Earth. Dr. Snelling is a geologist with an impressive resume having broad experience with the actual data and getting it published. In this interview we discuss several significant factors that confirm both the global Flood and a young Earth.

Dr. Snelling was a significant partner in the RATE project, which the findings were powerfully in favor of creation and the Flood. In this interview we primarily discuss findings related to helium in zircons and carbon in coal samples. On the web Dr. Snelling has been attacked fiercely, so I wanted to find out if he really had the data to support the Earth being young and the global Flood. Watch for your self to see how he did in this stirring encounter.

Andrew A. Snelling, BSc (Hons), PhD

Director of Research, AiG-US

Biography

Andrew A. Snelling is a geologist, research scientist, and technical editor. He completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Geology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, graduating with First Class Honors in 1975. His Doctor of Philosophy (in geology) was awarded by The University of Sydney, Australia in 1982 for his research thesis entitled “A geochemical study of the Koongarra uranium deposit, Northern Territory, Australia.” Between studies and since Andrew worked for six years in the exploration and mining industries in Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia and the Northern Territory variously as a field, mine and research geologist.
Andrew commenced in full-time creation ministry at the end of 1983, first working with the Creation Science Foundation of Australia until late 1998, including three years with Ken Ham before Ham moved to the USA. From 1983 to 1992 Snelling was still required to be a geological consultant to the Koongarra uranium project. He was involved in research projects with several CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organization) scientists, and in major international collaborative research effort with ANSTO (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization) and university scientists across Australia, and with scientists from the USA, Britain, Japan, Sweden and the International Atomic Energy Agency, to investigate the Koongarra uranium deposit as a natural analog of a nuclear waste disposal site. As a result of these research endeavors, Andrew was involved in writing numerous scientific reports, and scientific papers that were published in international science journals.
In late 1998 Andrew joined the Institute for Creation Research near San Diego, as a Professor of Geology. His responsibilities included teaching Master’s degree geology courses in ICR’s Graduate School, leading tours to the Grand Canyon, England, Yosemite, and Death Valley; and research and writing projects. Andrew was a principal investigator in the eight-year, ICR-led RATE (Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth) research project to which he made major contributions in rock dating studies using radioisotopes, and in studies of radiation halos (radiohalos) and tracks (fission tracks) in various minerals. He contributed two chapters to the first RATE technical volume in 2000, and three chapters to the second RATE technical volume in 2005, as well as being the primary production editor of both volumes. Andrew’s time at ICR was also spent writing a major two-volume book on Earth’s Catastrophic Past: Geology, Creation, and the Flood (Dallas, TX: Institute for Creation Research, 2009).
In June 2007 Andrew’s employment began with Answers in Genesis as their Director of Research. He initially resided in Brisbane, Australia and commuted regularly as necessary to the USA. But in mid-2011 he moved with his wife to live in northern Kentucky (near Cincinnati, Ohio). As a result of joint research, he has contributed to and jointly edited (with Dr. Steven W. Boyd) the book Grappling with the Chronology of the Genesis Flood (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2013).
Andrew’s talents have enabled him to be involved in extensive creationist research in Australia, the USA, Britain, New Zealand and elsewhere, majoring on the radioactive methods for dating rocks and evidence for the Flood of Noah. Such research has included the formation of igneous and metamorphic rocks (for example, granites and schists, respectively), all types of mineral deposits, sedimentary strata, and landscape features (for example, Grand Canyon, USA, and Ayers Rock or Uluru, central Australia) within the biblical framework of earth history. Technical papers by Dr. Snelling on regional metamorphism and rock dating have won the prestigious “Technical Excellence Award” as best technical paper at the 1994 Third and 1998 Fourth International Conference on Creationism respectively. As well as writing regularly and extensively in many international creationist magazines, journals and publications, Andrew was founding editor in 1984 and served as editor for almost 15 years of the Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal (now Journal of Creation), and served as the Editor-in-Chief for the Sixth International Conference on Creationism.
Andrew has traveled around Australia, the USA, and widely overseas (Britain, New Zealand, South Africa, Korea, Indonesia, Hong Kong, China) speaking in schools, churches, colleges, public and university meetings, to both lay and technical audiences, on the overwhelming scientific evidence consistent with the biblical account of Creation and the Genesis Flood, based largely on his own research. Andrew’s research has demonstrated that a global flood about 4,300 years ago explains many rock layers and most fossil deposits found around the world. Building from that foundation, Dr. Snelling has made predictions as to what should be found if a catastrophic global flood actually happened (for example, the existence of extensive, fossil-bearing rock layers). Additionally, Andrew’s research has indicated that radioactive decay rates have not been consistent in the past, having been grossly accelerated, so the radioactive methods for dating rocks at millions and billions of years old are not reliable, and the rock evidence overall is consistent with a young earth. He is currently researching the radioisotope dating of meteorites.
Andrew was raised in a Christian family in Sydney, Australia, is married to wife Kym, and has three adult children and three grandchildren. Andrew’s interest in geology began very soon after his conversion to Christianity at nine years of age. His very firm conviction in the authority and veracity of the Scriptures brought him to the creation/evolution controversy early in his teens, so that by the commencement of university studies, Andrew already had a clear scriptural perspective on the literalness of Creation and Noah’s Flood, and an unmistakable call from the Lord for a life-long involvement in creationist ministry.

Education

BSc Applied Geology, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, First Class Honours
PhD Geology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Associations

Geological Society of Australia
Geological Society of America
Geological Association of Canada
Mineralogical Society of America
Society of Economic Geologists
Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits
Creation Research Society

Honors and Awards

At the Third International Conference on Creationism in Pittsburgh (1994), he was presented with the Technical Excellence Award for the best technical paper, a paper on evidence for regional metamorphism within the creationist timeframe.
At the Fourth International Conference on Creationism (1998), he gained the first three prizes for technical excellence: first prize for his studies on anomalous radiometric “dates” of recent lava flows from Mt Ngauruhoe volcano, New Zealand. The second and third prizes were for co-authored papers with John Woodmorappe on the cooling of granites, and Dr. Steve Austin on radiometric “dating” of a rock unit in the Grand Canyon respectively.

Publications

Books

Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth, Vol. 1, edited by Larry Vardiman, Andrew Snelling and Eugene Chaffin
Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth, Vol. 2, edited by Larry Vardiman, Andrew Snelling and Eugene Chaffin
Earth’s Catastrophic Past: Geology, Creation and the Flood, 2 volumes
The NEW Answers Books 1–4, Featuring many authors such as Ken Ham (who also served as general editor), Dr. David Menton, Dr. Andrew Snelling, Professor Andy McIntosh, Dr. Georgia Purdom, Dr. Danny Faulkner, Dr. Jason Lisle, Dr. Terry Mortenson, and Dr. Clifford Wilson
Grappling with the Chronology of the Genesis Flood, edited by Steven W. Boyd and Andrew Snelling

Some Creation magazine articles written by Dr. Snelling

• Darwin the City
• Coal Beds and Noah’s Flood
• Forked seams sabotage swamp theory of coal formation
• Noah’s Flood and Mt Isa Metal Deposits
• Is The Sun Shrinking? Part Two
• A ‘165 million year’ surprise
• Iceland’s recent ‘mega-flood’
• Grand Canyon: Startling Evidence for Noah’s Flood
• The First Atmosphere:
  Geological Evidences and their Implications
• Australia’s Amazing Kangaroos
• The Bear That Isn’t
• Dating Dilemma: Fossil wood in ‘ancient’ sandstone
• Where Are All The Human Fossils
• Amazing ‘Ark’ Exposé
• Radioactive ‘Dating’ in Conflict
  (simplified version of the technical paper on the Crinum wood, below)
• Radioactive ‘dating’ failure: Recent New Zealand lava flows yield ‘ages’ of millions of years
  (simplified version of the technical paper on the Mt Ngauruhoe lava flows, below)
• Geological conflict: young radiocarbon date for ancient fossil wood challenges fossil dating
• Rapid Rocks: Granites didn’t need millions of years of cooling
  (with John Woodmorappe)
• That Matter of the Shrinking Sun
  (Be Skeptical About the Skeptics! Part 4)

Some articles by Dr. Snelling from Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal (now Journal of Creation)

• Galaxy-Quasar Connection (red shift anomaly)
• Sedimentation Experiments: Nature finally catches up!
• Can Flood Geology Explain Thick Chalk Layers?
• Saturn’s Rings—Short-Lived and Young
• The ‘Principle of Least Astonishment’!
  [Rapid reversals of Earth’s magnetic field]
• Microscopic Diamonds Confound Geologists
• Moon Dust and the Age of the Solar System
• ‘Rapid’ Granite Formation?
• Conflicting ‘ages’ of Tertiary basalt and contained fossilised wood, Crinum, Central Queensland, Australia
• See also Dr. Snelling’s paper on anomalous ‘dates’ of Mt Ngauruhoe (New Zealand) lava flows
  (First Prize for technical excellence, Fourth International Conference on Creationism, 1998.

Do we all come from two people? - Creation Magazine LIVE!

Description

Many scientists say that the evidence from genetics incontrovertibly shows humans did not originate from a single pair. This episode looks at specific arguments by bible skeptics and shows how wrong they are.

The Creation Magazine LIVE! TV program is a ministry of Creation Ministries International. With offices in seven countries and more PhD scientists than any Christian organization this program features cutting edge science that supports the Bible delivered in a non-technical, visually-rich, discussion-based format.

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The Noah Movie Deception

“I don’t think it’s a very religious story...I think it’s a great fable that’s part of so many different religions and spiritual practices.” –Darren Aronofsky, Variety 2012

This video explores Paramount Pictures' movie "Noah," starring Russell Crowe and directed/co-written by Darren Aronofsky.

Did you know that Noah was a liberal, eco-warrior and the world's first environmentalist? Did you know that Noah was really an uncaring, "dark," murderous, axe wielding person? Did you know that Noah threatened to kill his eldest son's wife and her unborn daughter because he didn't want the earth to be re-populated? Did you know that Noah's really old pal Methuselah was a witch doctor who helped guide Noah spiritually? Did you know that Noah enlisted the help of Satan's fallen angels to protect him while building the ark? What? You didn't know all of this? Of course not! Because none of it is true!

To read our in-depth article on the movie Noah, please visit:
http://www.goodfight.org/a_v_noah_movie_deception.html

To learn more about our ministry, please visit:
http://www.goodfight.org

Noah Movie Review with Ken Ham

Join Answers in Genesis President/CEO Ken Ham for a review of the Noah movie. Ken Ham and several AiG staff offer their personal perspectives and reviews of this movie. 

Visit http://creationdebate.org for more articles and conversations about Noah the movie

Read AiG's detail movie review here.

Genesis 1-11: Why Does It Matter? · Brian Catalucci

Creation Seminar - Introduction and Overview Part 1 of 5 - Why Does It Matter? with Creation Speaker Brian Catalucci

Biblical and scientific reasons why we should not compromise God's Word with evolution, including biblical and scientific evidences for a worldwide flood, why it matters what we believe, and the cost of compromise.

Brian Catalucci

Brian grew up in a Christian home but attended public schools that taught evolution as man's beginnings. Brian was a fighter pilot in the Air National Guard for 20 years, and a Captain and pilot for a major national airline for over 32 years. In his early forties, he studied for a graduate degree in computer science. During that period of time, he began to realize that information was the building block of the entire universe. But where did all the information come from? He discovered that the laws of science, all of man's inventions, and all the computer algorithms and information systems people use have already existed in nature. Humans just figured out how to use them. For the first time in his life, Brian really believed there had to be a Creator God through whom all the information in the universe came into being. He found Him in the Lord Jesus Christ.

In 1993, Brian graduated with a Master's degree in computer science and engineering from the University Of Colorado. For 10 years, he was President of Rocky Mountain Creation Fellowship in Denver, Colorado, where he gave presentations and worked closely with AiG to bring many highly qualified speakers on creation topics to the Denver area. Brian has appeared on both TV and radio shows regarding Biblical and Creation Science topics, and has given many presentations all across the USA on Genesis, dinosaurs, aliens/UFOs, ancient man, and the founding fathers. He is presently an adjunct speaker for Answers in Genesis on a variety of topics, including Genesis, biblical creation, science, Christian apologetics, and the inerrancy of Scripture.

Brian has been married to his wife Lise for over 32 years and they now reside in Denver, Colorado. He is currently working on his PhD dissertation in theology and apologetics.

The Most Asked Questions on Genesis 1-11 Answered - Ken Ham

In this old school video, perhaps the most famous creationist speaker, Ken Ham answers popular challenges to the biblical account/young earth creationist model.

Creation Geology: The Key To Unraveling Earth History - Patrick Nurre

Seminar by Patrick Nurre.

Apologetics Forum of Snohomish County

Atonement Free Lutheran Church, Arlington, WA.

January 24th, 2014

Description:
If the world is truly billions of years old, we would expect to see this in the geologic record - the rocks, minerals and fossils. Secular geologists tell us emphatically that the earth is billions of years old, having been sculpted by slow and gradual geologic processes, punctuated by brief, local catastrophes. But is this view based on scientific facts or a philosophy framed by biases? Come take a journey with us as we unravel this history and discover just how accurately the Book of Genesis explains the geology of the earth. We will look at 1) how the rocks and minerals fit within a Genesis view, 2) the significance of fossils, and 3) how the global flood explains geologic formations around the world.

About the Speaker:
Patrick Nurre was trained in the secular view of geology. Over the past 40 years he has been actively involved in the Creation/Evolution issue in the field of geology. He has spoken to hundreds of college students, and is a popular speaker at many conventions and homeschool conferences. In 2005, Patrick created Northwest Treasures to provide opportunities to study geology from a Biblical perspective. In the fall of 2012, he opened the Geology Learning Center, a geology museum/educational center located in Mountlake Terrace, WA. Patrick leads field trips each year to many geological sites including his annual field trip to Yellowstone Park in August.

Visit his website at Northwest Treasures. 

The Worldwide Flood - Geologic Evidences - Dr. Andrew Snelling on Origins

Part 1

Geologist Andrew Snelling, Ph.D. gives compelling geologic evidence for the worldwide flood that the Bible historically records.

Part 2

Andrew A. Snelling, BSc (Hons), PhD

 

Director of Research, AiG-US

Biography

 

Andrew A. Snelling is a geologist, research scientist, and technical editor. He completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Geology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, graduating with First Class Honors in 1975. His Doctor of Philosophy (in geology) was awarded by The University of Sydney, Australia in 1982 for his research thesis entitled “A geochemical study of the Koongarra uranium deposit, Northern Territory, Australia.” Between studies and since Andrew worked for six years in the exploration and mining industries in Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia and the Northern Territory variously as a field, mine and research geologist.

Andrew commenced in full-time creation ministry at the end of 1983, first working with the Creation Science Foundation of Australia until late 1998, including three years with Ken Ham before Ham moved to the USA. From 1983 to 1992 Snelling was still required to be a geological consultant to the Koongarra uranium project. He was involved in research projects with several CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organization) scientists, and in major international collaborative research effort with ANSTO (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization) and university scientists across Australia, and with scientists from the USA, Britain, Japan, Sweden and the International Atomic Energy Agency, to investigate the Koongarra uranium deposit as a natural analog of a nuclear waste disposal site. As a result of these research endeavors, Andrew was involved in writing numerous scientific reports, and scientific papers that were published in international science journals.

In late 1998 Andrew joined the Institute for Creation Research near San Diego, as a Professor of Geology. His responsibilities included teaching Master’s degree geology courses in ICR’s Graduate School, leading tours to the Grand Canyon, England, Yosemite, and Death Valley; and research and writing projects. Andrew was a principal investigator in the eight-year, ICR-led RATE (Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth) research project to which he made major contributions in rock dating studies using radioisotopes, and in studies of radiation halos (radiohalos) and tracks (fission tracks) in various minerals. He contributed two chapters to the first RATE technical volume in 2000, and three chapters to the second RATE technical volume in 2005, as well as being the primary production editor of both volumes. Andrew’s time at ICR was also spent writing a major two-volume book on Earth’s Catastrophic Past: Geology, Creation, and the Flood (Dallas, TX: Institute for Creation Research, 2009).

In June 2007 Andrew’s employment began with Answers in Genesis as their Director of Research. He initially resided in Brisbane, Australia and commuted regularly as necessary to the USA. But in mid-2011 he moved with his wife to live in northern Kentucky (near Cincinnati, Ohio). As a result of joint research, he has contributed to and jointly edited (with Dr. Steven W. Boyd) the book Grappling with the Chronology of the Genesis Flood (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2013).

Andrew’s talents have enabled him to be involved in extensive creationist research in Australia, the USA, Britain, New Zealand and elsewhere, majoring on the radioactive methods for dating rocks and evidence for the Flood of Noah. Such research has included the formation of igneous and metamorphic rocks (for example, granites and schists, respectively), all types of mineral deposits, sedimentary strata, and landscape features (for example, Grand Canyon, USA, and Ayers Rock or Uluru, central Australia) within the biblical framework of earth history. Technical papers by Dr. Snelling on regional metamorphism and rock dating have won the prestigious “Technical Excellence Award” as best technical paper at the 1994 Third and 1998 Fourth International Conference on Creationism respectively. As well as writing regularly and extensively in many international creationist magazines, journals and publications, Andrew was founding editor in 1984 and served as editor for almost 15 years of the Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal (now Journal of Creation), and served as the Editor-in-Chief for the Sixth International Conference on Creationism.

Andrew has traveled around Australia, the USA, and widely overseas (Britain, New Zealand, South Africa, Korea, Indonesia, Hong Kong, China) speaking in schools, churches, colleges, public and university meetings, to both lay and technical audiences, on the overwhelming scientific evidence consistent with the biblical account of Creation and the Genesis Flood, based largely on his own research. Andrew’s research has demonstrated that a global flood about 4,300 years ago explains many rock layers and most fossil deposits found around the world. Building from that foundation, Dr. Snelling has made predictions as to what should be found if a catastrophic global flood actually happened (for example, the existence of extensive, fossil-bearing rock layers). Additionally, Andrew’s research has indicated that radioactive decay rates have not been consistent in the past, having been grossly accelerated, so the radioactive methods for dating rocks at millions and billions of years old are not reliable, and the rock evidence overall is consistent with a young earth. He is currently researching the radioisotope dating of meteorites.

Andrew was raised in a Christian family in Sydney, Australia, is married to wife Kym, and has three adult children and three grandchildren. Andrew’s interest in geology began very soon after his conversion to Christianity at nine years of age. His very firm conviction in the authority and veracity of the Scriptures brought him to the creation/evolution controversy early in his teens, so that by the commencement of university studies, Andrew already had a clear scriptural perspective on the literalness of Creation and Noah’s Flood, and an unmistakable call from the Lord for a life-long involvement in creationist ministry.

Education

 

BSc Applied Geology, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, First Class Honours
PhD Geology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Associations

 

Geological Society of Australia
Geological Society of America
Geological Association of Canada
Mineralogical Society of America
Society of Economic Geologists
Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits
Creation Research Society

Honors and Awards

 

At the Third International Conference on Creationism in Pittsburgh (1994), he was presented with the Technical Excellence Award for the best technical paper, a paper on evidence for regional metamorphism within the creationist timeframe.

At the Fourth International Conference on Creationism (1998), he gained the first three prizes for technical excellence: first prize for his studies on anomalous radiometric “dates” of recent lava flows from Mt Ngauruhoe volcano, New Zealand. The second and third prizes were for co-authored papers with John Woodmorappe on the cooling of granites, and Dr. Steve Austin on radiometric “dating” of a rock unit in the Grand Canyon respectively.

Publications

Books

Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth, Vol. 1, edited by Larry Vardiman, Andrew Snelling and Eugene Chaffin
Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth, Vol. 2, edited by Larry Vardiman, Andrew Snelling and Eugene Chaffin
Earth’s Catastrophic Past: Geology, Creation and the Flood, 2 volumes
The NEW Answers Books 1–4, Featuring many authors such as Ken Ham (who also served as general editor), Dr. David Menton, Dr. Andrew Snelling, Professor Andy McIntosh, Dr. Georgia Purdom, Dr. Danny Faulkner, Dr. Jason Lisle, Dr. Terry Mortenson, and Dr. Clifford Wilson
Grappling with the Chronology of the Genesis Flood, edited by Steven W. Boyd and Andrew Snelling

Some Creation magazine articles written by Dr. Snelling

• Darwin the City
• Coal Beds and Noah’s Flood
• Forked seams sabotage swamp theory of coal formation
• Noah’s Flood and Mt Isa Metal Deposits
• Is The Sun Shrinking? Part Two
• A ‘165 million year’ surprise
• Iceland’s recent ‘mega-flood’
• Grand Canyon: Startling Evidence for Noah’s Flood
• The First Atmosphere:
  Geological Evidences and their Implications
• Australia’s Amazing Kangaroos
• The Bear That Isn’t
• Dating Dilemma: Fossil wood in ‘ancient’ sandstone
• Where Are All The Human Fossils
• Amazing ‘Ark’ Exposé
• Radioactive ‘Dating’ in Conflict
  (simplified version of the technical paper on the Crinum wood, below)
• Radioactive ‘dating’ failure: Recent New Zealand lava flows yield ‘ages’ of millions of years
  (simplified version of the technical paper on the Mt Ngauruhoe lava flows, below)
• Geological conflict: young radiocarbon date for ancient fossil wood challenges fossil dating
• Rapid Rocks: Granites didn’t need millions of years of cooling
  (with John Woodmorappe)
• That Matter of the Shrinking Sun
  (Be Skeptical About the Skeptics! Part 4)
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Some articles by Dr. Snelling from Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal (now Journal of Creation)

• Galaxy-Quasar Connection (red shift anomaly)
• Sedimentation Experiments: Nature finally catches up!
• Can Flood Geology Explain Thick Chalk Layers?
• Saturn’s Rings—Short-Lived and Young
• The ‘Principle of Least Astonishment’!
  [Rapid reversals of Earth’s magnetic field]
• Microscopic Diamonds Confound Geologists
• Moon Dust and the Age of the Solar System
• ‘Rapid’ Granite Formation?
• Conflicting ‘ages’ of Tertiary basalt and contained fossilised wood, Crinum, Central Queensland, Australia
• See also Dr. Snelling’s paper on anomalous ‘dates’ of Mt Ngauruhoe (New Zealand) lava flows
  (First Prize for technical excellence, Fourth International Conference on Creationism, 1998.

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