What's the Evidence? Booth to be at the Wisconsin Christian News Ministry Expo

The 2012 Wisconsin Christian News Ministry Expo has been set for March 10 and will once again be held in the center of the state - Wausau.

   Cedar Creek Mall, located just off I-39 at exit 185, just south of Wausau, will host the event for the fourth year in a row.  WCN publisher Rob Pue stated, “Cedar Creek has been an ideal location for us because it is centrally located in the state, there is plenty of room, and we also have the opportunity to witness to the general public, so the Expo is not just for church-goers, but an opportunity to do outreach as well.”
 We really look forward to meeting folks in Northern Wisconsin and sharing our displays and faith-building information.

Flood Geology Video

 Answers in Genesis just posted this video on demand about Flood Geology. It answers many questions about fossils, sedimentary layers, coal and other geological features we see in the world.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/media/video/ondemand/creation-museum/flood-geology

Seminar Success

23 guests attended our first one-night seminar on the Age of the Earth and Carbon Dating at the West Bend library. Feedback included comments like:
Very thought-provoking, interesting and relevant, good explanation of carbon dating, very good presentations, great information, riveting, and excellent explanation about underlying assumptions of carbon dating...
Attendees took home the DVD, God of Wonders, and other resources for themselves and to share.
Thank you Randy and Joe for your wonderful presentations!
We are considering a one-night seminar this winter on the topic of dinosaurs.

FREE ONE NIGHT SEMINAR HOSTED BY WHAT'S THE EVIDENCE? November 8, 2011

Topics: 

CARBON DATING (made easy), and
THE AGE OF THE EARTH  (and why does it matter?)       
WHAT: There is a lot of talk about “dating methods” and the age of the earth. What does this mean, and how can science prove the age of the earth? Is the earth billions of years old? Does Carbon dating disprove the Bible? What does the Bible say about these matters, and why is it important?

For many, these issues seem very technical. These talks will be presented for the layperson seeking answers.

WHERE: West Bend Community Memorial Library

    Presentation room on 1^st floor

   630 Poplar Street, West Bend

WHEN:  TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2011      7:00-8:30 p.m.

The Carbon Dating presentation begins at 7:00 p.m.

***10 minute break***

The Age of the Earth presentation begins at 7:50 p.m.

WHO: WHAT’S THE EVIDENCE? Fairbooth Team

APPROPRIATE for AGES: High School and above

PARENTS:

Are your kids learning evolution in school?                                 

 PASTORS:

Does your congregation have questions 

about evolution? 

Here's some help in giving them answers

We welcome questions posed in a respectful manner, and we will endeavor to answer your questions or point you to scholarly resources for your own research.

Contact information:
http://whatstheevidence.net

  whatstheevidence@gmail.com

                                                                 
Seating is limited. Pre-registration is encouraged. 262-305-5299

ICR writes Great Rebuttal to Evolutionary Comments about "What's the Evidence?" Booth and Interpretation of Scientific Data

County Fair's Creation Booth Smeared by Media

by Brian Thomas, M.S. *

A part-time nurse from West Bend, Wisconsin, set up an interactive creation-based booth with a sign reading "Interpret the Evidence" at a local county fair. The Wisconsin State Journal reported on Mary Weigand's booth with the headline "Creationist seeks to debunk scientific fact at Dane County Fair."¹ But was she actually trying to debunk "scientific fact," or was this headline just a mudslinging smear?

By examining fossils on display, booth attendees investigated for themselves whether or not fossils show a gradual transition between life forms, as Darwinism predicts. The booth presented an alternative scientific explanation that appears to fit the fossil data much better. Each visitor was left to discern whether fossils show discrete created kinds with no undisputed transitions between forms, as biblical creation predicts.²
The news response to this booth claimed that the idea that the world is thousands of years old is incompatible with "techniques such as radioactive isotope dating." Supposedly, these techniques "repeatedly conclude that some geological features are hundreds of millions of years old."¹ But what if overwhelming scientific evidence actually demands that the world is thousands, not millions or billions, of years old, and that the radioisotope dating techniques are unreliable? Weigand may well be familiar with these reports, unlike the State Journal reporter and the evolutionists he interviewed.
Scientific evidence has clearly shown radioisotope dating to be completely untrustworthy.³ Radioisotope-derived ages are typically in conflict with other published results that use different isotopes, or even the same isotopes published at different times. Radioisotope age assignments of rock samples of known age have always reported at orders of magnitude older than the real age of the rock. For example, a 10-year-old rock that formed in the crater of Mount St. Helens was dated at 350,000 years, while another technique dated the same rock at over two million years.⁴
A Wisconsin-based evolutionary botanist said that the booth "is a testament to the power of belief and the difference between belief and science."¹ But his statement is wrong, because it assumes that science does not involve belief, when in fact belief is a fundamental requirement for operational science. Prior to investigation, any scientist must first believe that the world operates according to regular principles, that his or her study results will meaningfully correlate to reality, and that there is such a thing as truthful reality. These beliefs find their foundation only in biblical Christianity.⁵
The assertion that science is separated from belief also wrongly assumes that belief in creation does not involve scientific examination of evidence. This assumption is convenient if a person prefers to ignore the reams of scientific evidence that point to recent, special creation.⁶
The claim that this booth is attempting "to debunk scientific fact" is apparently a shallow slander. Instead, it looks as though Weigand and her sponsors actually promote just the opposite approach: Encouraging people to do better science by interpreting hard evidence using common sense, instead of relying on the dogmatic propaganda that is necessary to prop up evolution's failed paradigm.

References

1. Erickson, D. Creationist seeks to debunk scientific fact at Dane County Fair. Wisconsin State Journal. Posted on host.madison.com July 22, 2011, accessed August 5, 2011.
2. For more information, see Fossils Show Stasis and No Transitional Forms on www.icr.org.
3. For one example, see Humphreys, D. 2006. A Tale of Two Hourglasses. Acts & Facts. 35 (12). Related articles are available at www.icr.org/creation-radiometric.
4. Austin, S. A. 1996. Excess Argon within Mineral Concentrates from the New Dacite Lava Dome at Mount St. Helens Volcano. Journal of Creation, formerly Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal. 10 (3): 335-343.
5. Lisle, J. 2009. The Ultimate Proof of Creation. Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 39-41.
6. For a sampling of this evidence, visit the Evidence from Science site on www.icr.org.

* Mr. Thomas is Science Writer at the Institute for Creation Research.
 Link to article

How Old is the Earth?

We just finished two fairs. We had a great time and lots of interest. One question came up a lot. Folks are interested in the age of the earth. Below is an excerpt from an excellent chapter on the topic from the book, Refuting Evolution by Jonathan Sarfati, Ph. D.

Refuting Evolution

A handbook for students, parents, and teachers countering the latest arguments for evolution

by Jonathan Sarfati, Ph.D., F.M.

How old is the earth?

First published in Refuting Evolution, Chapter 8

For particles-to-people evolution to have occurred, the earth would need to be billions of years old. So Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science presents what it claims is evidence for vast time spans. This is graphically illustrated in a chart on pages 36–37: man’s existence is in such a tiny segment at the end of a 5-billion-year time-line that it has to be diagrammatically magnified twice to show up.
On the other hand, basing one’s ideas on the Bible gives a very different picture. The Bible states that man was made six days after creation, about 6,000 years ago. So a time-line of the world constructed on biblical data would have man almost at the beginning, not the end. If we took the same 15-inch (39 cm) time-line as does Teaching about Evolution to represent the biblical history of the earth, man would be about ¹/₁₀₀₀ of a mm away from the beginning! Also, Christians, by definition, take the statements of Jesus Christ seriously. He said: ‘But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female’ (Mark 10:6), which would make sense with the proposed biblical time-line, but is diametrically opposed to the Teaching about Evolution time-line.
This chapter analyzes rock formation and dating methods in terms of what these two competing models would predict.

...........(Click on link to continue reading.)http://creation.com/refuting-evolution-chapter-8-how-old-is-the-earth

Dane County Fair

The Wisconsin State Journal featured us on the front page today. While the article is a bit biased, it certainly brings up the point about the age of the earth and whether or not fossils can be used as evidence for evolution or not. To read the article click HERE.
Now, I certainly would like to see a debate on the UW Madison campus this fall between either Mr. Waller or Mr.Byers and a Creation scientist. Any takers?