Wisconsin Upper Dells Biblical Geology Boat Tour Saturday Sept. 19, 2020

 What's the Evidence Creation Ministry is sponsoring a Family Field Trip to the Wisconsin Dells on Saturday, September 19th, 2020. 

Participants will learn about, 'The Power of Water". There will be two time options from which to choose:

 Option 1: Upper Dells Boat tour 9-11 (please arrive at least 15 minutes early),  lunch at 11:30 at Newport Park and discussion of 2008 Lake Delton flood, followed by visit to land breach site at Kaminski Park. 

Option 2: Meet at 11:30 for lunch and discussion of 2008 Lake Delton flood, visit land breach site at Kaminski Park, then drive to boat launch for 2-4 pm boat tour.

The Upper Dells Boat tour includes a private chartered Upper Dells Boat Tour of the Wisconsin River with stops at Witches Gulch and Stand Rock. Along the way Randy of What's the Evidence ministry will be pointing out the geology layers along the river from a Biblical perspective. There is a cost for those attending, and lunch will be provided. Because of the boat, attendance is limited. For more information go to WhatsTheEvidence.org, call 262-305-5299 or 920-285-0785 (Dells area).

COST: $30 per person. Pre-payment required. Call 262-305-5299 for information on payment.

Lunch of Jimmy Johns included.

 Each family will receive a gift of one of the following books: 

Pictures below: Newport Park picnic area, Kaminski Park and area of 2008 Lake Delton flood, Onboard the upper deck of the tour boat (there is also an enclosed lower deck), Witches Gulch (first stop), Stand Rock and iconic picture of dog jumping (2nd stop). 

Rain date of 9/26. Please dress for the weather. Rain date only for high water and a strong storm.

links to park locations: 

Newport Park for lunch:

https://goo.gl/maps/atY3v9QitrHzpS7p6

Kaminski Park:

https://goo.gl/maps/rZnEq7wYBu8wBwow7

Boat launch site:  Boat Launch

Upper deck of private boat

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.

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

Anniversary of Mount St. Helens Eruption

Thirtieth Anniversary of a Geologic Catastrophe

by Andrew A. Snelling

May 18, 2010

Semi-technical

Keywords

• author-andrew-snelling
• catastrophe
• mount-st-helens

May 18 marks the thirtieth anniversary of one of the most violent natural disasters of our time, the colossal 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. This catastrophic geologic event not only shocked the world because of its explosive power and made headline news, but challenged the foundations of evolutionary theory.

The May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in the state of Washington is regarded by many as the most significant geologic event of the twentieth century, excelling all others in its extraordinary documentation and scientific study. Although not the most powerful explosion of the last century, that eruption provided a significant learning experience within a natural laboratory for the understanding of catastrophic geologic processes. And thirty years later we learn that Mount St. Helens still confronts the underlying slow-and-gradual assumptions of modern geologic thinking.

The beautiful mountain before it erupted thirty years ago today. (Photo by R. Fleshman from www.creationism.org)

Today’s Mount St. Helens (Photo by R. Fleshman from www.creationism.org)

On May 18, 1980, a steam blast equivalent to 20 megatons of TNT destroyed the northern side of the once-pristine shape of the volcano. Geologists, who are accustomed to thinking about slow evolutionary processes forming geologic features, were astounded to witness many of these same features form rapidly as a result of that and subsequent eruptions. We are indebted to Dr. Steven Austin of the Institute for Creation Research for his work in documenting carefully the geologic results of this astounding catastrophe. The following undeniable lessons still confront us, thirty years on.

To continue article go to this link:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2010/05/18/thirtieth-anniversary-of-geologic-catastrophe