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Why Ancient Worldwide Ziggurat/Pyramid Complexes Support The Biblical Babel Account, Anne Habermehl

Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism

Although the best-known feature of Babel was the tower that Noah’s rebellious descendants began to build in Shinar, the Bible says that they were constructing a “city” there as well. No details are included about the Babel city and tower. However, as this paper will show, the city that accompanied the tower was most likely composed of temples and various other religious structures, and the tower was a ziggurat (stepped pyramid).

If we look around the world, we see many ancient pagan complexes consisting of ziggurats together with temples and other buildings. It appears that after the Babel dispersion, far …

Holy Spirit’S Refreshing Our Bodies Via Biological Redemption And The Creation Model, James D. Johansen

Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism

The Holy Spirit is an active participant in creation all the way back to Gen 1:1, as He moved over the surface of the water, and He continues to sustain us. In terms of a Creation Model, human design has a Holy Spirit interface design feature that should be characterized. This paper examines the biological extent to which individuals acting in our Imago Dei missional calling are supported by the work of the Holy Spirit. The premise is that the Holy Spirit uses and revitalizes an individual’s capabilities through engagement with their spirit, soul, and body. Redemption is not only …

That The Book Of Job Describes Events Prior To Abraham And Coincides With The End Of The Ice Age, David S. Bolls

Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism

The Torah records the origin of man down to the Exodus but is assumed to silently pass over the critical period between the Tower of Babel and Abraham. This period spans approximately 700 years according to the Greek translation of the Torah. This “dark age” period, therefore, contains a gap where the people of the earth would have spread out to inhabit the world as the Scriptures indicate. It has been an open question whether the knowledge of the one true God would have been handed from generation to generation during this period down to Abraham, or if a sudden …

The Septuagint Vs. The Masoretic Text … A Statistical Perspective, Samuel J. Smithers, Trevor Specht, Erick M. Smith

Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism

Introduction (Background): This paper continues the discussion on whether the Hebrew Masoretic Text (MT) or the Greek Septuagint (LXX) more accurately preserves the original chronology of the patriarchs. For context, the LXX indicates we are approximately 7,500 years Anno Mundi (year after creation or AM) while the MT indicates we are approximately 6,000 years AM. This paper focuses on post flood chronology (Noah to Moses) due to the opportunity to use the concept of biological decay curves and statistical comparison. Additional chronologies or historical data points are provided for additional insight.

Methods: Assuming the concept of a genetic biological decay …

The Role Of And Limits On Uniformitarian Principles In Creationist Sedimentology Research, Sarah A. Maithel

Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism

James Hutton and Charles Lyell are widely considered the “fathers of modern geology”; they developed a framework for understanding Earth processes through the lens of uniformitarianism. According to their model, modern geologic processes extrapolated over long periods of time could deposit the sedimentary rock record and shape the Earth throughout its history. In other words, “the present is the key to the past”. While many now recognize the role of catastrophes in producing some geological deposits, modern processes are still used to interpret the rock record, especially in the field of sedimentology.

As creation scientists, however, we understand that the …

A Mathematical Description Of The Christian God, Mark Fredrick Horstemeyer

Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism

The Christian God is one trinitarian God who is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. Omniscience is all-knowing. Omnipresent is being everywhere at once. Omnipotent is all-powerful. Because the Holy Spirit has been revealed in the bible as reflective of different energy forms, He can be abstractly represented as energy in mathematical terms. Since power is the time derivative of energy, we can then cast the energy representation as a time derivative to make it power. When one integrates this equation from zero to infinity over all space and time, then we can get the mathematical expression of God’s omnipotence. We can …

The Place Of Radiocarbon Dating In A Young Earth Framework, Douglas N. Petrovich

Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism

The biblical requirement for earth’s being under 7,500 years old presents a problem for conventional scholarship, as radiocarbon dating implies that life forms existed even earlier. Unjustifiably, some Christian scholars have overreacted by categorically vilifying all radiocarbon evidence. This extremist view fails to explain why radiocarbon evidence fits smoothly with dates obtained from “historical-archaeological evidence” (HAE) at times in ancient history (i.e., any time after 1400 BC) when biblical chronology provides knowable hard dates.

For example, biblical chronology requires that Sennacherib attacked Judah in 701 BC. In preparation, Hezekiah carved the Siloam Tunnel to divert water from the Gihon Spring …

Genealogical Vs Phylogenetic Mutation Rates: Answering A Challenge, Robert Carter

Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism

There is a discrepancy between the mutation rate we can measure today and the rate at which evolution is supposed to have proceeded. The former is sometimes called the genealogical mutation rate, for it is obtained by comparing individuals whom we know to be related. The latter is sometimes called the phylogenetic mutation rate. It is calculated by counting the fixed differences between two species and dividing by the estimated time since their common ancestor. Genealogical mutation rates are generally several orders of magnitude faster than phylogenetic estimates. This causes problems for the evolutionary model. For example, using the genealogical …

Human History From Adam To Abraham: Integrating Paleoanthropology With A Young-Age Creation Perspective, Marcus R. Ross, Todd C. Wood, Peter Brummel

Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism

The issue of Adam and Eve’s historicity has become an increasingly important point of discussion among Evangelical Christians. For those who hold to an ancient Earth, questions about Adam and Eve relate to their time of creation, species identity, and even their very existence. Recent proposals among old-Earth creationists and theistic evolutionists are perhaps more diverse now than at any other point in history. These include Adam and Eve as:

· Mythological or typological characters with no historical referent.

· Historical persons ca. 750,000 years ago, assignable to Homo heidelbergensis.

· The first anatomically modern Homo sapiens ca. 100,000 …

Essentialism And The Human Kind, Or Experiments In Character Weighting, Todd Charles Wood

Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism

Human baraminology studies have been critiqued in the past for classifying disputed fossils as human and for ignoring character weight. Related to these concerns is an essentialist approach to hominin fossils, wherein a comparison of modern skeletons reveals a potentially small number of characteristics that distinguish human from ape and can be applied to the fossil record. This approach is essentialist because the characteristics that distinguish humans from apes now are assumed to be universally applicable for all time and taxa, and thus are unchanging. Thus, any approach to distinguishing human from ape in the fossil record must give greater …

Preface, John H. Whitmore

Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism

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The Dilemma Of Empty Halls, Joanna Lauer

Musical Offerings

Today, live classical concert attendance is low, a fact which threatens the careers of professional musicians. This paper examines recent statistics of classical concert attendance, theories as to why attendance rates are low, marketing methods for target audiences, and finally, recommendations to solve the dilemma of empty concert halls. To encourage concert attendance, classical music must be tastefully marketed to present-day audiences through the experience of technically excellent, musical, and interesting live performances. Ultimately, the relationship between art and its audience (the consumer) reveals that the key to the dilemma is the audience.

How Wagner Landed In A Far Away Galaxy: Examining Film From A Musical Perspective, Elise J. Camillone

Musical Offerings

What does music add to drama, or more specifically, movies? Without music, movies today would not be the same. When it comes to creating a film, the soundtrack is arguably just as important as videography or acting. Exploring the roots that soundtracks have in opera and investigating Wagner’s leitmotif will help discover how it influenced modern-day movie scoring. Furthermore, a deeper understanding of filmmaking can be obtained by examining the role music has to play in modern movies. The soundtracks from the original Star Wars trilogy films can be used to demonstrate the application of these things by looking deeply …

A Herderian Perspective On Finland, Sibelius, And The Kalevala, Philip R. Cataldo

Musical Offerings

Situated amidst the revolutionary spirits of 19^th-century Europe, Finnish nationalists sought to bring an end to roughly half a millennium of foreign rule for their land and their people. According to the German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder, a community must have a common language and a common history in order to constitute a nation. At this time, Finland had neither. Although Herder’s political philosophy is considered crucial to understanding the nationalist movements that took place in Europe during this period, Finland’s peculiar success in attaining and sustaining independence has until this point remained unexplained relative to a Herderian …

The Four Pillars Of Choral Music Education, Joanna J. Setness

Musical Offerings

This paper investigates how the philosophy of several key choral music educators influenced their working methods and the principles that they emphasized in their teaching.

Lowell Mason, named the “Father of Music Education”, and the first public school music teacher in Boston, spearheaded the school singing movement in the mid 1800’s. F. Melius Christiansen, teaching at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN left a legacy of the “ideal” choral sound and elevated the choir to a prestigious position in schools. John Finley Williamson, with the Westminster Choir, blended “sung-speech” and the quality of individual sound to produce an entirely different …

Singing Planets Don't Sing; They Speak, Joanna R. Lauer

Musical Offerings

Ancient Greek philosophers conceived a theory called Music of the Spheres. This ancient theory progressed for almost one thousand years before finally proving itself untrustworthy. However, this examination uncovers an overlooked fact: the large amount of natural order in sound and music existing before the creation of man. Scripture reveals that God is a God of order, and an extensive amount of natural order is found in the universe. Evidence points to God being the creator of the universe. Specific examples of such evidence are the inherent order of sound laid out in pitches, interval ratios, the overtone series, the …

Good Luck—You Don’T Need It, Madelaine L B Smith

Cedarville Review

Good Luck—You Don’t Need It is a functional ceramic tea set. This piece was inspired by the work of Mariana Baquero, and her use of text in ceramics. It was made using stoneware and fired to Cone 10. The writing that spans the set is from a letter given to the artist by her father before she started her freshman year at Cedarville University.

On Desquamation, Alayna Drollinger

Cedarville Review

An essay exploring the implications of the process of desquamation.

Gratiam, Haley C. Kollstedt

Cedarville Review

"Gratiam" is a nonfiction short inspired by the day I was driving though Springfield and was admittedly in a bad mood. After a few minutes of self-pity, I decided to remember all the things there were (and are) to be grateful for. "Gratiam" is the summary of my thoughts through these moments.

His Favorite Name, Ellie Adams

Cedarville Review

This non-fic short attempts to demonstrate the beauty of a healthy relationship between a grandfather and his granddaughter, as well as emphasize the importance of being consistent in your relationships with those around you.

Safety In Stone, Emily L. Vest

Cedarville Review

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Elternteil, Justin Kemp

Cedarville Review

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Funeral, Justin Kemp

Cedarville Review

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To-Do, Anastasia Cook

Cedarville Review

A grocery-list-turned-prayer. God is good.

Little Joe’S Sponge Boat, Maxwell P. Bubnis

Cedarville Review

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Moonseed, Rachel Crane

Cedarville Review

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Quiet, Abigail Moore

Cedarville Review

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Midging, Anastasia Cook

Cedarville Review

This summer, I spent several days scouring Ohio streams for midge larvae with my brother, a senior biology student here at Cedarville. I remember being fascinated by all the creatures and environments I was seeing for the first time, and often I asked myself how I could describe this or that creature to someone who had never seen it. This piece is my attempt at an answer.