Mt. St. Helens 25th Anniversary!

The 7 Wonders Museum and the Institute for Creation Research are organizing a creation conference during the 25 anniversary of the Mt. St. Helens eruption. Dr. Steven Austin, Dr. Keith Swenson. and Ed Osmond will speak.

May 20-21, 2005 (Friday & Saturday)

Cowlitz County Regional Convention Center
at the Cowlitz County Expo Center
1900 7th Avenue, Longview

Download Info / Registration Brochure

Directions:     

        I-5 signs refer to County Conference or Expo Center

        City signs refer to fairgrounds.

        Conference Center is in the NW corner of the Fairgrounds

        Free parking on grassy field across 7th Avenue from the Conference Center

 

Registration:

    Call Connie Perna at ICR-619-596-6042 (direct line)
    Download Registration Brochure and Mail

     Early Bird special:  20% off if made by April 22th

 

Program:

    Friday Evening - What We Observed

        6:45-7:45  Dr. Steve Austin  "An Explosion That Changed Geology"

        8:00-9:00  Dr. Steve Austin "Fire, Mud, and Floods of the Northwest

 

    Saturday Morning -

        8:45-9:00 Introduction
        9:00-10:00  Dr. Keith Swenson  "Biological Recovery"

        10:15-10:45  Ed Osmond  "Building a National Volcanic Monument"

        11:00-12:00  Dr Steve Austin  "Catastrophe and the Global Flood"

        12:15-12:45  Questions and Answers Time

 

Accommodations:

    List of motels will be sent out with registration confirmations

    We have secured special prices with two:  two queen beds: 

    $35.50 in an economy motel and $64 in a nice motel plus tax

 

Speakers

Austin is a geologist who has lectured on MSH for 16 years

Swenson is a MD (dermatology) and teaches biology at Multnomah Bible College

Osmond was with the Gifford Pinchot National Forest responsible for dealing with MSH activity

 

Help Promote

If you would like to help, call Lloyd Anderson 360-274-5737

Significant similarities between two catastrophic events -- Noah's Flood and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 -- will be discussed in power point lectures by geologist Dr. Stephen Austin and local biologist Dr. Keith Swenson, Friday evening, May 20th, from 6:30-9:00 p.m^., and Saturday, May 21st, from 8:45 a.m. until 12:45 p.m., at the new Cowlitz County Regional Convention Center in Longview, Washington.

Austin, of Institute for Creation Research, will show how volcanic and tectonic processes were operating in both events but in different proportions: the eruption, a catastrophe; The Flood, a cataclysm. His studies and those of others at Mount St. Helens over the past 25 years support the earlier secular science perspective as well as the creation perspective that Noah's Flood was a literal event that changed the face of the earth.

Scientists who wear their "evolutionary glasses" interpret most everything as taking millions of years and fail to see the many evidences for Noah's Flood, Austin says. A case in point is the Northwest's regional catastrophe, the Missoula Flood, which produced the coulees of Eastern Washington in two days and changed the landscape into Oregon and beyond.

It is well documented how long it took scientists to accept the idea that the Coulees were not caused simply by slow and gradual erosion over long periods of time. The eruption is again causing scientists to give more weight to catastrophes when dating the earth, Austin says.

Austin's research includes the discovery of extensive nautiloid fossil beds at the Grand Canyon where rapid, catastrophic burial of the now extinct creatures can be shown from their positioning within the red wall limestone layers. Another evidence of the Great Flood.

Dr. Keith Swenson, a dermatologist and science teacher at Multnomah Bible College in Portland, will use the rapid recovery of life at Mount St. Helens to show how life would have returned after the Global Flood. His discussion will ride on the coat tails of the Weyerhaeuser Company’s Wednesday, May 18^th event also focusing on "Reflection and Renewal."

Weyerhaeuser will celebrate renewal by thinning some of 18 million seedlings planted in the blast zone soon after the eruption. Many of those trees are now 70 feet tall and provide dense forest lands as habitat for wildlife. Swenson’s presentation with photography demonstrates the surprising natural renewal at Mount St. Helens.

Also speaking at the conference will be Ed Osmond, former monument administrator who will tell his experiences surrounding the eruption that blew down forests like match sticks, launched massive mudflows and created a barren moonscape with a sky full of ash .

Austin's work on Mount St. Helens can be viewed at the 7Wonders Creation Museum and bookstore, located 9.5 Miles from exit 49 of I-5 on highway 504 going to Mount St. Helens. The seven wonders include geological changes produced in hours, days and months which are like those elsewhere presumed to have taken ages. Conference brochures are available through them. Call 360-274-5737or e-mail Lloyddoris@aol.com. This creation center is one of three Northwest creation organizations sponsoring the Mount St. Helens Creation Conference. Others are the Design Science Association of Portland (www.pdxdsa.org) and the Creation Association of Puget Sound in Seattle (caps.nwcreation.net/).

Download Info / Registration Brochure

To register for the conference by phone contact Connie Perna at ICR. Call 619-448-0900, ext. 6042.