Lake Missoula Flood: A Message of Catastrophe
Multimedia
Presentation by
Ron Payne
Cedar Park Church Bothell, WA
January 24th, 2024
Description:
A little-known two-day flood event during the ice age carved canyons in solid basalt in in eastern Washington, forming the Grand Coulee (Banks Lake), Dry Falls (three times larger than Niagara Falls), destroying thousands of square miles of fertile land (the Scablands), changing the course of the Palouse River and forming the spectacular Palouse Falls, deepening and widening the Columbia River Gorge and depositing fertile eastern Washington soil in the Willamette Valley. The scale of the destruction is much more significant than the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. It doesn’t take millions of years to change the geology. Does this have a bearing on how features like the Grand Canyon formed? Does it take millions of years to significantly alter the surface of the earth? This talk explores the Missoula Flood event and demonstrates that science does match what we would expect the geology of the surface to be like after the Biblical worldwide flood of Noah’s time.
About the Teacher:
Ron Payne has a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Washington and studied microbiology at Oregon State University. He received Christ 1969 in high school. He was actively engaged in the Navigator ministry at the University of Washington, Oregon State University and the Eastside Community Ministry. He and his wife homeschooled their four children through high school and has 6 grandchildren.
He was actively involved in the local Boy Scout Troop Leadership for about 12 years. He served as a volunteer firefighter and EMT at the Redmond Fire Department for about 8 years. He served as an intern for discipling and facilitator for Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University for a number of years in local eastside churches. He spent 35 years in the Aerospace Industry as a Senior Principle Materials and Process Engineer specializing in chemical processes, waste treatment, metallurgy, circuit board fabrication, metal finishing, adhesives, coatings, paints, cleaning, electronic assembly, procurement engineering and technical documentation.
He was a Board member for the Creation Association of Puget Sound (CAPS) and also for the Mount St. Helens Creation Center for more than 15 years. He has spoken and led workshops on various creation topics to homeschool, church groups and local creation forums. He specializes in creation tours to Mount St. Helens sponsored by the Mount St. Helens Creation Center and Dry Falls sponsored by the Apologetics Forum of Snohomish County, of which he is now a Board member (speaker and manages creation resources).
The Apologetics Symposium is an educational program addressing the conflicts that exist between naturalism and the Biblical worldview. As part of a weekly Wednesday evening series at Cedar Park Church, this program features a different speaker each month. Join us in person or through our live webcast for multimedia presentations from educators and scientists who are dedicated to defending the Bible.