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Exposing False Philosophies

Description: In this Mini Conference on Saturday morning from 9:00 AM until 12 noon, Mike Riddle brings two seminars on the theme of Exposing False Philosophies. The second seminar will be followed by an extended time of Q&A.

The first seminar at 9:00 AM will be on Refuting Theistic Evolution.

• Understanding the biblical worldview
• Hermeneutics made simple
• The day-age theory
• The gap theory
• Genesis is poetic and not real history
• Using science to interpret Scripture
• Is the Bible outdated?

The second seminar at 10:30 AM will be on Evolution Deceptions.

• Human evolution deceptions
  • Junk DNA deception
  • The 2% difference deception
  • Is chimp to human evolution even possible?
• The natural selection deception
• The big bang and distant starlight

Speaker: Mike Riddle – President of CTI & Education Specialist. Mike is an international speaker and educator on Christian education and apologetics. He holds a degree in mathematics and a graduate degree in education and has been involved in creation ministry for more than thirty-five years. Prior to getting involved in creation ministry, Mike was a Captain in the U.S. Marines and a national champion in track and field. Mike’s experience in the education field includes:

• Teaching junior high and senior high school mathematics.
• An instructor at the Northwest Graduate School of the Ministry and the Institute for Creation Research Graduate School.
• Managing U.S. Sprint’s world-wide technical training.
• Managing Microsoft’s world-wide engineer training.
• Development and delivery of courses on presentation skills and teaching methods.
• Mike currently lectures and teaches world-wide on creation apologetics, Christian education, science and the Bible, and developing a biblical worldview.

He resides in Boise, ID with his wife Lesley.

Some of Mike’s Video Clips:

• Building Critical Thinking Questions – https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=29&v=rBb_qDetiFs
• More video clips – http://www.creationtraining.org/media/videos/

Meeting Documents:

• Flyer
• Poster
• Announcement Slider/PPT
• Download Powerpoint slides on CTI website here

Mike Riddle, Founder and President of Creation Training Initiative (CTI), will be back in the Greater Seattle area to lead a Christian Educators Conference on Tuesday, August 28. He will also be available to speak at other venues within the area during the weekend before, August 22-26.

• Mike’s complete schedule can be found here.

If you have an interest in having Mike speak at your church or another venue, or know of someone who might have an interest, please call Heinz at 425-501-5075 or email him at heinz@osta.com. A list and brief description of many of the seminars and sermons that Mike gives are provided on his website. More details here:

• Mike Riddle Bio – http://creationwiki.org/Mike_Riddle
• Mike Riddle Talks – http://www.creationtraining.org/seminars/

The Hidden World of Mount St. Helens

Description: May 18, 2020 marks the 40^th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. This catastrophic event, in a matter of minutes, produced a 230-square-mile area of destruction, which became known as the ‘blast zone.’ Within its confines, forests, meadows, wetlands, streams, and lakes were severely cataclysmed. Initial predictions from scientists called for a very prolonged and difficult recovery period . However, four decades have now passed and the return of plants and animals to the Mount St. Helens landscape has far exceeded expectations. How has this happened? What behind-the-scenes organisms and processes have produced the healing we observe at the mountain?

Dr. Keith Swenson will give a new power point presentation detailing several little known vignettes of recovery in the blast zone. Through this program, he will explore the apparent design in the Mount St. Helens ecosystem and also relate the observed recovery to global restoration following Noah’s Flood.

Speaker: Dr. Keith Swenson is a retired medical doctor who now teaches courses in biology and geology at Multnomah University in Portland, Oregon. He also served for twenty years as President of Portland’s Design Science Association and was on the board of the Seven Wonders Museum near Mount St. Helens. Keith especially enjoys leading field trips and has taken thousands to Mount St. Helens, the Columbia Gorge, Northwest forests and the Grand Canyon. He has co-led, with Dr. Steve Austin, periodic trips into the “Little Grand Canyon” at Mount St. Helens. Keith has a B.S. in Zoology from the University of Idaho and an M.D. from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He and his wife, Connie, have four grown children.

A good summary of the recovery of the Mount St. Helens area after the devastation of the eruption in May 1980 is described in this article by Swenson and Catchpoole on the creation.com website. The unexpected rapid bounce back provides us insight into how the world recovered from Noah’s Flood.

The Hidden World of Mount St. Helens

Description: May 18, 2020 marked the 40^th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. This catastrophic event, in a matter of minutes, produced a 230-square-mile area of destruction, which became known as the ‘blast zone.’ Within its confines, forests, meadows, wetlands, streams, and lakes were severely cataclysmed. Initial predictions from scientists called for a very prolonged and difficult recovery period . However, four decades have now passed and the return of plants and animals to the Mount St. Helens landscape has far exceeded expectations. How has this happened? What behind-the-scenes organisms and processes have produced the healing we observe at the mountain?

Dr. Keith Swenson will give a new power point presentation detailing several little known vignettes of recovery in the blast zone. Through this program, he will explore the apparent design in the Mount St. Helens ecosystem and also relate the observed recovery to global restoration following Noah’s Flood.

Speaker: Dr. Keith Swenson is a retired medical doctor who now teaches courses in biology and geology at Multnomah University in Portland, Oregon. He also served for twenty years as President of Portland’s Design Science Association and was on the board of the Seven Wonders Museum near Mount St. Helens. Keith especially enjoys leading field trips and has taken thousands to Mount St. Helens, the Columbia Gorge, Northwest forests and the Grand Canyon. He has co-led, with Dr. Steve Austin, periodic trips into the “Little Grand Canyon” at Mount St. Helens. Keith has a B.S. in Zoology from the University of Idaho and an M.D. from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He and his wife, Connie, have four grown children.

A good summary of the recovery of the Mount St. Helens area after the devastation of the eruption in May 1980 is described in this article by Swenson and Catchpoole on the creation.com website. The unexpected rapid bounce back provides us insight into how the world recovered from Noah’s Flood.