The Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Creationism (2018)

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THE AUTHORS As a Cornell University professor, John Sanford conducted genetic research for 37 years. This research resulted in more than 100 scientific publications, and several dozen patents. John is presently president of Logos Research Associates, and president of Feed My Sheep Foundation. John’s most significant contributions to science have been: 1) primary inventor of the Biolistic Process (the “Gene Gun”) ; 2) author of the book  Genetic Entropy;  3) co-developer of Mendel’s Accountant  (a comprehensive and biologically realistic numerical simulation of the mutation/selection process); 4) lead organizer/editor of the Cornell symposium and subsequently published proceedings entitled  Biological Information--New Perspectives;  and 5) coauthor of the book Contested Bones . Dr. Robert W. Carter is a senior scientist and speaker for CMI-USA in Atlanta, Georgia. He is currently researching human genetics and other issues related to biblical creation. He obtained a BS in Applied Biology from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1992. He then spent four years teaching high school biology, chemistry, physics and electronics before going to the University of Miami to obtain his PhD in Marine Biology. Dr. Wes Brewer is a consultant for Computational Solutions LLC. He is a graduate of MIT and has a PhD in Computational Engineering.  After spending a number of years developing computational hydrodynamic codes for the US Navy, he started his own consulting company in which he has worked with numerous companies and organizations around the world. He has spent almost a decade teaching computer science in both South and North Korea.  Furthermore, he has worked on Mendel’s Accountant team since 2005 and also has worked with Larry Vardiman/ICR on post ice age climate modeling. Dr. John Baumgardner is vice-president of Logos Research Associates. He has a Ph.D. in geophysics and space physics from UCLA and worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory in computational physics research during most of his scientific career. Since the early 1980’s he has undertaken most of the primary research undergirding the concept of catastrophic plate tectonics in connection with Noah’s Flood.  Beginning in 1997 he served on the Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth (RATE) team that documented multiple independent lines of radioisotope evidence that the earth is thousands, not billions, of years old.  Since 2005 he has been part of a small team that has developed Mendel’s Accountant, a computermodel for exploringkey topics inpopulation genetics relating to the origin and history of life.  John currently is a senior research associate with Logos Research Associates based in Santa Ana, California, and teaches science apologetics courses at Southern California Seminary in the San Diego area. Bruce Potter is a research associate for Feed My Sheep Foundation. He has degrees in computer science and mechanical engineering from Clarkson University. He has worked for IBM as a software engineer for 33 years, first on IBM’s supercomputers, and more recently in cloud and edge computing. He has 2 patents, and 15 years of experience in developing open source code, including contributing to several open source projects. Jonathan Potter is a research associate for Feed My Sheep Foundation. He has his BS and Masters degrees in Computer Science fromRochester Institute of Technology and has worked as a software engineer for six years. He specializes in web technologies and has contributed to multiple open source projects. Sanford et al. ◀ Designed genetic diversity in Adam and Eve ▶ 2018 ICC 216