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

Copyright 2018 Creation Science Fellowship, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA www.creationicc.org ii TABLE OF CONTENTS (Arranged alphabetically by discipline and then by author) PREFACE J.H. Whitmore ...........................................................................................................................................................................v ARCHAEOLOGY The Ipuwer Papyrus and the Exodus A. Habermehl ............................................................................................................................................................................1 A creationist view of G ö bekli Tepe: Timeline and other considerations A. Habermehl . ...........................................................................................................................................................................7 ASTRONOMY Consistent young earth relativistic cosmology P.W. Dennis . ............................................................................................................................................................................14 The current state of Creation Astronomy II D. Faulkner .............................................................................................................................................................................36 Towards a young universe cosmology B.M. Johnson ..........................................................................................................................................................................46 Finite element analysis of large body deformation induced by a catastrophic near impact D. Seely, A.L. Bowman, N. Cho, and M.F. Horstemeyer ...........................................................................................................52 The proposed origin of our solar system with planet migration W.R. Spencer . ..........................................................................................................................................................................71 A solution for the distant starlight problem using creation time coordinates T.G. Tenev, J. Baumgardner, and M.F. Horstemeyer . ................................................................................................................82 BIBLICAL STUDIES AND PHILOSOPHY Exegetical analysis of Psalm 104:8 and its possible implications for interpreting the geologic record W.D. Barrick . ..........................................................................................................................................................................95 Man, machine, scientific models and creation science S.M. Gollmer ........................................................................................................................................................................103 The case for the Septuagint’s chronology in Genesis 5 and 11 H.B. Smith, Jr. . ......................................................................................................................................................................117 BIOLOGY An overview of the independent histories of the human Y chromosome and the human mitochondrial chromosome R.W. Carter, S. Lee, and J.C. Sanford ....................................................................................................................................133 Bacteriophages as beneficial regulators of the mammalian microbiome J.W. Francis, M. Ingle, and T.C. Wood ..................................................................................................................................152 Continuous environmental tracking: An engineering framework to understand adaptation and diversification R.J. Guliuzza, and P.B. Gaskill ..............................................................................................................................................158 The CRS eKINDS research initiative: Where we have been and where we are headed from here J.K. Lightner, and K. Anderson . ............................................................................................................................................185 Integrated regulation of class II human endogenous retroviruses in a breast cancer cell line Y. Liu, and T.D. Nguyen . ........................................................................................................................................................191 Adam and Eve, designed diversity, and allele frequencies J.C. Sanford, R.W. Carter, W. Brewer, J. Baumgardner, B. Potter, and J. Potter ...................................................................200