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

Copyright 2018 Creation Science Fellowship, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA www.creationicc.org iii A survey of Cenozoic mammal baramins C. Thompson, and T.C. Wood ................................................................................................................................................217 Combinatorial genomic data refute the human chromosome 2 evolutionary fusion and build a model of functional design for interstitial telomeric repeats J.P. Tomkins .........................................................................................................................................................................222 CHEMISTRY The fate of arsenic in Noah’s Flood A.R. Hutchison, and C.F. Bortel . ............................................................................................................................................229 Characterization of petrified and mummified wood from an Eocene deposit in Mississippi N. Lee, S. Mun, M.F. Horstemeyer, S.J. Horstemeyer, and D.J. Lang ....................................................................................238 EDUCATION A model for outdoor creation education J.L. Albert .............................................................................................................................................................................248 Devotional Biology : A young-age creationist, college-level, conceptual biology textbook K.P. Wise, J. Francis, N.A. Doran, A.J. Fabich, S. Hartz, and T. Hennigan ............................................................................255 ENGINEERING The extraordinary design of the bombardier beetle– A classic example of biomimetics A.C. McIntosh, and J. Lawrence . ..........................................................................................................................................268 GEOLOGY Historical survey of the floating mat model for the origin of Carboniferous coal beds S.A. Austin, and R.W. Sanders ...............................................................................................................................................277 Understanding how the Flood sediment record was formed: The role of large tsunamis J. Baumgardner ....................................................................................................................................................................287 The significance of micas in ancient cross-bedded sandstones K. Borsch, J.H. Whitmore, R. Strom, and G. Hartree ............................................................................................................306 Global stratigraphy and the fossil record validate a Flood origin for the geologic column T.L. Clarey, and D.J. Werner .................................................................................................................................................327 Use of sedimentary megasequences to re-create pre-Flood geography T.L. Clarey, and D.J. Werner .................................................................................................................................................351 Global deposits of in situ , upper Cambrian microbialites—Implications for a scientific model of origins K.P. Coulson ..........................................................................................................................................................................373 North American Precambrian geology – A proposed young earth biblical model H. Dickens . ............................................................................................................................................................................389 The Dinosauria: Baraminological and multivariate patterns in biogeographic context N.A. Doran, M.A. McLain N. Hartman, andA. Sanderson ......................................................................................................404 Baraminological analysis of Devonian and Carboniferous tetrapodomorphs P.A. Garner, and J. Asher . .....................................................................................................................................................458 Feathered dinosaurs reconsidered: New insights from baraminology and ethnotaxonomy M.A. McLain, M. Petrone, and M. Speights ...........................................................................................................................472 Creationist commentary on and analysis of tree-ring data: A review R.W. Sanders .........................................................................................................................................................................516 Paleobotany supports the floating mat model for the origin of Carboniferous coal beds R.W. Sanders, and S.A. Austin . ..............................................................................................................................................525 Table of Contents ◀ 8 th International Conference on Creationism ▶ 2018 ICC