ii TABLE OF CONTENTS (Arranged by presentation type, then alphabetically by discipline, and then by author) PREFACE J.H. Whitmore (editor)................................................................................................................................................................vi ASTRONOMY PAPERS How should creationists be responding to dark matter and dark energy D.R. Faulkner...............................................................................................................................................................................1 Craters and cracks caused by accelerated nuclear decay heat throughout the solar system D. Stenberg.................................................................................................................................................................................11 BIBLE STUDIES AND PHILOSOPHY PAPERS Human history from Adam to Abraham: Integrating paleoanthropology with a Young-Age Creation perspective M. Ross, P.S. Brummel, and T.C. Wood...................................................................................................................................66 Essentialism and the human kind, or experiments in character weighting T.C. Wood..................................................................................................................................................................................88 BIOLOGY PAPERS Testing the cavefish model: an organism-focused theory of biological design M.J. Boyle, S. Arledge, B. Thomas, J.P. Tomkins, and R.J. Guiluzza...............................................................................120 A preliminary evaluation of ape baramins P.S. Brummel, and T.C. Wood...............................................................................................................................................144 Genealogical vs phylogenic mutation rates: Answering a challenge R.W. Carter.............................................................................................................................................................................168 Molecular baraminology of marine and freshwater fish M. Cserhati..............................................................................................................................................................................181 Allometric and metabolic scaling: Arguments for design…and clues to explaining pre-Flood longevity? L. Hebert.................................................................................................................................................................................206 A creation model of design: Applications of an interface systems model in key global symbiotic relationships T. Hennigan, R. Guliuzza, M. Ingle, and G. Lansdell..........................................................................................................228 A review of CRS eKINDS predictive success and known genetic mechanisms affecting the prevalence of alleles in a population: Meiotic drive as a compiling explanation for patterns attributed to natural selection J.K. Lightner...........................................................................................................................................................................242 Hominin baraminology reconsidered with postcranial characters T.C. Wood, and P.S. Brummel...............................................................................................................................................251 ENGINEERING AND PHYSICS PAPERS A rapid Ice Age and transition to ice sheet growth S.M. Gollmer...........................................................................................................................................................................267 Cause of large post-Flood jump in earths carbon-14 D.R. Humphreys.....................................................................................................................................................................280 Human brain function above all other and the creation model J.D. Johansen..........................................................................................................................................................................288 Language, coded instructions and the interaction with thermodynamics A.C. McIntosh.........................................................................................................................................................................316 Tapping the hourglass: Disequilibrium relaxation following accelerated nuclear decay N. Mogk...................................................................................................................................................................................327
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