The Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Creationism (2023)

The effect of American law on creation research and education: Using grassroots organization to respond S.C. Policastro Jr.....................................................................................................................................................................635 The Septuagint vs. the Masoretic text … A statistical perspective S.J. Smithers, T. Specht, and E.M. Smith.............................................................................................................................636 BIOLOGY ABSTRACTS New analyses suggest that all horses (Perissodactyla: Equidae) belong to a single holobaramin T.R. Brophy, and J.R. Gregory...............................................................................................................................................637 Molecular and morphological analyses confirm that all loons (Aves: Gaviiformes) form a single holobaramin T.R Brophy, M.-C.A. Matthews, M.M. Guillory and A.M. Ramerth..................................................................................638 A novel software for organelle genome-based baraminology studies M. Cserhati..............................................................................................................................................................................639 Messages in the genetic code: The DRAm form J.M. DeMassa...........................................................................................................................................................................640 The exquisite design of somatic hypermutation to enhance antibody diversity, binding affinity and self-tolerance F. Maas......................................................................................................................................................................................641 ENGINEERING ABSTRACTS Bacterial chemotaxis control illustrates an engineering framework in the creation model J.D. Johansen...........................................................................................................................................................................642 GEOLOGY ABSTRACTS Does the fossil record of non-mammalian synapsid digits show an increasing “mammal-ness?” E. Anderson, and M.A. McLain...........................................................................................................................................643 Noah’s Arks and viking funeral ships: A creationist look at the biogeographic patterns of tetrapods in the collisions of South America/North America and India/Asia R. Frields, C. LePore, and M.A. McLain........................................................................................................................644 Do fossil data suggest greater animal longevity in the pre-Flood world? L. Hebert III..........................................................................................................................................................................645 After awhile...crocodile?: An assessment of crocodylians as living fossils C. LePore................................................................................................................................................................................646 Hypogene Speleogenesis of Ozark Caves J . Miller....................................................................................................................................................................................647 Catastrophic plate tectonics and the tectonics of western North America S. Petersen and J. Baumgardner.........................................................................................................................................648 A creationist model of dinosaur paleobiogeography M. Surtees................................................................................................................................................................................649 Groundwater flow and the resulting heat transfer from the sea floor, immediately after the Genesis Flood D.M. Winsberg.......................................................................................................................................................................650 Effects of hot post-Flood groundwater flow from the sea floor D.M. Winsberg.......................................................................................................................................................................651 Long tree-ring chronologies: The role of “bridge” tree-ring series J. Woodmorappe...................................................................................................................................................................652 ASTRONOMY POSTERS A creationist model of impacts throughout the solar system T. Holt.....................................................................................................................................................................................653 BIOLOGY POSTERS Testing the cavefish model: An organism-focused theory of biological design M.J. Boyle, S. Arledge, B. Thomas, J.P. Tomkins, and R.J. Guiliuzza.............................................................................654 Hybridization and genetic distances suggest one large monobaramin in the gourd family (Cucurbitales: Cucurbitaceae) T.R. Brophy, J.R. Gregory, and B. Townsend.....................................................................................................................657 iv

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