Todd's Blog

Tickets for Origins 2024 in St. Louis are now available at coresci.org/origins .  The conference runs from Sunday evening July 21 through Tuesday evening July 23, with an optional field trip on Wednesday morning.  We intend to finish up in time for everyone to hurry over to the Ark Encounter for the CRS conference.  Speakers at Origins include Hans Madueme, author of the new book Defending Sin , Matt McLain, president of the CBS, and my podcast partner Paul Garner. The week before Origins, here in Dayton, TN, Core Academy is presenting "Creation Together: The Fool and the Heretic" at Trinity Chapel on July 18 at 7 pm.  Darrel Falk and I will be presenting our views on creation and evolution and reflecting on our ten years striving together.  The event is FREE, but tickets are recommended.  We've already booked two thirds of the available seats, so if you want to come, you better get your free ticket quick!  (Or pay ten bucks and get a guaranteed good seat.)  Visit coresci

Core Academy recently moved our offices off the campus of Rhea County Academy and out of the leaky, old portable classroom we occupied for seven years into a much larger facility in a local professional building.  We were thrilled to get that portable classroom years ago, and the Lord used that building to grow the ministry.  But as the years passed, the building's age (31 years) started to show, and we knew we needed something bigger. Now we have it.  A new office suite opened up, and the board decided to jump on it.  We spent the month of April moving into the new facility and setting up our offices.  Today, the library is mostly unpacked, and our offices are functional.  We still have a lot of unpacking and organizing to do, but that will be part time as we gear up for our busy summer. What's coming this summer?  First up, two weeks of Dinosaur Camp, which we are offering as part of a larger slate of camps from Rhea County Academy.  If you're local to Dayton or Rhea Coun

Due to the busyness of the season, the CBS board decided to extend the abstract deadline to May 15.  So if you have an idea for an abstract and no time to get it done, send it in anyway.  Visit the Creation Biology Society website for more details on submitting an abstract. Feedback? Email me at toddcharleswood [at] gmail [dot] com. If you enjoyed this article, please consider a contribution to Core Academy of Science. Thank you. Have you read my book?  You should check that out too!

I haven't posted here in months, but I did want to make sure the word is getting out about Origins 2024.  In a regular year, we would announce at the Origins conference when the next conference is going to be, but last year was ICC and quite hectic.  So we've been slow getting a venue booked and slow getting announcements out, but the conference is definitely on!   This summer, we'll be meeting in St. Louis, MO on July 21-24, and the call for abstracts has already been out a while now.  If you've been thinking about submitting something, the deadline is next week May 1!  If this is the first you're hearing about it, we do apologize, and we hope you can put something together at least summarizing your current research. As usual, we're looking for submissions on biology, geology, and/or biblical studies and theology.  Submissions can be sent to editor at creationbiology dot org.  See the call for abstracts at the CBS website . Feedback? Email me at toddcharleswoo

On behalf of all of us at Core Academy, I'd like to wish you a very merry Christmas as we commemorate the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ. His first advent heralded the coming of the kingdom of God, which fully manifested after that baby's death and resurrection when God poured out his Spirit on the day of Pentecost.  Now we his children partake in the kingdom as we long with hope for the second advent of Jesus and the bright dawn of our own resurrection.  Today, as with all good things in this world, the celebration of Christmas ought to turn our minds to our Lord Creator and Savior.  Giving of gifts, gathering of family, and the great feast remind us of that final gathering when we will cast our crowns at the feet of Jesus, gather with the family of God, and feast at the great marriage supper of the Lamb.  Modern Christmas also offers us a contrast: Unlike our fantasies of Santa Claus, Rudolph, and Frosty, our hope in Christ is real .  The symbols of God in Christmas signify

  Let's talk about naledi . I'm sorry this blog has become a broken record over these questions, but I have been interested and excited about these hominin remains for years now.  I don't want to just ignore the current state of things. Quick recap: The remarkable remains from the Dinaledi chamber were first published in 2015.  Lee Berger's research team claimed they were members of genus Homo (our own genus) but that they were a species new to science.  They called this newly discovered species Homo naledi , but the real excitement over these remains was their hypothesis that the bodies of these creatures had been intentionally placed there in the deep recesses of that cave.  The evidence for that was basically lack of a credible alternative explanation.  The chamber contained thousands of bones of the same species, all highly similar and placed over time.  At the same time, other bones of African animals were generally lacking.  The bones were also in partial articul