Origins 2025 and the FUTURE!
As always, Origins 2025 was a great time of sharing and scholarship, this time on the campus of Bryan College commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Scopes "Monkey" Trial. In addition to our usual roster of technical talks on everything from pre-Flood ecology to fly created kinds to behemoth and leviathan, we also had special plenaries from Randy Guliuzza, Jeremy Blaschke, and Steve Austin. The conference concluded on Wednesday with a special tour of the Rhea County Courthouse, where the Scopes Trial took place 100 years ago, led by yours truly. I owe a huge thank you to everyone who attended and volunteered and to our kind hosts at Bryan College. We couldn't have had such a successful event without you!
What's next for Origins? As usual, another one! Origins 2026 will be held on the campus of The Master's University in Santa Clarita, CA in June, 2026. As always, abstracts will be due in the spring, and we hope you're giving some thought to what you or your students might contribute.
Then in 2027, it's time for the TENTH(!) International Conference on Creationism at Cedarville University. Origins will feature a special day of presentations in conjunction with the ICC, but I hope you're also thinking about contributing to the ICC. If the schedule resembles last time, paper proposals will be due in the summer of next year, and papers will be due at the end of 2026. Start thinking NOW about what you want to submit. I've already started brainstorming and talking to students and colleagues about what we should do. In 2023 at the ninth ICC, I contributed five papers, two of which I presented myself. This time, I'm feeling just as ambitious, and I think I'll at least match the number of papers I did last time. We'll see how it goes. No promises. The Lord moves in mysterious ways.
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