GHCA

Greater Houston Creation Association

Past GHCA Meetings and Events

GHCA meetings are located at Houston's First Baptist Church. To recieve a webinar attendance link, signup for our email newsletter. (We never send spam.)

Other event times and locations are as noted. Houston's First Baptist Church is not responsible for any of these other events.

October 3, GHCA meeting and webinar

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October 3  at 7 pm,  GHCA meeting and webinar: 

Genesis Flood Theories 

Roundtable Afterthoughts

Next Thursday, October 3rd we will take a look as some lines of thought that result from the last three presentations on Flood theories. These included a presentation by an advocate of the Hydroplate Theory (HTP), a presentation by an advocate of the Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Theory (CPT) and a presentation including a Roundtable Discussion where an advocate of each theory was asked to respond to a series of question as it related to the theory that they advocate.

All three sessions were both informative and challenging. There were also some points for many of confusion, disappointment and frustration. So, on October 3rd I will bring out a few of these points and provide my own comments and suggestions for forward progress in the future.

For those that missed one of the previous Flood Theory videos recordings of all three presentation are now posted on the video page of this website. At the end of the October 3rd meeting, we will reserve considerable time for Q&A and discussion.

 

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Meeting Location 

Part Two and Three will be presented at GHCA’s usual location, Houston’s First, The Loop, Reception Room at 7401 Katy Frwy, Houston TX 77024. See the maps in the right sidebar. 

Make sure to see all three presentations to get the whole story. Just hearing one presentation or another can be misleading.

 

 

September 5, GHCA meeting and webinar

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September 5  at 7 pm,  GHCA meeting and webinar: 

Genesis Flood Theories 

in 3 parts

Part 3: Virtual Roundtable Discussion of Flood Theories

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GHCA Framework for Creation and Flood Studies

Theories about how the Genesis Flood physically happened are highly intriguing and often controversial. Their change over time also demonstrates the forward progress of creation science. The following provides some important context for our presentations.

One broad approach is used by those who want to attribute everything possible to natural processes that are observed in the present and minimize the supernatural activities of God throughout the creation and Flood narratives. This philosophy leans toward uniformitarianism. This philosophy suggests that the “present is the key to the past” and leads to “old Earth” evolutionary timeframes. Most of academia insists on a uniformitarian viewpoint. However, GHCA will present some of the many physical facts and reasons contrary to this uniformitarian approach.
Another broad approach is to consider supernatural activities of God when the biblical narrative indicates that He did supernatural activities. For example, in the creation narrative a day of creation is described as including one period of dark and one period of light. That narrative does not specify any time units like seconds, minutes, hours, or years. However, the inclusion of a singular period of dark and light in a day of creation does eliminate any period of time that includes many periods of dark and light. So, that seems to assert that God’s creative activity in each day of creation was accomplished with a very substantial amount of supernatural activity. For more on the days of creation please see the brief GHCA article, Biblical Creation.

The Flood narrative begins in Chapter 6 around 1500 years after the creation, fall and expulsion from Eden. God then tells Noah what God is going to do and why. Chapter 7 and 8 relate the rise and subsidence of the Flood. Ch 9 concerns the new Rainbow Covenant from God. Ch 10 is the section of genealogy known as the table of nations. Then Ch 11 starts the history of Abraham.

Building a physical model of what happened in the Flood is not easy. We commonly assume that the physics we observe now was in operation during the Flood. However, we do not intend to presume that God did not do anything by His supernatural power where scripture indicates He did. It is also important for a Flood theory to propose a set of initial conditions at the beginning of the Flood. Then the Flood theory processes would convert the initial conditions into the end of Flood conditions. The GHCA article The Biblical Flood discusses a number of issues that a Flood model must take into account.
The Hydroplate Theory (HPT) will be presented at the June 6 GHCA meeting. Hydroplate theory proposes a very different and intriguing set of initial conditions developed by Dr. Walt Brown. Brown is a PhD mechanical engineer who has been a professor at the Air Force Academy for many years. 

The Catastrophic Plate Tectonics (CPT) will be presented at the July GHCA meeting. CPT has the largest following today because it is most consistent with modern geological observations, particularly tomographic studies of the Earth’s interior structure.

The Canopy Theory (CT) was popular during the early part of the modern creation science movement, during the 1960s and 1970s. This theory has since been rejected by most because of valid scientific objections that were raised. However, I am sometimes surprised how many people were once impressed with CT but have not kept up with the progress of creation science. This theory will be briefly discussed in the first part of the August GHCA meeting. 

A roundtable discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of these three theories will be presented in the second half of the August meeting. The roundtable members will be invited to participate in person or online as a panelist. Those who are interested in being a roundtable panelist should contact me by reply to this email. 

 

 

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Meeting Location 

Part Two and Three will be presented at GHCA’s usual location, Houston’s First, The Loop, Reception Room at 7401 Katy Frwy, Houston TX 77024. See the maps in the right sidebar. 

Make sure to see all three presentations to get the whole story. Just hearing one presentation or another can be misleading.