Access Research NetworkWelcome
Welcome from your upcoming host for the Intelligent Design Conference to be
held in beautiful Highlands, North Carolina this June 24-26. We are Community
Bible Church located above 4,000 feet and surrounded by waterfalls and forests
atop the Great Smokey Mountains.
It is with great excitement that we present you with this opportunity to attend this unique and one-of-a-kind event. What a bonus that it takes place the first week of summer when, “all is in bloom!”
Mission Statement
Your ancestors were monkeys... At least that is what most of our children have
been taught over the past two generations. This theory, first proposed by Charles
Darwin more than a century ago was controversial when first presented. Still
in its infancy, the theory suggested that all living things had evolved by random
chance from the simplest of organisms, and that humans had evolved from apes.
Darwin’s theory remains controversial to this day - primarily because it has
not been supported by scientific facts.
This Darwinian tradition of random evolution often ignores the scientific data that indicates that our universe could not have progressed by random chance. Yet, some schools still refuse to present evolution as theory, or to present the growing body of evidence that suggests that all living beings are part of a planned and intelligent design. Respected scientists and scholars continue to introduce compelling evidence that is often in marked contrast to many key elements of Darwin’s theory. Many scientists agree that our universe had a beginning...so it would follow that there was a designer. New research into the complexities of DNA introduces significant questions regarding Darwin’s theory of gradual evolution. Each living being has its own unique set of DNA instructions in each of its cells, and those instructions, even for the simplest of organisms, are irreducibly complex. No body of empirical evidence suggests that DNA can evolve.
In his article, The Intelligent Design Movement - Challenging the Modernist Monopoly on Science, Phillip E. Johnson suggests that asking the right questions in order to support fact rather than philosophy further supports Intelligent Design:
“The question for now is not whether the vast claims of Darwinian evolution conflict with Genesis, but whether they conflict with the evidence of biology... I put this simple question to the Darwinian establishment: What should we do if empirical evidence and materialist philosophy are going in different directions? Suppose, for example, that the evidence suggests that intelligent causes were involved in biological creation. Should we follow the evidence or the philosophy? This is where the “Intelligent Design” movement’s strategy comes in: to get the intellectual world discussing a new and possibly unwelcome question. It is not enough just to write a book or make an argument. We have to inspire a lot of people to start doing intellectual work based on the right questions, work of such high quality and persuasive force that the world cannot avoid discussing it”
Through asking the right questions and through careful consideration of Intelligent Design, we can inspire others to become informed about the facts. We are all educators in some capacity. Solid evidence can be presented in schools and in the public arena that challenges Darwinian theories and that points us in the direction of a God who designed the universe.
Speakers
The Conference will ask the “right questions” because it has invited
the right speakers. Look at this list of renowned experts and their topics:
Conference Goals
File Date: 4.1.04
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