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The Creation Science Association of Alberta (CSAA) is pleased to announce that Dr. Mark Horstemeyer, Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Liberty University (USA), will be our speaker at Creation Weekend 2026. The sessions will begin on Friday evening, October 23, and continue on Saturday, October 24. Over the years, many of the speakers featured at the CSAA’s Creation Weekend have been well-qualified scientists with a wide range of expertise in different fields such as geology, biology, and paleontology. This year we are grateful to have Dr. Horstemeyer speak to us about God’s amazing creation through the lens of an engineer.

 The Ice Age and Climate Change

Reviewed by Andrea Reitan

Climate change alarmism seems to be a cultural obsession these days, among both Christians and non-Christians alike.  Much of the hoopla around climate change stems from the claim that there is a scientific consensus and that we need to change our ways, but is this true?  Should Christians jump aboard the climate change crusade?  In The Ice Age and Climate Change, Jake Hebert aims to examine the evidence commonly used in climate discussions, arguing that a Young-Earth Creation (YEC) framework leads to different conclusions than the mainstream narrative.

Most youngsters are enthusiastic about dinosaurs such as Stegosaurus, Triceratops and the gigantic four-footed sauropods like Camarasaurus. However, of course, it is T. rex that everybody loves! But grown up scientists (palaeontologists) love T. rex too. Many have published studies on this dinosaur. These works include ideas about species diversity, ecological networks, biogeography and other issues such as what caused the extinction of dinosaurs.

I collaborated with Carol Adams, a member of the Creation Research Society (CRS), to write a technical paleoanthropology paper, and we presented our research at the CRS Conference in July 2025.  Our specific topic was Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy). 

Some years ago, I had occasion to collect a water sample from a small pond south of Lake Manitoba. The fun part was going back to the lab and looking at a drop of the sample under the microscope. I was sampling lakes and ponds every day, but on this occasion I screamed at what I saw. There before my wondering eyes were relatively large, brownish algal cells with fierce looking spines. They were spinning slowly as I watched.