Michael Calcagno

Continuous Environmental Tracking: A Bible-based alternative to “natural selection”
This presentation describes a model for how scientists, researchers, and every-day observers can study how organisms, both plants and animals, adapt to their respective environments, utilizing basic engineering principles as a starting-point. Understanding how adaptation actually operates with living organisms points unmistakably to our awesome Creator who designed life on planet Earth to “… be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth.”

God of Wonders, God of Numbers
This presentation explores the relationship of mathematics to Creation and the incredible wisdom of God in designing the universe. Specific topics are sets, properties, fractals, Fibonacci numbers, The Golden Ratio, aspects of our Solar System, and conclude with a peek into the mind of God by exploring a particular number set!

Two Dozen Reasons for a Biblical Account of Creation
This presentation looks at several scientific facts from an array of disciplines which all support and confirm that the earth (and indeed the universe) did not evolve but rather were created according to the Biblical model. Fast moving but easy to follow!

The Age of the Earth: Thousands not Billions!
This presentation focuses on the scientific evidences that reveal that the earth could not possibly be billions of years old as evolution demands. An examination of Biblical texts also show that the language used in Genesis is meant to support a distinctly created Earth as opposed to alternate “interpretations” some liberal theologians propose and that Christians should reject.

Why Apologetics? Why Now
This presentation looks at the historical development of evolutionary thinking as it relates to society and the culture in general, and the impact such thinking has had on the culture and the subsequent impact on Christian evangelism in today’s world.

Noah and those Pesky Dinosaurs
This presentation looks at the feasibility of a wooden vessel large enough to hold all the many different ‘kinds’ of animals Noah took aboard the ark. The topic of dinosaurs is then examined from historical, archaeological, and Biblical perspectives.

The Tower of Babel and Ancient Man
This presentation looks at evidences of ancient man’s intelligence and abilities as revealed by historical documentation and recovered artifacts, in the context of a global population dispersion as recorded in Genesis 10. A look at mankind’s ‘supposed’ primate ancestors reveals the falsehoods associated with evolutionary development.

Icons and Baloney Detectors: Exposing Evolution’s Fraud
This presentation begins with a review of Jonathan Wells’ book Icons of Evolution, which exposes blatant falsehoods which are used in school textbooks to promote the false theory of evolution. This is followed by an examination of the ‘misuses of arguments’ and logical fallacies that must be employed to make evolution appear to have credibility but which can not stand up to careful scrutiny.

ROAD TRIP: Evidence of Global Catastrophe in the Four Corners Region
In this presentation Michael takes the audience through the Four Corners area and documents lesser known geologic features which point to a world-wide catastrophic flood as opposed to millions of years of slow processes.

ROAD TRIP II: Exploring Utah’s National Parks and Monuments
In this presentation Michael takes the audience around the state of Utah to examine all 5 of its National Parks, and several National Monuments and some State Parks also, to view the geologic features in each and see how the best explanation for those features is the global flood of Noah’s day as recorded in Genesis chapters 7 & 8.

Who are the Chinese?
After the dispersion of the various people groups at Babel, chapter 11 of the Book of Genesis tells us that “These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.”

Chinese history allegedly dates back to a date very near the Babel event. Is there evidence that some of the people who migrated east from Babel were the founders of what came to be the early Chinese culture? How should that evidence shape our thinking about Biblical history in today’s age? This presentation will provide a description of Chinese history, coupled with interviews from researchers who have discovered many facts that point to the Genesis account being accurate and reliable!

Why Can’t We Be Friends? Oh Wait, Maybe We Are!
This presentation looks at symbiotic relationships in nature amongst a wide variety of organisms. All 4 categories of symbiosis are explained and examples cited from each, along with what each type teaches us about God, and the fallen world in which we live.

Research and Development! Not with God!
This presentation discusses the concept of “Irreducible complexity”, the essential aspects of Research and Development, and then gives numerous examples of irreducibly complex design in nature, challenging the audience to consider the inadequacy of standard evolutionary theory to match the evidence!

Research and Development! Not with God! Part II
This presentation continues the discussion of  the concept of “Irreducible complexity”, the essential aspects of Research and Development, and then gives more examples of irreducibly complex design in nature, challenging the audience to consider the inadequacy of standard evolutionary theory to match the evidence!

Yeah, But Who Wrote the Software?
This presentation looks at various animals and the instincts that drive their peculiar behaviors. Since these behaviors are not taught by the parents then the ability to perform them had to be “programmed” into the creatures before birth. Any and all evolutionary scenarios attempting to describe complex instincts fall completely short due to the observable evidence that information can only come from prior information, not randomness, which all points to a Creator Who designed organisms to “be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth” which compels us to give praise to Him!

Yeah, But Who Wrote the Software Part II?
This presentation continues to look at various animals and the instincts that drive their peculiar behaviors. Since these behaviors are not taught by the parents then the ability to perform them had to be “programmed” into the creatures before birth. Any and all evolutionary scenarios attempting to describe complex instincts fall completely short due to the observable evidence that information can only come from prior information, not randomness, which all points to a Creator Who designed organisms to “be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth” which compels us to give praise to Him!