Dr. Joseph Kezele at Chloride First Baptist Church

Summary:

Saturday, September 23

9:00 am | Astronomy for the Creationist
Fascinating features of the Moon, Sun, and solar eclipses and why solar eclipses have given us the opportunity to learn so much about the universe start off this presentation. We then explore interesting facts about the other planets and their moons and comets that demonstrate the solar system is young. The significance of spiral arms in galaxies, Earth’s position in the Milky Way and heavy elements in the “early” universe are discussed.

10:30 am | Christian Men of Science
Discusses the myth of atheism and science,reviews the scientific method, contrasts operational and historical science, presents famous and outstanding scientists who were and are biblical creationists.

1:00 pm | Sickle Cell Anemia
Answers the following questions:

Does sickle cell anemia occur by the addition or loss of genetic information to the genome?
What is Sickle disease and who does it affect?
What is malaria?
What are the biological costs of sickle cell anemia?
Is this any evidence for evolution?
Why are we even discussing this?

2:30 pm | Bacteria and Antibiotic Resistance
Opens with a discussion of mutations and what they really cause. Comments by Richard Dawkins, Howard Florey, Alexander Fleming and Ernst Chain on evolution are contrasted. The origin of antibiotics and mechanisms of antibiotic resistance are presented, and finally Richard Lenski’s 20 year experiment with bacteria is discussed.

Sunday, September 24

10:00 am | The Miller-Urey Experiment – The Rest of the Story
This presentation begins with some the history of those proposing chemical evolution, and then covers eleven points about this experiment that the textbooks do not address. Then some more recent attempts by evolutionists to propose means of chemical evolution are covered. Then related issues regarding proteins and irreducible complexity are presented along with examples of what proteins do in cells.

11:00 am | God’s Amazing Creatures III
Trilobites, Diving Bell Spider, Duck Billed Platypus, Water bears aka Tardigrades, Hummingbird Hawk-moth, Bombardier Beetles and Deinococcus radiodurans are presented to demonstrate the engineering that is necessary to explain their design, that they must have been created, and that their features could have not evolved by random chance events.

Presenter: Dr. Joseph Kezele

Joseph Kezele studied the sciences and music at the University of Arizona, while earning his B.A. in Russian in 1971, and his M.D. in 1975. He then completed a Pediatric Residency and practiced Emergency Medicine for 25 years in the Phoenix area and was a diplomate of the American Board of Emergency Medicine and fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He is now retired from the practice of medicine, served as President of AzOSA for 19 years, and now serves on the Board of AzOSA and as a consultant and mentor. He is an Associate Professor of Biology at Arizona Christian University in Glendale, teaching Nutrition and Wellness, Medical Terminology, Human Genetics, Biochemistry, Pathophysiology, Organic Chemistry and Creation Science Apologetics.

Dr. Kezele is also a Logos Research Associate, a Fellow of the Creation Research Society, and had the privilege of participating in a dinosaur dig in Montana and excavated a triceratops horn and the triceratops cervical condyle from which intact osteocytes in soft tissue were isolated.

He has participated in 24 foreign mission trips, teaching medicine, standard evangelism and creation science evangelism in India, Zambia, Mexico, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Ukraine, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Armenia, and Moldova. Dr. Kezele is one of the principal presenters in the Institute for Creation Research’s 4 DVD series Made in His Image.

Dr. Kezele teaches Creation Science Evangelism at Black Mountain Baptist Church in Cave Creek, Arizona, where he and his wife Patty attend. Their three adult children live and work in the Phoenix area.