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A Brief History of Creation Science Fellowship


In 1980 a small group of creationists from the Pittsburgh area began meeting informally to discuss the latest topics in creation science. The group was multi-disciplined and energetic. Within a year the group grew to over 50 individuals, including 15 with Ph.D. degrees and at least 20 others with M.S., B.S., and B.A. degrees. In 1986, CSF was incorporated as a non-profit educational corporation in Pennsylvania with a 5 member board of Directors. It was later granted federal 501.C.3 tax exempt status.

In the beginning the fellowship met monthly in a member's home. The group quickly outgrew that space and spent the next two years gathering at meeting rooms in area hotels. In 1983, the group found a home at the Northland Public Library in McCandless Township. In 1990 CSF began to meet at the Christian and Missionary Alliance (CMA) Church at Allegheny Center and then in 1998 to the Mars Alliance Church.

Today, CSF has left its monthly meeting format and is now focused on sponsoring quarterly events at various locations around Pittsburgh featuring well known creation science speakers. Recent speakers include Terry Mortenson (PhD Historical Geology), Jerry Bergman (PhD Micro Biology), Larry Vardiman (PhD Atmospheric Science), David Menton (PhD Cell Biology) and Danny Faulkner (PhD Astronomy).

CSF has the distinct privilege of sponsoring the premier young-earth creation science conference known as the International Conference on Creationism (ICC). This unique conference features a rigorous peer-review process for papers which help to build a systematic creation model of origins. The very successful First ICC was held at Duquesne University in 1986. The Second ICC (1990) and the Third ICC (1994) were also held at Duquesne. The Forth (1998) and Fifth (2003) ICC were held at Geneva College in Beaver Falls. The Sixth ICC will be held on August 3-7 at the Radisson Green Tree in Pittsburgh, PA. This ICC is cosponsored by CSF and the Institute for Creation Research in Dallas, TX. For more details, please visit the official ICC web site at www.icc08.org.

Sponsorship of ICC has increased the stature of CSF in the creation science community and is the forum of choice for researchers to present their technical papers. It is often called upon by the local press, media, churches, and other groups as a spokesman for and a resource on creation science because of the strict scientific discipline adhered to in the technical papers.

Creation Science Fellowship Principles:

  1. We believe the Bible to be a divinely inspired, historically accurate book.
  2. Nature reveals the handiwork of God. The study of natural phenomena using scientific methods, will help us to understand God's created order.
  3. The basic forms of life, including man, were created, not evolved, by God as independent functional entities, and subsequent variations of these original forms have been bounded.
  4. The Genesis flood was a historical, global event.
  5. As Christians we believe that salvation, made necessary by the fall of Adam and Eve, comes only through the redemptive work of Christ.