Your Origins Matter

{{crenav}}'''Your Origins Matter''' is a conference<ref name="2012-con"><capture>[http://www.icr.org/event/960/ Information for the 2012 Your Origins Matter conference.]</capture></ref> and blog<ref name="blog"><capture>[http://www.youroriginsmatter.com youroriginsmatter.com]</capture></ref> run by the [[Institute for Creation Research]], beginning in June of 2012. The effort is directed by Lalo Gunther,<ref name=debut><capture>[http://www.icr.org/article/6885/ ICR Debuts YOM Conference in Dallas,] ''ICR News'', Jun 5 2012.</capture></ref> the ICR's Director of Online Community and Conference Ministries, who specialises in "Youth Ministry."<ref><capture>[http://www.icr.org/lalo_gunther/ Speaker page for Lalo Gunther.]</capture></ref>

==2012 conference==
The 2012 conference in Dallas, [[Texas]], was held on June 2 at the local First Baptist Church.<ref name="2012-con"/><ref>[http://maps.google.com/?q=The%20Criswell%20Center,%20First%20Baptist%20Church,%201707%20San%20Jacinto%20Street,%20Dallas,%20TX Here.]</ref> The speakers were Henry Morris III, [[Jason Lisle]], [[Nathaniel Jeanson]], and Randy Guliuzza, along with former astronaut Colonel Jeffrey Williams. The latter individual was apparently involved only to [[Argument from authority|give the event an aura of legitimacy]], and to present pretty pictures, while other scholarly topics included the [[irreducible complexity]] of the [[cell]] and the [[Intelligent design|design]] of the [[Space|cosmos]].<ref name=debut/>

Pre-con advertising included a June ''Acts & Facts'' magazine &mdash; the ICR's monthly newsletter &mdash; almost entirely devoted to the subject of the meeting,<ref>[http://www.icr.org/i/pdf/af/af1206.pdf The June 2012 edition of ''Acts & Facts''.]</ref> and a bizarre video advertisement involving some kind of [[How come there are still monkeys?|monkey]] doing [[creationism|creation]]-related "research" by briefly glancing at the covers of a number of [[evolution]]-related books before tossing them aside.<ref>[http://eyeonicr.wordpress.com/2012/06/03/your-origins-matter/ The video in question.]</ref>

==Blog==
Announced at the conference was a Your Origins Matter website,<ref name="blog"/> adding to the ICR's growing multi-media empire. The blog was announced as a platform for "conversation" and "tools to dig deeper into the study of origins,"<ref name=debut/> though many posts consist simply of effectively regurgitated articles from [[Brian Thomas]] ''et al'', modified for discussion purposes via the effective removal of the already limited science content. Videos, including interviews with ICR members, have been known to also appear.<ref>[http://www.youroriginsmatter.com/conversations/view/college-science-nathaniel-jeanson-video/160 Interview] of [[Nathaniel Jeanson]], 31 May 2013.</ref>

Information about the site's commenting policy can only be determined from the comments that do and do not get through: with increasingly rare exceptions, it's "sycophants only."

==See also==
*[[Uncommon Descent]]
*[[Question Evolution]]

==External links==
*Conference pictures:
**[http://twitter.com/ICRMedia/status/208930419750604800 Jason Lisle talks about magnetic fields]
**[http://twitter.com/ICRMedia/status/208947287924285440 Nathaniel Jeanson on design]
**[http://twitter.com/ICRMedia/status/208995533036064769 Jeff Williams speaks]
*[http://www.laughwithusblog.com/your-origins-matter-icr-conference/ A brief account from an attending creationist]

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