Speaker: Scott Weckerly
Scott Weckerly
Co-Instructor at Creation Apologetics Teachers College
Education
- Jazz Performance degree from the University of North Texas
- Traveled full-time for 2 years, sharing the Gospel with a music ministry
- Completed the Creation Apologetics Teachers College and the 3-day Communication and Teaching Skills courses from CTI
- Has been studying apologetics and creation since high school
Dinosaurs and the Bible
Worldviews and Presuppositions
This topic covers the importance of the presuppositions that form a person’s worldview and how this affects the interpretation of data and facts. Understanding that facts and evidence are interpreted through a person’s worldview is the basis for a more powerful method of defending the faith.
Critical Thinking Skills
Practical questions that challenge evolutionary claims at the worldview level, and learning how to spot fuzzy words, magic words and red flag words that reveal errors and fallacies in most anti-Biblical claims.
Radiometric Dating and Carbon 14
What do radiometric dating methods really measure and are they reliable? Revealing the assumptions behind the methods and why C14 is powerful evidence for a young earth.
Why I Believe the Bible
Voddie Baucham’s brief summary of the uniqueness of the Bible and a powerful “go-to” response that stops critics in their tracks.
Hermeneutics
This topic covers the basics of sound Biblical interpretation and the importance of rightly dividing the scriptures with many good examples of bad hermeneutics.
Answering Old Earth Challenges
Biblical answers to the most common Old Earth challenges include the Gap Theory, the Day-Age Theory, how you can have normal days without the Sun, who Cain married, is a day a thousand years, and others.
What Is Truth?
This topic covers the difference between Objective and Subjective truth and how our society is being destroyed by the confusion between the two.
Why Creation Matters
This topic covers the importance of literal 6 day Creation and how it ultimately affects both foundational doctrines and the Gospel itself.