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About the talk:
Dr. Anderson will speak as a microbiologist, reviewing some of the genetic evidence for a recent creation and the problem with mutations as a major explanation for the thousands of transformations that evolutionary theory proposes to have occurred over vast stretches of time.

About the Speaker:
Kevin Anderson earned his Ph.D. from Kansas State University in microbiology. He then went on the the University of Illinois to start his studies as a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow, and later he became a professor of microbiology at Mississippi State University. At MSU he taught graduate level molecular genetics courses and also was the major professor for many doctoral and masters students. Since 2003, he has served as the Director of the Van Andel Creation Research Center for the Creation Research Society at the campus of Arizona Christian University. He is also presently the Editor-in-chief of the Creation Research Society Quarterly. One of his main areas of research has been the molecular analysis of bacterial interactions and molecular genetics. More recently, he was the director of laboratory research for a biotech energy company. He has written more than 20 papers in scientific microbiology journals and has given presentations at many nationwide and worldwide scientific meetings. He is a specialist on dinosaur soft tissue and is a molecular biologist, running the iDino Project: an investigation of the preservation of tissue in dinosaur fossils.