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Hugh Owen

Hugh Owen lives in the state of Viriginia, in the USA, with his wife and nine children. He has studied history at Princeton University and New York University. Mr Owen is the founder and director of the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation. He has been a speaker at numerous seminars and conferences in the USA, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and Australia. He was also the organiser of “A Scientific Critique of Evolution,” an international conference held at Sapienza University, in Rome.

Lecture: The Sacred Icons of Creation: Testimony to the Perfect Goodness of God

Wednesday, 28th of October 11.30

As depicted in the sacred icons of creation, the traditional, patristic, magisterial doctrine of creation holds that God created all of the different kinds of creatures during a very brief creation period at the beginning of time by an act of his Divine Will. According to this understanding, God created a perfectly harmonious world for our first parents, Adam and Eve, a few thousand years ago. He created Adam first, and then created Eve from Adam’s side. There was no human sickness, death, disease, harmful mutations or man-harming natural disasters before the Fall. Prior to the Original Sin, all of nature was under the dominion of Adam and Eve and was subservient to them. Even after the Original Sin, early man was physically and mentally superior to modern man, and the early patriarchs actually lived to the long ages ascribed to them. There was a global flood in Noah’s day which killed all of the people and land animals except for those on Noah’s ark, and all of the basic language-families complete with their unique grammars and modes of thought were instantaneously created by God during the Tower of the Babel incident. Theistic evolutionism holds that God created matter in the beginning, and then used billions of years of natural processes, including death, destruction, mutations, and disease, to produce the various kinds of living things, including the human body. Generally speaking, theistic evolutionists deny the historicity of Genesis 1-11 and believe that Noah’s Flood was a local flood, that the Tower of Babel incident never happened, and that human languages evolved from primitive to more complex forms over long periods of time. These two ways of understanding the origins of man and the universe produce two entirely different views of God and man. Hugh Owen, the founder of the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation, will use the Sacred Icons of creation as his point of departure for defending the traditional Catholic doctrine of creation, the foundation of the Gospel.