“Celebration of Creation” was the topic of a joined program of the Biblical Research Institute and the Geoscience Research Institute held at Pacific Adventist University in Papua New Guinea and at Avondale College in Australia. Delbert Baker, Vice President of the General Conference, Gerhard Pfandl of the Biblical Research Institute and Jim Gibson, Raul Esperante, and Timothy Standish of the Geoscience Research Institute, as well as David Tasker of the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists lectured on such issues as “The Origin of life,” “The Geologic Column,” and “How Adventists Interpret Genesis 1:1-2.”