To gain every advantage, Max chose to go first with each period except for the closing statements, where he chose to go last. As he desired, the debate consisted of an initial statement of 18 minutes by each side, followed by four 15-minute periods by each side on subjects Max selected and a 5-minute closing statement. degrees at the University of Pennsylvania. The debaters were evolutionist Edward Max and Duane Gish. Approximately 2000 people were in attendance. The debate described in this report took place on the evening of March 4, 1996, in the Civic Center Auditorium in Amarillo, Texas. The accounts of these debates have been described in Acts & Facts for almost 25 years now, but it was suggested that a detailed description of one of the recent debates might be of interest and also informative as to the types of arguments in these debates. Since that time over 300 debates between ICR scientists and evolutionists have been conducted, as well as debates involving other creation scientists. Very early in its history, however, people began to think it would be instructive to those interested in the question of origins to witness debates between well-informed creation scientists and evolution scientists. None of us now on the ICR staff even thought before its founding that we would be on a public platform debating evolutionists.
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