Mark Armitage



Mark H. Armitage was an Adjunct Professor of Biology at The Master's College from 1997-2000 and then an Adjunct Professor of Biology at Azusa Pacific University, a Christian college, from 1998-2002. He received his Masters Degree from the Institute for Creation Research Graduate School, and remains affiliated with the ICR, operating and maintaining a working electron microscopy lab there (SEM and TEM). He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Creation Research Society.

He graduated Ed.S. (summa cum laude) in May 2007 from Liberty University School of Education, and is currently a doctoral candidate at Liberty. He was awarded U.S Patent number 5,260,766 in November 1993 for an optical inspection device. He is internationally published in Parasitology Research (Germany) and Microscopy and Analysis (England) as well as in many U.S. Publications. He is currently installing a scanning and transmission electron microscope laboratory at the Creation Research Society's Van Andel Research Center near Prescott, AZ. He is president of the Southern California Society for Microscopy and Microanalysis, and is a member of the American Society of Parasitologists.

Publications
Creationist
 * Microgeometric Design of Diatoms: Jewels of the Sea M. Armitage, Creation Research Society Quarterly, vol. 31 (1994): 167-160
 * Trematode Parasites: What Is Their Genesis? CRS Quarterly Vol 36(3):184 - 194 March 2000
 * Scanning Electron Microscope Study of Mummified Collagen Fibers in Fossil Tyrannosaurus rex Bone CRS Quarterly Vol. 38, Number 2 September, 2001
 * The things that are not Creation 27(1):14–17, December 2004
 * New record of polonium radiohalos, Stone Mountain granite, Georgia (USA) TJ 15(1):86–88, April 2001
 * Preliminary observations of the pygidial gland of the Bombardier Beetle, Brachinus sp. TJ 17(1):95–102, April 2003
 * Radiohalos — A Tale of Three Granitic Plutons
 * Complex Life Cycles in Heterophyid Trematodes: Structural and Developmental Design in the Ascocotyle Complex of Species Presented at the Fourth International Conference on Creationism
 * Helium Retention in Deep-Core Zircons American Laboratory, Jul, 2004
 * The Ultrastructure of Lichen Cells Supports Creation, not Macroevolution CRS Quarterly Vol. 44 No. 1 pp. 40-53 Summer 2007

Secular
 * Armitage, M.H. The Euryhaline Cottid Fish, Leptocottus armatus Girard 1854, Second Intermediate Host of the Trematode, Ascocotyle (Phagicola) diminuta Stunkard and Haviland 1924. Bulletin of the California Academy of Sciences 96(3): (1997) 112-116.
 * Armitage, M. H. 1999. The euryhaline gobiid fish, Gillichthys mirabilis Cooper 1864, second intermediate host of the trematode, Pygidiopsoides spindalis Martin 1951. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 98(2):75–79.

Related links

 * Parasitology
 * Microscopy
 * Nikon MicroscopyU Small World Gallery 2005 Images of Distinction

Mark Armitage