Inside March-April 2022 Acts & Facts

TUESDAY, MARCH 01, 2022

Why is it vital for us to demonstrate Christian courage? How does the N-Q boundary provide evidence supporting Dr. Henry Morris’ prediction for the Genesis Flood? Did actual encounters with supposedly “prehistoric” creatures inspire dragon art? How can flightlessness be a display of God’s design? Discover the answers to these questions and more in the March-April 2022 issue of Acts & Facts!

Christian Courage Is Imperative

Courage was a character trait I heard a lot about growing up, primarily from my dad but also teachers, and even on television. I saw courage to do your duty in Combat! and quiet, principled courage...

BY: RANDY J. GULIUZZA, P.E., M.D.

Paleontology Supports an N-Q Flood Boundary

by Jeffrey P. Tomkins, Ph.D., and Tim Clarey, Ph.D.* Defining where the global Flood of Genesis terminated in the rock record is of great importance in developing an accurate and cohesive story for...

BY: VARIOUS AUTHORS

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore: The Blanket Sand fro.,.

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore lies a few miles east of the town of Munising, Michigan, along one of the most scenic shorelines in the United States. America’s first national lakeshore, it...

BY: TIM CLAREY, PH.D.

Dragon Art Defies Millions of Years

Of all the displays in the 30,000 square feet of the ICR Discovery Center for Science & Earth History in Dallas, the Dragon Encounters exhibit has become some visitors’ favorite. It shows...

BY: BRIAN THOMAS, PH.D.

Flightless by Design or Designed by Death?

Jesus is amazing! He is also brilliant and glorious. It can be difficult to find the right words to describe Him. Earth is absolutely filled with His brilliantly designed life—everywhere. Environments...

BY: SCOTT ARLEDGE

Sturgeon and the “Latest Therefore Greatest” Fallacy

Chesapeake Bay, the world’s largest bay, continually confuses evolutionists, but not so Atlantic sturgeons, who periodically spawn in that bay’s tributary rivers.¹ Why? Erroneous...

BY: JAMES J. S. JOHNSON, J.D., TH.D.

Strengthening God’s Holy Temples

We read in 2 Chronicles 24:4, “Joash set his heart on repairing the house of the LORD.” The historical context of this verse has to do with the death of the wicked queen Athaliah. The seven-year-old...

BY: BRUCE WOOD

Meet ICR's Communications Department

“Can we get a kids’ book on dinosaurs?” “Does this sentence sound okay?” “Can you add zing to this title and make this letter sing?” These questions and...

BY: STAFF WRITER

Creation Kids: Hummingbird Flight

by Christy Hardy and Susan Windsor* You’re never too young to be a creation scientist! Kids, discover fun facts about God’s creation with ICR’s special Creation Kids learning and...

BY: VARIOUS AUTHORS

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More DNA Was Created as a Reservoir for the Information of Life

First Human Chromosome Fully Sequenced

Most people might be surprised to learn that the human genome has not been fully sequenced. Gaps still remain that have not yet been bridged because of...

BY: JEFFREY P. TOMKINS, PH.D.

Was a Franken-Fish “Created”?

In 2020, Hungarian zoologists described the hybridization of a Russian sturgeon and American paddlefish.¹ Some sources have reported the scientists...

BY: FRANK SHERWIN, D.SC. (HON.)

Another Failure to Recreate Life's Origins

A new study by NASA scientists has just been published where researchers did nothing more than convert a pre-cursor chemical into a single type of amino...

BY: JEFFREY P. TOMKINS, PH.D.

More Human Body

New York COVID-19 Infections Derived from Europe

New York City has become one of the largest epicenters of confirmed cases in the United States for coronavirus infections. Now, a new research study recently...

BY: JEFFREY P. TOMKINS, PH.D.

Balancing Body Temperature

The 2018 Winter Olympics have arrived! Have you ever wondered how athletes can be out in the frigid temperatures and still sweat after finishing...

BY: RANDY J. GULIUZZA, P.E., M.D.

Mammalian Brains Prove Evolutionary Disconnect

The evolutionary model of brain development predicted that the complexity of neural connectivity should have increased as brains became larger and the...

BY: JEFFREY P. TOMKINS, PH.D.

More Problems with Evolution

Big Fish Fossil Recalls Big Flop

One of the most famous living fossils is back in the news. The coelacanth is an endangered deep-sea fish. Its fins fit to unique, wrist-like bones, and...

BY: BRIAN THOMAS, PH.D.

DNA in Sheep and Dinosaurs

About 1,600 years ago, salt miners in Iran apparently left their lamb lunch down the shaft. Their loss became scientists' gain. The now-mummified sheep...

BY: BRIAN THOMAS, PH.D.

Embarrassment Continues over Evolutionary Blunder about.,.

Recent research from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) continues to highlight how evolutionary theory influenced...

BY: RANDY J. GULIUZZA, P.E., M.D.

More Contrasting Worldviews

Secular Science Struggles to Explain Origin of Earth’.,.

Tim Clarey, Ph.D., and Jake Hebert, Ph.D. Secular scientists continue to struggle to explain the origin of Earth’s water. And a new study...

BY: VARIOUS AUTHORS

RNA Ties and Unties Itself

There are two types of nucleic acids (genetic molecules): DNA and RNA. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is a large linear molecule designed to store genetic...

BY: FRANK SHERWIN, D.SC. (HON.)

John Walton’s Twisted Views on Disease and Suffering

John Walton is an influential Old Testament theologian at Wheaton College with an unorthodox and non-literal view of Genesis.¹ He is also an...

BY: JEFFREY P. TOMKINS, PH.D.

More Science

Protective Yet Flexible Design of Carp Scales

Recently reported research demonstrates how astonishingly helpful scales are to fish—such as the common carp (Cyprinus carpio), whose scales blend...

BY: JAMES J. S. JOHNSON, J.D., TH.D.

Children with Coronavirus at Risk of Life-Threatening S.,.

Multinational case reports on a small number of children who have had COVID-19, or possibly exposed to the novel coronavirus, tell of a potentially fatal...

BY: RANDY J. GULIUZZA, P.E., M.D.

Potential Coronavirus Treatments Enter Large Clinical Trials

Some good news in potential treatment options for COVID-19 was reported in the American journal Science.¹ Four new treatment options were being...

BY: RANDY J. GULIUZZA, P.E., M.D.

More Technology

Pandemic Lockdown Result of Bad Software

One of the most frustrating things a person can go through is for their normally stable computer system, tablet, or phone, to suddenly stop working—a...

BY: WILLIAM WEST, M.C.ED.

Universe’s “First” Stars Are Missing?

A recent attempt by European astronomers to use the Hubble Space Telescope to find evidence for the first stars expected by secular theory has failed....

BY: JAKE HEBERT, PH.D.

Will Norway Invade Privacy by Reversing Continuous Tracking?

ICR’s Dr. Randy Guliuzza has repeatedly illustrated and explained how continuous environmental tracking works in animals and mankind.¹...

BY: JAMES J. S. JOHNSON, J.D., TH.D.

More Only God Could Have Made Cells

RNA Ties and Unties Itself

There are two types of nucleic acids (genetic molecules): DNA and RNA. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is a large linear molecule designed to store genetic...

BY: FRANK SHERWIN, D.SC. (HON.)

Algae Multicellular Evolution Study Debunked

Recent headlines claim, “Scientists Have Witnessed a Single-Celled Algae Evolve Into a Multicellular Organism.”¹ In reality,...

BY: JEFFREY P. TOMKINS, PH.D.

Have Scientists Created a Synthetic Cell?

Scientists claim they have successfully created "synthetic life" for the first time. In a 15-year project, a team led by genomics pioneer...

BY: BRIAN THOMAS, PH.D.

More Origin of Life

Does Oddball Platypus Genome Reveal Its Origins?

How in the world did a creature as odd as the duck-billed platypus originate? This creature lays eggs like a reptile, has venom like a reptile, spurs like...

BY: BRIAN THOMAS, PH.D.

Origin of Life Studies Cancel Each Other

In 2009, Brown University biology professor Ken Miller wrote in the journal New Scientist that "the most profound unsolved problem in biology is the...

BY: BRIAN THOMAS, PH.D.

Giant Rhinos Are Still Rhinos

Fossils from two giant rhinos dated by evolutionists to be “22 million years old” in the evolutionary timetable have been discovered in China.¹...

BY: FRANK SHERWIN, D.SC. (HON.)

More Creation Science Update

A Four-Legged Snake?

In 2021, paleontologist Michael Caldwell of the University of Alberta in Canada stated, “There are many evolutionary questions that could be answered...

BY: FRANK SHERWIN, D.SC. (HON.)

Do Fish Skulls Show Evolution?

Fish never learned to walk. Regardless, an evolutionary paleontologist suggested an undocumented scenario of how fish gradually evolved into four-legged...

BY: FRANK SHERWIN, D.SC. (HON.)

New York Seminarians Worship Plants

Recently, some New York seminary students exhibited their unbiblical imaginations by idolatrously confessing their sins to potted plants. Sound silly?...

BY: JAMES J. S. JOHNSON, J.D., TH.D.

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