Archive of Creation Q&A Articles
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...
Are Birds "Cousins" to Reptiles?
Are today’s birds genealogical “cousins” to today’s reptiles due to a shared evolutionary ancestry?
No. However, birds and reptiles share the same Creator, the Lord Jesus...
Does the Universe Look Old?
Since distant galaxies are billions of light-years away, some understandably assume that distant starlight must have taken billions of years to reach us. Also, some galaxies are colliding. While God...
Animal Death Before the Fall?
Both the Old and New Testaments teach that death entered the world when Adam ate the forbidden fruit (e.g., Genesis 2:17 and Romans 5:12). Since fossils are the preserved remains of dead animals, Christians...
Why Won't the Gospel Die?
Soon after the gospel first emerged, ancient Rome tried to exterminate whoever believed it. They tortured and murdered early Christians, but that didn’t stop its progress. Thousands of years later,...
Can Scientists Replace God with Nothing?
Hebrews 11:3 says, “By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God.” Do you find it a little odd that we must have faith to understand that God created the universe?...
Does Radioisotope Dating Prove an Old Earth?
Tim Clarey, Ph.D., and Vernon R. Cupps, Ph.D.*
When most people think about radioisotope dating, they think of carbon-14 (C-14), or radiocarbon dating.1 However, C-14, a radioactive...
Is the Bible Evidence for Creation?
Have you ever had a skeptic tell you to keep the Bible out of it when discussing origins? Skeptics claim we Christians argue in a circle, that we are using the Bible to prove the Bible. Although this...
Does Recent Research Support Human Evolution?
In 1997, the Institute for Creation Research ran an Acts & Facts article on the lack of compelling evidence regarding our supposed evolution from ape-like ancestors.1 Years have passed,...
Do We See Complex Design in Mosquito Eggs?
Mosquitoes hatch from tiny eggs and spend a few days filter-feeding on things like bacteria, pollen, and algae. They molt three times as they grow, storing up the energy reserves needed to pupate in...
Did God Make Harmful Parasites in the Beginning?
Parasites are a unique form of life in today’s world. These invertebrates come in all shapes and sizes, from single-cell animals (e.g., Plasmodium that causes malaria) to a tapeworm (Polygonoporus...
How Do I Prepare for Creation Ministry?
Many of today’s creation researchers can testify that information from the Institute for Creation Research sparked a burning, lifelong passion for creation ministry. Based on messages we receive,...
How Can You Refute Evolution?
Darwinian evolution promotes a mantra that “all creatures great and small—natural processes made them all.” Just one creature somehow became all others. Textbooks reassure students...
Leviathan: Legend, Croc, or Something Else?
In Job 41, God points Job’s attention to a terrifying animal called leviathan. It’s clear this was a real creature, but what was it?
Bible commentaries often call leviathan a crocodile....
Did Someone Really Find Noah's Ark?
I recall a tough conversation with a skeptical student after speaking on creation and the Flood at a Christian school. This young man insisted he would never believe the Genesis Flood unless someone...
Why Don't Raindrops Bomb Butterfly Wings?
Okay, I admit most folks have probably not thought to ask this creation question. But a bigger question gets answered when we examine the fantastic butterfly features that counter the force of falling...
Why Do I Believe in Recent Creation?
A student recently asked what I believe about the age of the earth. I replied that at one time I felt absolutely certain that the world was billions of years old. I even wrote a song that mentioned...
Does Scripture Say Anything about Climate?
Climate change conversations squeeze their way into so many different topics, yet climate research is rife with confusion. Which scientists are right—those who say manmade pollution and greenhouse...
How Do Hominids Fit with the Bible?
A recent survey showed that the most persuasive argument for evolution comes from the iconic drawing of the apes-to-man parade.1 This popular picture illustrates ape-like animals evolving...
Why Don't They Believe in Creation?
After an ICR scientist presents convincing evidence for biblical creation, listeners often ask, “If all you just said is true, then why don’t most scientists believe it?”
We may...
How Did Coal Seams Form?
When I drive from Dallas to Colorado, I sometimes see southbound trains loaded with coal from vast reserves buried in Wyoming rock layers. This coal helps power the homes and industries of the almost...
How Can I Answer Attacks on the Bible?
Some contend that science proves the Bible wrong. They may ask how the Bible’s supposedly good God could allow so much pain and evil in the world. And who hasn’t heard that science has proved...
Do Earth's Rocks Look Old?
Some might argue that Earth’s rocks are obviously ancient even apart from radioisotope dating results. In response to creationist claims, they might ask, “If the earth was created just 6,000...
Do Carbon Ages Refute a Biblical Timeline?
Many reporters and scientists treat carbon dates like facts. Of course, the more recent dates work well enough. But news reports, textbooks, and even movies present enormous ages like “47,000...
What Is the Image of God?
Genesis 1:26 says, “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.’” What does it mean for humans to bear the lofty image of God?
First, we look...
Why Did God Make Mosquitos?
My wife and I enjoy evening walks with our dog when the Texas weather lets us. Unfortunately, mosquitos seem to like good weather too. And they recognize my wife is much sweeter than I am. She often...
Does Palo Duro Canyon Show Deep Time?
Some friends and I recently hiked into Texas’ Palo Duro Canyon, where sedimentary rock layers span the horizon. Eighteenth-century naturalists thought rock layers represented vast ages, a tradition...
Where Did Faces Come From?
Animals don’t laugh, smirk, roll their eyes, or give subtle squints like humans do. Hundreds of different tiny facial expressions can convey our thoughts and feelings in an instant—all using...
Was the Global Flood Too Extreme?
Bible critics have long claimed the God of the Old Testament was unjust and mean. Some cite Noah’s Flood as an example: If God is really good, then why would He drown all those humans? The best...
What Happened to Dinosaurs after the Flood?
Genesis says that “every beast after its kind…went into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life.”1 Dinosaurs were beasts, and their fossil...
Does Biblical Creation Help Us Glorify God?
How well do you glorify God? Robbing God of glory is serious, as illustrated in this brief account in the book of Acts: “So, on a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat on his throne and...
Are Fossils Just Rocks Shaped like Bones?
I picked up my first fossil from beneath a swing in Kansas when I was six years old. Fossils have fascinated me ever since. Soon after, our family visited a dinosaur museum. The nice lady there explained...
Have Lions Always Been Lions?
“Can you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions, when they crouch in their dens, or lurk in their lairs to lie in wait?” (Job 38:39-40)
When God spoke...
Is Young Earth Creation Crazy?
A creation-believing friend of mine attended a dinner with various scientists. One of them who favored intelligent design said that any scientist who believed in a young earth was “crazy.”...
Does Archaeopteryx Show Bird Evolution?
Archaeopteryx is a big word that simply means “ancient wing.” It refers to a set of fossils of a strange-looking extinct bird. Books promoting evolution often show pictures of Archaeopteryx....
Why Would God Make Monsters?
After one of my dinosaur presentations in the Dallas area, a mother told me a question her son had asked. She didn’t know the answer. If God is good and Genesis creation is true, then why did...
Can Scientists Resurrect Extinct Species?
In the 2013 movie Star Trek: Into Darkness, Captain Kirk suffers lethal levels of radiation to save his crew. Fortunately, Doctor McCoy brings his captain back to life by borrowing blood from a character...
Could One Flood Form Many Rock Layers?
The Grand Canyon exposes layer after layer of sedimentary rock stacked one atop the other like vast, multicolored pancakes in the earth. Other cliff faces and highway road cuts reveal red mudstones,...
Where Are All the Human Fossils?
At a recent Institute for Creation Research event, we passed out cards so the audience could submit questions for an upcoming Q&A session. Interestingly, several folks asked the same thing: Why...
Is Genesis 1–11 Actual History?
The early chapters of Genesis contradict ancient history as portrayed in public schools, television, and movies. For example, our culture insists humans evolved from ape-like creatures, while Genesis...
Did Medieval Artists See Real Dinosaurs?
Figure 1. The ancient choir hall in Carlisle Cathedral, UK. The blue rug in the center aisle covers the fascinating decorations on Bishop Bell’s tomb.
Image credit: David Iliff. License:...
Did an Asteroid Impact Kill the Dinosaurs?
During a recent visit to a church, I told a group of children how and why Noah’s Flood fossilized the dinosaurs. A boy told me he saw a documentary that said an asteroid impact killed the dinosaurs....
Are Evolution and Adaptation the Same?
Due to the bombardment of evolutionary propaganda, most people think the terms evolution and adaptation basically represent the same thing. But nothing could be further from the truth. When one has...
Do 'Useless' Organs Prove Humans Evolved?
People who believe humans evolved from an ape-like animal millions of years ago claim we have many useless organs. They say these organs once had a function in our evolutionary past, and that’s...
When Did Noah's Flood Happen?
Unlike all other religious texts, the Bible supplies hundreds of time stamps for key events. They let us test the Bible against itself and the history recorded outside the Bible. However, not all the...
Is Evolution a Lie?
In the view of modern culture, how could anyone be so foolish as to doubt evolution? After all, its defenders point to all kinds of examples to back their beliefs. A thoughtful look, though, at two...
Were There Days Before God Created the Sun?
ICR recently received a letter asking a common creation question. Genesis 1 describes the creation of all things in six days. Since Genesis says God didn’t create the sun until Day 4, that means...
Who Were Cro-Magnon People?
If you’re like me, you appreciate the variations God designed the human frame to express. Wide or narrow, tiny or giant, having high or shallow nose bridges or foreheads, every person differs...
Why Don't Poison Dart Frogs Poison Themselves?
Found in Central and South America, the poison dart frog uses its skin toxin for defense and its bright colors as a warning. Each tiny amphibian holds enough toxin in its skin to kill 10 people.1...
Could You Outrun Goliath?
At “six cubits and a span,” Goliath stood over nine feet tall, using a conservative 18-inch cubit. Scripture demonstrates his strength by cataloging the weight of his armaments, including...
Do 'Simple' Eyes Reflect Evolution?
The complexity of the vertebrate eye disturbed Darwin, but he supposed it might have originated millions of years ago through a series of small steps that started with a rudimentary light-sensitive...
Did Fish Learn to Walk?
Virtually all natural history museums have a diorama displaying fish with strange leg-like fins emerging from the water onto land. This is a critical evolutionary event—gills somehow evolving...
Why Don't Chimps Smile?
Chimpanzees might appear human-like to those who’ve decided that humans evolved from primates. But these people tend to ignore big differences. For one thing, chimps don’t smile. They can’t....
Is the Earth Round?
Some readers might think the answer to this question is so obvious that maybe we’re offering it as a kind of joke—but it’s no joke. A growing number of people seem to actually believe...
Do Dinosaurs Disprove the Bible?
My family and I saw an interesting car emblem while on a road trip. It showed a T. rex-like dinosaur taking a bite out of a Christian fish. This led to a healthy in-car discussion. Does the existence...
Are Planets Only Thousands of Years Old?
Go to a standard planetarium show or watch a television documentary on the solar system and you’ll hear that the planets formed about four and a half billion years ago. But the many evidences...
Why Do Kangaroos Live Only in Australia?
About a dozen basic marsupial kinds live across Australia and New Guinea, with a handful in South America. How did they get isolated to those locations? Evolutionists insist that they evolved there,...
Did Humans Evolve from Apes?
Most American Christian students attend public schools that promote human evolution. But evolution undermines the Bible’s main message of redemption by asserting that men descended from amoral...
Who Wrote the Bible?
I recently encountered a young man with no confidence in the Bible. His high school teacher taught him that a cluster of Catholic clergy cobbled the Scriptures together long after the events they describe—events...
Did God Use the Big Bang?
Many Christians accept the Big Bang story as though science proved it years ago. According to this story, our universe began with all its energy and matter densely packed into a tiny space. Nobody quite...
So Many Skin Tones from Adam and Eve?
After viewing the mixture of widely different skin tones at a recent church gathering, a long-time Acts & Facts reader asked how so much variety came from only three pairs of human beings—Shem,...
Do Creation Scientists Publish in Mainstream Journals?
If ICR scientists are “real” scientists, then they should publish in respected, peer-reviewed, mainstream journals, right? In fact, many have.1 But mainstream journal editors’...
Did the Euphrates Flow before the Flood?
The Bible makes it clear that the Flood destroyed Earth’s surface. However, Genesis 2 says that a river named Euphrates flowed before the Flood, even though a river with that same name currently...
Why Did Neanderthals Look Different From Us?
When people think of Neanderthals, an evolutionary image of primitive cave men might come to mind. This is bolstered by the perception that they looked very different from modern humans. However, Neanderthals...
Why Creation Ministry?
When I finally grasped how important Genesis is to Christianity, society, and the meaning of life, I felt like someone had just opened the door to a vast treasure room. How precious the words of Genesis...
What Were the 'Waters Above the Firmament'?
Early ICR scientists hypothesized that the “waters which were above the firmament”1 implied a canopy of water vapor that covered the earth before the Flood. However, later tests...
Does Modern Genetics Confirm a Historical Adam?
If mankind evolved from ape-like ancestors, then our DNA should look messy from millions of years of trial-and-error mutations. Instead, it looks nice and tidy. Almost every cell in our bodies contains...
Do Arguments Help with Ministry?
We often think of an argument as an angry disagreement, but in logic “argument” refers simply to presenting statements or reasons to support a conclusion. Some say arguments have little...
Were Dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark?
When visitors inspect ICR’s seven-and-a-half-foot-long model of Noah’s Ark, the dinosaur figurines on the bottom deck tend to catch their eyes. They often ask about those dinosaurs, giving...
What Was the Pre-Flood World Like?
Many who study Genesis show intense curiosity about the pre-Flood world. But “the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water,” so little physical evidence remains.1...
Was Adam a Real Person?
Our anti-Bible world ridicules those who insist that Adam was a real, historical person, and consequently many Christians doubt Adam too. Old Testament professor John Walton recently wrote that perhaps...
Did Hebrew Authors Fake the Creation Account?
My family’s copy of Joseph Rhymer’s Atlas of the Biblical World echoes what many Bible scholars have taught about Genesis: “There are two creation accounts.”1 One...
Can Carbon Dating Be Trusted?
How many times have news reports asserted that an old bone, shell, or piece of charcoal was carbon-dated as tens of thousands of years old? These age assignments clash with the Bible’s record,...
How Realistic Was Jurassic World ’s Science?
In church, a friend asked me about the movie Jurassic World. Its high-tech presentation makes the idea of scientists resurrecting dinosaurs from DNA “mined” from fossils almost seem believable....
Does Genesis Matter to the Gospel?
A man once told me he was a “New Testament Christian,” meaning he did not believe in Genesis as history, but he did believe in Jesus. I asked him if he could think of any New Testament teaching...
Were the Creation Days 24 Hours Long?
God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day. (Genesis 1:5)
The creation days in Genesis 1 offer a test of belief. Could a lifeless,...
Does DNA Determine Sexual Preference?
I’m often asked if there really is a “gay gene”—one that predetermines certain people to be homosexuals. From the beginning of creation, God designed men and women to be equal...
Do Stars Still Form Today?
“Our own Milky Way produces, on average, at least one new star every year,” begins a University of Michigan news story detailing how galactic dust interactions may regulate star formation.1...
Did Humans Evolve from Ape-Like Ancestors?
The popular story of human origins is that humans evolved from ape-like ancestors over millions of years. If this is true, it defines our very identities. Are we creations of the God of the Bible who...
Where Could Adam's Sons Find Wives?
According to Genesis, Adam and Eve had sons, and 1 Corinthians 15:22 teaches that all of us descended from Adam. But if they only had sons, then where did their children find the wives necessary to...
Does Teaching Recent Creation Hinder the Gospel?
Christians who oppose recent creation often assert that faith in Christ does not require a belief in recent creation, and they argue that insisting that the world is only thousands of years old hinders...
Does Our Immune System Indicate Disease Before the Fall?
by Randy J. Guliuzza, P.E., M.D., and Frank Sherwin, M.A.*
If God originally created the world without death and disease, where did our bodies get their disease-fighting capabilities? Christians...
Are Animals the Result of Natural Processes or Creation?
Either the current animals on this planet somehow evolved from simple creatures or they suddenly appeared—amazingly complex the first time we find them—with no evolutionary ancestors. Put...
Do Darwin's Finches Prove Evolution?
Even those who know very little about evolution have heard that some birds on some island somehow demonstrate Darwinism. Today, the evolutionary idea that all living animals descended from one original...
What's It Like to Dig for Dinosaur Bones?
This summer, Institute for Creation Research IT expert Daryl Robbins and I participated in a dinosaur dig near Glendive, Montana. Volunteers from the Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum helped the effort...
Did Dinosaurs Have Feathers?
A button reading “Dinosaurs are not birds” was handed out to interested attendees of the Florida Symposium on Dinosaur Bird Evolution in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April 7–8, 2000....
Does Science Support the Big Bang?
by Jake Hebert, Ph.D., and Brian Thomas, M.S.*
Some Christians claim that God used the Big Bang (BB) as a means to create the universe, despite the obvious contradictions with the Genesis creation...
Is Every Fossil in Its (Evolutionary) Place?
by Vernon R. Cupps, Ph.D., and Brian Thomas, M.S.*
During a recent televised debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham, Mr. Nye claimed that fossils are never found “out of place.”1...
Do Tree Rings Disprove the Genesis Chronology?
Dating a tree sounds simple—just count the number of rings from the trunk’s outer edge to its center and you discover the number of years the tree was alive. Secular researchers have determined...
Do Ice Cores Disprove Recent Creation?
by Brian Thomas, M.S., and Jake Hebert, Ph.D. *
Glaciologists drill and extract cylindrical cores from high-latitude ice sheets and use different techniques to estimate the cores’ age at certain...
What Is the Origin of Life?
One roadblock secular science faces is the origin of anything…and everything. For example, how did the primeval Big Bang originate? Materialists do not know and rarely even speculate. In 1859,...
Human and Chimp DNA--Nearly Identical?
For the past several decades, the standard mantra has been that humans are 98 percent genetically identical to chimpanzees. However, this claim is based on cherry-picked data and does not take into...
Was There an Ice Age?
Secular scientists believe there have been at least five major ice ages during Earth's history, and the most recent is thought to have begun about 2.6 million years ago. Within this Pleistocene ice...
Does 'Y-Chromosome Adam' Refute Genesis?
Secular geneticists believe that modern humans can trace their male genetic ancestry back to one man and their female genetic ancestry back to one woman.1 Two new studies suggest that female...
Don't Grand Canyon Rocks Showcase Deep Time?
Most Christians probably perceive the immense rock layers displayed in Arizona’s Grand Canyon as icons of “deep time,” marking the passing of millions of years. For example, respected...
Does 'Homology' Prove Evolution?
Why do you share DNA with an ant? Why do mammals generally have four limbs? Why do different creatures’ limbs often develop via similar genetic programs? Evolutionists attribute these biological...
Could We Clone a Dinosaur?
In short, no way. But Christians should understand the biblical and biological reasons why not. Then we can have a meaningful conversation with friends and family, made more relevant by the theatrical...
Do Young C-14 Results Reflect Contamination?
The presence of carbon-14 (C-14) in specimens that are supposedly millions of years old is a serious problem for believers in an old earth. C-14 is a radioactive variety or “isotope” of...
What Are the Benefits of Spider Venom and Webs?
At any given time, no matter where we are, we’re not far from those infamous arachnids the spiders, most of which are not a threat.1
Many feel a natural revulsion when they experience...
Does 'Junk' DNA Exist?
The theistic evolutionary organization BioLogos recently and publicly challenged creationists to explain specific examples of “junk DNA.”1 This “gauntlet” provides...
Why Do Scientists Trust Flawed Methods?
Last month, the Creation Q & A column briefly answered the following question: Does radioisotope dating prove that the earth is millions of years old? We offered four reasons why radioisotope dating...
Doesn't Radioisotope Dating Prove Rocks Are Millions of.,.
by Brian Thomas, M.S., and John Morris, Ph.D. *
Geologists do not directly measure the age of a rock. They choose rocks containing radioactive “parent” isotopes that emit...
Is Evolution an Observable Fact?
“Evolution is fact!” is one of the most popular evolutionary assertions made by evolutionists, ranging from those at the National Center for Science Education to those working for PBS.1,...
When Is a Day Not a Day?
Those Christians who hold to an extremely old Earth acknowledge that both Scripture and history teach Abraham lived just a few thousand years ago. Furthermore, chronologies in Scripture identify the time...
What's a Missing Link?
Evolutionists often speak of missing links. They say that the bridge between man and the apes is the "missing link," the hypothetical ape-like ancestor of both. But there are supposed missing...
Is Earth Really Round?
Without a doubt, Earth is round, or nearly so. Using careful measurements from the ground and observations from space we can be certain it is essentially a sphere, with only minor bulging near the equator....
Just How Well Proven Is Evolution?
Recently I was a guest on CNN's Lou Dobbs program, discussing the difference between evolution, intelligent design, and creation. The other two guests were well- known ID spokesmen, Dr. Jon Wells,...
Why Did God Give the Rainbow Sign?
Noah and his family had just come through an unimaginably frightening experience. Perhaps they had never even seen a storm, and certainly no one had ever seen one like this. It would have been indelibly...
In the Early Earth, Were All the Months Exactly Thirty .,.
Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November;
February has twenty-eight alone,
All the rest have thirty-one,
Except in Leap Year, that's the time
When February's days are twenty-nine.
So...
Has Evolution become a State Religion?
The Church of England had been established as the official state church of that country for a long time, but in the nineteenth century an effort was launched to "dis-establish" it, and remove...
How Long Did It Take to Deposit the Geologic Strata?
The alleged great age of earth's geologic strata has been characterized by evolutionists as representing millions of years of accumulation of sediments under water. Modern observers are generally...
How Did Noah Gather the Animals?
Bible skeptics have long raised this objection to the Flood story. How could one man and his sons travel to all corners of the globe collecting all the pairs of animals to preserve them through the...
How Could Noah and His Family Care for the Many Animals.,.
Detractors from the Bible story of the Flood have scoffed at the idea of just a few people carrying out all the duties of animal care for a year. Without a doubt, it would have been a daunting task...
Will We Have Any Work to Do in Heaven?
What will we do when we get to heaven? Eternity is a long time. Of course, we will enjoy a close and personal relationship with our Creator/Redeemer, thanking and praising Him for all He is and has...
Is It Biblically Proper to Seek Evidence for Creation?
The Institute for Creation Research has become known for its attention to research. It's important to recognize that we don't try to "prove the Bible." The Bible doesn't need our help. Whether...
Has Any Progress Been Made in Getting Creation in the P.,.
We've come a long way in America. This nation, which was founded on Christian principles, by men and women who were predominately Christians committed to the Biblical worldview, has become quite secular,...
Should Darwin Day Be Observed?
Several countries have recently set aside February 12, Charles Darwin's birthday, as a special day to remember him. Evolutionists in America are calling for its adoption here too, and have tried...
When Did the Mountains Rise?
In geology a controversy prevails concerning uniformity and catastrophe. Regarding mountain building, uniformity maintains that the necessary tectonic forces have always acted, and there should be mountains...
Does the Gallbladder Have a Necessary Function?
Recently a growing pain in my side forced me into the Urgent Care facility at the hospital. Several tests ensued, including an ultra-sound look at my gallbladder. Here in this small potato-sized organ...
What Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?
This age-old question really has a simple answer. Attempts to answer it, however, and attempts to get around implications of the simple answer are often quite convoluted.
According to the Creator...
How Young Is the Young Earth?
According to the mainstream Big Bang idea, our universe abruptly sprang into existence some 15 billion years ago, sending matter careening through space. After millions of years it had cooled enough to...
Are Fossils the Result of Noah's Flood?
Fossils have been frequently cited as the main evidence for evolution. The evolution/uniformitarian worldview postulates that the slow and gradual processes we see operating today are responsible not...
How Soon After the Flood Did the Earth Return to Equili.,.
In the original creation the earth was deemed “very good” (Genesis 1:31). Soon Adam and Eve rejected God’s authority and incurred the great curse of Genesis 3:14–19, which affected...
What Geologic Processes Were Operating During the Flood?
The great Flood of Noah's day was a time of unthinkable geological upheaval, such that "the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished" (II Peter 3:6). No flood in human...
Was Geologic Work Done on Creation Week?
At ICR we spend much time researching the geologic effects of the great Flood of Noah's day, but we should not neglect the great global geological events which occurred during Creation Week.
It was on...
Where Are Fossils Found?
Fossils are typically found in sedimentary rock, almost all of which were originally deposited as sediments by moving water. Subsequent processes hardened them into sedimentary rock, as overlying pressure...
When a Tadpole Turns into a Frog - Is This Evolution in.,.
Often in lectures or articles creationists mention the impossibility of animals undergoing major body style transformations as required by evolution, such as an invertebrate acquiring a backbone and...
Were the Huge Columbia River Basalts Formed in the Flood?
Often skeptics of creation/flood/young earth thinking scoffingly claim that no evidence for the Flood exists. Even though most geologists have abandoned old-style uniformity in favor of a grudging acceptance...
Do the Doctrines of Creation and Resurrection Reinforce.,.
We rightly acknowledge God as Creator of all, but it behooves us to remember that while all three persons of the Godhead were involved, it was Jesus Christ, God's "dear Son: In whom we have...
Is Believing in Evolution the Same Kind of Thing as Bel.,.
An article appeared in the Jan./Feb. 2004 issue of The Professional Geologist by paleontology Professor, James S. Mellett, with the intriguing title, "Question: Do You Believe in Evolution? Answer:...
Does the Similarity of Human Blood to Sea Water Prove L.,.
Evolutionists have a bank full of stories used to support evolution which sound good on the surface. I think I first heard this one in a junior high school assembly during a "Mr. Wizard" film....
How Long Will the Sun Last?
Recent solar activity caused great concern among many people, including "New Age" prophecies that the sun was burning out, and the end was near. While we don't know the timetable for end-time...
Can the Ussher Chronology Be Trusted?
Up until fairly recently, nearly all printings of the King James Bible included dates in the marginal notes which helped place Biblical events in their chronological context. Using this as a guide we...
How Did the Vertical Columns at Devil's Tower Form?
Visitors often marvel at the beautiful columns of rock standing at places like Devil's Tower in Wyoming. There a mountain of rock rises from the ground in a series of regular, multi-sided columns, extending...
What Happened at the Tower of Babel?
Biblical history takes us through several world-changing, but non-repeatable episodes; including Creation, the Curse, and the global Flood of Noah's day. By basing our historical thinking on these...
Did Noah's Flood Cover the Himalayan Mountains?
Few doctrines in Scripture are as clearly taught as the global nature of the Great Flood in Noah's day. Genesis clearly teaches that "the waters . . . increased greatly . . . and the mountains...
Did Modern Coal Seams Form in a Peat Swamp?
Most geologists are trained to think from a uniformitarian perspective—that "the present is the key to the past"—that present uniform processes operating throughout the past account...
Is Man a "Higher" Animal?
Frequently we see the statement that man is an advanced animal, implying he is higher on the evolutionary tree than the others. Let's examine this claim.
Remember that evolution holds that simple...
How Long is a Billion Years?
We've all heard the phrase "billions and billions of years." Usually the phrase is accompanied by the speaker rolling his hands outwardly and repeatedly as if to demonstrate a continual...
Does the Bible Contain a Mathematically Incorrect Value.,.
Does the Bible contain errors in math? If it does, this calls into question its moral and spiritual authority. Much is at stake. Let's carefully examine one of the most frequent charges of error.
When...
Don't the Fossils Prove Evolution?
For decades students have been shown a representation of the fossil record appearing as a vertical column with marine invertebrates on the bottom, overlain by fish, then amphibians, reptiles, and mammals,...
Do Creationists Really Believe in Evolution?
The Institute for Creation Research is well known for its conviction that the scriptural account of creation is true as it stands. In particular, we notice that ten times in Genesis 1 God created the various...
Who Cares About Creation Anyway?
In the minds of many, creation thinking is marginalized to a "fundamentalist" few. But let's look again.
Listed below are quotes from several great men who cared much about creation....
Do Millions of Laminae in the Green River Shales Docume.,.
The Green River oil shales have provided one of the very strongest arguments for millions of years, or at least one of the most used.
Take a specimen of the shale and slice it open perpendicular to the...
Has Archaeological Evidence for Jesus Been Discovered?
Skeptics have often pointed out that no archaeological evidence for the existence of Jesus Christ has been discovered. And they are correct, at least perhaps up until the present. A recent incredible...
Does Salt Come from Evaporated Sea Water?
Seawater contains a variety of salts, and when seawater evaporates, these solids are left behind. The most abundant salt in seawater is sodium chloride (NaCl) which will be referred to in this article...
Who Could Argue with Teaching Good Science?
Earlier this year House Bill 481 was submitted to the Ohio State Assembly. The bill addresses the issue of teaching "origins science" in the Ohio public schools. The carefully crafted bill scrupulously...
Did God Lie to Us?
When I was a child, I sometimes went with my father to one of his speaking engagements. It was always a great father/son time but he was also making sure the truth was transferred to his son. As soon...
If an Idea Agrees with Scripture, Does That Make it Uns.,.
It has become common for evolutionists to claim that science and religion are two different spheres of endeavor, which do not overlap. The oft-repeated mantra, "Evolution is science while creation...
Why Did God Create Us?
Some things cannot be fully comprehended. Infinite things, eternal things, matters of God's sovereignty—these transcend our finite and temporal minds. For example, why did He create us? Certainly...
Can the Small Changes We See Add Up to the Big Changes .,.
My years at ICR have been punctuated by numerous creation/evolution debates, but actually my first such debate came as a sophomore in high school. When the issue came up, I was selected to "debate"...
Is Lack of Room for Wisdom Teeth Proof of Evolution?
Removal of wisdom teeth has become commonplace in western countries. Based on evolutionary training, many dentists assume that wisdom teeth are "vestigial," useless evolutionary left-overs from...
Who Were the 'Giants' in the Days of Noah?
"There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them" (Genesis 6:4).
Few passages...
When did "Sue", the Huge T-Rex, Live and Die?
Several years ago the skeleton of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex was found in South Dakota. Dubbed "Sue," it eventually found its way to the Chicago Field Museum of Natural...
How Long Does It Take for a Canyon to Form?
ICR has long had a deep interest in magnificent Grand Canyon. This awesome wonder of the natural world, we believe, bears eloquent testimony to the great flood of Noah's day.
Visitors to Grand...
What about Stem Cell Research?
"The preacher sought to find out acceptable words:
and that which was written was upright, even words of truth." (Ecclesiastes 12:10)
Stem cell research and utilization is much in the...
Are Human Artifacts Ever Petrified?
"And the light shineth in darkness; and
the darkness comprehended it not." (John 1:5)
Common folklore holds that petrification takes "millions and millions of years."...
Why Does Nearly Every Culture Have a Tradition of a Glo.,.
"Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?" (I Corinthians 1:20)
One of the strongest evidences for...
Hasn't Life Been Created in the Laboratory?
"O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all:
the earth is full of thy riches." (Psalm 104:24)
It's in all the textbooks. Every high school biology student...
Does the Bible Really Claim that Insects Only have Four.,.
After my recent university lecture on scientific creationism, a student referenced a Bible passage in Leviticus regarding insects to imply that the Bible contained errors and that Christianity and creation...
What Grows on Evolution's Tree?
"For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written,
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness." (I Corinthians 3:19)
You see it in every textbook dealing with...
Do We Now Have a New Monkey for an Uncle?
"For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory" (II Corinthians 4:17)
Evolutionists have long thought that man descended...
Can Children Benefit from Creation Thinking?
"Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over Him." (Romans 6:9)Some have misunderstood the ICR ministry. Because of our scientific nature, we've...
Does Genesis Address the Time of Creation, or Just the .,.
"He that planted the ear, shall He not hear? He that
formed the eye, shall He not see?" (Psalm 94:9)
It has become popular among evangelical leaders to hold that God is truly the Creator,...
How Can the Chinese Dynasties Extend Back Many Thousand.,.
"For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen,
being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse"...
What Could the God of Scripture Call Very Good?
"And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above...
Can Raw Energy Create Order?
"Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil
days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say,
I have no pleasure in them." (Ecclesiasties 12:1)
Over...
In What Ways Has God Blessed America?
"LORD, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches" (Psalm 104:24).During this season of national introspection, even as we sing, "God...
Why Can't Geneticists See the Obvious Evidence for Crea.,.
"Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well:
the devils also believe, and tremble." (James 2:19)
Recently geneticists announced that they had successfully read the human DNA...
Can Research Be Done from a Creation Base?
"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" (Isaiah 5:20)
A "Back to Genesis"...
Did Dinosaurs Hunt in Packs?
"Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing, and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. . . . Fear ye not therefore, ye are of
more value than many sparrows." (Matthew...
Does the Creation Worldview Help in Time Of Grief?
"For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the
faith of God without effect?" (Romans 3:3)
Tragedy struck on January 31, 2000, when Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashed into...
What do Americans Believe about Origins, According to t.,.
"By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth." (Psalm 33:6)For decades opinion polls have consistently revealed that a majority of Americans...
How Could Noah Have Built the Ark All by Himself?
". . . the works were finished from the foundation of the world." (Hebrews 4:3)
Some have ridiculed the Flood story by insisting that the job of the Ark's construction was impossibly...
What Would Need to Change for a Dinosaur to Evolve into.,.
"A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree
bring forth good fruit." (Matthew 7:18)
Evolutionists have expended great effort in trying to establish that birds...
Has Evidence For The Flood Been Found In The Black Sea?
In November of 1999, the story hit the newspapers. Evidence for the Flood of Noah's day had been found! Through examination of the sediments in the bottom of the Black Sea, scientists claimed to have discovered...
Is Evolution A Unifying Principle In Science?
The Kansas State School Board entered the world stage August 11, 1999, when they rejected science teaching guidelines proposed by a group of scientists and science educators, especially the sections...
Where Was the Garden of Eden Located?
Over the years, many have claimed the Garden of Eden has been found. Of course the location of each "discovery" is in a different location. The Bible describes the area around the Garden in...
What Really Happened On The Kansas School Board?
It's now common knowledge that on August 11, 1999, the Kansas Board of Education (KBOE) voted to de-emphasize evolution in Kansas public school science classes. Unfortunately, what we think we know as...
What Happened to Land Plants During the Flood?
The Bible explicitly teaches that the great Flood covered the entire globe. Its primary purpose was to judge the sinful civilization of Noah's day (Genesis 6:7), but this judgment extended to the...
Why Is Creation Politically Incorrect?
Before I came to work at ICR in 1984, I was on the faculty of the University of Oklahoma. There were other Christians on the faculty, but few openly identified with Christ or Christian thinking in a...
Does Convincing Evidence for Evolution Exist?
Before answering this question, let me define the term "evolution" as I will be using it, lest I be misunderstood. Darwin used the term on a grand scale, and so will I. His concept of evolution...
Should Apes Be Given Human Rights?
Many find it incredulous that a well-organized movement exists which is currently demanding that chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans be included in a "community of equals" with humans. But,...
Could Evolution And Creation Be Telling The Same Story .,.
Often those who call themselves "theistic evolutionists," who claim that evolution was the method God used to create, offer the platitude that the order of creation given in Genesis is the...
What Can Be Done To Help Endangered Species?
It seems like every time we turn around these days, we're bombarded with the news of another endangered species. From the tiny snail darter to the beautiful spotted owl, the "rights" of...
What About The Peppered Moth?
Perhaps the classic "proof" of evolution has been the observed color shift in the population of England's peppered moths. Pictures of dark and light peppered moths on various tree trunks have...
Why Do Seminary Professors Entertain Old Earth Ideas?
There is a trend in modern Christendom for Bible scholars to accommodate old-earth thinking and accept it as true. The "millions and billions of years" scenario has become the "politically...
Can Science Prove The Bible?
The Institute for Creation Research is known as a scientific research "think tank," with numerous scientists conducting scientific research dealing with aspects of the broad origins question.
But...
Is There A Need For Creationist Research?
Many self-proclaimed "skeptics" have charged creationists with the bogus claim that we are not interested in new information, our minds are already made up. Many Christians also wonder if...
Do Back Problems In Humans Prove Evolution From Animals?
Four-legged animals have at least as many back problems as humans. Think of the race horse with back-related lameness, or the Dachshund with a slipped disk. Any veterinarian will tell of the multitude...
Whose Values Are Family Values?
There is much talk of family values these days. Politicians of all stripes claim to be for "family values." But upon inspection, their lives are characterized by divorce and adultery, their...
Do Bacteria Evolve Resistance to Antibiotics?
Often the claim is made in biology classes that evolution has been observed in certain microbes—germs that over time have developed a resistance to antibiotics. For instance, penicillin is generally...
Do Creationists Believe In Natural Law?
Years ago, students were taught that the definition of science is "the search for truth." But things seldom stay the same. In recent years, some scientists have tried to equate science with...
How Does Old Earth Thinking Affect One's View of Script.,.
It has become fashionable among Christian intellectuals to discredit the Scriptural teaching of recent creation. Many who remain orthodox and evangelical in every other way, feel that to maintain a...
Doesn't Carbon Dating Prove the Earth Is Old?
Perhaps no concept in science is as misunderstood as "carbon dating." Almost everyone thinks carbon dating speaks of millions or billions of years. But, carbon dating can't be used to...
Are Schools Teaching Evolution Well Enough?
No doubt you saw them. Right around mid-April many major newspapers carried (coordinated?) articles and/or editorials deploring the supposed fact that "the teaching of evolution in schools is being...
Did God Create The Earth In Its Present Conditions?
In the modern land of Israel, many truly wonderful sights are on display. The coastal plain, the hill country, and the interior valleys all present striking, never-to-be-forgotten vistas. Geologic wonders...
What Part Does The Flood Of Noah's Day Play In Creation.,.
Many students of the creation movement have noted that the publication of The Genesis Flood by John Whitcomb and Henry Morris (1961), was used by God to catalyze the modern revival of creation thinking....
Is the God of Theistic Evolution the Same as the God of.,.
Most Christians are uncomfortable with purely naturalistic evolution. The solution for many Christians has been to adopt theistic evolution, which is based on the idea that the God of the Bible employed...
How Did Creation Fare On PBS' Firing Line?
The December 19, 1997, program of "Firing Line" was billed as a creation/evolution free-for-all. Creationists nationwide anticipated a resounding victory in the panel discussion/debate.And why...
Do People Really Believe In Evolution?
Strange as it may seem, the answer to this question is surprisingly complex. Most students "believe" in evolution—that's the only view they've ever been exposed to. Most adults also "believe"...
Where Is Cloning Taking Us?
In July of 1996, the world was shocked and amazed when the cloned sheep "Dolly" was introduced. Up until that time, most of the cloning successes had been with amphibians, but Dolly is a mammal....
Does Science Conflict with the Bible?
How often have you tried to witness to someone only to be rebuffed by an inappropriate view of science as having disproved the Bible? "Evolution is true, the earth is billions of years old. Science...
Did The African Eve Leave Footprints?
There are two popular theories regarding the evolutionary origin of man among evolutionists. One supposes that the Homo erectus type evolved simultaneously in several areas, eventually becoming modern...
Is Neanderthal In Our Family Tree?
The first Neanderthal bones were unearthed in 1856 and were soon touted as supporting Darwin's 1859 theory of human descent from the animals. And ever since, Neanderthals have been presented as...
Can Radioisotope Dating Be Trusted?
For decades creation scientists have shown that the answer to this question is a clear NO! Its results have been shown to be inconsistent, discordant, unreliable, and frequently bizarre in any model. Creationists...
Will 'The Lost World' Ever Be Found?
The recent blockbuster movie, The Lost World (the sequel to Jurassic Park), has captivated the attention of the country. The science fiction thriller weaves a story of extinct dinosaurs cloned back to...
Is the Big Bang Biblical?
The Big Bang model for the origin of the universe certainly does not come from Scripture. No one could, and historically no one ever did, propose such an event as the starting point for creation simply...
If All Animals Were Created As Plant Eaters, Why Do Som.,.
The Bible specifically teaches that in the original "very good" (Genesis 1:31) Earth, all of the animals were to be plant eaters (v.30). It wasn't until after Adam sinned and the curse...
Is It Scientifically Impossible For Miracles To Occur?
The world operates on a daily basis according to natural law, without any supernatural overriding of natural processes. A miracle could thus be something not expected by ordinary processes.
Consider...
Who Or What Made The Laetoli Footprints?
Of all the discoveries thought by evolutionists to support the idea of human evolution, one of the most sensational is the discovery in 1978 of a 75' long trail of crisp footprints. The prints were found...
Is There Water on the Moon?
On December 3, 1996, the announcement was made in newspapers around the world. Spacecraft observations of the moon had led investigators to conclude that a small lake of ice was present near the moon's...
Does It Help To Compromise With Evolution?
On October 23, 1996, Pope John Paul II announced to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences that evolution was "more than a hypothesis," and sanctioned its study and teaching in Catholic circles....
Will Infanticide Follow Abortion As Acceptable Behavior?
Abortion has become firmly entrenched in American society. To many voters on both sides this is the only important issue. Abortion has become almost a "sacrament" to feminists.
Claiming...
What Is The Difference Between Macroevolution And Micro.,.
There is much misinformation about these two words, and yet, understanding them is perhaps the crucial prerequisite for understanding the creation/evolution issue.
Macroevolution refers to major...
Did NASA Find Life In Martian Rocks?
On August 7, NASA announced that it had "found evidence that strongly suggests primitive life may have existed on Mars more than 3.6 billion years ago" (NASA press release).
A meteorite...
How Did Life Originate?
There are several big problems with the concept of evolution, including the origin of man from the apes, the origin of vertebrates from invertebrates, the origin of invertebrates from single-celled...
Did Lungfish Evolve Into Amphibians?
In January 95 of this column, I reviewed the grand opening of the new evolution exhibit, "DNA to Dinosaurs," at the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History. I pointed out many inaccuracies in...
Do Evolutionists And Creationists View The Family Diffe.,.
Evolution and creation, as ideas about origins, deal with the unobserved past. They agree fully on observational science, it's just the ideas about history that differ. But philosophers tell us...
The One True God?
People are bowing down to many gods today, just as they did in the ancient pagan world. It was these idolaters to whom Paul proclaimed, "that there is none other God but one. For though there be...
Should We Expect to Find Transitional Forms in the Foss.,.
A favorite argument of creationists has always been the lack of transitional organisms preserved in the fossil record. The argument goes like this: If one basic type of animal evolved into another basic...
Is There Such A Thing As Creationist Counseling?
Recent decades have seen a plethora of Christian counseling centers and ministries spring up around the country. Now, almost every Christian college or seminary, as well as most large churches, include...
Who Or What Was Australopithicus Ananemsis?
It's hard to keep them straight. First there was the discovery in Africa by Raymond Dart in 1925. of an infant skull. Entitled Australopithicus, this creature was recognized to be fully ape-like, but with...
What Distinguishes Man from Ape?
As one might imagine, different answers to this question come from different "authorities." Obviously, creationists and evolutionists disagree, but major schools of thought vie among evolutionists.
Earlier...
How Long Does It Take for Wood to Petrify?
Folklore has it, as reinforced in classrooms and national parks, that petrified wood takes "millions and millions" of years to form. I've listened as many people have protested the Biblical...
What Are Polystrate Fossils?
The term "polystrate" was coined to describe a fossil which is encased within more than one (poly) layer of rock (strata) thus "polystrate or "many layers." A wonderful story...
Did the Evolutionists Present a Good Case at the Scopes.,.
The 1925 Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, has been deemed the most important trial in American history, but the trial itself was not the only aspect of "The Scopes Extravaganza," for it had...
Is Creation Treated Fairly In The Media?
Answering this question has always been easy. Creation thinking receives very poor treatment, particularly from or in the national media. A possible exception occurred in late May when a two hour PBS special...
What Is The Purpose Of Creation Ministry?
ICR is well known as a creation-science research group, with an additional emphasis in Biblical apologetics. But first and foremost, ICR is a Christian ministry. So what are our goals?
ICR's...
Does Nature Reveal Truth As Clearly As Does The Bible?
To the Bible-believing Christian, this might seem a frivolous question to ask—but not so. A growing number of Christian teachers are returning to the oft discredited "double-revelation theory,"...
Is Creation or Evolution More Empirical?
In order for an opinion about something to be credible, it must adequately explain the existing evidence. This is especially true for ideas about the long ago past.
Let's keep in mind that no...
Is Belief in the Young Earth Necessary to Be a Christian?
At our seminars and in our books, we at the Institute for Creation Research take a strong stand on the young earth. We certainly don't do this to win a popularity contest, for this position is ridiculed...
How Old Is The Earth According To The Bible?
The Institute for Creation Research has always taught, as an integral part of its ministry, the concept of the young earth. We have never put an absolute date on the age of the earth. We feel that the...
If It's In The Museum, Doesn't That Make It Right?
Earlier this year, the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History opened a new exhibit. Entitled "DNA to Dinosaurs," it purported to chronicle the evolution of life from non-living chemicals...
Does 'The Beak Of The Finch' Prove Darwin Was Right?
As the naturalist on the Beagle, Charles Darwin made numerous valuable observations of as yet undiscovered plants and animals. Along the way, the Beagle anchored for an extended stay in the Galapagos Islands,...
Has the Missing Link Been Found?
On September 22, 1994, the news hit the headlines. "New Chimpanzee-size link to humans found in Ethiopian Desert" (USA Today). Similar articles appeared everywhere.
The articles reported...
Are Things Getting Better or Are They Running Down?
One of the very strongest arguments against evolution has always been the tendency for every system, living or dead, individual or societal, moral or mundane, to wear out, deteriorate, or die. As is...
Does The Law Require Public Schools To Teach Evolution .,.
There is much misinformation, or should I say disinformation about this issue. So much so that there is much disparity between legality and reality. Let's take a closer look.We must first acknowledge that...
Can Christian High-School Students Survive Public School?
By now it should be obvious to every parent that the public school system does not exist to deepen the spiritual life of the Christian young person. While many individual teachers and the occasional local...
Does The Geologic Column Prove Evolution?
Probably every textbook in use in America which in any way deals with evolutionary subjects includes a presentation of the "Geologic Column," or the "Geologic Time Scale" as it is...
Grand Canyon: Is It Really 'Exhibit A' For Evolution An.,.
Grand Canyon has a special place in my heart. I have spent a lot of time there, both on research trips and the ICR Grand Canyon Tours. To me, Grand Canyon is a clear testimony to the Biblical flood...
Is the Death Penalty Appropriate Since Man Is Made in &.,.
Recently a reporter from a major international newspaper came to ICR to research a story on the influence of creation thinking on society. At his request, I guided him through the ICR museum. His interest...
Do Peppered Moths Prove Evolution?
Darwin's book Origin of Species, published in 1859, proposed the concept of evolution by purely naturalistic causes, especially natural selection. His idea was that the small variations observed within...
What About The Horse Series?
A sketch showing the supposed evolution of the horse has appeared in nearly every textbook dealing with evolution. Typically, it illustrates a transition from Eohippus (size of a small dog, four toes on...
Do Museums Portray Truth?
As often I am able, I like to visit museums. In the larger ones, there is always something to learn, while often in smaller museums unique exhibits are found, displaying some fascinating local artifact...
Did Jonah Really Get Swallowed by a Whale?
Skeptics ridicule many portions of Scripture and let's face it—some of them are difficult to believe. Certainly one that has received a major dose of such ridicule deals with Jonah and the...
Did the Frozen Mammoths Die in the Flood or in the Ice Age?
We've all heard the stories of how "millions of frozen mammoths are found preserved in Siberia, frozen so quickly their flesh could still be eaten today, complete with sub-tropical vegetation...
What Happened in the "Days of Peleg"?
One of the most interesting passages in Genesis is that found in Genesis 10:25, where it mentions an individual named Peleg, and says, "in his days was the earth divided."The word translated...
Was There Really an Ice Age?
The Ice Age has always been a problem for science. While abundant evidence has been found for continental glaciation, the cause has remained enigmatic. Scores of scenarios have been proposed: global...
Could Dinosaurs Be Cloned?
The blockbuster movie, "Jurassic Park," has captured the nation's fancy this summer, backed by an extensive media campaign. Central to the movie is the idea that mosquitoes,...
Do Park Rangers Tell A Credible Story?
Each year ICR sponsors a tour called "Grand Canyon Adventure." After an opening seminar in Phoenix and "mini-lectures" on the Canyon rim, a number of us joined a regularly scheduled...
Did Dinosaurs Survive the Flood?
The Bible is clear. The ancestors of every animal that ever lived were created during Creation Week. Each basic animal type was created "after his kind" and all subsequent individual animals,...
Is Creation Thinking Useful?
Can you think of one area where evolutionary thinking has ever helped? Does it make our children smarter or keep them off drugs? Does it put meat on the table or men on the moon?"No, in each...
Can Science Go "Back to Genesis"?
We often state that Genesis is foundational to the rest of Scripture, and without a good foundation the rest won't make much sense. Unfortunately, Christians are typically poorly taught in these...
Would the Discovery of Noah's Ark do any Good?
Whether or not they approve of it, almost everyone in America knows of the search for the remains of Noah's Ark. Many books have been printed on the subject, several movies have been produced,...
Why Do Some Babies Show "Animal" Characteristics?
When I was in Moscow a couple of years ago, I lectured to a large group of biology teachers and museum curators at the Museum of Biology in Moscow. After my talk, which was enthusiastically...
Do Muslims Believe in Creation?
In general, Muslims accept both the Old Testament and the Gospels, but feel that in the translation of the Bible over the centuries many errors crept in. Thus a new revelation from God...
Does SETI Have a Chance? Is it Science?
American newspapers have been filled lately with news of the revitalized SETI project (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). After decades of unfruitful searching, NASA has now instituted...
Is Creation One of the Traditional Values?
A lot of talk is swirling around these days about traditional values. Just what are they? To most people, encouragement of the strong, nuclear family, fiscal responsibility, respect for law and...
Can Scientists Study the Past?
Recently I was called for jury duty. The one trial for which I was selected seems trivial enough (except for those involved), but it contained certain intricacies.
It involved a cab driver who...
Has the Big Bang Been Saved?
No doubt you've noticed the recent flurry of newspaper articles and TV interviews which have been proclaiming that the Big Bang theory had finally been proved. An observation by the...
Should a Church Take a Stand On Creation?
Recently my family and I joined a small church plant pastored by a former student of mine at Christian Heritage College—a man of real wisdom and integrity.
A church constitution was being...
Testimonies in "Letters to the President"
The following excerpts are from letters received in recent weeks by ICR President Henry Morris. I believe these testimonies will encourage our supporters as they do us. These are typical of many...
How Could All the Animals Get On Board Noah's Ark?
Not long ago I was interviewed on a "news-talk" radio show. The host was a particularly venomous anti-Christian, with a long history of ridiculing Christianity on his show. Evidently he particularly...
Do Americans Believe in Creation?
We've all heard it—the constant haranguing from educators and the media that only the lunatic "fundamentalist" fringe in America still believes in creation. To hear them talk,...
Why Don't We Find More Human Fossils?
The fossil record abounds with the remains of past life. If the creationist interpretation of the fossil record is basically correct, most of the fossils were deposited during the Flood of Noah's...
Is Creationist Ministry Effective?
The recent "Back-to-Genesis" conference in Corvallis, Oregon brought a special surprise to both Ken Ham and myself, for it brought us back into contact with an old friend. One of the leaders...
Is There Geological Evidence for the Young Earth?
Undoubtedly, the concept of a young earth poses a stumbling block to many Christians. Many do not find it hard to reject evolution, particularly with the fossil record showing distinct categories of...
Was Mankind Created to Do Work?
In our modern work-a-day world, we may be tempted to wonder what things would have been like in Eden. Did Adam and Eve have a life of luxury, simply wandering from tree to herb to tree again, selecting...
Are Plants Alive?
One of the errors most frequently made today, even by Bible-believing Christians, is to try to understand the creation period and processes in terms of today's processes and our own experiences....
Does Scripture Require a Global Flood?
Up until fairly modern times, people in western countries have basically believed that the Bible was God's Word, and, by and large, believed what it said.
This was certainly true for views of...
Why Should a Christian Believe in Creation?
The Institute for Creation Research is a multi-faceted organization. ICR conducts meetings for university students as well as pre-schoolers. We do scientific research and speak in churches. Our goal...
How Do Creation/Evolution Debates Affect People?
The creation/evolution debates have become a most popular and visible activity. Since the very first, they have usually been very well attended and have precipitated much controversy in the community....
How Can a Geology Professor Believe that the Earth Is Young?
While nearly all geology professors on the university level accept the concept of the ancient age for the earth, I hold the young-earth position, and do so without compromise, for several reasons:
First,...
Should the Public Schools Teach Creation?
Many today claim that only evolution should be taught in the public, tax-supported schools of our land. Let us look at their reasoning and formulate a response.
The basic assumption of modern evolutionary...
Did Jesus Believe in Creation?
In Christ's day, the prevailing philosophy on origins included evolution and long ages of earth history. Their view, of course, was not Darwinian evolution, but it held that the earth and the...
Can Scientists Study the Past?
Creationists and evolutionists agree on real science…that is, the nature of the present world and how it operates. What we disagree on are our speculations about the past. "What happened in the...
Is Creationism a Missionary Effort?
The decade of the 1990's holds great promise for the spread of Christianity in previously closed countries. The dramatic call from Eastern Europe for Bibles and other Christian literature, as well...
Who Was the Babe in the Manger?
During the Christmas season, we focus on the blessed fact that Jesus left His home in Heaven to come to earth as a Babe born in a lowly stable into a human family of modest means. But only an extensive...
What Can We Do About the Public Schools?
For those of us who attended public schools some years ago, it is often difficult to believe the shocking tales we hear about the decadence, drugs, inferior teaching, etc., that seems to reign there...
Did God Create with Appearance of Age?
Simply stated, the idea of "creation with appearance of age" means that when God created, those things which He created might superficially have looked as if they had a history. When Adam...
Why Do We Marry?
To many, marriage seems to be a logical and beneficial life-style. To the Christian, marriage is usually held in high regard. What could be more beautiful than for a godly man and woman to commit to one...
How Could Fish Survive Noah's Flood?
As a creationist geologist, I enjoy speculating about Noah's Flood and its geologic results. If such a flood took place, it would have laid down multiple layers of mud full of the remains of plants...
Is There A Conspiracy Against Creationism?
In the past few weeks, I was able to read Frank Peretti's best-selling Christian novel, This Present Darkness. The supposed fictional account of an entire town, including a local college, most...
What is the Connection Between Homosexuality and Evolution?
Just last week I participated in a news conference with other Christian leaders in Southern California, announcing a strategy to overturn a recent "Human Dignity Ordinance" passed by the San...
Evolution, the New Age, and Your Child's Education
I wonder how many Christian parents and teachers are aware of the subtle way in which young minds, and in many cases older minds, are being programmed away from truth and Christian values. For...
Did a Watchmaker Make the Watch?
In the early 1800s, William Paley published a carefully argued paper entitled "Natural Theology," which developed a convincing case for the necessity of a Designer to produce the intricate...
Does Scripture Allow a Gap?
The so-called Gap Theory proposed early in the 1800's, but which became popular around the turn of the century, has very few scholarly advocates these days. However, many Christians do still hold...
Are We Being Salt?
At the beginning of a new decade, wise Christian men and women should look back and evaluate their activities during the past years, to see if their lives and ministries had been all they could have been,...
Was Lucy An Ape-man?
"Lucy," consisting of a skeleton forty percent complete, was discovered in Ethiopia by Donald Johanson in 1974, and was dated at 3.2 million years of age. He calculated her to have stood about 3'6" tall,...
When Did the Fossils Die?
Beginning in the early 1800's, Christian leaders began to be perplexed by the fossils. Their problem stemmed from the facts that: 1) fossils appear to be the remains of once living plants...
Do The Difficult Questions Have Answers?
Throughout the years, questions have been raised regarding the Christian faith, which have caused many to stumble, or even abandon the faith altogether. Some seem rather simple, while others are difficult....
Does the Human Embryo Go through Animal Stages?
Picture this scene: A young, pregnant girl is taken into the counseling room at an abortion clinic. Understandably frightened, confused, and vulnerable, she only knows she didn't mean to get pregnant,...
Has Noah's Ark Been Discovered?
When God wrote the Biblical record, He chose not to give all the scientific and historical details. The best we can do is to hold tightly to the specifics it does give, and interpret the scientific...
Is There Evidence Against Evolution?
The biggest problem for evolutionists is the origin of life from non-life. Even the simplest single-celled organism is unthinkably complex, with scores of highly-sophisticated parts, all performing...
How Do The Dinosaurs Fit In?
When first exposed to the creation model of earth history, Christians and non-Christians alike usually ask the same question: "What about the dinosaurs?" It seems that decades of evolutionary...
Where Do The Anti-Creationists Come From?
After a recent, televised, creation/evolution debate with a well-known evolutionist, a scientist who has written several particularly venomous articles against Christianity in the journal, American...
Did Noah's Flood Cover the Whole Earth?
Not too long ago, a scientist who claims to believe the Bible and calls himself a creationist, came to ICR to confront us with our error of teaching a recent creation. He held to a 5-billion year-old...
Where Did the Races Come From?
Waiting in airports and long airplane rides have become a way of life for the ICR staff scientist. Imagine my appreciation when two black servicemen engaged me in a delightful conversation about creation...
How Do I Know There Really Is a God?
The other night at bedtime, after we had read a Bible story and prayed, my oldest daughter, Chara, aged 8, fired a series of questions at me which came from her innermost being. "How do I know...