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The sun is having hot flashes again. NASA reported that on June 7 a "dramatic solar flare" was flung out into space.1 Such flares release particles that can collide with earth's atmosphere and...
San Angelo Biologist Suggests Children Don't Need All V.,.
Members of the Institute for Creation Research staff recently gave a series of presentations and workshops at the Concho Valley Homeschool Conference in San Angelo, Texas, presenting the young-earth creation...
Out of Place Marine Fossil Disrupts Evolutionary Index
A Cambrian rock layer is considered to be "Cambrian" because of the particular fossils it contains. But what does it mean when a rock layer designated as "Ordovician" contains distinctly Cambrian fossils?...
The Cost of Adaptations Limits Evolution
Living forms supposedly evolved by adapting to environmental challenges. It is generally assumed that they did this by gradually acquiring the needed genetic mutations until brand new features arose and...
New Sky Map Shows Big Bang Even More Unlikely
Few questions hold more intrigue than that of how the universe began. Although the Bible provides a written account of this obviously miraculous event, some reject it and try to explain the origin of the...
Young Blue Stars Found in Milky Way
The Hubble Space Telescope, which had been programmed to search for planets, has found 42 "oddball" blue stars in the Milky Way galaxy. These stars burn so brightly that they consume their fuel much faster...
More Proof That Dinosaurs Lived with 'Later' Creatures
According to evolution, dinosaurs lived during an age when birds and non-reptile land creatures were either present in just a few "primitive" forms or not at all. But a recent National Geographic...
Louisiana Academic Freedom Challenge Deferred
A Louisiana state senate bill was introduced in April of this year in an effort to repeal the Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA), which went into law in 2008 to protect teachers if they introduce material...
Harold Camping, Rob Bell, and the Search for the Histor.,.
Is it true that Adam and Eve are merely fictional characters in a divine opera found in the opening pages of Genesis? That's what the June 2011 cover story in Christianity Today is suggesting, quoting...
Humans Were Made for Walking
Various scientific studies have examined the mechanics of human locomotion. It looks as though mankind was made with an extremely efficient walking "gear." Can evolution be legitimately credited with the...
Genetics Analysis of Jews Confirms Genesis
A team of geneticists recently analyzed 6,529 individual genomes, representing 107 different human populations.1 They found genetic traces of African ancestry in various people groups and estimated...
Genetic Stop Sign Halts Evolutionary Explanations
Fruit flies, the subject of over a century of intense investigation, have not ceased yielding secrets. In a study published in 1980, core fruit fly genes were altered, one by one, and the resulting plethora...
Scan of Amber-Trapped Spider Shows Recent Origin
A piece of oxygen-darkened amber was said to hold a particular arachnid, but it wasn't clearly visible. Scientists made a surprising discovery when a computed tomography scan was able to produce a finely...
Embryonic Tissue Development Needs More than Just DNA
For many creatures, embryonic development involves the amazing unfolding of a single cell into an animal with billions of cells, each with a specific structure and function. How does a small ball of identical...
Self-Cloning Lizards Fit for Survival
More than 80 varieties of fish, amphibian, and reptile mothers are able to lay eggs that have not been fertilized and yet produce offspring. In a process called "parthenogenesis," these eggs...
'Old' Galaxy Found in 'Young' Part of the Universe
Because of the amount of time it takes distant light to reach earth, the farther away an object is, the further back in time it appears to be. Thus, peering through a telescope is like peering into the...
Despite 'Magma Ocean' Discovery, Io's Volcanic Heat Rem.,.
Jupiter's moon Io may have a very short name, but it definitely has the highest volcanic activity of any object in the solar system. Littered with volcanoes, its unique surface sports a massive active...
BioLogos Leader Giberson Resigns
The theistic evolutionary think tank BioLogos has announced that Executive Vice President Karl Giberson recently resigned his post. In a May 16 article, BioLogos president Darrel Falk confirmed Giberson's...
Evolutionary Leftovers in DNA? Not So, Says New Study.
Francis Collins and Karl Giberson, prominent participants of the BioLogos Forum, have suggested that Christians should believe in evolution because it has been confirmed by science. They relied on a category...
T. rex Toddler Answers Noah's Ark Questions
In 2006, the fossil of a juvenile Tyrannosaurus-like dinosaur named Tarbosaurus was collected from the Gobi Desert. Investigators examined the fossil in detail this year and estimated that the creature...
Cellular Circuit Boards Circumvent Evolutionary Causes
The human body has trillions of cells, each one equipped with about a billion molecules. The cells must interact constantly through countless chemical reactions in order for the body to survive and function....
'Living Fossil' Horsetails Confirm Creation
Horsetail plants inhabit the margins of ponds, where they take root below the water's surface and grow out into the air. Where did these unique plants come from? Evolutionists assert that they evolved...
Carbon Dating of '70 Million Year Old' Mosasaur Soft Ti.,.
Over the past three years, ICR News has featured over 20 cases of original soft tissues found in fossilized remains around the world.1 Since tissues like skin and cartilage are known to spontaneously...
Green River Formation Fossil Has Original Soft Tissue
The Green River Formation, a sedimentary feature of Wyoming and northern Colorado, is widely recognized for its high quality fossils of fish and other creatures. It has been dated at 40 million years...
Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria Did Not Evolve
Certain classes of antibiotics can no longer eliminate a resistant strain of common skin-covering bacteria. This new strain can now cause infections as it grows amidst the non-resistant strains that are...
SETI Funding Linked to Belief in Evolution
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, or SETI, was founded in 1984 to detect signals from faraway alien beings. The National Science Foundation and the State of California are among SETI's...
Hi-Tech Eye Design in a Lowly Mollusk
Human eyes are well-designed to see objects using light transmitted through air, but not through water, because light travels at a different speed through the two media. However, intertidal-dwelling marine...
New Galaxy Model Leaves Old Questions Unanswered
According to evolutionary astronomers, the arching "arms" that protrude from spiraling galaxies are supposedly 10 billion years old.1 But because the inside stars rotate faster...
ICR Launches Online Apologetics Degree
For more than 40 years, the Institute for Creation Research has been the leader in scientific research, education, and media from a biblical creation point of view. Holding Scripture as sacred and...
Can Evolution Hurdle the 'Mutation Protection Paradox'?
A new study published in The Open Evolution Journal described a paradox that particles-to-people evolution has failed to resolve. Called the "mutation protection paradox," it could be an intractable problem...
Insect Fossil Flies in the Face of Gradual Evolution
Never before had the fossil of a flying insect been discovered in Carboniferous rocks, which are said to be over 300 million years old. But now, amazing impressions have been found in "sandstone with thin...
Jurassic Spider: What's in a Name?
A massive fossilized spider has set a new size record. It looks like today's golden orb-weavers, which are large enough to dine on small birds. This discovery, in conjunction with similar ones, presents...
'Demon Reptile' Is Not a Missing Link
The skull of a previously unknown dinosaur with interesting teeth and a unique head shape was uncovered in Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. The technical description that appeared in the journal Proceedings of...
Did Flower Study Catch Evolution in the Act?
When two species of daisy are crossed, the resulting daisies should look a little like each parent…right?
That's not what researchers recently discovered in a new study published in Current Biology....
Historic 'Primordial Soup' Study Yields New Data, But N.,.
When Stanley Miller passed away in 2007, his vials from the famous Miller-Urey origin of life experiments went to marine chemist Jeffrey Bada. Newer, more sensitive techniques were used on the old residue...
Fruit Fly DNA Not as Well Known as Scientists Thought
The world of biology was stunned when ENCODE, a massive consortium of researchers, announced in 2007 that it had found virtually no inactive "junk DNA" in the one percent of the human genome that it intensively...
Shark Jaw Opens Questions about Coal Formation
While bolting the roof of a coal mine in western Kentucky, miner Jay Wright found an 18-inch-long fragment of a fossil shark jawbone with teeth still attached. The local National Public Radio affiliate...
Duplicated Plant Genes Don't Solve Darwin's 'Abominable.,.
According to evolutionary history, all the great varieties of flowering plant kinds descended from the first flowering plant, which itself was a descendant of a non-flowering plant. So somehow, genes containing...
Chameleon Tongue Inspires Robotic Design
The chameleon is a special lizard with a unique mode of hunting—a projectile tongue that can extend twice its body length to latch on to prey. Although this creature's spring-loaded feeding...
Dinosaur Fossil 'Wasn't Supposed to Be There'
Workers with the Canadian energy company Suncor unearthed ankylosaur remains while mining oil sands near Fort McMurray in Alberta. The carcass of the four-legged land creature was not flattened, as is...
Algae Invaders Actually Benefit Their Salamander Hosts
Algal cells and cell parts are known to live inside the cells of an array of sea creatures, including certain sea slugs and jellyfish.1 Over 100 years ago, algae were found in association with...
Bill Questioning Evolution Passes in Tennessee House
Tennessee's House of Representatives has passed an academic freedom measure that would allow teachers in public science classrooms to present the strengths and weaknesses of controversial issues, such...
New Images Show Far Side of the Moon Looks Young
NASA recently released the most detailed images yet of the "far" side of the moon, or the side that faces away from earth.1 The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter took thousands of images that were...
Chinese Dinosaurs Were Fossilized by Flood
Teeth and fossil bone fragments from a meat-eating T. rex-like dinosaur were discovered in a Chinese dinosaur bone bed. The remains indicate that the creature measured over 30 feet from nose to tail.1...
Utah Dinosaur Petroglyph Disputed
Underneath a spectacular rock formation in Natural Bridges National Monument in Utah is a rock carving that resembles a sauropod dinosaur. The petroglyph has been presented as evidence supporting the biblical...
Does Thinking of Death Make Intelligent Design More App.,.
Discovery News reported on recent research that suggested people who believe in intelligent design theory (IDT) and reject evolutionary theory (ET) as an explanation for the origins of life do so not necessarily...
North America's Oldest Inhabitants Found in Texas
Museums with illustrations of early North American human inhabitants often assert that the first peoples on the continent were the Clovis natives who lived during the Ice Age. But a handful of archaeological...
Why Is 'Pseudogene' the Same in Chimps and Humans?
What does it mean when two different species have the same "break points" in a supposedly broken gene? Does it suggest that God created them with similar features, or does it show that the two species...
Japan's Earthquake Altered the Length of a Day
Japan's disastrous March 11 earthquake has had a lasting geologic impact on the earth. Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology preliminarily found that it moved the planet's rotation axis...
Promoting Christ-centered Home Education
Bible-believing parents who choose to homeschool their children do so for a number of important reasons, but many, if not most, choose this path in order to safeguard the godly upbringing of their children....
Bill Would Prevent Texas Colleges from Discriminating a.,.
A bill recently introduced to the Texas House of Representatives would protect faculty and students at public colleges in the state from discrimination for holding views antithetical to Darwinian evolution.
The...
'Oldest Fossils' Are Just Naturally Occurring Minerals
Scientists have been going back and forth over whether certain microscopic features in very old rocks were caused by lifeless minerals or living bacteria. Because of where these rocks are situated in the...
Does Japan Earthquake Signal the End Times?
The effects of the Japan earthquake of March 11, 2011, broadcasted on television made it one of the most terrifying natural events ever displayed in near real time. Several large earthquakes have occurred...
A Time to Keep Silent, and a Time to Speak
One of the most defining and demanding statements that our Lord Jesus made about Himself remains an inescapable truth to this day:
"I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father,...
Has the Lost City of Atlantis Been Found?
"I think we've found the best candidate for what was the beginnings of civilization," said University of Hartford in Connecticut archaeologist Richard Freund on local NBC television news.1...
Japan Tsunami Demonstrates Destructive Power of Water
The March 11 offshore 9.0-scale earthquake pushed a massive surge of water over Japan that decimated large areas of its coast and killed thousands of inhabitants. The human toll is not yet fully known,...
Heat of Saturn Moon Far Surpasses Long-age Expectations
Enceladus, a small moon that orbits in the E-ring of the planet Saturn, has provided a number of surprising astronomical discoveries in recent years. A new report shows it once again defying expectations....
Latest 'Life from Outer Space' Claim Is Shot Down
Has alien life really been found on a meteorite?
A recent title in Nature News provides a succinct answer: "The aliens haven't landed."1 The article offered a sweeping refutation of NASA scientist...
'Periodic Table for Flies' Is Guesswork, Not Science
Researchers have constructed a new evolutionary tree for flies that purports to show which types of fly likely evolved into other types. Researchers call this map the "new periodic table for flies."1...
Galactic Cluster Found Far Out of Place
If complicated living things arose through eons of evolution, and if lower rock layers represent the earth long ago before those eons occurred, then complicated life forms should only exist near the top―after...
Chambered Nautilus Study Offers Clue to Ammonite Extinction
The chambered nautilus, also known as the pearly nautilus, is a mollusk with a beautiful, symmetrical shell that is divided into buoyancy-controlling chambers. Few of these amazing sea creatures remain,...
Academic Freedom Up for Vote in Home of Scopes
Tennessee…home of the legendary Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925…will be voting on legislation that evolutionists lament will "force creationism" into public science classrooms.
House Bill 368...
Conference Concludes Origin of Life Research Is at a St.,.
Where did the first living cell come from? According to The Independent, Charles Darwin "was flummoxed by the ultimate mystery of mysteries: what led to the origin of life itself?"1
Since Darwin's...
Bill Nye the Evolution Guy
"The main idea in all of biology is evolution," Bill Nye recently told Popular Mechanics.1 He was responding to the results of a Penn State survey of U.S. high school biology teachers, only...
Survey Results: Evolution Weak in Public Schools Despit.,.
Pennsylvania State University political scientists recently published a report in the journal Science titled "Defeating Creationism in the Courtroom, But Not in the Classroom."
They cited the 2005 Kitzmiller...
Human Hand Capabilities Impossible to Duplicate
The human hand is undeniably a work of wonder. Its layout and suite of design features enable mankind―the only possessors of this particular arrangement of bones, tendons, muscles, and nerves―to...
Fish Designed to Tolerate Poison
Biologists recently discovered how tomcod…a smaller variation of cod…have thrived in the polluted waters of the Hudson River. The reports on their research are soaked in evolutionary jargon,...
Test Scores Suggest American Students Struggle to Think.,.
A report issued earlier this year by the U.S. Department of Education found that American students struggle with science.
The DOE sampled approximately 318,000 fourth, eighth, and twelfth graders from...
Flower 'Evolves' in the Wrong Direction
Just one genus of flowering plant, Veronica, includes over 450 different species. They share similarities with other flower genera, some of which have radially symmetrical flowers and others with bilaterally...
Shared Genes Undercut Evolutionary Tree
Darwinian evolution asserts that a single original organism morphed over countless generations into the modern known life forms. Each species alive today would therefore represent the tip of its own "branch"...
Study Shows Humans Are Uniquely Designed for Music
Unlike other creatures, humans can compose, record, and enjoy music. A new study has identified a brain chemical that provides pleasure when people listen to certain music. Where did this amazing ability...
Woodpecker Inspires Designers, Knocks Evolution
When boring into wood in search of food, a woodpecker exerts so much force with each strike that its beak should crumble, its skull should crack, and its brain should be reduced to mush. However, a...
Paleozoic Scorpion Exoskeleton Gainsays Assigned Age
Among land-dwelling arthropods, the sheer number of just ants and beetles that live and die each year is phenomenal. And ocean krill exist in even higher numbers. Each of these creatures leaves behind...
Human Foot Bone Misidentified as Lucy's
For years, museum displays have featured the small extinct ape Australopithecus afarensis. The first specimen, discovered in 1974 and nicknamed "Lucy," was presented as having clearly human eyes, feet,...
Repeat DNA Function Negates Classic Evolutionary Argument
Certain repetitive DNA sequences have long been viewed as "confirmation" of evolution. Since they are not genes that code for proteins, they were considered to be unnecessary. Therefore, they were supposedly...
New Direct Fossil Dating Technique Promises to Fail
Three geologists have reported what they called the first "successful" direct dating of dinosaur bone. Will this new radioisotope dating (or radiodating) technique solve the problems that plagued older...
Scientists Try to Duplicate Clam Glue and Bacterial Biofilm
Many clams glue themselves onto a solid surface like a rock or coral reef to keep from being tossed about by the surf. The "glue" sets when wet and is extremely strong, partly because tiny...
Can Scientists Now Directly Date Fossils?
A trio of geologists has published what they called the first successful direct dating of dinosaur bone. They used a new laser technique to measure radioisotopes in the bone, yielding an age of millions...
'Simple' Amoebas Can Farm Bacteria
Not long ago, scientists discovered that what they thought was a spore-bearing fungal slime mold was actually a temporary congregation of forest-floor, single-cell amoebas. This presented evolutionists...
Bone-eating Worms Show Fossils Formed Fast
Marine biologists made a surprising discovery in 2002 when they found a unique species of worm that devours the bones of whale carcasses on the ocean floor. Ongoing research conducted off the coast of...
Life Thrives amid Chernobyl's Leftover Radiation
Twenty-five years ago, the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl in northern Ukraine melted down in a radiation-spewing catastrophe. The reactor was capped with tons of concrete and a wide surrounding area called...
Has Salt-Trapped Bacteria Been Living on Algae for Mill.,.
Scientists have believed that certain salt deposits are millions of years old. Live bacteria found within the deposits, however, are calling those age assignments into question. A new theory has been offered...
50-Year Study Shows Coral 'Clocks' Unreliable
Some biologists like to say that massive coral reefs represent more than 100,000 years of growth, supposedly nullifying the Bible's account of a world that is only thousands of years old. However, many...
Could Wooly Mammoths Be Brought Back?
Japanese scientists are hoping to clone a mammoth and effectively bring an extinct animal variety back to life. Such a feat would involve recovering high-quality DNA from the frozen tissue of a mammoth...
'Evolution' Advertisement Refutes Evolution Metaphor
On a Dallas highway near the Institute for Creation Research offices, a billboard advertising a new computer reads, "The laptop has just evolved." Likely, the statement is not meant to be taken...
Fossil Discovery Reshuffles Dino Evolution Again
A newly discovered dinosaur has forced another re-write of the evolutionary dinosaur origins story. The tiny Eodromaeus skeleton unearthed in South America "boots out" the previously designated dinosaur...
Exoplanet Discoveries Demolish Planet Formation Theories
How do planets form? This question has been asked by philosophical naturalists for decades, but the more they learn about planets near and far, the less their nature-only theories fit what is observed....
'Cavemen' Diet Was Far from Primitive
Countless schoolchildren have been told that they evolved from cavemen who wore no clothes, communicated in grunts, and were primitive hunters. But many of their teachers can't answer the question "how...
Ancient Winery Found Near Mount Ararat
A research team recently discovered an ancient winepress very near Mount Ararat, the historically held resting place for Noah's Ark. Could this site be related to the winery Noah founded in Genesis 9?
According...
Animal Play Continues to Evade Evolutionary Explanation
According to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, an organism's behavior is supposedly motivated by the biological imperative of survival. How, then, can it explain traits that are irrelevant to survival—such...
Brain's Complexity 'Is Beyond Anything Imagined'
The brain has for a long time been compared to man-made computers in its astounding ability to process, store, and route information. But a new imaging technique has revealed that just one brain's connections...
Ancient Teeth Overturn Human Evolution
The evolutionary age assignment for mankind just doubled, according to new research. Teeth were discovered in an Israeli cave in a context of unprecedented age for human remains. This evidence refutes...
ID Smear 'Presents No New Arguments'
The late 20th century saw the development of what has come to be known as the Intelligent Design movement, which holds that certain features of the universe and living creatures are best explained by an...
Mummified Forest Highlights Post-Flood Ice Age
Scientists found a mummified forest in 2010 on northern Canada's Ellesmere Island. It had apparently been buried by a landslide long ago and was exposed by receding ice and glaciers. How those trees...
Origins Breakthroughs of 2010: Cell Biology and Genomics
Every year brings new scientific discoveries that shed light on the past. The Institute for Creation Research is dedicated to the study of origins from a biblical perspective, and ICR News has compiled...
Origins Breakthroughs of 2010: Astronomy
Every year brings new scientific discoveries that shed light on the past. The Institute for Creation Research is dedicated to the study of origins from a biblical perspective, and ICR News has compiled...
Origins Breakthroughs of 2010: Paleontology
Every year brings new scientific discoveries that shed light on the past. The Institute for Creation Research is dedicated to the study of origins from a biblical perspective, and ICR News has compiled...
Origins Breakthroughs of 2010: Zoology
Every year brings new scientific discoveries that shed light on the past. The Institute for Creation Research is dedicated to the study of origins from a biblical perspective, and ICR News has compiled...
Origins Breakthroughs of 2010: Human Genetics
Every year brings new scientific discoveries that shed light on the past. The Institute for Creation Research is dedicated to the study of origins from a biblical perspective, and ICR News has compiled...
Towers of Hanoi No Match for Puzzle-Solving Ants
A game that has traditionally stumped many people has proven to be no problem for ants. They were even able to find alternate solutions when the old ones were blocked. Scientists are hoping this humble...
Magnetic Field Data Confirm Creation Model
Today, the earth's magnetic field strength is steadily decreasing, but in the past it fluctuated. A recent study of an ancient copper mine in southern Israel indicated just how quickly those fluctuations...
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 origin of life itself."1
Actually,...
'New' Flood Theory Echoes Creation Research
A UK researcher has proposed that fluctuating sea levels several thousand years ago may have displaced Middle Easterners living on land now beneath the Indian Ocean, their settlements flooded by the rising...
The Mysteries of Stunning Soft Tissue Fossil Finds
The controversial soft tissue finds of North Carolina State University paleontologist Mary Schweitzer are gaining renown, and for good reason. She found organic material in fossilized dinosaurs and other...
Hyped Arsenic Bacteria Research 'Should Not Have Been P.,.
NASA recently issued a series of press releases and arranged a press conference to promote research claiming that life was possible in outer space.1, 2 However, the research drew heavy criticism...
Did Electricity-Conducting Bacteria Evolve in the Lab?
What if there were not a fast or effective way to get rid of sewage waste? The world would be a pretty disgusting place.
Thankfully, the earth is equipped with a host of organisms that survive on...
Arsenic-Eating Bacteria: A New Frontier in Life Science?
The six most common elements in living things are carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and phosphorus. Although some have considered the possibility that other elements could serve the same functions...
Parasitic Worms Help Heal Intestines
Some people challenge the existence of the Christian God by asking questions like “If God always has good intentions and is all-powerful, why would He make things like parasitic worms that harm other...
Five Consequences of Having Been Created
Evolutionists have long held that the human body contains “useless” biological structures that are “vestiges” of an evolutionary history of repeated transformations. Recently, North...
New Comet Origins Idea Adds New Problems
Comets continue to confound cosmologists, who often assert that the small celestial bodies came from the “Oort Cloud,” a theoretical group of planetary leftovers that supposedly orbits the...
Does Medical School Need Courses in Evolution?
In a recent issue of the journal The Scientist, University of Florida College of Medicine professor Leonid Moroz lamented the current lack of graduate program courses on the supposed basics of evolutionary...
Anti-God Ads--Money Well Spent?
Like paper cuts from wrapping presents and the sound of small children screaming in the laps of mall Santas, anti-God advertisements seem to have become a Christmas tradition. Their messages range from...
Evolution's 'Best' Examples
If Charles Darwin could see today's best examples of evolution, would he be elated or depressed?
The well-known British naturalist popularized the idea of "natural selection," speculating that...
The Latest 'Explanation' for Design? Pure Luck.
The idea of evolutionary descent with modification holds that all the various kinds of living organisms arose through some natural step-by-step process—a concept that many have believed since Charles...
Where Is the Universe Headed--to Order or Chaos?
Mainstream cosmology holds that the orderliness found throughout the universe came from chaotic beginnings. In this scenario, matter and energy were flung outward and then gradually coalesced into structured...
Louisiana to Vote on Science Textbooks
In 2008, public science education and academic freedom enjoyed a victory with the passing of the Louisiana Science Education Act.1
The act, signed into law by Governor Bobby Jindal, allows...
Eye Optimization in Creation
The more that is known about the human body, the more amazing its construction turns out to be. A recent New York Times article focused on eyeball optimization: "[The] basic building blocks of human...
Mutation Study Contradicts Evolution
Biology textbooks teach that mutations added the high-quality genetic information needed to transmutate a fish into a monkey—even though experiments have shown that mutations merely corrupt the information...
Studies Show Extinct Reptiles Moved with Grace and Ease
"Scientists have struggled for decades to figure out how giant pterosaurs could become airborne and some recent proposals have simply assumed it must have been impossible," according to Michael...
'Remarkably Preserved' Shrimp Is 350 Million Years Old?
Researchers from Ohio University found a shrimp buried in a layer of limestone in Oklahoma. The fossil has been deemed to be the oldest shrimp ever discovered, stretching the purported evolutionary history...
NYU Prof Sides with Matthew, Not Darwin, on Fossil Record
Charles Darwin is widely credited with providing the first proper treatment of "natural selection" in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species. He portrayed it as a natural law with intelligent...
No Fruit Fly Evolution Even after 600 Generations
Many Americans believe that the big-picture story of evolution, as biology professors routinely expound it, is false.1 Basically, they haven't bought into the concept that all life descended...
Genomes Have Remarkable 3-D Organization
Almost every nook and cranny of living cells investigated by scientists has yielded a new level of unforeseen and complicated organization. For example, before it was discovered, who would have suspected...
NASA Photographs Young Comet
Comets have fascinated their viewers throughout human history. Where did they come from? What are they made of? How did they start orbiting the sun? How old are they?
Modern technology is helping to provide...
Purpose-driven Drift: Francis Collins and the Doctrine .,.
Dr. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and recent keynote speaker at ICR's 40th anniversary celebration in Dallas, published an online article on November 9 in which...
New Genomes Project Data Indicate a Young Human Race
In 2008, an extensive international effort was begun to sequence in unprecedented detail over 1,000 representative human genomes from around the world. The results of three preliminary pilot projects were...
Students' Freedom of Speech Speaks Volumes
Generally, a hoard of rebellious schoolchildren is one of the last things anyone wants to encourage. But religious leaders and First Amendment advocates can cheer for some Tennessee students who, despite...
Cache of Amber in India Looks Young
Masses of amber, ranging in size "from sand grains to several centimeters"1 in diameter, have been excavated from coal mines in western India. While scientists are excited by the many...
Naturalist Rejects Natural Selection, Appeals to Chaos
Since its inception, Charles Darwin's story that life evolved in response to environmental pressures has not been supported by what is actually observed in nature. Despite this, it has been universally...
Neandertals Mixed with Humans in China
Neandertal remains are mostly found in European caves. So when Neandertal-like characteristics were discovered among a fossilized jawbone and teeth in South China, it was cause for further investigation....
Bees Solve Math Problems Faster Than Computers
Bees can solve complex mathematical problems that would normally keep computers busy for days, according to a new report from UK researchers.1
Through careful observation, University of London...
How Long Can Cartilage Last?
School children have been told that it takes long ages for a fossil to form and that fossils have been buried under deep rock layers for millions of years. However, increasing discoveries of fossils with...
Study Demonstrates Complex Cells Could Not Evolve from .,.
One mystery that naturalists have yet to solve is how randomly shaped and distributed chemicals were organized, concentrated, and combined into the first living bacterial cell. The next great mystery is...
Ancient Wooden Door Has 'Remarkable' Design
Glimpses of the past can sometimes be unearthed in the most ordinary places. In a dig for an underground parking facility for the Zurich opera house in Switzerland, evidence of ancient human occupation...
Saying Goodbye to Giant Salamanders
Chinese giant salamanders are the largest in the world, with some in recent history growing as long as six feet. Lately, however, this unique amphibian has been driven toward extinction through loss of...
Did Evolutionary 'Tinkering' Produce Diverse Proteins?
The claim that all of today's animals came from one animal-like ancestor long ago seems wildly unreasonable. For this to happen, countless new and perfectly-fitted body parts, along with thousands of precisely...
'Under God' Stands in Texas Pledge
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled on October 13 that the words "under God" that appear in the Texas Pledge of Allegiance are constitutional.
The term was added to the state...
Is Life Forming on Titan?
A team of investigators led by University of Arizona graduate student Sarah Horst has approximated, in a French lab, atmospheric conditions on Saturn's moon Titan. Through a series of experiments, they...
Giant Penguin Feather Poses Problem for Long Ages
Paleontologists at the University of Texas at Austin and other institutions have investigated the fossil of a giant penguin found in Peru. At five feet tall, it would have dwarfed today's largest living...
Another Setback for 'Junk' DNA
Scientists believed and taught for ages that only gene-coding DNA (which is a small fraction of DNA in human and other genomes) was functional. All other DNA was "junk" leftovers from a long...
Study Suggests Atheists Know More Religious Facts than .,.
Recent survey results released by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life suggest that atheists and agnostics know more about religion than evangelicals and Catholics.
"On average, Americans correctly...
Computers Help Show the Mechanics of a Miracle
by Christine Dao and Brian Thomas*
One of the more dramatic incidents in the Old Testament was the exodus of the Children of Israel from Egypt, which included a miraculous crossing of the Red Sea. BBC...
Newfound Planet Is '100 Percent' Sure to Have Life?
A number of factors are required for life to exist--the presence of water, sustainable atmosphere, and appropriate temperature ranges, just to name a few. How many of these requirements should be observed...
What Makes an Attractive Woman Attractive?
Certain items seem to have just the right combination of shapes and colors to have universal aesthetic appeal. For example, few fail to appreciate the glory of a sunset on the beach, and many varieties...
Mars Atmosphere Could Be Young
Astronomers generally believe that Mars was formed billions of years ago. About 96 percent of the Red Planet's atmosphere is composed of carbon dioxide.1 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander...
Teen Finds Lobster Fossil with Original Shell
A "stunning" fossil was discovered by 15-year-old James Dickinson while he was fossil hunting at a beach in southern England. The area where he found it, Lyme Regis, is well known as a "treasure...
Cell Division Defies Evolutionary 'Just-so' Stories
Cell division seems comparatively straightforward when viewed under a microscope. One cell replicates itself and splits into two daughter cells, enabling an organism to develop, grow, and replace cells...
'Water Flea' Study Inadvertently Fits Genesis Mandate
Wild habitats are shrinking as the human population grows. Many wild creatures have increasingly fewer places to live or face deteriorating environments. Finding a method that would detect whether an organism...
Even Bacteria Seem to Follow the Golden Rule
Altruism is a real mystery for those who believe in a world ruled by "survival of the fittest." If perpetuation of one's genes is a biological imperative, why would any creature sacrifice its...
Newfound Kickboxing Dinosaur Has Puzzling History
Some dinosaurs had a "sickle-claw," made famous by the man-hunting Velociraptors in the movie Jurassic Park. Now, paleontologists have described a new dinosaur from Transylvania, Romania, that...
Where Did the Mimic Octopus Get Its Amazing Abilities?
The mimic octopus is, frankly, incredible. It can alter its shape, texture, and color to match poisonous and colorful sea creatures so accurately that it eluded detection by marine biologists for decades....
Hawking Says Universe Created Itself
Stephen Hawking, leading cosmologist and recently retired Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, has co-authored a new book, The Grand Design. In it, he claims that the universe did...
New Tools to Fight Germs...from Frog Skin?
Early in the 20th century, brilliant chemists generated pharmaceuticals in laboratories. But the cost/reward ratio of painstaking lab experiments turned out to be far greater than the cost/reward ratio...
Darwin and SUVs?
What does Charles Darwin have to do with the auto industry? For one Fortune writer, Darwin defines it.
"At its best, the auto industry is Darwinistic, with the new and improved driving out the old...
What Caused the Extinction of Ice Age Animals?
Wooly mammoths, sabre-toothed tigers, and giant cave bears lived alongside man during the Ice Age. But while humans persisted, these big beasts--along with other "megafauna"--became extinct....
Mother of All Humans Lived 6,000 Years Ago
Inside a human cell's mitochondria--the tiny organelles that provide energy--there is a small and unique chromosome. This loop of DNA is passed from mother to child in every generation and provides...
The Sun Alters Radioactive Decay Rates
Many scientists rely on the assumption that radioactive elements decay at constant, undisturbed rates and therefore can be used as reliable clocks to measure the ages of rocks and artifacts. Most estimates...
Why Can't Science Start with the Bible?
A report that looked into a miracle Jesus performed over 2,000 years ago was recently retracted from a medical journal.
Virology Journal had published the article written by Chinese researchers who detailed...
Beetle Larva Bifocals Are Better than Manmade
The eye is an amazing organ. It enables an organism to translate light into electro-chemical impulses that the brain can assemble into "images" of the world around it. Many types of eyes are...
Oil-eating Bacteria Are Cleaning Up Gulf
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has spawned concerns regarding the long-term negative impact on the area's ecology, and especially on local fisheries. These worries are based on the assumption that...
The 'Animal Connection' Points to Creation, not Evolution
What do the oldest European artworks and the domestication of animals have in common? A Penn State University paleoanthropologist suggested that they are evidence of a unique connection with animals that...
New Finds and Possible Fraud Discredit 'Chimp Culture'
Do chimpanzees have their own culture? If so, some researchers would connect their behaviors to aspects of human culture, which they believe supports an evolutionary relationship. But current developments...
Contrary to Expectation, Extinct Sea Monsters Were Expe.,.
Mosasaurs were marine reptiles with large jaws and big teeth. Their fossils have been found on every continent, including Antarctica. They grew longer than 40 feet, and although they had fearsome jaws...
Continents Didn't Drift, They Raced
The theory of plate tectonics explains many earth features, like ocean floor trenches and sediment-free mid-ocean ridges made of hardened magma. The popular theory holds that continents drift slowly across...
'80 Million-Year-Old' Mosasaur Fossil Has Soft Retina a.,.
Mosasaur fossils have been recovered from Late Cretaceous rocks all over the world. Most are just a fossilized tooth or perhaps a loose rib or vertebra. Occasionally, several bones are discovered still...
Tiny Fish Rapidly Adapted to Cold Water. Was It Evolution?
Researchers have found that tiny fish called sticklebacks can adapt rapidly to a decrease in water temperature. This discovery adds to a long and growing list of animal trait variations that happen...
Are Sea Sponges Mostly Human?
Sponges have long been considered one of the "simplest" forms of life. Now an international team of scientists has analyzed sponge DNA and concluded that it shares representative genes associated...
Finch Duets Open Surprising Window on Bird Origins
Humans are in rare company when it comes to singing duets. Humpback whales perform original couples' songs, as do a handful of birds. It was thought that bird duets were just for mating purposes, but a...
DNA Study Offers New Take on Marsupial Migrations
Marsupials are mammals that nurture their young in a special pouch. Their fossils are rare. Few have been discovered in Australia, for example, which is home to several unique marsupials, including kangaroos....
Canadian Philosopher Insists 'We Are All African!'
Philosopher and secular humanist Christopher diCarlo claims that if humans trace their lineages far enough back in time, they will all have an African origin. He has been spreading his "We Are All...
Blob-like Fossil Doesn't Fit Evolution
The blob lives. Or at least, it has been reconstructed in a three-dimensional computer model.
Researchers at Imperial College London cut a fossil into 200 pieces and scanned each piece into a computer...
Did 'Nature' Invent Oxygen-Carrying Systems...Twice?
An animal wouldn't grow larger than an insect without specialized equipment designed to transport oxygen to and carbon dioxide from cells deep inside its body. Fortunately, thousands of different...
Physicist Questions Gravity's Existence
Does gravity exist?
While few would deny that objects attract at-a-distance, some physicists are questioning whether or not this universally observed effect is caused by a stand-alone force called "gravity."...
Embryonic Stem Cells Approved for First Human Trials
Stem cells from adults can be "coaxed" into becoming more specified tissues and used effectively for specific treatments. Stem cells from embryos, however, involve the destruction of a human...
Donkey Gives Birth to 'Zedonk'
For 25 years, donkeys and zebras at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve have shared the same pasture while maintaining separate identities. When a donkey gave birth recently, zookeepers were surprised to see...
How Can Evolution Explain Opposite Genetic Effects?
To produce offspring, males and females contribute specialized reproductive cells called gametes--sperm cells from males and eggs from females. Most genes used to manufacture gametes differ from organism...
Experiment Shows Plant 'Intelligence'
Do plants think? They don't have brains or even neurons. But when scientists shined a light onto a leaf at the bottom of a plant, the entire plant "knew" how to react. Their studies uncovered...
100 Years of Fruit Fly Tests Show No Evolution
July 22, 2010, marked the 100th anniversary of genetic investigations using fruit flies. The first such study appeared in Science in 1910 and described the unexpected appearance of a male fruit fly with...
Blond Baby from Black Parents a Genetic Mystery
A British Nigerian couple--Ben and Angela Ihegboro--is not aware of any fair-skinned ancestors on either side of their families. Yet they gave birth to a blue-eyed, blond-haired, and fair-skinned baby...
How Trustworthy Is Science News?
Humans were not made to be experts in everything.
C. S. Lewis was a master wordsmith, yet biographer Alan Jacobs noted that the Oxford fellow and later Cambridge professor struggled to count change from...
Gene 'Jumps' Serve a Purpose, Study Shows
In the tiny world of the cell, segments of DNA called transposons copy and reinsert themselves into the DNA. They eventually produce large repetitive sequences that have for many years been considered...
Dallas Hospital Thwarts 'Evolving' Bacteria
Methodist Dallas Medical Center in 2009 averted an impending outbreak of dangerously infectious bacteria called Acinetobacter baumannii. Although less prevalent than MRSA, Acinetobacter has acquired a...
Stupidity Evolved?
For such an intelligent species, humans can sure be stupid.
The economic crisis, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the aftermath of a host of other disasters currently plaguing the world can all...
Breakthrough Shows Protein's 'Elegant' Eggshell Construction
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Since there could be neither a chicken nor an egg without each already existing in a fully functional state, they both had to have been put in place at the same...
Billion-Dollar Space Image Is Open to Interpretation
After a year of image capturing, many years of planning, and a billion dollars of research spending, the European Space Agency's Planck satellite telescope has produced the first ever image of the entire...
Highlander Tibetans Show Adaptation, Not 'Natural Selection'
Some Tibetans live at altitudes of 14,000 feet. Other than a few genetic differences, they are similar to Han Chinese, who live much closer to sea level. It is believed that ancient Han peoples migrated...
New Evidence Shows Duck-like Birds Lived at Same Time a.,.
People don't generally picture ducks as having lived alongside dinosaurs. After all, it is widely assumed that birds evolved from dinosaurs over a period of millions of years. But fossils discovered...
Canadian 'Mega' Dinosaur Bonebed Formed by Watery Catas.,.
Canadian scientists have found a massive dinosaur fossil graveyard in Alberta containing so many bones that it calls into question the standard stories of slow and gradual dinosaur fossil formation. No...
'False' Gene Discovery Confirms Creation Prediction
Genes are portions of DNA that contain just the right codes to specify proteins, which make everything in cells work. But how does the cell know which protein should be manufactured, how often, how much,...
How Does Amoral Atheism Account for Scientific 'Sins'?
Science is often portrayed as a pure pursuit of knowledge, with well-trained individuals who are dedicated to the highest standards of intellectual and professional achievement.
But scientists are human...
Texas Canyons Highlight Geologic Evidence for Catastrophe
In the summer of 2002, record rainfall in the Texas Hill Country overfilled Canyon Lake. Water coursed over the top of its dam and carved huge, steep-walled canyons through the limestone bedrock downstream....
Fantastic Australian Amber Supports Young World
A dazzling array of amber in a rainbow of colors has been discovered at Cape York in far north Australia. Plant and mammal parts, as well as insects and other arthropods, are trapped inside the gems, which...
Atheist Ads Vandalized
A billboard reading "One Nation Indivisible" that was recently erected in Charlotte, North Carolina, displayed an additional message on Monday, June 28. Someone had added the words "Under...
More Mysteries for the Science of Long Life
According to the early chapters of Genesis, people who lived prior to the great Flood enjoyed very long life spans compared to today. Ideas regarding the mechanisms of that long life have focused on possible...
Fossil Indicates Fig and Wasp Life Cycles Were Always I.,.
The life cycles of fig trees and fig wasps are so closely intertwined, they look like they were made for each other. If this is true, then their fossils would be quite similar to modern forms, showing...
Fossil Discoveries Disrupt Evolutionary Timescales
Conventional geology assumes that different rock layers represent different periods of time. Paleontologists assess the age of fossilized creatures by the rock layers in which they are found. So, a fossil...
Seal Whiskers Track Fish Trails
When waters are murky, how do seals find fish? They don't have a sonar apparatus like whales, and yet they somehow hunt successfully in the dark.
It turns out that the seals follow fish trails by sensing...
Genome Study Shows Purpose, Not 'Selection'
The human genome has become a leading area of biological investigation. Its massive amounts of data have been digitized, which allows the information to be more easily studied. Much of genomic function...
Mars Even More Hostile to Life Than Previously Thought
Hopes of finding life on Mars have been consistently dashed by data clearly showing that the planet's surface would be extraordinarily hostile to anything resembling a living cell. Scientific studies have...
Is Indonesian Woman Really 157 Years Old?
Turinah, a woman who lives in south Sumatra, claimed to be 157 years old in the latest Indonesian census. She has no records to prove her claim, but other evidence suggests she might be telling the truth....
Specialized Communication Enables Dolphin Diplomacy
What happens when two dolphins rapidly swim toward the same piece of food? Without some avoidance feature, bottlenose dolphins would become "bashed-nose" dolphins, or worse.
Fortunately, dolphins...
Shark Study Hammers More Nails in Evolution's Coffin
In the late 1800s, a Darwinian concept called "transmutation of species" revolutionized historical biology. Instead of viewing animal species as the products of special creation, Darwinists believed...
Moth Eye Technology Proves Difficult to Copy
Moths can see very well, even at night, and their eyes have a special built-in anti-glare feature so that reflected light does not alert predators to their presence. Engineers are interested in copying...
Whale Variations Support Creation
Whales are graceful and remarkable swimming mammals. The 84 living species are amazingly diverse, ranging from over 100 feet long down to the size of an average dog. Recent research attempted to discover...
Were Humans Created to Commune in Nature?
In 2008, scientists found that taking a walk in a park setting improves concentration.1 This year, a study in the Journal of Environmental Psychology discovered that being outside among natural...
New Technology Makes Oil Fast
The BP oil disaster that began on April 20 in the Gulf of Mexico has touched about 100 miles of coastline, affecting large swaths of life-rich wetlands.1 This event will undoubtedly fuel increased...
Evolutionist Tosses Out 'Ardi' As Human Ancestor
In fall 2009, the journal Science dedicated a special issue to Ardipithecus ramidus. Popularly known as "Ardi," the fossil was characterized by researchers Tim White and C. Owen Lovejoy as a replacement...
Squid-like Fossil Is a Slippery Challenge for Evolution
Squid, octopus, nautilus, and cuttlefish are unlike any other marine creatures. With brain, eyes, mouth, tentacles, and, for squid, jet-propulsion siphon clustered at one end of the body, the cephalopod...
Lizard Study Questions Natural Selection
Charles Darwin proposed "natural selection" as the means by which new creatures evolve. The question then became, what does nature select? The reigning consensus is that nature selects individuals...
Shakeups Continue among Human Evolutionary Candidates
The theory of human evolution is taking yet another hit from recent scientific studies, from the first analysis of the Neandertal genome to painstakingly reconstructed Ardipithicus ramidus and Australopithecus...
Neandertal Genome Confirms Creation Science Predictions
In May 2010, researchers announced the completion of a draft sequence for the Neandertal genome. Provocative images of ape-like humans adorned newspaper and magazine articles, playing up the evolutionary...
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 Craig Venter synthesized DNA from inanimate chemicals....
Baby Morality Defies Evolution
It is fascinating how quickly human babies learn about the world around them. But how soon can they distinguish "good" from "bad"? Some Yale psychologists wanted to find out, and their...
Cambrian Fossils Found in 'Wrong' Place
Many extinct and strange creatures were only known from Cambrian rocks--until now. Newly discovered fossils in higher, more "recent" rock layers in Morocco show "remarkable preservation"...
ICR Grad John Whitmore Receives Cedarville University P.,.
Cedarville University in Ohio recently announced the promotion of Institute for Creation Research Graduate School (ICRGS) graduate John H. Whitmore to professor of geology.
Dr. Whitmore earned his undergraduate...
Distant Galactic Cluster Should Not Exist
Most cosmological models presume that when astronomers look at the objects most distant from earth, they are actually looking back in time. They aren't quite sure how galaxies first formed by natural processes,...
30 Years Later, the Lessons from Mount St. Helens
On May 18, 1980, a tremendous landslide on the northern side of Mount St. Helens in Washington state uncapped a violent volcanic eruption, completely altering the surrounding landscape. It is the most...
Archaeopteryx Fossil Shows 'Striking' Tissue Preservation
The extinct Archaeopteryx is a famous icon of supposed evolutionary transition from reptiles to birds. Several different fossils have recorded the anatomy of this creature, which is fully bird and has...
New Orchid Arose Too Fast for Darwin
Some orchids employ a unique pollination strategy. Each flower emits a chemical that exactly mimics the pheromone produced by females of a particular bee species. The chemical attracts male bees, which...
Java Man Just Got Older
Java Man was the name given to fossilized remains discovered in Indonesia over a century ago. Subsequently defined by evolutionists as Homo erectus, an extinct hominid, its placement in human evolutionary...
Creation Model and Sea Floor Studies Agree: Past Volcan.,.
Earth's surface shows features that clearly testify to some kind of catastrophic event, or series of events, that operated on a vastly larger scale than today's geologic processes. Whatever happened had...
No Time for Bone-eating Worm to Evolve
Bone worms have specialized features that enable them to bore holes through whale bones. Ecologically, they serve to recycle whale bones back into the undersea environment. New research has discovered...
Cosmologists Step from Science to Science Fiction
The further an investigation gets from testable science, the more speculative it becomes. How many inferences and ad hoc stories does it take before a scientific endeavor becomes science fiction? Two recent...
Exploring Earth's Extremes in a Futile Quest for Life i.,.
Extremophiles are organisms that can thrive in unexpectedly hostile environments. These include bacteria and fungi growing in extremely hot, cold, nutrient-deprived, or salty environments. Experiments...
Miniature Horse Poised to Break Record
The Guinness Book of World Records is renowned for its collection of odd feats and extraordinary measurements. One of its entries may someday be a young miniature stallion named Einstein, which promises...
Complicated Cells Leave No Room for Evolution
A hundred and fifty years ago, most biologists believed that cells were "simple" blobs of protoplasm. This made Darwinian evolution easier to accept, since all nature would have to do to make...
Study Shows 'Junk' DNA Builds Visible Traits
Proteins do most of the required metabolic tasks within each of the trillions of cells in the human body. However, only about four percent of human DNA contains coded instructions that specify proteins....
Quasars Quash Big Bang Assumption
According to the most prominent naturalistic theory of origins, the universe began over 13 billion years ago in a "Big Bang" that flung matter, energy, and space outward.
But quasars near some...
Chinese Explorers Claim Noah's Ark Find
A Chinese and Turkish exploration team and documentary filmmakers said that they may have found Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey. The explorers from Hong Kong-based Noah's Ark Ministries International...
Planet Formation Theory Collides with Backward-Orbiting.,.
The ancients used to observe what they called “wandering stars,” which are today known as planets. Naturalists insist that planets were not created by God, but were instead born from natural...
The Danger of Affirming Homosexuality in the Public Schools
Modern culture increasingly embraces the notion that homosexuals are born, not made. It is even sometimes presented as fact that a "gay gene" compels some people to seek same-sex partners. In...
Did Burrowing Blindsnakes Raft Across the Oceans?
The blindsnake, a small subsurface burrower, is not often seen, but when it is many mistake it for a worm.1 Researchers have constructed an evolutionary history for these creatures, partly from...
Quantum Mechanics Seen for First Time, But Mysteries Remain
Sir Isaac Newton's classic laws of physics apply well to large-scale phenomena like planetary orbits or apples falling from trees. But they seem to fall short in describing what happens at the tiniest...
NASA Lab Violates Free Speech Rights of Acts & Facts Author
Intelligent design (ID) is the concept that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection."1...
Walking with Giant Puppets
Steven Spielberg’s 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park used Hollywood magic to turn supposedly “65 million-year-old” dinosaurs into pop culture icons. Since the movie raked in over $900 million...
Mars 'Water-carved' Canyon Actually Etched by Lava
For decades, the media and Hollywood have promoted the idea of life on Mars, yet scientific observations have shown that the red planet is utterly inhospitable.1 The surface of Mars is sterile,...
A New Evolutionary Link? Australopithecus sediba Has Al.,.
Evolution's search for the "missing link" between man and ape has a long and troubled history. Australopithecus sediba is the latest fossil find that is claimed to represent evolutionary human ancestors....
Australopithecus sediba: Another Human Ancestor?
Partial remains of two skeletons were discovered in a cave in South Africa, and some scientists think they may be another addition to humanity's evolutionary tree.
The find was described in the April...
Digs at Creation Science Are a Mindless Waste of Time
In case Momma didn't tell you--you can't trust everything that you see on the Internet.
Case in point: A parody website called Crystal Air Productions, which rips off designs from ABC News to Sesame Street,...
Why Aren't Earth's Oldest Trees Older?
The sheer girth of certain ancient, wizened trees can take one’s breath away. Wired Science recently featured a collection of images of some of earth’s oldest trees. Although the age estimates...
New Study Contradicts Flower Fossil Dates
From salt grass to sassafras, flowering plants dominate earth’s landscapes, and many plant fossils are of leaves, bark, and pollen grains. The rock layers that contain them are most often found atop...
Do Migratory Birds Practice Preventative Medicine?
Before a long migration, certain birds shift from an insect diet to eating fruits such as berries. Researchers once thought that this added carbohydrate reserves as fuel for the journey. But a new study...
Templeton Prize Awarded to World-Famous Anti-Creationist
Every year, the Templeton Foundation awards more than one million dollars to an individual who in the foundation’s estimation has made a significant contribution to affirming spirituality.1...
Human Evolution Story Stumbles Over Footprints
Sometime in the distant past, two or three individuals walked across wet volcanic ash, leaving a trail that continues to puzzle scientists. When the Laetoli footprints were discovered over 30 years...
Is Ancient Siberian a New Human Species?
Explorers in 2008 found a human finger bone in a remote cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia. At first, the find sparked no great interest. A recent analysis of DNA that was carefully extracted from...
Scuba-Diving Caterpillar an Evolutionary Conundrum
The beautiful Hawaiian Islands are not only desirable travel destinations, they also provide unique habitats for tropical creatures. When certain caterpillars were found living in the wet mountainous regions,...
Wood-boring ’Gribbles’ Do More Than Corrode.,.
Wood-boring “gribbles” have plagued wooden ships for centuries, and they continue to eat away at piers, docks, and driftwood. Just how do these tiny, pale crustaceans thrive on such tough fare?...
Printable Devices Promise Easier Tracking
Most people are familiar with the barcode labels on items purchased at the store. Silicon-based radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags are another kind of label that has been used for decades to...
Does a Distant Galaxy Show Star Formation?
Some scientists refer to certain dust and debris clouds in galaxies as star “incubators” because they think stars form naturally within them. But since the formation of a star from a compacted...
'Fedex' Fossil Calls into Question the Age of Amphibians
The naming of newly-discovered fossils sometimes involves significant people or prominent associations. Darwinius masillae was named for British naturalist Charles Darwin. Dracorex hogwartsia was inspired...
A Closer Look at How Pit Vipers 'See' Heat
Vampire bats, boas, pythons, and pit vipers―like rattlesnakes, copperheads, and cottonmouths―all have specialized infrared-sensing organs that allow them to determine if something might...
Evolution Can't Explain Dancing Babies
Humans don’t need to learn the ability to move to a rhythm, according to a new study. They are born with it. Two researchers from Finland and the United Kingdom wanted to find out how soon in life...
More Earthquake Data Does Not Mean More Earthquakes
Following a magnitude 8.8 earthquake on February 27, 2010, Chile experienced a 7.2 magnitude aftershock on March 11, the same day that President Sebastian Pinera was sworn into office.1 Considering...
Chilean Earthquake Highlights Darwin Error
On February 27, Chile experienced an 8.8 magnitude earthquake, the fifth-largest recorded quake since seismographs were implemented. Charles Darwin experienced a similar quake in the same area on February...
More Evolutionists Say 'Ida' Is Not a Missing Link
A fossilized lemur-like creature, nicknamed "Ida," was broadly heralded in 2009 as one of man’s earliest ancestors. At the time, and despite the hype, various paleontologists expressed doubts regarding...
Butterfly Mimicry Is Based on Elegant Genetic Switches
Two species of passion-vine butterflies share the same wing patterns and coloring, which some scientists believe provide “some of the most striking examples of adaptation by natural selection.”1...
Discoveries Show Early Mankind Was Advanced
Evolution holds that mankind emerged from “primitive” primates about 3.5 million years ago. Afterward, man continued to add habits and features that distinguished him from his humble predecessors,...
Did Snakes Prey on Dinosaurs 67 Million Years Ago?
Portions of a fossilized eleven-foot-long snake were discovered encased in sandstone amidst a clutch of sauropod eggs. Other snakes of the same extinct species were found nearby, indicating that the eggs...
Case Closed on Dinosaur Extinction. Or Is It?
“It’s official: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs,” a recent headline proclaimed.1 But is this accurate? Although a recent study by 41 scientists reached a similar conclusion,...
Evolutionary Face-Making
A new Smithsonian exhibit will feature fleshed-out faces “of our earliest human ancestors.”1 Fossil evidence was combined with evolutionary beliefs to depict how these seven creatures...
Evolution and Global Warming Link as Theories, Not Scie.,.
Global warming advocates are joining evolution proponents to target conservative evangelical Christians for the recent introduction of a Kentucky legislative bill that involves both theories.
The state...
Bacteria Share Metabolism through Nanowires
Researchers at the University of Aarhus in Denmark noticed something odd when they examined seafloor sediment that had been left for a few weeks in glass tubes—foul-smelling hydrogen sulfide had...
Small Dogs Came from the Middle East
Although dogs come in many sizes, scientists have found some specific genetic markers for small dogs. A recent survey of these markers across many wild and domesticated dogs seems to have provided some...
Mystery Fossil Study Fits Creation
In the mid-1800s, a mysterious new fossil, Prototaxites, was described. The large, tree-trunk-shaped fossils were found in some of the lowermost fossil-bearing rock layers. To date, researchers have...
Did Religion 'Emerge' through Evolution?
How did mankind develop its unique ability to participate in religion? This question was recently explored by evolutionists who found that morals do not necessarily proceed from religious, cultural, or...
Fossil Anemone Tracks Don't Fit Evolution
Interesting markings were recently found on a rock in Newfoundland. A study concluded that they were trails left by seafloor-dwelling animals around 565 million years ago. But such a find is difficult...
A Hands-On Lesson in Rapid Fossil Formation
Although it is commonly taught that fossils took “millions of years” to form, both experience and reason suggest otherwise. Students who participated in a recent school lesson on the subject...
Is There a Stuttering Gene?
The cause of stuttering, or stammering speech, has eluded scientists. It affects approximately one percent of the U.S. population and “an estimated 60 million people worldwide.”1...
Dolphin DNA Reflects Bat Echolocation
Both bats and dolphins use a natural form of sonar technology, called echolocation, to navigate their surroundings. They share a tiny but critical protein in their ears that allows them to hear ultra-high...
Spectacular Spider Is a Long-Living Fossil
A fossilized spider was found in China with such perfectly preserved features that researchers were able to identify it down to its species name. Only two other fossils of its kind have been unearthed,...
Cell Division Research Discovers Sugar 'Safety Switch'
At a very basic level, the maintenance and reproduction of a living organism depend on the division of its cells. How does a cell “know” when or why to begin the division process, or even how...
Algae Molecule Masters Quantum Mechanics
The weird world of quantum physics appears to have been mastered by protein molecules, according to a new study. Researchers have demonstrated that certain proteins can manipulate light waves to their...
Critique of 'Primordial Soup' Vindicates Creation Research
Where, when, and how did life arise on earth? These questions have intrigued mankind for centuries. Evolutionary theorists have tried to answer them, but without definitive success. And now even their...
Recipe for Frog Foam Is Quite Unnatural
Some frogs build nests to hold their eggs by whipping up a kind of floating foam. A recent study discovered that the proper frothy architecture is only achieved by following precise construction parameters....
Study Shows the Universe Is Closer to the End Than Expected
Every known system degenerates. Metal rusts, food rots, and flowers wither. Even something as large as the universe will eventually run down. How much usable and still-ordered energy remains in the universe?
Australian...
Feathered Dinosaur Debate Exhibits Young Earth Evidence
Fossil fibers found in China over a decade ago are believed by some to have come from “dinosaur feathers.” It has been suggested that the fibers bolster the claim that birds evolved from dinosaurs....
Did God Make Fire Ant Parasites?
Most residents of the southern states of America are uncomfortably familiar with fire ants. People who have experienced the bites and stings that give these insects their name are often willing to try...
Surprising 'Stone-Age' Surgery Evidence Found in France
An unexpected report has recently surfaced of a successful and sophisticated Stone-Age amputation.1 In an early tomb found south of Paris, France, scientists uncovered the remains of a man who...
Evolutionary Biologists Rethink Evolution
Scientific knowledge has experienced tremendous advances in the last several decades, especially in such relatively new fields as molecular biology, genomics, and embryonic development. Some biologists...
Rapid Variation in Dog Breeds Is 'Regulated,' Not 'Evolved'
Almost all new dog breeds have been established in the last few hundred years. Due to this fast genetic diversification, researchers have been investigating how “descent with modification”...
Slime Networks Are Better Organized than Railway Systems
What do the Tokyo railway system and slime mold have in common?
Answer: They both employ optimized networks. Researchers found that slime mold growth algorithms are so well-designed that they could...
Alligator Lung Design Prompts Evolutionary Rewrite
Many evolutionists theorize that dinosaurs evolved into modern birds. But to accomplish this, evolution would have had to overcome huge hurdles—such as the total reconstruction of certain skeletal,...
Banner Fossil for Evolution Is Demoted
Evolutionists celebrated in 2004 the discovery of what they considered to be a clear transitional form between fish fins and land legs in the features of an extinct lobe-finned fish later dubbed Tiktaalik.1...
Are Humans as Close to Chickens as They Are to Chimps?
A recent comprehensive analysis compared the human Y chromosome with the chimpanzee Y chromosome, and the researchers found that they were “remarkably divergent.”1
The Y chromosome...
Boats and Jewelry: 'Stone Age' People Were Surprisingly.,.
Archaeological finds continue to demonstrate that man has always been man, right from the start. A cache of double-edged cutting implements, known to have been used in boat building, was recently discovered...
'Creation' Movie Debuts in U.S.
A movie about Charles Darwin will be released in select theaters in the U.S. this weekend, nearly four months after its worldwide debut.
Creation stars Paul Bettany―of A Knight’s Tale and...
It's Official: Radioactive Isotope Dating Is Fallible
New data collected by secular researchers has confirmed what creation scientists discovered decades ago—geologists’ assumptions about radioactive decay are not always correct.
For a...
New Population Found of Damselfly 'Living Fossil'
The tiny Ancient Greenling Damselfly is an endangered insect, with only a few hundred known to be in existence. A new population of them was recently discovered in southwestern Australia, and researchers...
New Artifact Supports Antiquity of Bible
An Israeli professor has found evidence that certain books of the Bible could easily be as old as their texts claim. Some scholars had believed that Hebrew writing did not yet exist when these books were...
A Round Noah's Ark?
Noah’s Flood was a worldwide cataclysm that destroyed all life on earth, except for the representatives of each kind of land and sky-dwelling creature that were saved aboard Noah’s Ark....
Human Communication: Chance or Design?
Human speech requires precisely organized body parts and biochemicals that are certainly complicated enough on their own to have warranted their special creation. But a new study indicates that gestures...
Cell Origin Research Is in Hot Water
Researchers have tried for decades to replicate the conditions and compounds they think were necessary for the first living cell to evolve. Their experimental failures have collectively sent the clear...
Bee Landing Strategy May Lead to Better Aircraft
Researchers recently looked into the life of bees and found something of interest to all fliers: bees never crash, even when they land on an upside-down surface. Their efficient landings show that current...
Museum's 'Science' Exhibit Leaves More Questions than A.,.
The Health Museum in Houston, Texas, currently features an exhibit called “Surviving: The Body of Evidence” as part of a year-long celebration of Darwinian evolution. “You are a survivor―a...
Origins Breakthrough of 2009: Cosmology
Every year brings new scientific discoveries that shed light on the past. The Institute for Creation Research is dedicated to the study of origins from a biblical perspective, and ICR News has compiled...
Origins Breakthrough of 2009: Geology
Every year brings new scientific discoveries that shed light on the past. The Institute for Creation Research is dedicated to the study of origins from a biblical perspective, and ICR News has compiled...
Origins Breakthrough of 2009: Biological Evolution
Every year brings new scientific discoveries that shed light on the past. The Institute for Creation Research is dedicated to the study of origins from a biblical perspective, and ICR News has compiled...
Origins Breakthrough of 2009: Paleontology
Every year brings new scientific discoveries that shed light on the past. The Institute for Creation Research is dedicated to the scientific study of origins from a biblical perspective, and ICR News has...
Bacteria Study Shoots Down 'Simple Cell' Assumptions
If life evolved from non-life through natural processes, then the organism most likely to resemble the first living cell would probably be the parasitic bacteria of the genus Mycoplasma. It has very little...
Science Overturns Evolution's Best Argument
Transposons are a class of “mobile genetic elements” that operate within the DNA of living organisms. For years, macroevolutionary proponents have claimed that their presence undoubtedly supports...
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