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Researchers recently analyzed bacterial DNA that was found in small pockets within various salt deposits. The focus of their research was to compare differences in DNA sequences taken from different geological...
Where Did Apple Trees Come From?
For several decades, United States Department of Agriculture horticulturists have collected and studied apple trees from around the world. Their research focuses on disease resistance as well as similarities...
New Dinosaur Causes New Confusion
In their recent examination of a new two-legged dinosaur discovered in New Mexico, evolutionary paleontologists were looking for new clues to untangle their conflicting theories of dinosaur origins. But...
Creation Scientist's Invention Continues to Improve Lives
About 35 years ago, Dr. Raymond Damadian invented a technology that transformed medical science. MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging, has been widely used in medical research ever since. Researchers over...
Irreversible Complexity--Evolution Loses Another Round
Scientists discovered something remarkable in a recent study—evolution can’t be reversed. In tracing the supposed evolution of a common protein, they introduced mutations to move the protein...
Meteor Crystals Spark Latest 'Life on Mars' Hype
A media frenzy about life on Mars broke out back in 1996 when researchers announced they had found what they interpreted to be fossilized bacteria on a rock from the red planet. Photos of a little, worm-shaped...
Atheist Ads Aimed at Children for Holidays
The holiday season brings familiar sights every year. Chestnuts on open fires. Turkeys in ovens. Holly wreaths hanging on front doors. And of course, anti-God advertisements on buses and billboards.
In...
Fresh Salamander Tissue Found in Solid Rock
Researchers have described remarkably well-preserved tissue discovered inside a salamander fossil. The fully intact muscle tissues also had blood-filled vessels, and they had not been mineralized like...
What Defines an Organism? Biologists Say 'Purpose.'
David Queller and Joan Strassmann, evolutionary biologists at Rice University, recently proposed a new way to describe what makes an organism a unified whole. They defined an organism as an entity made...
New Finch Species Shows Conservation, Not Macroevolution
“Darwin’s finches” are a variety of small black birds that were observed and collected by British naturalist Charles Darwin during his famous voyage on the H.M.S. Beagle in the early...
Can Evolution Explain Altruism in Our Children?
Research has shown that humans like to help, even before they are old enough to have been taught how to do so. This innate characteristic distinguishes humans from their supposed closest evolutionary family...
Illustrations of Ancient Humans Skew Facts
Museums and textbooks often use artistic renderings to estimate what a fossilized animal or plant may have looked like when it was alive. These images by “paleoartists” put flesh and faces...
Scientists Back Off of Ardi Claims
In May 2009, a remarkably well-preserved extinct primate, nicknamed "Ida," was hailed as one of the most important fossil finds ever. It had features that some interpreted as a link between two primate...
Leaked Emails May Show Global Warming Research Is a Fraud
Over a thousand sensitive emails and documents from Britain’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia were published online in late November without CRU’s permission....
Dinosaur Soft Tissue Finally Makes News
Although creation-based organizations have reported for over a decade on the technical scientific journal articles published about soft tissue found inside dinosaur remains, mainstream media outlets have...
Cyanide -- An Ingredient for Life?
by Dr. Charles McCombs, Ph.D., and Brian Thomas, M.S.*
Evolutionary researchers have engaged in many speculations about how the first cell might have emerged naturally from chemicals with no supernatural...
Frozen Penguin DNA Casts Doubt on DNA-Based Dates
For decades, scientists have assumed that mutation rates were consistent enough to be used as a natural clock to date biological specimens. By comparing the number of single changes in the genetic code...
Is There Evolution in the Congo River?
A recent narrative-style article in Smithsonian magazine highlighted research in the largely unexplored Congo River in central Africa, where researchers have identified new fish species. The researchers...
Amber-Trapped Spider Web Too Old for Evolution
Amateur fossil hunters Jamie and Jonathan Hiscocks were looking for dinosaur remains in East Sussex, UK, when they instead found tiny spider webs trapped inside a piece of ancient amber. Oxford University...
Rapid Rifting Presages Future Events
The Great Rift Valley extends some 4,000 miles southward from Syria north of Israel, through the Gulf of Aqaba, through Ethiopia, and all the way to Mozambique in southeast Africa. It harbors a giant fault,...
Rapid Rifting in Ethiopia Challenges Evolutionary Model
Volcanic activity in 2005 accompanied the formation of a deep, wide rift in Ethiopia on part of the 4,000-mile-long north-to-south trending Great Rift Valley fault. Studies show that the injection of mantle...
A Global Catastrophic Event Wiped Out Ancient Forests
Fungi are single or multi-celled organisms that break down organic materials, such as rotting wood, in order to absorb their nutrients. Neither plant nor animal, they range from mushrooms to single-celled...
Paleontologists Target Montana Dinosaur Museum
The Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum, which opened its doors earlier this year, boasts Montana’s second-largest set of displayed dinosaur remains. The record is still held by the Museum of the...
Caterpillar Controversy Discloses Deep Evolutionary Dis.,.
In August 2009, retired University of Liverpool marine biologist Donald Williamson officially challenged the standard Darwinian interpretation of caterpillar origins. His paper was fast-tracked to publication...
Shrimp Eye May Inspire New DVD Technology
Mantis shrimps are large, colorful marine creatures that see more colors than humans can. While humans see only three primary colors—blue, red, and green—the eyes of these shrimp detect...
Are Humans Evolving? Depends on Your Definition.
Observable change is happening in humans, albeit slowly and only for certain traits. Scientists have tracked the histories of 14,000 residents of Framingham, Massachusetts, since 1948. Data from 2,238...
Anthropologist Says Ancestors Were Faster Than Modern O.,.
Some evolutionists tend to believe that humans are continually improving―getting more robust, smarter, and faster. However, science increasingly indicates that the opposite is occurring.
Anthropologist...
Rainforest Fossils Demonstrate Dramatic Climate Change
Researchers are recovering beautiful fossils from the Cerrejón Formation of Colombia. One was a giant snake, called the “Titanoboa.” Most recently, a study examined the formation’s...
New Fossil Cache Shows Plants Haven't Changed
A coal mine in the Cerrejón Formation of Colombia has yielded a gold mine of fossils. This particular cache preserved a time in earth history when the tropical climate was quite different from today’s....
Does Altered Fish Vision Exhibit Evolution?
Biologists recently analyzed special proteins in fish eyes that capture light photons, making vision possible. By comparing the sequences of a critical protein from different fish, they identified a particular...
Genetic 'Crossing-over' Is No Help to Evolution
Shuffling genetic information has long been framed as a biological mechanism that can generate variety as well as fuel evolution. However, new details of a common cellular genetic shuffling process...
The Human Methylome: What Do These Patterns Mean?
For decades, researchers have noticed that tiny chemicals called “methyl groups” piggyback on DNA molecules, and that they occur in certain patterns. Intrigued by the meaning and function of...
New Pterosaur Fossil Forces Re-think of Standard Evolution
Charles Darwin admitted that the sudden appearance of fully formed creatures in fossil deposits was one of the biggest problems with his hypothesis that nature generated living creatures through natural...
New Hull Technology a Slick Design Copy
Many species of marine creatures are very well suited to their watery environment, with precisely arranged gas exchange organs, properly angled eyeball parts, and streamlined bodies with appropriate...
Ancient Amber Discovery Contradicts Geologic Timescale
Newsweek magazine recently published a commentary by atheist Richard Dawkins containing some of his arguments against “creationists.” Therein he admitted, “What would be evidence against...
The Artistry of 'Ardi'
Reconstructions of animals based on fossilized remains are interesting and can be of value. However, they are notoriously subjective. Recent research suggested, for example, that many longstanding dinosaur...
Dinosaur Ranks Shrink as Species Numbers Dwindle
Triceratops is one of the most recognizable dinosaurs, known from partially complete fossilized skeletons to have large armor plate and three horns on its head. At almost 30 feet long, it was perhaps one...
Did Evolution Cause Rapid Changes or Just the Opposite .,.
Researchers have recently focused on DNA sequences as a means for determining the evolutionary history of both viruses and their host organisms. To discover when mammals were first infected by them, a...
Monarch Butterfly Antenna: A Hi-tech Tiny Toolkit
Monarch butterflies have fascinated biologists for a long time. A 3,000-mile road trip in even the most comfortable car would prove daunting to many humans, but these beautiful insects can migrate that...
Newly Named Fish an Evolutionary Enigma
A new species of chimaera found in Californian waters has been given a name. Chimaeras are bizarre cartilaginous fish with features that stand out among other fish. What also stands out is their lack of...
Should We Let the Pandas Die Off?
Pandas face a difficult future, despite great efforts to preserve them. With their dwindling population, shrinking habitat, and weakening genetic strength, one evolutionist has suggested that these longstanding...
Did Humans Evolve from 'Ardi'?
Ardipithecus ramidus is an extinct primate whose fossilized remains were first found along the Awash River in Ethiopia about 15 years ago. Many fragments were collected, including shattered bones from...
Blasphemy Day Barely Registers
Ever hear of International Blasphemy Day? For many of us, it came and went without as much as a blip on the radar. But for a select few atheists and agnostics, it was yet another day to espouse their hatred...
Butterfly Evolution in Action? Not Likely.
One hundred and fifty years ago, Charles Darwin published his proposal that all creatures on earth emerged naturally from a common ancestor through a process of gradual change. Although this hypothesis...
T. rex Cousin Evolved 60 Million Years Too Early
The most popular dinosaur is probably Tyrannosaurus rex, a Latin term that loosely translates as “king lizard.” Based on evolutionary assumptions, scientists have long held that these dinosaurs...
Does Science Justify Adultery?
Are humans born to cheat? What do Americans think about marital infidelity? Those who oppose the practice of adultery often base their arguments on religious prohibitions. Others, confident that religion...
Memory Is Malleable, but the Bible Is Not
If someone witnessed an event firsthand, chances are that person would remember it pretty clearly, right? Not according to a recent psychological study, in which almost half of those tested disbelieved...
Child-Eating Eagle No Longer a Myth
The Maoris, or native New Zealanders, for generations told stories about a giant bird that could swoop down and carry away human children. As it turns out, those stories held some truth after all.
Researchers...
Dawkins' Latest Book: The Greatest Lie on Earth
Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion and perhaps today’s most famous Darwin apologist, has a new book that hit bookstores this month. The Greatest Show on Earth promises to meet his high standard...
Were Stone Age Britons Trigonometry Experts?
Man-made geographical high points in southern England and Wales have been observed for centuries, including earthworks, stone monuments like Stonehenge, and hill camps. But something quite unexpected about...
Planet's Reverse Orbit a New Twist in Old Evolutionary Story
The Wide Area Search for Planets (WASP) project has discovered a planet that orbits backward, against the rotational direction of its star. Methodological naturalists think collisions or near-collisions...
New Book Debunks Human-Chimp Similarity
Evolutionary science repeatedly declares that chimps and humans are 98 percent genetically identical, which is then taken as solid evidence that mankind evolved from an apelike ancestor. But a former BBC...
Fresh Fossil Feather Nanostructures
Bird feathers can contain pigmentation for a wide range of colors, with specific molecules reflecting certain hues when light touches them. They also can display “structural” colors, where...
Ida Missed Her Link to Humans
This past May, a fossil nicknamed Ida was loudly heralded by the evolutionary scientific community as the long-sought-after "missing link" that supposedly proved ape-to-human evolution. Directly following...
Would a Reverse-engineered Chicken Demonstrate Evolution?
In his recent book How to Build a Dinosaur, evolutionary paleontologist Jack Horner suggested that birds could be genetically engineered backward to take the form of their supposed dinosaur ancestors.1...
Robot Navigation Copies Spiny Lobsters
Several varieties of spiny lobsters exist throughout the world’s oceans, and they all have an ability to navigate. Experiments in 2003 concluded that they orient themselves by accessing an internal...
Pseudo-science Attacks Irreducible Complexity
Molecular biologist Michael Behe described a system made of several interacting parts, whereby the removal of one part would disrupt the functioning of the whole, as being irreducibly complex. Both creation...
'Totally Strange' Hurdia a Hurdle for Evolution
Cambrian rock layers contain fossils that represent almost every modern phylum of animal, plus many that are now extinct. One animal fossil in particular would win the weird prize, if there were one. Paleontologists...
Dog Coat Varieties Come from a 'Surprisingly' Elegant P.,.
The vast majority of dog breeds have emerged only in the last several centuries as a result of artificial selection. As new breeds are regularly developed, the many potential varieties within the dog kind...
What Will Artificial Life Demonstrate?
The production of artificial life is supposedly just around the corner. But ever since the famous 1953 Miller and Urey experiment failed to spark life in the laboratory just from chemicals, that corner...
Pterosaur Tracks Show Traces of the Great Flood
Landing tracks made by flying reptiles have been found for the first time. They were discovered in limestone deposits in France, but prints made by modern birds in mud and sandy shorelines today are erased...
Pterosaur Flight Plans
Researchers recently discovered the world’s first pterosaur landing footprints, and the find has revealed precise coordination and other features in these mysterious flying reptiles. In a study published...
Evolution Embedded in American Thought
Polling data has revealed a trend indicating that “America is not a Christian nation.”1 Although a large majority of Americans outwardly claim to be Christian, their inward beliefs...
Fresh Jurassic Squid Ink
Over the past decade or so, scientific research has revealed surprisingly young-looking features in fossils and other artifacts dated in the millions of years. The discoveries include blood vessels in...
'Freethought' Kids' Camp Launches in Texas
Even in the heart of the Bible Belt, Texas isn’t immune to the proliferation of atheistic propaganda, whether in its public schools or now in atheist summer camps.
Camp Quest—with the tagline...
Comet Chemical Is Not the Seed of Life
The amino acid glycine is one of twenty chemical building blocks of the proteins that provide most of the structures and functions in living cells. Scientists recently detected “microscopic traces...
Ancient Stone Knives Made by 'Smart' Humans
Evolutionary history holds that the first humans emerged about 200,000 years ago. It was thought that these early people were in some ways sub-human, as the gradual development of higher-level thinking...
Harvard Ph.D. Lecture Exposes Prejudices of Evolutionar.,.
Frank Sherwin, M.A., Brian Thomas, M.S., and Christine Dao*
Nathaniel Jeanson, a Harvard-trained medical researcher, was recently awarded his doctorate degree in molecular biology. He has made significant...
Edenic Diet Keeps Out Kidney Stones
Most people know that fruits, vegetables, and grains are good for the human body. Decades of medical research have shown that eating a more vegetable-rich diet with less red meat, fried foods, and processed...
The Incredible Hulk Theory of Life in Space
The ongoing quest to find life in space has failed to yield any supportive evidence that life exists outside the earth. To prop up the idea of distant spontaneous life formation, some scientists are...
Planetary Smash-Ups: Not the Stuff of Earth
Scientists have speculated for years about how planets, stars, and other astronomical systems formed. One proposed explanation is collisions, random destructive events that supposedly generated and placed...
'45-Million-Year-Old' Brewer's Yeast Still Works
Stumptown Brewery in Guerneville, California, brews its beer according to a unique formula. Although standard ingredients such as malt and hops are used, the yeast that is added is supposedly 45 million...
Flytrap Origins: A Sticky Problem for Evolution
Venus flytraps are carnivorous plants. They have delicate, yet precisely engineered, trigger-activated leaves that can snap shut on insects in less than one third of a second. Their origin has baffled...
Bacterial Compasses Point to Creation
Certain bacteria can detect direction with ultra-tiny magnets that use bits of magnetic metals organized into structures called “magnetosomes.” Magnetosomes automatically orient to the earth’s...
Why Are There Still Tuataras?
The evolutionary story is one of constant change. It proposes that simpler life forms evolved into complicated organisms whose offspring branched out in ever more diverse directions. But the modern forms...
Dinosaur Soft Tissues: They're Real!
Paleontologist Mary Schweitzer’s discoveries of soft blood vessels, proteins, various blood cells, and even DNA inside fossilized dinosaur bones have been met with extreme skepticism from the scientific...
'Oldest' Animal Fossils Evolved in the Wrong Place
Fossils from South China are being touted as the first animals to have evolved on the planet. A recently-published study on these tiny organisms, however, presents a fresh evolutionary puzzle. Although...
Not Just a Pretty Face: New Function Found for Toucan Bills
Toucans are tropical birds found in Central and South America. They are best known for their enormous, brilliantly colored bills. These beaks perform several functions, but new research confirms that they...
Radioactive Decay Rates Not Stable
For about a century, radioactive decay rates have been heralded as steady and stable processes that can be reliably used to help measure how old rocks are. They helped underpin belief in vast ages and...
Disaster Recovery Plan Found in Cells
The Internet search engines Google and Yahoo! have massive server farms that are all interconnected in a network configuration called “cloud computing.” These systems are engineered with fault...
Will 'Better Science Education' Convince Americans They.,.
Brian Thomas, M.S., and Frank Sherwin, M.A*
A recent poll revealed that many Americans believe public school students should be taught all sides of Darwin’s theory of evolution, its weaknesses...
Mummified Dinosaur Skin Looks Young
The remains of a dinosaur found in the Hell Creek Formation of North Dakota are so well preserved that some scientists are just “gobsmacked.”
The mummified remains belong to a hadrosaur...
New Way to Find Age of Ancient Pottery
British researchers have developed a reliable method for determining the age of ancient clay pottery. The dating technique is based on the fact that the clays used to make pots over the centuries demonstrate...
Dawkins Supports First UK Atheist Kids' Camp
The God Delusion author Richard Dawkins has sponsored a week-long summer camp geared towards making atheists out of children. The camp is a UK arm of Camp Quest, and its 24 slots had been booked even before...
Flumes Zoom in on Mud Rock History
For decades, museums and textbooks confidently asserted that mud rocks—such as limestone, siltstone, mudstone, and shale—were formed over vast eons as super-fine sediments slowly settled to...
Press Release 07 24 2009
ICR Announces New Apologetics Program
Contact: Lawrence Ford, Director of Communications, ICR Press Office, 214-615-8398, press@icr.org; Institute...
Flower Color Changes: Evolution or Creation in Action?
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara investigated the genetics behind color changes in flower species by studying the columbine, a wild flower native to North America. The columbine’s...
Partial Piranha Fossil Isn't Transitional
Newly published research claims that a fossilized giant piranha, Megapiranha paranensis, supposedly bridges the “evolutionary gap between flesh-eating piranhas and their plant-eating cousins.”1
Those...
Rising Animal Cancers Point to a Dying World
Cancer affects many humans and their loved ones, and a new report has found that certain animals are also suffering from higher cancer rates. Sadly, this is what is to be expected in a dying and decaying...
'One Small Step': 40 Years After the First Moonwalk
A small minority of people still speculate that the Apollo 11 mission was a hoax. But the truth of the matter is that the world changed forever on July 20, 1969.
Exactly 40 years ago, millions of people...
T. rex Teeth Take a Bite Out of Evolution
A set of fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex teeth was found in a rock layer that it had no business being in, according to evolutionary interpretations. Discovered in Hyogo, Japan, the teeth came from a 15-foot-tall...
Did God Create Aggressive Behavior?
At the close of the creation week, the first chapter of Genesis records that “God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.”1 But some aspects of today’s...
Glaciers Can Melt in a 'Geologic Instant'
Many geological processes can happen much more quickly than is conventionally thought. For instance, mainstream science believes that coal, diamonds, and oil require vast amounts of time to develop,...
Science and the Bible Agree: Casual Sex Is Bad
Countless television programs and movies portray casual sex as “no big deal,” or even normal. But according to the scientific data, that view is all wrong. As it turns out, the brain chemistry...
New Study Finds Dinosaur Models Are Too Thick
Dinosaur reconstructions in museums worldwide may all be too large, according to new research published in the Journal of Zoology. Researchers revisited the 25-year-old statistical formula used to estimate...
Martian Lake Still Won't Lead to Life
Evolutionary belief holds as a central tenet that life emerged and developed “naturally,” even though mere natural laws of chemistry and physics are insufficient causes. If life occurred spontaneously...
Do New Dinosaur Finger Bones Solve a Bird Wing Problem?
A new beak-bearing theropod dinosaur was discovered in China recently, and it supposedly “solves the mystery of dinosaur finger evolution,”1 since its finger bones do not have the...
Communal Nutrition in Ants: Strong Evidence for Creation
Evolutionary scientists have unwittingly obeyed the biblical command to “observe the ant” (Proverbs 6:6; 30:25), and they have found a few surprises.
One of the most intriguing and complex...
Energy Bill Won't Solve Global Warming
United States lawmakers are considering a bill whose purpose is “to make energy more expensive, so people use less of it and to create a penalty for carbon-based fuels.”1 Its intent...
Bacteria 'Resurrected' from Greenland Glacier
In 2008, Penn State biochemists found ultra-tiny bacteria in an ice core that had been drilled almost three kilometers deep in a Greenland glacier. They were able to get these bacteria to grow by incubating...
Is There Some Truth to Dragon Myths?
Harry Potter fans are looking forward to the boy wizard’s next screen adventure, when Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opens this month. Pottermania broke loose when J. K. Rowling’s first...
Study Shows Many Scientists Manipulate Results
Survey data collected from 1986 to 2005 revealed disturbing information about scientific reporting across a host of fields. Almost two percent of scientists personally admitted to having “fabricated,...
Evolutionary Connection to Increased College Drinking
Researchers recently published a study in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs that found alcohol abuse among college students has been steadily increasing for about a decade, even while effective...
Jay Talking
The brains of birds are tiny, but many contain the right programming to make them the best talkers in the animal kingdom. In addition to the parrot’s talking skill set, a new study found that Siberian...
Botox: Toxin Becomes Treatment
Botox treatments are popularly known for their cosmetic application in reducing facial wrinkles. They also have been used successfully to treat disorders in eye muscles. And a newly discovered application...
It Takes More Than Eyes to See
The eye is an amazing instrument, but it does not function alone. Even with visual receptors rapidly sending data along the optic nerve, no mental image will form at all unless the brain is properly equipped...
Astronomers Surprised by Unnatural Star Cluster
While examining an area near the center of the Milky Way, astronomers saw something they were not expecting. An inordinately high number of average-looking stars are grouped there in a formation known...
Egg-laying Echidna Could Not Have Evolved
A research intern for the Wildlife Conservation Society, Muse Opiang, completed the first field study ever conducted on the long-beaked echidna, an egg-laying mammal found only in New Guinea.1...
Fixed Bird Thigh Nixes Dino-to-bird Development
New research from Oregon State University revealed that a bird’s bone configuration is essential to the unique way it breathes. The study, published online in the Journal of Morphology, effectively...
Engineers Have an 'Ear' for Natural Design
The human ear is an amazing device. In a recent press release, an MIT engineer said that the ear is “like a super radio with 3,500 parallel channels.”1 In fact, its design inspired...
Flat-Faced Fossil Fails to Fit Evolution
Portions of a primate’s fossilized face and jaw were recovered near Barcelona in 2004. The discovery of the bones was recently hailed as “an enormous step forward in the understanding of the...
Origin of Life 'Gateway' Remains Hidden
UK researchers believe they may have “broken new ground” in the ongoing quest to find out how living cells first evolved. The New York Times proclaimed, “An English chemist has found...
Why Can Moss Process Human Genes?
Researchers used to think that no plant could process mammalian genes because the required machinery is “proprietary,” or unique to the kind. But a team from the Swiss Federal Institute of...
Did Ribonucleoproteins Spark Life?
Despite “decades of persistent failure to create life by the ‘spark in the soup’ method,”1 evolutionary biochemists are still trying to find an exclusively naturalistic...
Well-Engineered Ecosystems Bounce Back
How fast can a disaster zone bounce back? Apparently, faster than previously thought. Yale University ecologists conducted a meta-analysis of 240 studies of devastated ecosystems. They found that ecosystems...
Viral Life from Outer Space? Not Likely.
Since a whole, functioning cell could not possibly emerge spontaneously from non-living matter, many evolutionists believe that simpler viruses were the first step towards the development of life. Researchers...
Sea Urchin Teeth Are Designed to Grind Stone
Sea urchins are spiny marine animals. Some of them like to hide in holes that they dig out of limestone in the ocean floor, using teeth that are ground down and yet remain sharp. What makes these teeth...
Atheist Ads in Chicago Say Man Created God
“In the beginning, man created God,” according to recent advertisements posted on 25 Chicago buses. The Indiana Atheist Bus Campaign targeted the country’s third largest city to espouse...
DNA Fence Posts Hold Back Cancer. . . and Evolution
New research has uncovered a tiny protein that, when it breaks down, leads to cancer. This useful protein attaches to DNA in certain places and serves as a marker or “fence post.” These fence...
The African Sunbird: Evolution in Action or Grasping at.,.
Because evolution on a grand scale is impossible to observe happening in real time due to the immensely long ages it supposedly requires, any little tidbit of natural selection that is discovered is heralded...
Multifunctional Genes Indicate Ingenious Programming
Computer programs are written in coded computer languages, and sometimes the same piece of code can be reused in different programs to perform new functions. This way, programmers save time and energy...
Gecko Eyes Make Great Night Vision Cameras
Certain gecko lizards can see color in dim light. That means these geckos’ eyes are about 350 times more sensitive than human eyes, which see only black and white in the same conditions. Can evolution...
Texas School Board Chairman McLeroy Loses Leadership Post
Texas State Representative Don McLeroy (R-College Station) narrowly lost his bid on May 28 to retain his position as chairman of the State Board of Education. The 19-11 vote, which ran strictly along party...
Cod Still Recovering from Darwin Bulldog's Bite
Cod fish dominated massive areas of the North Atlantic Ocean until somewhat recently, when their numbers dramatically dwindled due to overfishing. Interestingly, that population decline can be directly...
New Fossil Hype Fits Old Pattern
Even evolutionary paleontologists are largely convinced that the media’s recent promotion of a new “missing link” is a monumental overstatement. There is little doubt that the hype surrounding...
Pop Culture Parades Darwinism as Science
Charles Darwin attempted to explain the origin of living organisms in On the Origin of Species, published in 1859. Two hundred years after his birth, his theory of descent with modification by natural...
Ida: Separating the Science from the Media Campaign
by Brian Thomas, M.S., and Frank Sherwin, M.A.*
Ida is the nickname of the stunningly well-preserved fossil that is currently being hailed as "our connection with the rest of all the mammals."1...
'Missing Link' Ida Is Just Media Hype
Scientists and media outlets around the world are praising "Ida," the primate fossil hailed as the long-sought-after "missing link" in the human evolutionary theory.
In a major public relations campaign,...
Can We Really Reverse-Engineer a Dinosaur?
by Jeffrey Tomkins, Ph.D., and Brian Thomas, M.S.*
A recent TV show has proposed the possibility that dinosaurs may walk the earth again someday as a result of man’s ingenuity.
Dinosaurs:...
Huge Virus a Missing Link?
In 1992, researchers discovered a giant virus with so much DNA that some have called it a “viral missing link.” Evolutionary scientists claimed that it has features that reflect both a living...
Strata Data Axes Asteroid Dinosaur Demise
In 1980, a theory was proposed that an asteroid or comet impact was primarily responsible for the mass dinosaur extinctions that were observed in the fossil record. But while the impact tale has become...
Some Birds Were Created to Boogie
Snowball is a sulfur-crested cockatoo. He’s also a YouTube sensation, as this bird dances by bobbing his head and lifting his feet to a musical beat.
In addition to the Internet community, Snowball’s...
Hadrosaur Soft Tissues Another Blow to Long-Ages Myth
Recently-discovered dinosaur soft tissues, and even blood cells, represent some of the biggest hurdles for long-age evolutionary belief. Soft tissue was found in the femur of a large Tyrannosaurus rex...
Rewriting the Last Dinosaur's Tombstone
“The last of the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago,”1 according to an unsupported claim by evolutionary researchers that has been popularized in books and movies such as Jurassic...
The Stunning Stability of Salmonella
Salmonella bacteria became a health threat relatively recently, when chicken eggs were infected by the migration of the bacteria from chickens’ digestive organs to their reproductive organs. Geneticists...
Planetary Quandaries Solved: Saturn Is Young
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has been on a mission to gather information on the structure and composition of Saturn, its rings, and its moons. Conventional cosmology holds that the planets of the solar...
Stem Cells from Blood Render Embryonic Sources Obsolete
On the heels of President Barack Obama’s March 9 order to use public monies to support embryonic stem cell research,1 another source of stem cells has become available—blood. Blood...
Thank God for. . . Scorpion Venom?
The vast majority of modern medicines are toxic at high concentrations or when misused, but they can promote health at low concentrations and when they are carefully applied. Thus, the very same compound...
Is the H1N1 Flu Evolving?
Flu is in the news, with some people fearing a possible pandemic from the latest strain. The most recent threat, initially labeled “swine flu,” comes from an H1N1 influenza virus, the same...
No Evolution Found in Human Facial Differences
One common question asked of creation scientists is “If all mankind descended from two humans, then where did all the ‘races’ come from?” New research, published in the journal...
Obama Pushes for Expansion of Science and Technology
During his April 27, 2009, address at the National Academy of Sciences’ annual meeting, President Barack Obama called for focused scientific research aimed to improve the daily lives of American...
Mimicking Molecules Manifest a Maker
A recent study discovered that certain molecules mimic the exact shapes of other molecules, allowing them to interact in a way that protects the genetic integrity of their host organism.
Researchers discovered...
Science Still in the Dark about Dark Energy
Evolutionary astronomers have a problem. The universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, but if general relativity is an accurate cosmological model, and if the universe is made up of the kinds of...
'Inner Fish' Is Really Inner Design
Evolutionary scientists are often on the lookout for evidence that they hope will vindicate Darwin’s outdated theory of evolution. Recently, a team of geneticists discovered that although the non-coding...
Press Release 04 21 2009
Graduate School Sues Texas Agency Over Academic Discrimination
Contact: Lawrence Ford, Director of Communications, Institute for Creation Research (ICRGS), 214-615-8398, press@icr.org
DALLAS,...
Does Twitter Twiddle with Morality?
New research has provided interesting insights into brain activity associated with human morality. The study, conducted at the University of Southern California, focused on the uniquely human emotions...
Gene Construction Confirms Creation
The fruit fly has been a leading model organism for genetics research the past hundred years. A new biotechnology-based study of this key organism has yielded more evidence for special creation.
Geneticists...
Chimp Study Reveals Humans Are Uniquely Wired
Chimps are physically stronger than humans, as demonstrated in recent national news when a chimpanzee severely mauled a Connecticut woman. Police were forced to shoot and kill it after its owner failed...
Retinal Coordination: Picture Perfect Presentation of Design
Evidence abounds that vertebrate eyes cannot be the result of chance formation. Recently, scientists found even more evidence when they discovered that retinal neurons work together to provide the brain...
Snail Changes Outpace Evolution's Slow Crawl
Scientists observe many changes to animal physiology that occur too quickly to fit the “slow and gradual” concepts favored by classical Darwinian evolution. An illustration of this type of...
Viral Batteries: A Case for Evolution?
Researchers at MIT have invented a “greener” battery with the help of viruses. Three years ago, they engineered a virus that coats itself with material that serves as an anode, a structure...
Stone Blades Cut Back Evolutionary Dates
Evolutionary anthropologists once thought that stone knives were developed in the late Stone Age, around 40,000 years ago. That figure was later revised to 200,000, around the Middle Stone Age, when stone...
Comer Lawsuit Dismissed, TEA's Neutrality Policy Upheld
A lawsuit brought by Chris Comer, former director of science at the Texas Education Agency, against the TEA and its commissioner, Robert Scott, was dismissed by a federal judge on March 31, 2009. United...
Ancient Oxygen-Rich Rocks Confound Evolutionary Timescale
Many origin of life researchers have for decades argued that the early earth must have had a “reducing” atmosphere, meaning that it had very little oxygen. This argument has no direct evidence...
Anti-God Ads Hit Dallas
In the heart of the Bible belt, billboards stating “Don’t believe in God? You are not alone” have been posted in parts of Dallas, home of the Institute for Creation Research.
The boards...
Metal 'Snakes' Fall Far Short of Life
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratories have observed nickel filings ordering into rows atop a special fluid. With precisely structured electromagnetic fields surrounding them, the snake-like rows...
Evolutionists, Atheists Admit Defeat in Texas
After months of hearing debates over Texas science education standards, the 15-member State Board of Education voted to remove the requirement for teachers to teach the “strengths and weaknesses”...
Tail-gliding Bugs Are Not Evidence for Flight Evolution
Researchers recently announced that they have unlocked some of the mystery surrounding the evolution of insect flight.1 Their observance of a certain wingless insect led them to hypothesize...
The 'Mystery' of Octopus Fossils
Around 150 years ago, Charles Darwin asserted that “no organism wholly soft can be preserved.”1 He concluded this based on the assumption that fossilization required long periods...
Fossil Fibers Befuddle Dinosaur Evolution
Evolutionary museums and textbooks have often portrayed modern birds as the descendants of dinosaurs, a story that has been presented without empirical support. Now, a new "feathered" dinosaur discovery...
Scientists Seek Second Genesis
The invention of a synthetic life form is a dream shared by many scientists, and they are beginning to see it as a possibility that is achievable within a decade. New Scientist magazine stated that “engineering...
Neo-Darwinian Theory Fails the Mutation Test
Darwin’s original conception of simple-to-complex evolution maintained that nature selected certain individuals with superior features, and in this way gradually, one tiny feature at a time, an entirely...
The First and Best Biotechnician
Mankind’s attempts at bioengineering have yet to match the precision of some techniques already found in nature: cloning, tissue culturing, and gene therapy. Recent studies have explored how these...
Deadly Waters No Problem for Well-Equipped Algae
Arsenic is a common toxic component in pesticides and herbicides, and one place it is found naturally is in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park. The arsenic in the water there would be deadly...
Physicist Receives Million-Pound Prize for Predicting a.,.
On March 16, 2009, the Templeton Foundation announced the winner of its annual 1 million pound sterling (1.42 million USD) prize, an amount that exceeds the payoff of the prestigious Nobel Prize.1...
'Live Evolution' Not Witnessed After All
Some science media outlets are hailing a recent study as “live evolution witnessed,” but what researchers at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique actually saw isn’t evolution...
The Dirty Little Secret Is Out: Religious Faith and Evo.,.
In a recent book review, Jerry Coyne, professor of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago, admitted that the secular worldview of macroevolution (the development of complex life from “simpler”...
What Is a Turtle Fossil Doing in the Arctic?
A fossilized turtle shell, along with a host of lithified tropical plants and animals, has been discovered on Axel Heiberg Island in the High Canadian Arctic.1 This new find presents an enigma...
The Permian Extinction: Good Science, Bad Assumptions
Ninety percent of marine and 70 percent of terrestrial creatures perished suddenly in an event variously called the Permian extinction, the Permian–Triassic (P-Tr) extinction, or the Great Dying....
Altruistic Aphids, an Evolutionary Anomaly
Certain aphids manipulate plant tissues to form a hollow gall in which they then reside. But aphids will also help heal plant tissue that they’ve damaged. This behavior serves as a vital self-defense...
A New Technique for Pluripotent Stem Cells
Stem cell treatments have proven successful for many diseases, and there is great promise that new treatments will emerge to combat even more maladies. These successful treatments involve inserting correctly...
Obama Orders the Destruction of Human Embryos
In a significant move to distance himself from the moral conservatives of the country, President Barack Obama on March 9 ordered that federal money (taxpayer money) be used to promote medical research...
In Honor of Darwin's 200th Birthday: Evolution's Bigges.,.
A very interesting article was recently published in New Scientist magazine in honor of the bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth.1 Sixteen of the world’s leading evolutionary biologists...
What Does It Take to Fossilize a Brain?
Scientists have accidently discovered a rare and perhaps unique fossilized brain of an iniopterygian, an extinct kind of ratfish or chimaera that supposedly lived 300 million years ago. When the researchers...
Molecular Clocks Are Preset to Evolution
Evolutionary scientists often use results derived from molecular biology dating methods (based on DNA sequence similarities) to bolster their assumptions that some related organisms may have diverged millions...
Fish Studies Answer Flood Question
According to the Bible, the world before Noah’s Flood, including the oceans, must have been idyllic. That was destroyed by the year-long global deluge, during which the earth’s land mass broke...
Ancient Human Footprints Look Modern
Some scientists have estimated that sets of human footprints found on two separate but close sedimentary layers in Kenya are around 1.51 and 1.53 million years old1 and were made by humans like...
Hormone Research Unwittingly Corroborates Biblical Kinds
Hormones are small chemical switches that turn on or off different cellular systems. They are tissue-specific, most often produced by the tissue of one organ, distributed in mammals via the bloodstream,...
First Draft of the Neandertal Genome Sequence Released
The highly anticipated initial draft assembly of the Neandertal genome was announced at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in the United States and at...
Tubular Fish Eyes Defy Evolution
Fully-functional and distinct eye designs are found throughout the animal world. They are diverse, and yet each one contains such highly specified interconnected parts that evolutionary scientists have...
150 Years Later, Fossils Still Don't Help Darwin
“Creationists claim there are no transitional fossils, aka missing links. Biologists and paleontologists, among others, know this claim is false,” according to a recent LiveScience article...
Our Great Ancestors Were. . . Sponges?
Geochemists and paleontologists are on the lookout for “molecular fossils,” biochemicals that were resistant to breakdown even during rock-forming processes.1 These have been discovered...
Stunning New Evidence of a Higher Ancient Sea Level
According to the record in Genesis, there was a time when the entire surface of the earth was inundated with water. This possibility has been ridiculed because of questions regarding the origin and destination...
Poll: Majority of Americans Don't Believe in Evolution
Even two centuries after his birth, less than 40 percent of Americans believe in Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by means of natural selection, a recent poll found.
The Gallup survey, released...
Recent Human Variation Is Not Evolution
Discover magazine recently asked, “Are We Still Evolving?” The same-titled article noted that “for decades theories about human evolution had proliferated despite the absence of much,...
Can Cosmic Collisions Create?
From setting orbits straight and creating moons, to manufacturing magnetic fields, secular science has consistently used chance cosmic collisions and near-misses to explain the origins of a host of fine-tuned...
Religion-Free Group Says to 'Praise Darwin'
How much sense does this make?
An organization that bills itself as a promoter of “freedom from religion” posted billboards bearing the words “Praise Darwin: Evolve Beyond Belief”...
Study Shows Our Minds Are Tuned to Believe
“It seems that our minds are finely tuned to believe in gods,” according to a new report appearing in the journal New Scientist.1 A group of scientists undertook the task of studying...
Ant Algorithms Argue Against Evolutionary Origins
Traffic jams are a frustrating part of modern life, and many dream of the kind of uncongested roadway systems shown in futuristic movies like Minority Report. But some researchers have suggested that ideal...
Extinct Ibex Clone Dies at Birth
The last of a type of wild mountain goat was found dead in the mountains of northern Spain in 2000. The Pyrenean ibex, characterized by its curved horns, was officially declared extinct, but not before...
Tiny Ocean Plants Offer Biochemical Enigma
Phosphorus, number 15 on the periodic table of elements, is considered a basic component of all cell membranes. But the recent discovery of single-celled photosynthetic organisms surviving without the...
Teamwork Between Shining Bacteria and Squids Evolved?
Certain strains of bacteria, named Vibrio, can establish a mutually beneficial link with a squid by a single gene switch, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin.1 Could this...
No Tolerance Allowed: Stein declines university speech .,.
Comedian/economist/lawyer Ben Stein backed out of delivering a spring 2009 commencement speech because of complaints to the university about his views on evolution.
The University of Vermont’s president,...
Science vs. Scripture: An Open Response to Dr. John Ank.,.
In January 2009, ICR received a copy of a recent ministry letter published by television personality Dr. John Ankerberg. For many years, Dr. Ankerberg has skillfully tackled tough issues related to the...
Solar System Secrets Solved
A recent issue of New Scientist contained a series of articles that explored “The Six Biggest Mysteries of Our Solar System.” One article posed the question, “How was the solar system...
Darwin's Evolutionary Tree 'Annihilated'
In 1837, Charles Darwin drew his first “evolutionary tree” in his “B” notebook, with the words “I think” scrawled above it, to illustrate his idea that all of today’s...
Parasitic Worms Evolved the Wrong Direction
Parasites are a topic that often makes people cringe. Some like to use parasites as an argument against creation, because after all, how could a good God create “bad” organisms like these?
According...
Epigenetics: More Information than Evolution Can Handle
Living things develop partly according to genetic instructions encoded on their DNA. The study of inheritance has widened the paradigms from genes to genomes, and now recent research has added yet another...
Inflation Hypothesis Doesn't Measure Up to New Data
Since the Big Bang story of the origin of the universe has been refuted by a host of external observations and internal contradictions,1 secular science has been forced to postulate additional,...
Elephant Secrets under Middle East Sands
Yale anthropology professor Andrew Hill and graduate student Faysal Bibi are studying elephant footprints and other fossils near oil-rich Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. In this formerly lush and...
Evolutionists Lament That Americans Still Believe in God
In a recent U.S. News & World Report debate, Glenn Branch, Deputy Director of the National Center for Science Education, speculated that Charles Darwin “would not be happy to learn that almost...
Anti-God Bus Ads Stick Around, Garner Mixed Responses
In late 2008, London buses began carrying banner advertisements declaring, “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”1 Sponsored by the British Humanist...
TFN Survey's Flawed Methodology Invalidates It
In an effort to influence the Texas State Board of Education to ban the teaching of the weaknesses apparent in evolutionary theory, the Texas Freedom Network (TFN) Education Fund sponsored and released...
Antibody Variation Is Not Evolution
Researchers at Wayne State University in Michigan have uncovered a key step in the formation of antibodies. It was already known that the immune system generates a variety of antibodies in response to...
Diamond Research Points to a Recent Formation
Most diamonds are formed at depths of 150 or so miles. Deep diamonds, however, formed at depths of over 400 miles. The discovery of a new cache of deep diamonds near Eurelia, Southern Australia, has...
Methane on Mars: The Stuff of Life?
On January 15, 2009, NASA scientists announced what they believed could be evidence of life on the planet Mars. What they had actually found was methane in the atmosphere, a gas that can be produced...
Lab-'evolved' Molecules Support Creation
Scientists attempting to demonstrate random evolution in the laboratory have found something entirely different: evidence supporting creation.
Gerald Joyce of the Scripps Research Institute coaxed...
Fish's Mirror Eyes Reflect the Creator
Scientists have waited for years to study a rare and unique deep sea fish. Finally able to investigate a live specimen, they discovered that the “spookfish” has mirrors that reflect light onto...
Stewardship and Coconut-based Car Parts
Coconut husks, made of tough fibers, are abundant in tropical regions. Coconut farmers have most often discarded the husks, but science is finding creative ways to use them.
Baylor University researcher...
Pink Iguanas and Evolutionary Dating Conflicts
Pink iguanas were discovered in 1986 in the Galapagos. Researchers have analyzed the DNA of these very rare iguanas and found that it is significantly different from both the terrestrial and the marine...
Does Earth Balance Carbon Dioxide Levels Automatically?
A group of German scientists has received clearance from the United Nations to perform a controversial experiment: dumping tons of iron into ocean water.
Victor Smetacek and his research team from...
Virus Motors Impossible for Evolution
Bacteriophages are non-living yet specialized viruses that hijack cells to clone more viruses. In this way, they help to maintain balanced bacterial populations. When a new “phage” is assembled...
The Confusing Origin of Locust Swarms
Certain grasshoppers are generally mild-mannered and solitary creatures.1 However, when their population becomes dense enough, their bodies physically change and they clump together, sometimes...
How Some Vegetables Fight Cancer
Many plants have cancer-fighting properties. Researchers have known for some time that cabbages and their near relatives, broccoli and cauliflower, can help prevent certain cancers. A recent study has...
Evolution Missing from Top Science of 2008
The acclaimed research journal Science has published its picks for the top ten scientific breakthroughs of 2008.1 The number one breakthrough was the manipulation of body cells into an embryonic...
Another Local Flood Theory
A British researcher has offered yet another non-biblical explanation for the source of the global Flood account in Genesis. Archaeologist Sean Kingsley proposed that the story arose from the flooding...
New 'Species' Was Just a Tiny Human
Small fossilized skeletons were discovered in 2003 on the Indonesian island of Flores. Resembling diminutive men, these “hobbits” (dubbed Homo floresiensis) were discovered among sophisticated...
Rare Insect Evolved at the Wrong Time
The Lord Howe tree lobster (actually an insect) was thought to have gone extinct around 40 years ago when rats were introduced to the lone island that housed them off the coast of Australia. The insects...
Even Parasite Genes Look Young
The parasite Trichinella spiralis is commonly dated as being around 20 million years old. A recent DNA study by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists, however, has yielded some surprising results.
T....
Yawning With a Purpose
All vertebrates yawn, but why they do it has long been a mystery. Recent research suggests that yawning may be a cooling mechanism for the brain.
In their study set for publication in the journal Animal...
Data Storage Systems in the Living World
The world has witnessed an explosion of digital technology in the past few decades. With these advances comes the question of how to preserve the digital information that is constantly being generated.
Dr....
Did Magma Dykes Spread the Continents?
A longstanding conundrum for long-age geology thinking is summed up by Purdue University Professor Eric Calais: “When we calculate the forces available from plate tectonics, we find that they are...
Neanderthal Men Were Modern Men
A set of fossilized human remains has been discovered in Iberia that shows partial Neanderthal characteristics, proving again that Neanderthals interbred with anatomically modern men.1 This...
Fast-orbiting Stars Puzzle Astronomers
German astronomers have been meticulously tracking the orbits of 28 stars nearest to the center of the Milky Way spiral galaxy. Over the 16 years of their study, one of the stars travelled so fast that...
A New Role for Interferons: Teaching
Interferons are signaling proteins in immune systems that have long been appreciated for their role in defending the body against viral attacks. Interferons hinder viruses from multiplying inside host...
Where Did Flesh-eating Bacteria Come From?
Flesh-eating zombies may be the work of science fiction horror, but necrotizing soft tissue infection—a severe type of infection that destroys tissue—is a real condition that can kill about...
Bush Believes that Creation and Evolution Are Compatible
Recently, President George W. Bush stated that he believes that the concept of evolution does not conflict with a belief that God created the world.
In an interview with ABC’s Cynthia McFadden at...
Inefficient Cat Motion Remains a Mystery for Evolution
The evolutionary story holds that nature favors efficiency in hunting and movement, but it turns out that cats contradict that concept.
In a report appearing in the research journal Public Library of...
The Brain's Emergency Brakes
Emergency brakes are an important safety component in elevators. In a dangerous episode, such as an earthquake, these brakes activate and stop the elevator from moving, keeping the passengers inside from...
The Delicate Balance of Ear Crystals
UCLA researchers have discovered that tiny crystals called otoliths—necessary parts of a properly functioning inner ear—form not as the direct result of a gene product, but rather as the result...
Atheists Get 'Shared Time' with Nativity Scene
For not celebrating any “holy” days, atheist organizations seem especially vocal during the 2008 Christmas season.
The most recent in a series of anti-Christmas efforts is a campaign in Washington...
Why Did Life Evolve Beyond Bacteria?
According to certain scientists, human activity that causes damage to the environment may interfere with the ongoing evolution of the earth. Harvard geochemistry professor Charles Langmuir said in a recent...
Particle Physics Is Remarkably Consistent with Genesis
Aided by a supercomputer, an international team of theoretical physicists has recently performed a massive computation that confirmed Einstein’s famous formula E=mc2, which states that...
'Multiverse' Theory Fails to Explain Away God
New discoveries continue to reveal the life-friendly properties of our universe, in which physical laws are seemingly fine-tuned to allow life to exist. To get around the appearance of design, secular...
New Study Makes Connection Between Religion and Lower M.,.
Women who attended religious services regularly lived 20 percent longer than those who did not, a recent study found.
The research, published in the journal Psychology and Health, examined cardiovascular...
Self-sacrificing Cells Demonstrate a Selfless Designer
Scientists have discovered that a single yeast cell gene (FLO1) expresses a protein that causes individual cells to stick to one another for protection. The cells flocculate, or form clumps “consisting...
Texas 'Freedom' Network, UTA Professor Oppose Academic .,.
The upcoming battle over what public science textbooks should teach promises to be no less contentious than the battles of the past. The Texas State Board of Education held a public hearing Wednesday,...
PBS Fails to Uncover the Bible's 'Buried Secrets'
by Christine Dao and Beth Mull*
On November 18, 2008, publicly-funded PBS stations aired a two-hour NOVA special titled “The Bible’s Buried Secrets” that attempted to find the “true”...
Darwin’s Mockingbirds Show Neither ’Rigid C.,.
The Natural History Museum in London recently opened a new exhibit that features mockingbirds that Charles Darwin collected during his travels around the Galapagos Islands in 1835. He observed they were...
Study Shows Nanoparticles Contribute to Cell Damage, Aging
Among many possible environmental factors, scientists have long suspected that certain combinations of nanoparticles contribute to cell damage, aging, and eventually death. That hypothesis has been confirmed...
How Did Marine Organisms End Up in Tree Sap?
A team of French experts in paleoenvironments has discovered algae and several bits of marine life that are completely encased in amber, a hard substance thought to originate from hardened tree sap....
Genetic Expression: Same Genes Can Produce Different Results
Genes could be thought of as brick molds, used to construct materials for building the physical structures of living organisms. They carry the codes to help make proteins, which then make up different...
Atheists' Christmas Campaign: 'Yes' to Goodness, 'No' to God
Just weeks after the British Humanist Association unveiled plans for “No God” ads on London bendy-buses,1 the American Humanist Association (AHA) is starting a similar campaign to...
Scientists Discover the On/Off Switch of the Cell's Cop.,.
Our cells are amazing places that contain countless molecular machines all working together to perform multiple and important functions simultaneously.
Within our cells are strands of DNA, which are very...
Chimps and People Show 'Architectural' Genetic Design
An international team of geneticists recently set out to explore in more detail the evolutionary relationship between humans and chimpanzees. Despite their assumption that man and chimp share a common...
MythBuster Mistakes Evolution for Science
The popular Discovery Channel show MythBusters not only entertains, it also does what science education is supposed to do: promote critical thinking through hands-on experience. The show focuses on Adam...
The Gamburtsev Mountains: Where Did the Ice Come From?
Research is currently underway to scan the Gamburtsev mountain range, which is around the size of the Alps and stands in the middle of Antarctica. It is also covered by about 2,000 feet of ice, and...
The Gamburtsev Mountains: An Antarctic Mystery
Antarctica has for years puzzled researchers who submit to long-age theories, especially after the Gamburtsev mountain range in central Antarctica was discovered in 1957. These mountains are about as big...
Myco-diesels and the Age of the Earth
A newly-discovered Patagonian fungus named Gliocladium roseum can produce various alcohols and hydrocarbons, including octane.1 The fungus lives inside the ulmo trees of South American rainforests...
Will Reducing Carbon Dioxide Solve Global Warming?
Recently, scientists projected that even very drastic reductions in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will do very little to slow atmospheric CO2 buildup, and therefore global warming. Nevertheless, the...
Morbid Moth Meals: Variation at Work
National Geographic News recently stated that a species of Russian moth with a thirst for human blood demonstrates “evolution at work.”1 The moth, Calyptra thalictri, was filmed...
Transcontinental Sedimentation and the Flood
Sand and other sediments can be transported by rivers and floods, but what kind of forces—and how much water—would it take to move thousands of cubic miles of sand from one side of a continent...
Plants Screen Potential Mates
Almost all behavioral experts would agree that good communication is key to the survival of a healthy relationship. This principle also holds true in the plant world.
When a sperm-containing pollen grain...
Genesis and a 'Wet' Sahara
Using satellite photos in conjunction with geochemical analyses, a team of researchers has proven the existence of a now-buried lake and river system that once operated in the middle of the Sahara desert...
Redefining Life
by Brian Thomas, M.S. and Christine Dao*
“Life is that which replicates and evolves,” begins a paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.1...
UK Approves Use of Animal-human Embryos for Research
British lawmakers have formally approved the use of animal-human hybrids for stem-cell research after months of bitter debate between Prime Minister Gordon Brown and a group of secular scientists against...
Practicing What Is Preached
Some evolutionary scientists are upset that many newly-minted science graduates are scientifically illiterate. In a recent article in The Scientist, writer Richard Gallagher states,
One young innocent,...
Bonobos and Evolutionary Violence
Bonobos are chimpanzee-like primates, native to areas south of the Congo River, that have traditionally been regarded as more peaceful than chimpanzees. Chimps hunt and maim other arboreal monkeys, and...
Origin of Life Research Still Dead
Scientists are hoping to revive a 50-year-old failed experiment that tried to discover how biological life could have originated from non-living chemical processes.
In 1953, Stanley L. Miller of the University...
Intestinal Bacteria: A Delicate Balance
Certain intestinal bacteria can spur an imbalance in immune system cells, leading to an inflammation of the digestive tract, according to a new study out of New York University.
“Inflammatory bowel...
Dawkins Supports 'No God' Ads
Professor Richard Dawkins has once again shown that atheists (or “secular humanists,” as some have dubbed themselves) live in a kind of bubble—one in which history can be skewed, and...
The Call of the Hadrosaur
Duck-billed dinosaurs have puzzled paleontologists for years, particularly because certain chambers in some of their skulls did not seem to have a clear purpose. But CT-scanning, originally designed for...
A Dose of Nature Improves Concentration
Many have experienced the calming effects that a simple stroll in a park can produce, but scientists are discovering that walking in green surroundings can also reduce the symptoms experienced by children...
Cambrian Clash: Fossils and Molecular Clocks Disagree
In a recent issue of the journal BioScience, ecologist Jeffrey Levinton of Stony Brook University, New York, offered a well-written review of the current status of the “Cambrian Explosion”...
What Spurs Evolution: the Old or the Young?
On October 7, 2008, University College London professor and geneticist Steve Jones delivered a bold lecture entitled “Human evolution is over.”1 In the past, he stated, elderly fathers...
Cichlid Coloration Corroborates Creation
Biologists are having a difficult time figuring out how to fit a tropical fish’s rapid coloration changes into the story of evolution. A new study examined the role these changes play in the fish’s...
Fossil Footprints Trample Evolution's Timeline
Researchers accidentally discovered what appears to be tiny footprints in Precambrian rock. Loren Babcock, Professor of Earth Sciences at Ohio State University, was turning over samples from a Nevada outcrop...
Stressosomes: Bacteria's Ingenious Coping Mechanism
Advancing technology continues to reveal new aspects of cellular function. Molecular biologists have known that “stressosomes,” large protein complexes in bacterial cells, play some role in...
Insect Designed with a Spring in Its Step
Scientists are discovering engineering details of the biological structures that enable some animals to jump exceedingly far for their sizes. Froghoppers are insects that can jump 100 times their body...
7 Wonders Creation Museum Celebrates 10-year Anniversary
Lloyd and Doris Anderson entertained approximately 100 guests for the 10th anniversary of the 7 Wonders Creation Museum near Silver Lake, Washington, on Saturday, September 27.
The young-earth creation...
Biomineralization: An Engineering Masterpiece
Computerized tomography (CT) scans use computing power to compile two-dimensional X-ray images into a three-dimensional view, and researchers are optimistic that a new form of high-resolution CT scanning...
The Finest Solar Technology Doesn't Come from a Lab
Advances in solar cell technology have produced a new European record of 39.7 percent efficiency. The result was attributed to improved “contact structures” of solar cells, according to Frank...
Temple of Science Exhibits the Religion of Science
One argument that secular humanists and neo-Darwinists can’t stand is when their blind belief in, and zealous defense of, the evolutionary interpretation of unobservable past processes is labeled...
Earth's Oldest Rock Has the Wrong Date
Scientists put an age on what they believe is earth’s oldest rock, but their figure doesn’t match other geologic or historical facts.
McGill University researchers recently published...
Camel Remains Show Camels Remain Camels
The jawbone of a very small camel was unearthed in Syria in August 2008. According to Heba al-Sakhel, head of the Syrian National Museum, it is the oldest fossil camel on record, clocking in at one million...
Will the True Tetrapod Transition Please Step Forward?
Have “primitive fingers” really been discovered in a fossil fish?1 Many fish, fossilized or live, show bone structure in their fins, and evolutionary scientists have believed this...
How Did American Iguanas Get to Fiji?
A new species of iguana was recently discovered in central parts of Fiji. Named Brachylophus bulabula, it is the third iguana species that has been found in the Pacific islands. The find also presents...
Proposed Texas Standards Censor Sound Science
A recommendation for new science curriculum standards up for state board consideration in Texas would not require that students be taught about the weaknesses in Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.1
The...
Neanderthal Babies Were Human Babies
Japanese and European anthropologists recently published a study they conducted on the remains of Neanderthal children. Neanderthal skeletons resemble those of modern humans but are characterized by larger...
The Dinosaur Mummy
We often think that mummies are only found in Egypt, but they have been discovered all over the world. They aren’t always human, either.
A mummified dinosaur fossil was found by amateur researchers...
120-Million-Year-Old Ants Alive and Well?
University of Texas researchers have concluded that a newly-discovered, blind, subterranean ant “evolved over 120 million years ago from wasp ancestors.”1 The discovery of previously...
WHY Should We Apologize?
In a sad but almost humorous turn, a large Protestant denomination has issued an apology to Charles Darwin for not embracing his particle-to-people philosophy sooner.1 Constructed by Rev. Dr....
Worldviews and the Blissful Ignorance Effect
Scientists have officially measured and documented the “Blissful Ignorance Effect,”1 which describes the way consumers’ goals shift after they’ve made purchases. Before...
Royal Society Professor Forced to Resign over Creationi.,.
Even evolutionary scientists of high degree are in danger of losing their jobs and garnering criticism from their peers over the issue of creationism.
Biologist Michael Reiss resigned as Director of Education...
Data Derails Dinosaur Dominance Idea
The long-held belief that dinosaurs once ruled the earth because of their evolutionary superiority is undergoing some modification. The standard story holds that in an earlier era of earth’s billions-of-years...
Human DNA in Mice: Evolutionary Presumptions
by Brian Thomas, M.S. and Christine Dao*
While many scientists perform valid scientific investigations, their starting assumptions as well as their final conclusions are not derived directly from the...
Protocell Research: on the Verge of. . . a Dead End
Harvard Medical School scientists believe they are closer to creating life out of non-living matter—but there are good reasons to doubt it.
Molecular biologist Jack Szostak and his team are building...
Metabolic Pathways Produce Evolutionary Roadblock
Researchers at Northwestern University have discovered what they believe to be evidence for the evolution of strong and healthy metabolic networks within cells. What they may have actually found, however,...
The Significance of the Successful Supercollider Startup
On September 10, 2008, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator went into action, sending a beam of protons racing at nearly the speed of light in the first of many preliminary tests that researchers...
Teenage Suicide and an Evolutionary Worldview
After steadily declining for a decade, teen suicide spiked by 18 percent from 2003 to 2004, according to a recent study conducted at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.1
The...
Palin Slammed for Supporting Open Debate
The Republicans threw a curve ball for the nation when John McCain announced that his vice presidential running mate would be Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. She has received a great deal of criticism on...
Flu Fighter Found in Fruits and Vegetables
A study published in June by the American Physiological Society showed that mice that were given the vitamin-like compound quercetin were more resistant to the flu.1 Quercetin is found in a...
Fossilized Gecko Fits Creation Model
A gecko foot encased in amber has been dubbed the oldest gecko fossil ever discovered, according to researchers from Oregon State University and the Natural History Museum in London.1 The amber...
Cognitive Decline and a Biblical Decree
Elderly people without dementia show patterns of cognitive decline in the years prior to death, a new study published in Neurology magazine indicates.1 This sheds some interesting light on a...
Surviving Exhibit: Science or Indoctrination?
An exhibition favoring evolution has opened to coincide with the “Year of Evolution,” a celebration being held from April 2008 to May 2009 by the University of Pennsylvania and various Philadelphia...
"Relative Pitch" Is Human
A new study out of the University of Rochester has revealed that more people have perfect pitch than was expected. Perfect, or “absolute,” pitch is the ability to recognize or produce a specific...
Green Chemical Clean-up
In another instance of scientists borrowing design elements from natural systems (a process known as biomimicry), researchers have developed a chemical catalyst modeled after peroxidase enzymes. Peroxidase...
Photosynthesis Inspires "Green Fuel" Breakthrough
An international team of researchers has developed the first man-made device capable of using sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, which is a key process in photosynthesis.
The Monash...
Sichuan Compassion Contravenes Evolution
As the 2008 Beijing Olympics drew to a close this week, we celebrated not only the accomplishments of the athletes, but also the resilience of the world’s most populous nation.
Human rights issues...
DNA Repair Enzymes: Vital Links in the Chain of Life
Several decades ago, the cellular process known as “DNA repair” was not even suspected. But since then, investigation of genetic functions has increasingly revealed a system that is mind-bogglingly...
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