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By Brian Thomas, M. S. and Christine Dao*
Broken communication seems to be the cause of many diseases, not bad bacteria, according to research from the University of Wisconsin. Microbiologist Margaret...
Nylon-Eating Bacteria and Evolutionary Progress
Bacteria capable of metabolizing nylon were discovered in the 1970s. Nylon is a man-made substance that was developed in the 20th century. Since bacteria had not been exposed to it before then, could their...
Giving Human Evolution a Hand
Although the jury is still out on the creation/evolution debate in the scientific and public policy arenas, media and pop culture present evolutionary assumptions and theories as though they were scientific...
Non-stick Bugs
In South Africa, special “mirid bugs” make their homes in sticky, living-flypaper plants, feeding on other insects that get trapped in the plants’ leaf-secreted glue. How do they avoid...
Happy Birthday, Sue; How Old Are You?
The people of Faith, South Dakota, recently celebrated the “birthday” of the discovery of the world’s most famous T. rex fossil, called “Sue” after its discoverer, Susan Hendrickson....
How Long Do Frozen Greens Keep?
A large bed of moss was recently discovered under Antarctic ice. The moss was not fossilized, but frozen—for the last 14 million years, according to the standard story.
Adam Lewis of North Dakota...
Optimism in Evolution?
by Brian Thomas, M. S. and Frank Sherwin, M.A.*
Optimism in evolution…the words form a contradiction, considering that according to macroevolutionary theory, “progress” can only take...
California Judge Rules Against Academic Freedom
In another restriction of academic freedom, a federal judge has allowed the University of California (UC) to continue denying course credit for college preparatory classes to applicants from Christian...
Astronomers Speak: Our Solar System Is "Special"
New research is shedding surprising light on the uniqueness of our solar system. Over 250 planet-like objects (mostly gas giants) have been observed in distant space, and researchers are curious about...
Better Treatments Will Stem from New Cell Lines
New developments in stem cell research have set the stage for scientists to investigate treatments for specific diseases—investigations that won’t require the destruction of human embryos.
A...
Ancient Computers?
A 2,000-year-old computing device may change the way we think about ancient civilizations. The mechanical star-positioning instrument was discovered in a shipwreck at the turn of the 20th century, and...
ICR Receives the Independent Charities Seal of Excellence
The Institute for Creation Research has received the “Independent Charities Seal of Excellence” for meeting the highest standards of public accountability and program cost effectiveness. Less...
Wave Power and Ventilating the Ark
A British company is making waves, or more like harnessing them, in the field of renewable energy research. Wavegen, located in Scotland, has built a device that harnesses the oscillations of waves and...
PBS Bible-bashing? Wait and See.
Word on the street (or the blogosphere) regarding an upcoming PBS show has a few Christians up in arms.
The two-hour NOVA program titled “The Bible’s Buried Secrets,” slated to air on...
Why Are Human Genes Still Linked?
U.S. News and World Report recently ran a story titled “What Will Human Beings Become?”1 It asked the question “How will humanity evolve?” and attempted to collate various...
Fish Scales and Body Armor Design
The U.S. Army is looking at fish for the future of body armor design. MIT investigators have uncovered some of the secrets of construction that enable fish scales to be lightweight, sturdy, flexible,...
ICR Launches New Research Funding Initiative
The Institute for Creation Research is pleased to announce the launch of its National Creation Science Foundation (NCSF), a funding activity to advance the study of origins science.
For nearly 40...
Diamonds May Have Sparked Life, Say Researchers
Researchers cannot seem to figure out how the first living cell came from a soup of inert chemicals using only the forces of nature and time.
Some time ago, the concept of an “RNA world” was...
Osmium in Shale Reflects the Flood
Researchers at the University of Alberta have discovered osmium signatures in shale.1 Osmium is a radioactive element that is commonly found in lava and in water that is near lava. The scientists...
The Steady Gaze of Flies: An Engineering Marvel
Scientists at Imperial College in London have flies on their minds. "Anyone who has watched one fly chasing another at incredibly high speed, without crashing or bumping into anything, can appreciate...
"Co-evolution" or Creation?
The lowly milkweed has presented a challenge to the evolutionary assumption that life forms become ever more complex in response to environmental pressures. Cornell associate professor of ecology Anurag...
Extinction Events Are Declining to the Biblical Level
New research may change conventional thinking on fossil diversity and extinction rates.1 John Alroy, a researcher at the University of California Santa Barbara, and 34 other scientists recently...
A Vocal Vestigial Organ?
Researchers at the National Center for Voice and Speech in Denver, Colorado, suspect that the small pouches in our voice boxes—called laryngeal ventricles—are vestigial organs. They surmise...
Whales Inspire New Turbine Design
For decades, human design engineers have been laboring to make more efficient machines, like propeller blades that produce steady airflow patterns. Our thinking has been fixed on the idea that smooth...
Louisiana the Only State to Promote Academic Freedom (S.,.
Last month, Louisiana became the only state to set into law some measure of academic protection for teachers who wish to present more than one side of the origins debate. The Louisiana Academic Freedom...
Tasmanian Devils: Extinction, not Macroevolution
Tasmanian devils are breeding at younger ages, and researchers at the University of Tasmania in Australia believe the phenomenon is caused by an evolutionary response to the cancer that is devastating...
Fossil Feathers Convey Color
Analysis of an unusual Brazilian fossil has led U.S. researchers to link microscopic fossil features to bird feather colors. The fossil has dramatic black and white banding patterns that have been interpreted...
ABC News: Camels Are American Emigrants
Some scientists believe that camels originated in North America around 20 million years ago and migrated from there. Paleoecologist Guy Robinson, a professor at Fordham University, told ABC World News,...
World's First Artificial DNA Molecule (Well, Almost)
Biomimicry is the science of designing machines that follow patterns that can be observed within God's creation. One example of this is the helicopter, which Ukrainian-American aviation pioneer Igor Sikorski...
A Natural Cause of Greenhouse Gas
Data collected through the 1980s and 1990s strongly suggested that the earth was warming.1 Some scientists believe the phenomenon is man-made (anthropogenic), primarily due to fossil fuel...
National Geographic's Flatfish Story Falls Flat
Evolutionists are praising research recently conducted on flatfish fossils, and one banner publication went a bold step further in claiming that the find contradicts intelligent design and creation arguments.
National...
New Antibiotic Kills Drug-resistant Superbugs
Antibiotics are a bit like electronic products. Given time, they become obsolete. Scientists at the Rockefeller University have taken antibiotic technology to the next level by targeting bacterial genes....
Human-pig Embryos: A Question of Morality
This article is part 3 of 3 in a series.
Researchers at the University of Warwick are attempting to develop human-pig hybrid embryos. The project's application received approval from the Human Fertilisation...
Understanding the Stem Cell Debate
This article is part 2 of 3 in a series.
In the ongoing debate about stem cell research, few people differentiate between adult stem cells and embryonic stem cells. Also, few know that there are...
U.K. Grants Approval for Human-pig Hybrid Embryos
This article is part 1 of 3 in a series.
The U.K.'s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has approved an application by the University of Warwick to form pig-human embryos. As of July 1, 2008,...
Oceanic Currents and the Paths of the Sea
Have scientists found the "paths of the seas"? Psalm 8:6-9 says, "Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen,...
Silent Mutations Cripple Viruses
New vaccines are being developed that promise to be safer than traditional vaccines, which work by exposing patients to less virulent versions of viruses.1 The new vaccines use a similar process,...
"Non-Human Hominid" Right to Life
Great Britain and New Zealand have banned experimentation on certain groups of great apes. Now the Spanish government is considering granting them not only exemption from experimentation, but the rights...
"Missing Link"; Is Missing Some Parts
On the heels of other "missing link" stories comes an Associated Press (AP) report on a "365-million-year-old" fossil uncovered in Latvia. Ventastega curonica is supposedly "the...
Bacterial Clutch Denotes Design
The bacterial flagellum has amazed observers because of its intricate and minute design. It exhibits remarkable efficiency, construction, and function in the tiny cells where it serves as a motorized propeller,...
Did God Make Brain-Eating Amoebas?
Brain-eating amoebas caused six deaths last year, representing a spike in cases that concerns health officials. WebMD reported in May that the young men who died had picked up the amoebas while swimming.1
Many...
We Now Know...
Evolutionists have often foisted conclusive pronouncements of new “knowledge” upon the public, only to retract them later with a “We now know…” kind of comment. For example,...
Dallas News Survey Pushes Evolution-Only Dogma
In the Sunday, June 22, 2008, edition of the Dallas Morning News, columnist Steve Blow reported the results of a survey he conducted on the hot-button issues of evolution, stem cell research, and global...
Non-Identical "Identical Twin" Stars Defy Evo.,.
A 15-year investigation by Vanderbilt University scientists of a pair of stars near the Orion nebula has led to unexpected results.1 Evolutionists assume that “because the two stars condensed...
Report: 92 Percent of Americans Believe in God
A study released June 23, 2008, found that 92 percent of Americans believe in God, including about one in five who say they are atheists.
The survey1 by the Pew Research Center’s Forum...
Dinosaur Fossil Erases 40 Million Years
The standard story of the origin of Australia goes something like this: Many millions of years ago, the earth had one continent called Pangaea. Around 120 million years ago, a landmass that included the...
Evidently, Evolution Proves Evolution!
A recent report serves to demonstrate a commonly observed pattern among evolutionary authors: circular reasoning. It turns out that the arguments used to support evolution rest upon the assumption of...
Life from the Stars?
Imagine a soup containing all the biochemicals of a cantaloupe except for its RNA. If we could then add the missing RNA, how close would the mixture be to an actual cantaloupe? Not very—it would...
Hemispherectomy Recovery: Testimony to Divine Design
On June 11, 2008, Jesse Hall from Aledo, Texas, underwent a hemispherectomy to treat a rare brain illness.1 The suffix “ectomy” refers to the surgical removal of a body part. A hemispherectomy,...
Brilliant Brain Biologists Forget the Foundation
New research purports to shed light on how brains evolved. Apparently, evolving a more complicated brain, such as from invertebrate to vertebrate, is not simply a matter of more connections (synapses)...
Bacterial Evolution in the Laboratory?
Back in 1988, researchers placed bacteria in an environment that pressured them to evolve the ability to metabolize (eat) citrate instead of the standard glucose. After 31,500 generations and 20 years,...
The Cons of "The Cons of Creationism"
A recent New York Times online editorial titled “The Cons of Creationism”1 is a typical example of the way the secular media routinely mischaracterize creation science. Let us critique...
Human Stem Cells Cure Mutated Mice
Researchers are intelligently designing techniques to combat mutations that cause neurological disorders. If evolution works according to the standard neo-Darwinian model of time + selection + mutation,...
The Finest Food, Feed, Fiber, and Fuel for the Future: .,.
According to the Dominion Mandate issued to Adam and Eve in the Garden1 and repeated to Noah2 about 1,657 years later, we are to be good stewards of the earth. One aspect of stewardship...
Fresh Kiwis
Ancient dates have once again been reevaluated and found to be less than accurate. Instances from every isotopic dating technique have been routinely rejected for decades. Typically, the newest “date”...
Resveratrol: Lapping up the Limits of Longevity
At the recent World Science Festival in New York, long life was a hot topic. David Sinclair, a Harvard Medical School professor and an expert on the health benefits of a substance found in red wine called...
"MEMS" the Word in Microrobotics
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are barely visible robots. Bruce Donald, a professor of computer science and biochemistry at Duke, has been working on microrobots since 1992. His team has designed...
Wipe Once, Then Toss: The Antibiotic Resistance of the .,.
On June 3, the Reuters news service reported on a potential health threat that, interestingly enough, also sheds light on one of the major flaws of evolutionary theory. The article cited a study led by...
Synthetic Life "Breakthrough" Just Demonstrat.,.
Dr. Cameron Alexander of the University of Nottingham recently used polymers to build capsules that imitate bacterial cell walls. Bacteria can interact with these capsules, absorbing chemicals from them....
Press Release 05 28 2008
Graduate Science Program Claims “Viewpoint Discrimination” in Appeal of Texas Education Ruling
Contact: Lawrence Ford, Institute for Creation Research (ICRGS), 800-337-0375
DALLAS, May...
Surtsey: A Young-earth Laboratory
Surtsey is an island volcanically formed just 45 years ago off the coast of Iceland. Science Illustrated has highlighted this unique island in its May/June 2008 issue. “Surtsey always provides surprises,”...
Press Release 05 02 2008
Science Institute Releases Documents in Texas Academic Freedom Case
Contact: Lawrence Ford, Institute for Creation Research (ICRGS), 800-337-0375
DALLAS, May 2 /Christian Newswire/ -- Administration...
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Dallas – On February 28, 2008, Nature magazine featured an editorial...
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Dallas - On December 14, 2007, THECB Certification Advisory Council met to consider...
Texas Education Officials Strike Blow to Academic Freedom
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) Commissioner Raymund Paredes on Wednesday, April 23, 2008, recommended that the Institute for Creation Research Graduate School (ICRGS) be denied...
Humans Are Humans, After All
The British science journal Nature has reported that scientists have discovered remains in a cave in northeastern Spain that are now considered “the earliest known remains of a human in Europe.”
Anthropologists...
Scientists Report Doubts over Key Theory of Evolutionar.,.
Researchers have recently “ruled out a hypothesis” that has been taught as dogma in schools, colleges and universities worldwide: the cause of the Permian extinction, allegedly “the...
Ecological Restoration and the Flood
Damaged land areas, such as results from both man-made and natural disasters, are a source of real concern for many ecologists. Floods, for example, leave behind tremendous damage to the earth. And many...
Chasing the Elusive Brown Dwarf
A team of astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History will be reporting in the June issue of Astrophysical Journal that a new "object" in space has been discovered that some believe...
Florida schools must teach evolution, despite public opinion
The Florida State Board of Education now requires the explicit teaching of evolution in public science classes, with a last minute addition of the phrase "the scientific theory of" in an apparent...
ICR Answers Critics
The Institute for Creation Research (ICR) has received a great deal of media attention since its graduate school applied to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) for the right to grant...
UCSD Scientist Discusses Evolution, Presents No New Defenses
University of California, San Diego, biologist Steve Kay recently discussed evolution in an online chat forum hosted by The San Diego Union-Tribune in which ICR biochemistry professor Dr. Duane Gish and...
Life from Space?
For decades, a number of evolutionists have found it to be unlikely that life evolved from nonlife here on earth. Although they are the minority, they list solid scientific reasons why such an event is...
Evolution Wilts in Light of Flowering Plants
In his book Creation: Facts of Life, biologist Gary E. Parker asked:
Did you ever wonder what kind of plants the dinosaurs tromped around on? The answer may surprise you. Some of these unfamiliar animals...
Brave Evolutionary Teachers: Person of the Year?
For Time magazine's Person of the Year, Frans de Waal of Emory University has nominated “the brave biology teachers of this nation who teach evolution despite the opposition they encounter.”...
PBS' "Judgment Day" Is a Misjudgment
On November 13, 2007, PBS aired the NOVA program Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial, featuring a re-enactment of the controversial 2005 trial Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School Board. Although the...
A Tempest in a Dog Dish
Recent news about the St. Bernard dog has supposedly taken a bite out of creation science, reported an article on The University of Manchester’s website.
Zoologists at the university measured the...
Early South African Clambakes
Right on the heels of the shattering news that Homo erectus is not our ancestor—previously taught as a fact to generations of schoolchildren and the lay public—comes the discovery that man...
Baylor University: Stifling Academic Freedom?
Baylor University is wrangling once again with the issue of Intelligent Design. The affiliate of the Baptist General Convention of Texas is reported to have shut down a professor's personal website...
Creation Defender D. James Kennedy Goes Home
Heaven has welcomed another creationist into its fold. Dr. D. James Kennedy, founder and senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church (CRPC) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, went home to the Savior...
RATE Conference in Denver on September 15
Evolutionary "deep time" is accepted as fact, but what does the evidence actually show? In 1997, seven scientists set out to explore this question through a scientific research project called...
Cedarville University Honors ICR Graduate
Cedarville, Ohio—Dr. John Whitmore, a 1991 graduate of the Institute for Creation Research Masters Program, was recently honored with the Faculty Teaching Effectiveness Award by Cedarville University....
Gallup Poll: Two Thirds of Americans Believe God Create.,.
The political establishment has weighed in on it. The media has attempted to excoriate presidential candidates because of it. The academic community has tried to relegate it to the realm of unscientific...
Creation Museum Champions Scientific Evidence for Bibli.,.
True science has a new ally. Answers in Genesis CEO Ken Ham's vision of a science museum that supports biblical truth became reality on Memorial Day when the $27 million, high-tech Creation Museum...
Science Teachers Violate NSTA Standards of Open Inquiry
In an editorial titled “Creeping Passivity” in the May 2007 issue of Journal of College Science Teaching, Ann Cutler, a college teacher at the University of Indianapolis, expresses concern...
Falwell Joins Other Creationists in Glory
Noted evangelist Jerry Falwell went to be with our Lord on Tuesday, May 15, shortly after he was found unconscious in his Liberty University office and rushed to the hospital. Falwell is best known...
Virginia Tech Shootings a Senseless Tragedy
The recent shootings at Virginia Tech sent the whole country into shock, and I’m no exception. I grieve with the rest of the nation for those families who lost loved ones in this senseless crime.
Many...
ICR Executive Encounters Atheist David Seaborg in BBC I.,.
While thousands of ministers across the United States extolled the virtues and accomplishments of Charles Darwin on “Evolution Sunday,” the Institute for Creation Research took this opportunity...
10,000 Clergy Preach Darwin over Scripture
Many pastors take advantage of special occasions and holidays to preach topical sermons of importance to families, communities, and even the nation. Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Independence Day—all...
Graduate School to Launch New Science Journal
The Institute for Creation Research Graduate School (ICRGS) has announced its upcoming launch of the International Journal for Creation Research (IJCR).
IJCR is a professional, peer-reviewed journal of...
New Online Certificate Program Now Available
Our post-modern world is saturated with compromise in politics, science, law, medicine, and even theology. Knowing and defending God’s truth has never been more vital to our mission as believers....
Smithsonian: Religious Scientists Prohibited
“Are you a religious person?”
This question is not allowed on job applications and it is prohibited during job interviews. And regardless of the truth, the religious affiliation of an...
School Board Gives Up Fight Over "Evolution Sticke.,.
“This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully...
Study: Giant Kangaroos Killed by Drought
“Giant kangaroos and wombats bigger than cars which once roamed Australia were killed by climate change and not human hunters,” Reuters reported this week.
According to a study...
Oxford Scientist Examines the Benefits of Hitler's Bree.,.
In a supposed “letter to the editor” last week for the Sunday Herald of Scotland titled “Eugenics may not be bad,” Oxford professor Dr. Richard Dawkins, author of The God...
TIME Equates Christians, Creationists with 9/11 Terrorists
After Democrats seized Congress in the mid-term elections this month, the mainstream media grabbed the opportunity to gloat over Republican losses. Conservatism, personified, in their opinion, by President...
Geologist Claims Creationists Abandoned Faith
LONGVIEW, Texas—“I know many, many young earth creationists who are now atheists,” declared Glen Morton to the crowd of students.
A petroleum geologist from Houston who subscribes to...
Purpose Driven Peace: Warren Denies Praise of Syrian Te.,.
Pastor Rick Warren, author of the best-selling Purpose Driven Life, vehemently denied reports today from the Syrian Arab News Agency that quoted him as saying there would be “no peace in the region...
Evolution Teacher Returns as Creationist
“Parker had no idea that his teaching of evolution would offend the residents of Desoto County. He had never heard evolution challenged in any of his college classes,” writes David Bedell...
Mary Louise Morris (1917-2006)
DALLAS—The Morris family announced today the passing into glory of their mother, Mary Louise, on November 8, 2006. Mrs. Morris was carried to the arms of her Savior in a peaceful sleep.
The...
Flipper: Man's Best Friend?
Science headlines today in the mainstream media have become stereotypical and, frankly, tiresome. The evolutionary spin of reporters and editors routinely elevates speculation to the level of hard evidence...
The Lucy Show to Open in Houston
The Associated Press reports that “Lucy” aka Australopithecus afarensis will be making a six-year, multi-city tour beginning September 2007. The Museum of Natural Science in Houston, which...
Tough Guy Kicks Evolution Myth
“Chuck Norris doesn’t read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.”
“Faster than a speeding bullet...more powerful than a locomotive…able to leap...
The Ascent of Darwin
BBC News reported today that Cambridge University in England has launched a new website containing a comprehensive library on the life and work of naturalist Charles Darwin. Featuring thousands of pages...
Fighting Against the Forces of Darkness
“I know that you here are in the front line trench against powerful forces of darkness,” encouraged the speaker on the creation-evolution debate. “I salute you. I sympathize with you....
Father of Slain Student Blames Evolution for Killings
Brian Rohrbough deserved to make a statement about the recent school shootings in Bailey, Colorado and at the Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania. Brian’s 15-year-old son, Dan, was gunned down at Columbine...
Has a "Brain Evolution Gene" Been Discovered?
Human evolution has yet to be validated, and never will be according to Scripture and science. In 1979 evolutionists Ayala and Valentine presented a “likely phylogeny of the hominoids.” But...
ICR Inaugurates Center with RATE Conference
DALLAS—"If people spent more time looking at the data…they might be pleasantly surprised," commented Ken Embry, a retired engineer who spoke to reporter Sam Hodges of The Dallas...
Oh, Baby! Another Missing Link Discovered
The Bible teaches, and the fossil record shows, that man and ape have always been separate. Evolutionary naturalists disagree and attempt to interpret shattered fossil remains of apes in a Darwinian context,...
Is the Universe Crowded with Earthlike Planets?
Once again, those with a secular worldview want to make Earth look like it is just one of possibly millions of other habitable planets. There's nothing special about us, many in the sciences maintain....
Pluto: Is It a Planet?
by Frank Sherwin
Science is dynamic, always changing. With new information, what was taught as a fact to one generation is but an amusing footnote to the next. When the camera was first invented, the common...
Butterfly Evolution?
The media has been increasingly alive with stories touted as proof for Darwinian evolution. Much has recently been written regarding the discovery of new animal and plant species and secular scientists'...
Has Noah’s Ark Been Found in Iran?
John Morris
The Bible specifies that Noah’s Ark came to rest on “the mountains of Ararat” and that as the waters continued to drain, other mountain tops could be seen. No particular...
A "One-Hundred-Million-Year-Old Bird" is Stil.,.
Birds are incredible flying (and occasionally non-flying) machines. The Creator has designed these creatures with specialized flight apparatus, an amazing respiratory system, not to mention unbelievable...
RATE Results Reported in Roanoke, VA
Four members of the RATE team presented evidence for the young age of the earth at First Baptist Church of Roanoke, VA on Saturday, May 20. Dr. Russell Humphreys, Dr. Andrew Snelling, Dr. John Baumgardner,...
Training a New Generation of Creation Research Scientists
ICR is excited to announce the 2006 Graduate Mentorship Workshop. Co-sponsored by the Society for the Advancement of Creation Science (SACS) and ICR, this six-day workshop will provide students and educators...
A Question of Age: Vardiman and Lisle Confront Ross and.,.
Dr. Larry Vardiman of ICR and Dr. Jason Lisle of AiG shared opinions on and evidence for the age of the earth with Dr. Hugh Ross and Dr. Fazale Rana of Reasons to Believe on April 29, 2006 in Fullerton,...
Tiktaalik: Our Ancestor?
With the continued invalidation of the corrupt theory of neo-Darwinism in the eyes of many, and school boards nation-wide taking a favorable look at intelligent design, it is not surprising that evolutionists...
How Soon Will Jurassic Park Open?
by Daniel Criswell
In the fictional movie Jurassic Park dinosaurs were cloned by obtaining the genetic information necessary to make a dinosaur from ancient DNA (aDNA) sequences extracted from dinosaur...
Saturn's Moon--Does Water Equal Life?
Creation and secular scientists were fascinated by the discovery of possible geysers of water on the moon of Saturn, Enceladus, by the Cassini spacecraft on March 9th.
CNN.com states that because water...
Memorial Service Held for Dr. Morris
The assembly gathered Thursday at Shadow Mountain Community Church to celebrate the life and homegoing of a great man of the faith. This man dedicated to the Lord in his infancy by the great R.A. Torrey,...
New Species Found in Indonesia
Frank Sherwin
Newsweek magazine (Feb 20) reports the East Kalimantan providence of Indonesia has new species of animals and plants that was discovered by a team of researchers from three nations. Two...
Crocodile Ancestor?
"A toothless, two-legged crocodile ancestor that walked upright and had a beak instead of teeth was discovered in the basement of New York's American Museum of Natural History, according to a report...
Interpreting Stardust
Interpreting Stardust
By Dr. John Baumgardner
On January 15, 2006, a space capsule parachuted out of the sky and landed in the Utah desert. This capsule contained dust-sized particles snared from...
Can We Trust Science?
Can We Trust Science?
by Dr. Dan Criswell
Have you noticed when sitting in your car at a traffic light, how many motorists in the cross traffic, or in the opposing left turn lane, continue through the...
Recapping 2005 at ICR
by John D. Morris
With the coming of each New Year we look back and take stock of what has been accomplished in the previous one. Thus we report to those who undergird us with gifts, prayers and service,...
Dinosaurs, Grasses, and Darwinism
The ancient, strange, and foreign world of the dinosaur described by evolutionists continues to dissolve in the face of scientific research. Contrary to what has been taught for decades, dinosaurs inhabited...
What Are They Afraid Of?
Creation/evolution issues have been a constant subject in the news media recently, much of the reporting slanted and poorly-informed, all of it negative towards creation. Nevertheless, the events are real...
A First "RATE" Conference
A sell-out crowd of around 2,300 people gathered at Shadow Mountain Community Church in San Diego on Saturday, November 5, 2005, to hear about the groundbreaking discoveries from the RATE research team...
RATE News Release
San Diego (Santee), CA -- On November 5, the Institute for Creation Research hosted a creation science conference to a sell-out crowd of 2,300 participants. Conference attendees eagerly heard the...
New ICR Research Summaries Available
ICR announced the completion of plans for several new research projects following the completion of RATE in the September Impact article #387 entitled, "What Comes after RATE?" In that same article...
Defender's Bible Expanded
In 1995 Dr. Henry Morris, ICR's founder, released The Defender's Study Bible, a study Bible "defending" all Scripture passages which had come under attack, and presenting creation and inerrancy...
Washington Scablands and the Lake Missoula Flood
More than one hundred years ago, geologists began to ponder the landforms in eastern Washington State. They noticed that the land surface is essentially flat and underlain by thick and extensive basalt...
Evidence for a Young Earth from the Ocean and Atmosphere
By Larry Vardiman, PhD
Introduction
The earth was created by God as the most beautiful planet in our solar system. Why? Because God is a god of beauty and design and he desired to prepare a special...
ICR Radio News Release
For Immediate Release: October 1, 2005
San Diego (Santee), CA-- Like a battering ram in the battle for truth, the scientific fact that the earth is only thousands, not billions of years...
Dr. John Baumgardner has more than 30 years of professional experience in large-scale numerical modeling, including 20 years in a computational fluid dynamics group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Several other researchers who intend to use the computer also have considerable numerical modeling experience. Some of the researchers who plan to use the computer immediately on high-priority projects include Drs. Larry Vardiman, D. Russell Humphreys, Steve Austin, Andrew Snelling, and Dan Criswell.The new computer was paid for by gifts from a generous donor to ICR research last January. However, support for the individual research projects is still needed. If you are interested in donating to the Epiphany project or specifically to any of the associated research projects, please contact Dr. Larry Vardiman at 619/448-0900 or LVardiman@icr.edu. Anticipated computational research topics include modeling of submarine debris flows, submarine cross-bed formation, runaway subduction, rapid mountain uplift, Ice Age climate dynamics, cosmologies without the assumption of the Copernican principle, galactic spiral structure development, limits and costs of natural selection, effects of environmental "noise" on genetic selectibility, effects of near-neutral mutations on long-term genomic stability, genome comparison between human and chimpanzee, as well as many yet to be identified areas of origins research.
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Example of computer modeling done by Dr. Larry Vardiman.A new high-speed, 40-processor research computer was delivered to ICR in August and within days began crunching numbers to support new research. ICR is expanding its efforts in numerical simulation and plans to use this computer to perform model development and data analysis in several new areas.
The computer was custom designed and fabricated by Davis Systems Engineering of Princeton, New Jersey, in collaboration with Dr. John Baumgardner, the new head of ICR's research computing center. It consists of 40 AMD 64-bit Opteron 2 GHz processors, each with 1GB of memory. The unit has the speed of 120 older processors used previously by Dr. Baumgardner in a similar configuration. The multiple processors are connected via gigabit Ethernet through a 24-port crossbar switch. Message Passing Interface (MPI) software allows individual applications to run simultaneously on multiple processors.
The new computer has been named Epiphany, which means to reveal or show forth, particularly to commemorate Jesus as the Christ. Dr. Baumgardner hopes the work on this new resource will lead to breakthroughs in creationist understanding in many fields.
Problems Dr. Baumgardner intends to explore include catastrophic sedimentary processes, regional and global tectonic processes, paleoclimatic/Ice Age studies, early cosmos dynamics with non-Copernican boundary conditions, galaxy dynamics and development, effects of mutation and selection of genomic stability, and detailed human/chimpanzee genome comparison.
Dr. John Baumgardner has more than 30 years of professional experience in large-scale numerical modeling, including 20 years in a computational fluid dynamics group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Several other researchers who intend to use the computer also have considerable numerical modeling experience. Some of the researchers who plan to use the computer immediately on high-priority projects include Drs. Larry Vardiman, D. Russell Humphreys, Steve Austin, Andrew Snelling, and Dan Criswell.The new computer was paid for by gifts from a generous donor to ICR research last January. However, support for the individual research projects is still needed. If you are interested in donating to the Epiphany project or specifically to any of the associated research projects, please contact Dr. Larry Vardiman at 619/448-0900 or LVardiman@icr.edu. Anticipated computational research topics include modeling of submarine debris flows, submarine cross-bed formation, runaway subduction, rapid mountain uplift, Ice Age climate dynamics, cosmologies without the assumption of the Copernican principle, galactic spiral structure development, limits and costs of natural selection, effects of environmental "noise" on genetic selectibility, effects of near-neutral mutations on long-term genomic stability, genome comparison between human and chimpanzee, as well as many yet to be identified areas of origins research.
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Example of computer modeling done by Dr. Larry Vardiman.
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