Archive of Articles
The Hell Creek Formation: The Last Gasp of the Pre-Floo.,.
JUNE 01, 2015
In Creation Research Society Quarterly 2015 51: 286-298
According to secularists, the top of the Hell Creek Formation records the last of five great extinctions. It has gained further fame as a...
Distant Starlight and the Big Bang
Since light travels at a known rate, how could incredibly far-away starlight have reached Earth in just one day—specifically, Day 4 of the creation week?1 Genesis scoffers, including...
Thick Ice Sheets: How Old Are They Really?
Secular scientists claim that ice in deep cores extracted from the thick Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets is hundreds of thousands of years old. Do these ice cores prove an old earth?
Although...
Dinosaurs in Marine Sediments: A Worldwide Phenomenon
For many years, paleontologists have known of marine fossils within various dinosaur-bearing rock units in the American West. These occurrences are largely ignored by mainstream scientists who deny...
Heavy Metal Clocks, Pb-Pb Dating Model: Radioactive Dat.,.
…that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting. (Ephesians 4:14)
This...
Does DNA Determine Sexual Preference?
I’m often asked if there really is a “gay gene”—one that predetermines certain people to be homosexuals. From the beginning of creation, God designed men and women to be equal...
The Power of Many
The breadth and depth of ICR’s ministry are remarkable. From countless articles and numerous books, to online education programs, long-running radio broadcasts, entertaining online videos, captivating...
Fathers Who Change the World
I once heard my pastor make a startling claim. After decades of counseling church members, he concluded that dads hold the key to their children’s spiritual lives. He said the best way to raise...
June 2015
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Rise Up, O Men of God!
Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? (Psalm 94:16)
Over a century ago, William P. Merrill wrote the words to the challenging hymn...
Purpose, Progress, and Promise, Part 7
For the past several years, the Institute for Creation Research has been seeking answers to the major questions of creation biology. This series’ previous installments chronicled the purpose and...
Made in His Image: Tiny Parts Are Big Players in Human .,.
When we think about human vision, the first thing that comes to mind is the eye. But just as a star football player performs with other essential players on his team, our eyes are supported by key,...
Crayfish, Caribou, and Scientific Evidence in the Wild
An unusual law has helped some creation science evidence to “go wild.”
Unsurprisingly (for Bible believers), mounting evidence increasingly shows that only the Genesis explanation of...
Why Do Animals Use Sexual Reproduction?
Biologists from the U.K. conducted a 10-year-long experiment on common flour beetles to help understand why insects keep on using sexual reproduction despite its inefficiencies. Though they interpreted...
Remembering Mount St. Helens 35 Years Later
The volcano’s main 1980 eruption filled in an entire valley with hundreds of feet of sediment. Another smaller eruption event deposited more material on top of that, and then a third deposition...
What Mean These Stones
“When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? Then ye shall let your children know.” (Joshua 4:21-22)
The poet George Santayana once said,...
New Fossil Dubbed 'Platypus Dinosaur'
It has a bill like a duck, leg spurs like a rooster, lays eggs like a reptile, but has fur like a mammal. Yet all these features elegantly integrate to form the body of a modern platypus. If God created...
Clever Construction in Rorqual Whales
A few years ago, scientists discovered a unique sensory organ in the jaw of a rorqual whale—the world's largest creature. Rorqual whales, which include the blue whale and fin whale, feed by...
Still Searching for Geology's Holy Grail
The origin of the continental crust continues to baffle secular geologists who often refer to this mystery as the "holy grail of geology."1 The outer surface of the Earth is composed...
A Cosmic 'Supervoid' vs. the Big Bang
In a new paper, scientists have announced the discovery of an enormous region of lower-than-average galaxy density about three billion light-years from Earth.1,2 This "supervoid,"...
Scientific Suicide
The recent cover of the April 4-10, 2015 issue of New Scientist magazine reads "Belief: They drive everything we do. But our beliefs are built on…nothing."1 This is an amazing...
How Could Eve Know?
Eve was challenged with the first recorded dilemma. On the one hand, God indicated that on the day Eve and Adam ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, their immortal bodies would become...
Snake Venom, Genetic Entropy, and Adam's Curse
Unbelievers and Christians alike often ask, “How could a good god make creatures with toxic venom?” According to the Bible, God originally created the world free of death, disease, and violence....
Heavy Metal Clocks, U-Pb and Th-Pb Dating Models: Radio.,.
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is...
Do Stars Still Form Today?
“Our own Milky Way produces, on average, at least one new star every year,” begins a University of Michigan news story detailing how galactic dust interactions may regulate star formation.1...
ICR's Tychicus
Tychicus is an obscure figure in the New Testament, mentioned only five times—four times by the apostle Paul and once in the book of Acts in association with Paul’s missionary journeys....
Just a Touch
When the ICR team—Dr. Henry Morris III, Jan Morris, and Michael Hansen—arrived in Amman, Jordan, one of their first stops was a church that provides services to refugees from neighboring...
May 2015
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Hungry Hearts in the Middle East
Meanwhile praying also for us, that God would open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ. (Colossians 4:3)
Open Doors
Sometimes the Lord opens unexpected doors. Institute...
Settling the Dinosaur Weight Debate
by Tim Clarey, Ph.D., and Jeffrey P. Tomkins, Ph.D.*
Weren’t dinosaurs too big to fit on the Ark? Creation scientists need accurate estimates of average animal sizes to determine...
Made in His Image: Living Light Detectors Declare Design
Suppose you are an electronic engineer tasked with devising a mechanism that can translate ordinary variations of light into useful information. But here is the tricky part: It has to work inside a...
Raymond Damadian, Inventor of the MRI
Dr. Raymond Damadian is the “father of the MRI” (Magnetic Resonance Imaging). MRI is widely recognized as “one of the great medical breakthroughs of the 20th century” and has...
A Secret Weapon for Apologetics
Secret weapons provide special advantages. Imagine the value of a bazooka in the hands of a skillful soldier hiding in the bushes when an enemy tank lumbers by. Or, consider the smug confidence of a...
Three-Dimensional DNA Code Defies Evolution
Scientists have long been baffled as to what actually tells proteins called transcription factors (TFs) where to bind in the genome to turn genes off and on. However, new research incorporating the...
Mosasaur Babies: Aren't They Cute?
We often hear claims that birds are similar to dinosaurs, but birds and mosasaurs? Mosasaurs were swimming reptiles. How can they be confused with birds? A recent study published in Palaeontology by...
No Salamander Evolution Evidence, Past or Present
Scientists in Portugal unearthed a "super salamander" which, although "weird compared to anything today," is still very much a salamander.1
The fossilized bones of...
Myths Dressed as Science
A recent MSN article claims a fossilized hominid called "Little Foot" found in a cave at the Sterkfontein site near Johannesburg, South Africa, is approximately 3.67 million years old.1...
Saturn's Enceladus Looks Younger than Ever
The more we learn about Enceladus, the younger it looks. Stated another way, the more that our space probes discover about this fascinating little moon that inhabits Saturn's tenuous E ring, the...
Another Horizontal Gene Transfer Fairy Tale
As the genomes of many new creatures rapidly fill the public DNA sequence databases, the problems for the grand evolutionary story are becoming overwhelming. One issue is the fact that different creatures...
Viral Genome Junk Is Bunk
One of the great ongoing myths of evolution is that the genomes of animals and humans are littered with vast amounts of genomic viral DNA fossils. These alleged ancient viral sequences are thought to...
One-Ton Guinea Pig
As if living creatures don’t display enough variety in God’s creation, fossil forms bring that diversity to a whole new level. Consider the fossil skull of a guinea pig from Uruguay so big...
No Evolution Is Proof of Evolution?
by Jeffrey P. Tomkins, Ph.D., Tim Clarey, Ph.D., and Jason Lisle, Ph.D.*
Scientists recently discovered a community of fossilized sulfur-metabolizing bacteria that are alleged to be 1.8...
Rare-Earth Clocks, Sm-Nd and Lu-Hf Dating Models 2: Rad.,.
This series has summarized radioisotope dating models, their assumptions, and how those assumptions mistakenly lead to a “deep time” picture of our universe.1 Secularist scientists...
Did Humans Evolve from Ape-Like Ancestors?
The popular story of human origins is that humans evolved from ape-like ancestors over millions of years. If this is true, it defines our very identities. Are we creations of the God of the Bible who...
Gifts of Significance
Over 45 years old now, the Institute for Creation Research has grown in many ways. God always supplies each need, month by month, as individuals respond to occasional appeals and regular updates in...
From Foreign to Familiar
On a trip to England a few years ago, I found myself wondering about signs that dotted the roadways and parking lots. “Heavy Plant Crossing,” “Stop When Lights Show,” “Give...
April 2015
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Destructive Heresies
But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring...
The First Joint ICR/CRS Research Meeting
The Institute for Creation Research (ICR) and the Creation Research Society (CRS) are pleased to announce their first-ever joint research meeting July 30–August 1, 2015, in Dallas, Texas.
This...
Made in His Image: Life-Giving Blood
After 100 years of development, automobiles still need engine oil, transmission fluid, brake fluid, antifreeze, and so on. Wouldn’t it be great if just a single multipurpose fluid could be circulated...
Grappling with Megasequences
ICR’s ongoing Column Project (an analysis of over 500 drilling-core and outcrop samples from across North America) has revealed surprising results that smash entrenched uniformitarian thought.1...
Why We Want to Go Home
Home is a special place that attracts us, one way or another. Is the Genesis creation account part of the explanation for why home is so important?
The universal habit of using a personal shelter,...
10,000 Unlocking the Mysteries of Genesis DVD Sets Sold.,.
Since ICR’s 12-DVD series Unlocking the Mysteries of Genesis (UTMG) first hit our store last May, God has used it beyond our expectations. We have received countless letters of thanks and appreciation,...
Dinosaur Moth: An Evolutionary Enigma
Scientists discovered a tiny moth on Australia's Kangaroo Island and gave it the name Enigmatinea glatzella. The name is quite descriptive, as Enigmatinea means "enigma moth" in Latin.1,2...
Twins Provide Peek into Mankind's Origin
Lucy and Maria Aylmer are 18-year-old twins from the United Kingdom. They were born on the same day from the same mother, yet one has light skin and hair, and the other has dark skin and dark, curlier...
Information Processing Differences Between Bacteria and.,.
MARCH 25, 2015
by Change Tan and Jeffrey P. Tomkins
In Answers Research Journal 8 (2015): 143-162
Because bacteria, archaea, and eukarya contain unique mosaics of genetic features and biochemical similarities,...
Heads, Evolution Wins--Tails, Creation Loses?
Wouldn't two billion years of mutations and changing environments inevitably produce some effects in an organism? After all, in only a quarter of that supposed time, evolutionary processes are said...
Spiders Have Always Been Spiders
A University of California Berkley graduate student has discovered two beautiful new species of peacock spiders in southeast Queensland, Australia.1 The student, Madeline Girard, named the...
Information Processing Differences Between Archaea and .,.
MARCH 18, 2015
by Change Tan and Jeffrey P. Tomkins
In Answers Research Journal 8 (2015): 121-141
In the grand schema of evolution, a mythical prokaryote to eukaryote cellular transition allegedly gave rise...
Live Webcasts March 18 and 22!
(Note: These webcasts occurred March 18 and 22, 2015.)
Get a front-row seat to “Science Confirms Biblical Creation” and “Your Origins Matter” in the comfort of your own home...
Cancer Research Inadvertently Refutes Evolution
How did nature supposedly transform a single-cell organism into all the varieties of land-walking animals in our world today? Textbook explanations invoke natural selection of beneficial mutations across...
Lids, Lashes, and Lunar Rovers
Our amazing eyes are kept clean and moist due to the blink reflex stimulated by receptors on our eyes and eyelashes. When the lash is touched or the eyeball begins to dry, receptors fire and we immediately...
Manganese Nodule Discovery Points to Genesis Flood
Scientists recently discovered a large batch of manganese nodules on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.1 These metallic pellets provide strong evidence that most seafloor sediments were deposited...
RNA Editing: Biocomplexity Hits a New High
When the workings of the genome were first being discovered, the central evolutionary dogma of molecular biology claimed that genetic information passes consistently from DNA to RNA to proteins. Now...
The Dating "Pedigree" of Seafloor Sediment Core MD97-21.,.
MARCH 01, 2015
In Creation Research Society Quarterly 2015. 51:152-164
The fact that different, seemingly independent dating methods appear to “tell” a consistent “story” about Earth history...
Noah's Ark Model
On January 7, 2015, I delivered my model of Noah’s Ark to our Institute for Creation Research offices in Dallas, Texas. The project started as part of my Master’s in Christian Education...
Viruses--Architects of the Brain?
Mammal brains contain over a thousand different types of nerve cells, each networked to many other nerve cells in a dazzling, three-dimensional architecture that researchers are only just beginning...
The Whopper Sand
There’s a huge deposit of sand in the deep Gulf of Mexico, and no one seems to know how it got there—except maybe Flood geologists.
Early in my career as a geologist for an oil company,...
Rare-Earth Clocks, Sm-Nd and Lu-Hf Dating Models: Radio.,.
Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. (Colossians 2:8)
Author’s...
Where Could Adam's Sons Find Wives?
According to Genesis, Adam and Eve had sons, and 1 Corinthians 15:22 teaches that all of us descended from Adam. But if they only had sons, then where did their children find the wives necessary to...
Heavenly Investments
It is an indispensable fact of human existence that we are not self-sufficient beings. Our very lives depend on procuring and consuming certain amounts of food and water, and our bodies are often poorly...
The Creator and the Details of Life
NASA astronaut Col. Jeffrey Williams recently visited the Institute for Creation Research, and we had the opportunity to talk with him about his life, work, and faith. In our feature this month, we...
March 2015
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Above All the Earth
Few can say they’ve left planet Earth. Jeff Williams has done it three times. After a lengthy military career, Colonel Jeffrey N. Williams was chosen from among a handful of candidates to become...
Purpose, Progress, and Promise, Part 6
In this series, we are tracing the Institute for Creation Research’s efforts to replace the evolutionary model on the origin of species with one that is both biblically faithful and scientifically...
Made in His Image: Baby's First Breath
In 1967 Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant. Until that time, if someone’s heart was taken out, they died. People were astounded to learn that not only was a man’s...
Genesis in Chinese Pictographs
Ancient Chinese pictographs are silent witnesses, like fingerprints, of historical events reported in Genesis. In particular, the details of these word-symbols are clues that point to how the earliest...
Evolution of a Creation Scientist
Unlike many researchers working in the field of creation science, I was not raised in a strong Christian background. The occasional trip to some nominal church with my parents—my father, a successful...
Secular Study: No Big Bang?
Christians who believe the universe began billions of years ago often point to the Big Bang model to try and verify a creation-like beginning.1 But a new origin of the universe model offers...
Honey Bee Orphan Genes Sting Evolution
A key type of rogue genetic data called orphan genes has just been spectacularly reported in honey bees.1 Orphan genes conflict with ideas about genome evolution, and they are directly linked...
Determining Average Dinosaur Size Using the Most Recent.,.
FEBRUARY 18, 2015
by Timothy L. Clarey, Ph.D., and Jeffrey P. Tomkins, Ph.D
In Answers Research Journal 8 (2015): 85-93
The median mass of a dinosaur is determined to be 630 kg (1389 lb), or the size of an American...
Out of Babel--Not Africa
Newly published research combining genetic, language, and demographic data challenges the idea of a single lineage of languages and human populations evolving out of Africa.1 Instead, the...
Big Bang Evidence Retracted
In March 2014, the BICEP2 radio astronomy team announced purported direct evidence of cosmic inflation, an important part of the modern Big Bang model for the universe’s creation. This announcement...
Snakes Have Always Been Snakes
It's an old story. An animal or plant is discovered in sedimentary rocks by paleontologists and it pushes the organism's origin further back by many millions of years—but it's always...
A New Antibiotic?
Antibiotics serve as some of the most effective tools modern medicine has to offer. These amazing chemicals save many lives by targeting specific and essential processes in pathogenic bacteria—but...
The frilled shark . . . is still a shark
On January 21, 2015 the news broke—an Australian fisherman hooked a "living fossil." Called the frilled (or frill) shark (genus Chlamydoselachus, belonging to Order Hexanchiformes),...
Optimized Design Models Explain Biological Systems
Biochemical networks, signaling cascades, and genomes in cells are complicated information processing systems that are key to all aspects of living organisms. An increasing body of research shows these...
Was Leviathan Real?
Scripture describes leviathan as a titanic terror roaming the ancient seas. Was it real, and if so, what was it? Historical hints help answer these questions.
The most complete description of leviathan...
Dinosaur Fossils in Late-Flood Rocks
Evolutionary scientists view Earth’s rock layers as a chronological record of millions of years of successive sedimentary deposits. Creation scientists, on the other hand, see them as a record...
Alkali Metal Dating, Rb-Sr Dating Model: Radioactive Da.,.
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do the words of this law. (Deuteronomy 29:29)
Editor’s...
Does Teaching Recent Creation Hinder the Gospel?
Christians who oppose recent creation often assert that faith in Christ does not require a belief in recent creation, and they argue that insisting that the world is only thousands of years old hinders...
Built and Guarded by God
A long-time Institute for Creation Research supporter recently lamented the decline of solid Christian organizations once their founders passed away. We were discussing Christian colleges, and it was...
Little Lights
“Turn in your Bibles to Luke 17,” the pastor said as he began his sermon. I was visiting my son’s church, near a college campus. “Read along with me, beginning at….”...
February 2015
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Forensic Science Frustrated by 'Peer Review'
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, a house stood in ruins. What destroyed it? Did Sandy “total” it, or was it structurally defective well before the storm struck? Surely forensic science can...
God's Lovingkindness and Truth
God’s loving care is a great and expansive theme throughout the Bible. Many of the Psalms cite incidences of God’s faithful help, provision, deliverance, or other evidence that He remains...
Purpose, Progress, and Promise, Part 5
The first two articles of this series described the purpose and strategy of ICR’s life sciences research.1 Installments three and four surveyed the incredible gains our science team...
Creation Conversion: From Atheist to Creationist
I have always loved science, partly due to the influence of my engineer father, who was heavily involved in research and development. While growing up, my free-time diet consisted of Mr. Wizard, Disney...
Encore Presentation of Patterns of Evidence: Exodus
The Exodus is one of the best-known narratives in the Bible. It details the Israelites' escape from Egypt after centuries of slavery, Moses' rise to leadership, the devastating plagues on Egypt,...
2014 Most Notable News: Evolutionary Icons Toppled
The big-picture story of evolution tells that, over millions of years, natural processes produced millions of species from one or a few primitive progenitors. Did this really happen, or did God create...
The Hubble 'Pillars of Creation' Revisited
In 1995 the Hubble Telescope photographed spectacular columns of gas, illuminated by nearby stars, in a section of the Eagle Nebula.1 The enormous columns of gas in this famous photo have...
2014 Most Notable News: Recent Creation
In the year 2014, at least a half dozen fascinating observations confirmed the recent creation of our world and universe. For example, researchers took a closer look at Saturn's moon Enceladus,...
2014 Most Notable News: Creation Is a Hot Topic
Every generation of believers must settle for itself the core questions of ultimate origins. Where did everything come from? Can God's account of beginnings in Genesis be trusted as actually history?...
2014 Most Notable News: Fossils Resemble Living Relatives
Every year, a few fortunate paleontologists discover fossils that closely resemble living creatures, and 2014 was no exception. In fact, it was a banner year for finding modern-looking fossils in what...
2014 Most Notable News: Big Bang Fizzle
We might learn an important lesson from a bit of embarrassment Big Bang supporters suffered in 2014. In March, mainstream media outlets announced that the BICEP2 radio astronomy telescope team discovered...
'Dicer' Enzyme Keeps DNA on Track
As you read this article, think about your body. It’s composed of over 100 trillion cells working nonstop in a complex choreography of microscopic building and repairing. Scientists have looked...
Not Even Wrong
Physicist Wolfgang Pauli was once asked to review a technical paper and assess its accuracy. The content was so garbled, however, that Pauli is said to have remarked that not only was the paper not...
Devils, Dinosaurs, and Squirrel Fossils
The concept of dinosaurs living in a distant time populated by unique and now mostly extinct plants and animals has captured generations of students and moviegoers, but actual fossil finds keep contradicting...
Ice Cores, Seafloor Sediments, and the Age of the Earth.,.
by Jake Hebert, Ph.D., and Tim Clarey, Ph.D.*
The two previous articles in this series demonstrated problems with the old-earth timescales that secular scientists have assigned to deep seafloor...
Does Our Immune System Indicate Disease Before the Fall?
by Randy J. Guliuzza, P.E., M.D., and Frank Sherwin, M.A.*
If God originally created the world without death and disease, where did our bodies get their disease-fighting capabilities? Christians...
Opportunities in the New Year
We at ICR are thankful for God’s many blessings as we begin a new year of service. Our ministry is well into its fifth decade, and confirmation of the Lord’s providential hand has been clearly...
One More Minute
Whether or not you write New Year’s resolutions, I’d like to encourage you to stop and take stock—not to list out resolutions but to consider what matters most in life. Where are you...
January 2015
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The Whole Counsel of God
We live in a time when science and scientists have seemed to take on the role of the ultimate authority for mankind. Christian leaders must either refute the false science of evolutionary philosophy...
Purpose, Progress, and Promise, Part 4
The first two installments of this series described the purpose and strategy of ICR’s life sciences research and highlighted the key origins questions we’re trying to answer—the how,...
Sound Science about Dinosaurs
Were dinosaurs noisy? Did dinosaurs honk nasally like Chewbacca in Star Wars? Did dinosaurs make moaning noises like mourning doves and owls, or did they wail like bagpipes?
Are there any clues...
Wernher von Braun: The Father of Space Flight
Wernher von Braun—more than any other scientist—brought us into the space age.1 Von Braun laid the foundation for cell phones, satellite radio, the Internet, GPS, and Doppler...
Study: Comets Did Not Supply Earth's Water
Slightly different versions of water's constituent elements, hydrogen and oxygen, are relatively common in the universe. But how did Earth's version of water get here? European Space Agency...
Facts Bite into Bird Tooth Story
Fossils clearly show that some birds used to have small teeth, but most birds today do not have teeth. When and how did this change happen? A new study in the journal Science makes a few unfounded conclusions.1
The...
Birds Inspire Flight Sensor Inventions
The Wright brothers studied wing structures of seabirds before building their first airplane, and the first helicopter is said to have been inspired by dragonfly flight. Today, inventors continue this...
Amazing Ant Beetle Same Today as Yesterday
If ancient history according to Scripture is true, then what should we expect to find in animal fossils? Surely excellent body designs would top the list, closely followed by a lack of "transitional...
Unlocking the Origins of Snake Venom
The origin of snake venom has been a long-time mystery to both creationists and evolutionists. Interestingly, new research confirms that the same genes that encode snake venom proteins are active in...
How Different was 'Java' from 'Modern' Man?
Interest in human origins persists generation after generation, and researchers continue to uncover and interpret clues. The latest set comes from a reinvestigation of clam shells dug up in the 1890s...
550 Million Years of Non-Evolution?
A strange, new, mushroom-shaped species discovered alive on the deep seafloor near Australia—more than 3,000 feet below sea level—may be a record-breaking living fossil. Researchers investigated...
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