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Be the One to Make a Difference
When new acquaintances ask me what I do and I tell them I’m the Communications Director for the Institute for Creation Research—ICR—I get a variety of responses. “And what exactly...
Using ENCODE Data for Human-Chimp DNA Comparisons
In 2012, a variety of research papers associated with the ENCODE project (Encyclopedia Of DNA Elements) described how the human genome was pervasively copied—transcribed—into an amazing...
Both Hands
Those who built on the wall, and those who carried burdens, loaded themselves so that with one hand they worked at construction, and with the other held a weapon. (Nehemiah 4:17)
There came a time...
Bloody Mosquito Pierces Standard Fossil Dating Procedure
by Brian Thomas, M.S., & Tim Clarey, Ph.D. *
A Blood-Filled Fossil
Researchers recently examined a spectacular mosquito fossil containing still-bloody remnants within its body. They dated...
The Red Record
by John D. Morris, Ph.D., with Bruce Malone *
Flood narratives abound in cultures around the world. Creation speaker and scientist Bruce Malone alerted me to one of these accounts in a...
Runaway Subduction and Deep Catastrophic Earthquakes
A magnitude 8.3 earthquake recently struck deep below the Sea of Okhotsk in the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone just south of the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula and 950 miles north of Japan. It ruptured...
The Solar System: Saturn
When people peer into a telescope and see Saturn for the first time, the typical response is “Wow!” All the other planets appear as simple disks with a few surface features, but Saturn’s...
An Evening at ICR: Reaching This Generation for Christ
When the Institute for Creation Research was founded in 1970, few organizations existed that focused on science and how it relates to Scripture. Back then, face-to-face presentations were the only practical...
January 2014
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Best of 2013 Creation News: Earth's Age
As in years past, 2013 presented some new and serious challenges to the entrenched dogma of a 4.6-billion-year-old Earth. The latest discoveries support Scripture’s eyewitness-verified presentation...
The Truth Test
Truth and consequences go together—how we handle a test of truth produces a consequence. Think what it must have been like when Joseph of the Old Testament, disguised as an Egyptian leader, put...
Best Creation News of 2013: Tissue Fossils
About a dozen reports from the last half-decade have described original-tissue fossils, and 2013 added its fair share of finds. Experiments show the biochemicals, cells, and tissues within these fossils...
Best Creation News of 2013: Human Origins
The popular notion that humans evolved from ape-like ancestors took several heavy hits this past year—both from secular and creation-friendly research—confirming that God created man in...
Best Creation News of 2013: Astronomy
This year science has challenged the popular idea that the universe developed all by itself over billions of years. Astronomical discoveries from 2013 confirm creation—starting with the moon and...
Digging Into a Fossil Outhouse
A group of paleontologists reported the discovery of concentrated fields of fossilized dung, called coprolite, in northwest Argentina.1 The closely-spaced dung piles are seen as evidence...
Butterfly Wings: Inspiration for Waterproof Clothing?
What is the best way to shed water? Researchers writing in the journal Nature recently published some amazing water-repelling results that mimic butterfly wings’ tiny scales.1 These...
Dinosaur Soft Tissue Preserved by Blood?
Researchers are now suggesting that iron embedded in blood proteins preserved the still-soft tissues, cells, and molecules discovered inside dinosaurs and other fossils after the creatures were buried...
Dinosaur Youngster Looks Like Dragon Figurines
Phil Currie, one of Canada's leading paleontologists, helped excavate a virtually complete skeleton of what is likely the youngest ceratopsian dinosaur ever found. Ceratopsians include the...
Which Came First--the Spear or its Thrower?
Scientists age-dated a cache of stone-tipped throwing spears unearthed from Ethiopia's Gademotta Formation at 280,000 years old. This find appears to pierce the conventional story of human evolution—a...
Apparent difficulties with a CMAS cosmic ray–wea.,.
DECEMBER 01, 2013
In Journal of Creation 27 (3): 93-97, December 2013
In recent years there has been considerable interest in theories that cosmic rays could influence weather and climate. The best-publicized mechanism...
Incomplete lineage sorting and other ‘rogue’ data f.,.
DECEMBER 01, 2013
by Jeffrey P. Tomkins, Ph.D., and Jerry Bergman, Ph.D.
In Journal of Creation 27 (3): 84-92, December 2013
The ‘tree of life’ (TOL) popularized by Darwin and used as the inferred...
Fossil Coral 'Reefs' Among Rock Strata
In certain regions geologists find what appear to be fossilized coral reefs either buried in deep underground strata or exposed on the earth’s surface. If these reefs really took millions of years...
Pollen Fossils Warp Evolutionary Time
by Brian Thomas, M.S., & Tim Clarey, Ph.D. *
Another support beam has fallen from evolution’s explanatory framework as European scientists now report the discovery of flowering plant fossils...
Shark Origins: An Evolutionary Explanation
During a recent visit to Florida’s Clearwater Marine Aquarium, I peered into a tank containing a host of animals, including a sleek and formidable shark, and thought of evolutionist Theodosius...
Sticking Your Neck Out
In 1809, Jean Baptiste Lamarck speculated that the necks of giraffes could grow longer simply by reaching higher and that they could pass this trait on to their offspring.1 A half-century...
The Solar System: Jupiter
The planet Jupiter is a wonderful example of the creativity of the Lord. It is remarkably different from the worlds we have examined previously in this Impact series. Jupiter does not possess a solid...
Was There an Ice Age?
Secular scientists believe there have been at least five major ice ages during Earth's history, and the most recent is thought to have begun about 2.6 million years ago. Within this Pleistocene...
Wise Giving: Pragmatic Opportunities This Christmas
Each Christmas I am reminded of God’s many blessings upon the ICR ministry. For over four decades He has faithfully supplied our needs through His people—even during the leanest of times...
CARE About Your Child's Creation Questions
“Did dinosaurs live on Earth with man? Did a flood really cover the entire earth? Are we a product of random accidents? Did humans evolve from apes? Is there life on other planets? How old is...
December 2013
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Unlocking the Mysteries of Genesis
Available for ordering now!
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory….But God has revealed [it] to us.
(1 Corinthians...
New Research Debunks Human Chromosome Fusion
Humans and great apes differ in chromosome numbers—humans have 46 while apes have 48. The difference is claimed to be due to the “end-to-end fusion” of two small, ape-like chromosomes...
New ICR Research Associate: Vernon R. Cupps
Vernon R. Cupps believed that God created the universe and that Darwinian evolution was inconsistent with the Bible and science since he was young. But he didn’t give much consideration to...
Fulfilling the Genesis Mandate While Helping the Poor
Aquaculture expert Jon Steeves recently helped an African community establish a fish farm to supply local food needs—a wonderful example of biblical multitasking through obeying the Genesis mandate...
Tibetan Cat Fossil: A Tall Tale?
An international research team claims to have found the world's oldest big cat fossil in Tibet, publishing their findings in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.1 Big cats include...
Delicate Balance in DNA Production
Scientists recently ran experiments to determine what happens when excess nucleotides are present during DNA replication.1 In normally functioning living things, each newly formed cell receives...
Questionable Dating of Bloody Mosquito Fossil
Researchers recently examined a spectacular mosquito fossil from the Kishenehn Formation, finding fresh blood—remnants of its last meal—still stored in its abdomen. They wrote, "The...
Secrets from the Most Distant Galaxy
An international team recently announced discovery of a new record for the most distant galaxy and claimed they were viewing this galaxy at "an epoch only 700 million years after the Big Bang."1...
Counting Earth's Age in Lightning Strikes
Scientists recently studied the Drakensberg Range in South Africa, discovering that lightning likely damages mountain surfaces far more often than previously thought. Lightning also generates fulgarites,...
New 'Human' Fossil Borders on Fraud
An international team of paleoanthropologists reported discovering the earliest human fossils found outside Africa at a dig in the country of Georgia.1 The team told Science that one specimen,...
Incredible Microprocessor Protein Acts as Genome Guardian
Researchers recently studied a highly sophisticated cellular machine that acts as a guard for the genome against harmful mutations and that evolution cannot explain.1
Humans have two...
Human-like Fossil Menagerie Stuns Scientists
by Brian Thomas, M.S., & Frank Sherwin, M.A. *
An international team of scientists made a stunning and controversial discovery from an archaeological site in Dmanisi, a small town in the country...
Did Sea Slugs Evolve to Steal Genes?
Solar-powered sea slugs (sacoglossan molluscs) feed on filamentous algae, a water plant, to capture photosynthetic organelles called chloroplasts and use them for solar energy. Considered kleptoplastic...
Newfound Nitrogen Harmony Saves Tropical Forest Trees
New research shows that tropical forests quickly recover after clear-cutting by using clever mechanisms to locate sufficient levels of nitrogen that they need to thrive.
Publishing in the journal...
Tyrannosaurus rex: Scavenger or Predator?
Tyrannosaurus rex looms in recent history as likely the most famous dinosaur that ever lived. The Jurassic Park movies pumped new life into its image as a savage predator. But how much of this is Hollywood...
Ute Pass Fault: Sand Injectites and Rapid Deformation F.,.
In last month’s edition of Acts & Facts, I mentioned studies that Dr. Steve Austin and I presented in a technical paper demonstrating that the deformations in sedimentary strata at two sites...
Colonel James Irwin: Creationist Astronaut
James Benson Irwin (March 17, 1930–August 8, 1991), an American astronaut and scientist, was lunar module pilot for Apollo 15 on the fourth human lunar landing and was the eighth person to walk...
Optimization in Creation
It seems that the clearer the evidence is for creation, the more creative and crazy the stories rejecting it become. Specific examples of structures that God optimized—those He perfected—for...
The Solar System: Mars
Although Venus has been called Earth’s sister due to the similar size of these two worlds, the planet that appears most earthlike at its surface is undoubtedly Mars. A solid, rocky world, Mars...
Does 'Y-Chromosome Adam' Refute Genesis?
Secular geneticists believe that modern humans can trace their male genetic ancestry back to one man and their female genetic ancestry back to one woman.1 Two new studies suggest that female...
Sowing vs. Foraging
If you are like me, each day’s mail—both at home and at the office—brings a good number of urgent appeals for donations. These are roughly divided among political, religious, and charitable...
Creative Ways to Share the Creation Message
"And this canyon was carved by the Colorado River over six million years.” The tour guide, seemingly oblivious to the majestic Grand Canyon surroundings, droned on about her assumptions concerning...
November 2013
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Reaching the Millennials: A Crucial Connection
Over 40 years ago when ICR’s founder, Dr. Henry Morris, worked with Dr. Tim LaHaye to start Christian Heritage College (now San Diego Christian College), the baby boomers were the trailing-edge...
Report on the 2013 International Conference on Creationism
In August, 354 creation scientists and supporters from nine different countries attended the 2013 International Conference on Creationism (ICC) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dozens of authors presented...
Explaining Organismal Complexity with Non-Coding DNA
Scientists have wondered why the number of protein-coding genes in an organism doesn’t strongly correlate with its “apparent” complexity. The emerging answer to this question is contained...
British Pre-Roman Roads Lead to Genesis
Archaeologists uncovered the remains of a well-maintained and well-built British road beneath an ancient Roman road in 2011. This evidence contrasts what modern texts teach about primitive-pagan peoples...
Impact Theory of Moon's Origin Fails
Secular scientists used to regard the planetary collision theory as a triumph in explaining several of the moon's specific arrangements. But newfound facts severely debilitate this lunar impact...
Bloody Mosquito Fossil Supports Recent Creation
Scientists recently found blood remnants in a mosquito fossil trapped in a supposed 46-million-year-old rock.1 Could blood really last that long?
Publishing in the Proceedings of the...
Sun Paradox Challenges Old Earth Theory
Scientists previously uncovered fossil algae in Archean rocks—evidence of life in a period that evolutionists date from 3.0 to 3.5 billion years ago.1 At that supposed time, the sun...
Recent Earthquake Spawns New Island
A recent 7.7 magnitude earthquake in south-central Pakistan killed over 260 people and displaced thousands more. It also spawned a new island in the Arabian Sea hundreds of miles from the earthquake's...
Was Toxic Protein Once Good?
A new study published in the journal Nature showed that the Photorhabdus bacteria's protein toxin, the "ABC toxin," is precisely engineered to deliver a protein payload into neighboring...
Global Warming Halts, Arctic Ice Multiplies
Fox News recently reported, "Arctic sea ice up 60 percent in 2013," publishing dramatic before and after satellite images of Earth's Arctic region.1 How could ice increase if...
Alleged Human Chromosome 2 "Fusion Site" Encodes an Act.,.
OCTOBER 16, 2013
In Answers Research Journal 6 (2013): 367-375
A major argument supposedly supporting human evolution from a common ancestor with chimpanzees is the “chromosome 2 fusion model” in which...
'smORFs': Functional Little Genome Gems Confront Evolution
Until recently, thousands of tiny, potential protein-coding regions in the genome called "small open reading frames" or "smORFs" have been difficult to identify. They are now getting...
Flower Fossils 100,000,000 Years Out of Place?
European scientists have now discovered flowering plant fossils in rock layers supposedly 100,000,000 years older than expected.1 This new finding challenges conventional evolutionary assumptions...
Circular Intronic RNAs Defy Junk DNA Dogma
A completely new category of circular RNAs has been discovered, adding another layer of amazing complexity to human genetics. These circular RNAs are formed from the intron regions inside a gene that...
Study Fails to Prove Flight Feathers Evolved
A recently discovered Microraptor fossil reveals an odd-looking bird with two front wings and feathers on its back legs, giving it the appearance of having "four wings." The startling fossil...
Evolutionists Call New Plant Epigenetic Study 'Heresy'
New research has uncovered a hidden layer of trait-determining epigenetic information that resides outside the DNA sequence in plants. This new discovery challenges the evolutionary paradigms of the...
Interdependence: A Conversation Starter
The apostle Paul wrote in Romans 1:20, “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made.” This means, whether...
Oil, Fracking, and a Recent Global Flood
Oil resources are in the news nearly every day, with discussions on both the pros and cons of oil “fracking.” Approximately 10 percent of the world’s recoverable oil reserves are in...
Soft-Sediment Deformation: Recent Flood Evidence
Years ago, Dr. Steve Austin and I wrote a technical article on tight folds in sedimentary rock as evidence for recent creation. The original article, which was awarded the best paper at the 1986 International...
The Solar System: Earth and Moon
When the Voyager 1 spacecraft reached the edge of our solar system in 1990, it turned its camera around and photographed Earth. From such a tremendous distance, the earth appears as a tiny bluish-white...
Don't Grand Canyon Rocks Showcase Deep Time?
Most Christians probably perceive the immense rock layers displayed in Arizona’s Grand Canyon as icons of “deep time,” marking the passing of millions of years. For example, respected...
The First Commission
The first record of God’s great love toward mankind is expressed in the first chapter of the first book of the Bible. “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply,...
Challenges of White Fields
As Director of Communications at the Institute for Creation Research, I often field requests for our speakers to provide interviews, participate in radio and television programming, sit on panels, teach...
October 2013
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The Challenge of Plenty
The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. (Matthew 9:37)
ICR constantly receives invitations to speak to churches and organizations around the country, and we try to send our experts...
ICR's Toddler Duck-Billed Dinosaur: Eddie
In 2008, the Institute for Creation Research acquired Eddie, a rare juvenile Edmontosaurus (duck-billed hadrosaur). He currently resides in our offices in Dallas, Texas.
This “little”...
ICR's School of Biblical Apologetics: A Different Approach
The Christian world overflows with schools and seminaries that teach the particulars of the Bible. So why did the Institute for Creation Research open its own apologetics school in 2009? For the simple...
Engineered Chemical Could Cost Less, Save Lives
Three researchers from the California Institute of Technology recently made a breakthrough in developing a molecule that mimics plants’ nitrogen chemistry—processes that are needed to synthesize...
Water in Rocks May Support Moon's Bible Origins
Is there water in moon rocks? There shouldn't be, according to secular accounts of the moon's origins. But now, decades after Apollo missions returned to Earth with moon rocks, scientists at...
'Living Gears' Might Have Evolutionists Hopping Mad
When planthoppers hop, they really do pop. These tiny creatures fling themselves with such fury that, frankly, things would go awry if their jumping mechanisms were not properly tuned. For example,...
Brilliant Butterfly Feature Challenges Darwinian Selection
How do butterfly's wings shine? Like almost all other butterflies, the Morpho has wings covered with scales. Typically, pigmentation patterns across these scales generate wing colors, but a Morpho's...
Structuralism: A New Way to Avoid Creation
Why do whale flippers, bat wings, crocodile claws, and human hands all have five digits? Why not three, four, six, or seven? Whoever attempts to explain biological origins needs to explain why this...
What Were the First Animals Like?
Are Ediacaran "fossils" actually remains of ancient living things, or did simple natural processes generate fossil look-alikes? Correctly identifying these tracks (or traces) matters significantly...
Express-Lane Magma Indicates Young Earth
Magma can really make tracks according to a recent study published in Nature that has significantly upped the perceived speed limit of magma movement in the earth.1 Philipp Ruprecht and Terry...
The Chasm Between the Human and Chimpanzee Genomes: A R.,.
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
by Jerry Bergman, Ph.D., and Jeffrey Tomkins, Ph.D.
In M. Horstemeyer, ed., 2013, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Creationism, Pittsburgh, PA: Creation Science Fellowship....
South Fork and Heart Mountain Faults: Examples of Catas.,.
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
In M. Horstemeyer, ed., 2013, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Creationism, Pittsburgh, PA: Creation Science Fellowship. Visit the ICC at www.creationicc.org.
Abstract
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Superfaults and Pseudotachylytes: Evidence of Catastrop.,.
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
by Timothy L. Clarey, Ph.D., Steven A. Austin, Ph.D., Stephen Cheung, B.Sc., and Raymond Strom, Ch.T.
In M. Horstemeyer, ed., 2013, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Creationism,...
A Review of Original Tissue Fossils and Their Age Impli.,.
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
In M. Horstemeyer, ed., 2013, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Creationism, Pittsburgh, PA: Creation Science Fellowship. Visit the ICC at www.creationicc.org.
Abstract
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New Research Evaluating Similarities Between Human and .,.
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
In M. Horstemeyer, ed., 2013, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Creationism, Pittsburgh, PA: Creation Science Fellowship. Visit the ICC at www.creationicc.org.
Abstract
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Numerical Simulations of Winter Storms, Tropical Cyclon.,.
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
In M. Horstemeyer, ed., 2013, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Creationism, Pittsburgh, PA: Creation Science Fellowship. Visit the ICC at www.creationicc.org.
Abstract
The...
Shocking Evidence of Electrical Signals in Plants
Green leaves might hang motionless most of the time, but plenty of activity stirs deep inside them. Many people understand that molecules move during photosynthesis, but most probably don't realize...
Scientist Suggests 'We Are Actually All Martians'
Did life originate on Mars? During a keynote address at the 2013 Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Florence, Italy, Steven Benner postulated that it did. Benner, from The Westheimer Institute for...
Pterosaur Revolution Confirms Creation
Research into pterosaurs—ancient flying reptiles whose fossils lie intermingled with dinosaurs—now approaches an upswing of what some predict will be a revolution of understanding.1...
Did God Make Human Memory Malleable?
Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown that human memories are malleable. She successfully planted false memories into people's minds during some of her experiments. Her position on the fallibility...
An Update on Chromosome 2 'Fusion'
Did humans inherit their DNA sequence from an ape-like ancestor? One of the common evolutionary arguments for shared ancestry between humans and chimpanzees is the existence of a so-called human “chromosome...
Up and Down Like a Cork?
In a prior column, I pointed out that Earth’s strata, which often lay conformably one on top another, are believed to be separated by millions of years of time, according to traditional thinking.1...
Endocrine System Evolution: A Textbook Example?
A student of zoology would be surprised to learn that, although researchers know much about the function of our endocrine system, they know essentially nothing about its supposed evolution.1
The...
Amazing Animal Eyes
Animals benefit from a variety of unique eye designs, but where did they come from? Two clearly seen eye observations point to Genesis origins.
First, animals within a single, broad group often...
The Solar System: Venus
For millennia, people have enjoyed the sight of the “evening star” shining brightly in the western sky shortly after sunset. Outshining all other stars, this remarkable beacon seems to brighten...
Dark Matter, Sparticles, and the Big Bang
Why do many cosmologists claim that only a small fraction of all the matter in the universe is the “normal” everyday matter with which we are familiar?
In particle physics, protons and...
Does 'Homology' Prove Evolution?
Why do you share DNA with an ant? Why do mammals generally have four limbs? Why do different creatures’ limbs often develop via similar genetic programs? Evolutionists attribute these biological...
Seasonal Giving Opportunities
The coming fall season heralds an important time for nonprofit Christian ministries like ICR. Annual Workplace Giving Campaigns often begin this month, providing employees the occasion to support qualified...
Our Newest Resource Offers an In-Depth Look at Creation.,.
As someone who homeschooled for over 22 years, I know the frustrations of looking for science resources. I searched for solid science with biblical creation as a foundation, but the few books I could...
September 2013
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Determined to Disciple
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and...
Study Debunks Beta-Globin Pseudogene Evolution
A popular argument for human evolution and our shared ancestry with apes has lost its steam in light of new genetics research at the Institute for Creation Research and a recently published article...
Does 'Y-chromosome Adam' Refute Genesis?
Secular geneticists believe that modern humans can trace their male genetic ancestry back to a single man and their female genetic ancestry back to a single woman.1 Two new studies suggest...
Newly Discovered 'Orphan Genes' Defy Evolution
An important category of "rogue" genetic data that utterly defies evolutionary predictions is the common occurrence of taxonomically restricted genes, otherwise known as "orphan genes."...
The Oldest American Petroglyphs
Scientists now say that the petroglyphs at Pyramid Lake, Nevada, are the oldest in North America to have been age-dated. Though appearing confident about some details, they cannot yet identify the ancient...
How Do Mother Butterflies Avoid the Poison?
Colorful Heliconius butterflies grace the tropics with their beautiful wide wings. Their survival depends on more features than what simply resides in their physical bodies. The challenge is trying...
The Human Beta-ÂGlobin Pseudogene is Non-ÂVariabl.,.
AUGUST 21, 2013
In Answers Research Journal 6 (2013): 293-301
One of the iconic (yet enigmatic) arguments for human-ape common ancestry has been the β-globin pseudogene (HBBP1). Evolutionists originally speculated...
VlincRNAs Provide Clues to Genomic Dark Matter
Scientists have known for several years that the human genome is pervasively copied into various RNA molecules (transcripts), although scientists have been unsure about what much of it actually does....
Epigenetic Study Produces 'Backwards' Human-Ape Tree
A recently published study in the epigenetic modification of DNA regions similar among humans and three different apes not only provided a completely mixed up picture of evolution, but one that was...
Shergottite Conundrum: How Old Is Martian Crust?
Secular scientists have uncovered new evidence indicating the Martian crust may be a lot younger than they previously thought. Unfortunately, they haven't come up with a date based on factual data,...
Amazing Design in the Chemistry of Pregnancy
The onset of pregnancy presents an apparent contradiction. Ovulating and initially pregnant mothers experience an increase in progesterone. On the one hand, this hormone signals the immune system to...
Why Did God Create Such Terrible Teeth?
Just the sight of a crocodile's or alligator's large, tooth-filled gob invokes fear. From time to time those big green things dismember people.1 With the crocodile's snarly look...
Pseudogenes Regulate Immune Responses in Humans
Pseudogenes were once thought to be nothing but genomic fossils—the remnants of broken genes. Now they are being shown to be highly functional and critical to life processes in the cell.1
Pseudogenes...
Plants Use Underground 'Fungal Internet' to Communicate
Researchers have just documented how plants use underground fungal networks to warn neighboring plants of impending insect attack, uniquely illustrating the complex and highly designed interconnected...
Armored Fish Fossils Rewrite Evolutionary Story
A special set of Australian fish fossils just derailed evolution's long-held story of early fish origins. The remarkable fossils preserved detailed soft tissue body features, including the precise...
Two possible mechanisms linking cosmic rays to weather .,.
AUGUST 01, 2013
In Journal of Creation 27 (2):91-98, August 2013
Long-age interpretations of earth history have led uniformitarian climate scientists to conclude that dramatic climate fluctuations that occurred...
The Upside-Down Mountain
Of all the beautiful and awe-inspiring mountains in the Alps, the Matterhorn can elicit the strongest emotions. From snow skiing to mountain climbing, or just sitting and admiring it, none can match...
How Does a Dog Smell Fossils?
Gary Jackson and his dog, Migaloo, trained to sniff out buried remains, work with local Australians to uncover archaeological sites and help police locate the remains of murder victims. According to...
Hot Mantle Initiated Ocean and Flood Beginnings
A new discovery may shed light on how the great Flood began. In a paper published in Nature Geoscience, German scientists found evidence suggesting the earth’s mantle was up to 300 degrees Fahrenheit...
The Solar System: Mercury
The smallest planet of our solar system holds some big mysteries for secular astronomers, and it continues to delight creationists. Mercury is only 38 percent the diameter of Earth, making it the smallest...
Could We Clone a Dinosaur?
In short, no way. But Christians should understand the biblical and biological reasons why not. Then we can have a meaningful conversation with friends and family, made more relevant by the theatrical...
Letters from Abroad
Only a handful of creation science ministries were in existence when the Institute for Creation Research began in 1970. Today there are numerous organizations—at least one in nearly every U.S....
Turning Classroom Opposition into Opportunity
“Let your speech always be with grace…that you may know how you ought to answer.” (Colossians 4:6)
One of my daughter’s required courses in college was philosophy. Early...
August 2013
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Creation and College
Many Acts & Facts readers have been involved with decisions about college choices for their children or grandchildren. Parents often ask our speakers what colleges they should send their children...
Ancient Water Claims Have Leaks
"When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.” This quote from Benjamin Franklin is all too true, especially in drought-stricken areas. Wells are supplied by groundwater that exists...
Dinosaurs, Stars, and Special Creation at Gateway Church
Dinosaurs in Texas?
On June 5, 2013, over 2,000 dino lovers visited Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, to hear Brian Thomas of the Institute for Creation Research speak about dinosaurs, the first...
Is Biblical Creation a Distraction to Evangelism?
The Institute for Creation Research and other biblical creation ministries are sometimes criticized as distractions from the ministry of evangelism. The alleged concern is that the promotion of ...
Urgency & Opportunity: Poll Shows Evolving Trends
by Brian Thomas, M.S., & Michael Stamp *
A recent study indicates that only 37 percent of Americans believe God created human beings in the very recent past—essentially as described in...
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