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God's Amazing Invertebrates: The Missing Links Are Stil.,.
In their 2010 zoology text, evolutionists Stephen Miller and John Harley present a clear summary of the current state of animal classification. They maintain, “There is little disagreement among...
Doesn't Radioisotope Dating Prove Rocks Are Millions of.,.
by Brian Thomas, M.S., and John Morris, Ph.D. *
Geologists do not directly measure the age of a rock. They choose rocks containing radioactive “parent” isotopes that emit...
Gaining God's Way
Hurrying to my son’s baseball practice one windy winter day, I stumbled across a path of stepping stones leading to the field. Unless they fail to keep your feet dry, there’s usually nothing...
A Call for Creation Basics
An ICR staff member recently shared about his conversation with a local youth pastor. This seminary graduate had confessed before his church that he didn’t know what to believe about creation,...
February 2013
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The Wonder of His Love
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ( John 3:16 )
This poignant passage has...
Chromosome Comparison Shows More Chimp-Human Differences
Since the original 2005 chimpanzee genome report, researchers obtained and made available for public use additional chimpanzee DNA sequences, courtesy of federal tax dollars.1 However, this...
Lincoln Laments at Gettysburg: Biblical Creation and Ci.,.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth
on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.1
These...
Everlasting Love
The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. (Jeremiah 31:3)
Perhaps no doctrine in Scripture...
Another Cambrian Discovery Discredits Evolution
A fossil creature from the phylum Entoprocta (invertebrate animals that have tentacles and lacking a mineralized skeleton) was found in marked abundance (over 400 individuals) in Burgess Shale. The...
Do People Live Longer among Trees?
Could living near trees possibly affect human health? Increasingly, studies indicate that trees can improve human health. Evolution doesn't expect this, but biblically speaking, trees and people...
New Dinosaur Tracks Study Suggests Cataclysm
Casual observers are not the only ones who puzzle over dinosaur footprint origins. After all, other animal tracks in mud are not fossilized today because erosive processes rapidly erase them. If a rock...
New Technology Reveals More Genome Complexity
A new type of DNA sequencing technology has been developed and used to identify and characterize key regions of the genome called "enhancer" sequences.1 These are novel DNA features...
Did Noah Recognize Different Frog Species?
"What if Noah got it wrong?" is a question recently posed in a ScienceDaily article. "What if he paired a male and a female animal thinking they were the same species, and then discovered...
Massive Quasar Cluster Refutes Core Cosmology Principle
Astronomers recently found a distant collection of quasars. But those quasars shouldn’t exist. And while they certainly appear connected, they’re spread too far across space for standard...
'Ancient' Bacteria Still Alive and Not Evolved
Archaeans are amazing microbes that run on completely different metabolic processes than other microbes. Discovering the first of them must have been like finding a car that runs on hydrogen fuel cells...
Evolutionary Eye Candy in New Dallas Museum
ICR employees visited the new Perot Museum of Nature and Science in downtown Dallas in late 2012. The big block-shaped building that The Dallas Morning News called "brash and breathtaking"...
Genetics Research Confirms Biblical Timeline
Exciting research from the summer of 2012 described DNA variation in the protein coding regions of the human genome linked to population growth. One of the investigation's conclusions was that the...
Did Scientists Make Fish Grow Hands?
A recent news story featured a variety of science writers repeating the meme "Fish grow 'hands' in genetic experiment." These sensationalized stories attempted to describe a new genetics...
Evolution of Life Research Close to Creation
Perhaps the most difficult challenge for Darwinists to explain is the fact of life. They ask how non-living chemicals became the first living cell, but this question relies on two bad assumptions. A...
The Best Creation Science Updates of 2012: Space Sciences
Secular astronomers consistently say that heavenly features formed naturally, disregarding the One who said, "I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that...
Original Animal Protein in Fossils?
JANUARY 01, 2013
In Creation 35 (1): 14-16, January 2013
I first learned about original soft tissue fossils from Creation magazine in 1997.1 What looked like red blood cells and blood vessels from inside Tyrannosaurus...
The Survival of Noah's Ark
Skeptics raise a serious objection to the Flood account given in Scripture: How could Noah’s Ark and its precious cargo survive the turmoil of the Flood? Wouldn't it have sunk beneath the...
The Ever-Changing Big Bang Story
Some say that Christians should re-interpret what Genesis states about the origin of the universe to match the claims of the Big Bang model.But which Big Bang model are they talking about? Several versions...
DNA in Dinosaur Bones?
Finding dinosaur DNA is as unthinkable to an evolutionist as finding a flat earth would be to a geographer. This is because DNA decays far too quickly to last millions of years. Thus, a recent report...
Epigenetics Proves Humans and Chimps Are Different
One of the rapidly expanding and exciting research fields in molecular biology is the area of epigenetics. In the study of epigenetic modifications, scientists analyze DNA that has been modified in...
Is Evolution an Observable Fact?
“Evolution is fact!” is one of the most popular evolutionary assertions made by evolutionists, ranging from those at the National Center for Science Education to those working for PBS.1,...
Occupy Till He Comes
No doubt many of you, like me, have been earnestly looking for the return of the Lord Jesus. Recent national and world events have only increased my longing for Christ’s return to bring sweet...
Grace from Beginning to End
Grace is the scarlet thread woven throughout all of Scripture. From the beginning in Genesis when God offered the first sacrifice for Adam and Eve’s sin, to the ending of Revelation when Jesus...
January 2013
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Noah Found Grace
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. ( Genesis 6:8 )
The word “grace” appears for the first time in the Bible in this verse. Noah lived in the midst of the most...
The Two-Book Fallacy
The founder of the scientific method, Francis Bacon, taught that God has written two books: the Scriptures and the book of creation (or nature).1 Today, many professing Christians affirm...
No Backdated Punishment in Eden
At the end of Day Six, God said all was “very good” (Genesis 1:31), which means no death existed on earth because death is not good (Romans 8:20-22, 1 Corinthians 15). No animals died or...
A Mountain of Snow after the Genesis Flood
Nor’easters enhanced by a warm Atlantic Ocean following the Genesis Flood would have dumped large quantities of snow in eastern Canada.1 This could explain why the Laurentide Ice Sheet...
The Best Creation Science Updates of 2012: Earth Sciences
This year has produced a plethora of scientific discoveries that confirm biblical creation. "Biblical creation" can mean design features found in creation, but also indicators of a world that...
Did Underwater Archaeologist Confirm Noah's Flood?
Underwater archaeologist Robert Ballard claimed to have found evidence beneath the Black Sea that Noah's Flood really occurred. Christians who only read headlines may count this as confirmation...
Gene Networks Are Intolerant of Mutation
Fish supposedly evolved into people by gene mutations, but a recent report shows that mutations have disastrous effects.1 Not only are individual genes essential, but when they are inhibited,...
World's Oldest Dinosaur Fossil?
A portion of a fossilized dinosaur upper arm bone from Tanzania, originally collected in the 1930s, spent many years nestled among thousands of dinosaur specimens housed at London's Natural History...
Massive Black Hole Disrupts Galaxy Formation Theories
What should an astronomer think of a galaxy with tremendous mass but very few stars? Karl Gephardt of the University of Texas in Austin and his colleagues studied one recently, and he said, "This...
Age of Grand Canyon Remains a Mystery
How would a scientist estimate the time when a canyon formed? Various techniques and different interpretations of those techniques have yielded a wide range of estimated dates for the formation of Arizona's...
Is the Age of the Earth a 'Side' Issue?
Many secularists recently criticized Florida Senator Marco Rubio for not affirming, during the course of an interview, the claim that the earth is 4.5 billion years old.1
About a week...
Scientists Discover Secret to Fast Swimming Penguins
Penguins are fast swimmers, but they shouldn't be. As they rocket themselves through the water and onto overlying ice shelves, the drag of water friction is supposed to be too great. Researchers...
Are Rotifers Gene Stealers or Uniquely Engineered?
The tools of DNA sequencing are becoming cheaper to use and more productive than ever, and the deluge of DNA comparison results between organisms coming forth are becoming a quagmire for the evolutionary...
An 'Impossible' Task?
By any estimation, the building of Noah’s Ark was a monumental task. Assuming an 18" cubit, the Ark was 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. Could Noah and his sons have accomplished...
Christmas Island Zoology
Christmas Island belongs to an idyllic group of islands in the northeast Indian Ocean. The animal biology (zoology) of this island is bountiful. Its vertebrates include birds and a very few mammals,...
Lions and Tigers, Tigons and Ligers
A lioness at Yancheng Safari Park of Changzhou City in China gave birth last December to twin tigons. Unfortunately, one of them died soon after birth.1 Tigons are the rare products of tiger...
Evolutionary Math?
Most people have heard of “evolutionary biology.” But the term “evolution” is often applied in a broader sense (gradual, naturalistic changes over long ages) to other fields...
The Treasure of the the Heart
“What would you like for Christmas?”
If you have young children in your family, this is a question you only need to ask once as Christmas approaches. A deafening chorus of got-to-haves...
Wait for the Light
"O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.” (Psalm 43:3)
When my children were little, they would burst through...
December 2012
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The Lamb and the Lion
One of the more vivid biblical portraits of the Lord Jesus is the paradox of His presentation as a lamb and also as a lion. In the magnificent book of Revelation, the scene in heaven unfolds as the...
Wanted: Young Creation Scientists
ICR, together with the rest of the creation science movement, has made great strides in the last 40 years. In many areas, the superiority of the creation worldview has been clearly demonstrated. Even...
Christmas, Vikings, and the Providence of God
How are two famous Viking battles in 1066 related to the very first Christmas?
Both prove God’s providence. At the first Christmas, God so loved the world that He gave us the living Word of...
God Gave Himself
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
(John 3:16)
It is singularly appropriate that we...
Newly Found Biochemical Is Essential for Life
Schoolchildren know the names of some chemicals essential to the life of a cell, like DNA or protein. Older students learn why they are essential, like that DNA holds critical information that codes...
Neandertals Apparently Knew Medicinal Plants
The Institute for Creation Research has long identified Neandertals as fully human.1 But for decades, evolutionists had labeled this extinct variety of humankind as sub-human, alleging that...
Study: Star Formation Is Virtually Finished
An international team of astronomers recently analyzed a specific frequency of light that hot gas clouds in outer space produce. Very hot stars, like blue stars, are thought to burn near or within these...
Did Mars Have an 'Original' Atmosphere?
NASA announced recently that its famous Martian rover, Curiosity, conducted its latest set of experiments to investigate "how Mars may have lost" its ancient thicker atmosphere.1...
Neandertal DNA Research Confirms Full Human Status
A new DNA study compared modern humans to Neandertals. But unlike previous ones, this study targeted Northern Africans. The new report, published in the journal PLoS ONE, further confirms the fact that...
'Oldest' European Town News Misses the Obvious
Researchers are calling an ancient ruin near Provadia in Bulgaria Europe's oldest town.1 Its carbon age between 4700 and 4200 B.C. predates the accepted calendar age of ancient Greece...
Australopithecus Was a Well-Adapted Tree Climber
New research has confirmed that an extinct type of ape called Australopithecus afarensis, which includes the famous "Lucy" fossil, was a well-adapted tree climber. The research team conducted...
Study Shows Proteins Cannot Evolve
Researchers just announced the systematic laboratory induced mutation of successive amino acids over the entire sequence of a simple bacterial protein.1 The results showed how even the simplest...
Did Scientists Find T. rex DNA?
Finding dinosaur DNA is as unthinkable to an evolutionist as finding a flat earth would be to a geographer. Thus, a recent report of possible dinosaur DNA promises to meet resistance, even as similar...
Dinosaur Bone Tissue Study Refutes Critics
Original dinosaur tissues in fossil bones are probably the most controversial finds in all of paleontology. Secular scientists have difficulty interpreting them. They debate whether the tissues are...
The Chattanooga Shale, an Evolutionary Enigma
The most common sedimentary rock type is known as shale, made up of tiny silt or clay particles cemented together. Tiny particles are easily carried along by moving water. Thus, in uniformitarian thinking,...
Big Bang Explanations Fall Flat
The design of our universe continually frustrates the efforts of Big Bang proponents who try to explain our existence apart from the Lord. One of the difficulties in the original Big Bang model was...
Human Mutation Clock Confirms Creation
Human genetics strongly confirm the Bible’s straightforward history. In studying mutation rates, geneticists have uncovered a clock-like countdown in human DNA. What does the fact that mankind’s...
Junk DNA Myth Continues Its Demise
Secular biology, intelligent design, and creationist communities are abuzz with the recently reported data from 30 simultaneously published high-profile research papers in the field of human genomics,...
The Roots of Thanksgiving
Perhaps no other custom so clearly reveals this nation’s original character as that of Thanksgiving Day. Other nations have adopted similar observances, but America was the first to nationally...
Snapshots of Thanksgiving
Thumb through most American family photo albums and you’re likely to come across memorable snapshots of Thanksgiving gatherings over the years. The photos may include family members crowded around...
November 2012
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African Populations Fit Biblical History
What if geneticists discovered, lurking in the DNA sequences of modern humans, clues of a heritage that mirrors the historical account of the dispersion at Babel? Researchers appear to have uncovered...
Giving Thanks: Understanding the Biblical Emphasis of T.,.
It may be a curious reflection on our Western culture, but the “thank you”of normal social interchange does not have a counterpart in the Bible. The declining custom of writing thank you...
Bio-Origins Project Update, Evidence Against Differenti.,.
Last month we showed preliminary evidence suggesting that the molecular patterns we see in animal species may be due to different rates of mutation in each “kind.”1 Further investigation...
What Good Are Experts?
How should we react to “experts” who smugly announce that the Bible is disproven? What about science “authorities” who have assured us that the Higgs boson particle “proves...
'Creation Revival' at Local Church
Do origins matter? It may surprise you to discover that, for some, understanding their origins is quite irrelevant, and there are those who believe the account of creation in Genesis just doesn’t...
Thanks for Everything
Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 5:20)
Thankfulness is one of the evidences that a Christian is indeed “filled with...
How Some Insects Can Eat Poisonous Plants
The leaves of the common roadside milkweed plant are poisonous to people and most other creatures. Alongside many other plants, its leaf tissues contain cardenolide poisons as a natural defense.
But...
Cambrian Creature Had Complicated Brain
Scientists in China recently discovered that a supposedly simple, ancient creature had an unexpectedly complicated nervous system. The creature was an extinct arthropod found in Cambrian rocks, and...
Bone DNA Decays Too Fast for Evolution
DNA is a biochemical that contains genetic information. And like all other cellular ingredients, it decays if cellular systems don't maintain it. Now, scientists are more confident about how fast...
Oyster Genome Confounds Mollusk Evolution
by Jeffrey Tomkins, Ph.D., & Brian Thomas, M.S. *
Most evolutionists who study fossil mollusks believe these creatures evolved from a hypothetical ancestor that had no shell. How could...
Plant Embryo Development Supports Creation
A recent paper that was published in the journal Nature uniquely illustrates the Creator's hand in plant development.1 This research clearly shows how suites of protein-coding genes are...
Certain Stellar Features Just Don't Exist
Sorting fact from fiction when it comes to outer space can be tricky, especially when scientists assert that certain stellar features are real when they are not. Why should school textbook authors,...
Bacterial 'Evolution' Is Actually Design in Action
The evolutionary community has been buzzing over bacteria's new ability to obtain citrate, a carbon-containing chemical, from their environment and use it as a food source. Some say this confirms...
Virus Adapts with Gene Accordion
Viruses were originally created for a good purpose, but some cause disease in today's fallen world.1 Good or bad, viruses are well-designed molecular machines.2 And like all...
Scientists Discover New Molecular Motor 'Clutch'
How would a vehicle slow or stop on time or on target without some mechanism to disengage the engine from the drive train?
The vehicles that transport items within living cells face the same challenges...
Eight Spears Found in German Coal Mine
Researchers discovered eight well-manufactured throwing spears in an Ice Age coal deposit near Schöningen, Germany. They are calling these the oldest human tools. What can forensic science reveal...
Stark Differences Between Human and Chimp Brains
New research adds to an ever-lengthening stream of discoveries that confirm exactly what a Bible-believing scientist would expect—humans are distinct from chimpanzees. They should be, if they...
Optimized Engineering in Locust Legs
People instantly recognize intelligent engineering in a structure that has optimized size or shape. Optimum parameters don't just happen. So when two mechanical engineers recently discovered optimum...
Tree Ring Dating
Several species of trees live almost indefinitely. The giant sequoia trees of California are known to live over 3,000 years, discerned through tree ring dating. Under normal circumstances, woody trees...
Evolution: It Just Happened
A recent issue of the secular science journal Nature includes research by molecular palaeobiologist Kevin Peterson in which he questions the traditional evolutionary tree of mammals, stating it is all...
Swimming Upstream: Navigation Systems in Migrating Salmon
by Brian Thomas, M.S., & Phil Gaskill *
Have you ever been lost and longed for a map and compass? God designed people in His image so that we can create navigational aids. But what if you were...
Engineered Adaptability
Doctors, lawyers, and engineers. Engineers always seem to take third place in the list of esteemed professions. Exciting television programs feature skilled surgeons or smooth, well-dressed defense...
Payroll Philanthropy
The arrival of fall marks the start of annual workplace giving campaigns across the nation. Through annual campaigns, hard-working people from all income levels can express their generosity and become...
The Enduring Value of Words
When my West Texas great-grandmother decided it was time to “break up housekeeping” and move to an “old folks’ home,” she invited the family to walk through the old homeplace...
October 2012
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The Scientific Case Against Evolution
Belief in evolution is a remarkable phenomenon. It is a belief passionately defended by the scientific establishment, despite the lack of any observable scientific evidence for macroevolution (evolution...
Bio-Origins Project Update, Hypothesizing Differential .,.
You might expect that the same gene in different creatures would have the same sequence. Surprisingly, this is not so. As we reported last month,1 our preliminary protein/DNA comparison...
The Gap Theory: A Trojan Horse Tragedy
The gap theory is a tragic approach to interpreting Genesis because it opens the gate for a Trojan horse, namely, imagined eons of time that contradict the cosmogony of Genesis.1, 2 This...
Does New Galaxy Study Confirm Big Bang?
Who would try to determine the number and size of a creature's teeth if all that was known about that creature was its footprint? This flavor of reasoning typifies anti-creation cosmology. After...
ENCODE Reveals Incredible Genome Complexity and Function
Both the evolutionist and creationist communities are abuzz with the latest results from 30 simultaneously published high-profile research papers, proclaiming that the human genome is irreducibly complex...
Men and Women See Differently...Literally
A husband and wife don't always see eye-to-eye. Sometimes this is simply because they have differing preferences, but often it is because they are wired with differing thinking patterns. Researchers...
Scientists Discover the 'Anternet'
Ants seem to cover the globe. The success of any ant colony depends on the inherent capabilities of its many working members. One of the capabilities of harvester ants relies on an algorithm that governs...
Lions, Tigers, and Tigons
In December 2011, a lioness at Yancheng Safari Park of Changzhou in China gave birth to twin tigons,1 and the Associated Press recently released footage of the young cats in their pen.2...
Is Fossil Finger Genome Human?
Widespread news reported that scientists sequenced ancient DNA from an extinct human variety that they called a Denisovan in unprecedented detail for ancient DNA. In 2011, researchers reported DNA sequence...
Why Do Creatures in Ancient Amber Look So Modern?
Gall mites are too small to see without aid, but scientists found two of them after scanning 70,000 amber droplets from Triassic beds in Italy. How much have mites evolved in the supposed 230 million...
Scientist Answers His Own Question
Who wouldn't be curious to learn why organisms "build tissues they seemingly never use," as a Michigan State University News headline put it?1 If organisms originated from a...
Observing Creation
Creation and evolution studies are limited to observations in the present, but both speculate about unseen events of the long ago past. Mainstream scientists typically use the principle of uniformitarianism...
A Recent Explosion of Human Diversity
Everyone should know that the cosmos was created.1 It also stands to reason that those who “listen to Moses and the prophets,” as Jesus said, should be able to see more specific...
Blue Stars Confirm Recent Creation
Orion is one of the most well-known and easily recognized constellations of the winter sky. The three bright blue stars in Orion’s belt seem to draw our attention instantly.1 Such stars...
The Higgs Boson and the Big Bang
Scientists from Europe’s CERN research center presented evidence on July 4, 2012, for a particle that is likely the Higgs boson, the last remaining elementary particle predicted by the Standard...
Ministry Stewardship
As Christ illustrated in the parable of the talents (Matthew 25:14-30), God grants various “talents” to every believer. Talents take many different forms—such as wealth, intelligence,...
Appreciating God's Priceless Treasure
Art is all about appreciation. And appreciation of even the most famous museum masterpieces runs the gamut of interest. On my recent visit to a New York museum, I noticed a crowd gathered around the...
September 2012
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Examining Evidence
Some confusion seems to persist with the terms “apologetics” and “evidence”—
particularly because those concepts are expected to be “relevant.” Throughout...
Bio-Origins Project Update, Comparing 2,000 Animal Spec.,.
If you were to compare DNA across diverse species, what pattern would you expect to see? The Bio-Origins project at ICR has narrowed its focus to DNA to answer several major creation biology questions....
Valuing God's Variety
God likes variety—more variety than we can fully appreciate, even if we had multiple lifetimes to investigate His creation! Here are two proofs: 1) Scripture shows that variety matches God’s...
Teaching the Evidence of Creation to Children
Young children approach life with refreshing innocence. They assume that spoken words are truth because they have no reason to question the trusted adult who spoke them. But as children grow older,...
Exploring the Evidence for Creation: Reasons to Believe.,.
Does the God described in the Bible really exist? Is it plausible to believe that an omnipotent, omniscient being has existed eternally? And did that God really create everything in the universe? Or...
Scientists Store 70 Billion Books on DNA
Data storage technology has come a long way since punch cards. But the undisputed king of data density is still DNA. A team of scientists fit 70 billion copies of their genetics book—including...
Discovery Rewrites Plant Evolution
One of the first lessons in plant evolution is that algae existed for millions of years before the more complicated materials and structures necessary to convert them into woody land plants had ever...
Lobe-Finned Fish Supplies Surprises
It was once the banner fossil behind the idea that land-walking creatures emerged from fish with overgrown fins. The lobe-finned fish was found in strata deemed 400 million years old—close to...
Engineer Envies Plant Cell Structure
Whether considering squishable apple tissue or resilient tree trunks, researchers say that plants "build" their parts using only four ingredients. Precise measurements of plant tissue strengths...
It's (Virtually) Alive!
Scientists made a virtual microbe, complete with dozens of interconnected cell functions. But it wasn't easy. Their creation could be used in two important areas of research.
The Stanford-led...
More Fluctuations Found in Isotopic Clocks
Age-dating a rock using its radioactive isotopes only works by assuming that the rate at which that "clock" ticks was constant in the past and essentially identical to that in the present....
Four Sets of 'Impossible' Stars
Astronomers just found four binary star systems that should not exist if the universe is only 13.7 billion years old. These stars look twice that old to secularists, because they are rotating around...
New African Fossil Confirms Early Human Variations
The cover of the August 9, 2012 issue of the journal Nature featured the reconstructed face of newly-discovered human-like fossil bones described by Meave Leakey and colleagues in their report.1...
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