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Chameleon Tongue Inspires Robotic Design
The chameleon is a special lizard with a unique mode of hunting—a projectile tongue that can extend twice its body length to latch on to prey. Although this creature's spring-loaded feeding...
Dinosaur Fossil 'Wasn't Supposed to Be There'
Workers with the Canadian energy company Suncor unearthed ankylosaur remains while mining oil sands near Fort McMurray in Alberta. The carcass of the four-legged land creature was not flattened, as is...
Algae Invaders Actually Benefit Their Salamander Hosts
Algal cells and cell parts are known to live inside the cells of an array of sea creatures, including certain sea slugs and jellyfish.1 Over 100 years ago, algae were found in association with...
Bill Questioning Evolution Passes in Tennessee House
Tennessee's House of Representatives has passed an academic freedom measure that would allow teachers in public science classrooms to present the strengths and weaknesses of controversial issues, such...
New Images Show Far Side of the Moon Looks Young
NASA recently released the most detailed images yet of the "far" side of the moon, or the side that faces away from earth.1 The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter took thousands of images that were...
Chinese Dinosaurs Were Fossilized by Flood
Teeth and fossil bone fragments from a meat-eating T. rex-like dinosaur were discovered in a Chinese dinosaur bone bed. The remains indicate that the creature measured over 30 feet from nose to tail.1...
Utah Dinosaur Petroglyph Disputed
Underneath a spectacular rock formation in Natural Bridges National Monument in Utah is a rock carving that resembles a sauropod dinosaur. The petroglyph has been presented as evidence supporting the biblical...
Does Thinking of Death Make Intelligent Design More App.,.
Discovery News reported on recent research that suggested people who believe in intelligent design theory (IDT) and reject evolutionary theory (ET) as an explanation for the origins of life do so not necessarily...
North America's Oldest Inhabitants Found in Texas
Museums with illustrations of early North American human inhabitants often assert that the first peoples on the continent were the Clovis natives who lived during the Ice Age. But a handful of archaeological...
Why Is 'Pseudogene' the Same in Chimps and Humans?
What does it mean when two different species have the same "break points" in a supposedly broken gene? Does it suggest that God created them with similar features, or does it show that the two species...
The Biggest Problems for Evolution
The design of living things has always been a huge problem for evolutionists. Even the simplest single-cell organism is unimaginably complex, with scores of highly sophisticated parts, all performing important...
Insects in Darwin's Ointment
The phylum Arthropoda is composed of creatures that have paired, jointed appendages and a chitinous (nitrogen-containing polysaccharide) exoskeleton. It is the largest group of animals in God’s creation...
'Lucy's' New Foot Bone Is Actually Human
Researchers have announced that a human-looking bone discovered in the Hadar Formation in Ethiopia belongs to Australopithecus afarensis, prompting one major news headline to proclaim, "Ancient...
Defending the Faith
In the next-to-last book of the Bible, the apostle Jude exhorts us to "earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints" (Jude 3). His warning refers primarily to professing Christians...
Kingdom Investing
It is an indispensable fact of human existence that we are not self-sufficient beings. Our lives depend on procuring and consuming sufficient food and water, and our bodies are often ill-equipped to cope...
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Japan's Earthquake Altered the Length of a Day
Japan's disastrous March 11 earthquake has had a lasting geologic impact on the earth. Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology preliminarily found that it moved the planet's rotation axis...
Saying More with Less
Tag lines at businesses help customers quickly get to the nuts and bolts of what describes products or services they offer. Here are a few samples:
"Save money. Live better." … Walmart
"Moving...
Being Biblical
Biblical. Accurate. Certain. These three adjectives describe fundamental characteristics that define the work of the Institute for Creation Research. These terms do not speak to what we do or even to the...
Life Sciences Research: Year One in Review
The Institute for Creation Research announced its new research venture into the life sciences in April 2010. Since then, the research team has made significant progress investigating the outstanding biology...
Our Daily Bread: How Food Proves God's Providence
Sometimes the proof that God is our Creator comes in the form of a potato, or lingonberries, or cheese, or eggs, or a codfish. Each type of food is a witness to God’s providential care. The meals...
Celebrating 400 Years of Influence
In 2010, the Institute for Creation Research celebrated 40 years of ministry. Looking back on four decades of research, teaching, and communicating the wonders of God’s creation, all of us are humbled...
Impact of the Empty Tomb
There are "many infallible proofs" of the bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, but the testimony of the empty tomb is the most conclusive of all. Jesus had been buried, with the tomb sealed and...
Promoting Christ-centered Home Education
Bible-believing parents who choose to homeschool their children do so for a number of important reasons, but many, if not most, choose this path in order to safeguard the godly upbringing of their children....
Bill Would Prevent Texas Colleges from Discriminating a.,.
A bill recently introduced to the Texas House of Representatives would protect faculty and students at public colleges in the state from discrimination for holding views antithetical to Darwinian evolution.
The...
'Oldest Fossils' Are Just Naturally Occurring Minerals
Scientists have been going back and forth over whether certain microscopic features in very old rocks were caused by lifeless minerals or living bacteria. Because of where these rocks are situated in the...
Does Japan Earthquake Signal the End Times?
The effects of the Japan earthquake of March 11, 2011, broadcasted on television made it one of the most terrifying natural events ever displayed in near real time. Several large earthquakes have occurred...
A Time to Keep Silent, and a Time to Speak
One of the most defining and demanding statements that our Lord Jesus made about Himself remains an inescapable truth to this day:
"I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father,...
Has the Lost City of Atlantis Been Found?
"I think we've found the best candidate for what was the beginnings of civilization," said University of Hartford in Connecticut archaeologist Richard Freund on local NBC television news.1...
Japan Tsunami Demonstrates Destructive Power of Water
The March 11 offshore 9.0-scale earthquake pushed a massive surge of water over Japan that decimated large areas of its coast and killed thousands of inhabitants. The human toll is not yet fully known,...
Heat of Saturn Moon Far Surpasses Long-age Expectations
Enceladus, a small moon that orbits in the E-ring of the planet Saturn, has provided a number of surprising astronomical discoveries in recent years. A new report shows it once again defying expectations....
Latest 'Life from Outer Space' Claim Is Shot Down
Has alien life really been found on a meteorite?
A recent title in Nature News provides a succinct answer: "The aliens haven't landed."1 The article offered a sweeping refutation of NASA scientist...
'Periodic Table for Flies' Is Guesswork, Not Science
Researchers have constructed a new evolutionary tree for flies that purports to show which types of fly likely evolved into other types. Researchers call this map the "new periodic table for flies."1...
Galactic Cluster Found Far Out of Place
If complicated living things arose through eons of evolution, and if lower rock layers represent the earth long ago before those eons occurred, then complicated life forms should only exist near the top―after...
Chambered Nautilus Study Offers Clue to Ammonite Extinction
The chambered nautilus, also known as the pearly nautilus, is a mollusk with a beautiful, symmetrical shell that is divided into buoyancy-controlling chambers. Few of these amazing sea creatures remain,...
Academic Freedom Up for Vote in Home of Scopes
Tennessee…home of the legendary Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925…will be voting on legislation that evolutionists lament will "force creationism" into public science classrooms.
House Bill 368...
Conference Concludes Origin of Life Research Is at a St.,.
Where did the first living cell come from? According to The Independent, Charles Darwin "was flummoxed by the ultimate mystery of mysteries: what led to the origin of life itself?"1
Since Darwin's...
Bill Nye the Evolution Guy
"The main idea in all of biology is evolution," Bill Nye recently told Popular Mechanics.1 He was responding to the results of a Penn State survey of U.S. high school biology teachers, only...
Survey Results: Evolution Weak in Public Schools Despit.,.
Pennsylvania State University political scientists recently published a report in the journal Science titled "Defeating Creationism in the Courtroom, But Not in the Classroom."
They cited the 2005 Kitzmiller...
Human Hand Capabilities Impossible to Duplicate
The human hand is undeniably a work of wonder. Its layout and suite of design features enable mankind―the only possessors of this particular arrangement of bones, tendons, muscles, and nerves―to...
Fish Designed to Tolerate Poison
Biologists recently discovered how tomcod…a smaller variation of cod…have thrived in the polluted waters of the Hudson River. The reports on their research are soaked in evolutionary jargon,...
Test Scores Suggest American Students Struggle to Think.,.
A report issued earlier this year by the U.S. Department of Education found that American students struggle with science.
The DOE sampled approximately 318,000 fourth, eighth, and twelfth graders from...
Life: More Complicated Than We Can Imagine
Organic life is the antithesis of simplicity. Theologians, science historians, philosophers, scientists, and science writers have struggled through the decades to carve out a good definition of this cryptic...
Selected by Nature or Designed to Fill?
Evolutionists like to trumpet the power of natural selection. Often they speak of it accomplishing a major evolutionary advancement, but natural selection doesn’t think or plan or provide. Does this...
Identifying Neandertal Man
Bones were discovered in a cave in Germany's Neander Valley in the middle 1800s. Since then, many more "Neandertal" remains have been uncovered. The story has been told that they wore...
Louis Agassiz: Anti-Darwinist Harvard Paleontology Professor
Introduction
Jean Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) is regarded as one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century. A founding father of the modern American scientific establishment, Agassiz was also a lifelong...
Rendering unto Caesar...Tax Law Changes Bring Welcome Relief
Few would argue that the first decade of the 21st century was an extremely turbulent period on many fronts. As the decade drew to a close and the nation struggled to emerge from the longest and deepest...
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Flower 'Evolves' in the Wrong Direction
Just one genus of flowering plant, Veronica, includes over 450 different species. They share similarities with other flower genera, some of which have radially symmetrical flowers and others with bilaterally...
It's Only Natural...or Is It?
Each morning when I look out across our back deck at home with my cup of coffee, I see so many amazing sights…boats on a canal, a variety of trees, flowers, and grass, the diversity of local wildlife,...
Naturalizing the Supernatural: How evolutionary ideas s.,.
The uncertainty of one thing, does not necessarily affect the certainty of another thing. Our ignorance of many points need not suspend our assurance of a few. Before we yield, in any particular instance,...
Telomeres Get the Spotlight as Cellular Evidence for In.,.
One of the recent cell biology and genetics projects at ICR has involved the compilation of years of research data on the cell’s telomere system in plants and animals, with an emphasis on its role...
DNA and RNA: Providential Coding to 'Revere' God
Secret codes and ciphers are serious business…just ask Paul Revere.
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five;...
Dragons in Paradise
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon....And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and satan, which deceiveth the whole world….And...
Dr. Rhonda Forlow: ICR's New Education Specialist
Rhonda Forlow first attended college on a nursing scholarship, but after a few years decided she wanted to work with special education children instead."I switched colleges and started studying psychology...
Shared Genes Undercut Evolutionary Tree
Darwinian evolution asserts that a single original organism morphed over countless generations into the modern known life forms. Each species alive today would therefore represent the tip of its own "branch"...
Study Shows Humans Are Uniquely Designed for Music
Unlike other creatures, humans can compose, record, and enjoy music. A new study has identified a brain chemical that provides pleasure when people listen to certain music. Where did this amazing ability...
Woodpecker Inspires Designers, Knocks Evolution
When boring into wood in search of food, a woodpecker exerts so much force with each strike that its beak should crumble, its skull should crack, and its brain should be reduced to mush. However, a...
Paleozoic Scorpion Exoskeleton Gainsays Assigned Age
Among land-dwelling arthropods, the sheer number of just ants and beetles that live and die each year is phenomenal. And ocean krill exist in even higher numbers. Each of these creatures leaves behind...
Human Foot Bone Misidentified as Lucy's
For years, museum displays have featured the small extinct ape Australopithecus afarensis. The first specimen, discovered in 1974 and nicknamed "Lucy," was presented as having clearly human eyes, feet,...
Repeat DNA Function Negates Classic Evolutionary Argument
Certain repetitive DNA sequences have long been viewed as "confirmation" of evolution. Since they are not genes that code for proteins, they were considered to be unnecessary. Therefore, they were supposedly...
New Direct Fossil Dating Technique Promises to Fail
Three geologists have reported what they called the first "successful" direct dating of dinosaur bone. Will this new radioisotope dating (or radiodating) technique solve the problems that plagued older...
Scientists Try to Duplicate Clam Glue and Bacterial Biofilm
Many clams glue themselves onto a solid surface like a rock or coral reef to keep from being tossed about by the surf. The "glue" sets when wet and is extremely strong, partly because tiny...
Can Scientists Now Directly Date Fossils?
A trio of geologists has published what they called the first successful direct dating of dinosaur bone. They used a new laser technique to measure radioisotopes in the bone, yielding an age of millions...
'Simple' Amoebas Can Farm Bacteria
Not long ago, scientists discovered that what they thought was a spore-bearing fungal slime mold was actually a temporary congregation of forest-floor, single-cell amoebas. This presented evolutionists...
Bone-eating Worms Show Fossils Formed Fast
Marine biologists made a surprising discovery in 2002 when they found a unique species of worm that devours the bones of whale carcasses on the ocean floor. Ongoing research conducted off the coast of...
Life Thrives amid Chernobyl's Leftover Radiation
Twenty-five years ago, the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl in northern Ukraine melted down in a radiation-spewing catastrophe. The reactor was capped with tons of concrete and a wide surrounding area called...
Has Salt-Trapped Bacteria Been Living on Algae for Mill.,.
Scientists have believed that certain salt deposits are millions of years old. Live bacteria found within the deposits, however, are calling those age assignments into question. A new theory has been offered...
Genesis Flood Insights More Relevant Today than Ever
by Frank Sherwin, M.A., & Brian Thomas, M.S. *
Scientific observations made in the seminal book The Genesis Flood are even more scientifically valid today than when they were first written. Although...
A New Creationist Cosmology: In No Time at All Part 3
by Larry Vardiman, Ph.D., & D. Russell Humphreys, Ph.D. *
Editor’s Note:
This article is the last in a series offering an explanation for how distant starlight could be visible from an earth...
Commitment to a Timeless Message
The book The Genesis Flood has rightly been credited as the catalyst of the modern revival of scientific biblical creationism. Published in 1961 and in continuous print ever since, no other single work...
Celebrating the Classics
From time to time I browse through my personal library and select books to give or throw away…books that are no longer relevant or that could be better used by someone else. Our home has several...
February 2011
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A Flood of Influence: The Impact of Henry Morris and Th.,.
The question of the historicity and the character of the Genesis Flood is no mere academic issue of interest to a small handful of scientists and theologians. If a worldwide flood actually...
Molecular Equidistance: The Echo of Discontinuity?
The ICR life sciences research team is using sequence alignments to re-examine published molecular data and look for evidence of discontinuity.1 One of our preliminary findings has fascinating...
The Creation Movement's Firm Foundation
The 50th anniversary of the publication of The Genesis Flood, co-authored by Dr. John Whitcomb and my father, Dr. Henry Morris, brings back poignant memories. A teenager when it was being written, I can...
Global Flood, Global Impact: The Legacy of The Genesis Flood
There has, indeed, been a remarkable revival of strict creationism (as distinct from theistic evolutionism or progressive creationism) in past decades. The Scopes Trial in 1925, however, had resulted in...
Just Say No to Trojan Horses: Worldview Corruption Is L.,.
Hospitality to visitors is usually a virtue,1 but in this fallen world it is important to understand exactly who is being invited before welcoming him with open arms…as the ancient Trojans...
Texas Schools Seek Science Supplements
Texas adopted new science standards for K-12 public schools in 2009, but the state did not have enough funds to purchase new science textbooks that covered all the information that students would be responsible...
Russian Pastor Visits ICR
Evgeny Bakhmutsky had always wanted to visit the Institute for Creation Research. In November 2010, he did.
"This is a dream come true," he told ICR staff during morning devotions.
Bakhmutsky is the...
50-Year Study Shows Coral 'Clocks' Unreliable
Some biologists like to say that massive coral reefs represent more than 100,000 years of growth, supposedly nullifying the Bible's account of a world that is only thousands of years old. However, many...
Could Wooly Mammoths Be Brought Back?
Japanese scientists are hoping to clone a mammoth and effectively bring an extinct animal variety back to life. Such a feat would involve recovering high-quality DNA from the frozen tissue of a mammoth...
'Evolution' Advertisement Refutes Evolution Metaphor
On a Dallas highway near the Institute for Creation Research offices, a billboard advertising a new computer reads, "The laptop has just evolved." Likely, the statement is not meant to be taken...
Fossil Discovery Reshuffles Dino Evolution Again
A newly discovered dinosaur has forced another re-write of the evolutionary dinosaur origins story. The tiny Eodromaeus skeleton unearthed in South America "boots out" the previously designated dinosaur...
Exoplanet Discoveries Demolish Planet Formation Theories
How do planets form? This question has been asked by philosophical naturalists for decades, but the more they learn about planets near and far, the less their nature-only theories fit what is observed....
'Cavemen' Diet Was Far from Primitive
Countless schoolchildren have been told that they evolved from cavemen who wore no clothes, communicated in grunts, and were primitive hunters. But many of their teachers can't answer the question "how...
Ancient Winery Found Near Mount Ararat
A research team recently discovered an ancient winepress very near Mount Ararat, the historically held resting place for Noah's Ark. Could this site be related to the winery Noah founded in Genesis 9?
According...
Animal Play Continues to Evade Evolutionary Explanation
According to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, an organism's behavior is supposedly motivated by the biological imperative of survival. How, then, can it explain traits that are irrelevant to survival—such...
Brain's Complexity 'Is Beyond Anything Imagined'
The brain has for a long time been compared to man-made computers in its astounding ability to process, store, and route information. But a new imaging technique has revealed that just one brain's connections...
Ancient Teeth Overturn Human Evolution
The evolutionary age assignment for mankind just doubled, according to new research. Teeth were discovered in an Israeli cave in a context of unprecedented age for human remains. This evidence refutes...
ID Smear 'Presents No New Arguments'
The late 20th century saw the development of what has come to be known as the Intelligent Design movement, which holds that certain features of the universe and living creatures are best explained by an...
Mummified Forest Highlights Post-Flood Ice Age
Scientists found a mummified forest in 2010 on northern Canada's Ellesmere Island. It had apparently been buried by a landslide long ago and was exposed by receding ice and glaciers. How those trees...
Origins Breakthroughs of 2010: Cell Biology and Genomics
Every year brings new scientific discoveries that shed light on the past. The Institute for Creation Research is dedicated to the study of origins from a biblical perspective, and ICR News has compiled...
Origins Breakthroughs of 2010: Astronomy
Every year brings new scientific discoveries that shed light on the past. The Institute for Creation Research is dedicated to the study of origins from a biblical perspective, and ICR News has compiled...
Origins Breakthroughs of 2010: Paleontology
Every year brings new scientific discoveries that shed light on the past. The Institute for Creation Research is dedicated to the study of origins from a biblical perspective, and ICR News has compiled...
Origins Breakthroughs of 2010: Zoology
Every year brings new scientific discoveries that shed light on the past. The Institute for Creation Research is dedicated to the study of origins from a biblical perspective, and ICR News has compiled...
Origins Breakthroughs of 2010: Human Genetics
Every year brings new scientific discoveries that shed light on the past. The Institute for Creation Research is dedicated to the study of origins from a biblical perspective, and ICR News has compiled...
The Creation Worldview and the Scopes Trial
In these pages we often identify evolution as the scientific justification for an anti-Christian mentality. This long war against God was on full display at the famous Scopes Monkey Trail in 1925, where...
Design of Man: No Evolutionary Evidences
Man has either slowly evolved from a primal slime billions of years ago—or he has been created in God’s image. The list of evidences that were supposed to validate man’s evolutionary...
The Stones Cry Out: What Rocks and Fossils Say about th.,.
The Christian Research Institute (CRI) states on its website that “we cannot easily dismiss the fact that an overwhelming majority of authorities in the fields of geology [rocks], paleontology [fossils],...
A New Creationist Cosmology: In No Time at All Part 2
by Larry Vardiman, Ph.D., & D. Russell Humphreys, Ph.D. *
Editor’s Note:
Hebrews 11:3 says that "through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things...
Circumspect Resolutions
The turn of the calendar naturally provides the occasion to reflect on the past year and plan for the future, and people of almost every nation observe some kind of New Year holiday. Sadly, New Year celebrations...
January 2011
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Confronting Evolutionary Ideas
In 2009, much of the world celebrated the life and legacy of Charles Darwin, the English naturalist who popularized the notion of evolution through natural selection. Darwinism has been a belief system...
Looking for Molecular Discontinuity: The Use of Sequenc.,.
The ICR life sciences team has identified several key research questions in the field of origins biology. Our current task is reviewing the literature concerning the evolutionary tree of life,1...
Evaluating Real vs. Apparent Design
Everyone has some unhealthy habits and the best way to achieve long-term freedom from them is not to “drop” them but to “replace” them with something better. The freedom-through-replacement...
ICR Science Curriculum Debuts at Education Conferences
The Institute for Creation Research unveiled its new Science Education Essentials curriculum at Christian school and homeschool conventions across the United States this past fall. ICR participates...
ICR's Modern-Day Noah
Ernie Carrasco is building an ark.
Actually, in addition to working in the Institute for Creation Research’s Internet Ministries department, Carrasco is a student in ICR’s School of...
The Long View
Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name; all unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not....
Buyer Beware! Don't Swallow Evolutionist Sophistry
Evolutionary propaganda is more than just science fiction—it is hyped and sold with slick sophistry. Its proponents routinely offer what appears to be a straightforward choice: To explain origins,...
Eternity on Our Hearts
If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is,
sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the
earth. For you died, and...
Telomeres: implications for aging and evidence for inte.,.
JANUARY 01, 2011
by Jeffrey P. Tomkins, Ph.D., and Jerry Bergman, Ph.D.
In Journal of Creation 25 (1): 86-97 2011
The complex telomere system in eukaryotic chromosomes eloquently demonstrates a precise well-designed...
Towers of Hanoi No Match for Puzzle-Solving Ants
A game that has traditionally stumped many people has proven to be no problem for ants. They were even able to find alternate solutions when the old ones were blocked. Scientists are hoping this humble...
Magnetic Field Data Confirm Creation Model
Today, the earth's magnetic field strength is steadily decreasing, but in the past it fluctuated. A recent study of an ancient copper mine in southern Israel indicated just how quickly those fluctuations...
Origin of Life Studies Cancel Each Other
In 2009, Brown University biology professor Ken Miller wrote in the journal New Scientist that "the most profound unsolved problem in biology is the origin of life itself."1
Actually,...
'New' Flood Theory Echoes Creation Research
A UK researcher has proposed that fluctuating sea levels several thousand years ago may have displaced Middle Easterners living on land now beneath the Indian Ocean, their settlements flooded by the rising...
The Mysteries of Stunning Soft Tissue Fossil Finds
The controversial soft tissue finds of North Carolina State University paleontologist Mary Schweitzer are gaining renown, and for good reason. She found organic material in fossilized dinosaurs and other...
Hyped Arsenic Bacteria Research 'Should Not Have Been P.,.
NASA recently issued a series of press releases and arranged a press conference to promote research claiming that life was possible in outer space.1, 2 However, the research drew heavy criticism...
Did Electricity-Conducting Bacteria Evolve in the Lab?
What if there were not a fast or effective way to get rid of sewage waste? The world would be a pretty disgusting place.
Thankfully, the earth is equipped with a host of organisms that survive on...
Arsenic-Eating Bacteria: A New Frontier in Life Science?
The six most common elements in living things are carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and phosphorus. Although some have considered the possibility that other elements could serve the same functions...
Parasitic Worms Help Heal Intestines
Some people challenge the existence of the Christian God by asking questions like “If God always has good intentions and is all-powerful, why would He make things like parasitic worms that harm other...
Five Consequences of Having Been Created
Evolutionists have long held that the human body contains “useless” biological structures that are “vestiges” of an evolutionary history of repeated transformations. Recently, North...
New Comet Origins Idea Adds New Problems
Comets continue to confound cosmologists, who often assert that the small celestial bodies came from the “Oort Cloud,” a theoretical group of planetary leftovers that supposedly orbits the...
Does Medical School Need Courses in Evolution?
In a recent issue of the journal The Scientist, University of Florida College of Medicine professor Leonid Moroz lamented the current lack of graduate program courses on the supposed basics of evolutionary...
Anti-God Ads--Money Well Spent?
Like paper cuts from wrapping presents and the sound of small children screaming in the laps of mall Santas, anti-God advertisements seem to have become a Christmas tradition. Their messages range from...
Evolution's 'Best' Examples
If Charles Darwin could see today's best examples of evolution, would he be elated or depressed?
The well-known British naturalist popularized the idea of "natural selection," speculating that...
The Latest 'Explanation' for Design? Pure Luck.
The idea of evolutionary descent with modification holds that all the various kinds of living organisms arose through some natural step-by-step process—a concept that many have believed since Charles...
Creation with the Appearance of Age
Some Christian old-earth advocates hold that if God created fully functioning organisms and physical systems, then He lied to us. They would have looked deceptively mature when they had in fact just appeared....
The Strange Metaphysical World of Evolution
Secular colleges and universities, the media, and the Internet are alive with vitriolic accusations regarding the supposedly unscientific nature of creation science.
But is evolutionary science itself...
Doubts Raised about the 'Goldilocks' Planet
A distant rocky planet was recently discovered orbiting close enough to its red dwarf star that liquid water could exist on its surface. This rare position is called the goldilocks zone (not too hot and...
An Ice Age in Yellowstone National Park
Introduction
Yellowstone National Park holds the distinction of being the first national park in the United States and in the world. It exhibits magnificent geological features such as a 30-mile-diameter...
The Breadth and Depth of ICR Ministries
When I am asked about ICR’s current projects and programs, people are often surprised by the breadth and depth of the ICR ministry. This is particularly true for visitors who tour our facilities,...
December 2010
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Stand Up! Stand Up for Jesus!
The October 31 sermon by Pastor Chuck Swindoll in Frisco, Texas, highlighted the life and work of Martin Luther, responsible in large part for the Protestant Reformation, of which all evangelicals are...
XMAS: Removing the Reason for the Season
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning. — Mark Twain1
Sometime...
Literature Review: Molecular Data and the Tree of Life
The ICR life sciences team is in the midst of the literature review phase of our new research venture that will examine the major unanswered origins biology questions.1 Our current focus is...
ICR Celebrates 40 Years
On October 7, the Institute for Creation Research held a special banquet in honor of its 40 years of ministry. Over 400 people gathered at the Hilton Dallas Lincoln Centre to celebrate God’s marvelous...
Fighting Over Furniture and Faith
America’s evolution-creation controversy is like a lawsuit over a probate estate. The evolutionists are “contesting the will” of the founding fathers of modern science, but so far...
The Folly of Design without Purpose
A construction contractor struggling to prevent a failed project criticized his designer as “flying by the seat of his pants,” meaning that he was simply making up stuff as the project progressed....
Making sense of how an atheist is made
DECEMBER 01, 2010
In Journal of Creation 24 (3): 29-31, December 2010
A review of The Making of an Atheist: How Immorality Leads to Unbelief by James S. Spiegel
Moody Publishers, Chicago, IL, 2010
In this brief...
Where Is the Universe Headed--to Order or Chaos?
Mainstream cosmology holds that the orderliness found throughout the universe came from chaotic beginnings. In this scenario, matter and energy were flung outward and then gradually coalesced into structured...
Louisiana to Vote on Science Textbooks
In 2008, public science education and academic freedom enjoyed a victory with the passing of the Louisiana Science Education Act.1
The act, signed into law by Governor Bobby Jindal, allows...
Eye Optimization in Creation
The more that is known about the human body, the more amazing its construction turns out to be. A recent New York Times article focused on eyeball optimization: "[The] basic building blocks of human...
Mutation Study Contradicts Evolution
Biology textbooks teach that mutations added the high-quality genetic information needed to transmutate a fish into a monkey—even though experiments have shown that mutations merely corrupt the information...
Studies Show Extinct Reptiles Moved with Grace and Ease
"Scientists have struggled for decades to figure out how giant pterosaurs could become airborne and some recent proposals have simply assumed it must have been impossible," according to Michael...
'Remarkably Preserved' Shrimp Is 350 Million Years Old?
Researchers from Ohio University found a shrimp buried in a layer of limestone in Oklahoma. The fossil has been deemed to be the oldest shrimp ever discovered, stretching the purported evolutionary history...
NYU Prof Sides with Matthew, Not Darwin, on Fossil Record
Charles Darwin is widely credited with providing the first proper treatment of "natural selection" in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species. He portrayed it as a natural law with intelligent...
No Fruit Fly Evolution Even after 600 Generations
Many Americans believe that the big-picture story of evolution, as biology professors routinely expound it, is false.1 Basically, they haven't bought into the concept that all life descended...
Genomes Have Remarkable 3-D Organization
Almost every nook and cranny of living cells investigated by scientists has yielded a new level of unforeseen and complicated organization. For example, before it was discovered, who would have suspected...
NASA Photographs Young Comet
Comets have fascinated their viewers throughout human history. Where did they come from? What are they made of? How did they start orbiting the sun? How old are they?
Modern technology is helping to provide...
Purpose-driven Drift: Francis Collins and the Doctrine .,.
Dr. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and recent keynote speaker at ICR's 40th anniversary celebration in Dallas, published an online article on November 9 in which...
New Genomes Project Data Indicate a Young Human Race
In 2008, an extensive international effort was begun to sequence in unprecedented detail over 1,000 representative human genomes from around the world. The results of three preliminary pilot projects were...
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