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Students' Freedom of Speech Speaks Volumes
Generally, a hoard of rebellious schoolchildren is one of the last things anyone wants to encourage. But religious leaders and First Amendment advocates can cheer for some Tennessee students who, despite...
Cache of Amber in India Looks Young
Masses of amber, ranging in size "from sand grains to several centimeters"1 in diameter, have been excavated from coal mines in western India. While scientists are excited by the many...
Naturalist Rejects Natural Selection, Appeals to Chaos
Since its inception, Charles Darwin's story that life evolved in response to environmental pressures has not been supported by what is actually observed in nature. Despite this, it has been universally...
Neandertals Mixed with Humans in China
Neandertal remains are mostly found in European caves. So when Neandertal-like characteristics were discovered among a fossilized jawbone and teeth in South China, it was cause for further investigation....
Bees Solve Math Problems Faster Than Computers
Bees can solve complex mathematical problems that would normally keep computers busy for days, according to a new report from UK researchers.1
Through careful observation, University of London...
Reading the Fossil Record
Earlier this year, ICR published a beautifully illustrated book entitled The Fossil Record: Unearthing Nature’s History of Life, co-authored by ICR Senior Science Lecturer Frank Sherwin and myself....
Research That Demonstrates Design and Unearths Flood De.,.
Whether the evidence is large or small, related to the physical sciences or the life sciences, recent discoveries shout “creation.” A look at the submicroscopic world of an enzyme complex,...
Extraordinary Mosasaur Fossil Reveals Original Soft Tissues
Mosasaurs were 40-foot-long marine reptiles with fearsome teeth. Presumed to be extinct, they have been found as fossils on every continent. One unique mosasaur fossil has been housed at the Dinosaur Institute...
A New Creationist Cosmology: In No Time at All Part 1
by Larry Vardiman, Ph.D., & D. Russell Humphreys, Ph.D. *
Introduction
One of the issues that concern many people who wish to adopt young-earth creationism as a valid view of earth history is the...
Give Thanks
For 40 years the Institute for Creation Research has led the fight to defend the faith by uncovering and explaining God’s matchless creation as expressed in His perfect Word. Many have partnered...
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A Mission of Praise and Proclamation
Now celebrating our 40th year of ministry, the Institute for Creation Research is grateful to God for meeting our material needs to keep this ministry going, but also for strengthening us with His power...
Biology and the Bible
Biology, a word derived from two Greek words, bios (“life”) and logos (“word”), is “the study of life.” The Bible is the written Word of God, according to its own...
Literature Review: Simplifying the Research Process
The ICR life sciences research team is currently conducting a review of the scientific literature to answer the five major origins biology research questions we have identified.1-5 This literature...
Every Nation Under Heaven: Using Scripture to Understan.,.
Scoffers who attack God’s Word are famous for proving how tough they are by bludgeoning a “straw man,” a supposed biblical problem that has no real substance or validity. Rather than...
Similar Features Demonstrate Common Design
There are two equally valid explanations for why some things share similar features. They may be part of a group, like motorcycles, “related” by commonly designed attributes. Or, like brothers,...
Topsy Turvy
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes,...
How Long Can Cartilage Last?
School children have been told that it takes long ages for a fossil to form and that fossils have been buried under deep rock layers for millions of years. However, increasing discoveries of fossils with...
Study Demonstrates Complex Cells Could Not Evolve from .,.
One mystery that naturalists have yet to solve is how randomly shaped and distributed chemicals were organized, concentrated, and combined into the first living bacterial cell. The next great mystery is...
Ancient Wooden Door Has 'Remarkable' Design
Glimpses of the past can sometimes be unearthed in the most ordinary places. In a dig for an underground parking facility for the Zurich opera house in Switzerland, evidence of ancient human occupation...
Saying Goodbye to Giant Salamanders
Chinese giant salamanders are the largest in the world, with some in recent history growing as long as six feet. Lately, however, this unique amphibian has been driven toward extinction through loss of...
Did Evolutionary 'Tinkering' Produce Diverse Proteins?
The claim that all of today's animals came from one animal-like ancestor long ago seems wildly unreasonable. For this to happen, countless new and perfectly-fitted body parts, along with thousands of precisely...
'Under God' Stands in Texas Pledge
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled on October 13 that the words "under God" that appear in the Texas Pledge of Allegiance are constitutional.
The term was added to the state...
Is Life Forming on Titan?
A team of investigators led by University of Arizona graduate student Sarah Horst has approximated, in a French lab, atmospheric conditions on Saturn's moon Titan. Through a series of experiments, they...
Giant Penguin Feather Poses Problem for Long Ages
Paleontologists at the University of Texas at Austin and other institutions have investigated the fossil of a giant penguin found in Peru. At five feet tall, it would have dwarfed today's largest living...
Another Setback for 'Junk' DNA
Scientists believed and taught for ages that only gene-coding DNA (which is a small fraction of DNA in human and other genomes) was functional. All other DNA was "junk" leftovers from a long...
Study Suggests Atheists Know More Religious Facts than .,.
Recent survey results released by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life suggest that atheists and agnostics know more about religion than evangelicals and Catholics.
"On average, Americans correctly...
Computers Help Show the Mechanics of a Miracle
by Christine Dao and Brian Thomas*
One of the more dramatic incidents in the Old Testament was the exodus of the Children of Israel from Egypt, which included a miraculous crossing of the Red Sea. BBC...
Newfound Planet Is '100 Percent' Sure to Have Life?
A number of factors are required for life to exist--the presence of water, sustainable atmosphere, and appropriate temperature ranges, just to name a few. How many of these requirements should be observed...
What Makes an Attractive Woman Attractive?
Certain items seem to have just the right combination of shapes and colors to have universal aesthetic appeal. For example, few fail to appreciate the glory of a sunset on the beach, and many varieties...
Mars Atmosphere Could Be Young
Astronomers generally believe that Mars was formed billions of years ago. About 96 percent of the Red Planet's atmosphere is composed of carbon dioxide.1 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander...
Dinosaurs According to Their Creator
Dinosaurs have long been an effective tool for teaching evolutionary dogma. However, since all things were created by the God of the Bible during the creation week not long ago, and He didn’t use...
Greatest Earthquakes of the Bible
The Holy Land is a region where earthquakes occur frequently. By one means or another, big earthquakes have been documented in the Holy Land for a period exceeding 4,000 years.1 Many are known...
40 Years of Blessing
When the Institute for Creation Research began in 1970, very few organizations focused on the ministry of creation science. Now there are numerous creation ministries—probably one or more in every...
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Pioneering a Global Movement
This month the Institute for Creation Research marks the 40th anniversary of this ministry, looking back with gratitude for four decades of God’s faithfulness and looking forward to the plans and...
Presuppositional Research and the Definition of Kind
What is best way to classify creatures? One of the research focuses of the ICR life sciences team is the question of biblical taxonomy.1 A debate exists over the definition of the key scriptural...
Similar Features Show Design, Not Universal Common Descent
“I’m related to George Washington,” an acquaintance announced after searching his genealogical record. He also believes he is closely related to chimpanzees. Though he doesn’t really...
Survival of the Fitted: God's Providential Programming
Birds display God’s providential programming. That means God carefully planned them before He created their original ancestors on Day Five of the creation week. He planned their genetics, their bio-diversity...
An Inconvenient Truth
With apologies to Al Gore for the use of his movie title, the ongoing debate over creation versus evolution just will not go away. Most of academia, the majority of science practitioners, and (disappointingly)...
Why Does the Universe Look So Old?
The Theological Costs of Old-Earth Thinking
The mention of Genesis 1:1 in today’s academic circles, whether secular or Christian, evokes far more heated responses than one might assume in our science-saturated...
Teen Finds Lobster Fossil with Original Shell
A "stunning" fossil was discovered by 15-year-old James Dickinson while he was fossil hunting at a beach in southern England. The area where he found it, Lyme Regis, is well known as a "treasure...
Cell Division Defies Evolutionary 'Just-so' Stories
Cell division seems comparatively straightforward when viewed under a microscope. One cell replicates itself and splits into two daughter cells, enabling an organism to develop, grow, and replace cells...
'Water Flea' Study Inadvertently Fits Genesis Mandate
Wild habitats are shrinking as the human population grows. Many wild creatures have increasingly fewer places to live or face deteriorating environments. Finding a method that would detect whether an organism...
Even Bacteria Seem to Follow the Golden Rule
Altruism is a real mystery for those who believe in a world ruled by "survival of the fittest." If perpetuation of one's genes is a biological imperative, why would any creature sacrifice its...
Newfound Kickboxing Dinosaur Has Puzzling History
Some dinosaurs had a "sickle-claw," made famous by the man-hunting Velociraptors in the movie Jurassic Park. Now, paleontologists have described a new dinosaur from Transylvania, Romania, that...
Where Did the Mimic Octopus Get Its Amazing Abilities?
The mimic octopus is, frankly, incredible. It can alter its shape, texture, and color to match poisonous and colorful sea creatures so accurately that it eluded detection by marine biologists for decades....
Hawking Says Universe Created Itself
Stephen Hawking, leading cosmologist and recently retired Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, has co-authored a new book, The Grand Design. In it, he claims that the universe did...
New Tools to Fight Germs...from Frog Skin?
Early in the 20th century, brilliant chemists generated pharmaceuticals in laboratories. But the cost/reward ratio of painstaking lab experiments turned out to be far greater than the cost/reward ratio...
Darwin and SUVs?
What does Charles Darwin have to do with the auto industry? For one Fortune writer, Darwin defines it.
"At its best, the auto industry is Darwinistic, with the new and improved driving out the old...
What Caused the Extinction of Ice Age Animals?
Wooly mammoths, sabre-toothed tigers, and giant cave bears lived alongside man during the Ice Age. But while humans persisted, these big beasts--along with other "megafauna"--became extinct....
Mother of All Humans Lived 6,000 Years Ago
Inside a human cell's mitochondria--the tiny organelles that provide energy--there is a small and unique chromosome. This loop of DNA is passed from mother to child in every generation and provides...
The Sun Alters Radioactive Decay Rates
Many scientists rely on the assumption that radioactive elements decay at constant, undisturbed rates and therefore can be used as reliable clocks to measure the ages of rocks and artifacts. Most estimates...
Why Can't Science Start with the Bible?
A report that looked into a miracle Jesus performed over 2,000 years ago was recently retracted from a medical journal.
Virology Journal had published the article written by Chinese researchers who detailed...
A Marvelous Symmetry
Often we speak of the creation way of thinking as incorporating and being founded upon three main points: creation week, the Fall into sin and its resulting Curse, and the great Flood of Noah's day. These...
The Created Camel
The one-humped Camelus dromedarius has been called the ship of the desert--and for very good reasons. In a typical day, this 1,200+ pound animal can carry up to 400 pounds a hundred miles across the unforgiving...
Amber Jewelry: A Conversation Piece for Creation Evidence
Amber has been prized for centuries for its beauty. Some specimens have dazzling colors, like a cache recently discovered at Cape York in far northern Australia. Insects, diatoms, a lizard leg, fruits,...
News from the Red Planet
According to a number of recent blogs on the Internet, on August 27, 2010, Mars made its closest approach to earth in history, coming within about 35 million miles. Some sites even predicted it would be...
Workplace Giving Campaigns
The month of September marks the start of the annual workplace charitable giving season, and the Institute for Creation Research has worked hard to gain approval in selected workplace programs as an additional...
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Fighting the Dragon
The Bible describes our ultimate Enemy as "the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan" (Revelation 20:2), who wages war against the saints with his many "ministers"...
Civil Conversation or Dangerous Discourse?
Having a great conversation with someone can be wonderfully satisfying. Newlyweds enjoy this. College students thrive on it. No one wants to be involved in uncomfortable conversations, like students with...
Using Nature to Encounter God's Attributes
The Institute for Creation Research (ICR) life sciences team has identified four major origins biology research questions.1-4 The fifth and final question concerns the identification of God's...
Oil Companies, Global Warming, and Hurricanes: How Does.,.
The prophet Jeremiah once vigorously argued with Jewish men and women who insisted that their troubles were caused by a failure to worship the queen of heaven.1 People today might sneer at such...
All-or-Nothing Unity
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? A fresh usage of this familiar question can quickly illustrate unseen strengths to the design argument. At first, the issue seems to be one of timing. That problem...
Creation Is the Foundation
It is high time that people in general, and Bible-believing Christians in particular, recognize the foundational significance of special creation. Creation is not merely a religious doctrine of only...
Beetle Larva Bifocals Are Better than Manmade
The eye is an amazing organ. It enables an organism to translate light into electro-chemical impulses that the brain can assemble into "images" of the world around it. Many types of eyes are...
Oil-eating Bacteria Are Cleaning Up Gulf
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has spawned concerns regarding the long-term negative impact on the area's ecology, and especially on local fisheries. These worries are based on the assumption that...
The 'Animal Connection' Points to Creation, not Evolution
What do the oldest European artworks and the domestication of animals have in common? A Penn State University paleoanthropologist suggested that they are evidence of a unique connection with animals that...
New Finds and Possible Fraud Discredit 'Chimp Culture'
Do chimpanzees have their own culture? If so, some researchers would connect their behaviors to aspects of human culture, which they believe supports an evolutionary relationship. But current developments...
Contrary to Expectation, Extinct Sea Monsters Were Expe.,.
Mosasaurs were marine reptiles with large jaws and big teeth. Their fossils have been found on every continent, including Antarctica. They grew longer than 40 feet, and although they had fearsome jaws...
Continents Didn't Drift, They Raced
The theory of plate tectonics explains many earth features, like ocean floor trenches and sediment-free mid-ocean ridges made of hardened magma. The popular theory holds that continents drift slowly across...
'80 Million-Year-Old' Mosasaur Fossil Has Soft Retina a.,.
Mosasaur fossils have been recovered from Late Cretaceous rocks all over the world. Most are just a fossilized tooth or perhaps a loose rib or vertebra. Occasionally, several bones are discovered still...
Tiny Fish Rapidly Adapted to Cold Water. Was It Evolution?
Researchers have found that tiny fish called sticklebacks can adapt rapidly to a decrease in water temperature. This discovery adds to a long and growing list of animal trait variations that happen...
Are Sea Sponges Mostly Human?
Sponges have long been considered one of the "simplest" forms of life. Now an international team of scientists has analyzed sponge DNA and concluded that it shares representative genes associated...
Finch Duets Open Surprising Window on Bird Origins
Humans are in rare company when it comes to singing duets. Humpback whales perform original couples' songs, as do a handful of birds. It was thought that bird duets were just for mating purposes, but a...
DNA Study Offers New Take on Marsupial Migrations
Marsupials are mammals that nurture their young in a special pouch. Their fossils are rare. Few have been discovered in Australia, for example, which is home to several unique marsupials, including kangaroos....
Canadian Philosopher Insists 'We Are All African!'
Philosopher and secular humanist Christopher diCarlo claims that if humans trace their lineages far enough back in time, they will all have an African origin. He has been spreading his "We Are All...
Blob-like Fossil Doesn't Fit Evolution
The blob lives. Or at least, it has been reconstructed in a three-dimensional computer model.
Researchers at Imperial College London cut a fossil into 200 pieces and scanned each piece into a computer...
Did 'Nature' Invent Oxygen-Carrying Systems...Twice?
An animal wouldn't grow larger than an insect without specialized equipment designed to transport oxygen to and carbon dioxide from cells deep inside its body. Fortunately, thousands of different...
Physicist Questions Gravity's Existence
Does gravity exist?
While few would deny that objects attract at-a-distance, some physicists are questioning whether or not this universally observed effect is caused by a stand-alone force called "gravity."...
Embryonic Stem Cells Approved for First Human Trials
Stem cells from adults can be "coaxed" into becoming more specified tissues and used effectively for specific treatments. Stem cells from embryos, however, involve the destruction of a human...
Donkey Gives Birth to 'Zedonk'
For 25 years, donkeys and zebras at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve have shared the same pasture while maintaining separate identities. When a donkey gave birth recently, zookeepers were surprised to see...
How Can Evolution Explain Opposite Genetic Effects?
To produce offspring, males and females contribute specialized reproductive cells called gametes--sperm cells from males and eggs from females. Most genes used to manufacture gametes differ from organism...
Experiment Shows Plant 'Intelligence'
Do plants think? They don't have brains or even neurons. But when scientists shined a light onto a leaf at the bottom of a plant, the entire plant "knew" how to react. Their studies uncovered...
Earth's Magnetic Field
The decay of earth's magnetic field has been one of the strongest evidences for the Bible's recent creation doctrine. This concept, developed originally by Dr. Thomas Barnes in 1971, was updated and revised...
Cells: Sophisticated and God-Designed
God has created man with 100 trillion cells, each of which is a wonder of microminiaturization. The biochemical processes that occur moment by moment are nothing less than astounding. The bewildering complexity...
Tentacular Squid: Rewriting Squid Stories Before the In.,.
During a recent tour of the fossil displays on ICR's campus, a Dutch-speaking group referred to our fossil squid as an inktvis or "ink fish." This led to the discussion of a discovery in 2009,...
Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Is Not Evidence of Poor Design
Introduction
A common claim by evolutionists is that the human body is poorly designed, which to them is evidence that it was not intelligently designed, but rather cobbled together by the unintelligent...
Where There Is a Will, There Is a CGA
Without a doubt, the remarkable economic upheaval that began some years ago has impacted the entire financial spectrum. Dubbed the "Great Recession" by some economists, this prolonged period...
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Sorry, I Don't Dance
Recently we alerted Acts & Facts readers to the hazards of an organization called BioLogos, a non-profit group founded by Dr. Francis Collins that aggressively engages the disciplines of science and...
The Deceptive Dance of Compromise
"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).... "Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking!"1...
The Impetus for Biological Change
What does the Bible teach about biological change? In recent articles, the Institute for Creation Research life sciences team has shown that the Bible teaches limited common ancestry1 and a...
Misreading Earth's Groanings: Why Evolutionists and Int.,.
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. (Romans 8:22)
The ecological crises affecting our planet today should make every thinking Christian groan over...
Life's Indispensable Microscopic Machines
Humans love machines. Everyone likes how they save time and make jobs easier. If a new machine is invented that helps detect specific diseases and aids in early diagnosis, it is big news.
People also...
Larry Vardiman
When Dr. Larry Vardiman was a graduate student in atmospheric science at Colorado State University, he, like many Christian scientists, struggled with the conflicts between a literal interpretation of...
From Parasites to Pictographs: ICR Apologetics School S.,.
So what can you learn about avian parasites, sedimentary rocks, fossilized clams, ostrich eggs, logical fallacies, plover migrations, giraffe blood systems, plesiosaurs, ancient Chinese pictographs,...
Cell systems…what’s really under the hood .,.
AUGUST 01, 2010
In Journal of Creation 24 (2): 13-15, August 2010
Two 2009 papers summarized recent discoveries of utterly unforeseen intricacy, adaptability, robustness and precision in regulating gene expression,...
100 Years of Fruit Fly Tests Show No Evolution
July 22, 2010, marked the 100th anniversary of genetic investigations using fruit flies. The first such study appeared in Science in 1910 and described the unexpected appearance of a male fruit fly with...
Blond Baby from Black Parents a Genetic Mystery
A British Nigerian couple--Ben and Angela Ihegboro--is not aware of any fair-skinned ancestors on either side of their families. Yet they gave birth to a blue-eyed, blond-haired, and fair-skinned baby...
How Trustworthy Is Science News?
Humans were not made to be experts in everything.
C. S. Lewis was a master wordsmith, yet biographer Alan Jacobs noted that the Oxford fellow and later Cambridge professor struggled to count change from...
Gene 'Jumps' Serve a Purpose, Study Shows
In the tiny world of the cell, segments of DNA called transposons copy and reinsert themselves into the DNA. They eventually produce large repetitive sequences that have for many years been considered...
Dallas Hospital Thwarts 'Evolving' Bacteria
Methodist Dallas Medical Center in 2009 averted an impending outbreak of dangerously infectious bacteria called Acinetobacter baumannii. Although less prevalent than MRSA, Acinetobacter has acquired a...
Stupidity Evolved?
For such an intelligent species, humans can sure be stupid.
The economic crisis, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the aftermath of a host of other disasters currently plaguing the world can all...
Breakthrough Shows Protein's 'Elegant' Eggshell Construction
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Since there could be neither a chicken nor an egg without each already existing in a fully functional state, they both had to have been put in place at the same...
Billion-Dollar Space Image Is Open to Interpretation
After a year of image capturing, many years of planning, and a billion dollars of research spending, the European Space Agency's Planck satellite telescope has produced the first ever image of the entire...
Highlander Tibetans Show Adaptation, Not 'Natural Selection'
Some Tibetans live at altitudes of 14,000 feet. Other than a few genetic differences, they are similar to Han Chinese, who live much closer to sea level. It is believed that ancient Han peoples migrated...
New Evidence Shows Duck-like Birds Lived at Same Time a.,.
People don't generally picture ducks as having lived alongside dinosaurs. After all, it is widely assumed that birds evolved from dinosaurs over a period of millions of years. But fossils discovered...
Canadian 'Mega' Dinosaur Bonebed Formed by Watery Catas.,.
Canadian scientists have found a massive dinosaur fossil graveyard in Alberta containing so many bones that it calls into question the standard stories of slow and gradual dinosaur fossil formation. No...
'False' Gene Discovery Confirms Creation Prediction
Genes are portions of DNA that contain just the right codes to specify proteins, which make everything in cells work. But how does the cell know which protein should be manufactured, how often, how much,...
How Does Amoral Atheism Account for Scientific 'Sins'?
Science is often portrayed as a pure pursuit of knowledge, with well-trained individuals who are dedicated to the highest standards of intellectual and professional achievement.
But scientists are human...
Texas Canyons Highlight Geologic Evidence for Catastrophe
In the summer of 2002, record rainfall in the Texas Hill Country overfilled Canyon Lake. Water coursed over the top of its dam and carved huge, steep-walled canyons through the limestone bedrock downstream....
Fantastic Australian Amber Supports Young World
A dazzling array of amber in a rainbow of colors has been discovered at Cape York in far north Australia. Plant and mammal parts, as well as insects and other arthropods, are trapped inside the gems, which...
Atheist Ads Vandalized
A billboard reading "One Nation Indivisible" that was recently erected in Charlotte, North Carolina, displayed an additional message on Monday, June 28. Someone had added the words "Under...
The Coconino Sandstone: A Flood or a Desert?
Basic research sponsored by the Institute for Creation Research and funded by its research division, the National Creation Science Foundation, continues to investigate subjects crucial to the creation/evolution...
The Ocean's Salt Clock Shows a Young World
The biblical geologic model of earth history is certainly at odds with traditional uniformitarian assumptions. Creation geologist Dr. Andrew Snelling has published a comprehensive two-volume text on the...
Have Scientists Created a Living Cell?
Craig Venter, who led the first privately funded sequencing of the human genome, has for fifteen years been spearheading a team effort to make "synthetic life." He announced victory on May 20,...
New Evidence for Global Cooling
Evidence continues to accumulate that we may have turned the corner on global warming. The earth may be entering a period of cooling. A group of solar physicists in Europe has found a strong association...
Christian Heritage of Liberty
In the months preceding America's Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, delegates to the Second Continental Congress of this fledgling nation began each meeting with prayer. Fittingly, the very...
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Celebrating with Gusto and Gratitude
If one word could describe the major characteristic of the United States, that word would be freedom. The Puritans sought religious freedom from tyranny. The colonists sought political freedom. The...
Celebrating Our Freedom, Honoring Our Creator
Every state constitution refers to God as understood by the writers as a Creator God, not the impersonal god of Hinduism or Buddhism. Furthermore, the Judeo-Christian Creator God from whom comes our freedoms...
The Limit to Biological Change
The Institute for Creation Research life sciences team is currently exploring several key research questions in origins biology. The first and second concern the nature and meaning of taxonomy (the classification...
Tackling Charges of Biblical Inconsistency: Putting the.,.
When critics accuse the Bible of "inconsistency," do not expect their logic to be legitimate. In courtroom contexts, it is not unusual for truthful witnesses whose testimony is both sincere and...
Discovering Life's Complex Patterns of Design
It is simple to learn a subtle method shared by evolutionists promoting evolution. Notice a common approach toward nature starting with Charles Darwin, who said in 1859:
I can see no very great difficulty...in...
ICR Graduates -- A Cause for Celebration
The Institute for Creation Research Graduate School (ICRGS), which is based in California, has offered degree programs since 1981 with the aim of expanding the impact of creation science studies and providing...
The Holy War
Now Diabolus thought he was safe because he had captured Mansoul and garrisoned himself within the city…. He had spoiled the old law books and promoted his own vain lies. He had appointed new...
More Mysteries for the Science of Long Life
According to the early chapters of Genesis, people who lived prior to the great Flood enjoyed very long life spans compared to today. Ideas regarding the mechanisms of that long life have focused on possible...
Fossil Indicates Fig and Wasp Life Cycles Were Always I.,.
The life cycles of fig trees and fig wasps are so closely intertwined, they look like they were made for each other. If this is true, then their fossils would be quite similar to modern forms, showing...
Fossil Discoveries Disrupt Evolutionary Timescales
Conventional geology assumes that different rock layers represent different periods of time. Paleontologists assess the age of fossilized creatures by the rock layers in which they are found. So, a fossil...
Seal Whiskers Track Fish Trails
When waters are murky, how do seals find fish? They don't have a sonar apparatus like whales, and yet they somehow hunt successfully in the dark.
It turns out that the seals follow fish trails by sensing...
Genome Study Shows Purpose, Not 'Selection'
The human genome has become a leading area of biological investigation. Its massive amounts of data have been digitized, which allows the information to be more easily studied. Much of genomic function...
Mars Even More Hostile to Life Than Previously Thought
Hopes of finding life on Mars have been consistently dashed by data clearly showing that the planet's surface would be extraordinarily hostile to anything resembling a living cell. Scientific studies have...
Is Indonesian Woman Really 157 Years Old?
Turinah, a woman who lives in south Sumatra, claimed to be 157 years old in the latest Indonesian census. She has no records to prove her claim, but other evidence suggests she might be telling the truth....
Specialized Communication Enables Dolphin Diplomacy
What happens when two dolphins rapidly swim toward the same piece of food? Without some avoidance feature, bottlenose dolphins would become "bashed-nose" dolphins, or worse.
Fortunately, dolphins...
Shark Study Hammers More Nails in Evolution's Coffin
In the late 1800s, a Darwinian concept called "transmutation of species" revolutionized historical biology. Instead of viewing animal species as the products of special creation, Darwinists believed...
Moth Eye Technology Proves Difficult to Copy
Moths can see very well, even at night, and their eyes have a special built-in anti-glare feature so that reflected light does not alert predators to their presence. Engineers are interested in copying...
Whale Variations Support Creation
Whales are graceful and remarkable swimming mammals. The 84 living species are amazingly diverse, ranging from over 100 feet long down to the size of an average dog. Recent research attempted to discover...
Were Humans Created to Commune in Nature?
In 2008, scientists found that taking a walk in a park setting improves concentration.1 This year, a study in the Journal of Environmental Psychology discovered that being outside among natural...
New Technology Makes Oil Fast
The BP oil disaster that began on April 20 in the Gulf of Mexico has touched about 100 miles of coastline, affecting large swaths of life-rich wetlands.1 This event will undoubtedly fuel increased...
Evolutionist Tosses Out 'Ardi' As Human Ancestor
In fall 2009, the journal Science dedicated a special issue to Ardipithecus ramidus. Popularly known as "Ardi," the fossil was characterized by researchers Tim White and C. Owen Lovejoy as a replacement...
Squid-like Fossil Is a Slippery Challenge for Evolution
Squid, octopus, nautilus, and cuttlefish are unlike any other marine creatures. With brain, eyes, mouth, tentacles, and, for squid, jet-propulsion siphon clustered at one end of the body, the cephalopod...
Lizard Study Questions Natural Selection
Charles Darwin proposed "natural selection" as the means by which new creatures evolve. The question then became, what does nature select? The reigning consensus is that nature selects individuals...
Shakeups Continue among Human Evolutionary Candidates
The theory of human evolution is taking yet another hit from recent scientific studies, from the first analysis of the Neandertal genome to painstakingly reconstructed Ardipithicus ramidus and Australopithecus...
Evaporites and the Flood
Despite the impressive discoveries made by creation scientists, there is still much work remaining to be done. For those considering a career in creation science, either professionally or as a lay advocate,...
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