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Memory Is Malleable, but the Bible Is Not
If someone witnessed an event firsthand, chances are that person would remember it pretty clearly, right? Not according to a recent psychological study, in which almost half of those tested disbelieved...
Child-Eating Eagle No Longer a Myth
The Maoris, or native New Zealanders, for generations told stories about a giant bird that could swoop down and carry away human children. As it turns out, those stories held some truth after all.
Researchers...
Dawkins' Latest Book: The Greatest Lie on Earth
Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion and perhaps today’s most famous Darwin apologist, has a new book that hit bookstores this month. The Greatest Show on Earth promises to meet his high standard...
Were Stone Age Britons Trigonometry Experts?
Man-made geographical high points in southern England and Wales have been observed for centuries, including earthworks, stone monuments like Stonehenge, and hill camps. But something quite unexpected about...
Planet's Reverse Orbit a New Twist in Old Evolutionary Story
The Wide Area Search for Planets (WASP) project has discovered a planet that orbits backward, against the rotational direction of its star. Methodological naturalists think collisions or near-collisions...
New Book Debunks Human-Chimp Similarity
Evolutionary science repeatedly declares that chimps and humans are 98 percent genetically identical, which is then taken as solid evidence that mankind evolved from an apelike ancestor. But a former BBC...
Fresh Fossil Feather Nanostructures
Bird feathers can contain pigmentation for a wide range of colors, with specific molecules reflecting certain hues when light touches them. They also can display “structural” colors, where...
Ida Missed Her Link to Humans
This past May, a fossil nicknamed Ida was loudly heralded by the evolutionary scientific community as the long-sought-after "missing link" that supposedly proved ape-to-human evolution. Directly following...
Would a Reverse-engineered Chicken Demonstrate Evolution?
In his recent book How to Build a Dinosaur, evolutionary paleontologist Jack Horner suggested that birds could be genetically engineered backward to take the form of their supposed dinosaur ancestors.1...
Robot Navigation Copies Spiny Lobsters
Several varieties of spiny lobsters exist throughout the world’s oceans, and they all have an ability to navigate. Experiments in 2003 concluded that they orient themselves by accessing an internal...
Pseudo-science Attacks Irreducible Complexity
Molecular biologist Michael Behe described a system made of several interacting parts, whereby the removal of one part would disrupt the functioning of the whole, as being irreducibly complex. Both creation...
'Totally Strange' Hurdia a Hurdle for Evolution
Cambrian rock layers contain fossils that represent almost every modern phylum of animal, plus many that are now extinct. One animal fossil in particular would win the weird prize, if there were one. Paleontologists...
Dog Coat Varieties Come from a 'Surprisingly' Elegant P.,.
The vast majority of dog breeds have emerged only in the last several centuries as a result of artificial selection. As new breeds are regularly developed, the many potential varieties within the dog kind...
What Will Artificial Life Demonstrate?
The production of artificial life is supposedly just around the corner. But ever since the famous 1953 Miller and Urey experiment failed to spark life in the laboratory just from chemicals, that corner...
Pterosaur Tracks Show Traces of the Great Flood
Landing tracks made by flying reptiles have been found for the first time. They were discovered in limestone deposits in France, but prints made by modern birds in mud and sandy shorelines today are erased...
Flying Reptiles: A Lesson in Specialized Function
The great flying dragons of the sky, the pterosaurs, fascinate kids of all ages. With unique body adaptations such as an elongated fourth finger connected to wing membranes, this airborne hunter/scavenger...
Bunnies Bug Darwin
Rabbits are cosmopolitan, herbivorous mammals in the scientific order Lagomorpha, which includes cottontails, pikas ("conies"), and hares. Rabbits burrow and give birth to blind, naked young,...
Dinosaur Soft Tissue Issue is Here to Stay
In recent decades, soft, squishy tissues have been discovered inside fossilized dinosaur bones. They seem so fresh that it appears as though the bodies were buried only a few thousand years ago.
Since...
Laws of Nature and Nature's Lawgiver
What is meant by laws of nature? Presumably it is the business of science to uncover them. Yet few people, and few scientists, ever unpack the term. Many would be surprised to know that there are deep...
Genesis: Real, Reliable, Historical
Introduction to Earth's Catastrophic Past
Why Take Genesis Seriously?
The first eleven chapters of the Bible have been relegated by many to the category of myths, not real history. These...
Profitable Labor
The American celebration of Labor Day was established to recognize the important part played by workers in the development of the nation during the Industrial Revolution. Many countries today now hold...
September 2009
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Concrete Adversity
Peter described the devil as a "roaring lion" tramping about the earth seeking to disrupt and destroy the people of God (1 Peter 5:8). God's people have faced some of their greatest adversities...
Christianity on the Public Stage: Dr. Francis Collins a.,.
In July, President Barack Obama announced his intention to appoint Dr. Francis Collins to lead the prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH),1 which funds over $30 billion in scientific...
New ICR Research Associate: Nathaniel T. Jeanson, Ph.D.
When Nathaniel Jeanson graduated from high school, he hadn't yet thought about becoming a doctor and researcher in one of the most cutting edge and controversial fields in medicine today: stem cells.
"I...
Made in His Image: Life-Giving Blood
After 100 years, automobiles still need engine oil, transmission fluid, brake fluid, antifreeze, power-steering fluid, and so on. Wouldn't it be great if just a single multipurpose fluid could be circulated...
Issues among Evangelicals
Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest...
ATP synthase: majestic molecular machine made by a mast.,.
SEPTEMBER 01, 2009
In Creation 31 (4): 21-23, September 2009
Life depends on an incredible enzyme called ATP synthase, the world’s tiniest rotary motor.1 This tiny protein complex makes an energy-rich compound,...
Pterosaur Flight Plans
Researchers recently discovered the world’s first pterosaur landing footprints, and the find has revealed precise coordination and other features in these mysterious flying reptiles. In a study published...
Evolution Embedded in American Thought
Polling data has revealed a trend indicating that “America is not a Christian nation.”1 Although a large majority of Americans outwardly claim to be Christian, their inward beliefs...
Fresh Jurassic Squid Ink
Over the past decade or so, scientific research has revealed surprisingly young-looking features in fossils and other artifacts dated in the millions of years. The discoveries include blood vessels in...
'Freethought' Kids' Camp Launches in Texas
Even in the heart of the Bible Belt, Texas isn’t immune to the proliferation of atheistic propaganda, whether in its public schools or now in atheist summer camps.
Camp Quest—with the tagline...
Comet Chemical Is Not the Seed of Life
The amino acid glycine is one of twenty chemical building blocks of the proteins that provide most of the structures and functions in living cells. Scientists recently detected “microscopic traces...
Ancient Stone Knives Made by 'Smart' Humans
Evolutionary history holds that the first humans emerged about 200,000 years ago. It was thought that these early people were in some ways sub-human, as the gradual development of higher-level thinking...
Harvard Ph.D. Lecture Exposes Prejudices of Evolutionar.,.
Frank Sherwin, M.A., Brian Thomas, M.S., and Christine Dao*
Nathaniel Jeanson, a Harvard-trained medical researcher, was recently awarded his doctorate degree in molecular biology. He has made significant...
Edenic Diet Keeps Out Kidney Stones
Most people know that fruits, vegetables, and grains are good for the human body. Decades of medical research have shown that eating a more vegetable-rich diet with less red meat, fried foods, and processed...
The Incredible Hulk Theory of Life in Space
The ongoing quest to find life in space has failed to yield any supportive evidence that life exists outside the earth. To prop up the idea of distant spontaneous life formation, some scientists are...
Planetary Smash-Ups: Not the Stuff of Earth
Scientists have speculated for years about how planets, stars, and other astronomical systems formed. One proposed explanation is collisions, random destructive events that supposedly generated and placed...
'45-Million-Year-Old' Brewer's Yeast Still Works
Stumptown Brewery in Guerneville, California, brews its beer according to a unique formula. Although standard ingredients such as malt and hops are used, the yeast that is added is supposedly 45 million...
Flytrap Origins: A Sticky Problem for Evolution
Venus flytraps are carnivorous plants. They have delicate, yet precisely engineered, trigger-activated leaves that can snap shut on insects in less than one third of a second. Their origin has baffled...
Bacterial Compasses Point to Creation
Certain bacteria can detect direction with ultra-tiny magnets that use bits of magnetic metals organized into structures called “magnetosomes.” Magnetosomes automatically orient to the earth’s...
Why Are There Still Tuataras?
The evolutionary story is one of constant change. It proposes that simpler life forms evolved into complicated organisms whose offspring branched out in ever more diverse directions. But the modern forms...
Dinosaur Soft Tissues: They're Real!
Paleontologist Mary Schweitzer’s discoveries of soft blood vessels, proteins, various blood cells, and even DNA inside fossilized dinosaur bones have been met with extreme skepticism from the scientific...
'Oldest' Animal Fossils Evolved in the Wrong Place
Fossils from South China are being touted as the first animals to have evolved on the planet. A recently-published study on these tiny organisms, however, presents a fresh evolutionary puzzle. Although...
Not Just a Pretty Face: New Function Found for Toucan Bills
Toucans are tropical birds found in Central and South America. They are best known for their enormous, brilliantly colored bills. These beaks perform several functions, but new research confirms that they...
Radioactive Decay Rates Not Stable
For about a century, radioactive decay rates have been heralded as steady and stable processes that can be reliably used to help measure how old rocks are. They helped underpin belief in vast ages and...
Disaster Recovery Plan Found in Cells
The Internet search engines Google and Yahoo! have massive server farms that are all interconnected in a network configuration called “cloud computing.” These systems are engineered with fault...
Will 'Better Science Education' Convince Americans They.,.
Brian Thomas, M.S., and Frank Sherwin, M.A*
A recent poll revealed that many Americans believe public school students should be taught all sides of Darwin’s theory of evolution, its weaknesses...
The Ice Age: Causes and Consequences
The Ice Age has been a longstanding problem for uniformitarian thinking, with many unsolved mysteries. No mere tweaking of today's climate conditions would cause such a catastrophe. A creationist...
Sharks Remain Sharks
Sharks have always held a fascination (and terror) for the average person. The gaping mouths of these eating machines hold row upon row of serrated, bone-crushing teeth. Sharks are a critical part of...
Huxley Error Led to Cod Calamity
Massive schools of cod fish once dominated regions of the North Atlantic Ocean. The New England coast, according to the December 18, 1497, record of John Cabot, was "swarming with fish which can be...
Atmospheres: A Narrow Zone for Life
One of earth's greatest assets is its life-supporting atmosphere. Only eight other bodies in the solar system are enshrouded in gas to a significant degree.1 Atmospheres can produce dramatic...
Common DNA Sequences: Evidence of Evolution or Efficien.,.
With the advent of modern biotechnology, researchers have been able to determine the actual sequence of the roughly three billion bases of DNA (A,T,C,G) that make up the human genome. They have sequenced...
GiftLegacy
With the rise of the Internet as the principal source of information and communication, this era we are living in has rightly been called the "age of information." Information in every field...
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Are You Intellectually Fragile?
God declared in Hosea 4:6, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." As in that time, God's people today are vulnerable to the destructive influences of untruth when they are not...
Communicating the Essentials: Developing science educat.,.
One of the missions of the Institute for Creation Research is to equip Christian teachers with evidence of the accuracy and authority of Scripture. In this vein, ICR continues to develop materials for...
ICR Offers New Biblical Apologetics Degree
Peter wrote in his first epistle to "sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and...
Made in His Image: Melanin, the Sunblock That's Just Sk.,.
Most people north of the equator have an observable suntan by August. Ironically, a desire to be outside is often coupled with another strong desire to get out of the sun, as indicated by sales of sun...
Three Creation Witnesses
Previously in this column, we suggested that the text of Scripture is more to be trusted than the theology of those who study the text. Even though many godly scholars have made a genuine effort to understand...
Mummified Dinosaur Skin Looks Young
The remains of a dinosaur found in the Hell Creek Formation of North Dakota are so well preserved that some scientists are just “gobsmacked.”
The mummified remains belong to a hadrosaur...
New Way to Find Age of Ancient Pottery
British researchers have developed a reliable method for determining the age of ancient clay pottery. The dating technique is based on the fact that the clays used to make pots over the centuries demonstrate...
Dawkins Supports First UK Atheist Kids' Camp
The God Delusion author Richard Dawkins has sponsored a week-long summer camp geared towards making atheists out of children. The camp is a UK arm of Camp Quest, and its 24 slots had been booked even before...
Flumes Zoom in on Mud Rock History
For decades, museums and textbooks confidently asserted that mud rocks—such as limestone, siltstone, mudstone, and shale—were formed over vast eons as super-fine sediments slowly settled to...
Press Release 07 24 2009
ICR Announces New Apologetics Program
Contact: Lawrence Ford, Director of Communications, ICR Press Office, 214-615-8398, press@icr.org; Institute...
Flower Color Changes: Evolution or Creation in Action?
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara investigated the genetics behind color changes in flower species by studying the columbine, a wild flower native to North America. The columbine’s...
Partial Piranha Fossil Isn't Transitional
Newly published research claims that a fossilized giant piranha, Megapiranha paranensis, supposedly bridges the “evolutionary gap between flesh-eating piranhas and their plant-eating cousins.”1
Those...
Rising Animal Cancers Point to a Dying World
Cancer affects many humans and their loved ones, and a new report has found that certain animals are also suffering from higher cancer rates. Sadly, this is what is to be expected in a dying and decaying...
'One Small Step': 40 Years After the First Moonwalk
A small minority of people still speculate that the Apollo 11 mission was a hoax. But the truth of the matter is that the world changed forever on July 20, 1969.
Exactly 40 years ago, millions of people...
T. rex Teeth Take a Bite Out of Evolution
A set of fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex teeth was found in a rock layer that it had no business being in, according to evolutionary interpretations. Discovered in Hyogo, Japan, the teeth came from a 15-foot-tall...
Did God Create Aggressive Behavior?
At the close of the creation week, the first chapter of Genesis records that “God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.”1 But some aspects of today’s...
Glaciers Can Melt in a 'Geologic Instant'
Many geological processes can happen much more quickly than is conventionally thought. For instance, mainstream science believes that coal, diamonds, and oil require vast amounts of time to develop,...
Science and the Bible Agree: Casual Sex Is Bad
Countless television programs and movies portray casual sex as “no big deal,” or even normal. But according to the scientific data, that view is all wrong. As it turns out, the brain chemistry...
New Study Finds Dinosaur Models Are Too Thick
Dinosaur reconstructions in museums worldwide may all be too large, according to new research published in the Journal of Zoology. Researchers revisited the 25-year-old statistical formula used to estimate...
Martian Lake Still Won't Lead to Life
Evolutionary belief holds as a central tenet that life emerged and developed “naturally,” even though mere natural laws of chemistry and physics are insufficient causes. If life occurred spontaneously...
Rightly 'Dividing' the Word about Peleg
JULY 10, 2009
Was earth’s unusual “division” in Peleg’s lifetime a linguistic event or a geological event?
by John D. Morris, Ph.D., and James J. Scofield Johnson, Th.D.
Presented to the Creation...
Do New Dinosaur Finger Bones Solve a Bird Wing Problem?
A new beak-bearing theropod dinosaur was discovered in China recently, and it supposedly “solves the mystery of dinosaur finger evolution,”1 since its finger bones do not have the...
Communal Nutrition in Ants: Strong Evidence for Creation
Evolutionary scientists have unwittingly obeyed the biblical command to “observe the ant” (Proverbs 6:6; 30:25), and they have found a few surprises.
One of the most intriguing and complex...
Energy Bill Won't Solve Global Warming
United States lawmakers are considering a bill whose purpose is “to make energy more expensive, so people use less of it and to create a penalty for carbon-based fuels.”1 Its intent...
Bacteria 'Resurrected' from Greenland Glacier
In 2008, Penn State biochemists found ultra-tiny bacteria in an ice core that had been drilled almost three kilometers deep in a Greenland glacier. They were able to get these bacteria to grow by incubating...
Is There Some Truth to Dragon Myths?
Harry Potter fans are looking forward to the boy wizard’s next screen adventure, when Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opens this month. Pottermania broke loose when J. K. Rowling’s first...
Sedimentary Structure Shows a Young Earth
Sedimentary rock, which makes up most of the surface cover of the continents, is by definition deposited by moving fluids. Normally, the sediments contain evidence of their waterborne history in what is...
Surprising Discovery: Sponges and Man Are Not Related!
Evolutionists have insisted that man was not created in God's image, but instead is related to the sponge.1 An equally unflattering pronouncement of human origins was made nine years ago by...
The Ida Fossil: A Clever Campaign for a Lackluster 'Link'
Ida is the stunningly well-preserved fossil that has been hailed as "our connection with the rest of all the mammals."1 A massive publicity campaign, including books, videos, a website, and...
Will Solar Inactivity Lead to Global Cooling?
Global warming continues to make headlines and drive policy decisions, based on the widespread assumption that man-made carbon dioxide emissions are the main contributing factor to an increase in world...
The Stewardship of Talents
Principles of biblical stewardship, to which this page of Acts & Facts is dedicated, apply not only to the individual believer, but also to Christian organizations such as the Institute for Creation...
July 2009
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Study Shows Many Scientists Manipulate Results
Survey data collected from 1986 to 2005 revealed disturbing information about scientific reporting across a host of fields. Almost two percent of scientists personally admitted to having “fabricated,...
Science Education Roundup
Texas has had its share of controversy in the last few months. Most of the issues involved science education. The State Board of Education in Austin wrangled over the K-12 science education standards...
New Voices in Evolution Activism: From Madalyn Murray O.,.
Recently, the prestigious publication Scientific American honored Eugenie Scott as one of its ten most influential science people in America, along with a manager at a computer chip company, an electric...
Evolutionary Arrogance
There seems to be something about evolutionism that generates arrogance in many of its spokesmen. The concept is so wide-ranging that it purportedly can explain everything scientifically, from the origin...
Made in His Image: Bone, An Engineering Marvel
A key design feature shared by many 100-year-old barns and some modern skyscrapers is that the external shell carries the building's load with a minimal use of internal columns for support. Internal floors...
Natural Revelation
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse. (Romans...
Evolutionary Connection to Increased College Drinking
Researchers recently published a study in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs that found alcohol abuse among college students has been steadily increasing for about a decade, even while effective...
Jay Talking
The brains of birds are tiny, but many contain the right programming to make them the best talkers in the animal kingdom. In addition to the parrot’s talking skill set, a new study found that Siberian...
Botox: Toxin Becomes Treatment
Botox treatments are popularly known for their cosmetic application in reducing facial wrinkles. They also have been used successfully to treat disorders in eye muscles. And a newly discovered application...
It Takes More Than Eyes to See
The eye is an amazing instrument, but it does not function alone. Even with visual receptors rapidly sending data along the optic nerve, no mental image will form at all unless the brain is properly equipped...
Astronomers Surprised by Unnatural Star Cluster
While examining an area near the center of the Milky Way, astronomers saw something they were not expecting. An inordinately high number of average-looking stars are grouped there in a formation known...
Egg-laying Echidna Could Not Have Evolved
A research intern for the Wildlife Conservation Society, Muse Opiang, completed the first field study ever conducted on the long-beaked echidna, an egg-laying mammal found only in New Guinea.1...
Fixed Bird Thigh Nixes Dino-to-bird Development
New research from Oregon State University revealed that a bird’s bone configuration is essential to the unique way it breathes. The study, published online in the Journal of Morphology, effectively...
Engineers Have an 'Ear' for Natural Design
The human ear is an amazing device. In a recent press release, an MIT engineer said that the ear is “like a super radio with 3,500 parallel channels.”1 In fact, its design inspired...
Flat-Faced Fossil Fails to Fit Evolution
Portions of a primate’s fossilized face and jaw were recovered near Barcelona in 2004. The discovery of the bones was recently hailed as “an enormous step forward in the understanding of the...
Origin of Life 'Gateway' Remains Hidden
UK researchers believe they may have “broken new ground” in the ongoing quest to find out how living cells first evolved. The New York Times proclaimed, “An English chemist has found...
Why Can Moss Process Human Genes?
Researchers used to think that no plant could process mammalian genes because the required machinery is “proprietary,” or unique to the kind. But a team from the Swiss Federal Institute of...
Did Ribonucleoproteins Spark Life?
Despite “decades of persistent failure to create life by the ‘spark in the soup’ method,”1 evolutionary biochemists are still trying to find an exclusively naturalistic...
Well-Engineered Ecosystems Bounce Back
How fast can a disaster zone bounce back? Apparently, faster than previously thought. Yale University ecologists conducted a meta-analysis of 240 studies of devastated ecosystems. They found that ecosystems...
Viral Life from Outer Space? Not Likely.
Since a whole, functioning cell could not possibly emerge spontaneously from non-living matter, many evolutionists believe that simpler viruses were the first step towards the development of life. Researchers...
Sea Urchin Teeth Are Designed to Grind Stone
Sea urchins are spiny marine animals. Some of them like to hide in holes that they dig out of limestone in the ocean floor, using teeth that are ground down and yet remain sharp. What makes these teeth...
Atheist Ads in Chicago Say Man Created God
“In the beginning, man created God,” according to recent advertisements posted on 25 Chicago buses. The Indiana Atheist Bus Campaign targeted the country’s third largest city to espouse...
DNA Fence Posts Hold Back Cancer. . . and Evolution
New research has uncovered a tiny protein that, when it breaks down, leads to cancer. This useful protein attaches to DNA in certain places and serves as a marker or “fence post.” These fence...
The African Sunbird: Evolution in Action or Grasping at.,.
Because evolution on a grand scale is impossible to observe happening in real time due to the immensely long ages it supposedly requires, any little tidbit of natural selection that is discovered is heralded...
Turtles and Snakes: No Evolutionary Journey
Evolution, the concept that each type of animal arose from some other sort of animal, faces many daunting challenges. Among the more difficult hurdles for evolution to clear is the formation of turtles...
No Seal of Approval for Evolution
The recent discovery of an incomplete northern Canadian fossil is causing waves in certain evolutionary circles.1 Some scientists claim that Puijila darwini is a flipper-free pinniped (a...
Fossilized Biomaterials Must Be Young
Institute for Creation Research scientists documented several clock-like processes in rocks during the groundbreaking Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth (RATE) project, confirming an age of 6,000...
More Than Star Stuff
Carl Sagan famously said "we are all star stuff" in his 1980s TV series Cosmos. The stuff theme stuck. Lawrence Krauss wrote in New Scientist for February's Darwin Bicentennial that we should...
Human-Chimp Similarities: Common Ancestry or Flawed Res.,.
In 2003, the human genome was heralded as a near-complete DNA sequence, except for the repetitive regions that could not be resolved due to the limitations of the prevailing DNA sequencing technologies.1...
The Crown of Fatherhood
Holidays honoring parents have become official only in the 20th century, even though somewhat similar recognitions were customary in ancient times. Father's Day in particular was not officially recognized...
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Multifunctional Genes Indicate Ingenious Programming
Computer programs are written in coded computer languages, and sometimes the same piece of code can be reused in different programs to perform new functions. This way, programmers save time and energy...
Letting God Settle Matters
Philippians 4:7 promises that God will give us a peace that surpasses all comprehension. One of my professors in seminary described this as "a settled conviction." It is certainty in the midst...
Dangerous Turn Ahead: Traveling down the road to compromise
Genesis 1:1 states, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." This is the first and foremost apologetic. If a person stumbles on this one profound truth, a lifetime of doubt...
Werner Arber: An Honest Evolutionist?
Our September 2008 issue featured the article "Werner Arber: Nobel Laureate, Darwin Skeptic" by Dr. Jerry Bergman, a frequent contributing author.1 While not labeling Dr. Arber a creationist,...
Discovering and Defending the Certainties of Creation
For nearly 40 years, the Institute for Creation Research has conducted scientific research founded on two fundamental principles. The first is a bedrock belief that the biblical record is accurate and...
Made in His Image: Breath of Life
In American football, the quarterback can hand off the football to a team member, who then may do a handoff to another player. Exciting plays may be put together that combine several handoffs and even...
The Calendar and the Antiquity of Genesis
The moon orbits the earth every 29.5 days or so, and the year is (roughly) 365.25 days in length. It is an untidy arrangement that makes alignment of the lunar and solar calendars virtually impossible.1...
Ideas Have Consequences
"Argument weak at this point. Thump podium and holler louder!"
This cliché is quoted derisively from time to time to demonstrate that all arguments have presuppositional beginnings that...
Gecko Eyes Make Great Night Vision Cameras
Certain gecko lizards can see color in dim light. That means these geckos’ eyes are about 350 times more sensitive than human eyes, which see only black and white in the same conditions. Can evolution...
Texas School Board Chairman McLeroy Loses Leadership Post
Texas State Representative Don McLeroy (R-College Station) narrowly lost his bid on May 28 to retain his position as chairman of the State Board of Education. The 19-11 vote, which ran strictly along party...
Cod Still Recovering from Darwin Bulldog's Bite
Cod fish dominated massive areas of the North Atlantic Ocean until somewhat recently, when their numbers dramatically dwindled due to overfishing. Interestingly, that population decline can be directly...
New Fossil Hype Fits Old Pattern
Even evolutionary paleontologists are largely convinced that the media’s recent promotion of a new “missing link” is a monumental overstatement. There is little doubt that the hype surrounding...
Pop Culture Parades Darwinism as Science
Charles Darwin attempted to explain the origin of living organisms in On the Origin of Species, published in 1859. Two hundred years after his birth, his theory of descent with modification by natural...
Ida: Separating the Science from the Media Campaign
by Brian Thomas, M.S., and Frank Sherwin, M.A.*
Ida is the nickname of the stunningly well-preserved fossil that is currently being hailed as "our connection with the rest of all the mammals."1...
'Missing Link' Ida Is Just Media Hype
Scientists and media outlets around the world are praising "Ida," the primate fossil hailed as the long-sought-after "missing link" in the human evolutionary theory.
In a major public relations campaign,...
Can We Really Reverse-Engineer a Dinosaur?
by Jeffrey Tomkins, Ph.D., and Brian Thomas, M.S.*
A recent TV show has proposed the possibility that dinosaurs may walk the earth again someday as a result of man’s ingenuity.
Dinosaurs:...
Huge Virus a Missing Link?
In 1992, researchers discovered a giant virus with so much DNA that some have called it a “viral missing link.” Evolutionary scientists claimed that it has features that reflect both a living...
Strata Data Axes Asteroid Dinosaur Demise
In 1980, a theory was proposed that an asteroid or comet impact was primarily responsible for the mass dinosaur extinctions that were observed in the fossil record. But while the impact tale has become...
Some Birds Were Created to Boogie
Snowball is a sulfur-crested cockatoo. He’s also a YouTube sensation, as this bird dances by bobbing his head and lifting his feet to a musical beat.
In addition to the Internet community, Snowball’s...
Hadrosaur Soft Tissues Another Blow to Long-Ages Myth
Recently-discovered dinosaur soft tissues, and even blood cells, represent some of the biggest hurdles for long-age evolutionary belief. Soft tissue was found in the femur of a large Tyrannosaurus rex...
Rewriting the Last Dinosaur's Tombstone
“The last of the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago,”1 according to an unsupported claim by evolutionary researchers that has been popularized in books and movies such as Jurassic...
The Stunning Stability of Salmonella
Salmonella bacteria became a health threat relatively recently, when chicken eggs were infected by the migration of the bacteria from chickens’ digestive organs to their reproductive organs. Geneticists...
Planetary Quandaries Solved: Saturn Is Young
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has been on a mission to gather information on the structure and composition of Saturn, its rings, and its moons. Conventional cosmology holds that the planets of the solar...
Stem Cells from Blood Render Embryonic Sources Obsolete
On the heels of President Barack Obama’s March 9 order to use public monies to support embryonic stem cell research,1 another source of stem cells has become available—blood. Blood...
Thank God for. . . Scorpion Venom?
The vast majority of modern medicines are toxic at high concentrations or when misused, but they can promote health at low concentrations and when they are carefully applied. Thus, the very same compound...
Is the H1N1 Flu Evolving?
Flu is in the news, with some people fearing a possible pandemic from the latest strain. The most recent threat, initially labeled “swine flu,” comes from an H1N1 influenza virus, the same...
Darwin's Withering Tree of Life
by Brian Thomas, M.S. and Frank Sherwin, M.A.*
Charles Darwin drew his first "evolutionary tree" in his "B" notebook in 1837, with the words "I think" scrawled above it,...
Human-Ape Hybridization: A Failed Attempt to Prove Darwinism
Ilya Ivanov (1870-1932) was an eminent biologist who achieved considerable success in the field of artificial insemination of horses and other animals. Called “one of the greatest authorities on...
Home-Going Preparations
Death is the great enemy of all mankind. Since that fateful day in the Garden of Eden, when "by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin" (Romans 5:12), God's creation has groaned...
Galapagos: Showcase for Creation
This year evolutionists are celebrating Charles Darwin's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book The Origin of Species. In preparation for this celebration, last December...
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No Evolution Found in Human Facial Differences
One common question asked of creation scientists is “If all mankind descended from two humans, then where did all the ‘races’ come from?” New research, published in the journal...
Time to Tighten Our Belt
When I first moved here for graduate school in the early '80s, Dallas was still considered the "buckle" of the "Bible belt." Great churches like First Baptist Dallas, one of the original...
Consensus Science: The Rise of a Scientific Elite
In battle, one clever military tactic is to focus enemy troops' attention on a spectacular frontal assault so they will overlook a deadly side attack. This approach works in other arenas, as well.
On...
Made in His Image: Beauty in Motion
Humans possess a phenomenal ability to roll, twist, spin, jump, twirl, flip, run, leap, and lunge, as a single motion or in complex combinations, in bare feet or with slippers, shoes, skates, skis,...
A FAST Model for Underwater Debris Flows
Geologic research continues to play a significant role at the Institute for Creation Research, as it has since its founding. Recognizing that the great Flood of Noah's day accomplished significant geologic...
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