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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...
ICR's Impact: The Alpha Omega Institute
Dave and Mary Jo Nutting were college instructors in math and science in Alaska when they came upon Dr. Duane Gish's Evolution: The Fossils Say No! in a secondhand bookstore. "The book cost a mere...
Censorship in Texas: Fighting Academic and Religious Di.,.
"Stop the presses!" That was one of the effects of the decision of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) in Austin, Texas, on April 24, 2008, when the Institute for Creation Research...
Conflicts Between Text and Theology
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto...
Obama Pushes for Expansion of Science and Technology
During his April 27, 2009, address at the National Academy of Sciences’ annual meeting, President Barack Obama called for focused scientific research aimed to improve the daily lives of American...
Mimicking Molecules Manifest a Maker
A recent study discovered that certain molecules mimic the exact shapes of other molecules, allowing them to interact in a way that protects the genetic integrity of their host organism.
Researchers discovered...
Science Still in the Dark about Dark Energy
Evolutionary astronomers have a problem. The universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, but if general relativity is an accurate cosmological model, and if the universe is made up of the kinds of...
'Inner Fish' Is Really Inner Design
Evolutionary scientists are often on the lookout for evidence that they hope will vindicate Darwin’s outdated theory of evolution. Recently, a team of geneticists discovered that although the non-coding...
Press Release 04 21 2009
Graduate School Sues Texas Agency Over Academic Discrimination
Contact: Lawrence Ford, Director of Communications, Institute for Creation Research (ICRGS), 214-615-8398, press@icr.org
DALLAS,...
Does Twitter Twiddle with Morality?
New research has provided interesting insights into brain activity associated with human morality. The study, conducted at the University of Southern California, focused on the uniquely human emotions...
Gene Construction Confirms Creation
The fruit fly has been a leading model organism for genetics research the past hundred years. A new biotechnology-based study of this key organism has yielded more evidence for special creation.
Geneticists...
Chimp Study Reveals Humans Are Uniquely Wired
Chimps are physically stronger than humans, as demonstrated in recent national news when a chimpanzee severely mauled a Connecticut woman. Police were forced to shoot and kill it after its owner failed...
Retinal Coordination: Picture Perfect Presentation of Design
Evidence abounds that vertebrate eyes cannot be the result of chance formation. Recently, scientists found even more evidence when they discovered that retinal neurons work together to provide the brain...
Snail Changes Outpace Evolution's Slow Crawl
Scientists observe many changes to animal physiology that occur too quickly to fit the “slow and gradual” concepts favored by classical Darwinian evolution. An illustration of this type of...
Viral Batteries: A Case for Evolution?
Researchers at MIT have invented a “greener” battery with the help of viruses. Three years ago, they engineered a virus that coats itself with material that serves as an anode, a structure...
Stone Blades Cut Back Evolutionary Dates
Evolutionary anthropologists once thought that stone knives were developed in the late Stone Age, around 40,000 years ago. That figure was later revised to 200,000, around the Middle Stone Age, when stone...
Comer Lawsuit Dismissed, TEA's Neutrality Policy Upheld
A lawsuit brought by Chris Comer, former director of science at the Texas Education Agency, against the TEA and its commissioner, Robert Scott, was dismissed by a federal judge on March 31, 2009. United...
Ancient Oxygen-Rich Rocks Confound Evolutionary Timescale
Many origin of life researchers have for decades argued that the early earth must have had a “reducing” atmosphere, meaning that it had very little oxygen. This argument has no direct evidence...
Anti-God Ads Hit Dallas
In the heart of the Bible belt, billboards stating “Don’t believe in God? You are not alone” have been posted in parts of Dallas, home of the Institute for Creation Research.
The boards...
Metal 'Snakes' Fall Far Short of Life
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratories have observed nickel filings ordering into rows atop a special fluid. With precisely structured electromagnetic fields surrounding them, the snake-like rows...
Evolutionists, Atheists Admit Defeat in Texas
After months of hearing debates over Texas science education standards, the 15-member State Board of Education voted to remove the requirement for teachers to teach the “strengths and weaknesses”...
Tail-gliding Bugs Are Not Evidence for Flight Evolution
Researchers recently announced that they have unlocked some of the mystery surrounding the evolution of insect flight.1 Their observance of a certain wingless insect led them to hypothesize...
A Shocking Group of Fish and Eels
Imagine going to a doctor with a flare-up of gout or a migraine. To your utter shock, the physician calmly instructs you to reach into a water tank and hug an electric fish. This is what Roman physician...
The Apobetics of Aesthetics: A Hairy Problem for Evolution
Why do men have beards and women do not? Deep in the brain, the hypothalamus produces surges of gonadotropin-releasing hormone, a small chemical that acts like a key to turn on the manufacture and export...
The Nature of Naturalism
The arrogance of anti-creationists stems largely from their pride in offering natural explanations for the world instead of supernatural explanations. No matter how much evidence can be shown for God's...
Speciation and the Animals on the Ark
Many people who use biological data to support an old-earth position believe that the appearance of millions of animal species does not support a young earth interpretation of creation. Nor do they think...
Troubled Times, Unspeakable Joy
In troubled times, many ministries are often forced to scale back in order to survive. ICR is no exception to economic pressures, of course, but our perspective remains solidly focused on our Lord's promise...
The Vital Doctrine of a Global Flood
Few biblical teachings are as controversial among evangelicals as that of the global nature of Noah's Flood. If Scripture is our guide, however, it could not have been just a local flood covering the Mesopotamian...
April 2009
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The 'Mystery' of Octopus Fossils
Around 150 years ago, Charles Darwin asserted that “no organism wholly soft can be preserved.”1 He concluded this based on the assumption that fossilization required long periods...
Taking God at His Word
"Please open your Bibles to Genesis chapter one." With this, Dr. John MacArthur opened the 2009 Shepherds' Conference. For the next hour, he told nearly 3,200 church leaders that no self-respecting...
The Graffiti of Judgment
When Bible-believing Christians who hold to creation are discriminatorily "expelled" from the academic arena, they can look to the Book of Daniel for encouragement. Why? Because Daniel was excluded,...
Made in His Image: Balancing Body Temperature
A major achievement for design engineers is building precise control mechanisms for active processes. Lives depend on the precision in which certain processes are maintained, such as the manufacture of...
Catastrophic Superfaults and the Biblical Flood
The more we study about the great Flood of Noah's Day, the more we realize it was a time of vast tectonic change on earth. Scripture provides the basic framework for all knowledge, but doesn't necessarily...
Fossil Fibers Befuddle Dinosaur Evolution
Evolutionary museums and textbooks have often portrayed modern birds as the descendants of dinosaurs, a story that has been presented without empirical support. Now, a new "feathered" dinosaur discovery...
Scientists Seek Second Genesis
The invention of a synthetic life form is a dream shared by many scientists, and they are beginning to see it as a possibility that is achievable within a decade. New Scientist magazine stated that “engineering...
Neo-Darwinian Theory Fails the Mutation Test
Darwin’s original conception of simple-to-complex evolution maintained that nature selected certain individuals with superior features, and in this way gradually, one tiny feature at a time, an entirely...
The Religion-and-Science Connection Between Pseudonumos.,.
MARCH 27, 2009
Presented at the annual Southwest regional meeting of the EVANGELICAL THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY at The Criswell College (Dallas, Texas) March 27th, A.D. 2009
Abstract
Religion-and-science tensions, which focus...
The First and Best Biotechnician
Mankind’s attempts at bioengineering have yet to match the precision of some techniques already found in nature: cloning, tissue culturing, and gene therapy. Recent studies have explored how these...
Deadly Waters No Problem for Well-Equipped Algae
Arsenic is a common toxic component in pesticides and herbicides, and one place it is found naturally is in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park. The arsenic in the water there would be deadly...
Physicist Receives Million-Pound Prize for Predicting a.,.
On March 16, 2009, the Templeton Foundation announced the winner of its annual 1 million pound sterling (1.42 million USD) prize, an amount that exceeds the payoff of the prestigious Nobel Prize.1...
'Live Evolution' Not Witnessed After All
Some science media outlets are hailing a recent study as “live evolution witnessed,” but what researchers at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique actually saw isn’t evolution...
The Dirty Little Secret Is Out: Religious Faith and Evo.,.
In a recent book review, Jerry Coyne, professor of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago, admitted that the secular worldview of macroevolution (the development of complex life from “simpler”...
What Is a Turtle Fossil Doing in the Arctic?
A fossilized turtle shell, along with a host of lithified tropical plants and animals, has been discovered on Axel Heiberg Island in the High Canadian Arctic.1 This new find presents an enigma...
The Permian Extinction: Good Science, Bad Assumptions
Ninety percent of marine and 70 percent of terrestrial creatures perished suddenly in an event variously called the Permian extinction, the Permian–Triassic (P-Tr) extinction, or the Great Dying....
Altruistic Aphids, an Evolutionary Anomaly
Certain aphids manipulate plant tissues to form a hollow gall in which they then reside. But aphids will also help heal plant tissue that they’ve damaged. This behavior serves as a vital self-defense...
A New Technique for Pluripotent Stem Cells
Stem cell treatments have proven successful for many diseases, and there is great promise that new treatments will emerge to combat even more maladies. These successful treatments involve inserting correctly...
Obama Orders the Destruction of Human Embryos
In a significant move to distance himself from the moral conservatives of the country, President Barack Obama on March 9 ordered that federal money (taxpayer money) be used to promote medical research...
In Honor of Darwin's 200th Birthday: Evolution's Bigges.,.
A very interesting article was recently published in New Scientist magazine in honor of the bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth.1 Sixteen of the world’s leading evolutionary biologists...
What Does It Take to Fossilize a Brain?
Scientists have accidently discovered a rare and perhaps unique fossilized brain of an iniopterygian, an extinct kind of ratfish or chimaera that supposedly lived 300 million years ago. When the researchers...
Molecular Clocks Are Preset to Evolution
Evolutionary scientists often use results derived from molecular biology dating methods (based on DNA sequence similarities) to bolster their assumptions that some related organisms may have diverged millions...
Fish Studies Answer Flood Question
According to the Bible, the world before Noah’s Flood, including the oceans, must have been idyllic. That was destroyed by the year-long global deluge, during which the earth’s land mass broke...
Ancient Human Footprints Look Modern
Some scientists have estimated that sets of human footprints found on two separate but close sedimentary layers in Kenya are around 1.51 and 1.53 million years old1 and were made by humans like...
Hormone Research Unwittingly Corroborates Biblical Kinds
Hormones are small chemical switches that turn on or off different cellular systems. They are tissue-specific, most often produced by the tissue of one organ, distributed in mammals via the bloodstream,...
First Draft of the Neandertal Genome Sequence Released
The highly anticipated initial draft assembly of the Neandertal genome was announced at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in the United States and at...
Tubular Fish Eyes Defy Evolution
Fully-functional and distinct eye designs are found throughout the animal world. They are diverse, and yet each one contains such highly specified interconnected parts that evolutionary scientists have...
150 Years Later, Fossils Still Don't Help Darwin
“Creationists claim there are no transitional fossils, aka missing links. Biologists and paleontologists, among others, know this claim is false,” according to a recent LiveScience article...
No Weaknesses in the Theory of Evolution?
"There are no weaknesses in the theory of evolution." This was the testimony of Eugenie Scott to the Texas State Board of Education in January when the Board was debating new state science curriculum...
Old-Earth Creationism
Many evangelical leaders today, unfortunately, have capitulated to the evolutionary timescale of modern unbelieving geologists and astronomers. They feel that they must somehow reinterpret the Genesis...
Charitable Gift Annuities
God's Word is under attack from many sides today. Some question whether it can be taken as actual truth, or whether it must be interpreted in light of whatever modern culture deems scientifically "true"...
Science's Rightful Place
The state of Texas has a large public school student population and thus carries an inordinate amount of weight in the billion-dollar textbook industry. Publishers know that public school books are sanctioned...
March 2009
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The Completed 'Rest' of the Lord
The day-age theory, which posits that the creation days of Genesis were not 24-hour days but long "ages" spread over many years, is often used by old-earth creation adherents to compromise the...
Anchors Away? Confronting biblical drift among today's .,.
February 2009 was a hallmark month for those who communicate biblical truth--something the Institute for Creation Research has been involved in for the past 40 years. While the world lit candles for Charles...
A Tectonic Origin for the Kingston Peak Formation
The National Creation Science Foundation (NCSF) has received several fine proposals for NCSF grant-supported research, and many of these proposals have already been funded. One such proposal was submitted...
An Overview of Day-Age's Errors
Many Bible scholars today are buying into the day-age theory of origins. They seem to believe that their biblical views must conform to their mental image of how the world functions today and must be confirmed...
Predation Did Not Come from Evolution
Although the origin of predation is poorly understood, it is incorrect to attribute to young-earth creation the assertion that predatory animals quickly and recently evolved the physical features necessary...
What a Difference a Day Makes
What is a day? Inventing a timepiece requires intelligent design,1 and the "day" is no exception. From the very beginning, Genesis 1:14 reveals, days were invented to measure time....
Did Plant Growth Require Vast Ages?
In the Western world, most people--even many Christians--are convinced that science has proven evolution and its millions-of-years timescale. In believing this, they generally do not separate the naturalistic...
Made in His Image: From Solar Energy to Human Energy
Plants use biological systems that harvest light energy from the sun to convert environmental water and carbon dioxide into tiny carbon/hydrogen energy units stored within them. When people eat those energy...
Our Great Ancestors Were. . . Sponges?
Geochemists and paleontologists are on the lookout for “molecular fossils,” biochemicals that were resistant to breakdown even during rock-forming processes.1 These have been discovered...
Stunning New Evidence of a Higher Ancient Sea Level
According to the record in Genesis, there was a time when the entire surface of the earth was inundated with water. This possibility has been ridiculed because of questions regarding the origin and destination...
Poll: Majority of Americans Don't Believe in Evolution
Even two centuries after his birth, less than 40 percent of Americans believe in Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by means of natural selection, a recent poll found.
The Gallup survey, released...
Recent Human Variation Is Not Evolution
Discover magazine recently asked, “Are We Still Evolving?” The same-titled article noted that “for decades theories about human evolution had proliferated despite the absence of much,...
Can Cosmic Collisions Create?
From setting orbits straight and creating moons, to manufacturing magnetic fields, secular science has consistently used chance cosmic collisions and near-misses to explain the origins of a host of fine-tuned...
Religion-Free Group Says to 'Praise Darwin'
How much sense does this make?
An organization that bills itself as a promoter of “freedom from religion” posted billboards bearing the words “Praise Darwin: Evolve Beyond Belief”...
Study Shows Our Minds Are Tuned to Believe
“It seems that our minds are finely tuned to believe in gods,” according to a new report appearing in the journal New Scientist.1 A group of scientists undertook the task of studying...
Ant Algorithms Argue Against Evolutionary Origins
Traffic jams are a frustrating part of modern life, and many dream of the kind of uncongested roadway systems shown in futuristic movies like Minority Report. But some researchers have suggested that ideal...
Extinct Ibex Clone Dies at Birth
The last of a type of wild mountain goat was found dead in the mountains of northern Spain in 2000. The Pyrenean ibex, characterized by its curved horns, was officially declared extinct, but not before...
Tiny Ocean Plants Offer Biochemical Enigma
Phosphorus, number 15 on the periodic table of elements, is considered a basic component of all cell membranes. But the recent discovery of single-celled photosynthetic organisms surviving without the...
Teamwork Between Shining Bacteria and Squids Evolved?
Certain strains of bacteria, named Vibrio, can establish a mutually beneficial link with a squid by a single gene switch, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin.1 Could this...
No Tolerance Allowed: Stein declines university speech .,.
Comedian/economist/lawyer Ben Stein backed out of delivering a spring 2009 commencement speech because of complaints to the university about his views on evolution.
The University of Vermont’s president,...
Science vs. Scripture: An Open Response to Dr. John Ank.,.
In January 2009, ICR received a copy of a recent ministry letter published by television personality Dr. John Ankerberg. For many years, Dr. Ankerberg has skillfully tackled tough issues related to the...
Solar System Secrets Solved
A recent issue of New Scientist contained a series of articles that explored “The Six Biggest Mysteries of Our Solar System.” One article posed the question, “How was the solar system...
Darwin's Evolutionary Tree 'Annihilated'
In 1837, Charles Darwin drew his first “evolutionary tree” in his “B” notebook, with the words “I think” scrawled above it, to illustrate his idea that all of today’s...
Parasitic Worms Evolved the Wrong Direction
Parasites are a topic that often makes people cringe. Some like to use parasites as an argument against creation, because after all, how could a good God create “bad” organisms like these?
According...
Do 'New Species' Demonstrate Darwinism?
Frank Sherwin, M.A., and Brian Thomas, M.S.*
That species undergo change in this grand system called earth is apparent, but those changes do not occur the way Charles Darwin envisioned. Living things...
'Stuff Happens': A Review of Darwin's Influence on Mode.,.
Darwinism has invaded astronomy at many levels. This underscores the contention that Darwinism is not just a theory about the origin of species--it is an all-encompassing worldview.
The most obvious extension...
The Vanishing Case for Evolution
Dr. Henry M. Morris, father of the modern creation science movement, devoted his life to upholding the accuracy and authority of God’s Word. Combining scientific knowledge with a thorough understanding...
Willful Ignorance
February 2009 will see multiple celebrations held around the world in honor of "Darwin Day," established "in appreciation of verifiable knowledge that has been acquired solely through human...
Compromise in the Pulpit
Recently I attended a Sunday morning worship service at a church in the area. Fine church, strong Bible-teaching pastor. I felt encouraged when I found out that the sermon was to address evolution. Churches...
February 2009
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Unraveling the Deeds of a Dangerous Man
To say that Charles Darwin influenced his world greatly cannot be disputed. To say that he was a great man is an unfortunate exaggeration.
Nevertheless, much of the world will celebrate the life and work...
Darwin's Dangerous Doctrine
Nearly every candidate for pastoral ordination has been challenged with the charge given by the Apostle Paul in 2 Timothy 4:2-3:
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke,...
Made in His Image: Human Gestation
Admittedly the prospect of pregnancy only applies to half of humanity, but the other half should find the process equally astounding. The real star of the show, however, is the developing baby, who was...
Charles Darwin: The Man Behind the Monkey
Who: Charles Robert Darwin
When: February 12, 1809 - April 19, 1882
Where: Shrewsbury, England
What: Father of the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural...
The Development and Deficits of Darwin's Theory
In 1831 the British Admiralty recruited a naturalist to accompany Captain Robert FitzRoy of the Royal Navy on a voyage in the HMS Beagle to survey the coasts of Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, and...
Man of Science, Man of God: Henry M. Morris
Who: Henry Madison Morris
What: Father of Modern Creation Science Movement
When: October 6, 1918 - February 25, 2006
Where: Dallas, Texas
Henry M. Morris is widely recognized as the founder of the...
To Tell the Truth: The danger of accommodating Darwinis.,.
"What is truth?" asked Pontius Pilate as Truth incarnate stood before him.1 Whether the Roman governor was interested in the answer is doubtful, but we must ask ourselves who was...
Darwin's First Wrong Turn
On April 26, 1834, a 25-year-old man, without a college science degree, walked up a rocky slope on the north bank of a big river in southern Argentina. He saw the six-mile-wide valley of the Santa Cruz...
The Big Bang, Multiverse, and Other Tales about Outer Space
There are two common misconceptions about evolution. The first is that many people believe that Charles Darwin invented the idea of evolution. This is not true, for as far back as the ancient Greeks evolutionary...
Chemistry by Chance: A Formula for Non-Life
Scientists observe life today in order to determine what processes were at work when life originated on this planet. It would be like looking at a 100-year-old photograph to determine which camera was...
Darwinian Medicine: A Prescription for Failure
Although the field of medicine experienced major advances in the 20th century, it also embraced mistakes and outright atrocities caused by the introduction of evolutionary thinking. Setbacks to the profession...
The Iron Grip of Darwinism on Education
The 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth is being celebrated all over the world. In 1909, Darwin's 100th birthday celebration was sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences. The first "Darwin...
Epigenetics: More Information than Evolution Can Handle
Living things develop partly according to genetic instructions encoded on their DNA. The study of inheritance has widened the paradigms from genes to genomes, and now recent research has added yet another...
Inflation Hypothesis Doesn't Measure Up to New Data
Since the Big Bang story of the origin of the universe has been refuted by a host of external observations and internal contradictions,1 secular science has been forced to postulate additional,...
Elephant Secrets under Middle East Sands
Yale anthropology professor Andrew Hill and graduate student Faysal Bibi are studying elephant footprints and other fossils near oil-rich Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. In this formerly lush and...
Evolutionists Lament That Americans Still Believe in God
In a recent U.S. News & World Report debate, Glenn Branch, Deputy Director of the National Center for Science Education, speculated that Charles Darwin “would not be happy to learn that almost...
Anti-God Bus Ads Stick Around, Garner Mixed Responses
In late 2008, London buses began carrying banner advertisements declaring, “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”1 Sponsored by the British Humanist...
TFN Survey's Flawed Methodology Invalidates It
In an effort to influence the Texas State Board of Education to ban the teaching of the weaknesses apparent in evolutionary theory, the Texas Freedom Network (TFN) Education Fund sponsored and released...
Antibody Variation Is Not Evolution
Researchers at Wayne State University in Michigan have uncovered a key step in the formation of antibodies. It was already known that the immune system generates a variety of antibodies in response to...
Diamond Research Points to a Recent Formation
Most diamonds are formed at depths of 150 or so miles. Deep diamonds, however, formed at depths of over 400 miles. The discovery of a new cache of deep diamonds near Eurelia, Southern Australia, has...
Methane on Mars: The Stuff of Life?
On January 15, 2009, NASA scientists announced what they believed could be evidence of life on the planet Mars. What they had actually found was methane in the atmosphere, a gas that can be produced...
Lab-'evolved' Molecules Support Creation
Scientists attempting to demonstrate random evolution in the laboratory have found something entirely different: evidence supporting creation.
Gerald Joyce of the Scripps Research Institute coaxed...
Fish's Mirror Eyes Reflect the Creator
Scientists have waited for years to study a rare and unique deep sea fish. Finally able to investigate a live specimen, they discovered that the “spookfish” has mirrors that reflect light onto...
Stewardship and Coconut-based Car Parts
Coconut husks, made of tough fibers, are abundant in tropical regions. Coconut farmers have most often discarded the husks, but science is finding creative ways to use them.
Baylor University researcher...
Pink Iguanas and Evolutionary Dating Conflicts
Pink iguanas were discovered in 1986 in the Galapagos. Researchers have analyzed the DNA of these very rare iguanas and found that it is significantly different from both the terrestrial and the marine...
Does Earth Balance Carbon Dioxide Levels Automatically?
A group of German scientists has received clearance from the United Nations to perform a controversial experiment: dumping tons of iron into ocean water.
Victor Smetacek and his research team from...
Virus Motors Impossible for Evolution
Bacteriophages are non-living yet specialized viruses that hijack cells to clone more viruses. In this way, they help to maintain balanced bacterial populations. When a new “phage” is assembled...
The Confusing Origin of Locust Swarms
Certain grasshoppers are generally mild-mannered and solitary creatures.1 However, when their population becomes dense enough, their bodies physically change and they clump together, sometimes...
How Some Vegetables Fight Cancer
Many plants have cancer-fighting properties. Researchers have known for some time that cabbages and their near relatives, broccoli and cauliflower, can help prevent certain cancers. A recent study has...
Evolution Missing from Top Science of 2008
The acclaimed research journal Science has published its picks for the top ten scientific breakthroughs of 2008.1 The number one breakthrough was the manipulation of body cells into an embryonic...
Another Local Flood Theory
A British researcher has offered yet another non-biblical explanation for the source of the global Flood account in Genesis. Archaeologist Sean Kingsley proposed that the story arose from the flooding...
The Wax That Taxes Darwin
People are able to groom themselves in a way so as to keep external parasites (fleas, ticks) and other irritants at bay. But what about the inaccessible recesses of the ear, with its delicate eardrum?...
Biological Belts
Reinforcing strap structures are found throughout the living world, holding critical biological systems together. Consider human hip structure. The pelvic girdle is comprised of the strongly interconnected...
Benjamin Carson: The Pediatric Neurosurgeon with Gifted.,.
Introduction
Benjamin S. Carson, M.D., one of the world's foremost pediatric neurosurgeons, is professor and chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Medical School.1 Born...
All Your Need, Version 2009
I am often asked about ICR's current needs. With great joy, I have shared the many opportunities the Lord has opened for us. But while our agenda is positively bursting with new initiatives, we remain...
A New Day, A New Year
With this first issue of Acts & Facts for the year 2009 comes a fresh round of thankfulness and optimism for ICR, as well as concern for the future. As has been often noted in these pages, we are...
January 2009
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ICR Research Advances with the NCSF
The research wing of ICR has an impressive slate of research projects underway. As announced in October, ICR has launched a new foundation, the National Creation Science Foundation (NCSF), which will consider...
Made in His Image: Human Reproduction
A new life is started the moment a human sperm cell unites with a human egg. Sounds simple, doesn't it? A person can decide for himself, but he will need to follow along very closely to catch all of the...
2008: Laying the Groundwork for Growth
New Year's Day is one of the best days of the year. Not only do we take a much-needed rest before jumping into the next 364 days, but we have the opportunity to reflect on the previous twelve months...
New 'Species' Was Just a Tiny Human
Small fossilized skeletons were discovered in 2003 on the Indonesian island of Flores. Resembling diminutive men, these “hobbits” (dubbed Homo floresiensis) were discovered among sophisticated...
Rare Insect Evolved at the Wrong Time
The Lord Howe tree lobster (actually an insect) was thought to have gone extinct around 40 years ago when rats were introduced to the lone island that housed them off the coast of Australia. The insects...
Even Parasite Genes Look Young
The parasite Trichinella spiralis is commonly dated as being around 20 million years old. A recent DNA study by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists, however, has yielded some surprising results.
T....
Yawning With a Purpose
All vertebrates yawn, but why they do it has long been a mystery. Recent research suggests that yawning may be a cooling mechanism for the brain.
In their study set for publication in the journal Animal...
Data Storage Systems in the Living World
The world has witnessed an explosion of digital technology in the past few decades. With these advances comes the question of how to preserve the digital information that is constantly being generated.
Dr....
Did Magma Dykes Spread the Continents?
A longstanding conundrum for long-age geology thinking is summed up by Purdue University Professor Eric Calais: “When we calculate the forces available from plate tectonics, we find that they are...
Neanderthal Men Were Modern Men
A set of fossilized human remains has been discovered in Iberia that shows partial Neanderthal characteristics, proving again that Neanderthals interbred with anatomically modern men.1 This...
Fast-orbiting Stars Puzzle Astronomers
German astronomers have been meticulously tracking the orbits of 28 stars nearest to the center of the Milky Way spiral galaxy. Over the 16 years of their study, one of the stars travelled so fast that...
A New Role for Interferons: Teaching
Interferons are signaling proteins in immune systems that have long been appreciated for their role in defending the body against viral attacks. Interferons hinder viruses from multiplying inside host...
Where Did Flesh-eating Bacteria Come From?
Flesh-eating zombies may be the work of science fiction horror, but necrotizing soft tissue infection—a severe type of infection that destroys tissue—is a real condition that can kill about...
Bush Believes that Creation and Evolution Are Compatible
Recently, President George W. Bush stated that he believes that the concept of evolution does not conflict with a belief that God created the world.
In an interview with ABC’s Cynthia McFadden at...
Inefficient Cat Motion Remains a Mystery for Evolution
The evolutionary story holds that nature favors efficiency in hunting and movement, but it turns out that cats contradict that concept.
In a report appearing in the research journal Public Library of...
The Brain's Emergency Brakes
Emergency brakes are an important safety component in elevators. In a dangerous episode, such as an earthquake, these brakes activate and stop the elevator from moving, keeping the passengers inside from...
The Delicate Balance of Ear Crystals
UCLA researchers have discovered that tiny crystals called otoliths—necessary parts of a properly functioning inner ear—form not as the direct result of a gene product, but rather as the result...
Atheists Get 'Shared Time' with Nativity Scene
For not celebrating any “holy” days, atheist organizations seem especially vocal during the 2008 Christmas season.
The most recent in a series of anti-Christmas efforts is a campaign in Washington...
Why Did Life Evolve Beyond Bacteria?
According to certain scientists, human activity that causes damage to the environment may interfere with the ongoing evolution of the earth. Harvard geochemistry professor Charles Langmuir said in a recent...
Particle Physics Is Remarkably Consistent with Genesis
Aided by a supercomputer, an international team of theoretical physicists has recently performed a massive computation that confirmed Einstein’s famous formula E=mc2, which states that...
'Multiverse' Theory Fails to Explain Away God
New discoveries continue to reveal the life-friendly properties of our universe, in which physical laws are seemingly fine-tuned to allow life to exist. To get around the appearance of design, secular...
New Study Makes Connection Between Religion and Lower M.,.
Women who attended religious services regularly lived 20 percent longer than those who did not, a recent study found.
The research, published in the journal Psychology and Health, examined cardiovascular...
Surface Features Require Rapid Deposition
Geologists now accept that catastrophic processes are necessary for the deposition of nearly all rock types. Only a short time was needed to form each bed of sediments (which eventually hardened into sedimentary...
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