Archive of Articles
Neanderthal Babies Were Human Babies
Japanese and European anthropologists recently published a study they conducted on the remains of Neanderthal children. Neanderthal skeletons resemble those of modern humans but are characterized by larger...
The Dinosaur Mummy
We often think that mummies are only found in Egypt, but they have been discovered all over the world. They aren’t always human, either.
A mummified dinosaur fossil was found by amateur researchers...
120-Million-Year-Old Ants Alive and Well?
University of Texas researchers have concluded that a newly-discovered, blind, subterranean ant “evolved over 120 million years ago from wasp ancestors.”1 The discovery of previously...
WHY Should We Apologize?
In a sad but almost humorous turn, a large Protestant denomination has issued an apology to Charles Darwin for not embracing his particle-to-people philosophy sooner.1 Constructed by Rev. Dr....
Worldviews and the Blissful Ignorance Effect
Scientists have officially measured and documented the “Blissful Ignorance Effect,”1 which describes the way consumers’ goals shift after they’ve made purchases. Before...
Royal Society Professor Forced to Resign over Creationi.,.
Even evolutionary scientists of high degree are in danger of losing their jobs and garnering criticism from their peers over the issue of creationism.
Biologist Michael Reiss resigned as Director of Education...
Data Derails Dinosaur Dominance Idea
The long-held belief that dinosaurs once ruled the earth because of their evolutionary superiority is undergoing some modification. The standard story holds that in an earlier era of earth’s billions-of-years...
Human DNA in Mice: Evolutionary Presumptions
by Brian Thomas, M.S. and Christine Dao*
While many scientists perform valid scientific investigations, their starting assumptions as well as their final conclusions are not derived directly from the...
Protocell Research: on the Verge of. . . a Dead End
Harvard Medical School scientists believe they are closer to creating life out of non-living matter—but there are good reasons to doubt it.
Molecular biologist Jack Szostak and his team are building...
Metabolic Pathways Produce Evolutionary Roadblock
Researchers at Northwestern University have discovered what they believe to be evidence for the evolution of strong and healthy metabolic networks within cells. What they may have actually found, however,...
The Significance of the Successful Supercollider Startup
On September 10, 2008, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator went into action, sending a beam of protons racing at nearly the speed of light in the first of many preliminary tests that researchers...
Teenage Suicide and an Evolutionary Worldview
After steadily declining for a decade, teen suicide spiked by 18 percent from 2003 to 2004, according to a recent study conducted at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.1
The...
Palin Slammed for Supporting Open Debate
The Republicans threw a curve ball for the nation when John McCain announced that his vice presidential running mate would be Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. She has received a great deal of criticism on...
Flu Fighter Found in Fruits and Vegetables
A study published in June by the American Physiological Society showed that mice that were given the vitamin-like compound quercetin were more resistant to the flu.1 Quercetin is found in a...
Fossilized Gecko Fits Creation Model
A gecko foot encased in amber has been dubbed the oldest gecko fossil ever discovered, according to researchers from Oregon State University and the Natural History Museum in London.1 The amber...
Cognitive Decline and a Biblical Decree
Elderly people without dementia show patterns of cognitive decline in the years prior to death, a new study published in Neurology magazine indicates.1 This sheds some interesting light on a...
Surviving Exhibit: Science or Indoctrination?
An exhibition favoring evolution has opened to coincide with the “Year of Evolution,” a celebration being held from April 2008 to May 2009 by the University of Pennsylvania and various Philadelphia...
"Relative Pitch" Is Human
A new study out of the University of Rochester has revealed that more people have perfect pitch than was expected. Perfect, or “absolute,” pitch is the ability to recognize or produce a specific...
Green Chemical Clean-up
In another instance of scientists borrowing design elements from natural systems (a process known as biomimicry), researchers have developed a chemical catalyst modeled after peroxidase enzymes. Peroxidase...
The Mythical Horse Series
Horse evolution prominently appears in textbooks as a supreme example of the evolution of one body style into another. All students remember the "horse series" sketches, tracing the development...
Evolution Continues to Be a Hard Cell
The increasing amount of research at the cellular level has boded ill for the naturalist who insists that life must be interpreted (strained?) through a Darwinian explanatory filter. For instance, recent...
Empiricism: A Glaring Flaw of New Atheism
Atheism is a worldview in which there is no God. Adherents believe that life sprang from natural forces, not an intelligence, and that the cosmos made itself--or at least organized itself out of raw...
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Werner Arber: Nobel Laureate, Darwin Skeptic
Introduction
In 1978, microbiologist Werner Arber received a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (sharing the honor with Daniel Nathans and Hamilton O. Smith) for the discovery of restriction enzymes...
An Interesting Sighting
Graduate students in the sciences tend to be an intriguing lot. As a professor, I've met some truly unique individuals, who often have very interesting life histories. One ICR grad student told me how,...
September 2008
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Capitulating on Creation: Changing the truth of God int.,.
A few weeks ago, two local seminary students stopped by the ICR headquarters in Dallas. One of them, a Th.M. student, regularly receives our Acts & Facts magazine. As I showed them around, we chatted...
Meteorite Analysis Begins
When ICR's Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth (RATE) study ended in 2005, several projects had not been completed. Among these were studies on meteorites, additional carbon-14 work on diamonds, and...
Man of Science, Man of God: James Clerk Maxwell
Who: James Clerk Maxwell
What: Father of Electromagnetic Theory
When: June 13, 1831 - November 5, 1879
Where: Edinburgh, Scotland
From an early age, James Clerk Maxwell had an astonishing...
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...
Book Review: Persuaded by the Evidence
Persuaded by the Evidence: True Stories of Faith, Science, & the Power of a Creator
by Doug Sharp & Dr. Jerry Bergman,
Compilation Editors
(Master Books, 2008, 288 pages)
A theme throughout...
Photosynthesis Inspires "Green Fuel" Breakthrough
An international team of researchers has developed the first man-made device capable of using sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, which is a key process in photosynthesis.
The Monash...
Sichuan Compassion Contravenes Evolution
As the 2008 Beijing Olympics drew to a close this week, we celebrated not only the accomplishments of the athletes, but also the resilience of the world’s most populous nation.
Human rights issues...
DNA Repair Enzymes: Vital Links in the Chain of Life
Several decades ago, the cellular process known as “DNA repair” was not even suspected. But since then, investigation of genetic functions has increasingly revealed a system that is mind-bogglingly...
Corrupted Chemical Communication Causes Disease
By Brian Thomas, M. S. and Christine Dao*
Broken communication seems to be the cause of many diseases, not bad bacteria, according to research from the University of Wisconsin. Microbiologist Margaret...
Nylon-Eating Bacteria and Evolutionary Progress
Bacteria capable of metabolizing nylon were discovered in the 1970s. Nylon is a man-made substance that was developed in the 20th century. Since bacteria had not been exposed to it before then, could their...
Giving Human Evolution a Hand
Although the jury is still out on the creation/evolution debate in the scientific and public policy arenas, media and pop culture present evolutionary assumptions and theories as though they were scientific...
Non-stick Bugs
In South Africa, special “mirid bugs” make their homes in sticky, living-flypaper plants, feeding on other insects that get trapped in the plants’ leaf-secreted glue. How do they avoid...
Happy Birthday, Sue; How Old Are You?
The people of Faith, South Dakota, recently celebrated the “birthday” of the discovery of the world’s most famous T. rex fossil, called “Sue” after its discoverer, Susan Hendrickson....
How Long Do Frozen Greens Keep?
A large bed of moss was recently discovered under Antarctic ice. The moss was not fossilized, but frozen—for the last 14 million years, according to the standard story.
Adam Lewis of North Dakota...
Optimism in Evolution?
by Brian Thomas, M. S. and Frank Sherwin, M.A.*
Optimism in evolution…the words form a contradiction, considering that according to macroevolutionary theory, “progress” can only take...
California Judge Rules Against Academic Freedom
In another restriction of academic freedom, a federal judge has allowed the University of California (UC) to continue denying course credit for college preparatory classes to applicants from Christian...
Astronomers Speak: Our Solar System Is "Special"
New research is shedding surprising light on the uniqueness of our solar system. Over 250 planet-like objects (mostly gas giants) have been observed in distant space, and researchers are curious about...
Better Treatments Will Stem from New Cell Lines
New developments in stem cell research have set the stage for scientists to investigate treatments for specific diseases—investigations that won’t require the destruction of human embryos.
A...
Ancient Computers?
A 2,000-year-old computing device may change the way we think about ancient civilizations. The mechanical star-positioning instrument was discovered in a shipwreck at the turn of the 20th century, and...
ICR Receives the Independent Charities Seal of Excellence
The Institute for Creation Research has received the “Independent Charities Seal of Excellence” for meeting the highest standards of public accountability and program cost effectiveness. Less...
Wave Power and Ventilating the Ark
A British company is making waves, or more like harnessing them, in the field of renewable energy research. Wavegen, located in Scotland, has built a device that harnesses the oscillations of waves and...
PBS Bible-bashing? Wait and See.
Word on the street (or the blogosphere) regarding an upcoming PBS show has a few Christians up in arms.
The two-hour NOVA program titled “The Bible’s Buried Secrets,” slated to air on...
Why Are Human Genes Still Linked?
U.S. News and World Report recently ran a story titled “What Will Human Beings Become?”1 It asked the question “How will humanity evolve?” and attempted to collate various...
Fish Scales and Body Armor Design
The U.S. Army is looking at fish for the future of body armor design. MIT investigators have uncovered some of the secrets of construction that enable fish scales to be lightweight, sturdy, flexible,...
ICR Launches New Research Funding Initiative
The Institute for Creation Research is pleased to announce the launch of its National Creation Science Foundation (NCSF), a funding activity to advance the study of origins science.
For nearly 40...
Using Numerical Simulation to Test the Validity of Neo-.,.
AUGUST 03, 2008
by John Sanford, Ph.D., John Baumgardner, Ph.D., Wesley Brewer, Ph.D., Paul Gibson, Ph.D., and Walter ReMine, M.S.
In A. A. Snelling (Ed.) (2008). Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference...
A Proposed Mesoscale Simulation of Precipitation in Yos.,.
AUGUST 03, 2008
In A. A. Snelling (Ed.) (2008). Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Creationism (pp. 307–319). Pittsburgh, PA: Creation Science Fellowship and Dallas, TX: Institute for Creation...
Mendel's Accountant: A New Population Genetics Simulati.,.
AUGUST 03, 2008
by John Sanford, Ph.D., John Baumgardner, Ph.D., Wesley Brewer, Ph.D., Paul Gibson, Ph.D., and Walter ReMine, M.S.
In A. A. Snelling (Ed.) (2008). Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference...
Ocean Circulation Velocities over the Continents during.,.
AUGUST 03, 2008
by Raj Prabhu, M.S., Mark F. Horstemeyer, Ph.D., and Wesley Brewer, Ph.D.
In A. A. Snelling (Ed.) (2008). Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Creationism (pp. 247–254). Pittsburgh,...
Radiohalos and Diamonds: Are Diamonds Really for Ever?
AUGUST 03, 2008
by Mark H. Armitage, M.S. and Andrew A. Snelling, Ph.D.
In A. A. Snelling (Ed.) (2008). Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Creationism (pp. 323–334). Pittsburgh, PA:...
Simulation Analysis of Glacial Surging in the Des Moine.,.
AUGUST 03, 2008
by Jesse A. Sherburn, M.S., Mark F. Horstemeyer, Ph.D., and Kiran Solanski, M.S.
In A. A. Snelling (Ed.) (2008). Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Creationism (pp. 263–273)....
Snake Hybridization: A Case for Intrabaraminic Diversity
AUGUST 03, 2008
by Glen Fankhauser, M.S., and Kenneth B. Cumming, Ph.D.
In A. A. Snelling (Ed.) (2008). Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Creationism (pp. 117–132). Pittsburgh, PA: Creation...
The Creation of Cosmic Magnetic Fields
AUGUST 03, 2008
In A. A. Snelling (Ed.) (2008). Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Creationism (pp. 213–230). Pittsburgh, PA: Creation Science Fellowship and Dallas, TX: Institute for Creation...
The "Eve" Mitochondrial Consensus Sequence
AUGUST 03, 2008
by Robert W. Carter, Dan Criswell, and John Sanford
In A. A. Snelling (Ed.) (2008). Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Creationism (pp. 111–116). Pittsburgh, PA: Creation...
The Message in Surprise Effects
"Surprise effect" was a term used by information-theory pioneer Claude Shannon to indicate the presence of information. In a string of symbols, it's not surprising to find randomness or patterns...
The Origin of Flight
Evolution has many steep obstacles to overcome. Many are the stupendous design characteristics and environmental balances that can scarcely be understood by today's scientists, let alone mimicked. Yet...
The Amazing Design of the Human Nose
Besides adding distinction to the human face, the nose is an amazingly complex instrument. The insides of our noses are not just straight hollow tubes, but are shaped specifically to regulate airflow....
The Logic of Biblical Creation
This month, creation scientists from all over the globe are gathering in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for the sixth International Conference on Creationism. The modern creation movement is largely considered...
My Thoughts, My Ways. . . and the Combined Federal Campaign
The Lord has been good to the ministry of the Institute for Creation Research.
Through the years, ICR has experienced periods of great joy, as well as periods of great sorrow and need. But through it...
Academic Freedom Battle Continues State by State
One thing is certain: the creation/evolution conflict is never static. There's always something going on. Recent years have seen legislative battles in state after state as evolution-only public school...
August 2008
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Diamonds May Have Sparked Life, Say Researchers
Researchers cannot seem to figure out how the first living cell came from a soup of inert chemicals using only the forces of nature and time.
Some time ago, the concept of an “RNA world” was...
Creation, Conservation, and Consummation: Communicating.,.
The Pew Forum on Religious and Public Life released its second report based on the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey this past June. This enormous undertaking surveyed 35,000 Americans and concluded that...
Can Divergent Species of Snakes Interbreed?
Evolution predicts that as new species of animals are developed by mutation and selection, they will form offspring that will not interbreed. This prevents the new species from being recombined back into...
Man of Science, Man of God: Michael Faraday
Who: Michael Faraday
What: Father of Electromagnetism
When: September 22, 1791 - August 25, 1867
Where: South London, England
Michael Faraday was arguably the best experimentalist in the history...
New Campus Supports Local Church Initiative
The Institute for Creation Research partners with ministries all around the world. But it recently had the opportunity to lend part of its Dallas campus to local Fellowship Church in nearby Grapevine,...
Osmium in Shale Reflects the Flood
Researchers at the University of Alberta have discovered osmium signatures in shale.1 Osmium is a radioactive element that is commonly found in lava and in water that is near lava. The scientists...
The Steady Gaze of Flies: An Engineering Marvel
Scientists at Imperial College in London have flies on their minds. "Anyone who has watched one fly chasing another at incredibly high speed, without crashing or bumping into anything, can appreciate...
"Co-evolution" or Creation?
The lowly milkweed has presented a challenge to the evolutionary assumption that life forms become ever more complex in response to environmental pressures. Cornell associate professor of ecology Anurag...
Extinction Events Are Declining to the Biblical Level
New research may change conventional thinking on fossil diversity and extinction rates.1 John Alroy, a researcher at the University of California Santa Barbara, and 34 other scientists recently...
A Vocal Vestigial Organ?
Researchers at the National Center for Voice and Speech in Denver, Colorado, suspect that the small pouches in our voice boxes—called laryngeal ventricles—are vestigial organs. They surmise...
Whales Inspire New Turbine Design
For decades, human design engineers have been laboring to make more efficient machines, like propeller blades that produce steady airflow patterns. Our thinking has been fixed on the idea that smooth...
Louisiana the Only State to Promote Academic Freedom (S.,.
Last month, Louisiana became the only state to set into law some measure of academic protection for teachers who wish to present more than one side of the origins debate. The Louisiana Academic Freedom...
Tasmanian Devils: Extinction, not Macroevolution
Tasmanian devils are breeding at younger ages, and researchers at the University of Tasmania in Australia believe the phenomenon is caused by an evolutionary response to the cancer that is devastating...
Fossil Feathers Convey Color
Analysis of an unusual Brazilian fossil has led U.S. researchers to link microscopic fossil features to bird feather colors. The fossil has dramatic black and white banding patterns that have been interpreted...
ABC News: Camels Are American Emigrants
Some scientists believe that camels originated in North America around 20 million years ago and migrated from there. Paleoecologist Guy Robinson, a professor at Fordham University, told ABC World News,...
World's First Artificial DNA Molecule (Well, Almost)
Biomimicry is the science of designing machines that follow patterns that can be observed within God's creation. One example of this is the helicopter, which Ukrainian-American aviation pioneer Igor Sikorski...
A Natural Cause of Greenhouse Gas
Data collected through the 1980s and 1990s strongly suggested that the earth was warming.1 Some scientists believe the phenomenon is man-made (anthropogenic), primarily due to fossil fuel...
National Geographic's Flatfish Story Falls Flat
Evolutionists are praising research recently conducted on flatfish fossils, and one banner publication went a bold step further in claiming that the find contradicts intelligent design and creation arguments.
National...
New Antibiotic Kills Drug-resistant Superbugs
Antibiotics are a bit like electronic products. Given time, they become obsolete. Scientists at the Rockefeller University have taken antibiotic technology to the next level by targeting bacterial genes....
Human-pig Embryos: A Question of Morality
This article is part 3 of 3 in a series.
Researchers at the University of Warwick are attempting to develop human-pig hybrid embryos. The project's application received approval from the Human Fertilisation...
Understanding the Stem Cell Debate
This article is part 2 of 3 in a series.
In the ongoing debate about stem cell research, few people differentiate between adult stem cells and embryonic stem cells. Also, few know that there are...
U.K. Grants Approval for Human-pig Hybrid Embryos
This article is part 1 of 3 in a series.
The U.K.'s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has approved an application by the University of Warwick to form pig-human embryos. As of July 1, 2008,...
Oceanic Currents and the Paths of the Sea
Have scientists found the "paths of the seas"? Psalm 8:6-9 says, "Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen,...
Silent Mutations Cripple Viruses
New vaccines are being developed that promise to be safer than traditional vaccines, which work by exposing patients to less virulent versions of viruses.1 The new vaccines use a similar process,...
"Non-Human Hominid" Right to Life
Great Britain and New Zealand have banned experimentation on certain groups of great apes. Now the Spanish government is considering granting them not only exemption from experimentation, but the rights...
"Missing Link"; Is Missing Some Parts
On the heels of other "missing link" stories comes an Associated Press (AP) report on a "365-million-year-old" fossil uncovered in Latvia. Ventastega curonica is supposedly "the...
Cosmology's Error Bars
It wouldn't make much sense to brag about knowing the diameter of a steering wheel to five decimal places on a car headed the wrong way with an engine about to blow, would it? Neither is it sensible to...
Searching for the Elusive Man from Mars
The Phoenix Mars Lander has successfully arrived and is, as of this writing, examining the surface of the Martian planet. The objective of the Phoenix Lander is two-fold: first, to explore geological...
Tiny Bacteria's Big Challenge to Darwin
Bacteria (prokaryotes) are found everywhere and are a critical foundation of the earth's ecosystem. The prokaryotes are designed to be saprotrophs or "decomposers," breaking down wastes and organic...
Red Rock Pass: Spillway of the Bonneville Flood
Scenic places fascinate geologists, especially vistas that generate profound thoughts. Sometimes these thoughts challenge our customary ways of viewing our world. On my "top ten list" of favorite...
True Liberty
When the United States of America was founded on July 4, 1776, the signing of the Declaration of Independence was preceded by prayer at the urging of Benjamin Franklin, the senior statesmen of the fledgling...
Reflecting on Grand Canyon
ICR's commitment to education comes through in just about everything we do. The late founder of ICR, Dr. Henry Morris, discerned that our long-range strategy for the creation/evolution conflict had to...
July 2008
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Bacterial Clutch Denotes Design
The bacterial flagellum has amazed observers because of its intricate and minute design. It exhibits remarkable efficiency, construction, and function in the tiny cells where it serves as a motorized propeller,...
Sowing the Creation Message
History is a great teacher. From time to time, it is helpful for ICR to review its history and refresh its memory about the Lord's blessings and direction that have brought us to where we are. Those "landmarks"...
Man of Science, Man of God: William Kirby
Who: William Kirby
What: Father of Entomology
When: September 19, 1759 - July 4, 1850
Where: Born in Witnesham, Suffolk, England
William Kirby must have been an unusual fellow, since he derived...
The "Fatal Flaws" of Darwinian Theory
Evolutionary genetic theory has a series of apparent "fatal flaws" that are well known to population geneticists, but that have not been effectively communicated to other scientists or the public....
Did God Make Brain-Eating Amoebas?
Brain-eating amoebas caused six deaths last year, representing a spike in cases that concerns health officials. WebMD reported in May that the young men who died had picked up the amoebas while swimming.1
Many...
We Now Know...
Evolutionists have often foisted conclusive pronouncements of new “knowledge” upon the public, only to retract them later with a “We now know…” kind of comment. For example,...
Dallas News Survey Pushes Evolution-Only Dogma
In the Sunday, June 22, 2008, edition of the Dallas Morning News, columnist Steve Blow reported the results of a survey he conducted on the hot-button issues of evolution, stem cell research, and global...
Non-Identical "Identical Twin" Stars Defy Evo.,.
A 15-year investigation by Vanderbilt University scientists of a pair of stars near the Orion nebula has led to unexpected results.1 Evolutionists assume that “because the two stars condensed...
Report: 92 Percent of Americans Believe in God
A study released June 23, 2008, found that 92 percent of Americans believe in God, including about one in five who say they are atheists.
The survey1 by the Pew Research Center’s Forum...
Dinosaur Fossil Erases 40 Million Years
The standard story of the origin of Australia goes something like this: Many millions of years ago, the earth had one continent called Pangaea. Around 120 million years ago, a landmass that included the...
Evidently, Evolution Proves Evolution!
A recent report serves to demonstrate a commonly observed pattern among evolutionary authors: circular reasoning. It turns out that the arguments used to support evolution rest upon the assumption of...
Life from the Stars?
Imagine a soup containing all the biochemicals of a cantaloupe except for its RNA. If we could then add the missing RNA, how close would the mixture be to an actual cantaloupe? Not very—it would...
Hemispherectomy Recovery: Testimony to Divine Design
On June 11, 2008, Jesse Hall from Aledo, Texas, underwent a hemispherectomy to treat a rare brain illness.1 The suffix “ectomy” refers to the surgical removal of a body part. A hemispherectomy,...
Brilliant Brain Biologists Forget the Foundation
New research purports to shed light on how brains evolved. Apparently, evolving a more complicated brain, such as from invertebrate to vertebrate, is not simply a matter of more connections (synapses)...
Bacterial Evolution in the Laboratory?
Back in 1988, researchers placed bacteria in an environment that pressured them to evolve the ability to metabolize (eat) citrate instead of the standard glucose. After 31,500 generations and 20 years,...
The Cons of "The Cons of Creationism"
A recent New York Times online editorial titled “The Cons of Creationism”1 is a typical example of the way the secular media routinely mischaracterize creation science. Let us critique...
Human Stem Cells Cure Mutated Mice
Researchers are intelligently designing techniques to combat mutations that cause neurological disorders. If evolution works according to the standard neo-Darwinian model of time + selection + mutation,...
The Finest Food, Feed, Fiber, and Fuel for the Future: .,.
According to the Dominion Mandate issued to Adam and Eve in the Garden1 and repeated to Noah2 about 1,657 years later, we are to be good stewards of the earth. One aspect of stewardship...
Fresh Kiwis
Ancient dates have once again been reevaluated and found to be less than accurate. Instances from every isotopic dating technique have been routinely rejected for decades. Typically, the newest “date”...
Resveratrol: Lapping up the Limits of Longevity
At the recent World Science Festival in New York, long life was a hot topic. David Sinclair, a Harvard Medical School professor and an expert on the health benefits of a substance found in red wine called...
"MEMS" the Word in Microrobotics
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are barely visible robots. Bruce Donald, a professor of computer science and biochemistry at Duke, has been working on microrobots since 1992. His team has designed...
Wipe Once, Then Toss: The Antibiotic Resistance of the .,.
On June 3, the Reuters news service reported on a potential health threat that, interestingly enough, also sheds light on one of the major flaws of evolutionary theory. The article cited a study led by...
Synthetic Life "Breakthrough" Just Demonstrat.,.
Dr. Cameron Alexander of the University of Nottingham recently used polymers to build capsules that imitate bacterial cell walls. Bacteria can interact with these capsules, absorbing chemicals from them....
Marketing the Navajo Sandstone
A TV ad several decades ago stated with an air of authority that "dogs love cheese." No reports were cited and no canine polls performed, yet marketers hoped its mere repetition would drive the...
The Dinosaur Next Door
Dinosaurs continue to play an important role in science education, for few subjects command students' attention as well as dinosaurs do. Evolutionists shrewdly use them as a tool to teach evolutionary...
Iapetus: Youth in Black and White
On the outskirts of the Saturn entourage flies one of the strangest objects in the solar system. Nothing else is quite like it: a large moon that is jet black on one side, and snowy white on the other....
Demanding the Evidence in the 21st Century
Millions of people around the world believe it is, but not everyone understands the weight of evidence that verifies the accuracy of the 6-day creation account, the special design and creation of the...
Opportunity for Good
With summer fast approaching, activity at ICR often accelerates into high gear with an increased number of speaking engagements, conferences, and seminars throughout the nation. The months ahead will be...
Academic Censorship, Round Two
The recent denial by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) of ICR Graduate School's application to grant degrees in Texas may have been disappointing, but it seems like déjà...
June 2008
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Where Has Academic Freedom Gone in Texas?
As many of you may know, the Institute for Creation Research Graduate School (ICRGS) has recently been denied the right to grant degrees in Texas. Although this is a temporary setback for us,...
Diamonds May Be a Creationist's Best Friend
During the Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth (RATE) project, Andrew Snelling discovered evidence for a young earth and accelerated nuclear decay based on the presence of polonium radiohalos near uranium...
Book Review: Heaven Without Her
Heaven Without Her: A Desperate Daughter's Search for the Heart of Her Mother's Faith
by Kitty Foth-Regner
(Thomas Nelson, 2008, 272 pages)
I look forward to death, except for one reason...
Never Stop Questioning
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed--if all records told the same tale--then the lie passed into history and became truth. "Who controls the past" ran the Party slogan,...
Man of Science, Man of God: Charles Bell
Who: Charles Bell
What: Premier Anatomist and Surgeon
When: November 12, 1774 - April 28, 1842
Where: Born in Edinburgh, Scotland
Sir Charles Bell--anatomist, surgeon, physiologist,...
Press Release 05 28 2008
Graduate Science Program Claims “Viewpoint Discrimination” in Appeal of Texas Education Ruling
Contact: Lawrence Ford, Institute for Creation Research (ICRGS), 800-337-0375
DALLAS, May...
Surtsey: A Young-earth Laboratory
Surtsey is an island volcanically formed just 45 years ago off the coast of Iceland. Science Illustrated has highlighted this unique island in its May/June 2008 issue. “Surtsey always provides surprises,”...
Press Release 05 02 2008
Science Institute Releases Documents in Texas Academic Freedom Case
Contact: Lawrence Ford, Institute for Creation Research (ICRGS), 800-337-0375
DALLAS, May 2 /Christian Newswire/ -- Administration...
Evolution's Biggest Hurdles
The theory of evolution has numerous problems, some of which are absolutely enormous and for which no adequate solution has even been proposed. The biggest problem comes right at the beginning with...
Sand Injectites
A combination of "squishy sand" and seismic shaking was responsible for some of southern Utah's most spectacular landforms. Preserved in this rocky landscape are unmistakable indicators that...
Messenger from Mercury
After a 33-year hiatus, we have a message from Mercury. On January 14, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) sent the first close-up images...
Evolution's Evangelists
"It is absolutely safe to say that, if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid, or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that)."1 ...
Darts, Darkness, and Donors
Not long ago, after an extensive career in finance, the Lord made it abundantly clear that He wanted me to join ICR. I took the position with great anticipation, relishing the opportunity to devote my...
Genesis and Revelation: Bookends of the Bible
In 1977, when Dalta, my sweet wife, and I were first married, we read my father's book The Genesis Record (published the year before) for our regular devotional time. It aptly connected Genesis...
May 2008
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Communicating the Wonders of God's Creation
God is the great communicator. The very first chapter of Genesis records no fewer than ten times that "God said…," revealing the Creator's heart to the world and its inhabitants. In Genesis...
Mitochondrial DNA and a Recent Human Origin
A team of scientists that includes Dr. Daniel Criswell of ICR has recently completed a study of mitochondrial DNA and will be presenting its work at this summer's International Conference on Creationism....
Man of Science, Man of God: Isaac Newton
Who: Isaac Newton
What: Father of Universal Gravitation
When: January 4, 1643 - March 31, 1727
Where: Woolsthorpe, a hamlet of Lincolnshire, England
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in...
Book Review: The Genesis Factor
The Genesis Factor
edited by Ron J. Bigalke, Jr.
(Master Books, 2008, 254 pages)
A common refrain within creation science circles is "Creation is the foundation." And indeed it is, as we see...
Press Release 04 25 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Graduate School
Institute for Creation Research
Tel: 214.615.8300
Fax: 214.615.8299
Dallas, April 25, 2008 – Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB)...
Press Release 04 21 2008
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Graduate School, Institute for Creation Research
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DALLAS, April 21, 2008 – The Institute for Creation Research Graduate School...
Press Release 03 04 2008
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Graduate School
Institute for Creation Research
Tel: 214.615.8300
Fax: 214.615.8299
Dallas – On February 28, 2008, Nature magazine featured an editorial...
Press Release 01 15 2008
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January 15, 2008
Graduate School
Institute for Creation Research
Tel: 214.615.8300
Fax: 214.615.8299
Dallas - On January 10, 2008, representatives of the Institute...
Press Release 12 18 2007
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Graduate School
Institute for Creation Research
Tel: 214.615.8300
Fax: 214.615.8299
Dallas - On December 14, 2007, THECB Certification Advisory Council met to consider...
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