Archive of Articles
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...
Jellyfish Reveal the Recent Hand of the Creator
Jellyfish (Scyphozoa) are truly fascinating creatures with a vague and imprecise evolutionary record. Evolutionary scientists Daphne Fautin and Sandra Romano state, "The four extant cnidarian classes...
More Than Just 'Complex'
A certain amount of confusion has existed over the use of the term "complex." In the past, creation scientists have used it to refer both to unique arrangements, and to unique, specified arrangements....
When God Became Man
We can never understand the doctrine of the incarnation, whereby God the Creator became man the creature, for it is beyond the limits of finite comprehension. But we can believe it, and rejoice in it!
In...
'Perhaps Today!'
From my earliest childhood recollections, a small and humble plaque hung in my grandfather's office, placed in a prominent location on the wall directly opposite his desk. Painted in brown with ivory-colored...
New Addition to Our Fossil Family
In our March 2008 Acts & Facts, we introduced you to Boris, the 9-foot-tall cave bear that greets our visitors in the ICR lobby, and Levi (short for Leviathan) the mosasaur, which we acquired in a...
December 2008
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Self-sacrificing Cells Demonstrate a Selfless Designer
Scientists have discovered that a single yeast cell gene (FLO1) expresses a protein that causes individual cells to stick to one another for protection. The cells flocculate, or form clumps “consisting...
The Human 'Stars' of Christmas
Have you ever wondered why the angels announced the birth of Jesus Christ to shepherds? Are you a bit curious about what drove the wise men to travel all the way from "the east"? Why Mary and...
Rapid Surging of Glacial Ice Lobes
J. Harlen Bretz published an article in the Journal of Geology in 1923 that described a catastrophic flood that swept across eastern Washington state near the end of the Ice Age. He claimed that it eroded...
Man of Science, Man of God: George Washington Carver
Who: George Washington Carver
What: Father of Modern Agriculture
When: 1864 or 1865 - January 5, 1943
Where: Diamond Grove, Missouri
Probably no other scientist has had to face as many...
Texas 'Freedom' Network, UTA Professor Oppose Academic .,.
The upcoming battle over what public science textbooks should teach promises to be no less contentious than the battles of the past. The Texas State Board of Education held a public hearing Wednesday,...
PBS Fails to Uncover the Bible's 'Buried Secrets'
by Christine Dao and Beth Mull*
On November 18, 2008, publicly-funded PBS stations aired a two-hour NOVA special titled “The Bible’s Buried Secrets” that attempted to find the “true”...
Darwin’s Mockingbirds Show Neither ’Rigid C.,.
The Natural History Museum in London recently opened a new exhibit that features mockingbirds that Charles Darwin collected during his travels around the Galapagos Islands in 1835. He observed they were...
Study Shows Nanoparticles Contribute to Cell Damage, Aging
Among many possible environmental factors, scientists have long suspected that certain combinations of nanoparticles contribute to cell damage, aging, and eventually death. That hypothesis has been confirmed...
How Did Marine Organisms End Up in Tree Sap?
A team of French experts in paleoenvironments has discovered algae and several bits of marine life that are completely encased in amber, a hard substance thought to originate from hardened tree sap....
Genetic Expression: Same Genes Can Produce Different Results
Genes could be thought of as brick molds, used to construct materials for building the physical structures of living organisms. They carry the codes to help make proteins, which then make up different...
Atheists' Christmas Campaign: 'Yes' to Goodness, 'No' to God
Just weeks after the British Humanist Association unveiled plans for “No God” ads on London bendy-buses,1 the American Humanist Association (AHA) is starting a similar campaign to...
Scientists Discover the On/Off Switch of the Cell's Cop.,.
Our cells are amazing places that contain countless molecular machines all working together to perform multiple and important functions simultaneously.
Within our cells are strands of DNA, which are very...
Chimps and People Show 'Architectural' Genetic Design
An international team of geneticists recently set out to explore in more detail the evolutionary relationship between humans and chimpanzees. Despite their assumption that man and chimp share a common...
MythBuster Mistakes Evolution for Science
The popular Discovery Channel show MythBusters not only entertains, it also does what science education is supposed to do: promote critical thinking through hands-on experience. The show focuses on Adam...
The Gamburtsev Mountains: Where Did the Ice Come From?
Research is currently underway to scan the Gamburtsev mountain range, which is around the size of the Alps and stands in the middle of Antarctica. It is also covered by about 2,000 feet of ice, and...
The Gamburtsev Mountains: An Antarctic Mystery
Antarctica has for years puzzled researchers who submit to long-age theories, especially after the Gamburtsev mountain range in central Antarctica was discovered in 1957. These mountains are about as big...
Myco-diesels and the Age of the Earth
A newly-discovered Patagonian fungus named Gliocladium roseum can produce various alcohols and hydrocarbons, including octane.1 The fungus lives inside the ulmo trees of South American rainforests...
Will Reducing Carbon Dioxide Solve Global Warming?
Recently, scientists projected that even very drastic reductions in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will do very little to slow atmospheric CO2 buildup, and therefore global warming. Nevertheless, the...
Morbid Moth Meals: Variation at Work
National Geographic News recently stated that a species of Russian moth with a thirst for human blood demonstrates “evolution at work.”1 The moth, Calyptra thalictri, was filmed...
Transcontinental Sedimentation and the Flood
Sand and other sediments can be transported by rivers and floods, but what kind of forces—and how much water—would it take to move thousands of cubic miles of sand from one side of a continent...
Plants Screen Potential Mates
Almost all behavioral experts would agree that good communication is key to the survival of a healthy relationship. This principle also holds true in the plant world.
When a sperm-containing pollen grain...
Genesis and a 'Wet' Sahara
Using satellite photos in conjunction with geochemical analyses, a team of researchers has proven the existence of a now-buried lake and river system that once operated in the middle of the Sahara desert...
The Contrasting Religions of Creation and Evolution
The often-asked question "Do you believe in evolution?" expects the answer "Of course!" Don't only ignorant yokels have any doubt? But polls consistently reveal that a great majority...
Complex Plant Systems: Rooted in God's Genius
There are at least a half-million species of plants in the world. Although they do not contain living souls,1 plants nevertheless display incredible design features and complex interactions...
The Gaps in 'The God of the Gaps'
Is a "god of the gaps" at the root of Intelligent Design (ID) and creation science? This informal logical fallacy occurs when a given mystery (or gap) that science has not solved is "explained"...
A New Theory of Climate Change
Introduction
Man-made carbon dioxide is generally thought to produce global warming. However, in a recent article entitled "Does Carbon Dioxide Drive Global Warming?" I presented several major...
A Heritage of Thanksgiving
Perhaps no other custom reveals our nation's original character as clearly as the celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Other countries have adopted similar observances, but America was the first to nationally...
Creation Evangelism
Scripture, which claims to be the written account of the Creator Himself, reveals a past time when God separately created each basic plant and animal type. These complex inhabitants all played a vital...
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Sleuthing Superfaults
The catastrophic processes during and following the Genesis Flood continue to amaze and challenge geologists and geophysicists. Mountain building, faulting, and other geologic processes are believed...
Man of Science, Man of God: Louis Pasteur
Who: Louis Jean Pasteur
What: Father of Modern Microbiology
When: December 27, 1822 - September 28, 1895
Where: Arbois, France
Little was known about preventative medicine and the causes of...
Book Review: Slaughter of the Dissidents
Slaughter of the Dissidents: The Shocking Truth about Killing the Careers of Darwin Doubters
by Dr. Jerry Bergman
(Leafcutter Press, 2008, 477 pages)
If Ben Stein's 2008 documentary film Expelled: No...
Redefining Life
by Brian Thomas, M.S. and Christine Dao*
“Life is that which replicates and evolves,” begins a paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.1...
UK Approves Use of Animal-human Embryos for Research
British lawmakers have formally approved the use of animal-human hybrids for stem-cell research after months of bitter debate between Prime Minister Gordon Brown and a group of secular scientists against...
Practicing What Is Preached
Some evolutionary scientists are upset that many newly-minted science graduates are scientifically illiterate. In a recent article in The Scientist, writer Richard Gallagher states,
One young innocent,...
Bonobos and Evolutionary Violence
Bonobos are chimpanzee-like primates, native to areas south of the Congo River, that have traditionally been regarded as more peaceful than chimpanzees. Chimps hunt and maim other arboreal monkeys, and...
Origin of Life Research Still Dead
Scientists are hoping to revive a 50-year-old failed experiment that tried to discover how biological life could have originated from non-living chemical processes.
In 1953, Stanley L. Miller of the University...
Intestinal Bacteria: A Delicate Balance
Certain intestinal bacteria can spur an imbalance in immune system cells, leading to an inflammation of the digestive tract, according to a new study out of New York University.
“Inflammatory bowel...
Dawkins Supports 'No God' Ads
Professor Richard Dawkins has once again shown that atheists (or “secular humanists,” as some have dubbed themselves) live in a kind of bubble—one in which history can be skewed, and...
The Call of the Hadrosaur
Duck-billed dinosaurs have puzzled paleontologists for years, particularly because certain chambers in some of their skulls did not seem to have a clear purpose. But CT-scanning, originally designed for...
A Dose of Nature Improves Concentration
Many have experienced the calming effects that a simple stroll in a park can produce, but scientists are discovering that walking in green surroundings can also reduce the symptoms experienced by children...
Cambrian Clash: Fossils and Molecular Clocks Disagree
In a recent issue of the journal BioScience, ecologist Jeffrey Levinton of Stony Brook University, New York, offered a well-written review of the current status of the “Cambrian Explosion”...
What Spurs Evolution: the Old or the Young?
On October 7, 2008, University College London professor and geneticist Steve Jones delivered a bold lecture entitled “Human evolution is over.”1 In the past, he stated, elderly fathers...
Cichlid Coloration Corroborates Creation
Biologists are having a difficult time figuring out how to fit a tropical fish’s rapid coloration changes into the story of evolution. A new study examined the role these changes play in the fish’s...
Fossil Footprints Trample Evolution's Timeline
Researchers accidentally discovered what appears to be tiny footprints in Precambrian rock. Loren Babcock, Professor of Earth Sciences at Ohio State University, was turning over samples from a Nevada outcrop...
Stressosomes: Bacteria's Ingenious Coping Mechanism
Advancing technology continues to reveal new aspects of cellular function. Molecular biologists have known that “stressosomes,” large protein complexes in bacterial cells, play some role in...
Insect Designed with a Spring in Its Step
Scientists are discovering engineering details of the biological structures that enable some animals to jump exceedingly far for their sizes. Froghoppers are insects that can jump 100 times their body...
7 Wonders Creation Museum Celebrates 10-year Anniversary
Lloyd and Doris Anderson entertained approximately 100 guests for the 10th anniversary of the 7 Wonders Creation Museum near Silver Lake, Washington, on Saturday, September 27.
The young-earth creation...
Biomineralization: An Engineering Masterpiece
Computerized tomography (CT) scans use computing power to compile two-dimensional X-ray images into a three-dimensional view, and researchers are optimistic that a new form of high-resolution CT scanning...
The Finest Solar Technology Doesn't Come from a Lab
Advances in solar cell technology have produced a new European record of 39.7 percent efficiency. The result was attributed to improved “contact structures” of solar cells, according to Frank...
Temple of Science Exhibits the Religion of Science
One argument that secular humanists and neo-Darwinists can’t stand is when their blind belief in, and zealous defense of, the evolutionary interpretation of unobservable past processes is labeled...
Earth's Oldest Rock Has the Wrong Date
Scientists put an age on what they believe is earth’s oldest rock, but their figure doesn’t match other geologic or historical facts.
McGill University researchers recently published...
Camel Remains Show Camels Remain Camels
The jawbone of a very small camel was unearthed in Syria in August 2008. According to Heba al-Sakhel, head of the Syrian National Museum, it is the oldest fossil camel on record, clocking in at one million...
The Burgess Shale and Complex Life
If evolution is correct, the first life was quite simple, evolving more complexity over time. Yet the Cambrian Explosion of Life has revealed life's complexity from the start, giving evolution a black...
Dinosaur Soft Tissue: Biofilm or Blood Vessels?
Over a decade ago, paleontologist Dr. Mary Schweitzer accidentally discovered soft tissues preserved inside dinosaur bone.1 While examining the bone structure from an incompletely fossilized...
Rescuing Ring Ages
The rapture of seeing Saturn's rings in a telescope for the first time has been enough to inspire many young people to become astronomers. Galileo called them a "most extraordinary marvel." In...
Does Carbon Dioxide Drive Global Warming?
Introduction
In the latest of my series of articles on global warming, I offered evidence that global warming appears to be occurring, but evidence seems to be growing that fluctuations in the electromagnetic...
The Stewardship Commission
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every...
Kingdom Votes
The escalating conflict between ICR and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) concerns many educators, and should concern them all. Remember, ICR's accreditation is not at issue. Rather,...
October 2008
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Will the True Tetrapod Transition Please Step Forward?
Have “primitive fingers” really been discovered in a fossil fish?1 Many fish, fossilized or live, show bone structure in their fins, and evolutionary scientists have believed this...
How Young Is the Earth? Applying Simple Math to Data Pr.,.
When Abraham was born, how old (or young) was the earth? Can we know the answer with confidence? Yes, if God has given us the information we need in Genesis. And He has. But to recognize it requires...
ICR Makes Major Contributions to ICC
A major portion of the research reported at the 6th International Conference on Creationism (ICC) during August 3-7, 2008, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was conducted by scientists associated with ICR....
Man of Science, Man of God: Gregor Johann Mendel
Who: Gregor Johann Mendel
What: Father of Modern Genetics
When: July 20, 1822 - January 6, 1884
Where: Heinzendorf, Hapsburg Empire (Modern-Day Czech Republic)
Gregor Mendel was an Austrian-born,...
National Creation Science Foundation Awards First Grant
The National Creation Science Foundation (NCSF), ICR's new funding initiative to promote quality research, has awarded its first grant to eminent geologist Dr. Steve Austin. NCSF has signed a major...
How Did American Iguanas Get to Fiji?
A new species of iguana was recently discovered in central parts of Fiji. Named Brachylophus bulabula, it is the third iguana species that has been found in the Pacific islands. The find also presents...
Proposed Texas Standards Censor Sound Science
A recommendation for new science curriculum standards up for state board consideration in Texas would not require that students be taught about the weaknesses in Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.1
The...
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....
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