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FAST Progress
At the heart of ICR’s work is the belief that the inspired Word of God is relevant and accurate in all areas of life. To that end, we have undertaken scientific research to underscore the truth...
UCSD Scientist Discusses Evolution, Presents No New Defenses
University of California, San Diego, biologist Steve Kay recently discussed evolution in an online chat forum hosted by The San Diego Union-Tribune in which ICR biochemistry professor Dr. Duane Gish and...
Life from Space?
For decades, a number of evolutionists have found it to be unlikely that life evolved from nonlife here on earth. Although they are the minority, they list solid scientific reasons why such an event is...
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Galloping Glaciers
"By the nearly imperceptible and inexorable work of glaciers, even the mighty mountains are worn down." Such dogma was routinely heard only a few decades ago in all of our university campuses....
Inflating the Evidence
In their quest to disprove design in the universe, scientists have produced evermore speculative models of cosmology. Big Bang cosmology, for example, relies heavily on a process called inflation, an ad...
The Modern Apologist
Christian apologetics--the systematic defense of the faith--has become popular in recent days. We are commanded to know what we believe and why we believe it, and to be able to defend it scripturally,...
Microscopic Masterpieces: Discovering Design in Snow Cr.,.
One of the most beautiful wonders of nature God has given us is the amazing variety of shapes of snow crystals that fall from the sky on a cold winter's night. Johann Kepler, the famous astronomer known...
Heavenly Treasure
"So, what would you like for Christmas?"
If you have children in your family, this is a question you probably only need to ask once as Christmas approaches. It is usually followed by a chorus...
Cloning and the Virgin Birth
Many essential doctrines of Scripture hinge on the virgin birth of Christ. To fulfill prophecy, the Messiah had to be both man and God, without genetic or personal defect, and be the rightful King of Israel...
December 2007
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RATE in Review: Unresolved Problems
This month I will complete a three-part review of the RATE project (Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth). In October I presented the background considerations leading up to the project. In November...
Evolution Wilts in Light of Flowering Plants
In his book Creation: Facts of Life, biologist Gary E. Parker asked:
Did you ever wonder what kind of plants the dinosaurs tromped around on? The answer may surprise you. Some of these unfamiliar animals...
Brave Evolutionary Teachers: Person of the Year?
For Time magazine's Person of the Year, Frans de Waal of Emory University has nominated “the brave biology teachers of this nation who teach evolution despite the opposition they encounter.”...
PBS' "Judgment Day" Is a Misjudgment
On November 13, 2007, PBS aired the NOVA program Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial, featuring a re-enactment of the controversial 2005 trial Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School Board. Although the...
A Tempest in a Dog Dish
Recent news about the St. Bernard dog has supposedly taken a bite out of creation science, reported an article on The University of Manchester’s website.
Zoologists at the university measured the...
Earth: A Special Place
Secularists like to consider earth as just one of many millions of planets, occupying an obscure place in an insignificant galaxy in a sea of nothingness. Conversely, the Bible teaches that earth is very...
Mount Moran: A Witness to the Flood
Mount Moran, the nonconformist of Wyoming's Teton Range, is distinguished by having a blunt top, a prominent black vertical stripe on its upper part, and a tiny visible cap of marine sandstone on the summit....
More Than a Rising Star
On his widely popular Cosmos science program in 1980, Carl Sagan described our paltry existence in pathetic terms: "We live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star, lost in a galaxy, tucked away...
Darwinism: Survival without Purpose
Humans have always wondered about the meaning of life...life has no higher purpose than to perpetuate the survival of DNA...life has no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless...
Thanksgiving Sacrifice
By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. (Hebrews 13:15)
The "thanksgiving" part of this end-of-year...
The Fellowship of the Ministry
ICR's September tour of Yellowstone National Park concluded amid thoughts of exhilaration and thankfulness, along with a look to the future.
The park itself, complete with excursions to Teton National...
November 2007
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God's Everlasting Mercy
God's mercy is a monumental theme in Scripture, the English word appearing some 341 times in the Bible. The four Hebrew and three Greek words associated with this term appear a total of 454 times and are...
RATE in Review: Reading Genesis as History
In the October Research column, I reviewed some of the background considerations for ICR’s recently-concluded RATE project (Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth). The primary hypothesis developed...
ICR Families in San Diego Return Home
Weary firefighters, aided by a drop in the winds, have mostly contained the fires that swept through the San Diego area last week, destroying hundreds of homes and forcing the evacuation of hundreds...
Early South African Clambakes
Right on the heels of the shattering news that Homo erectus is not our ancestor—previously taught as a fact to generations of schoolchildren and the lay public—comes the discovery that man...
Varves: Proof for an Old Earth?
Visit any anti-creationist website and you're certain to find a discussion of varves, tiny laminae thought to be annual deposits within sedimentary strata. In some areas millions of these are found...
Megafloods in the English Channel
Sir Charles Lyell, the father of geological gradualism, may have just turned in his grave. A hidden series of gouges on the floor of the English Channel suggests that huge torrents of water once traveled...
Spewing Hot Rocks on Old Ideas
The most volcanically active body in the solar system is a little moon of Jupiter named Io. This moon is pumping out the hottest lavas known, from equator to pole, 24/7. That a small body could be this...
The Creationist Worldview
"For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he." (Proverbs 23:7)
None but the most radical libertarian is comfortable with the way things are in society. Much of the argument among politicians is...
Moving God's Way
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee. (Genesis 12:1)
The Bible contains many examples of...
October 2007
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The Internet Battleground
Forty million adults use the Internet as their primary source of news and information about science.1 But finding answers to questions of origins is fraught with danger on...
RATE in Review
In the two years since RATE (Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth) reported its findings in several books, articles, and documentaries, the response within the creationist community has been generally...
Baylor University: Stifling Academic Freedom?
Baylor University is wrangling once again with the issue of Intelligent Design. The affiliate of the Baptist General Convention of Texas is reported to have shut down a professor's personal website...
Creation Defender D. James Kennedy Goes Home
Heaven has welcomed another creationist into its fold. Dr. D. James Kennedy, founder and senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church (CRPC) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, went home to the Savior...
Biblical Myths?
Throughout the Old Testament, God often reminded His children to remember His mighty acts on their behalf. Sometimes visible memorials were set up to facilitate their recall, such as the pile of stones...
Debating Design: The Bacterial Flagellum
Molecular motors--machines made of protein on the submicroscopic scale--are clear evidence of creative design (Romans 1:20). However, scientists who approach the data from an evolutionary perspective are...
Mutations: The Raw Material for Evolution?
by Barney Maddox, M.D. *
Galen, the personal physician to Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, and his 22 thick volumes of medical treatises dominated medical practice for 1,300 years. In many ways his legacy...
Hearts of Gratitude
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. James 1:17
The Lord has given His children...
A Season for Every Purpose
The writer of the book of Ecclesiastes reminds us that all things must change. "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven" (Ecclesiastes 3:1). This...
September 2007
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Honoring the Word of the Creator
Leaving a legacy is often said to be the labor of presidents and rulers. How they govern their subjects and citizens will determine just how favorably their legacy will be judged. Some leaders work hard...
San Diego to Host International Creation Conference in 2008
The sixth gathering of the International Conference on Creationism will be held next summer in San Diego on August 3-6. Nearly 100 abstracts have been accepted for the conference by the peer review...
RATE Conference in Denver on September 15
Evolutionary "deep time" is accepted as fact, but what does the evidence actually show? In 1997, seven scientists set out to explore this question through a scientific research project called...
Imponderable Substances
Science and pseudoscience: how clear is the distinction? We need to look at history to understand the present. Scientists typically admire magician James Randi, who makes a living out of debunking pseudoscientific...
Lagerstatten!
Lagerstätten is a word creationists should be familiar with. German for "place, of storage [or] resting place" it refers to a sedimentary deposit extraordinarily rich in the diversity or...
Revealing Purpose in 'Junk' DNA
Chromosomes are compact linear entities in the nucleus of the cell. They are composed mainly of DNA, some RNA, and proteins called histones. People have been created with 23 matched pairs (46 total)...
Who's Building Noah's Ark This Time?
Over the years several individuals and various groups have attempted to reconstruct Noah's Ark, either at full or partial scale. Most efforts were halted in the planning stage or in the fund-raising stage,...
The Rapid Ascent of Basalt Magmas
It is now well established that the earth's upper mantle is the source of the basalt magmas erupted by many volcanoes as lava flows1--for example, Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii. The earth's crust...
Stewardship, Service & Sacrifice
"Stewardship," as it is applied to our finances, is taught in most churches to all congregants at nearly every age. Unfortunately, too often the practice of stewardship begins and ends with the...
Sweet Home Virginia
Two major events occurred this past spring that brought back poignant memories of my years in Virginia: the massacre at Virginia Tech and the home-going of Dr. Jerry Falwell.
As you may know, my father...
August 2007
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Creation Science on a Global Scale
In 1969, ICR founder Dr. Henry Morris opened a week of meetings in Mexico City to challenge men and women there to uphold the authority of God's Word in the realms of science, education, and the study...
A FAST Summer in the Grand Canyon & Wyoming
The summer of 2007 has gone by FAST—in terms of research, that is. ICR’s Flood Activated Sedimentation and Tectonics geology research program saw exciting progress in four of its seven projects.
Coconino...
Calibrating the Flood?
Rocks exposed in the walls of Grand Canyon testify of the advance of marine waters upon North America during the Flood. How rapid was the advance? What was it like? We may never fully know the answers...
Venus vs. Uniformitarianism
Imagine a world with no oceans where it rains lead. So stifling hot that human visitation is inconceivable, the planet Venus is curiously similar to Earth, yet profoundly different. Venus has a sultry...
What If Evolution Were True?
What if all life evolved from a common ancestor by means of gradual changes as Darwin suggested? What evidence would we expect to find?
Certainly we would expect to find the fossilized remains of the...
The Eyes of Creation
Squares or cubes in the living world are both rare and strange, but there are species of bacteria that are both flat and box-shaped. A deadly Australian species of sea jelly (jellyfish or medusae) called...
Creative Evolution: An Anti-Darwin Theory Won a Nobel
Abstract
An anti-Darwinian theory of biological origins that was well received and widely accepted for years was creative evolution. This theory attempted to deal with some of the major problems of Darwin's...
Ministry Money
"Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded,
nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all
things to enjoy" (I Timothy 6:17).
The principles...
A Look Back at the Scopes Trial
The 1925 Scopes Trial remains a pivotal point in American history. It behooves us to look back and learn from it.
It all began with the growing acceptance of Darwinism in the early 1900s. It had taken...
July 2007
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Cedarville University Honors ICR Graduate
Cedarville, Ohio—Dr. John Whitmore, a 1991 graduate of the Institute for Creation Research Masters Program, was recently honored with the Faculty Teaching Effectiveness Award by Cedarville University....
Gallup Poll: Two Thirds of Americans Believe God Create.,.
The political establishment has weighed in on it. The media has attempted to excoriate presidential candidates because of it. The academic community has tried to relegate it to the realm of unscientific...
Creation Museum Champions Scientific Evidence for Bibli.,.
True science has a new ally. Answers in Genesis CEO Ken Ham's vision of a science museum that supports biblical truth became reality on Memorial Day when the $27 million, high-tech Creation Museum...
Where Are Dinosaur Tracks Found?
Dinosaur tracks and trackways are found in dozens of places worldwide. They are not particularly rare, but still unexpected. Stratigraphically, they are usually found in sediments thought to have been...
The Catch in Creation
When you think of getting your blood pressure taken, you no doubt think of the tight pressure on your arm and the loud ripping noise of the Velcro cuff. Indeed, we've all experienced the benefits...
Geological Provincialism
Geologists tend to be very provincial. Rarely do they stand back and look at "the whole canvas" of the sedimentary rock record. When they do, some remarkable things emerge. For example, consider...
The Light-Distance Problem
Perhaps the question most often asked of Biblical creationists is how light from distant stars could get to the earth in a few thousand years. People usually want a quick one-sentence answer to this question,...
Who Is Jesus Christ? A Challenge to Christians
The central question of Christianity, and of history itself, is: Who is Jesus Christ? Indeed, the Bible makes it clear that, whether we recognize Him now or not, all must one day stand before God and answer...
Stewarding the Sciences
"Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful" (I Corinthians 4:2).
God's written, historical revelation of truth -- the inspired text of Scripture -- provides a framework...
Global Warming in the News
The recent rush to enact legislation addressing "global warming" brings back memories, not all of them good. As has happened several times in the past, dire warnings of impending doom have predicted...
June 2007
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Science Teachers Violate NSTA Standards of Open Inquiry
In an editorial titled “Creeping Passivity” in the May 2007 issue of Journal of College Science Teaching, Ann Cutler, a college teacher at the University of Indianapolis, expresses concern...
Falwell Joins Other Creationists in Glory
Noted evangelist Jerry Falwell went to be with our Lord on Tuesday, May 15, shortly after he was found unconscious in his Liberty University office and rushed to the hospital. Falwell is best known...
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