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Passing the Mantle (IX: ICR, For Such a Time as This)
PART IX: PASSING THE MANTLE
For the past eight issues of Acts & Facts, outgoing president of ICR, Dr. Henry Morris, my father, has outlined the history of ICR and its present status and policies....
The Resource for Answering the Critics of Noah's Ark
How many animals did the Ark actually carry, and how did Noah get all those animals on the Ark? How could eight people possibly care for so many thousands of animals, and how could such a small...
Should We Expect to Find Transitional Forms in the Foss.,.
A favorite argument of creationists has always been the lack of transitional organisms preserved in the fossil record. The argument goes like this: If one basic type of animal evolved into another basic...
ICR - The First Twenty-Five Years (VIII: ICR, For Such .,.
As our first 25 years of creation evangelism and education have come to a close, and as my own role as ICR's president also has now been completed, I hope an over-all summary of what God has accomplished...
Creation and the Curse
Have you ever seen a National Geographic special that featured a lioness chasing a gazelle and eventually eating it? As the gazelle is fleeing for its life, one can see the terror in its eyes. We ourselves...
Occupying Faithfully Until He Comes (VII: ICR, For Such.,.
Part VII: "Occupying Faithfully Until He Comes"
In the six previous articles of this series, I have tried to review the events that led to the founding of ICR 25 years ago, including some of...
Wise and Learned Men Who Believed in a Creator
What did the wise and learned men who founded the greatest republic in the world (the U.S.A.--the most free and prosperous for over 200 years), believe about the beginning of this universe? Were they...
Is There Such A Thing As Creationist Counseling?
Recent decades have seen a plethora of Christian counseling centers and ministries spring up around the country. Now, almost every Christian college or seminary, as well as most large churches, include...
ICR and the Word of God (VI: ICR, For Such a Time as This)
The Institute for Creation Research complex of ministries is essentially unique in the world of Christendom. ICR is not a church, of course, but in a very real sense is an arm of the church. Its foundational...
An Educational Step in the Right Direction
"Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ" (Colossians 2:8).
The present generation...
Who Or What Was Australopithicus Ananemsis?
It's hard to keep them straight. First there was the discovery in Africa by Raymond Dart in 1925. of an infant skull. Entitled Australopithicus, this creature was recognized to be fully ape-like, but with...
A Unique Creationist School of Science (V: ICR, For Suc.,.
There is a critical need in this country today for a creationist graduate school of science, and since no other school is providing this, ICR is trying to fill that gap. It is a tragic fact that all secular...
The Young-Earth Creationist Bibliography
The books listed in this bibliography represent works of authors advocating literal creationism, including the six-solar-day creation week and a worldwide cataclysmic flood. No opinion is implied regarding...
What Distinguishes Man from Ape?
As one might imagine, different answers to this question come from different "authorities." Obviously, creationists and evolutionists disagree, but major schools of thought vie among evolutionists.
Earlier...
The ICR Outreach Ministries (IV: ICR, For Such a Time a.,.
As discussed in Part III of this series, the Institute for Creation Research (this name was adopted after a reorganization in early 1972) was initially a division of Christian Heritage College (CHC), formed...
The Yellowstone Petrified Forests
Yellowstone National Park surpasses all other sites in the United States for its petrified wood, for here is found large amounts of it, in an exquisite state of preservation. In and around Yellowstone...
How Long Does It Take for Wood to Petrify?
Folklore has it, as reinforced in classrooms and national parks, that petrified wood takes "millions and millions" of years to form. I've listened as many people have protested the Biblical...
The Battle for True Education (III: ICR, For Such a Tim.,.
In Parts I and II of this series, I have tried to summarize the early events of the modern creation revival, as well as my own involvement in those events. The Lord seemed to use the 1961 book The Genesis...
Female Monarch Butterfly's Needles Designed for Survival
There are many marvelous evidences of creative design in the
structure and life history of the Monarch butterfly. Only one
example—that...
What Are Polystrate Fossils?
The term "polystrate" was coined to describe a fossil which is encased within more than one (poly) layer of rock (strata) thus "polystrate or "many layers." A wonderful story...
The Revival of Modern Creationism (II: ICR, For Such a .,.
There has, indeed, been a remarkable revival of strict creationism (as distinct from theistic evolutionism or progressive creationism) in the past three decades. The Scopes Trial in 1925, however, had...
Microgeometric Design of Diatoms: Jewels of the Sea
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice!
(Samuel Taylor Coleridge on the Pleasure Palace of Kubla Khan)
From the evolutionary view of the biosphere, the Kingdom Protista—which...
Did the Evolutionists Present a Good Case at the Scopes.,.
The 1925 Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, has been deemed the most important trial in American history, but the trial itself was not the only aspect of "The Scopes Extravaganza," for it had...
Reflections on Fifty Years in Creation Evangelism (I: I.,.
This will be the first in a series of very personal "Back to Genesis" articles setting forth the over-all background and future mission of the Institute for Creation Research, as I have envisioned...
Could Adam Really Name All Those Animals?
The clear pearls of dew are released by the brush of Adam's leg against the dense green leaves. He hurries to an open area the size of a school playground, flanked by a river running with blue water...
Is Creation Treated Fairly In The Media?
Answering this question has always been easy. Creation thinking receives very poor treatment, particularly from or in the national media. A possible exception occurred in late May when a two hour PBS special...
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