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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...
Let the Redeemed of the Lord Say So (Testimonies from C.,.
In spite of the many discouraging "testimonies" from skeptical intellectuals these days (see, for example, the sad testimony from Carl Sagan, as discussed in this month's Impact article), we...
Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot
On December 6, 1994, Carl Sagan, author of Cosmos, well-known astronomer and speaker, appeared before the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco to introduce his new book, Pale Blue Dot.1 Earlier...
What Is The Purpose Of Creation Ministry?
ICR is well known as a creation-science research group, with an additional emphasis in Biblical apologetics. But first and foremost, ICR is a Christian ministry. So what are our goals? ICR's...
The Failure of U-Th-Pb "Dating"; at Koongarra.,.
JUNE 01, 1995
Published in: CEN Technical Journal, volume 9, number 1, pp. 71–92, 1995. © 1995 Answers in Genesis A. C. N. 010 120 304. All Rights Reserved. Abstract As with other radiometric...
The Whale Fossil in Diatomite, Lompoc, California
JUNE 01, 1995
Published in: Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal, Vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 244–258, 1995. © 1995 Answers in Genesis ACN 010 120 304. All Rights Reserved. Abstract An on-site investigation...
The Urge to Submerge
"I must go down to the sea again--to the lonely sea and the sky." This famous poem by John Masefield, former Poet Laureate of England, was one I had to memorize in school many, many years ago....
The Greater Light to Rule the Day - Ladies and Gentleme.,.
"Of all the celestial objects with which we are acquainted, none make so strong and universal an impression upon our globe as does the Sun. He is that very light, 'the greater light to rule the...
Genesis and the Resurrection
One of the primary goals of ICR is to call as many people as we can "Back to Genesis" as the foundational book in which to find answers to the problems of life and death. We're on solid ground...
The Nature of Science and of Theories on Origins
The Nature of Science and of Scientific Theories Science is our attempt to observe, understand, and explain the operation of the universe and of the living things it contains. Since a scientific theory,...
Does Nature Reveal Truth As Clearly As Does The Bible?
To the Bible-believing Christian, this might seem a frivolous question to ask—but not so. A growing number of Christian teachers are returning to the oft discredited "double-revelation theory,"...
Is Creation or Evolution More Empirical?
In order for an opinion about something to be credible, it must adequately explain the existing evidence. This is especially true for ideas about the long ago past. Let's keep in mind that no...
In the Beginning, Hydrogen
Evolutionists have a most amazing faith. They believe that people have evolved up from the ape (or something like an ape), that apes and other mammals have evolved from reptiles, that reptiles have evolved...
A Faulty Climate Trigger
INTRODUCTION In the 1980's and 90's, considerable emphasis has been placed upon climate and environmental issues in the United States. Much air pollution legislation has been put into force. Long-range...
Is Belief in the Young Earth Necessary to Be a Christian?
At our seminars and in our books, we at the Institute for Creation Research take a strong stand on the young earth. We certainly don't do this to win a popularity contest, for this position is ridiculed...
Cosmology's Holy Grail
The subject of cosmology is said by its practitioners to be a science. It does have the trappings of science, encased in a heavy apparatus of relativistic mathematics and esoteric jargon. These experts...
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