Evgeny Bakhmutsky had always wanted to visit the Institute for Creation Research. In November 2010, he did.

"This is a dream come true," he told ICR staff during morning devotions.

Bakhmutsky is the vice president of the Union of Evangelical Christian-Baptists of Russia, overseeing the operation of 2,000 churches in Russia. He also pastors a Bible church in Moscow.

Texas adopted new science standards for K-12 public schools in 2009, but the state did not have enough funds to purchase new science textbooks that covered all the information that students would be responsible to know.

Ernie Carrasco is building an ark.

Actually, in addition to working in the Institute for Creation Research’s Internet Ministries department, Carrasco is a student in ICR’s School of Biblical Apologetics (SOBA). And constructing a scale model of Noah’s Ark will fulfill some of his course requirements.

Like paper cuts from wrapping presents and the sound of small children screaming in the laps of mall Santas, anti-God advertisements seem to have become a Christmas tradition. Their messages range from benign to disrespectful, and even confusing.

In 2008, public science education and academic freedom enjoyed a victory with the passing of the Louisiana Science Education Act.¹