The ICR life sciences research team is currently conducting a review of the scientific literature to answer the five major origins biology research questions we have identified.^1-5 This literature review is designed to help refine the questions and provide more direction for pursuing our research in these areas.

What is best way to classify creatures? One of the research focuses of the ICR life sciences team is the question of biblical taxonomy.¹ A debate exists over the definition of the key scriptural term relevant to this subject, the word translated as kind. The ICR team is employing a specific methodology to resolve the question.

The Institute for Creation Research (ICR) life sciences team has identified four major origins biology research questions.^1-4 The fifth and final question concerns the identification of God's attributes in nature.

What does the Bible teach about biological change?

The Institute for Creation Research life sciences team is currently exploring several key research questions in origins biology. The first and second concern the nature and meaning of taxonomy (the classification of animals), and the limits of common ancestry and the meaning of the Hebrew word for kind.¹ The third question addresses the limits to biological change.