The Institute for Creation Research

The Origin of Laughter - Article
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Frank Sherwin, D.Sc. (Hon.) - ... Owren and Bachorowski — suggest that: ... human laughter evolved as a way to form alliances. First came the smile, which communicated a positive disposition to other individuals. Over time, however, smiles became increasingly...

Purpose, Progress, and Promise, Part 4 - Article
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Nathaniel T. Jeanson, Ph.D. - began to report our progress on answering these questions for humans.2 This installment further describes our success on this front. Genetics is our main scientific tool for investigating human origins. Practically, our purpose is to...

Origin of Races - Content
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... we are short or tall, large or small, or light or dark, human beings are all genetically related, descended from Adam and Eve.Evidence for Creation: All People Descended Recently from a Single FamilyResource Links: Human Body Air Jordan XXXI...

Human Language: An All or Nothing Proposition - Article
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Brian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... humans evolved through a piece-by-piece accretion of parts, then so did their ability to talk. Although talking seems simple, it actually depends on so many perfectly placed characteristics--both material and immaterial--that language must be a...

Stark Differences Between Human and Chimp Brains - Article
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Brian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... exactly what a Bible-believing scientist would expect—humans are distinct from chimpanzees. They should be, if they were created in the image of God, not as an imaginary pre-human primate. The study, published in American Journal of Human...

Arithmetic and the Genetic Code - Article
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Frank Sherwin, D.Sc. (Hon.) - ... can be seen in this amazing genetic code of life. The human body’s trillions of cells use over 75 special kinds of protein and RNA molecules to make one protein following DNA’s detailed instructions. A second genetic code has...

Population Growth Matches Bible and DNA Clock - Article
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Jeffrey P. Tomkins, Ph.D. - ... the global Flood recorded in Genesis that wiped out humanity occurred about 4,500 years ago.1,2 Then the earth was repopulated by Noah’s three sons and their three wives. As I reported a couple months ago, a research project was...

Surgeon Says Human Body Did Not Evolve - Article
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Brian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... all-or-nothing structure of cellular systems, including the human body. As a medical doctor, Kuhn not only knows the general arrangement of the human body's visible parts, he also understands the interrelated biochemical systems that sustain...

New Research Undermines Key Argument for Human Evolution - Article
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Jeffrey P. Tomkins, Ph.D. - ... of the leading arguments for human evolution from a shared common ancestor with apes is the “chromosome 2 fusion model.” This hypothetical model proposes that the end-to-end fusion of two small ape-like chromosomes resulted in the human...

Comprehensive Analysis of Chimpanzee and Human Chromosomes Reveals Average DNA Similarity of 70% - Article
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Jeffrey P. Tomkins, Ph.D. - ... new 6X chimpanzee assembly, a sequential comparison to the human genome was performed on an individual chromosome basis. The chimpanzee chromosomes, were sliced into new individual query files of varying string lengths and then queried against...