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Hummingbird Flight Strategies - Jan 29, 2024

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Frank Sherwin, D.Sc. (Hon.) - The fossil record shows that hummingbirds have always been hummingbirds. Such amazing mastery of aerial acrobatics could never have evolved.1,2 ICR’s Dr. Jeff Tomkins put it succinctly: The hummingbird is another animal that glorifies...

Tyrannosaur's Last Meal Evidence for Catastrophic Burial - Jan 22, 2024

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Frank Sherwin, D.Sc. (Hon.) - Tyrannosaurs were large terrestrial predators after the Fall.1 Juvenile or not, they conjure visions of terrible, fearsome creatures of the pre-Flood world when the earth was “filled with violence.”2,3 Like all dinosaurs, their origin...

Where do Poisonous Invasive Plants Fit in God's Creation? - Jan 18, 2024

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Frank Sherwin, D.Sc. (Hon.) - Like all sciences, creation science has unanswered questions. This is why we are called the Institute for Creation Research—not the Institute for Creation Answers. Specifically, there are still some questions regarding the origin of...

Do Ancient Fish Point to Shoulder Evolution? - Dec 14, 2023

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Frank Sherwin, D.Sc. (Hon.) - Did your shoulders evolve from ancient fish? Creationists would say no, because we don’t have fish ancestors.1,2,3 However, research from the Imperial College London states, “A new analysis of the bones and muscles in ancient fish...

Fossil Leaf Miners - Dec 11, 2023

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Frank Sherwin, D.Sc. (Hon.) - The fossil record clearly shows insects have always been insects. In a recent study, researchers led by biologist Richard J. Knecht, a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard, wrote: [We] describe an endophytic [an organism that lives within a plant]...

Butterflies and Cancer Detection - Nov 30, 2023

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Frank Sherwin, D.Sc. (Hon.) - It’s something right out of science fiction. The beautiful, flighty butterfly has been discovered to have cancer detection properties via the ability to see tiny variations in the ultraviolet spectrum. Who would have guessed? There...

An ''Early'' Origin for Modern Echolocation in Bats - Nov 16, 2023

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Frank Sherwin, D.Sc. (Hon.) - As flying mammals, bats continue to amaze zoologists with their incredible abilities.1,2 But their origin continues to be an enigma for conventional biologists because the creatures appear in the fossil record complete, fully formed as bats...

Built by Homo sapiens? - Nov 13, 2023

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Frank Sherwin, D.Sc. (Hon.) - Preserved wood was recently found in Kalambo Falls, Zambia, where evolutionary anthropologists from Aberystwyth University and the University of Liverpool suggest “early humans intentionally shaped and combined two logs, showcasing the...

How Sunflowers ''See'' the Sun - Nov 9, 2023

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Frank Sherwin, D.Sc. (Hon.) - Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) are not only big and beautiful, but they also have an amazing biomechanism called heliotropism. ICR’s Dr. Jim Johnson stated, In fact, the sunflowers move during the daytime, in order to track the...

Salty Sweat in a Desert Plant - Nov 6, 2023

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Frank Sherwin, D.Sc. (Hon.) - Although plants aren’t alive in the biblical sense,1 they are most certainly complex in their physiology and anatomy.2,3 Some plants have been designed by our Creator Jesus Christ to endure and even proliferate in formidable areas such as...

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