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Decoding Snake-Venom Origins
The origin of snake venom has long been a mystery to both creationists and evolutionists. However, by stepping outside the standard research paradigm, scientists recently showed that snake venom proteins...
September 2014
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Be Prepared
Can God create a rock so heavy that He can’t lift it? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? How many ice ages were there, and how long ago did they occur? What’s the truth about dinosaurs,...
Declaring the Unknown God
Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship,...
Darwin vs. Genetics: Surprises and Snags in the Science.,.
For over 150 years, Darwin’s hypothesis that all species share a common ancestor has dominated the creation-evolution debate. Surprisingly, when Darwin wrote his seminal work, he had no direct...
Human lincRNA Regions Vastly Different from Chimpanzee
It was once thought that the areas between protein-coding genes located around the genome were vast purposeless wastelands of alleged “junk DNA.” However, we now know that these previously...
Physicist Michael Pupin: Science Leads to God
Michael Idvorsky Pupin (1858–1935) was a leading American researcher who made many scientific advances, including development of the fluoroscope and an electrical transmission system for long-distance...
Another Big Bang Blunder
2014 has been a rough year for supporters of the Big Bang model. In March the BICEP2 radio astronomy team announced purported direct evidence for inflation, which is an integral part of the Big Bang...
Human Fossils: A Present-Day Flood Example
The human population in Noah’s day was extensive, likely numbering in the multimillions. With the exception of the few people on the Ark, this entire population was annihilated by the Flood. Since...
Do Sand-Dune Sandstones Disprove Noah's Flood?
Science Writer Brian Thomas recently hiked in Colorado and came across some beautiful examples of cross-bedded sandstone. Why did he get so excited?
While hiking with a youth group in Colorado recently,...
Monte Jones: ICR Graduate Teaching and Defending the Faith
Monte Jones has taught science for 25 years in both public and Christian schools. While teaching at Lincoln Christian School in Lincoln, Nebraska, Monte began ICR’s School of Biblical Apologetics...
Creation Conversion: The Turning Point
God essentially gives us the ability to see the true nature of the world as His creation. He graces us with new perspectives and renewed thoughts.1 Seeing creation as God’s handiwork...
Laboring Above the Sun
After a long summer, Labor Day brings a welcome respite from work before the busy fall season begins. With cooler fall weather just around the corner and children back in school, this holiday is often...
Darwin's Finches: Answers From Epigenetics
Authentic speciation is a process whereby organisms diversify within the boundaries of their gene pools, and this can result in variants with specific ecological adaptability. While it was once thought...
Octopus Skin Inspires High-Tech Camouflage Fabric
An octopus can change the color of its skin at will to mimic any kind of surrounding. It actively camouflages itself with astoundingly complicated biological machinery. Wouldn't it be great if,...
Circular Reasoning in the Dating of Deep Seafloor Sedim.,.
AUGUST 27, 2014
In Answers Research Journal 7 (2014): 297=309
An apparently strong argument for an old earth is the seeming agreement between multiple (and supposedly independent) dating methods which yield “millions...
New Finds Reveal Fully-Human Neandertal
The case for Neandertals as more primitive members of an evolutionary continuum that spans from apes to modern man continues to weaken. Genetic and archaeological finds are completely reshaping modern...
There's More to the Story
The Dallas Morning News recently reported that a group of Ph.D. scientists is swimming against the flow of the broader scientific community. Instead of believing in millions of years of evolution, the...
What Is 'Real Scientific Research'?
A recent article in The Dallas Morning News1 and a follow-up NBC interview2 presented some history and touched on the tenets of the Institute for Creation Research. Both news reports...
DNA Was Created as a Reservoir for the Information of Life
Secular scientists claimed in the 1970s that chimp genomes are 98% similar to humans, and it was apparently verified by more modern techniques. But that estimate actually used isolated segments of...
Christian Band Rejects Literal Genesis
Respected guitarist and talented Christian songwriter Michael Gungor has recently made the news—not with his music, but with his outspoken rejection of a historical Genesis. Amid this contention,...
ICR Featured in The Dallas Morning News
The Institute for Creation Research was featured on the front page of the August 15, 2014, edition of The Dallas Morning News in an article that contrasts the evolutionary story with young-earth...
European Spacecraft's Comet Close-up a World First
After a ten-year-long flight, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft entered into orbit around a comet. It will soon attempt to actually land a probe on the comet's surface. Though...
Does Dinosaur Extinction Encourage Faith?
Many professors at private religious universities cling to secular views of the past despite the clear anti-Christian consequences. Theological inferences from a recent study on dinosaur extinction...
Solar System Geysers…Each a Fountain of Youth
A sticky problem for nature-only origins just got 100 times worse.
When discovered about ten years ago, a remarkable plume of water ice ejected from Enceladus, an icy moon in Saturn’s E ring,...
Solar-Powered Sea Slug Illuminates Evolutionary Weaknesses
In an everyday scene so bizarre that science fiction writers might never have imagined it, algae-eating sea slugs actually hijack chloroplasts—those tiny plant structures that perform photosynthesis—and...
Zombie Ant Origins Mystify
A fungus turns ants into zombies. Roundworms brainwash insects, forcing them to commit suicide by drowning in order to complete the worm's life cycle. Barnacles transform male crabs into females...
Solar-powered sea slugs defy evolution and horizontal g.,.
AUGUST 01, 2014
In Journal of Creation 28 (2): 97-103, August 2014
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has been proposed as the major explanation for the large number of genes shared among completely unrelated taxon...
August 2014
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A Lifestyle of Learning
We can all probably remember a time when we heard a fellow classmate respond to a teacher’s assignment with “Will this be on the test?” Meaning, if it’s not on the test, I’m...
Original Tissue Fossils: Creation's Silent Advocates
When the Jewish leaders objected to the celebration of Christ’s entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, Jesus commented that if the people did not proclaim Him as the Lord and Messiah even the “stones...
Apologetics, Evidence, and Relevance
Some confusion persists with the terms “apologetics” and “evidence”— particularly because those concepts are expected to be culturally relevant. Throughout typical criminal...
New Findings Presented at Creation Research Society Con.,.
ICR’s BioOrigins team is entering a new, exciting phase of investigation. In August, we will present several preliminary research advances at the Creation Research Society (CRS) conference. This...
Hijacking the Scientific Method
Are modern schools teaching the scientific method properly? It appears the general public and even the scientific community itself has a rather fuzzy understanding of what it is.1 In its...
Shark Genes Devour Evolution
Evolutionists believe that the ancient ancestor of modern humans arose over 450 million years ago from sharks that had a cartilaginous skeletal system (a class called Chondrichthyes, or cartilaginous...
The Limits of Variability
One of the “heroes” of evolutionists is Gregor Mendel, a European monk who experimented with plant breeding in the latter half of the 1800s. While his contemporary Charles Darwin specifically...
ICR in Korea: An Audience of Millions
Creation research is alive and well in South Korea. This year, the Institute for Creation Research’s own Dr. Randy Guliuzza was invited to speak at several major occasions, and the results...
One Bankruptcy, Many Adversaries
Theistic evolution is like a mega-bankruptcy case containing an almost countless number of adversaries and contests, like piecemeal mini-lawsuits that in aggregate address smaller conflicts within a...
Did Dinosaurs Have Feathers?
A button reading “Dinosaurs are not birds” was handed out to interested attendees of the Florida Symposium on Dinosaur Bird Evolution in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April 7–8, 2000....
Powerful Kingdom Gifts
Some years ago, a dear Christian lady began preparations to send a box of supplies to missionaries from her church. A neighborhood girl heard of her venture and desired to help. But being only a small...
Four-Winged Dinosaur Definition Doesn't Fly
What does it mean to be a dinosaur? Older generations understood dinosaurs as reptiles with hip structures that pointed their legs straight down, instead of out to the side to produce the sprawling...
Echolocation
While bats live in air and dolphins live in water, both use a biological form of sonar technology called echolocation to see with sound! The specifications in dolphin and bat biosonar systems are...
Fossilized Brain May Give Paleontologists Headache
Who has ever heard of a fossilized brain? Few would expect such a discovery, yet it looks like that's what researchers found inside a Stone Age skull from Norway. If so, it would confirm a published...
NASA's Far-Out Search for Life
With lofty words about humanity’s future, NASA promoters discussed the hope of discovering life on other planets at a recent meeting in NASA headquarters in Washington.1 Despite billions...
Circular Arguments Punch Holes in Triceratops Study
Researchers continue to study one of the most well-known dinosaurs—the three-horned genus Triceratops—as they analyze data collected during the eleven-year Hell Creek Project. The effort...
Second Look Causes Scientist to Reverse Dino-Bird Claim
Stephen Czerkas digs dinosaurs. His early advocacy for feathered dinosaurs makes his recent reversal that much more remarkable. His reexamination of a fossil—one that had been known as a feathered...
Do We Always Believe What Scientists Say?
Many Americans are convinced that mainstream narratives are true—like humans descended from ape-like ancestors or that burning fossil fuels causes global warming. But many times large contingents...
Did Adam Really Live 930 Years?
Genesis 5:5 says Adam lived for 930 years. Judging by today’s standards, this sounds impossible. Many contemporary readers of Genesis balk at such numbers and some end up rejecting the whole Bible....
Oops! Evolutionists Disproving Evolution
For protozoa-to-person evolution to have worked over time, purely natural factors must have conceived, constructed, integrated, and implemented new proteins into old organisms. Brave researchers—already...
Clever Clover: Evidence for Evolution?
Clovers come in a wide variety of sizes, and some of them hold interesting surprises. Plant biologists have been studying one trait in particular, and it keeps showing up—or disappearing—in...
Darwin's 'Special Difficulty' Solved?
Darwin's hypothesis of evolution faced enormous scientific challenges from the very outset of its publication. Recently, a group of evolutionists, publishing in the journal Science, claimed to have...
Ceremony Becoming the Occasion
"The LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are...
Human Remains in Spain: Neandertal or Not?
A famous fossil cave in Spain yielded some 6,500 human fossils from at least 28 ancient individuals. Investigators analyzed the human skull parts and compared them with typical Neandertal skulls. Their...
July 2014
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Do You Have the Answers?
Was the universe designed or is it a product of random chance? Where did life come from? What is man? What do fossils reveal about the history of life on Earth? Is Grand Canyon the result of a great...
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The Pursuit of Happiness
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit...
The Biblical Basis for Peer Review
How does ICR ensure the accuracy and reliability of its articles? Responsible scientists are firmly committed to a publication process called peer review. This iron-sharpening-iron (Proverbs 27:17)...
Ice Cores, Seafloor Sediments, and the Age of the Earth.,.
Many people perceive the vast ages assigned to deep ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica as unanswerable arguments for an old earth. My previous article made a number of points about these ice cores.1
First,...
On Making a Whale
Students in science classrooms or watching PBS are often confronted with blatant evolutionary claims that seem to go against common logic. Simply asking “How do you know that to be true?”...
Still Soft after 551 Million Years?
Original soft-tissue fossils continue to challenge mainstream understanding of how and when fossils formed. Secular researchers described dozens of them over the years, from mummified skin and dried...
A Hart for God
As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. (Psalm 42:1)
“Pursuing God” sounds like a commendable commitment, but there is a disconnect when someone reports...
Jean-Henri Fabre: Anti-Evolutionist French Scientist
Eminent French scientist Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915) devoted his life to a field of research called entomology—the study of insects.1 His pioneering research laid the groundwork for...
Conversion of a Rocket Man: Charles P. Morse
God providentially used several key events to draw my father, Charles Phillips Morse, to salvation and into the ministry as a creation pioneer in the late 1960s, when a six-day biblical creation was...
Does Science Support the Big Bang?
by Jake Hebert, Ph.D., and Brian Thomas, M.S.*
Some Christians claim that God used the Big Bang (BB) as a means to create the universe, despite the obvious contradictions with the Genesis creation...
Heavenly Prosperity
The so-called “prosperity gospel,” a prevalent teaching among some evangelicals, claims that material prosperity is a right afforded to all Christians who think, believe, and speak certain...
Oceans of Water Deep Beneath the Earth?
We should not imagine subterranean oceans as depicted in Jules Verne’s classic novel Journey to the Center of the Earth, but scientists keep finding evidence for vast amounts of water far below...
Chimp DNA Mutation Study…Selective Yet Surprising
Scientists just published a study describing chimp DNA mutation rates and compared a number of cherry-picked genomic regions to human—and this research doubled their evolutionary timeline.1...
Cyclostratigraphy: Another Round of Circular Reasoning?
Secular scientists believe that fossils and rock layers correspond to multi-million-year time scales, but nowhere does the Bible refer to that supposed "deep time." Different areas of investigation—including...
Powerhouse of Scientists Refute Evolution, Part Three
The information of life is in a state of gradual decay, not upward evolution, according to at least eight technical papers published in the proceedings of a unique symposium called Biological Information:...
Human Proteome 'More Complex than Previously Thought'
Once again the oft-repeated phrase "More complex than previously thought" has been used to describe new research cataloguing thousands of proteins produced from the human genome.1...
Powerhouse of Scientists Refute Evolution, Part Two
In 2011, 29 leading design scientists held a Biological Information symposium in which they compared the standard Darwinian explanation of origins to amazing new discoveries about biological languages....
Powerhouse of Scientists Refute Evolution, Part One
In 2011, the “Biological Information: New Perspectives” conference was held in which 29 leading design scientists technically assessed critical aspects of Neo-Darwinian theory. This evolutionary...
Comb Jelly Genome Gums Up Evolution
Comb jellies (ctenophores) look like disco balls with flashing lights that dance and spin as they float around the ocean. These creatures are so fascinating that one neuroscientist likened them to "aliens...
Brainwashing Children to 'Suppress' Design Intuition
The Wall Street Journal praised psychological research on kindergarteners that demonstrates how a picture-rich storybook could replace children’s intuitive inferences of design with Darwinian...
'Smoking Gun' Proof of Big Bang Already In Doubt
In March 2014, a team of radio astronomers using the BICEP2 telescope announced purported direct evidence for inflation, an important part of the Big Bang model.1 But only two months after...
Saturn's Magnetic Field Auroras: Evidence for Creation
Over a million people have viewed the NASA video "Walking On Air," which features stunning arctic and Antarctic auroras photographed from the International Space Station.1 They...
June 2014
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Are You Ready for an Adventure?
It’s here! After 18 months of preparation and detailed production, Unlocking the Mysteries of Genesis is now available. Producing this unique 12-DVD series has been an incredible adventure for...
The Foundation of Jesus Christ
For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. (1 Corinthians 3:11)
This observation by the apostle Paul warns Christians that it is possible to build either...
Gene Complexity Eludes a Simple Definition
In the early days of molecular genetics in the 1960s and ’70s, it was widely held that a gene could be defined as a single entity that encodes the information to make a protein. However, as genetic...
Ice Cores, Seafloor Sediments, and the Age of the Earth.,.
In an attempt to learn about past climates, scientists have drilled and extracted cylindrical cores from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Because of the great thickness of these sheets, the cores...
Cosmos: A Series Created to Counter Creation
“The universe is all that is, or was, or ever will be.” Does this statement raise any red flags? It was the opening line of the popular 1980 TV series Cosmos and was repeated in its current...
Order Points to a Recent Creation
Evolutionists would have us believe that over the course of 3.7 billion years simple molecules somehow organized themselves into the significantly more complicated molecules of living organisms, then...
Lots of Grand Canyons
On the seminar trail, I and other ICR speakers often use Grand Canyon as an example of Flood-caused geological features. We frequently run into opposition from people who’ve been taught that it...
Is the Present the 'Key' to Our Past?
Some doormats have a key hidden underneath, yet many do not. The physical appearance of a common doormat provides no reliable indication of whether or not there’s a useful key to be found.
Appearances...
Creation Conversion: The Turning Point
Last month in our second Creation Conversion article, Dr. Vernon Cupps described how he came to a young-earth view of creation after he took the time to investigate the actual scriptural, observational,...
Is Every Fossil in Its (Evolutionary) Place?
by Vernon R. Cupps, Ph.D., and Brian Thomas, M.S.*
During a recent televised debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham, Mr. Nye claimed that fossils are never found “out of place.”1...
The Father's Business
The only detailed account of the Lord Jesus Christ as a child is found in the gospel of Luke. While the gospel of Matthew contains important events surrounding Christ’s birth, the fascinating...
Antarctica Rising: Uplift Rate Suppresses Conventional .,.
Land is not supposed to rise this fast. Generations of geologists have been trained to think in terms of slow and steady processes to explain Earth features. New results show that the continental crust...
'Simple and Elegant' Insect Design Showcases Creation
Sometimes little things matter a lot. For example, consider how some tiny creatures fully depend upon each other for survival in a relationship called symbiosis. This very clearly showcases divine creation....
Lest Thou Forget
"Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy...
College Clashes over Adam and Eve Statement
The trustees over Tennessee's Bryan College altered the school's long-held statement of faith. It used to say, "the origin of man was by [command] of God in the act of creation as related...
'Junk' DNA Keeps Your Heart Beating
A new research study has shown that large regions of the human genome, once thought to be useless junk, work to keep your heart functioning properly.1 When these areas of the genome malfunction,...
Brazil, Disease and Adam & Eve
Only one in a million U.S. Americans suffer from the horrible disease xeroderma pigmentosum, or "XP," but one in 40 from the Brazilian town of Araras has it. The affliction leads to tumors...
Pat Robertson: Creationists 'Deaf, Dumb, and Blind'
Television minister Pat Robertson said on the May 13 episode of CBN's 700 Club, "The truth is, you have to be deaf, dumb, and blind to think that this earth that we live in only has 6,000 years...
Millions of Years of Evolution Equal Engineering?
Increasing numbers of innovative researchers borrow from biology when they examine and incorporate living systems into man-made designs. We know how man-made designs originate— people design them....
Birds' Built-In Defenses Fend Off Radiation
It has been 28 years since Chernobyl's nuclear power plant suffered a catastrophic meltdown in Ukraine. People are still not permitted to live near it because radiation levels remain dangerous,...
Three's Company, but Two's a Cloud?
by Brian Thomas, M.S., and Jason Lisle, Ph.D. *
It's not a planet, nor a comet, but the faraway object named 2012 VP113 now joins Sedna as only the second member of what secularists...
Zonkeys, Geeps, and Noah's Ark
Zookeepers in Reynosa, Mexico, recently witnessed a female zebra give birth to a "zonkey." So far, this rare hybrid animal appears to be in good health.1 Meanwhile, an Irish farmer's...
Still Soft after Half a Billion Years?
Original soft tissue fossils are revolutionizing our understanding of how and when fossils formed. Secular researchers have described dozens of them over the years, from mummified skin and hemoglobin...
Neandertal: The Answer Is Epigenetics Not Evolution
Recent genome reports show that the Neandertals are essentially fully human, causing scientists to reclassify them as "archaic humans."1,2 But what about the apparent subtle differences...
May 2014
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Unlocking the Mysteries of Genesis
For over a year, ICR has poured our efforts into creating a DVD series that captures the truths of creation for those who may not be able to hear our speakers in person. After countless hours, days,...
Broken Cisterns
“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.” (Jeremiah 2:13)
Nearly...
New Dog Genome Research Nixes Evolutionary Paradigm
Evolutionists are desperate to find genomic evidence proving Darwinian ideas about natural selection and evolution. One of the chief areas where they have searched for such evidence is in the canine...
The Solar System: Asteroids and Comets
In the year 1801, Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered a new planet in our solar system between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Named Ceres, this new world was far smaller than the other planets,...
Ancient Whale Graveyard Points to Genesis Flood
According to a recent evolutionary article, anywhere from 6.5 to 9 million years ago a catastrophic event occurred in what is now the Atacama region of Chile.1 Four distinct layers of fossil...
From the Sea to the Land
The Back to Genesis section of Acts & Facts received its name years ago to reflect ICR’s thinking about origins research and how we approach scientific data. As Bible-believing Christians,...
Contending for the Faith and the Genesis Mandate
Believers are commanded to share the gospel, but they sometimes face political obstacles when they try to “earnestly contend for the faith.”1
For example, in the early 1800s...
Creation Conversion: The Turning Point
Last month we ran our first Creation Conversion article, in which ICR zoologist Frank Sherwin described his shift from adhering to a billions-of-years evolutionary model to believing in biblical...
Do Tree Rings Disprove the Genesis Chronology?
Dating a tree sounds simple—just count the number of rings from the trunk’s outer edge to its center and you discover the number of years the tree was alive. Secular researchers have determined...
Honorable Substance
During my college days, case studies were often used to teach practical business concepts. In the money-motivated ’80s and early ’90s, there was certainly no lack of cases illustrating wild...
Designed to Walk on Water
Insects called water striders spend their lives gliding gracefully across stream surfaces. Scientists from China have uncovered some specific design specifications that perfectly suit the insects'...
Americans Question the Big Bang
A new poll revealed that 51 percent of Americans question the Big Bang theory, and 54 percent of Americans believe that the universe is so complex that there must have been a designer.1 Mainstream...
Wonder Worm
Spectacular details in a special worm fossil contradict even the longest age estimates for genetic disintegration. This worm should have gone extinct a thousand times over, but apparently it didn't...
How (Not) to Date a Fossil
Do rocks and fossils hold clues that demand millions-of-years? Not the fossils from China's Daohugou beds. On the contrary, their clues speak to more recent origins.
Accessible from several...
Why It Was a 'Good' Friday
"As soon as it was day, the elders of the people, both chief priests and scribes, came together and led Him into their council." (Luke 22:66)
The origin of "Good Friday" ceremonies...
Fossil Plant Chromosomes Look Modern
As mere fragments, most fossils reveal only small hints of ancient life forms, like a single segment from a crinoid stem, or a lone hadrosaur tooth. But a fossilized fern's stem recently discovered...
Former Junk DNA Candidate Proves Indispensable
Some of the primary candidates for being labeled "Junk DNA" have been the highly repetitive regions of the genome that, after years of study, seemed to have no discernable function despite...
Students Surprised to Find Noah's Ark Feasible
Advanced physics students at Leicester University were tasked with determining if the Biblical dimensions of Noah's ark—assuming it was properly constructed—could have supported the...
Dual-Gene Code Discovery Highlights Designed Biocomplexity
Recent evidence of dual codes in the protein-coding sections of genes raised the bar on our understanding of genome complexity.1,2 Now a new study is showing that the control regions of genes...
Cells' Molecular Motor Diversity Confounds Evolution
Scientists believe that the study of genes that encode the proteins for molecular motors will help solve the mysteries of evolution. However, the result of a study published in the journal Genome Biology...
Water Deep in Earth's Mantle
How far below Earth's surface can we find water? There is no way to drill hundreds of miles down, so researchers must wait for evidence to surface from the depths. An international science team...
Shale Oil Boom Begs Explanation
U.S. companies have ramped up oil and gas production over the last four years, using cutting-edge techniques to extract oil from shale. Lejly Alic, an analyst with the International Energy Agency, recently...
Are cosmic rays affecting high-latitude winter cyclones?
APRIL 02, 2014
In Journal of Creation 28 (1): 59-67, April 2014
Because of their belief that ‘the present is the key to the past’, uniformitarian climatologists have become convinced that past dramatic...
Solar activity, cold European winters, and the Little I.,.
APRIL 02, 2014
In Journal of Creation 28 (1): 114-121, April 2014
Previous papers presented a theory, charge modulation of aerosol scavenging (CMAS), regarding the manner in which cosmic rays could be affecting...
The Human GULO Pseudogene…Evidence for Evolution.,.
APRIL 02, 2014
In Answers Research Journal 7 (2014): 91-101
Modern genomics provides the ability to screen the DNA of a wide variety of organisms to scrutinize broken metabolic pathways. This wealth of data has...
Go and Tell
As I was reading the biblical account of Easter this week, I imagined the small group of broken, defeated followers of Christ making their way to the burial site that morning. They brought spices to...
New Genetic-Clock Research Challenges Millions of Years
Does a 6,000-year-old earth match the findings of modern science? Secular scientists have answered forcefully in the negative for generations. However, their arguments rest on the assumption of constant...
Proton Problems: Faith in Theories or Reality?
The proton—a positively charged particle found in the nuclei of atoms—continues to present problems for the Standard Model of particle physics. Generally considered a composite particle,...
The Solar System: Pluto
In 1930, astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered a faint point of light orbiting the sun beyond Neptune. The new world “Pluto” was considered the ninth planet for 76 years, but in 2006 the...
Miracle Eyes
"Jesus had compassion and touched their eyes. And immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed Him.”1 Just as quickly as He made the first human eyes out of dust, Jesus...
The Bitter Harvest of Evolutionary Thinking
What would you think if scientists were to suggest that large tracts of uncultivated land, which could be used to grow crops to feed hungry people, should be left untouched? And how would you react...
Creation Verses
For years I’ve collected good creation verses—passages that clearly speak of the majesty of God in creation. When signing letters I often follow my signature with such a reference. As you...
James Ussher and His Chronology: Reasonable or Ridiculous?
Introduction
Archbishop James Ussher (1581–1656) was one of the most important biblical scholars of the 17th century. His research and scholarly work have even earned high praise from some...
Creation Conversion: The Turning Point
Many people believe that creationists are “brainwashed from birth” and adhere to a recent biblical creation simply because it has been drilled into their heads since they were toddlers—a...
Apologetics: Reactive, Proactive, or Both?
Recently I heard a radio talk show host caution, “When it comes to Christian apologetics, we cannot select the questions to be answered.”
Why not? Relying on 1 Peter 3:15, he explained,...
Do Ice Cores Disprove Recent Creation?
by Brian Thomas, M.S., and Jake Hebert, Ph.D. *
Glaciologists drill and extract cylindrical cores from high-latitude ice sheets and use different techniques to estimate the cores’ age at certain...
The Hands and Feet of Christ
The late pastor and prolific author A.W. Tozer once wrote:
As base a thing as money often is, it yet can be transmuted into everlasting treasure. It can be converted into food for the hungry, and...
April 2014
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Zircon: Earth's Oldest Crystal?
by Vernon R. Cupps, Ph.D., & Brian Thomas, M.S. *
Most people are familiar with man-made, diamond-like cubic zirconia (zirconium dioxide), but zirconium silicate, a less well-known...
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