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Bird Brains and Quantum Mechanics
Being called a "bird brain" implies that an individual is scatterbrained and flighty. Through the decades, however, ornithologists have grown to appreciate the amazing design and abilities...
May 2012
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When God Says Good
When I was in elementary school, my teachers regularly put smiley faces or gold stars on homework papers and finished them off with bright red stamps saying “Good Job!” Restaurant-goers...
Genesis and the Character of God
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. (Genesis 1:31)
The message of Genesis is not confusing. The repetitive information throughout the rest of Scripture is consistent....
Mechanisms of Adaptation in Biology: Genetic Diversity
God gifted His living creatures with the ability to adapt to new or changing environments. Genetic diversity in adaptation refers to variation within created kinds of organisms. For example, consider...
Staying on Track Despite Deceptive Distractions
“Don’t get sidetracked. Stay on track. Don’t get derailed.” These advisory metaphors are colorful reminders of years when railroads and trains were common experiences in long...
Tracking Those Incredible Hypercanes
The world immediately after the Genesis Flood was considerably different than it is today. The crust of the earth ripped apart, continents moved around, hot magma spewed into the ocean, water inundated...
Flat Gaps Between Strata
When geologists make field observations, they typically focus on the rock before them and its color, density, mineral makeup, fossil content, and other features. But they often would be well-served...
An Amazing Tract Record
Most people have a passing knowledge of the food they eat, and perhaps how it gets digested. As with all human body systems, however, details of the digestive or gastrointestinal (GI) tract—including...
Four Scientific Reasons That Refute Evolution
Some claim that evolution is unbiblical and unscientific. Others claim that science proves evolution. Which view is right? Four clear observations show why evolution—which asserts that fish became...
The Speed of Light Revisited
In the December 2011 issue of Acts & Facts, I reported that recent experiments in Europe showed that neutrinos can travel faster than the speed of light.1 The OPERA (Oscillation Project...
Honor and Remembrance
Near the end of a long work day, a former boss would often tell me, “No more today, Henry. My brain is full.” A young man at the time and unfettered by maturity’s burdens, I found...
SOBA Student Profile: Lucien Tuinstra
ICR’s School of Biblical Apologetics (SOBA) is now in its third year of training leaders in biblical education and apologetics. Using an online format, SOBA is reaching students around the world....
New Theory: Evolution Goes Backward
Microbiologists contend that instead of increasing complexity, evolution of some systems—like interdependent microbial communities—can occur by losing complexity. How accurate or meaningful...
One-Ton 'Feathered' Dinosaur?
Media reports are buzzing with misleading headlines. Wired Science reported, "Giant Feathered Tyrannosaur Found in China."1 Even the technical description, published in Nature,...
What Will the Next Biological Breakthrough Be?
Physicists have spent enormous amounts of time and billions of dollars building supercolliders to search for fundamental particles, including the European Large Hadron Collider, which is designed to...
Ancient Raindrops Argue for Young Earth
What was the earth's atmosphere like when ancient rocks were forming? Was it cold and thin because the sun was supposedly dimmer back then?
Researcher Sanjoy Som tried to answer these questions...
Lab Studies Show Evolutionary 'Evidence' Is Merely Assumed
A recent news feature in Nature described the work of molecular biologist Joe Thornton, who studies the biology of toxins. He found that they often operate by mimicking very specific chemicals that...
Chewed Dinosaur Bones Fit Flood
A new cache of fossils found in Arlington, Texas, contains plenty of clues that are best explained by Noah's Flood.
More specifically, the circumstances surrounding these remains match a hypothesis...
Rare Fossil Pterosaur a Reminder of Native Legends
A newly described fossil consists of a flying reptile with a smaller fish in its throat and a larger fish biting its wing.
The flying reptile, a Rhamphorhynchus pterosaur discovered in the famous...
Stone Age Art Holds Hints of Language
Ancient cave art can give modern observers a unique glimpse into the minds of people who lived long ago. Stone Age art in European caves is best known for its beautiful paintings of animals like deer,...
Flood Explains 'Worldwide Pattern' in Ancient Rock
Marine biologists have scoured sea floor sediments for decades, finding living creatures in the mud but never fossils in the process of forming. That's because when a sea creature dies, its carcass...
Ancient Forest Frozen in Time by Volcano
The area surrounding what is now Wuda, Inner Mongolia, once teemed with tropical plants before a tremendous ancient volcanic explosion overwhelmed it. The ash-entombed forest, buried between coal layers,...
Brain Function Discoveries Support Creation
A pair of recent reports in the journal Science have added new insight into the incredible design and function of the human brain.1,2 The studies focused on the cortex—the part of the...
Distant Watery Planet Looks Young
A new analysis detailing the atmosphere of GJ 1214b—a planet located about 40 light years from earth and one that researchers have studied since 2009—appeared in the March issue of The Astrophysical...
Is the human genome nearly identical to chimpanzee?&hel.,.
APRIL 02, 2012
by Jerry Bergman, Ph.D., and Jeffrey P. Tomkins, Ph.D.
In Journal of Creation 26 (1): 54-60, April 2012
A review of the available literature related to the common claim that few genetic...
Genomic monkey business…estimates of nearly iden.,.
APRIL 02, 2012
by Jeffrey P. Tomkins, Ph.D., and Jerry Bergman, Ph.D.
In Journal of Creation 26 (1): 94-100, April 2012
A review of the common claim that the human and chimpanzee (chimp) genomes are nearly...
Morning Has Now Come
At early dawn that first Easter morning, Mary went to the tomb with the mother of Jesus, bearing spices to anoint the body of their beloved Lord. On the way to the grave, they pondered who would roll...
7 Creation Miracles of Christ
No star. No angels. No shepherds. No wise men. No mention of Bethlehem or Mary and Joseph. No compelling story of the babe in a manger. No genealogy of Jesus to introduce His birth. No elaborate “Christmas...
Mechanisms of Adaptation in Biology: Molecular Cell Biology
The concept of natural selection remains controversial in both the evolutionary and creationist communities. Classical evolutionists still cannot clearly define it as they continue to debate one another...
The Creator's Glory Reflected Everywhere: True Treasure.,.
The Cayman Islands are famous as an offshore asset haven—huge amounts of wealth are stored there. Yet their greatest treasure is not the money stashed in private accounts, it is the islands’...
The Resting Ark, the Grounded Fish, and the Empty Tomb
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat (Genesis 8:4).
And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry...
The Grand Staircase
Grand Canyon, with its multi-layered sides, is well known to creationists—years of creationist research and writing have secured its place in Flood geology and creationist literature. The Grand...
Technological Innovations from the Creator
A new wave in biology is biomimicry, people imitating those structures or processes that are found in nature. The secular scientist may not be aware of it, but embracing biomimicry is evidence that...
The Masterful Design of Spider Webs
Garden spider webs look amazing, but they also are so strong that they inspire materials scientists. Research recently showed that spider webs actually strengthen after they are slightly damaged. Experiment...
The Resurrection and the Origin of Life
At Easter time we focus on the cardinal Christian doctrine of the Resurrection. Without the Resurrection, Christianity is a sham. The truth that Jesus Christ rose from the dead sets Christianity apart...
Introducing ICR's New Director of Research: Jason Lisle.,.
Dr. Jason Lisle approaches science from the perspective that God’s Word is true—“the Bible teaches us the truth about origins, and good science confirms what the Bible teaches.”...
Provide, Protect, and Share
For over 40 years the Lord has been faithful to provide for ICR’s needs. His marvelous supply was particularly evident in recent years as ICR weathered the severest economic downturn in my lifetime....
Mary on Easter Morning
The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulcher (John 20:1).
Most of the events regarding our Lord’s...
April 2012
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Linguists Argue over Language Origins
Where on earth did humans first speak?
According to a 2011 study published in Science, evidence points to language beginning in Africa, which goes along with the very popular "out of Africa"...
Octopus Cold Adaptation Surprises Scientists
Octopuses are not warm-blooded animals, yet the speed with which their nerves transmit signals depends on temperature. So how do those that live and move in sub-zero Antarctic waters function just as...
Why God Created Large, Sharp Teeth
Nineteenth-century English poet Alfred Tennyson famously described nature as "red in tooth and claw."1 But were claws and teeth originally intended to draw blood, or were they used...
Israeli Library Digitizes Newton's Theological Works
Sir Isaac Newton is recognized by many as perhaps the greatest scientist who ever lived. But few know "that Newton was also a Christian and a Bible scholar."1 In fact, he wrote...
Can Solar 'Belch' Theory Solve Sun Paradox?
The notion that the earth and cosmos are billions of years old continues to present serious problems for evolutionary scientists. For instance, billions of years ago, the sun would only have glowed...
Scientists Decode Key to Spider Web Strength
Imagine a cloth that gets stronger after it is damaged. That is what scientists recently discovered when probing the strength of garden spider webs.
A research team tested the resistance of a spider...
Mouse to Elephant Needs How Much Evolution?
How much time would evolution need in order to make a mouse the size of an elephant?
Since this kind of evolution supposedly occurs too slowly for biologists to observe, one place to look for answers...
Plant UV Detectors Could Not Have Evolved
The first chapter of the timeless text of Genesis states, "And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after...
Researchers Find Fossil Salamanders' Last Meals
Salamanders are slick-skinned amphibians whose diets shift as they mature. Some live their entire lives in water, and others spend their adult lives on land. Those inhabiting water eat plankton when...
Gorilla Genome Is Bad News for Evolution
Evolutionists have long maintained that modern primate species (including, in their view, humans) are branches on an evolutionary tree that lead back to a common ancestor. But the recent news of the...
The Book of Foundations
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. (Psalm 102:25)
The Bible is filled with descriptions of God’s active involvement in the creation...
The Genesis Controversy
Genesis is a fascinating book! The timeless narratives it contains have delighted spellbound youngsters since it was written. Scholars have debated the information for centuries—especially the...
The Irreducibly Complex Genome: Designed from the Beginning
The concept of what comprises a gene and how it works has changed markedly since the beginning of the modern genomics era about 35 years ago when the first viral gene was sequenced.1 Since...
Genesis Critics Flunk Forensic Science 101
The forensic character of origins science, as opposed to the observational nature of empirical science, is routinely bungled and botched by uniformitarian evolutionists. They strain out gnats, yet they...
Did the 'God Particle' Create Matter?
Introduction
The book of Genesis is probably the most important book ever written. In reality, it’s the foundation of all true history and true science. Above all else, it’s the foundation...
Lateral Layers of Geologic Strata
We’ve all noticed the many layers of rock strata as we drive along a road cut. It seems as though we are driving through a huge “layer cake,” cut open to expose the inside. Grand Canyon...
Hybrid Sharks and Evolutionary Storytelling
by Frank Sherwin, M.A., & Brian Thomas, M.S. *
When biologists found hybrid sharks in Australian waters, lead researcher Jess Morgan told Discovery News, “This is evolution in action.”1
What...
God's Ultimate Ownership
The subject of rightful ownership is a foundational issue in the practice of business and law and a host of other disciplines. The creator of a product or idea is generally the recognized owner, who...
ICR Research Impacts North Korea
North Korea is a secretive country that threatens to attack its neighbors with missiles if provoked. It spends most of its limited resources on weapons and military personnel, which results in starvation...
March 2012
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What Causes a Galaxy's Magnetism?
Secular astronomers are no closer to understanding what could cause galactic magnetic fields than they were when they first detected the fields over a century ago. And although the most recent map of...
'Primitive' Tribe Demonstrates Modern Social Behavior
The Hadza is a nomadic tribe in Tanzania that subsists by hunting game and gathering wild plants. To evolutionists, they supposedly represent the early, more primitive societies from which modern society...
Rediscovered 'Extinct' Tortoise Frustrates Darwinism
Observing animals on the Galapagos Islands supposedly helped Charles Darwin come up with his theory of evolution by natural selection. But none of these animals have fulfilled the evolutionary interpretation...
Does Radical New Theory Explain the Existence of Everything?
What can explain all the circumstances of the cosmos—why small changes happen, why big changes happen, how life supposedly evolved from non-life, and the fundamental structure of chemicals and...
Why 'Darwin Day' Passed without Fanfare
Charles Darwin was born February 12, 1809, but not many people celebrated "Darwin Day" on February 12 this year. One Texas columnist lamented this lack of festivity, as well as polls showing...
Louisiana's Floating Marshes Echo Pre-Flood Ecosystem
Certain rock layers hold fossils of unique and extinct plants that had hollow tube-like structures, which probably made them lightweight and able to float on peat mats before they were buried and fossilized.1
A...
NASA Earth Image Helps Answer Flood Question
NASA's Image of the Day for January 25, "Blue Marble," is a composite of images taken by the Suomi NPP satellite that provides an exquisite view of the earth from space.1 This...
Is Peruvian Mummy a Giant Toddler?
Some say that giant humans are too incredible to have been real and that the Bible's references to them are fiction.
However, many extra-biblical records corroborate the existence of giants,...
Animal Laughter Study Doesn't Help Evolution
Scientists recently studied laughter in different animals, such as rats and primates, by tickling them. One study compared the sounds made by humans and great apes:
[The researchers] found many...
New Study Explains Fast-Moving Magma
The Deccan Traps in India, and especially the Siberian Traps, have vast quantities of lava rock near the earth's surface. Many geologists have assumed that this formed over millions of years. However,...
Evolution Made Cavefish Go Blind?
Evolution maintains that as more time passes, living things evolve to acquire better and more useful traits. As such, shouldn't the loss of a useful trait, such as eyesight, be regarded as the opposite...
Surgeon Says Human Body Did Not Evolve
In a recent paper titled "Dissecting Darwinism," Baylor University Medical Center surgeon Joseph Kuhn described serious problems with Darwinian evolution.1 He first described how...
Baylor Surgeon 'Dissects' Darwinism
Dallas' Baylor University Medical Center surgeon Joseph Kuhn recently described three serious problems with Darwinian evolution in a paper titled "Dissecting Darwinism" for the school's...
Sophisticated Protein Motor Defies Evolution
God appears to have left His unmistakable signature throughout His creation, even on the smallest parts.
ATP synthase, an important enzyme, manufactures (synthesizes) a vital, energy-rich compound...
February 2012
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Victory in Jesus
Asaph was a gifted music leader in ancient Israel, so he was used to seeing many worshipers come and go in the temple. While he didn’t write a tell-all book about his experiences, he did pen a...
Victory Over the Wicked
There is a painting by Italian artist Guido Reni (1575–1642) of the Archangel Michael that pictures the ultimate defeat of Satan. A miniaturized sculpture of that painting stands in my office,...
Internal Telomere Sequences: Accidents of Evolution or .,.
The life sciences research team at ICR has recently focused on the cell’s telomere features, a chromosome end-capping system found in the cells of plants and animals that provides a variety of...
Hidden in Plain View: Evolution's Counterfeit History I.,.
The creation versus evolution controversy is ubiquitous—it’s virtually everywhere. Evolutionists routinely and repeatedly provide the public with a counterfeit history of human origins,...
SETI Radio Telescope Goes Back Online
The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute announced December 5, 2011, that it will begin monitoring radio waves that it hopes might be sent out by life forms on a planet recently...
Darwin's Sacred Imposter: Answering Questions about the.,.
Editor’s note: several important questions have been received by ICR’s editorial staff in response to our series in Acts & Facts addressing natural selection.1 This article...
Gaps in the Geologic Column
The geologic column—that presentation of the rock record that places rock strata into various ages—can be intimidating. Because it seems authoritative and we see it so frequently, we sometimes...
Arithmetic and the Genetic Code
Where do physical traits such as height and eye color come from? Biologists say these characteristics are phenotypic (physical) expressions of the genotype—the genetic code. The case for creation...
The Genetic Decline of Humanity
In 1993, Lori Oliwenstein wrote in Discover magazine:
From the first cell that coalesced in the primordial soup to the magnificent intricacies of Homo sapiens, the evolution of life—as everyone...
SOBA Graduate Profile: Seth Trotman
The Institute for Creation Research is dedicated to equipping believers with evidence from science and the Bible to strengthen their faith and to prepare them to minister to others. Its degree program,...
Enlarging the Tent
Six years ago this month, ICR’s founder Dr. Henry Morris was called home to heaven, marking the end of an extraordinarily fruitful life in service to the Lord. And while the home-going of any...
Love and the Heart
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. (Matthew 22:37)
According to Jesus, this is “the great commandment of...
2011 Another Frustrating Year for Evolution
Nature, one of the premier science journals in the world today, recently published its editors' choice of science stories for 2011.1
Of the nine stories, only one addressed evolution—a...
Why Dogs Don't Need Snow Boots
Human feet would quickly freeze if exposed to snow and ice without proper gear, but dogs don't seem to mind the cold. Since the pads of their feet aren't protected by fur like the rest of their...
Fossil Whale Brain Proves Paleontologist Wrong
Howell Thomas, senior paleontological preparator for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, was skeptical when a woman claimed that she found a fossilized whale brain in San Luis Obispo County,...
Paddlefish Are Tuned to Eat Only Plankton
Paddlefish, also known as spoonbill catfish, are cartilaginous fish that inhabit freshwater lakes. They only like to feed on plankton, a category of aquatic food that includes tiny crustaceans like...
Study Finds Molecules Evolving in Wrong Direction
Which is more complex—a typical man walking across a street, or a blind man carrying a legless man across the street?
The blind and legless partners are more complex simply because they have...
New Book Says Universe Came from Nothing
If by definition something can never come from nothing, how could anything exist unless Someone put it there? This question has been used as a classic argument for the existence of God—an argument...
Google Doodle Celebrates Creation Geologist
On January 11, Google celebrated the 374th birthday of Nicolaus Steno by featuring a colorful doodle of rock layers on its homepage.1
Steno provided principles that are still maintained...
Marine Reptile Fossil Rewrites Evolution
The evolutionary history of certain extinct marine reptiles just got rewritten.
After rapidly evolving an array of variations, one particular variety of the dolphin-shape marine reptiles known as...
Researchers See Fish Adapt in One Generation
How do species change? According to Darwinists, physical differences result from the accumulation of small changes over many generations. But observations—like a recent report of steelhead salmon...
Is Scientific Misconduct on the Rise?
Scientists are assumed to be unbiased, purely rational, doggedly factual. However, publicly exposed scientific frauds are helping to dispel that notion.
Several recent articles by the British Medical...
Oldest Temple Topples Evolutionists' History of Religion
"Anthropologists have assumed that organized religion began as a way of salving the tensions that inevitably arose when hunter-gatherers settled down, became farmers, and developed large societies,"...
Over 100 Frozen Original Mammoth Proteins Found
Researchers were able to find 126 unique proteins from a frozen wooly mammoth in the first ever "shotgun sequence" of fossil protein content.1
The same team confirmed similar...
Noah's Ark Game Misses the Boat
Noah's Ark has been a popular story for children, with its parade of colorful animals living in a floating zoo. But the small and cute boat often pictured in stories, toys, and games is so unlike...
Diamond Weevil Studded with Advanced Technology
The diamond weevil, which makes its home in the Brazilian tropics, has a body studded with tiny, brilliant reflectors. Each one is like a diamond, reflecting different-colored light in shiny arrays....
Fossil Moth Still Shows Its Colors
Many butterflies and moths have colors that show a metallic sheen. That sheen occurs because the refracting material in their wings and bodies is spread out in layers precisely as thin as the wavelengths...
Dead Sea Sediment Core Confirms Genesis
Israel's Dead Sea, also called the Salt Sea, lies over 1,000 feet below sea level and is the site of certain ancient events recorded in the Bible. Some scientists thought the sea is too salty to...
Human Jawbone Size Reflects Diet, Not Just Lineage
Many people in the post-industrialized era have problems with crowded teeth because there's not enough room in their lower jaws. The teeth sometime erupt crookedly and cause malocclusions, or misalignments...
Christian Students Hear from Creation Science Expert
Students from Prestonwood Christian Academy and other area Christian schools got to participate last November in a creation science panel discussion as part of the school’s annual Biblical Worldview...
New Video Show Receives Rave Reviews
Here’s something worth a post or a tweet!
In October, the Institute for Creation Research debuted That’s a Fact, a new series of online video shorts aimed at delivering fascinating...
January 2012
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The Ongoing Impact of Creation Truth
Wise King Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes that there is really nothing new under the sun. While a lot of “progress” or “thought” seems new to us, we are merely discoverers of those...
Celebrating 50 Years
Each January we take time in Acts & Facts to look back at the Lord’s blessings upon the ministry of the Institute for Creation Research over the past year. It’s good to pause and give...
Human-Chimp DNA Comparison Research Yields Lower Geneti.,.
The ICR life sciences team has completed the second phase of its project comparing human and chimp DNA sequence. As we reported in a previous research column, 40,000 purportedly random chimpanzee DNA...
Bait and Switch: A Trick Used by Both Anglerfish and Ev.,.
“Bait and switch” is one of the oldest tactics under the sun…or seawater. In it, a person (or creature) is lured by something desirable that is then switched out with something much...
The Draining Floodwaters: Geologic Evidence Reflects th.,.
by John D. Morris, Ph.D., & James J.S. Johnson, J.D., Th.D. *
Mainstream geology has long dismissed the idea that the earth was once subjected to a global flood that cataclysmically annihilated...
The St. Peter Sandstone
In this month’s Impact article, Dr. James Johnson and I introduced the concept of megasequences in geology, which are confirmed by a literal reading of Genesis.1 Recognition of the...
Basic Questions Remain for the Secular Scientist
As we proceed into the 21st century, secular scientists are still attempting to eke out a purely material explanation for the origin of the universe and life on this planet. They will not succeed.
New...
On the Origin of Dogs
Overall, there are more dogs than children in American and British households.1 Dogs have become a huge part of humans’ lives. How and when did they get here?
Chromosomes show that...
Science Essentials Blog: Practical Resources for Teachi.,.
The Institute of Creation Research’s Science Essentials blog is making an impact! Since its official launch on October 24, subscribers have demonstrated over and over that creation-based science...
Plans for the New Year
As the Institute for Creation Research begins a new year of service, we are thankful for the many blessings God has bestowed upon our ministry. Now in our fifth decade of service, evidence of the Lord’s...
Genome-Wide DNA Alignment Similarity (Identity) for 40,.,.
DECEMBER 28, 2011
In Answers Research Journal 4 (2011): 233-234
To provide a fresh and less-biased global set of analyses, large-scale comparative DNA sequence alignments between the chimpanzee and human genomes...
Fish Sound-Making Muscles Show No Evolution
An international team of biologists recently reported on the supposed evolution of sound production in perch-like fishes. Researchers know that some fish cause their swimbladders to vibrate by using...
Some Atheists Go to Church for Kids
A recent study found that about one in five scientists who say they are atheists or agnostics actually attend church or some other religious institution, and the main reason may be because of their...
Study Shows Bird Species Change Fast
Biologists recently found that feather colors and songs vary among some species within the South American genus Sporophila, also known as seedeater birds. But strangely, they did not find any genetic...
Whales in the Desert?
Workers expanding a highway in 2010 found fossils of 80 huge whales in desert sandstones in Chile, prompting questions of how they died and why they were so well preserved.
Clearly, a catastrophe...
Shrimp Shells Inspire New Biodegradable Material
Harvard's Wyss Institute specializes in designing new materials and devices that mimic patterns found in living things. Their latest contribution was inspired by the versatile material found in...
Another 'Goldilocks' Planet Stirs ET Hopes
In late 2010, news media were abuzz about a very distant planet that astronomers thought might be just right for life because it appeared to be orbiting in the "habitable zone" of its star.1...
Evolution Can't Explain Organic Fossils
Chitin is a biological material found in the cuttlebones, or internal shells, of cuttlefish. It has a maximum shelf life of thousands of years, and yet researchers recently verified—using three...
Fossil Cuttlefish Has Original Tissue
Cuttlefish are mollusks that look somewhat like squid. They have an internal, hard, supportive structure with soft organs around and inside it. This resilient "cuttlebone" is made of cleverly...
Skin Sample Is Two Million Years Old?
Many believe that fossils represent organisms that died millions of years ago. Scientific literature, however, contains dozens of well-described original soft tissues in fossils. Since laboratory tests...
Is the Cambrian Explosion Problem Solved?
Cambrian rock layers contain many strange animal fossils, and very few fossils appear in layers below them. Called the "Cambrian explosion of life," the creatures in these layers come from...
'Zombie Worms' Ate Mediterranean Fossil
Osedax worms—also called "zombie" worms—live off the bones of dead creatures. Several species of Osedax surfaced in Monterey Bay, California, in 2002, and evidence of...
What Magnetized the Moon?
The 1969 moon landing was one of the crowning achievements of mankind. And magnetic moon rocks were some of its most mysterious discoveries, showing that they hardened in the presence of a magnetic...
Is New Fossil a Bird-Eating Dinosaur?
A new fossil was uncovered in China with bird bones in its ribcage—right where its stomach must have been. Researchers consider it to be a predatory dinosaur that ate an adult bird just before...
Bacteria Share Light Spectrum with Plant Leaves
Plant leaves convert light into chemical energy for use in cells. Their biochemistry specifically absorbs the blue and red areas of the visible light spectrum. Now researchers have discovered that light-harvesting...
Perfect Molecule for Vision Shows Eyes Were Designed
The eye is an ingeniously designed biological mechanism. In 1802, William Paley used eyes as a clear illustration of what he called "contrivances," i.e., "well-designed machines."...
Freedom of Giving Threatened by Secular Forces
The Institute for Creation Research has certainly weathered its share of attacks during the last 41 years of service. The ICR body of work, showing the scientific credibility of the biblical creation...
Press Release 12 01 2011
State University Professor Sponsors Religious Discrimination in Texas
Contact: Lawrence Ford, Director of Communications, Institute for Creation Research, 214-615-8300
DALLAS, Dec. 1,...
The junk DNA myth takes a well-deserved hit
DECEMBER 01, 2011
In Journal of Creation 25 (3): 23-26, December 2011
A review of The Myth of Junk DNA by Jonathan Wells
Discovery Institute Press Seattle, WA, 2011
One of the greatest evolutionary frauds of...
December 2011
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Tidings of Comfort and Joy
God rest ye, merry gentlemen,
let nothing you dismay.
Remember, Christ, our Savior,
was born on Christmas day.
This has long been one of my favorite...
The Gifts of God
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from
the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
James 1:17
In the days of the Bible,...
First Phase Complete in Human and Chimp Genome-Wide DNA.,.
The ICR life sciences team has been conducting a large-scale comparison project of human versus chimp DNA sequence, the first phase of which has now been completed. The research involved the use of...
'Teaching Through Genesis' to Be Featured at Pastors Co.,.
Each year, the Institute for Creation Research sponsors the Jacksonville Pastors Conference held at First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida. ICR board member Dr. Mac Brunson is senior pastor...
A Christmas Carol in Four-Part Harmony
The same infinite God who became incarnate as a small baby had previously created the heavens and the earth, and all of its living inhabitants. To all of God’s creatures, great and small, He gave...
Snowflake Bentley: Man of Science, Man of God
Wilson (Willie) Bentley (1865-1931) was born on a farm in Jericho, Vermont. Jericho was an ideal place to study snow because it was in the heart of the snowbelt, producing an average annual snowfall...
The Failed History of Uniformitarianism
Readers of Acts & Facts and other creation science literature are well aware of the influence of Sir Charles Lyell. He, more than any other, was responsible for turning the scientific enterprise...
Evolutionary 'Game Changer' Doesn't Change Anything
Widespread news reports recently proclaimed that a collection of primate fossils discovered in a collapsed cave in South Africa just might be an evolutionary “game changer.” ABC News reported...
Defending a 'Fact'
The public is overwhelmed with claims that evolution is a fact—from the classrooms to the courts and clergy. The late S. J. Gould even likened evolution to gravity:
Facts do not go away when...
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