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'Cavemen' Diet Was Far from Primitive
Countless schoolchildren have been told that they evolved from cavemen who wore no clothes, communicated in grunts, and were primitive hunters. But many of their teachers can't answer the question "how...
Ancient Winery Found Near Mount Ararat
A research team recently discovered an ancient winepress very near Mount Ararat, the historically held resting place for Noah's Ark. Could this site be related to the winery Noah founded in Genesis 9?
According...
Animal Play Continues to Evade Evolutionary Explanation
According to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, an organism's behavior is supposedly motivated by the biological imperative of survival. How, then, can it explain traits that are irrelevant to survival—such...
Brain's Complexity 'Is Beyond Anything Imagined'
The brain has for a long time been compared to man-made computers in its astounding ability to process, store, and route information. But a new imaging technique has revealed that just one brain's connections...
Ancient Teeth Overturn Human Evolution
The evolutionary age assignment for mankind just doubled, according to new research. Teeth were discovered in an Israeli cave in a context of unprecedented age for human remains. This evidence refutes...
ID Smear 'Presents No New Arguments'
The late 20th century saw the development of what has come to be known as the Intelligent Design movement, which holds that certain features of the universe and living creatures are best explained by an...
Mummified Forest Highlights Post-Flood Ice Age
Scientists found a mummified forest in 2010 on northern Canada's Ellesmere Island. It had apparently been buried by a landslide long ago and was exposed by receding ice and glaciers. How those trees...
Origins Breakthroughs of 2010: Cell Biology and Genomics
Every year brings new scientific discoveries that shed light on the past. The Institute for Creation Research is dedicated to the study of origins from a biblical perspective, and ICR News has compiled...
Origins Breakthroughs of 2010: Astronomy
Every year brings new scientific discoveries that shed light on the past. The Institute for Creation Research is dedicated to the study of origins from a biblical perspective, and ICR News has compiled...
Origins Breakthroughs of 2010: Paleontology
Every year brings new scientific discoveries that shed light on the past. The Institute for Creation Research is dedicated to the study of origins from a biblical perspective, and ICR News has compiled...
Origins Breakthroughs of 2010: Zoology
Every year brings new scientific discoveries that shed light on the past. The Institute for Creation Research is dedicated to the study of origins from a biblical perspective, and ICR News has compiled...
Origins Breakthroughs of 2010: Human Genetics
Every year brings new scientific discoveries that shed light on the past. The Institute for Creation Research is dedicated to the study of origins from a biblical perspective, and ICR News has compiled...
Confronting Evolutionary Ideas
In 2009, much of the world celebrated the life and legacy of Charles Darwin, the English naturalist who popularized the notion of evolution through natural selection. Darwinism has been a belief system...
Looking for Molecular Discontinuity: The Use of Sequenc.,.
The ICR life sciences team has identified several key research questions in the field of origins biology. Our current task is reviewing the literature concerning the evolutionary tree of life,1...
Evaluating Real vs. Apparent Design
Everyone has some unhealthy habits and the best way to achieve long-term freedom from them is not to “drop” them but to “replace” them with something better. The freedom-through-replacement...
A New Creationist Cosmology: In No Time at All Part 2
by Larry Vardiman, Ph.D., & D. Russell Humphreys, Ph.D. *
Editor’s Note:
Hebrews 11:3 says that "through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things...
The Creation Worldview and the Scopes Trial
In these pages we often identify evolution as the scientific justification for an anti-Christian mentality. This long war against God was on full display at the famous Scopes Monkey Trail in 1925, where...
Design of Man: No Evolutionary Evidences
Man has either slowly evolved from a primal slime billions of years ago—or he has been created in God’s image. The list of evidences that were supposed to validate man’s evolutionary...
The Stones Cry Out: What Rocks and Fossils Say about th.,.
The Christian Research Institute (CRI) states on its website that “we cannot easily dismiss the fact that an overwhelming majority of authorities in the fields of geology [rocks], paleontology [fossils],...
ICR Science Curriculum Debuts at Education Conferences
The Institute for Creation Research unveiled its new Science Education Essentials curriculum at Christian school and homeschool conventions across the United States this past fall. ICR participates...
ICR's Modern-Day Noah
Ernie Carrasco is building an ark.
Actually, in addition to working in the Institute for Creation Research’s Internet Ministries department, Carrasco is a student in ICR’s School of...
Circumspect Resolutions
The turn of the calendar naturally provides the occasion to reflect on the past year and plan for the future, and people of almost every nation observe some kind of New Year holiday. Sadly, New Year celebrations...
The Long View
Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name; all unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not....
Buyer Beware! Don't Swallow Evolutionist Sophistry
Evolutionary propaganda is more than just science fiction—it is hyped and sold with slick sophistry. Its proponents routinely offer what appears to be a straightforward choice: To explain origins,...
Eternity on Our Hearts
If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is,
sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the
earth. For you died, and...
January 2011
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Telomeres: implications for aging and evidence for inte.,.
JANUARY 01, 2011
by Jeffrey P. Tomkins, Ph.D., and Jerry Bergman, Ph.D.
In Journal of Creation 25 (1): 86-97 2011
The complex telomere system in eukaryotic chromosomes eloquently demonstrates a precise well-designed...
Towers of Hanoi No Match for Puzzle-Solving Ants
A game that has traditionally stumped many people has proven to be no problem for ants. They were even able to find alternate solutions when the old ones were blocked. Scientists are hoping this humble...
Magnetic Field Data Confirm Creation Model
Today, the earth's magnetic field strength is steadily decreasing, but in the past it fluctuated. A recent study of an ancient copper mine in southern Israel indicated just how quickly those fluctuations...
Origin of Life Studies Cancel Each Other
In 2009, Brown University biology professor Ken Miller wrote in the journal New Scientist that "the most profound unsolved problem in biology is the origin of life itself."1
Actually,...
'New' Flood Theory Echoes Creation Research
A UK researcher has proposed that fluctuating sea levels several thousand years ago may have displaced Middle Easterners living on land now beneath the Indian Ocean, their settlements flooded by the rising...
The Mysteries of Stunning Soft Tissue Fossil Finds
The controversial soft tissue finds of North Carolina State University paleontologist Mary Schweitzer are gaining renown, and for good reason. She found organic material in fossilized dinosaurs and other...
Hyped Arsenic Bacteria Research 'Should Not Have Been P.,.
NASA recently issued a series of press releases and arranged a press conference to promote research claiming that life was possible in outer space.1, 2 However, the research drew heavy criticism...
Did Electricity-Conducting Bacteria Evolve in the Lab?
What if there were not a fast or effective way to get rid of sewage waste? The world would be a pretty disgusting place.
Thankfully, the earth is equipped with a host of organisms that survive on...
Arsenic-Eating Bacteria: A New Frontier in Life Science?
The six most common elements in living things are carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and phosphorus. Although some have considered the possibility that other elements could serve the same functions...
Parasitic Worms Help Heal Intestines
Some people challenge the existence of the Christian God by asking questions like “If God always has good intentions and is all-powerful, why would He make things like parasitic worms that harm other...
Five Consequences of Having Been Created
Evolutionists have long held that the human body contains “useless” biological structures that are “vestiges” of an evolutionary history of repeated transformations. Recently, North...
New Comet Origins Idea Adds New Problems
Comets continue to confound cosmologists, who often assert that the small celestial bodies came from the “Oort Cloud,” a theoretical group of planetary leftovers that supposedly orbits the...
Does Medical School Need Courses in Evolution?
In a recent issue of the journal The Scientist, University of Florida College of Medicine professor Leonid Moroz lamented the current lack of graduate program courses on the supposed basics of evolutionary...
Anti-God Ads--Money Well Spent?
Like paper cuts from wrapping presents and the sound of small children screaming in the laps of mall Santas, anti-God advertisements seem to have become a Christmas tradition. Their messages range from...
Evolution's 'Best' Examples
If Charles Darwin could see today's best examples of evolution, would he be elated or depressed?
The well-known British naturalist popularized the idea of "natural selection," speculating that...
The Latest 'Explanation' for Design? Pure Luck.
The idea of evolutionary descent with modification holds that all the various kinds of living organisms arose through some natural step-by-step process—a concept that many have believed since Charles...
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Stand Up! Stand Up for Jesus!
The October 31 sermon by Pastor Chuck Swindoll in Frisco, Texas, highlighted the life and work of Martin Luther, responsible in large part for the Protestant Reformation, of which all evangelicals are...
XMAS: Removing the Reason for the Season
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning. — Mark Twain1
Sometime...
Literature Review: Molecular Data and the Tree of Life
The ICR life sciences team is in the midst of the literature review phase of our new research venture that will examine the major unanswered origins biology questions.1 Our current focus is...
ICR Celebrates 40 Years
On October 7, the Institute for Creation Research held a special banquet in honor of its 40 years of ministry. Over 400 people gathered at the Hilton Dallas Lincoln Centre to celebrate God’s marvelous...
Fighting Over Furniture and Faith
America’s evolution-creation controversy is like a lawsuit over a probate estate. The evolutionists are “contesting the will” of the founding fathers of modern science, but so far...
The Folly of Design without Purpose
A construction contractor struggling to prevent a failed project criticized his designer as “flying by the seat of his pants,” meaning that he was simply making up stuff as the project progressed....
An Ice Age in Yellowstone National Park
Introduction
Yellowstone National Park holds the distinction of being the first national park in the United States and in the world. It exhibits magnificent geological features such as a 30-mile-diameter...
Creation with the Appearance of Age
Some Christian old-earth advocates hold that if God created fully functioning organisms and physical systems, then He lied to us. They would have looked deceptively mature when they had in fact just appeared....
The Strange Metaphysical World of Evolution
Secular colleges and universities, the media, and the Internet are alive with vitriolic accusations regarding the supposedly unscientific nature of creation science.
But is evolutionary science itself...
Doubts Raised about the 'Goldilocks' Planet
A distant rocky planet was recently discovered orbiting close enough to its red dwarf star that liquid water could exist on its surface. This rare position is called the goldilocks zone (not too hot and...
The Breadth and Depth of ICR Ministries
When I am asked about ICR’s current projects and programs, people are often surprised by the breadth and depth of the ICR ministry. This is particularly true for visitors who tour our facilities,...
Making sense of how an atheist is made
DECEMBER 01, 2010
In Journal of Creation 24 (3): 29-31, December 2010
A review of The Making of an Atheist: How Immorality Leads to Unbelief by James S. Spiegel
Moody Publishers, Chicago, IL, 2010
In this brief...
Where Is the Universe Headed--to Order or Chaos?
Mainstream cosmology holds that the orderliness found throughout the universe came from chaotic beginnings. In this scenario, matter and energy were flung outward and then gradually coalesced into structured...
Louisiana to Vote on Science Textbooks
In 2008, public science education and academic freedom enjoyed a victory with the passing of the Louisiana Science Education Act.1
The act, signed into law by Governor Bobby Jindal, allows...
Eye Optimization in Creation
The more that is known about the human body, the more amazing its construction turns out to be. A recent New York Times article focused on eyeball optimization: "[The] basic building blocks of human...
Mutation Study Contradicts Evolution
Biology textbooks teach that mutations added the high-quality genetic information needed to transmutate a fish into a monkey—even though experiments have shown that mutations merely corrupt the information...
Studies Show Extinct Reptiles Moved with Grace and Ease
"Scientists have struggled for decades to figure out how giant pterosaurs could become airborne and some recent proposals have simply assumed it must have been impossible," according to Michael...
'Remarkably Preserved' Shrimp Is 350 Million Years Old?
Researchers from Ohio University found a shrimp buried in a layer of limestone in Oklahoma. The fossil has been deemed to be the oldest shrimp ever discovered, stretching the purported evolutionary history...
NYU Prof Sides with Matthew, Not Darwin, on Fossil Record
Charles Darwin is widely credited with providing the first proper treatment of "natural selection" in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species. He portrayed it as a natural law with intelligent...
No Fruit Fly Evolution Even after 600 Generations
Many Americans believe that the big-picture story of evolution, as biology professors routinely expound it, is false.1 Basically, they haven't bought into the concept that all life descended...
Genomes Have Remarkable 3-D Organization
Almost every nook and cranny of living cells investigated by scientists has yielded a new level of unforeseen and complicated organization. For example, before it was discovered, who would have suspected...
NASA Photographs Young Comet
Comets have fascinated their viewers throughout human history. Where did they come from? What are they made of? How did they start orbiting the sun? How old are they?
Modern technology is helping to provide...
Purpose-driven Drift: Francis Collins and the Doctrine .,.
Dr. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and recent keynote speaker at ICR's 40th anniversary celebration in Dallas, published an online article on November 9 in which...
New Genomes Project Data Indicate a Young Human Race
In 2008, an extensive international effort was begun to sequence in unprecedented detail over 1,000 representative human genomes from around the world. The results of three preliminary pilot projects were...
Students' Freedom of Speech Speaks Volumes
Generally, a hoard of rebellious schoolchildren is one of the last things anyone wants to encourage. But religious leaders and First Amendment advocates can cheer for some Tennessee students who, despite...
Cache of Amber in India Looks Young
Masses of amber, ranging in size "from sand grains to several centimeters"1 in diameter, have been excavated from coal mines in western India. While scientists are excited by the many...
Naturalist Rejects Natural Selection, Appeals to Chaos
Since its inception, Charles Darwin's story that life evolved in response to environmental pressures has not been supported by what is actually observed in nature. Despite this, it has been universally...
Neandertals Mixed with Humans in China
Neandertal remains are mostly found in European caves. So when Neandertal-like characteristics were discovered among a fossilized jawbone and teeth in South China, it was cause for further investigation....
Bees Solve Math Problems Faster Than Computers
Bees can solve complex mathematical problems that would normally keep computers busy for days, according to a new report from UK researchers.1
Through careful observation, University of London...
November 2010
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A Mission of Praise and Proclamation
Now celebrating our 40th year of ministry, the Institute for Creation Research is grateful to God for meeting our material needs to keep this ministry going, but also for strengthening us with His power...
Biology and the Bible
Biology, a word derived from two Greek words, bios (“life”) and logos (“word”), is “the study of life.” The Bible is the written Word of God, according to its own...
Literature Review: Simplifying the Research Process
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...
Every Nation Under Heaven: Using Scripture to Understan.,.
Scoffers who attack God’s Word are famous for proving how tough they are by bludgeoning a “straw man,” a supposed biblical problem that has no real substance or validity. Rather than...
Similar Features Demonstrate Common Design
There are two equally valid explanations for why some things share similar features. They may be part of a group, like motorcycles, “related” by commonly designed attributes. Or, like brothers,...
A New Creationist Cosmology: In No Time at All Part 1
by Larry Vardiman, Ph.D., & D. Russell Humphreys, Ph.D. *
Introduction
One of the issues that concern many people who wish to adopt young-earth creationism as a valid view of earth history is the...
Reading the Fossil Record
Earlier this year, ICR published a beautifully illustrated book entitled The Fossil Record: Unearthing Nature’s History of Life, co-authored by ICR Senior Science Lecturer Frank Sherwin and myself....
Research That Demonstrates Design and Unearths Flood De.,.
Whether the evidence is large or small, related to the physical sciences or the life sciences, recent discoveries shout “creation.” A look at the submicroscopic world of an enzyme complex,...
Extraordinary Mosasaur Fossil Reveals Original Soft Tissues
Mosasaurs were 40-foot-long marine reptiles with fearsome teeth. Presumed to be extinct, they have been found as fossils on every continent. One unique mosasaur fossil has been housed at the Dinosaur Institute...
Give Thanks
For 40 years the Institute for Creation Research has led the fight to defend the faith by uncovering and explaining God’s matchless creation as expressed in His perfect Word. Many have partnered...
Topsy Turvy
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes,...
How Long Can Cartilage Last?
School children have been told that it takes long ages for a fossil to form and that fossils have been buried under deep rock layers for millions of years. However, increasing discoveries of fossils with...
Study Demonstrates Complex Cells Could Not Evolve from .,.
One mystery that naturalists have yet to solve is how randomly shaped and distributed chemicals were organized, concentrated, and combined into the first living bacterial cell. The next great mystery is...
Ancient Wooden Door Has 'Remarkable' Design
Glimpses of the past can sometimes be unearthed in the most ordinary places. In a dig for an underground parking facility for the Zurich opera house in Switzerland, evidence of ancient human occupation...
Saying Goodbye to Giant Salamanders
Chinese giant salamanders are the largest in the world, with some in recent history growing as long as six feet. Lately, however, this unique amphibian has been driven toward extinction through loss of...
Did Evolutionary 'Tinkering' Produce Diverse Proteins?
The claim that all of today's animals came from one animal-like ancestor long ago seems wildly unreasonable. For this to happen, countless new and perfectly-fitted body parts, along with thousands of precisely...
'Under God' Stands in Texas Pledge
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled on October 13 that the words "under God" that appear in the Texas Pledge of Allegiance are constitutional.
The term was added to the state...
Is Life Forming on Titan?
A team of investigators led by University of Arizona graduate student Sarah Horst has approximated, in a French lab, atmospheric conditions on Saturn's moon Titan. Through a series of experiments, they...
Giant Penguin Feather Poses Problem for Long Ages
Paleontologists at the University of Texas at Austin and other institutions have investigated the fossil of a giant penguin found in Peru. At five feet tall, it would have dwarfed today's largest living...
Another Setback for 'Junk' DNA
Scientists believed and taught for ages that only gene-coding DNA (which is a small fraction of DNA in human and other genomes) was functional. All other DNA was "junk" leftovers from a long...
Study Suggests Atheists Know More Religious Facts than .,.
Recent survey results released by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life suggest that atheists and agnostics know more about religion than evangelicals and Catholics.
"On average, Americans correctly...
Computers Help Show the Mechanics of a Miracle
by Christine Dao and Brian Thomas*
One of the more dramatic incidents in the Old Testament was the exodus of the Children of Israel from Egypt, which included a miraculous crossing of the Red Sea. BBC...
Newfound Planet Is '100 Percent' Sure to Have Life?
A number of factors are required for life to exist--the presence of water, sustainable atmosphere, and appropriate temperature ranges, just to name a few. How many of these requirements should be observed...
What Makes an Attractive Woman Attractive?
Certain items seem to have just the right combination of shapes and colors to have universal aesthetic appeal. For example, few fail to appreciate the glory of a sunset on the beach, and many varieties...
Mars Atmosphere Could Be Young
Astronomers generally believe that Mars was formed billions of years ago. About 96 percent of the Red Planet's atmosphere is composed of carbon dioxide.1 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander...
Pioneering a Global Movement
This month the Institute for Creation Research marks the 40th anniversary of this ministry, looking back with gratitude for four decades of God’s faithfulness and looking forward to the plans and...
Presuppositional Research and the Definition of Kind
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...
Similar Features Show Design, Not Universal Common Descent
“I’m related to George Washington,” an acquaintance announced after searching his genealogical record. He also believes he is closely related to chimpanzees. Though he doesn’t really...
Greatest Earthquakes of the Bible
The Holy Land is a region where earthquakes occur frequently. By one means or another, big earthquakes have been documented in the Holy Land for a period exceeding 4,000 years.1 Many are known...
Dinosaurs According to Their Creator
Dinosaurs have long been an effective tool for teaching evolutionary dogma. However, since all things were created by the God of the Bible during the creation week not long ago, and He didn’t use...
Survival of the Fitted: God's Providential Programming
Birds display God’s providential programming. That means God carefully planned them before He created their original ancestors on Day Five of the creation week. He planned their genetics, their bio-diversity...
40 Years of Blessing
When the Institute for Creation Research began in 1970, very few organizations focused on the ministry of creation science. Now there are numerous creation ministries—probably one or more in every...
An Inconvenient Truth
With apologies to Al Gore for the use of his movie title, the ongoing debate over creation versus evolution just will not go away. Most of academia, the majority of science practitioners, and (disappointingly)...
Why Does the Universe Look So Old?
The Theological Costs of Old-Earth Thinking
The mention of Genesis 1:1 in today’s academic circles, whether secular or Christian, evokes far more heated responses than one might assume in our science-saturated...
October 2010
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Teen Finds Lobster Fossil with Original Shell
A "stunning" fossil was discovered by 15-year-old James Dickinson while he was fossil hunting at a beach in southern England. The area where he found it, Lyme Regis, is well known as a "treasure...
Cell Division Defies Evolutionary 'Just-so' Stories
Cell division seems comparatively straightforward when viewed under a microscope. One cell replicates itself and splits into two daughter cells, enabling an organism to develop, grow, and replace cells...
'Water Flea' Study Inadvertently Fits Genesis Mandate
Wild habitats are shrinking as the human population grows. Many wild creatures have increasingly fewer places to live or face deteriorating environments. Finding a method that would detect whether an organism...
Even Bacteria Seem to Follow the Golden Rule
Altruism is a real mystery for those who believe in a world ruled by "survival of the fittest." If perpetuation of one's genes is a biological imperative, why would any creature sacrifice its...
Newfound Kickboxing Dinosaur Has Puzzling History
Some dinosaurs had a "sickle-claw," made famous by the man-hunting Velociraptors in the movie Jurassic Park. Now, paleontologists have described a new dinosaur from Transylvania, Romania, that...
Where Did the Mimic Octopus Get Its Amazing Abilities?
The mimic octopus is, frankly, incredible. It can alter its shape, texture, and color to match poisonous and colorful sea creatures so accurately that it eluded detection by marine biologists for decades....
Hawking Says Universe Created Itself
Stephen Hawking, leading cosmologist and recently retired Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, has co-authored a new book, The Grand Design. In it, he claims that the universe did...
New Tools to Fight Germs...from Frog Skin?
Early in the 20th century, brilliant chemists generated pharmaceuticals in laboratories. But the cost/reward ratio of painstaking lab experiments turned out to be far greater than the cost/reward ratio...
Darwin and SUVs?
What does Charles Darwin have to do with the auto industry? For one Fortune writer, Darwin defines it.
"At its best, the auto industry is Darwinistic, with the new and improved driving out the old...
What Caused the Extinction of Ice Age Animals?
Wooly mammoths, sabre-toothed tigers, and giant cave bears lived alongside man during the Ice Age. But while humans persisted, these big beasts--along with other "megafauna"--became extinct....
Mother of All Humans Lived 6,000 Years Ago
Inside a human cell's mitochondria--the tiny organelles that provide energy--there is a small and unique chromosome. This loop of DNA is passed from mother to child in every generation and provides...
The Sun Alters Radioactive Decay Rates
Many scientists rely on the assumption that radioactive elements decay at constant, undisturbed rates and therefore can be used as reliable clocks to measure the ages of rocks and artifacts. Most estimates...
Why Can't Science Start with the Bible?
A report that looked into a miracle Jesus performed over 2,000 years ago was recently retracted from a medical journal.
Virology Journal had published the article written by Chinese researchers who detailed...
Fighting the Dragon
The Bible describes our ultimate Enemy as "the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan" (Revelation 20:2), who wages war against the saints with his many "ministers"...
Civil Conversation or Dangerous Discourse?
Having a great conversation with someone can be wonderfully satisfying. Newlyweds enjoy this. College students thrive on it. No one wants to be involved in uncomfortable conversations, like students with...
Using Nature to Encounter God's Attributes
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...
Oil Companies, Global Warming, and Hurricanes: How Does.,.
The prophet Jeremiah once vigorously argued with Jewish men and women who insisted that their troubles were caused by a failure to worship the queen of heaven.1 People today might sneer at such...
All-or-Nothing Unity
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? A fresh usage of this familiar question can quickly illustrate unseen strengths to the design argument. At first, the issue seems to be one of timing. That problem...
News from the Red Planet
According to a number of recent blogs on the Internet, on August 27, 2010, Mars made its closest approach to earth in history, coming within about 35 million miles. Some sites even predicted it would be...
A Marvelous Symmetry
Often we speak of the creation way of thinking as incorporating and being founded upon three main points: creation week, the Fall into sin and its resulting Curse, and the great Flood of Noah's day. These...
The Created Camel
The one-humped Camelus dromedarius has been called the ship of the desert--and for very good reasons. In a typical day, this 1,200+ pound animal can carry up to 400 pounds a hundred miles across the unforgiving...
Amber Jewelry: A Conversation Piece for Creation Evidence
Amber has been prized for centuries for its beauty. Some specimens have dazzling colors, like a cache recently discovered at Cape York in far northern Australia. Insects, diatoms, a lizard leg, fruits,...
Workplace Giving Campaigns
The month of September marks the start of the annual workplace charitable giving season, and the Institute for Creation Research has worked hard to gain approval in selected workplace programs as an additional...
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Creation Is the Foundation
It is high time that people in general, and Bible-believing Christians in particular, recognize the foundational significance of special creation. Creation is not merely a religious doctrine of only...
Beetle Larva Bifocals Are Better than Manmade
The eye is an amazing organ. It enables an organism to translate light into electro-chemical impulses that the brain can assemble into "images" of the world around it. Many types of eyes are...
Oil-eating Bacteria Are Cleaning Up Gulf
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has spawned concerns regarding the long-term negative impact on the area's ecology, and especially on local fisheries. These worries are based on the assumption that...
The 'Animal Connection' Points to Creation, not Evolution
What do the oldest European artworks and the domestication of animals have in common? A Penn State University paleoanthropologist suggested that they are evidence of a unique connection with animals that...
New Finds and Possible Fraud Discredit 'Chimp Culture'
Do chimpanzees have their own culture? If so, some researchers would connect their behaviors to aspects of human culture, which they believe supports an evolutionary relationship. But current developments...
Contrary to Expectation, Extinct Sea Monsters Were Expe.,.
Mosasaurs were marine reptiles with large jaws and big teeth. Their fossils have been found on every continent, including Antarctica. They grew longer than 40 feet, and although they had fearsome jaws...
Continents Didn't Drift, They Raced
The theory of plate tectonics explains many earth features, like ocean floor trenches and sediment-free mid-ocean ridges made of hardened magma. The popular theory holds that continents drift slowly across...
'80 Million-Year-Old' Mosasaur Fossil Has Soft Retina a.,.
Mosasaur fossils have been recovered from Late Cretaceous rocks all over the world. Most are just a fossilized tooth or perhaps a loose rib or vertebra. Occasionally, several bones are discovered still...
Tiny Fish Rapidly Adapted to Cold Water. Was It Evolution?
Researchers have found that tiny fish called sticklebacks can adapt rapidly to a decrease in water temperature. This discovery adds to a long and growing list of animal trait variations that happen...
Are Sea Sponges Mostly Human?
Sponges have long been considered one of the "simplest" forms of life. Now an international team of scientists has analyzed sponge DNA and concluded that it shares representative genes associated...
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