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Finch Duets Open Surprising Window on Bird Origins
Humans are in rare company when it comes to singing duets. Humpback whales perform original couples' songs, as do a handful of birds. It was thought that bird duets were just for mating purposes, but a...
DNA Study Offers New Take on Marsupial Migrations
Marsupials are mammals that nurture their young in a special pouch. Their fossils are rare. Few have been discovered in Australia, for example, which is home to several unique marsupials, including kangaroos....
Canadian Philosopher Insists 'We Are All African!'
Philosopher and secular humanist Christopher diCarlo claims that if humans trace their lineages far enough back in time, they will all have an African origin. He has been spreading his "We Are All...
Blob-like Fossil Doesn't Fit Evolution
The blob lives. Or at least, it has been reconstructed in a three-dimensional computer model.
Researchers at Imperial College London cut a fossil into 200 pieces and scanned each piece into a computer...
Did 'Nature' Invent Oxygen-Carrying Systems...Twice?
An animal wouldn't grow larger than an insect without specialized equipment designed to transport oxygen to and carbon dioxide from cells deep inside its body. Fortunately, thousands of different...
Physicist Questions Gravity's Existence
Does gravity exist?
While few would deny that objects attract at-a-distance, some physicists are questioning whether or not this universally observed effect is caused by a stand-alone force called "gravity."...
Embryonic Stem Cells Approved for First Human Trials
Stem cells from adults can be "coaxed" into becoming more specified tissues and used effectively for specific treatments. Stem cells from embryos, however, involve the destruction of a human...
Donkey Gives Birth to 'Zedonk'
For 25 years, donkeys and zebras at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve have shared the same pasture while maintaining separate identities. When a donkey gave birth recently, zookeepers were surprised to see...
How Can Evolution Explain Opposite Genetic Effects?
To produce offspring, males and females contribute specialized reproductive cells called gametes--sperm cells from males and eggs from females. Most genes used to manufacture gametes differ from organism...
Experiment Shows Plant 'Intelligence'
Do plants think? They don't have brains or even neurons. But when scientists shined a light onto a leaf at the bottom of a plant, the entire plant "knew" how to react. Their studies uncovered...
August 2010
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Sorry, I Don't Dance
Recently we alerted Acts & Facts readers to the hazards of an organization called BioLogos, a non-profit group founded by Dr. Francis Collins that aggressively engages the disciplines of science and...
The Deceptive Dance of Compromise
"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).... "Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking!"1...
The Impetus for Biological Change
What does the Bible teach about biological change? In recent articles, the Institute for Creation Research life sciences team has shown that the Bible teaches limited common ancestry1 and a...
Misreading Earth's Groanings: Why Evolutionists and Int.,.
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. (Romans 8:22)
The ecological crises affecting our planet today should make every thinking Christian groan over...
Life's Indispensable Microscopic Machines
Humans love machines. Everyone likes how they save time and make jobs easier. If a new machine is invented that helps detect specific diseases and aids in early diagnosis, it is big news.
People also...
Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Is Not Evidence of Poor Design
Introduction
A common claim by evolutionists is that the human body is poorly designed, which to them is evidence that it was not intelligently designed, but rather cobbled together by the unintelligent...
Larry Vardiman
When Dr. Larry Vardiman was a graduate student in atmospheric science at Colorado State University, he, like many Christian scientists, struggled with the conflicts between a literal interpretation of...
Earth's Magnetic Field
The decay of earth's magnetic field has been one of the strongest evidences for the Bible's recent creation doctrine. This concept, developed originally by Dr. Thomas Barnes in 1971, was updated and revised...
Cells: Sophisticated and God-Designed
God has created man with 100 trillion cells, each of which is a wonder of microminiaturization. The biochemical processes that occur moment by moment are nothing less than astounding. The bewildering complexity...
Tentacular Squid: Rewriting Squid Stories Before the In.,.
During a recent tour of the fossil displays on ICR's campus, a Dutch-speaking group referred to our fossil squid as an inktvis or "ink fish." This led to the discussion of a discovery in 2009,...
From Parasites to Pictographs: ICR Apologetics School S.,.
So what can you learn about avian parasites, sedimentary rocks, fossilized clams, ostrich eggs, logical fallacies, plover migrations, giraffe blood systems, plesiosaurs, ancient Chinese pictographs,...
Where There Is a Will, There Is a CGA
Without a doubt, the remarkable economic upheaval that began some years ago has impacted the entire financial spectrum. Dubbed the "Great Recession" by some economists, this prolonged period...
Cell systems…what’s really under the hood .,.
AUGUST 01, 2010
In Journal of Creation 24 (2): 13-15, August 2010
Two 2009 papers summarized recent discoveries of utterly unforeseen intricacy, adaptability, robustness and precision in regulating gene expression,...
100 Years of Fruit Fly Tests Show No Evolution
July 22, 2010, marked the 100th anniversary of genetic investigations using fruit flies. The first such study appeared in Science in 1910 and described the unexpected appearance of a male fruit fly with...
Blond Baby from Black Parents a Genetic Mystery
A British Nigerian couple--Ben and Angela Ihegboro--is not aware of any fair-skinned ancestors on either side of their families. Yet they gave birth to a blue-eyed, blond-haired, and fair-skinned baby...
How Trustworthy Is Science News?
Humans were not made to be experts in everything.
C. S. Lewis was a master wordsmith, yet biographer Alan Jacobs noted that the Oxford fellow and later Cambridge professor struggled to count change from...
Gene 'Jumps' Serve a Purpose, Study Shows
In the tiny world of the cell, segments of DNA called transposons copy and reinsert themselves into the DNA. They eventually produce large repetitive sequences that have for many years been considered...
Dallas Hospital Thwarts 'Evolving' Bacteria
Methodist Dallas Medical Center in 2009 averted an impending outbreak of dangerously infectious bacteria called Acinetobacter baumannii. Although less prevalent than MRSA, Acinetobacter has acquired a...
Stupidity Evolved?
For such an intelligent species, humans can sure be stupid.
The economic crisis, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the aftermath of a host of other disasters currently plaguing the world can all...
Breakthrough Shows Protein's 'Elegant' Eggshell Construction
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Since there could be neither a chicken nor an egg without each already existing in a fully functional state, they both had to have been put in place at the same...
Billion-Dollar Space Image Is Open to Interpretation
After a year of image capturing, many years of planning, and a billion dollars of research spending, the European Space Agency's Planck satellite telescope has produced the first ever image of the entire...
Highlander Tibetans Show Adaptation, Not 'Natural Selection'
Some Tibetans live at altitudes of 14,000 feet. Other than a few genetic differences, they are similar to Han Chinese, who live much closer to sea level. It is believed that ancient Han peoples migrated...
New Evidence Shows Duck-like Birds Lived at Same Time a.,.
People don't generally picture ducks as having lived alongside dinosaurs. After all, it is widely assumed that birds evolved from dinosaurs over a period of millions of years. But fossils discovered...
Canadian 'Mega' Dinosaur Bonebed Formed by Watery Catas.,.
Canadian scientists have found a massive dinosaur fossil graveyard in Alberta containing so many bones that it calls into question the standard stories of slow and gradual dinosaur fossil formation. No...
'False' Gene Discovery Confirms Creation Prediction
Genes are portions of DNA that contain just the right codes to specify proteins, which make everything in cells work. But how does the cell know which protein should be manufactured, how often, how much,...
How Does Amoral Atheism Account for Scientific 'Sins'?
Science is often portrayed as a pure pursuit of knowledge, with well-trained individuals who are dedicated to the highest standards of intellectual and professional achievement.
But scientists are human...
Texas Canyons Highlight Geologic Evidence for Catastrophe
In the summer of 2002, record rainfall in the Texas Hill Country overfilled Canyon Lake. Water coursed over the top of its dam and carved huge, steep-walled canyons through the limestone bedrock downstream....
Fantastic Australian Amber Supports Young World
A dazzling array of amber in a rainbow of colors has been discovered at Cape York in far north Australia. Plant and mammal parts, as well as insects and other arthropods, are trapped inside the gems, which...
Atheist Ads Vandalized
A billboard reading "One Nation Indivisible" that was recently erected in Charlotte, North Carolina, displayed an additional message on Monday, June 28. Someone had added the words "Under...
July 2010
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Celebrating with Gusto and Gratitude
If one word could describe the major characteristic of the United States, that word would be freedom. The Puritans sought religious freedom from tyranny. The colonists sought political freedom. The...
Celebrating Our Freedom, Honoring Our Creator
Every state constitution refers to God as understood by the writers as a Creator God, not the impersonal god of Hinduism or Buddhism. Furthermore, the Judeo-Christian Creator God from whom comes our freedoms...
The Limit to Biological Change
The Institute for Creation Research life sciences team is currently exploring several key research questions in origins biology. The first and second concern the nature and meaning of taxonomy (the classification...
Tackling Charges of Biblical Inconsistency: Putting the.,.
When critics accuse the Bible of "inconsistency," do not expect their logic to be legitimate. In courtroom contexts, it is not unusual for truthful witnesses whose testimony is both sincere and...
Discovering Life's Complex Patterns of Design
It is simple to learn a subtle method shared by evolutionists promoting evolution. Notice a common approach toward nature starting with Charles Darwin, who said in 1859:
I can see no very great difficulty...in...
New Evidence for Global Cooling
Evidence continues to accumulate that we may have turned the corner on global warming. The earth may be entering a period of cooling. A group of solar physicists in Europe has found a strong association...
The Coconino Sandstone: A Flood or a Desert?
Basic research sponsored by the Institute for Creation Research and funded by its research division, the National Creation Science Foundation, continues to investigate subjects crucial to the creation/evolution...
The Ocean's Salt Clock Shows a Young World
The biblical geologic model of earth history is certainly at odds with traditional uniformitarian assumptions. Creation geologist Dr. Andrew Snelling has published a comprehensive two-volume text on the...
Have Scientists Created a Living Cell?
Craig Venter, who led the first privately funded sequencing of the human genome, has for fifteen years been spearheading a team effort to make "synthetic life." He announced victory on May 20,...
ICR Graduates -- A Cause for Celebration
The Institute for Creation Research Graduate School (ICRGS), which is based in California, has offered degree programs since 1981 with the aim of expanding the impact of creation science studies and providing...
Christian Heritage of Liberty
In the months preceding America's Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, delegates to the Second Continental Congress of this fledgling nation began each meeting with prayer. Fittingly, the very...
The Holy War
Now Diabolus thought he was safe because he had captured Mansoul and garrisoned himself within the city…. He had spoiled the old law books and promoted his own vain lies. He had appointed new...
More Mysteries for the Science of Long Life
According to the early chapters of Genesis, people who lived prior to the great Flood enjoyed very long life spans compared to today. Ideas regarding the mechanisms of that long life have focused on possible...
Fossil Indicates Fig and Wasp Life Cycles Were Always I.,.
The life cycles of fig trees and fig wasps are so closely intertwined, they look like they were made for each other. If this is true, then their fossils would be quite similar to modern forms, showing...
Fossil Discoveries Disrupt Evolutionary Timescales
Conventional geology assumes that different rock layers represent different periods of time. Paleontologists assess the age of fossilized creatures by the rock layers in which they are found. So, a fossil...
Seal Whiskers Track Fish Trails
When waters are murky, how do seals find fish? They don't have a sonar apparatus like whales, and yet they somehow hunt successfully in the dark.
It turns out that the seals follow fish trails by sensing...
Genome Study Shows Purpose, Not 'Selection'
The human genome has become a leading area of biological investigation. Its massive amounts of data have been digitized, which allows the information to be more easily studied. Much of genomic function...
Mars Even More Hostile to Life Than Previously Thought
Hopes of finding life on Mars have been consistently dashed by data clearly showing that the planet's surface would be extraordinarily hostile to anything resembling a living cell. Scientific studies have...
Is Indonesian Woman Really 157 Years Old?
Turinah, a woman who lives in south Sumatra, claimed to be 157 years old in the latest Indonesian census. She has no records to prove her claim, but other evidence suggests she might be telling the truth....
Specialized Communication Enables Dolphin Diplomacy
What happens when two dolphins rapidly swim toward the same piece of food? Without some avoidance feature, bottlenose dolphins would become "bashed-nose" dolphins, or worse.
Fortunately, dolphins...
Shark Study Hammers More Nails in Evolution's Coffin
In the late 1800s, a Darwinian concept called "transmutation of species" revolutionized historical biology. Instead of viewing animal species as the products of special creation, Darwinists believed...
Moth Eye Technology Proves Difficult to Copy
Moths can see very well, even at night, and their eyes have a special built-in anti-glare feature so that reflected light does not alert predators to their presence. Engineers are interested in copying...
Whale Variations Support Creation
Whales are graceful and remarkable swimming mammals. The 84 living species are amazingly diverse, ranging from over 100 feet long down to the size of an average dog. Recent research attempted to discover...
Were Humans Created to Commune in Nature?
In 2008, scientists found that taking a walk in a park setting improves concentration.1 This year, a study in the Journal of Environmental Psychology discovered that being outside among natural...
New Technology Makes Oil Fast
The BP oil disaster that began on April 20 in the Gulf of Mexico has touched about 100 miles of coastline, affecting large swaths of life-rich wetlands.1 This event will undoubtedly fuel increased...
Evolutionist Tosses Out 'Ardi' As Human Ancestor
In fall 2009, the journal Science dedicated a special issue to Ardipithecus ramidus. Popularly known as "Ardi," the fossil was characterized by researchers Tim White and C. Owen Lovejoy as a replacement...
Squid-like Fossil Is a Slippery Challenge for Evolution
Squid, octopus, nautilus, and cuttlefish are unlike any other marine creatures. With brain, eyes, mouth, tentacles, and, for squid, jet-propulsion siphon clustered at one end of the body, the cephalopod...
Lizard Study Questions Natural Selection
Charles Darwin proposed "natural selection" as the means by which new creatures evolve. The question then became, what does nature select? The reigning consensus is that nature selects individuals...
Shakeups Continue among Human Evolutionary Candidates
The theory of human evolution is taking yet another hit from recent scientific studies, from the first analysis of the Neandertal genome to painstakingly reconstructed Ardipithicus ramidus and Australopithecus...
Taking God Seriously
Recently ICR participated in an international apologetics conference that had creation as its topic. Dr. Henry Morris III delivered a keynote address outlining the biblical argument for creation. Three...
Creation by Evolution
Understanding the Theological Hazards of Bruce Waltke, BioLogos, and the New Darwinian Evangelicals
The Institute for Creation Research receives hundreds of letters from our constituency, most of them...
Common Ancestry and the Bible--Discerning Where to Draw.,.
In last month's column, the Institute for Creation Research life sciences team explained the first of several key research questions in origins biology--the nature and meaning of taxonomy. This month we...
Hidden Assumptions Play 'Hide and Seek': Using Context .,.
Hide and seek is a childhood game that many of us played years ago. But how many of us recognize that same "game" when it is played by those who criticize the Bible? In many instances, when some...
June 2010
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The Mind Behind the Design: Unraveling Life's Plans and.,.
Suppose someone walks through their neighborhood and spies a new construction site for a custom-built home. Concrete has just been placed for the foundation. About how long ago did the project start?
Simply...
Recent Creation Is a Vital Doctrine
There is no aspect of creationism which is under greater attack by evolutionists than the biblical doctrine of recent creation. The evolutionist, knowing the weakness of the scientific case for evolution,...
Evaporites and the Flood
Despite the impressive discoveries made by creation scientists, there is still much work remaining to be done. For those considering a career in creation science, either professionally or as a lay advocate,...
Human Language: An All or Nothing Proposition
If humans evolved through a piece-by-piece accretion of parts, then so did their ability to talk. Although talking seems simple, it actually depends on so many perfectly placed characteristics--both material...
Students See Real Science with ICR
Every year, First Baptist Academy (FBA) high school students in Dallas, Texas, take the week before spring break to participate in extracurricular courses. These Interim Term classes have ranged from sewing...
Deceitful Prosperity
The so-called "prosperity gospel," a widespread teaching among some evangelicals, claims that material prosperity is a right afforded to all Christians who think, believe, and speak certain things....
Our Day in Court: ICR Graduate School v. THECB et al
Longtime Acts & Facts readers will be aware of the Institute for Creation Research's fight for academic freedom in the state of Texas. As prior issues have noted,1 in April 2008 the Texas...
Neandertal Genome Confirms Creation Science Predictions
In May 2010, researchers announced the completion of a draft sequence for the Neandertal genome. Provocative images of ape-like humans adorned newspaper and magazine articles, playing up the evolutionary...
Have Scientists Created a Synthetic Cell?
Scientists claim they have successfully created "synthetic life" for the first time. In a 15-year project, a team led by genomics pioneer Craig Venter synthesized DNA from inanimate chemicals....
Baby Morality Defies Evolution
It is fascinating how quickly human babies learn about the world around them. But how soon can they distinguish "good" from "bad"? Some Yale psychologists wanted to find out, and their...
Cambrian Fossils Found in 'Wrong' Place
Many extinct and strange creatures were only known from Cambrian rocks--until now. Newly discovered fossils in higher, more "recent" rock layers in Morocco show "remarkable preservation"...
ICR Grad John Whitmore Receives Cedarville University P.,.
Cedarville University in Ohio recently announced the promotion of Institute for Creation Research Graduate School (ICRGS) graduate John H. Whitmore to professor of geology.
Dr. Whitmore earned his undergraduate...
Distant Galactic Cluster Should Not Exist
Most cosmological models presume that when astronomers look at the objects most distant from earth, they are actually looking back in time. They aren't quite sure how galaxies first formed by natural processes,...
30 Years Later, the Lessons from Mount St. Helens
On May 18, 1980, a tremendous landslide on the northern side of Mount St. Helens in Washington state uncapped a violent volcanic eruption, completely altering the surrounding landscape. It is the most...
Archaeopteryx Fossil Shows 'Striking' Tissue Preservation
The extinct Archaeopteryx is a famous icon of supposed evolutionary transition from reptiles to birds. Several different fossils have recorded the anatomy of this creature, which is fully bird and has...
New Orchid Arose Too Fast for Darwin
Some orchids employ a unique pollination strategy. Each flower emits a chemical that exactly mimics the pheromone produced by females of a particular bee species. The chemical attracts male bees, which...
Java Man Just Got Older
Java Man was the name given to fossilized remains discovered in Indonesia over a century ago. Subsequently defined by evolutionists as Homo erectus, an extinct hominid, its placement in human evolutionary...
Creation Model and Sea Floor Studies Agree: Past Volcan.,.
Earth's surface shows features that clearly testify to some kind of catastrophic event, or series of events, that operated on a vastly larger scale than today's geologic processes. Whatever happened had...
No Time for Bone-eating Worm to Evolve
Bone worms have specialized features that enable them to bore holes through whale bones. Ecologically, they serve to recycle whale bones back into the undersea environment. New research has discovered...
Cosmologists Step from Science to Science Fiction
The further an investigation gets from testable science, the more speculative it becomes. How many inferences and ad hoc stories does it take before a scientific endeavor becomes science fiction? Two recent...
Exploring Earth's Extremes in a Futile Quest for Life i.,.
Extremophiles are organisms that can thrive in unexpectedly hostile environments. These include bacteria and fungi growing in extremely hot, cold, nutrient-deprived, or salty environments. Experiments...
Miniature Horse Poised to Break Record
The Guinness Book of World Records is renowned for its collection of odd feats and extraordinary measurements. One of its entries may someday be a young miniature stallion named Einstein, which promises...
Complicated Cells Leave No Room for Evolution
A hundred and fifty years ago, most biologists believed that cells were "simple" blobs of protoplasm. This made Darwinian evolution easier to accept, since all nature would have to do to make...
Study Shows 'Junk' DNA Builds Visible Traits
Proteins do most of the required metabolic tasks within each of the trillions of cells in the human body. However, only about four percent of human DNA contains coded instructions that specify proteins....
Going with the Flow
I recently watched a video of The Michael Coren Show out of Canada. Mr. Coren's guest was a prominent evangelical Christian philosopher from a California school of theology who appeared to defend the existence...
Biblical Apologetics for a Russian Viking King: How Gen.,.
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear. (1 Peter 3:15)
Biblical apologetics,...
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Supervolcanoes and the Mount St. Helens Eruption
The eruption of Mount St. Helens volcano, just 30 years ago this month, marked a turning point in geologists’ understanding of volcanic processes. That eruption became the geologic event of the 20th...
New Frontiers in Animal Classification
In last month's column, the Institute for Creation Research life sciences team explained the rationale, motivation, and goals of life science research at ICR. This month, we'll identify the first of several...
Natural Selection Is Not 'Nature's Intelligence'
Christians can be confident in claiming that the power of the Lord Jesus Christ is the best explanation for complex design found in nature, "for the invisible things of him from the creation of the...
Climategate: Begging the Question
One of the criticisms evolutionists often throw at young-earth creationists when they deal with origins issues is that they are begging the question--that is, that they commit a logical fallacy in which...
Tracking Those Incredible Dinosaurs
Dinosaur footprints are found in numerous locations around the world, on every continent. Typically they are found in strata that evolutionists identify as representing "dinosaur era" time, so...
Did Dinosaurs Die from an Impact?
For decades, various scientists have suggested that an impact from space ended the "age of dinosaurs." But most dinosaur fossil-bearing rock layers better support the biblical history of God's...
Cosmic Energy: Creative or Destructive?
It is intuitively obvious that to get from a Big Bang to intelligent astronomers looking for evidence of the bang through telescopes, the amount of organization in the universe must have increased over...
The Critical Importance of Teaching the Teachers
When Institute for Creation Research biologist Dr. Gary Parker goes to Christian education conferences to speak, he admits he has a personal as well as professional reason:
I became a Christian just...
In Memory and Honor
A special season of honor and remembrance begins with the month of May. We honor our mothers on Mother's Day, remember our fallen heroes on Memorial Day a few weeks later, and then honor our fathers soon...
The Double Mindedness of Evolutionary Compromise
Willard Ramsey is a longtime friend. He and I served together for many years as co-pastors of Hallmark Baptist Church in Simpsonville, South Carolina. We had long discussions about issues in Christendom...
Quasars Quash Big Bang Assumption
According to the most prominent naturalistic theory of origins, the universe began over 13 billion years ago in a "Big Bang" that flung matter, energy, and space outward.
But quasars near some...
Chinese Explorers Claim Noah's Ark Find
A Chinese and Turkish exploration team and documentary filmmakers said that they may have found Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey. The explorers from Hong Kong-based Noah's Ark Ministries International...
Planet Formation Theory Collides with Backward-Orbiting.,.
The ancients used to observe what they called “wandering stars,” which are today known as planets. Naturalists insist that planets were not created by God, but were instead born from natural...
The Danger of Affirming Homosexuality in the Public Schools
Modern culture increasingly embraces the notion that homosexuals are born, not made. It is even sometimes presented as fact that a "gay gene" compels some people to seek same-sex partners. In...
Did Burrowing Blindsnakes Raft Across the Oceans?
The blindsnake, a small subsurface burrower, is not often seen, but when it is many mistake it for a worm.1 Researchers have constructed an evolutionary history for these creatures, partly from...
Quantum Mechanics Seen for First Time, But Mysteries Remain
Sir Isaac Newton's classic laws of physics apply well to large-scale phenomena like planetary orbits or apples falling from trees. But they seem to fall short in describing what happens at the tiniest...
NASA Lab Violates Free Speech Rights of Acts & Facts Author
Intelligent design (ID) is the concept that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection."1...
Walking with Giant Puppets
Steven Spielberg’s 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park used Hollywood magic to turn supposedly “65 million-year-old” dinosaurs into pop culture icons. Since the movie raked in over $900 million...
Mars 'Water-carved' Canyon Actually Etched by Lava
For decades, the media and Hollywood have promoted the idea of life on Mars, yet scientific observations have shown that the red planet is utterly inhospitable.1 The surface of Mars is sterile,...
A New Evolutionary Link? Australopithecus sediba Has Al.,.
Evolution's search for the "missing link" between man and ape has a long and troubled history. Australopithecus sediba is the latest fossil find that is claimed to represent evolutionary human ancestors....
Australopithecus sediba: Another Human Ancestor?
Partial remains of two skeletons were discovered in a cave in South Africa, and some scientists think they may be another addition to humanity's evolutionary tree.
The find was described in the April...
Digs at Creation Science Are a Mindless Waste of Time
In case Momma didn't tell you--you can't trust everything that you see on the Internet.
Case in point: A parody website called Crystal Air Productions, which rips off designs from ABC News to Sesame Street,...
Why Aren't Earth's Oldest Trees Older?
The sheer girth of certain ancient, wizened trees can take one’s breath away. Wired Science recently featured a collection of images of some of earth’s oldest trees. Although the age estimates...
New Study Contradicts Flower Fossil Dates
From salt grass to sassafras, flowering plants dominate earth’s landscapes, and many plant fossils are of leaves, bark, and pollen grains. The rock layers that contain them are most often found atop...
Do Migratory Birds Practice Preventative Medicine?
Before a long migration, certain birds shift from an insect diet to eating fruits such as berries. Researchers once thought that this added carbohydrate reserves as fuel for the journey. But a new study...
Templeton Prize Awarded to World-Famous Anti-Creationist
Every year, the Templeton Foundation awards more than one million dollars to an individual who in the foundation’s estimation has made a significant contribution to affirming spirituality.1...
Human Evolution Story Stumbles Over Footprints
Sometime in the distant past, two or three individuals walked across wet volcanic ash, leaving a trail that continues to puzzle scientists. When the Laetoli footprints were discovered over 30 years...
Is Ancient Siberian a New Human Species?
Explorers in 2008 found a human finger bone in a remote cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia. At first, the find sparked no great interest. A recent analysis of DNA that was carefully extracted from...
Scuba-Diving Caterpillar an Evolutionary Conundrum
The beautiful Hawaiian Islands are not only desirable travel destinations, they also provide unique habitats for tropical creatures. When certain caterpillars were found living in the wet mountainous regions,...
April 2010
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No Ordinary Day
"Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God." (Matthew...
New Chromosome Research Undermines Human-Chimp Similari.,.
A recent high-profile article in the journal Nature released the results of a study with implications that shocked the scientific community because they contradict long-held claims of human-chimp DNA...
New Initiatives in Creation Research
Research is an integral component of creation apologetics at ICR. This year marks the beginning of a brand-new initiative in the life sciences, with a specific emphasis on biology. With several decades...
Understanding Effective Biblical Apologetics
In 1990, a graduate student from communist China--raised on atheistic evolution--asked me the following question: "Why should I believe in the Bible God, the Bible is true, and God is fair, when China...
Natural Selection Is Not 'Nature's Design Process'
The popular documentary series Skyscraper featured a fascinating look at architects using the design process. Viewers appreciated learning how this process is implemented. For anyone wanting to create...
Creation & Resurrection
The two greatest events in the history of the cosmos were, first of all, its supernatural creation and, secondly, the resurrection of its Creator from the dead. The evidence for each, to one whose mind...
Understanding Evidence for the Biblical Timescale
by Frank Sherwin, M.A., & Brian Thomas, M.S. *
Time and history clearly differentiate between the biblical and evolutionary worldviews. Vast time is required for broad-scale evolution, and this has...
A Barrier to Evolution
Creationists have long cited the Second Law of Thermodynamics as an anti-evolution argument. The Second Law, or the Law of Increasing Entropy, operates throughout the universe, as far as we can tell, and...
Acquiring the Skill of Discernment
Damon Rambo grew up with an atheist father "who hated Christians in general." However, he was enthusiastic about science. "I spent most of my life sitting in front of a television watching...
Maximize Your Impact through Matching Gifts
If you have followed the Institute for Creation Research for any length of time, you know that our unique ministry is centered on the twin objectives of scientific research and education. Our research...
Presuppositional Assumptions
At the very outset, let me say that my experience in science has affected my interpretations of the Bible…. It is improbable that I ever would have come up with the view that the earth is millions...
Wood-boring ’Gribbles’ Do More Than Corrode.,.
Wood-boring “gribbles” have plagued wooden ships for centuries, and they continue to eat away at piers, docks, and driftwood. Just how do these tiny, pale crustaceans thrive on such tough fare?...
Printable Devices Promise Easier Tracking
Most people are familiar with the barcode labels on items purchased at the store. Silicon-based radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags are another kind of label that has been used for decades to...
Does a Distant Galaxy Show Star Formation?
Some scientists refer to certain dust and debris clouds in galaxies as star “incubators” because they think stars form naturally within them. But since the formation of a star from a compacted...
'Fedex' Fossil Calls into Question the Age of Amphibians
The naming of newly-discovered fossils sometimes involves significant people or prominent associations. Darwinius masillae was named for British naturalist Charles Darwin. Dracorex hogwartsia was inspired...
A Closer Look at How Pit Vipers 'See' Heat
Vampire bats, boas, pythons, and pit vipers―like rattlesnakes, copperheads, and cottonmouths―all have specialized infrared-sensing organs that allow them to determine if something might...
Evolution Can't Explain Dancing Babies
Humans don’t need to learn the ability to move to a rhythm, according to a new study. They are born with it. Two researchers from Finland and the United Kingdom wanted to find out how soon in life...
More Earthquake Data Does Not Mean More Earthquakes
Following a magnitude 8.8 earthquake on February 27, 2010, Chile experienced a 7.2 magnitude aftershock on March 11, the same day that President Sebastian Pinera was sworn into office.1 Considering...
Chilean Earthquake Highlights Darwin Error
On February 27, Chile experienced an 8.8 magnitude earthquake, the fifth-largest recorded quake since seismographs were implemented. Charles Darwin experienced a similar quake in the same area on February...
More Evolutionists Say 'Ida' Is Not a Missing Link
A fossilized lemur-like creature, nicknamed "Ida," was broadly heralded in 2009 as one of man’s earliest ancestors. At the time, and despite the hype, various paleontologists expressed doubts regarding...
Butterfly Mimicry Is Based on Elegant Genetic Switches
Two species of passion-vine butterflies share the same wing patterns and coloring, which some scientists believe provide “some of the most striking examples of adaptation by natural selection.”1...
Discoveries Show Early Mankind Was Advanced
Evolution holds that mankind emerged from “primitive” primates about 3.5 million years ago. Afterward, man continued to add habits and features that distinguished him from his humble predecessors,...
Did Snakes Prey on Dinosaurs 67 Million Years Ago?
Portions of a fossilized eleven-foot-long snake were discovered encased in sandstone amidst a clutch of sauropod eggs. Other snakes of the same extinct species were found nearby, indicating that the eggs...
Case Closed on Dinosaur Extinction. Or Is It?
“It’s official: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs,” a recent headline proclaimed.1 But is this accurate? Although a recent study by 41 scientists reached a similar conclusion,...
Evolutionary Face-Making
A new Smithsonian exhibit will feature fleshed-out faces “of our earliest human ancestors.”1 Fossil evidence was combined with evolutionary beliefs to depict how these seven creatures...
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