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Evolution and Global Warming Link as Theories, Not Scie.,.
Global warming advocates are joining evolution proponents to target conservative evangelical Christians for the recent introduction of a Kentucky legislative bill that involves both theories.
The state...
Bacteria Share Metabolism through Nanowires
Researchers at the University of Aarhus in Denmark noticed something odd when they examined seafloor sediment that had been left for a few weeks in glass tubes—foul-smelling hydrogen sulfide had...
Small Dogs Came from the Middle East
Although dogs come in many sizes, scientists have found some specific genetic markers for small dogs. A recent survey of these markers across many wild and domesticated dogs seems to have provided some...
Mystery Fossil Study Fits Creation
In the mid-1800s, a mysterious new fossil, Prototaxites, was described. The large, tree-trunk-shaped fossils were found in some of the lowermost fossil-bearing rock layers. To date, researchers have...
Did Religion 'Emerge' through Evolution?
How did mankind develop its unique ability to participate in religion? This question was recently explored by evolutionists who found that morals do not necessarily proceed from religious, cultural, or...
Fossil Anemone Tracks Don't Fit Evolution
Interesting markings were recently found on a rock in Newfoundland. A study concluded that they were trails left by seafloor-dwelling animals around 565 million years ago. But such a find is difficult...
A Hands-On Lesson in Rapid Fossil Formation
Although it is commonly taught that fossils took “millions of years” to form, both experience and reason suggest otherwise. Students who participated in a recent school lesson on the subject...
Four Decades of Grace and Goodness
Last year while leading the ICR Yosemite Creation Tour, I was overwhelmed with the beauty of this pristine national park. Even more amazing was the reality of how Yosemite Valley was formed, as Dr....
Exploring the Evidence for Creation
God is the greatest communicator, always revealing exactly what He wants us to know about Himself, about one another, and about the world around us. Romans 1:20 gives assurance that every person in the...
New ICR Director of Events: Charles Morse
When Charles "Chas" Morse joined the U.S. Air Force in 1983, he intended to serve for about four years. Instead, he stayed for 26. "My wife, Patti, and I saw that there was a great mission...
Extreme Cold Can Be an Inconvenient Truth: Botanical De.,.
Recently, the Institute for Creation Research acquired some property in Alaska that will enable its scientists to study the unique mechanisms in plants that allow them to live in extreme climates. The...
Unmasking Evolution's Magic Words
Everyone certainly sees design in nature by observing the purpose of precisely fitted parts--those in fish gills or bird wings, for instance, enable those animals to fit into their environments. Evolutionists,...
An Ice Age in Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park contains evidence that glaciers once filled Yosemite Valley to a depth of over 3,000 feet, almost to the top of Half Dome, and covered most of the higher elevations in the park....
Modern Samaritans
“Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel.” (Ezra 4:3)
Better understood as historical "stories"...
Evolution's Best Argument Has Become Its Worst Nightmare
How Functional Transposons Refute "Junk DNA" and Human Evolution
Broad-scale evolution holds that a single-cell organism can eventually develop into a human through natural processes. Unique...
Are Green Sea Slugs the Ultimate Created Mosaic?
by Frank Sherwin, M.A., & Brian Thomas, M.S. *
Many creatures appear to be fully integrated mosaics of various features that are shared by otherwise unrelated organisms. For example, hemoglobin is...
Financial Philosophy
Look through any family photo album and you will find a study of both time and history. Turn to the early years, when time is evenly measured by births and first steps and first days of school. The pace...
The Naive Literalist
When the plain sense makes common sense, seek no other sense.
-- M. R. De Haan (1891-1965), Founder of the Radio Bible Class
There has been quite a stir among evangelicals about what it means to...
March 2010
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Is There a Stuttering Gene?
The cause of stuttering, or stammering speech, has eluded scientists. It affects approximately one percent of the U.S. population and “an estimated 60 million people worldwide.”1...
Dolphin DNA Reflects Bat Echolocation
Both bats and dolphins use a natural form of sonar technology, called echolocation, to navigate their surroundings. They share a tiny but critical protein in their ears that allows them to hear ultra-high...
Spectacular Spider Is a Long-Living Fossil
A fossilized spider was found in China with such perfectly preserved features that researchers were able to identify it down to its species name. Only two other fossils of its kind have been unearthed,...
Cell Division Research Discovers Sugar 'Safety Switch'
At a very basic level, the maintenance and reproduction of a living organism depend on the division of its cells. How does a cell “know” when or why to begin the division process, or even how...
Algae Molecule Masters Quantum Mechanics
The weird world of quantum physics appears to have been mastered by protein molecules, according to a new study. Researchers have demonstrated that certain proteins can manipulate light waves to their...
Dr. Albert Mohler to Keynote ICR 40th Anniversary Celeb.,.
The Institute for Creation Research will hold its 40th anniversary celebration banquet in Dallas, Texas, on October 7, 2010, featuring Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., as special guest speaker. Dr. Mohler...
Critique of 'Primordial Soup' Vindicates Creation Research
Where, when, and how did life arise on earth? These questions have intrigued mankind for centuries. Evolutionary theorists have tried to answer them, but without definitive success. And now even their...
Recipe for Frog Foam Is Quite Unnatural
Some frogs build nests to hold their eggs by whipping up a kind of floating foam. A recent study discovered that the proper frothy architecture is only achieved by following precise construction parameters....
Study Shows the Universe Is Closer to the End Than Expected
Every known system degenerates. Metal rusts, food rots, and flowers wither. Even something as large as the universe will eventually run down. How much usable and still-ordered energy remains in the universe?
Australian...
Feathered Dinosaur Debate Exhibits Young Earth Evidence
Fossil fibers found in China over a decade ago are believed by some to have come from “dinosaur feathers.” It has been suggested that the fibers bolster the claim that birds evolved from dinosaurs....
Did God Make Fire Ant Parasites?
Most residents of the southern states of America are uncomfortably familiar with fire ants. People who have experienced the bites and stings that give these insects their name are often willing to try...
Surprising 'Stone-Age' Surgery Evidence Found in France
An unexpected report has recently surfaced of a successful and sophisticated Stone-Age amputation.1 In an early tomb found south of Paris, France, scientists uncovered the remains of a man who...
Evolutionary Biologists Rethink Evolution
Scientific knowledge has experienced tremendous advances in the last several decades, especially in such relatively new fields as molecular biology, genomics, and embryonic development. Some biologists...
Rapid Variation in Dog Breeds Is 'Regulated,' Not 'Evolved'
Almost all new dog breeds have been established in the last few hundred years. Due to this fast genetic diversification, researchers have been investigating how “descent with modification”...
Be Mine
As children, we used to receive Valentines from classmates, cards and candy that somehow always seemed to strike fear and trepidation in the boys each February. Our culture has turned this month into the...
Communicating the Message of the Creator
By the time Dr. Henry Morris founded the Institute for Creation Research in 1970, he had already conducted an extensive speaking ministry on the topic of creation science around the country for over a...
The Scientific and Scriptural Impact of Amos' Earthquake
The Bible is often regarded as a book of stories based on a primitive people's understanding of the world around them. As such, many people--and even some Christians--believe that it is not a reliable...
Fit & Function: Design in Nature
To help others understand that Christ is their Creator, use the approach the Bible says always provokes a living conscience: "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly...
The Real Nature of the Fossil Record
The fossil record leaves an inescapable impression on the honest observer. It certainly doesn't communicate the macroevolutionary picture. The record of the past written in stone contains no evidence that...
An Amazing Anomalous Fossil
Fossils are normally found loosely in the order predicted by the geologic column, which maps the earth's strata. This chart, which can be found in all treatments of the subject, is presented as...
Darwinism's Rubber Ruler
A key element of the scientific method is the ability to test whether a hypothesis is true or false. A theory that can neither be confirmed nor falsified cannot be considered "scientific," and...
Fresh Tissues from Solid Rock
Fresh tissues continue to be found in supposedly millions-of-years-old fossils. These un-replaced, un-mineralized, still-soft tissues come from animals or plants that were preserved by some catastrophic...
The Intelligent Designer Movement
At a conference last year, a Christian schoolteacher asked an ICR speaker if he was part of the Intelligent Design Movement. "No," he stated. "I belong to the Intelligent Designer Movement."
The...
Matters of True Substance
During my college days, case studies of real-life events were often used to teach practical applications of specific business concepts. We studied stories of wild successes and tales of dramatic failures,...
The Information Age
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. (2 Timothy 3:7)
O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge...
February 2010
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Slime Networks Are Better Organized than Railway Systems
What do the Tokyo railway system and slime mold have in common?
Answer: They both employ optimized networks. Researchers found that slime mold growth algorithms are so well-designed that they could...
Alligator Lung Design Prompts Evolutionary Rewrite
Many evolutionists theorize that dinosaurs evolved into modern birds. But to accomplish this, evolution would have had to overcome huge hurdles—such as the total reconstruction of certain skeletal,...
Banner Fossil for Evolution Is Demoted
Evolutionists celebrated in 2004 the discovery of what they considered to be a clear transitional form between fish fins and land legs in the features of an extinct lobe-finned fish later dubbed Tiktaalik.1...
Are Humans as Close to Chickens as They Are to Chimps?
A recent comprehensive analysis compared the human Y chromosome with the chimpanzee Y chromosome, and the researchers found that they were “remarkably divergent.”1
The Y chromosome...
Boats and Jewelry: 'Stone Age' People Were Surprisingly.,.
Archaeological finds continue to demonstrate that man has always been man, right from the start. A cache of double-edged cutting implements, known to have been used in boat building, was recently discovered...
'Creation' Movie Debuts in U.S.
A movie about Charles Darwin will be released in select theaters in the U.S. this weekend, nearly four months after its worldwide debut.
Creation stars Paul Bettany―of A Knight’s Tale and...
It's Official: Radioactive Isotope Dating Is Fallible
New data collected by secular researchers has confirmed what creation scientists discovered decades ago—geologists’ assumptions about radioactive decay are not always correct.
For a...
New Population Found of Damselfly 'Living Fossil'
The tiny Ancient Greenling Damselfly is an endangered insect, with only a few hundred known to be in existence. A new population of them was recently discovered in southwestern Australia, and researchers...
New Artifact Supports Antiquity of Bible
An Israeli professor has found evidence that certain books of the Bible could easily be as old as their texts claim. Some scholars had believed that Hebrew writing did not yet exist when these books were...
A Round Noah's Ark?
Noah’s Flood was a worldwide cataclysm that destroyed all life on earth, except for the representatives of each kind of land and sky-dwelling creature that were saved aboard Noah’s Ark....
Human Communication: Chance or Design?
Human speech requires precisely organized body parts and biochemicals that are certainly complicated enough on their own to have warranted their special creation. But a new study indicates that gestures...
Cell Origin Research Is in Hot Water
Researchers have tried for decades to replicate the conditions and compounds they think were necessary for the first living cell to evolve. Their experimental failures have collectively sent the clear...
Bee Landing Strategy May Lead to Better Aircraft
Researchers recently looked into the life of bees and found something of interest to all fliers: bees never crash, even when they land on an upside-down surface. Their efficient landings show that current...
Museum's 'Science' Exhibit Leaves More Questions than A.,.
The Health Museum in Houston, Texas, currently features an exhibit called “Surviving: The Body of Evidence” as part of a year-long celebration of Darwinian evolution. “You are a survivor―a...
Origins Breakthrough of 2009: Cosmology
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 Breakthrough of 2009: Geology
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 Breakthrough of 2009: Biological Evolution
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 Breakthrough of 2009: Paleontology
Every year brings new scientific discoveries that shed light on the past. The Institute for Creation Research is dedicated to the scientific study of origins from a biblical perspective, and ICR News has...
Bacteria Study Shoots Down 'Simple Cell' Assumptions
If life evolved from non-life through natural processes, then the organism most likely to resemble the first living cell would probably be the parasitic bacteria of the genus Mycoplasma. It has very little...
Reflections on a Legacy: Four Decades of Creation Ministry
In 1961, Drs. Henry M. Morris and John C. Whitcomb published The Genesis Flood, a landmark book offering persuasive scientific evidence that the biblical account of creation and the Flood could be confidently...
Steadfast and Resolute
Resolutions at the beginning of the New Year have occasionally been helpful, but are often forgotten within the first month or so, usually because most resolutions have something to do with food!
Making...
Counting Our Blessings: A year in review, a legacy in p.,.
Anniversaries are exciting events, particularly when they celebrate decades of commitment, as is the case in 2010 with the 40th anniversary of the Institute for Creation Research. Our usual "Year...
January 2010
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Lessons from Mount St. Helens
Readers of Acts & Facts know of ICR's long-standing research interest in Mount St. Helens, the volcano in Washington state that erupted on May 18, 1980. Attendees of many ICR seminars have likewise...
Tapir Testimony to Creation
One odd-looking member of God's creation is the tapir. Its most distinctive feature is a highly flexible proboscis (trunk) that is able to move in all directions. Generally, tapirs stand about three feet...
Why Do Animals Play?
A 19th-century poet spoke of "nature red in tooth and claw,"1 and the sometimes gruesome deaths that became integral to the concept of Darwinian evolution certainly occur. But sometimes...
The Silent Multitude
One of this issue's featured articles is devoted to ICR's accomplishments of the last year, and it is always a bit breathtaking to see the scope and depth of ICR ministry activities. Knowing how small...
God's Omniscience
The omniscient God knows all that can be known given the sort of world he created….In our view God decided to create beings with indeterministic freedom which implies that God chose to create...
Science Overturns Evolution's Best Argument
Transposons are a class of “mobile genetic elements” that operate within the DNA of living organisms. For years, macroevolutionary proponents have claimed that their presence undoubtedly supports...
Intact DNA Discovered in Ancient Salt Deposits
Researchers recently analyzed bacterial DNA that was found in small pockets within various salt deposits. The focus of their research was to compare differences in DNA sequences taken from different geological...
Where Did Apple Trees Come From?
For several decades, United States Department of Agriculture horticulturists have collected and studied apple trees from around the world. Their research focuses on disease resistance as well as similarities...
New Dinosaur Causes New Confusion
In their recent examination of a new two-legged dinosaur discovered in New Mexico, evolutionary paleontologists were looking for new clues to untangle their conflicting theories of dinosaur origins. But...
Creation Scientist's Invention Continues to Improve Lives
About 35 years ago, Dr. Raymond Damadian invented a technology that transformed medical science. MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging, has been widely used in medical research ever since. Researchers over...
Irreversible Complexity--Evolution Loses Another Round
Scientists discovered something remarkable in a recent study—evolution can’t be reversed. In tracing the supposed evolution of a common protein, they introduced mutations to move the protein...
Meteor Crystals Spark Latest 'Life on Mars' Hype
A media frenzy about life on Mars broke out back in 1996 when researchers announced they had found what they interpreted to be fossilized bacteria on a rock from the red planet. Photos of a little, worm-shaped...
Atheist Ads Aimed at Children for Holidays
The holiday season brings familiar sights every year. Chestnuts on open fires. Turkeys in ovens. Holly wreaths hanging on front doors. And of course, anti-God advertisements on buses and billboards.
In...
Fresh Salamander Tissue Found in Solid Rock
Researchers have described remarkably well-preserved tissue discovered inside a salamander fossil. The fully intact muscle tissues also had blood-filled vessels, and they had not been mineralized like...
What Defines an Organism? Biologists Say 'Purpose.'
David Queller and Joan Strassmann, evolutionary biologists at Rice University, recently proposed a new way to describe what makes an organism a unified whole. They defined an organism as an entity made...
New Finch Species Shows Conservation, Not Macroevolution
“Darwin’s finches” are a variety of small black birds that were observed and collected by British naturalist Charles Darwin during his famous voyage on the H.M.S. Beagle in the early...
Can Evolution Explain Altruism in Our Children?
Research has shown that humans like to help, even before they are old enough to have been taught how to do so. This innate characteristic distinguishes humans from their supposed closest evolutionary family...
Illustrations of Ancient Humans Skew Facts
Museums and textbooks often use artistic renderings to estimate what a fossilized animal or plant may have looked like when it was alive. These images by “paleoartists” put flesh and faces...
Scientists Back Off of Ardi Claims
In May 2009, a remarkably well-preserved extinct primate, nicknamed "Ida," was hailed as one of the most important fossil finds ever. It had features that some interpreted as a link between two primate...
Leaked Emails May Show Global Warming Research Is a Fraud
Over a thousand sensitive emails and documents from Britain’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia were published online in late November without CRU’s permission....
Dinosaur Soft Tissue Finally Makes News
Although creation-based organizations have reported for over a decade on the technical scientific journal articles published about soft tissue found inside dinosaur remains, mainstream media outlets have...
The Legacy of Our Founder, the Example of Our Creator
The Christmas holidays are a time to focus on what's really important: honoring our Creator, King, and Savior, Jesus Christ, and especially remembering His birth, life, and death. To think that the Creator...
Christian Geologists Influential at GSA Meeting
The Geological Society of America (GSA) is the largest and oldest association of professional geologists in North America. Its members are from academic institutions, industry, government, and private...
Made in His Image: Baby's First Breath
In 1967 Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant. Until that time, if someone's heart was taken out, they died. People were astounded to learn that not only was a man’s...
Tweaking the Genetic Code: Debunking Attempts to Engine.,.
A Strange New Hypothesis
A new concept making its way through the scientific community holds that just a few key changes in the right genes will result in a whole new life form as different from its progenitor...
The Christmas Tsunami of 2004
Just this last September 30, we heard of major earthquakes measuring up to 8.0 on the Richter scale and the resulting tsunami which hit the coast of American Samoa. Many people perished in waves up to...
Beware of Dangerous Definitions
by Brian Thomas, M.S., & Frank Sherwin, M.A.*
According to tradition, in answer to the question of what he most wanted in life, Confucius replied, "I would insist on the exact definition...
The Greatest of All Gifts
We cannot fathom what it meant for the infinite Creator God to become finite man. Yet Jesus, who was "so much better than the angels" (Hebrews 1:4), willingly emptied Himself and, setting aside...
Perspectives on Life
“Britain's Prince Charles…talked to plants but he is no longer alone with a rising number of people joining his campaign to treat plants with respect.”1
The past several...
December 2009
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Cyanide -- An Ingredient for Life?
by Dr. Charles McCombs, Ph.D., and Brian Thomas, M.S.*
Evolutionary researchers have engaged in many speculations about how the first cell might have emerged naturally from chemicals with no supernatural...
Frozen Penguin DNA Casts Doubt on DNA-Based Dates
For decades, scientists have assumed that mutation rates were consistent enough to be used as a natural clock to date biological specimens. By comparing the number of single changes in the genetic code...
Is There Evolution in the Congo River?
A recent narrative-style article in Smithsonian magazine highlighted research in the largely unexplored Congo River in central Africa, where researchers have identified new fish species. The researchers...
Amber-Trapped Spider Web Too Old for Evolution
Amateur fossil hunters Jamie and Jonathan Hiscocks were looking for dinosaur remains in East Sussex, UK, when they instead found tiny spider webs trapped inside a piece of ancient amber. Oxford University...
Rapid Rifting Presages Future Events
The Great Rift Valley extends some 4,000 miles southward from Syria north of Israel, through the Gulf of Aqaba, through Ethiopia, and all the way to Mozambique in southeast Africa. It harbors a giant fault,...
Rapid Rifting in Ethiopia Challenges Evolutionary Model
Volcanic activity in 2005 accompanied the formation of a deep, wide rift in Ethiopia on part of the 4,000-mile-long north-to-south trending Great Rift Valley fault. Studies show that the injection of mantle...
A Global Catastrophic Event Wiped Out Ancient Forests
Fungi are single or multi-celled organisms that break down organic materials, such as rotting wood, in order to absorb their nutrients. Neither plant nor animal, they range from mushrooms to single-celled...
Paleontologists Target Montana Dinosaur Museum
The Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum, which opened its doors earlier this year, boasts Montana’s second-largest set of displayed dinosaur remains. The record is still held by the Museum of the...
Caterpillar Controversy Discloses Deep Evolutionary Dis.,.
In August 2009, retired University of Liverpool marine biologist Donald Williamson officially challenged the standard Darwinian interpretation of caterpillar origins. His paper was fast-tracked to publication...
Shrimp Eye May Inspire New DVD Technology
Mantis shrimps are large, colorful marine creatures that see more colors than humans can. While humans see only three primary colors—blue, red, and green—the eyes of these shrimp detect...
Are Humans Evolving? Depends on Your Definition.
Observable change is happening in humans, albeit slowly and only for certain traits. Scientists have tracked the histories of 14,000 residents of Framingham, Massachusetts, since 1948. Data from 2,238...
Anthropologist Says Ancestors Were Faster Than Modern O.,.
Some evolutionists tend to believe that humans are continually improving―getting more robust, smarter, and faster. However, science increasingly indicates that the opposite is occurring.
Anthropologist...
The Best Laid Plans
I've been thinking recently about the sayings of wise King Solomon. He was one of the greatest world leaders of all time, and a really busy man. Solomon wrote in Proverbs 16:9 that "a man's heart...
Bless the Lord
Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
Psalm 103:1
This is the season when we in the United States tend to turn our thoughts to thankfulness for the blessings of...
Manning the Booth
Seminar and conference attendees may be familiar with seeing the Institute for Creation Research booth. ICR attends over a hundred events every year, and the booth is a great way for people to stop by...
Did Humans Evolve from 'Ardi'?
Ardipithecus ramidus is an extinct primate whose fossilized remains were first found along the Awash River in Ethiopia about fifteen years ago. Many fragments were collected, including shattered bones...
Made in His Image: Immune Systems, The Body's Security Force
Good neighborhoods provide families a lot of protection, but even the best of communities remain vulnerable to the threat of criminals invading their homes. Our human bodies are also vulnerable to foreign...
Sir Ambrose Fleming: Father of Modern Electronics
Sir John Ambrose Fleming (November 29, 1849-April 18, 1945), often called a father of modern electronics, is best known for developing the first successful thermionic valve (also called a vacuum tube,...
Preadaptation: A Blow to Irreducible Complexity?
Molecular biologist Michael Behe described a system made of several interacting parts, whereby the removal of one part would disrupt the functioning of the whole, as irreducibly complex. Both creation...
Noah's Ark: The Search Goes On
The search for the remains of Noah's Ark began in earnest in the 1950s with several individuals attempting to research the evidence and even search the majestic Mt. Ararat in Turkey. The Institute for...
Bottom-Up Science
Evolutionary philosophy is a bottom-up storytelling project: particles, planets, people. Naturalists (those who say nature is all there is) believe they can invent explanations that are free of miracles,...
A Good Thing...
A long-time supporter recently wrote me with encouragement and helpful advice on raising funds for ICR ministries. His letter ended with a quote from Psalm 92:1, wherein the psalmist proclaims, "It...
The Issues of Death
"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." -- 1 Corinthians 15:26
"Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil." -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
These quotations...
November 2009
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Rainforest Fossils Demonstrate Dramatic Climate Change
Researchers are recovering beautiful fossils from the Cerrejón Formation of Colombia. One was a giant snake, called the “Titanoboa.” Most recently, a study examined the formation’s...
New Fossil Cache Shows Plants Haven't Changed
A coal mine in the Cerrejón Formation of Colombia has yielded a gold mine of fossils. This particular cache preserved a time in earth history when the tropical climate was quite different from today’s....
Does Altered Fish Vision Exhibit Evolution?
Biologists recently analyzed special proteins in fish eyes that capture light photons, making vision possible. By comparing the sequences of a critical protein from different fish, they identified a particular...
Genetic 'Crossing-over' Is No Help to Evolution
Shuffling genetic information has long been framed as a biological mechanism that can generate variety as well as fuel evolution. However, new details of a common cellular genetic shuffling process...
The Human Methylome: What Do These Patterns Mean?
For decades, researchers have noticed that tiny chemicals called “methyl groups” piggyback on DNA molecules, and that they occur in certain patterns. Intrigued by the meaning and function of...
New Pterosaur Fossil Forces Re-think of Standard Evolution
Charles Darwin admitted that the sudden appearance of fully formed creatures in fossil deposits was one of the biggest problems with his hypothesis that nature generated living creatures through natural...
New Hull Technology a Slick Design Copy
Many species of marine creatures are very well suited to their watery environment, with precisely arranged gas exchange organs, properly angled eyeball parts, and streamlined bodies with appropriate...
Ancient Amber Discovery Contradicts Geologic Timescale
Newsweek magazine recently published a commentary by atheist Richard Dawkins containing some of his arguments against “creationists.” Therein he admitted, “What would be evidence against...
The Artistry of 'Ardi'
Reconstructions of animals based on fossilized remains are interesting and can be of value. However, they are notoriously subjective. Recent research suggested, for example, that many longstanding dinosaur...
Dinosaur Ranks Shrink as Species Numbers Dwindle
Triceratops is one of the most recognizable dinosaurs, known from partially complete fossilized skeletons to have large armor plate and three horns on its head. At almost 30 feet long, it was perhaps one...
Did Evolution Cause Rapid Changes or Just the Opposite .,.
Researchers have recently focused on DNA sequences as a means for determining the evolutionary history of both viruses and their host organisms. To discover when mammals were first infected by them, a...
Monarch Butterfly Antenna: A Hi-tech Tiny Toolkit
Monarch butterflies have fascinated biologists for a long time. A 3,000-mile road trip in even the most comfortable car would prove daunting to many humans, but these beautiful insects can migrate that...
Newly Named Fish an Evolutionary Enigma
A new species of chimaera found in Californian waters has been given a name. Chimaeras are bizarre cartilaginous fish with features that stand out among other fish. What also stands out is their lack of...
Should We Let the Pandas Die Off?
Pandas face a difficult future, despite great efforts to preserve them. With their dwindling population, shrinking habitat, and weakening genetic strength, one evolutionist has suggested that these longstanding...
Did Humans Evolve from 'Ardi'?
Ardipithecus ramidus is an extinct primate whose fossilized remains were first found along the Awash River in Ethiopia about 15 years ago. Many fragments were collected, including shattered bones from...
Blasphemy Day Barely Registers
Ever hear of International Blasphemy Day? For many of us, it came and went without as much as a blip on the radar. But for a select few atheists and agnostics, it was yet another day to espouse their hatred...
Standing in the Gap
I'm writing this month's column looking out over the Black Hills of South Dakota. What a gorgeous site! Rolling hills, beautiful pines, and even Mount Rushmore a few miles away. Vacations have been few...
Dinosaur DNA Research: Is the tale wagging the evidence?
by James J. S. Johnson, J.D., Jeffrey Tomkins, Ph.D., and Brian Thomas, M.S.*
Dinosaurs are a popular topic of study, whether in the public imagination or in scientific research. The scientific community,...
Made in His Image: The Connecting Power of Hands
A boom in affordable housing in the 1950s was helped by the invention of a distinctive multifunctional piece of equipment: the backhoe. Its strong yet relatively slender articulated arm allowed precise...
Dinosaur Protein Sequences and the Dino-to-Bird Model
Evolutionists have maintained that the fossil record supports a long-ages history for earth, but material extracted from dinosaur bones is providing an interesting challenge to that theory. The recent...
A Classic Polystrate Fossil
Years ago, National Geographic published a remarkable photograph of a polystrate fossil, a fossilized tree that extended stratigraphically upward through several layers of rock in Tennessee. Its roots...
Squid Fossils, Ancient DNA, and a Young Earth
The field of biology has provided much support for a recent creation, and physical evidence of very young-looking biological materials from supposedly ancient fossils continues to accrue from around the...
Can Life Exist on Other Planets?
Many people make a distinction between the origin of life and the evolution of life. In this view, biological evolution refers to the gradual development of the diversity of living things from a common...
Ministry Mindset in the Land of the Midnight Sun
The opportunities provided by our Lord to the Institute for Creation Research never cease to amaze us. ICR experiences this on a continual basis in a multitude of areas. Whether they are new opportunities...
God's Holiness Demands a Perfect Creation
Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty.... Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. (Revelation 4:8,...
October 2009
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Butterfly Evolution in Action? Not Likely.
One hundred and fifty years ago, Charles Darwin published his proposal that all creatures on earth emerged naturally from a common ancestor through a process of gradual change. Although this hypothesis...
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James Webb Telescope vs. the Big Bang
The new James Webb Space Telescope is thrilling astronomers with spectacular images of distant galaxies, but preliminary data contradict Big Bang expectations....
The Fossils Still Say No: The Cambrian Explosion
The modern theory of evolution has its roots in Charles Darwin’s 1859 book On the Origin of Species, in which he proposed the fundamental conjecture...