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Evolution and Darwin

What if the story of life isn’t about evolution’s random processes? As many scientists reexamine how the living world works, they keep finding signs of purposeful design.

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Creation and Adaptations

Imagine if living creatures acted like tiny engineers, constantly sensing, problem solving, and adjusting to their surroundings in real time. Emerging evidence suggests that they do and that systems inside creatures, not outside factors, make it happen.

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The Ice Age

Ice Age woolly mammoths and fierce sabretooth tigers capture imaginations and lead us to wonder what could have initiated such a different world and climate. Geology and Scripture come together to show how a single, massive event in Earth’s recent past launched this famously frigid period.

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Starlight and the Big Bang

We typically take a Big Bang beginning for granted, but is it reasonable? Conventional scientists themselves keep encountering evidence from galaxies, stars, planets, and even starlight that confronts the theory.

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Age of the World

How can scientists know for sure the earth is more than four billion years old when typical dating methods so often contradict one another? Many natural decay processes like Earth’s fast-decaying magnetic field strength pull the idea of a young earth into the realm of science.

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Climate Issues

Will rising sea levels flood cities? Must we take emergency action to correct climate change? Although Earth temperatures shift, source data may not justify such critical scenarios. Plus, ample evidence of a well-crafted atmosphere points to a surprising level of climate stability.

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History and Genesis

What if Genesis isn’t just ancient mythology, but a true record of our world’s beginnings? Scientists of every discipline are discovering clues that align with the Bible’s account.

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God’s Word

The Bible claims to be God’s special revelation of Himself. It tells how we sinners can know the depth of His love and sacrifice for each of us to have a relationship with our holy Creator. But can we trust its words? Again and again, history, prophecy, and creation confirm the Bible.

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Global Flood

A huge, sturdy, floating box one and a half football fields long; steady rain for 40 straight days; water covering and destroying the highest mountains of the time; eight lone survivors caring for representatives of every kind of land animal—could it all be true? Volumes of seldom-referenced science and history confirm the Genesis Flood account.

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Dinosaurs and Fossils

What roles do imagination versus science play in popular stories of fearsome dinosaurs evolving into birds, thriving in cold environments, or even having gone extinct tens of millions of years ago? Examine where and why fiction has become “fact” and theory has become “truth” in conventional circles.

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Divine Designs

From Earth’s position in the solar system to the living miracle that is your human body, divine engineering saturates our world. Do nature’s impersonal processes really deserve the credit so often afforded them for engineering our fantastic cosmos? Get glimpses of our great Creator through His astounding handiwork.