Swimming upstream is not easy…just ask a salmon. Why not just lazily drift along with the current? "Going with the flow" looks much more attractive and is certainly much more popular. Why struggle so much? That’s an important question for a salmon, who must battle its way sometimes hundreds of miles against strong currents in order to reach its spawning grounds.

Facts are funny…sometimes. Not humorous, but odd, especially when two people see the same facts and describe them differently. I suppose that’s the problem with being finite and faulty human beings…we approach facts with biases. And if we don’t strip away the biases to allow truth to speak, we’ll more than likely misinterpret the evidence.

"Why are you guys so literalistic about Genesis? Don’t you know that it’s just Hebrew poetry? There’s no need to treat it like real history!" This was the smug comment of a young English literature teacher at a recent Christian educators’ conference where the Institute for Creation Research was conducting seminars.

Every human organization has an inner core, a character that molds the way it functions. The Institute for Creation Research is driven by three ideals expressed in these words: Biblical. Accurate. Certain.