Our thoughts, we are told, should always be focused on eternal things, but unfortunately, the affairs of life often crowd in and wrest our attention away. Several recent events have especially occupied our thoughts, but instead of being a distraction, they have forced our entire nation to reconsider weightier matters.

The Institute for Creation Research is well known for its conviction that the scriptural account of creation is true as it stands. In particular, we notice that ten times in Genesis 1 God created the various plant and animal types "after their kind." He did not transform one kind into a different kind, as evolution insists.

Many friends of ICR have asked us about the recent claims that a human has been cloned by a French group called Clon-aide. Unfortunately, as of this writing, while the claims, press releases, and television interviews have been abundant, real information has been scarce. Thus, we're not in a position to be definitive.

In the minds of many, creation thinking is marginalized to a "fundamentalist" few. But let's look again.

The Green River oil shales have provided one of the very strongest arguments for millions of years, or at least one of the most used.