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Buried Secrets Can Be Worth Uncovering

Buried secrets sometimes surface, revealing hidden things. However, if no one is willing to do some diligent digging, much of what is concealed will remain undiscovered.

For example, last year some “grave secrets” were uncovered: human bones from a Viking cemetery concealed in a coastal cliff near Orkney’s Newark Bay.1,2 No gravediggers triggered the coastal cemetery’s discovery—stormy weather did.

Recent storms…have [taken] their toll on a soft sandstone cliff where the [insular coast’s] graveyard is found. As a result, bones are starting to stick out after being exposed and…some are falling down onto the beach.…The size of the Viking cemetery has yet to be determined, though hundreds are thought to have been laid to rest [there].1

Sometimes discoveries, like this one, are unintentional surprises.3 But such fortuitous discoveries can be expanded by “digging deeper.”1,3

Digging Deeper in Biblical History

The Bible’s record of Earth history is completely accurate and reliable. If pieces don’t seem to fit what we think we know about history, dig deeper—Scripture withstands scrutiny.

Years ago, critics scoffed at how Scripture reported King Belshazzar’s offer of “third-highest” rank in the Babylonian empire to the person who could explain the miraculous handwriting on the wall (Daniel 5:7, 16). Since Joseph was promoted to second place in Egypt (Genesis 41:37-45), why was Daniel only given third place?

In 1924, newly found ancient records showed that Belshazzar’s father, King Nabonidus, had commissioned his son as regent (co-king) to rule while Nabonidus was off in faraway places. Belshazzar was thus in second place in the empire, so third place was the highest he could give to anyone.4

Digging Deeper in Creation Science

When Charles Darwin announced his theory, few bothered to “check under the hood” to see if there was an empirically verifiable process that substantiated his claim that natural selection serves as a substitute creator to think, favor (or disfavor), and select animals to survive. Thankfully, ICR’s Dr. Randy Guliuzza undertook the herculean task of digging deeper into evolutionist research literature and exposed the natural selection model as an etiological bait-and-switch scam like the Emperor’s New Clothes.5

Dr. Guliuzza patiently uncovered grave secrets and reported study after study, building a mountain of bioengineering research and analysis that not only refuted natural selection as a causal agent for life’s diversity but pointed irrefutably to the exquisite innate engineering the Creator has invested in every creature.5

Sound bites tickle ears, but the truth is often buried in fine print. At ICR, we strive to unearth the truth and provide readable articles on creation science informed by Scripture and biblical apologetics. And we simultaneously aim to report professional scholarship that has depth.

It’s part of the Berean tradition (Acts 17:11). Because digging deeper—finding more truth—will strengthen our faith in God and His Word.

References

  1. “Newark is partly composed of soft boulder clay, meaning the island is prone to landslides.…The location was in use for around a thousand years (550 AD – 1450 AD) and has many secrets yet to reveal.” Palace, S. Ancient Viking Cemetery Exposed by Powerful Storm. The Vintage News. Posted on thevintagenews.com March 21, 2020, accessed December 10, 2020.
  2. ICR reported on disinterred Viking skeletons that illustrate how evolutionists’ uniformitarian assumptions fail forensic science scrutiny. Johnson, J. J. S. 2018. Viking Bones Contradict Carbon-14 Assumptions. Acts & Facts. 47 (5): 21.
  3. Criswell, D. 2004. The “Evolution” of Antibiotic Resistance. Acts & Facts. 33 (12), discussing Alexander Fleming’s fortuitous discovery of penicillin. See also Luke 8:17.
  4. Whitcomb, J. C. 1985. Daniel. Chicago, IL: Moody Press, 77-79. Dr. Whitcomb notes, “Belshazzar the king…[was] subordinate king under his father, Nabonidus, during the final fourteen years of the Neo-Babylonian Empire (553-539 BC).” Belshazzar matches the Babylonian king BEL-SHAR-USUR mentioned on a cuneiform tablet found as early as AD 1861, as well as the Babylonian “crown prince” who “was regarded as king” in the Nabonidus Chronicle publicized in AD 1882. Belshazzar was “left in full control of the [Babylonian] army from at least 549 to 545 BC while [King] Nabonidus was establishing a new military and commercial fortress at Teima in northwest Arabia.”
  5. Guliuzza, R. J. 2011. Darwin’s Sacred Imposter: Natural Selection’s Idolatrous TrapActs & Facts. 40 (11): 12-15; Guliuzza, R. J. 2010. Natural Selection Is Not “Nature’s Intelligence.” Acts & Facts. 39 (5): 10-11.

* Dr. Johnson is Associate Professor of Apologetics and Chief Academic Officer at the Institute for Creation Research.

Cite this article: James J. S. Johnson, J.D., Th.D. 2021. Buried Secrets Can Be Worth Uncovering. Acts & Facts. 50 (2).

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