Inside April 2021 Acts & Facts

THURSDAY, APRIL 01, 2021

How will ICR expand biblical creation education this year? How do fossilized fish and land creatures confirm Genesis history? Does recent research support human evolution? What lessons can Christians learn from the Painted Desert, dinosaur fossils, and Petrified Forest National Park? Discover the answers to these questions and more in the April 2021 issue of Acts & Facts!

Road Trip!

We hope you’ve been having as much fun reading our park series in Acts & Facts as we’ve had preparing the articles each month. So far, ICR researchers have introduced us to Grand Canyon,...

BY: JAYME DURANT

Stronger Together: ICR's Education Outreach with CTI

Intensive training in creation science can change your life. One of the most important experiences for June and me in our young married life happened in the summer of 1983 when we attended an intensive...

BY: RANDY J. GULIUZZA, P.E., M.D.

Extinct Radionuclides

What do you think of when you hear the word extinct? Dinosaurs, perhaps? Maybe saber-toothed cats, mammoths, or short-faced bears? We might also include the more recent Bali tiger, passenger pigeon,...

BY: VERNON R. CUPPS, PH.D.

The Fossils Still Say No: Missing Early Evolution of La.,.

One of the biggest hurdles for evolution to overcome is the transition of creatures from living in water to living on land. In the previous article, I showed how all of the alleged aquatic ancestors...

BY: JEFFREY P. TOMKINS, PH.D.

Some Marine Extinctions Were Caused by the Flood

Genesis describes a one-time global catastrophe that completely inundated the world, destroying all air-breathing land animals. God made provision through Noah and the Ark to preserve all dry-land creature...

BY: TIM CLAREY, PH.D.

Building a Perfectly Optimal Flying Machine

For thousands of years, people have dreamed of flying because they witnessed birds and knew it was possible. Inspired by a study of birds, the Wright brothers created the first functional flying machine...

BY: MICHAEL J. STAMP

Does Recent Research Support Human Evolution?

In 1997, the Institute for Creation Research ran an Acts & Facts article on the lack of compelling evidence regarding our supposed evolution from ape-like ancestors.¹ Years have passed,...

BY: FRANK SHERWIN, D.SC. (HON.)

The Painted Desert: Fossils in Flooded Mud Flats

Brian Thomas, Ph.D., and Tim Clarey, Ph.D. The Painted Desert stretches across 120 miles of northern Arizona. Its sedimentary rocks show bright orange, gold, white, and even purple layers (Figure...

BY: VARIOUS AUTHORS

Beware Sinkholes and Other Failing Foundations

The sudden falling of some Christian schools can be compared to tiankengs, the geological term used for sinkholes that are at least 300 feet deep.^1,2 Smaller sinkholes are more common, such...

BY: JAMES J. S. JOHNSON, J.D., TH.D.

Pleasure in Our Purpose

Eric Liddell was one of the most famous athletes of the 20th century and perhaps the greatest that Scotland ever produced. An international rugby player, Olympic champion, and world-record-holding sprinter,...

BY: HENRY M. MORRIS IV

Creation Kids: Bees

by Christy Hardy and Susan Windsor* You’re never too young to be a creation scientist! Kids, discover fun facts about God’s creation with ICR’s special Creation Kids learning and...

BY: VARIOUS AUTHORS

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More Fossils Reflect Life's Original Diversity

Monkey Fossil Confirms Neogene-Quaternary Flood Boundary

A newly published analysis of four fossil molar teeth from a monkey dug up along the left bank of the Yuruá River in the Peruvian Amazon is causing...

BY: JEFFREY P. TOMKINS, PH.D.

'Prehistoric' Paddlefish?

Evolutionists consider the freshwater paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) of the class Actinopterygii to be a prehistoric creature, a primitive bony fish “50...

BY: FRANK SHERWIN, D.SC. (HON.)

Magic Words Can't Explain Strange Fossil

Once upon a time, only a single Italian fossil—a crushed specimen that paleontologists had to reconstruct—represented the extinct reptile...

BY: BRIAN THOMAS, PH.D.

More Fossil Record

Camels Once Roamed America’s Uplands

James J. S. Johnson, J.D., Th.D., and Tim Clarey, Ph.D. A recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Earth Science indicates that North...

BY: VARIOUS AUTHORS

We Still Can’t Determine the Sex of Dinosaurs

Recently, a new study led by Queen Mary University of London concluded that dinosaur bones tell us little about their sexes.¹ In the past, secular...

BY: TIM CLAREY, PH.D.

Rapid Burial in the Flood Explains Strange "Squid" Attack

A new study published in Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association has found what is claimed to be the oldest recorded attack by a squid-like creature.¹...

BY: TIM CLAREY, PH.D.

More All Life Systems Were Created by God

Sequoia National Park: Giant Trees Exhibit Expert Engin.,.

Question: What are the biggest trees on planet Earth? Answer: Giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum).¹ They grow on west-facing slopes...

BY: BRIAN THOMAS, PH.D.

Fossil Fish Finally Filmed

The bizarre lobe-finned coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) “that flourished some 350 million years ago”¹ continues to be a thorn...

BY: FRANK SHERWIN, D.SC. (HON.)

COVID-19 Infection Rates Lower at High-Altitudes

On March 24, 2020, we ran a news article about how warmer weather appeared to hamper COVID-19 infections.¹ New evidence could indicate that...

BY: MICHAEL J. STAMP

More Life Was Created Fully Functional

Secret Life of Moths Vital to Plant Life

God’s handiwork is not just apparent in the amazing complexity of individual creatures, but also in how they interact to form vital parts of entire...

BY: JEFFREY P. TOMKINS, PH.D.

Desperate Dinosaurs Cannibalized During Global Flood

Scientists recently discovered evidence that large theropods were possibly guilty of cannibalism.¹ The new study, published in PLOS ONE,...

BY: TIM CLAREY, PH.D.

Babies Are Born Ready to Read

Dogs don’t read the words on a page. Neither did Coco, the famous gorilla that learned to communicate using simple hand signs. So what affords humans...

BY: BRIAN THOMAS, PH.D.

More Problems with Evolution

A Single String Just Helped Confirm Genesis

A piece of string about 6 millimeters long is threatening standard evolutionary theory about the history of humanity. The BBC reported that researchers...

BY: LAUREN PENNINGTON

Bacterial Proteins Use Quantum Mechanics

Researchers have found a dimmer switch inside a protein. It tunes the protein’s configuration to take advantage of quantum mechanics during photosynthesis....

BY: BRIAN THOMAS, PH.D.

A Strange and Mysterious Hypercarnivore Discovered

In 1988 a fossil jaw was discovered by paleontologists in San Diego County, California. Decades later the scientists determined it belonged to a relatively...

BY: FRANK SHERWIN, D.SC. (HON.)

More Zoology

Hero Shrew Spine Design Glorifies the Creator

When you first look at a hero shrew, you might wonder, “How in the world did this critter get this name?” But these little mole-like creatures...

BY: JEFFREY P. TOMKINS, PH.D.

Noisy Narwhals in Greenland’s Frigid Fjords

Recently, after audio-recording underwater in Greenland’s fjords, two geoscientists published research on vocalizations made by narwhals. The sounds...

BY: JAMES J. S. JOHNSON, J.D., TH.D.

Record-Breaking Mouse, Higher Than Any Mammal

Recently, researchers have reported on the world’s “highest-dwelling mammal,” the yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse, observed upon a dormant...

BY: JAMES J. S. JOHNSON, J.D., TH.D.

More Living Fossils Display No Signs of Evolution's Long Ages

The Fascinating Squid

A recent science news article sheds light on the amazing squid, but definitely not on its supposed evolution or origin. Creation scientists maintain...

BY: FRANK SHERWIN, D.SC. (HON.)

Big Fish Fossil Recalls Big Flop

One of the most famous living fossils is back in the news. The coelacanth is an endangered deep-sea fish. Its fins fit to unique, wrist-like bones, and...

BY: BRIAN THOMAS, PH.D.

Chambered Nautilus Study Offers Clue to Ammonite Extinction

The chambered nautilus, also known as the pearly nautilus, is a mollusk with a beautiful, symmetrical shell that is divided into buoyancy-controlling chambers....

BY: BRIAN THOMAS, PH.D.

More Origin of Life

Life Is More Than Biomolecules

In order to have evolution, you must first have life. Both sides of the evolution-creation debate agree that the chance of all the correct biomolecules...

BY: EDWARD SIEBERT, PH.D.

Giant Rhinos Are Still Rhinos

Fossils from two giant rhinos dated by evolutionists to be “22 million years old” in the evolutionary timetable have been discovered in China.¹...

BY: FRANK SHERWIN, D.SC. (HON.)

Could a Virus Jump-Start the First Cell?

Evolutionists have had a hard time imagining how mitochondria evolved. One theory is that these cellular powerhouses originated when bacteria invaded...

BY: BRIAN THOMAS, PH.D.

More Creation Science Update

Can Moths Sense Earth's Magnetic Field?

In the late 1960s, a scientist named Ronald Lockley wrote, “How do animals find their way over apparently trackless country, through pathless...

BY: FRANK SHERWIN, D.SC. (HON.)

The Cognitive Map: An Incredible Display of the Brain&r.,.

To be spatially capable creatures, humans need their brains to tell them 1) where things are in relation to themselves and 2) where everything is in...

BY: JONATHAN K. CORRADO, PH.D., P. E.

Molecular Motors of a Squid Show CET in Action

It has traditionally been thought in biology that invertebrates were somehow simple and less complex than vertebrates. But in past decades, this has...

BY: FRANK SHERWIN, D.SC. (HON.)

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