Archive of Features Articles
Applying the Theory of Biological Design to Optimal Owl.,.
by Randy J. Guliuzza, P.E., M.D., and Aaron T. Guliuzza, P.E.*
If the greatest writers had been well-versed in fields of science, then history might have also remembered them...
Gunnison National Forest: Adaptable Aspens and Warped Rocks
Gunnison National Forest’s 1.67-millionplus acres showcase stunning views of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. The Continental Divide forms its eastern border, and other parks nestle against its many...
Creation Kids: Owls
by Sydney Walters and Susan Windsor*
You're never too young to be a creation scientist and explore our Creator's world. Kids, discover fun facts about God’s creation with ICR’s...
ICR 2024 Resource Catalog
At the Institute for Creation Research, our mission is not only to conduct research demonstrating how science confirms Scripture but also to share this with others so they, too, may glorify Jesus as the...
Why Biology Needs A Theory of Biological Design—Part 4
Nobel Prize-winning German physicist Max Planck perceptively observed that “if you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”1 That pithy statement...
Proclaiming Christ in Paradise: An Interview with Dr. B.,.
For more than 50 years, the Institute for Creation Research has investigated the evidence showing how science supports the Bible’s account of a recent creation. The Lord Jesus Christ created the...
La Brea Tar Pits at Hancock Park: Post-Flood Catastrophes
The La Brea Tar Pits have fascinated visitors ever since Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolá chronicled the site in 1769.1 But even before that, humans had likely used the “tar”...
Creation Kids: Geysers
by Renée Dusseau and Susan Windsor*
You're never too young to be a creation scientist and explore our Creator's world. Kids, discover fun facts about God’s creation with ICR’s...
Why Biology Needs A Theory of Biological Design—Part 3
Have you ever been reading a story when it dawns on you that the author merely took a biblical account and reset it to modern times with renamed characters? This isn’t uncommon, but at times biblical...
ICR Veteran Don Barber Retires
Don and Rebecca Barber
After 34 years with the Institute for Creation Research, Don Barber retired on March 31, 2024. His eventful life leading up to ICR uniquely equipped...
Makoshika State Park: Dinosaur Myths and Wonders
by Brian Thomas, Ph.D., and Tommy Lohman*
Makoshika State Park, located just southeast of Glendive, Montana, became a state park in 1939. Its badlands feature steepsided, rugged terrain carved...
Creation Kids: Butterflies
by Renée Dusseau and Susan Windsor*
You're never too young to be a creation scientist and explore our Creator's world. Kids, discover fun facts about God’s creation with ICR’s...
Why Biology Needs A Theory of Biological Design—Part 2
“Based on a true story” is included by movie producers to add authenticity, importance, and a flair of anticipation. So, my account of how I was greatly misled as a youngster is a preemptive...
Hot Springs National Park: Hydrothermal Springs Formed .,.
Hot Springs National Park is located about an hour southwest of Little Rock in the folded Ouachita Mountains of central Arkansas. It is the second smallest national park in the United States at just...
Creation Kids: Seeds and Sprouts
by Renée Dusseau and Susan Windsor*
You're never too young to be a creation scientist and explore our Creator's world. Kids, discover fun facts about God’s creation with ICR’s...
Creation Kids: Solar Eclipses
Designed by Susan Windsor*
You're never too young to be a creation scientist and explore our Creator's world. Kids, discover fun facts about God’s creation with ICR’s special...
Why Biology Needs a Theory of Biological Design—Part 1
Anyone who watches American football has observed a predictable inconsistency. When a pass is caught extremely close to the sideline, everyone with the offense immediately makes the arm signal for a...
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve: Colossal I.,.
The tallest sand dunes in North America are found in Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, located on the eastern edge of the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado. The largest of the dunes reaches...
2023—Another Year of Growth and Opportunity
The Institute for Creation Research had a fantastic year advancing creation science in 2023! It’s my joy to continue the tradition of our founder, Dr. Henry M. Morris, in using the first Acts...
Fossil Butte National Monument: Spectacular Flood Graveyard
Southwestern Wyoming contains one of the most unique fossil sites in the world—Fossil Butte National Monument. Located about 11 miles west of Kemmerer, it was established as a national monument...
Creation Kids: Narwhals
Designed by Susan Windsor*
You're never too young to be a creation scientist and explore our Creator's world. Kids, discover fun facts about God’s creation with ICR’s special...
Kids Edition 2023: Amazing Amphibians
Hi, kids! We created a special Acts & Facts just for you! Have fun doing the activities while learning about the wonderful world God gave you to enjoy and take care of.
God’s...
Kids Edition 2023: Poodles & Pups
Hi, kids! We created a special Acts & Facts just for you! Have fun doing the activities while learning about the wonderful world God gave you to enjoy and take care of.
There are...
Kids Edition 2023: Elephants
Hi, kids! We created a special Acts & Facts just for you! Have fun doing the activities while learning about the wonderful world God gave you to enjoy and take care of.
There are...
Kids Edition 2023: The Fall, Flood, & Fossils
Hi, kids! We created a special Acts & Facts just for you! Have fun doing the activities while learning about the wonderful world God gave you to enjoy and take care of.
Our Creator,...
Kids Edition 2023: Dinosaurs & Birds
Hi, kids! We created a special Acts & Facts just for you! Have fun doing the activities while learning about the wonderful world God gave you to enjoy and take care of.
Did dinosaurs...
Kids Edition 2023: Ice Age
Hi, kids! We created a special Acts & Facts just for you! Have fun doing the activities while learning about the wonderful world God gave you to enjoy and take care of.
The Ice Age...
Kids Edition 2023: Black Holes
Hi, kids! We created a special Acts & Facts just for you! Have fun doing the activities while learning about the wonderful world God gave you to enjoy and take care of.
Black holes...
Kids Edition 2023: Gemstones & Jewels
Hi, kids! We created a special Acts & Facts just for you! Have fun doing the activities while learning about the wonderful world God gave you to enjoy and take care of.
Gemstones...
Kids Edition 2023: Rainbows
Hi, kids! We created a special Acts & Facts just for you! Have fun doing the activities while learning about the wonderful world God gave you to enjoy and take care of.
Rainbows are...
Kids Edition 2023: Good Stewards
Hi, kids! We created a special Acts & Facts just for you! Have fun doing the activities while learning about the wonderful world God gave you to enjoy and take care of.
Our Creator,...
Creation Kids: Pumpkins
Designed by 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 activities...
Billions of Biological Nanomachines Point to Christ's W.,.
I’m sure we’ve all had at least one teacher who was particularly hard. I had two—my New Testament Greek professors at Moody Bible Institute, Mr. Donald L. Wise and Dr. Paul...
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore: Showcase for th.,.
Like a white winding ribbon along the shoreline, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore’s sandy bluffs ascend hundreds of feet above the waters of Lake Michigan. This steep dune face defines the...
The Genesis Flood : Upheaval in Uniformitarian Geology
Purpose
The publication of The Genesis Flood by Drs. John C. Whitcomb and Henry M. Morris in 1961 revolutionized and invigorated modern creation science. Their book exposed the dilemma Bible-believing...
Catastrophic Plate Tectonics
Purpose
In Western culture during the first few decades of the 19th century, the uniformitarian interpretation of the earth’s physical history supplanted the Bible’s account of that...
RATE Summary
Purpose
The RATE (Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth) project from 1997 to 2005 examined and then refuted the claim that radioisotope dating proves the earth is multiple millions of years...
Human-Chimp DNA Similarity Research Refutes Evolution
Purpose
An oft-repeated claim of evolutionary propaganda is that the DNA of chimpanzees and humans is 98.5% identical. This high level of DNA similarity is required to bolster the hypothesis that...
Global Stratigraphy Supports a Progressive Worldwide Flood
Purpose
Is there geological evidence for a global flood? Is there evidence that the waters rose and peaked on Day 150 as recorded in Genesis 8? And at what level in the geologic record did it...
The Coconino Sandstone: Water, not Wind
Purpose
The Coconino Sandstone is one of the most well-known formations in Grand Canyon. The blond-colored sandstone, just three layers down from the rim, forms a distinctive cliff that can be...
Cosmology Research
Purpose
Taking the Hebrew text of Scripture at face value without inserting gaps or revising the meanings, the universe is only about 6,000 years old. Creationists have proposed various theories...
Planetary Magnetism
Purpose
In 1971, Dr. Thomas Barnes publicized a then “trade secret” of scientists studying the earth’s magnetic field, which is that the main part of the field has been decaying...
ICR and Explaining the Ice Age
by Larry Vardiman, Ph.D., and Michael J. Oard, M.S.*
Purpose
There is strong geological evidence for an Ice Age, so the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) has always been interested in explaining...
Original Biochemistry in Fossils
Purpose
In 1997, paleontologist Dr. Mary Schweitzer accidentally stumbled upon what appeared to be blood vessels and blood cells from a T. rex bone.1 Proliferating publications of apparently...
CET: Testing the Cavefish Model
Staff Writer
Purpose
The Institute for Creation Research (ICR) is testing an engineering- based model of rapid biological adaptation called continuous environmental tracking (CET).1...
Continuous Environmental Tracking : An Engineering-Base.,.
Purpose
The Institute for Creation Research is engaged in our biggest science initiative in the last two decades, and it could be our most important undertaking to date. We’re working on...
Debunking an Iconic Uniformitarian Ice Age Theory
Purpose
The Milankovitch, or astronomical, theory holds that the timing of Ice Ages is controlled by slow changes in Earth’s orbital and rotational motions that vary the way sunlight falls...
Lessons from the Mount St. Helens Eruption
Purpose
Nothing put a damper on uniformitarianism like the Mount St. Helens eruption did on May 18, 1980. Prior to this eruption, strict uniformitarianism reigned supreme in geology. The influence...
How Darwin Poisons Science
There’s no denying that most people believe evolution is science but creation science and Intelligent Design (ID) are religion. Education, entertainment, news media, and even our government promote...
Garden of the Gods: A Product of the Flood
One of the most breathtaking sites along the Colorado Front Range is located within the city limits of Colorado Springs. Here, multiple sheets of orange and white sandstones shoot right out of the ground...
Creation Kids: Mars
Designed by 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 activities...
Big Thicket National Preserve: Pitcher Plants and Busy Bees
In the early 1800s, pioneers of Southeast Texas initially avoided Big Thicket. Its more than three million acres embraced dense forests, swamps, and few people. Subsistence farmers soon penetrated the...
Creation Kids: Sounds of Summer
Designed by 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 activities...
Dethroning the Dogma "Mutations Occur at Random"
Honesty is good for the soul…especially when the evidence against you is piling up. Some evolutionary biologists held an astoundingly candid conference in Lisbon, Portugal, called On the Nature...
The ICC and a Covenant for Civility and Respect
I’m delighted to tell you about a very important upcoming creation conference—and it isn’t being hosted by ICR. As you make summer plans, the 9th International Conference on Creationism...
Dinosaur Valley State Park: Stepping into the Flooded Past
by Brian Thomas, Ph.D., and Tim Clarey, Ph.D.*
A bend in the Paluxy River winds through Dinosaur Valley State Park near Glen Rose, Texas. Turtles, fishes, moss, algae, and some snakes inhabit...
Remembering Dr. John Morris
ICR President Emeritus John Morris passed away on January 29, 2023, at the age of 76. He was deeply respected and dearly loved by family, friends, and colleagues. Fondly known to many as Dr. John, he...
Creation Kids: Saguaros and Gila Woodpeckers
by Bethany Trimble 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...
Mutation-Selection: A Calamitous Creationist Concession
Creation scientists sometimes say to evolutionists, “We have the same data you do, but we have different interpretations.” That statement is definitely true of the different approaches to...
Devils Tower: Mysterious Columns and Engineered Lichens
Many people have seen pictures of Devils Tower or visited the site in Wyoming. Very few of the 500,000 annual visitors, though, may understand the mystery of its formation or the distinct role the global...
Creation Kids: Auroras
by Lori Fausak 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...
What a Wonderful Year! 2022 in Review
Longtime readers of Acts & Facts may fondly recall how in the January issue ICR founder Dr. Henry M. Morris would sum up ICR’s major activities and blessings of the prior year. When he pulled...
Badlands National Park: Flood Features and Fossils
Visited by over a million people a year, Badlands National Park is just over an hour east of Rapid City, South Dakota, and covers around 380 square miles. National park status was designated in 1978,...
Creation Kids: Arctic Hare
by Michael Stamp 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...
Kids Edition 2022: Good Creation & the Fall
Hi, kids! We created a special Acts & Facts just for you! We hope you have fun doing the activities while learning how God designed creation just right in the beginning.
Our Creator,...
Kids Edition 2022: The Flood & Fossils
Hi, kids! We created a special Acts & Facts just for you! We hope you have fun doing the activities while learning how God designed creation just right in the beginning.
About 4,500...
Kids Edition 2022: Dinosaurs & Dragons
Hi, kids! We created a special Acts & Facts just for you! We hope you have fun doing the activities while learning how God designed creation just right in the beginning.
Dinosaurs...
Kids Edition 2022: Kinds & Cats
Hi, kids! We created a special Acts & Facts just for you! We hope you have fun doing the activities while learning how God designed creation just right in the beginning.
Our Creator...
Kids Edition 2022: Amazing Creatures
Hi, kids! We created a special Acts & Facts just for you! We hope you have fun doing the activities while learning how God designed creation just right in the beginning.
A marsupial...
Kids Edition 2022: Horses, of Courses
Hi, kids! We created a special Acts & Facts just for you! We hope you have fun doing the activities while learning how God designed creation just right in the beginning.
Horses can...
Kids Edition 2022: Space
Hi, kids! We created a special Acts & Facts just for you! We hope you have fun doing the activities while learning how God designed creation just right in the beginning.
Christ Jesus...
Kids Edition 2022: Goldilocks Planet
Hi, kids! We created a special Acts & Facts just for you! We hope you have fun doing the activities while learning how God designed creation just right in the beginning.
The Lord...
Kids Edition 2022: Weather
Hi, kids! We created a special Acts & Facts just for you! We hope you have fun doing the activities while learning how God designed creation just right in the beginning.
Earth can...
Kids Edition 2022: Created in God's Image
Hi, kids! We created a special Acts & Facts just for you! We hope you have fun doing the activities while learning how God designed creation just right in the beginning.
For us, Jesus...
Created to Sing: Our Gloriously Engineered Musical Ability
by Randy J. Guliuzza and Aaron T. Guliuzza*
“Next time, won’t you sing with me?” is the closing line of the ABCs so often heard from sweet little voices. Since they don’t...
Mackinac Island State Park: Flood, Ice Age, and...Digestion?
Originally designated in 1875 as America’s second national park, Mackinac Island’s federal land was transferred to the State of Michigan in 1895 and became its first state park.1...
The ICR Discovery Center Celebrates Its Third Anniversary!
The ICR Discovery Center in Dallas, Texas, held its grand opening on September 2, 2019. Since then, thousands of people have come through our doors and seen the scientific and historical evidence that...
Creation Kids: Trees and Leaves
by Michael Stamp 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...
Creation Pioneer John Morris
Several years have passed since I retired from the Institute for Creation Research. Let me emphasize “retired.” I didn’t leave ICR. In fact, I’ve always stayed in contact, coming...
John C. Whitcomb: God’s Providence and The Genesi.,.
John C. Whitcomb
John C. Whitcomb and Henry M. Morris published The Genesis Flood in 1961. For the first time, a book presented an in-depth analysis of the biblical and scientific...
Creation Pioneer John Baumgardner
My wife, Mary, and I currently live in central Virginia near Lynchburg and Liberty University, where I serve as research professor emeritus in the School of Engineering. God has blessed me here with...
Creation Pioneer Gary Parker
Gary Parker
In rural south Florida where I grew up (Arcadia, DeSoto County), where my wife, Mary, and I had the first of our four children (all born within five years 60 years...
Creation Pioneer Russell Humphreys
Russell Humphreys
After I retired in 2008 from being an associate professor for the Institute for Creation Research, I moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee. From my home office...
Creation Pioneer David Coppedge
David Coppedge
I’ve lived in Santa Clarita, California, since 1992, but I grew up in the San Fernando Valley. My parents were godly servants of the Lord in the Valley...
Creation Pioneer Larry Vardiman
Larry and Jeannette Vardiman
During my second year in graduate school at Colorado State University, I received a phone call from Pastor Siemen’s secretary at First Baptist...
Creation Pioneer Don DeYoung
I first met Dr. Henry Morris in 1973 when he spoke in chapel at Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana. With a growing interest in creation studies, my family and I spent the 1979–1980 sabbatical...
Henry M. Morris and Duane T. Gish: Advancing the Cause .,.
The following excerpts by Dr. Henry Morris and Dr. Duane Gish were taken from the first issue of the Creation-Science Report (Volume 1, Number 1, January–February...
Grand Teton National Park: the Youngest Rocky Mountains
by Tim Clarey, Ph.D., and Brian Thomas, Ph.D.*
Just south of Yellowstone National Park lies one of the most picturesque mountain ranges in the western United States—the Teton Range, established...
Natural Selection’s Death-Driven Worldview
Millions of Christians are rejoicing over the United States Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion. Countless Christians have prayerfully labored...
Creation Kids: Sharks
by Michael Stamp 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...
Biblical Insights into Today’s Violent Mob Mentality
Some scenes from the evening news get etched into our memories. I recall seeing a college professor step outside his building and become suddenly surrounded by a very angry pack of students shouting...
Yellowstone National Park, Part 2: Canyons and Catastrophe
by Tim Clarey, Ph.D., and Brian Thomas, Ph.D.*
About three million visitors tour Yellowstone National Park’s 3,440 square miles each year.1 Most come to see natural wonders like...
Creation Kids: Earth
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...
Lifting the Curtain on Scientific Elitism
“The curtain has been lifted” is an idiom that aptly portrays when a hidden truth is revealed. On the public side of a curtain called “biological science,” the perception of...
Yellowstone National Park, Part 1: A Flood Supervolcano
by Tim Clarey, Ph.D., and Brian Thomas, Ph.D.*
Yellowstone became the world’s first national park in 1872. Geologist Ferdinand Hayden led an expedition the year before through much of what...
ICR’s School of Biblical Apologetics
The Institute for Creation Research’s School of Biblical Apologetics (SOBA) was launched over 12 years ago. ICR’s SOBA programs provide biblical creation-based apologetics for seeking, finding,...
Creation Kids: Grand Canyon
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...
Christian Courage Is Imperative
Courage was a character trait I heard a lot about growing up, primarily from my dad but also teachers, and even on television. I saw courage to do your duty in Combat! and quiet, principled courage...
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore: The Blanket Sand fro.,.
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore lies a few miles east of the town of Munising, Michigan, along one of the most scenic shorelines in the United States. America’s first national lakeshore, it...
Creation Kids: Hummingbird Flight
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...
Meet ICR's Communications Department
“Can we get a kids’ book on dinosaurs?” “Does this sentence sound okay?” “Can you add zing to this title and make this letter sing?”
These questions and...
Finding Biblical Clues to Design
True story…and the star is physicist Dr. Russ Humphreys. Every so often someone passes on a new insight that revolutionizes our thinking. We remember these occasions because they are so rare.
About...
New Year, New Logo
After 52 years of fruitful ministry, the Institute for Creation Research is renewing its commitment to rigorous scientific research that affirms the truth of Scripture. As a staff, we’re delighted...
Announcing ICR’s New Digital Media Department
Today there are more ways to communicate than ever before, so we have assembled a Digital Media Department to explore the best new avenues for sharing ICR’s pioneering research. The department’s...
Crater Lake National Park: Serene Beauty After Volcanic.,.
by Tim Clarey, Ph.D., and James J. S. Johnson, J.D., Th.D.*
The deepest and arguably most spectacular lake in the United States is located inside a volcano. Known as Crater Lake, it reaches 1,943...
Creation Kids: Our Young Solar System
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...
Jesus Christ Is Our Perfect Mediator
We’ll never get bored throughout eternity. There is always something wonderfully new to learn about our precious Lord Jesus, the uplifting Holy Spirit, and our good heavenly Father. Even now,...
Haleakala National Park: One of Many Young-Looking Vol.,.
You can start the day atop the cold peak of Mt. Haleakala and end it on a warm beach on Maui. The sprawling volcanic mountain rises 10,000 feet above sea level. Nene birds, cattle, horses, and people...
Creation Kids: Snowflakes
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...
Why Reinvent the Wheel?
by Randy J. Guliuzza and Aaron T. Guliuzza*
Most of us know the phrase “Don’t reinvent the wheel.” It means that we hope to take the solution for one problem and readily apply it to...
Carlsbad Caverns National Park: Fast Formations
by Dave Woetzel, M.S., and Brian Thomas, Ph.D.*
Have you ever toured a cave? There is something especially intriguing about exploring the deep, dark underground and its mysterious animals and rock...
Creation Kids: Comparing Chimps and Humans
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...
John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park
I surely enjoyed leading college student groups on spring break camping trips to John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park on Key Largo in Florida. Diving excursions to the coral reefs about three miles...
Hawaii Behind the Scenes
ICR Research Scientist Dr. Brian Thomas and ICR Video Producer Clint Loveness, with help from friends and family, recently shot footage in Maui, Hawaii, for upcoming video projects.
On the north...
Creation Kids: Floods Form Fossils Fast
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...
A New Commitment to Deep Research
If all is on schedule, and with the good blessings of the Lord Jesus, then as you read this article nearly all of the ICR scientists and a number of support staff will be working on the first-ever ICR...
Waco Mammoth National Monument
Hunters in the 1970s discovered mammoth bones exposed in sediments near the confluence of the Bosque and Brazos Rivers in north central Texas. They notified scientists, who began excavating the site....
Creation Kids: Beauty by Design
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...
The Tyranny of Consensus Thinking
“How can so many scientists be wrong?” This question is routinely wielded as real evidence for evolution. I’ve heard it in discussions with people ranging from grammar school students...
Crater of Diamonds State Park and the Origin of Diamonds
At Crater of Diamonds State Park in western Arkansas, families dig diamonds for fun while more serious sifters seek sensational paydays. Countless brides have wondered where the pretty diamonds on their...
Can a Merciful God Create Parasites?
Sir David Attenborough of BBC fame is regularly asked by Christians why he will not give credit to God for the amazing creatures featured on his nature documentaries. He often replies:
My response…is...
Creation Kids: Testing the Limits
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...
Walton's Lost World Obscures Biblical Clarity
“Now, that was as clear as mud!” is an exclamation we’ve heard before. We picture a frustrated person having just heard a convoluted account where, despite their best efforts, they...
Acadia: The Maine Jewel Among America's Parks
James J. S. Johnson, J.D., Th.D., and Tim Clarey, Ph.D.*
Acadia National Park displays Christ’s artistry throughout almost 50,000 acres of forests, island wildlife, salty-air breezes, and...
The Plate Twirler and Our Solar System
Imagine opening a door to a room and seeing a plate spinning on a stick with a spin rate that makes it wobble. Then imagine you shut the door and go back in time three minutes. What would you expect...
Creation Kids: Moon
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...
Evolution's Divide Is Creation's Opportunity
Missed opportunities and bad timing often seem to go together. Military history has several notable examples of commanders who “seized defeat from the jaws of victory” when they delayed...
The Everglades: Two Biology Basics the Bible Got Right
Brian Thomas, Ph.D., and Gary Parker, Ed.D.*
Imagine a river 50 miles wide and 100 miles long but only inches deep. Its slow flow is hidden under tall swamp grasses punctuated by small, rounded...
What It Takes to Make a Cell: A Review of The Stairway .,.
Rare is the science book that can hold even an average reader’s attention. But The Stairway to Life does just that. Coauthored by biochemist Laura Tan and biomedical engineer Rob Stadler, it carries...
Creation Kids: Coral Reef
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...
Refusing to Live by Lies
Perhaps my parents were naïve. They raised me to respect my teachers, the government, and other authorities, and to believe these entities acted in my best interests and certainly wouldn’t...
Zion National Park: Evidence of Deep Water Sand Waves
Brian Thomas, Ph.D., and Tim Clarey, Ph.D.*
It was like driving into another world when we emerged from Zion-Mount Carmel Tunnel right at dawn. Zion National Park opened up to us in brilliant...
Creation Kids: Volcanoes
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...
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...
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...
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...
ICR Upholds the Clarity of Scripture
“The Bible is the inspired, inerrant Word of God” has been affirmed repeatedly from pulpits. But did you know this important declaration presupposes two other essential doctrines of the...
Gunnison's Black Canyon: The Flood Solves Mysterious Mi.,.
Brian Thomas, Ph.D., and Tim Clarey, Ph.D.
The Gunnison River winds westward from the Colorado Rocky Mountains through dry and dramatic landscapes. Morning sunlight enlivens Colorado’s...
Creation Kids: Human Hands
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...
The Mission of the Institute for Creation Research
Every morning when I drove onto the military base where I worked I was met with a sober message. For many years it read “Remember the Mission!” and later it said “Our mission is…”...
Remembering the Life and Legacy of Dr. Henry M. Morris III
The Institute for Creation Research’s CEO, Dr. Henry M. Morris III, went to be with his Lord on December 12, 2020. After years of faithful service, Dr. Morris, known warmly around the office as...
Arches National Park: Sculptures from the Flood
Brian Thomas, Ph.D., and Tim Clarey, Ph.D.
West of the Rocky Mountains in Utah, Arches National Park preserves some 2,000 natural stone arches. Only a handful of them have the grandeur to attract...
Teachable Minds and Scientific Discovery
“You could see stars hundreds of light-years away, not as they looked centuries ago but exactly as they are right this instant,” says Dr. Derek Muller in a recent YouTube video about measuring...
Creation Kids: Jupiter
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...
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Unity Worthy of Our Creationist Heritage
How much richer would our lives be if we more often had experiences that gave us a delightful rush of wonder and overwhelming surprise? It’s too bad that as we age fewer experiences leave us feeling...
Grand Canyon: Exposing the Flood
Tim Clarey, Ph.D., and Brian Thomas, Ph.D.
Grand Canyon carves a 277-mile-long chasm through northwestern Arizona. Running from Lee’s Ferry to Lake Mead, the expansive landscape reveals...
Creation Kids: Dinosaurs
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...
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Jesus Christ, Our Savior and Creator
Beautiful Savior, King of creation,
Son of God and Son of Man!
Truly I love Thee; truly I’d serve Thee,
Light of my soul, my joy, my crown!
The Lord Jesus truly is the light of our soul,...
Dr. Henry M. Morris III: A Kingdom-Focused Life
Dr. Henry M. Morris III has been at the heart of the Institute for Creation Research’s ministry work for decades, using his gifts as a leader, speaker, and writer to proclaim the truth of God’s...
The Power of the Next Idea
“Our task is to fundamentally change the way people understand biology by constructing a completely new theory of biological design that incorporates recent discoveries and respects the biblical...
Hummingbirds by Design
Zoologists have wonder and appreciation for the animals they investigate, whether the creatures fly through air, swim in water, or walk on land. Stanford University biologist Vadim Pavlov stated it...
Casting the Vision
Each workday morning, the Institute for Creation Research staff meets for a time of devotion and prayer. Dr. Brian Thomas recently led our group and related how God’s hand and perfect timing played...
Why Mosquitoes Attack: Mystery Solved
It’s late evening. You’re relaxing on the backyard deck when suddenly they find you. Mosquitoes! One way they locate you is by tracking the carbon dioxide (CO2) in your breath. Does this...
Dr. Randy Guliuzza, ICR’s New President and Chief.,.
The Bible is full of stories of God using day-to-day activities to position people to accomplish His will. David was shepherding when Samuel called for him and anointed him as king. A woman drawing...
Comets: Signs of Youth
A comet in the night sky is an awe-inspiring sight (Figure 1). People throughout history have sometimes seen comets as portents of doom. However, God warned the people of Israel not to fear such signs...
Believe Anyway
by Scott Arledge and Brian Thomas, Ph.D.
Some within the creation community make the claim that they would believe God’s Word about the age of the universe even if all the evidence pointed...
Insight for Today from an Old Prayer
What is wonderful about the Bible is that it is always relevant to any generation in any culture. Christians have also been blessed by reading many of the thoughts and prayers enlightened by biblical...
Precious Promises and the Sufficiency of God's Word
His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious...
Walton's Cosmic Temple Is a House of Cards
A series of books and videos by Dr. John Walton, an Old Testament theologian at Wheaton College, has made a huge splash in the evangelical community in recent years, with considerable pushback from...
Abounding in Hope
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:13)
The seemingly sudden onset of the coronavirus pandemic...
Missing Ice Age Forests Fit Flood/Ice Age Model
Secular scientists say Earth has experienced many Ice Ages. But the evidence for multiple Ice Ages is very weak.1 There is strong geological evidence for only the most recent of the supposed...
Carved in Stone: A New Flood Model
Carved in Stone is about real, touchable, drillable rocks. Few books are written on Flood geology, and even fewer are based on the actual rock data. Rocks are facts for geologists. Fossils found in...
Human Chromosome 2 Fusion Never Happened
One of the more popular arguments used for humans supposedly evolving from apes is known as the chromosome fusion. The impetus for this concept is the evolutionary problem that apes have an extra pair...
Biblical Succession
And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. (2 Timothy 2:2)
This year, the Institute for Creation Research...
Dr. John Whitcomb: A Life Well Lived
The Institute for Creation Research was saddened to hear of Dr. John Whitcomb’s passing on February 5, 2020. It’s been 60 years since he co-authored The Genesis Flood with ICR founder...
The Mystery of Godliness
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up...
Darwinian Medicine Is Poison to Health Care
In basic terms, practicing medicine is the science of preserving health and life. Darwinism, on the other hand, is a death-driven worldview holding that life advances through survival of the fittest....
Reason and the Christian Hope
Maybe you’ve been skeptical about the claims of Christianity. You’ve thought the glorious hope of the Christian is just built on wishful thinking. But for the time being shelve whatever...
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Gaia and Selectionism's Nature Worship
Organisms have many systems that work together for a purpose. For example, your heart and associated circulatory system fulfill life-sustaining functions. Human experience tells us that intentional...
50 Years of Creation Research and Scholarship
“The creation/evolution debate is, in a very real sense, the most fundamental issue of all.”
— ICR founder Dr. Henry M. Morris
When the children of Israel first crossed the Jordan...
Survival of the Fittest and Evolution's Death Culture
To effectively tackle a problem, one must know what caused it. A doctor must correctly diagnose a disease to help the sick person get better. If a building collapses, engineers will use “root...
Maintaining the Mission
David also girded on his sword. And about four hundred men went with David, and two hundred stayed with the supplies. (1 Samuel 25:13)
David spent a long time as an outlaw running from King Saul...
How Beautiful Is the Body of Christ
A special year-long Christmas gift that Christian parents can give to their children would be family time spent sharing heartwarming accounts of adventure, courage, and love drawn from Christian history...
The Babblings and Contradictions of False Knowledge
O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge—by professing it some have strayed concerning...
Evolutionism Maligns Christian Edification
Can evolutionary theory be reconciled with the church’s basic functions of worship, evangelism, and the edification (building up) of believers? Last month we saw how evolutionism has a profoundly...
The Absolute Salvation of God
When it comes to the question of creation versus evolution, many Christians seem to think, “What’s the point? What does it matter whether all this arrived here in six days or over billions...
Evolutionism Contradicts Christian Evangelism
Is evolutionary theory compatible with the church’s basic functions of worship, evangelism, and the edification (building up) of believers? In last month’s article, we saw how evolutionism...
Black Hills Sites Showcase Creation and the Flood
In June, Institute for Creation Research scientists Dr. Randy Guliuzza and Dr. Tim Clarey participated in the Black Hills Creation Conference in Rapid City, South Dakota. They also led three pre-conference...
ICR Scientists Present Latest Research in Wisconsin
Scientists from the Institute for Creation Research presented their current research at the Creation Research Society’s annual meeting in late July. About 150 people attended the two-day conference...
Evolutionism Poisons Christian Worship
At Moody Bible Institute, I was taught the church’s mission could be organized into three basic functions: worship, evangelism, and the edification (building up) of believers. If a church undertook...
Taking God at His Word
For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and...
Engineered Adaptability: Continuous Environmental Track.,.
For the past two years, the Engineered Adaptability series of articles has explored ways in which scientific methodology and understanding benefit when engineering principles are applied to how living...
For Such a Time as This
This article sets forth the background and mission of the Institute for Creation Research, as I have envisioned from the start. A key purpose of ICR is to bring the field of education—and then...
Engineered Adaptability: Engineered Features Determine .,.
Last month’s Engineered Adaptability article considered two examples of human-designed structures that were exposed to identical conditions but did not respond in the same way.1 For...
Genesis and the Character of God
Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. (Genesis 1:31)
The message of Genesis isn’t confusing. The information throughout the Bible is consistent: The universe...
Engineered Adaptability: Engineered Features Determine .,.
Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.
These are the tremendous feats—produced by the incredible traits—of the...
Toppling Ten Fake Facts That Prop Evolution
ICR founder Dr. Henry Morris wrote in 2003, “Practically all the media strongly promote evolution and...the general public has been taught only evolution in public schools and secular colleges...
Engineered Adaptability: Blockchain-Like Process May Pr.,.
Phil B. Gaskill and Randy J. Guliuzza, P.E., M.D.
The previous article in the Engineered Adaptability series focused on how a population might continuously track environmental changes.1...
Theophanies in the Old Testament: The Creator at Work i.,.
As Easter approaches, we tend to focus our reflections on the life, death, and glorious resurrection of Christ. We even mark the timeline of history by whether events happened before (BC) or after (AD)...
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Engineered Adaptability: New Distributed Problem-Solvin.,.
Phil B. Gaskill and Randy J. Guliuzza, P.E., M.D.
The Engineered Adaptability series of articles in Acts & Facts has argued that most adaptations—broadly mischaracterized as “evolution”...
An Appointed Time
“For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.” (Habakkuk...
Engineered Adaptability: Creatures' Anticipatory System.,.
On January 1, 2019, the American spacecraft New Horizons gathered close-up images of a rocky object over four billion miles from Earth. New Horizons launched in 2006 and was guided over three billion...
The Importance of Recent Creation
Those of us who still believe that the Bible is the inerrant Word of God and that God intended it to be understood by ordinary people—not just by scholarly specialists in science or theology—have...
Engineered Adaptability: Trait Selection Is Internal, N.,.
Crime dramas tend to involve several potential suspects. Some suspects have a good motive to commit the crime but also a good alibi. Viewers presented with the exact same details can develop different...
True Worshipers
“But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.” John 4:23
The interchange between...
Engineered Adaptability: Biological Networks Feature Fi.,.
While I was chatting once with an inmate at a Pennsylvanian prison, he told me that upon his arrival a guard wryly said he was free to do whatever he wanted…so long as it was regulated. Regulations...
Creator, Redeemer, King
For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace....
Nature Walks for Young Scientists
Many families have special Christmas traditions. Families with young children often start new ones, so why not try a Christmas nature walk? Without a doubt, the best Christmas gift we can give our children...
Finding the Fullness of God
“...to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3:19)
The United States of America is one of the few countries...
Engineered Adaptability: Logic Mechanisms Direct Creatu.,.
“It’s only logical” was the statement frequently made by the Vulcan character Spock in the Star Trek series. His logic-based decisions during times of crisis stood in stark contrast...
My Journey Back to God
My parents took me to church and Sunday school, but we rarely talked about God. I loved to read, but the science books contradicted the Bible. I read of a universe that was billions of years old and...
Honoring Our Past, Building Our Future
ICR’s founder, Dr. Henry M. Morris, started the Institute for Creation Research in 1970 in a joint venture with Christian Heritage College, now San Diego Christian College. His groundbreaking...
Engineered Adaptability: Darwin's Anti-Design Doctrine
Sometimes all a medical doctor can do is treat one symptom after another rather than addressing what’s actually making the patient sick. People who believe that organisms look designed because...
The Gospel Starts with Creation
For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens, who is God, who formed the earth and made it, who has established it, who did not create it in vain, who formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD,...
ICR Discovery Center Update
The ICR Discovery Center for Science and Earth History is a beehive of activity inside and out—painting, tiling, installing lights, building exhibits, landscaping, and pouring concrete.
We’ve...
Engineered Adaptability: Fast Adaptation Confirms Desig.,.
On April 13, 1970, an oxygen tank explosion on the Apollo 13 spacecraft thwarted its scheduled moon landing and threatened the crew’s ability to return home. The astronauts on board and engineers...
A Great Door
“For a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.” (1 Corinthians 16:9)
The ICR Discovery Center for Science and Earth History is taking shape! It was...
ICR Discovery Center Update
This summer the ICR Discovery Center for Science and Earth History received a huge delivery! Three dozen feathered, furry, and ferocious animals traveled from Amherst, Wisconsin, to make their home...
Engineered Adaptability: The Need for Biblical Clarity
Can an average person without a Ph.D. in science or theology acquire a correct understanding of what the Bible means just by reading an accurate translation on their own? Did God communicate clearly...
Human-Chimp DNA Comparison
Jeff Tomkins: Interview with a Geneticist
Dr. Jeffrey P. Tomkins is Director of Life Sciences at the Institute for Creation Research. He recently spent time talking about his work with ICR Science...
ICR Discovery Center Update
Help Us Complete the ICR Discovery Center’s Exhibits
A lot has happened in the past 12 months. We grabbed an image each month from the stationary camera positioned above the construction site...
Engineered Adaptability: Adaptive Solutions Are Targete.,.
How do you know when evolutionary theory is following the facts or just inventing them? Consider this statement by evolutionary authority Jerry Coyne:
True, the raw materials for evolution—the...
Living Word, Listening Ears
“If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.” Then He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will...
ICR Discovery Center Update
Help Us Complete the ICR Discovery Center’s Exhibits
As we build the ICR Discovery Center for Science and Earth History, we’re raising funds for the interior exhibits. We’re developing...
Engineered Adaptability: Adaptive Changes Are Purposefu.,.
Suppose you were in a game show with $100,000 riding on how well you match the top three responses to this question: “What word means the opposite of designed?” You might have a good chance...
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In Business for Christ
I recently received an Easter card. On the front, an empty tomb is pictured with the text of Matthew 28:6: “He is not here; for He is risen, as He said.” The card is signed by Phil and Sharon...
Engineered Adaptability: Designed Mechanisms Best Expla.,.
Diverse creatures have repeatedly been observed rapidly and independently converging on the same traits needed to solve similar environmental challenges. How extensive is this phenomenon? Harvard biologist...
On This We Stand
I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day. (2 Timothy 1:12)
The Institute for Creation Research was founded...
ICR Discovery Center Update
“My seven-year-old son loves science, but we’re constantly battling evolutionary ideas that infiltrate nearly every area of children’s education and media. We can’t wait for...
Engineered Adaptability: Active Environmental Tracking .,.
Darwin’s followers appear to be comfortable embracing totally contradictory explanations for the same thing. When diverse groups of organisms share nearly identical traits, evolutionists see that...
Vernon Cupps: Interview with a Nuclear Physicist
Those who scoff at biblical creation often claim creation scientists “aren’t really scientists,” saying they don’t perform actual research or publish in scientific journals.
Dr....
Engineered Adaptability: Creatures' Adaptability Begins.,.
What grabs our attention when we watch living creatures? Action! We lock on to their active responses. Or, as techno-lovers would say, “their outputs.” But without detectors, or “inputs,”...
God's Wonderful Works
Many, O LORD my God, are Your wonderful works which You have done; and Your thoughts toward us cannot be recounted to You in order; if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered....
Measuring the Proton's Radius
When we want to measure something in our everyday lives, we set a ruler against the object in question and read its dimensions from the markings. Things are not so simple when we attempt to measure...
Engineered Adaptability: Sensor Triggers Affirm Intelli.,.
In December 2016, Amazon unveiled a high-tech, brick-and-mortar store where customers can swipe the “Amazon Go app to enter the store, take the products you want, and go! No lines, no checkout.”1...
Skeptics' Pointless Ridicule of the Bible’s 'Unicorns'
Skeptics mockingly poke fun at the King James Bible’s mention of unicorns, accusing the Bible of being unscientific.1,2 Such ridicule is readily refuted, however, by Hebrew vocabulary...
Itching Ears
The Bible contains abundant warnings against following false teaching. All of them foretell awful consequences for those who don’t test what they hear against the inerrant words of God. There...
Wrapping Up Seafloor Sediment Research
Regular Acts & Facts readers know I have long studied the methods uniformitarian scientists use to assign ages to the deep ice cores of Greenland and Antarctica. Although Bible skeptics...
Engineered Adaptability: Epigenetics…Engineered.,.
A thrill-seeking bungee jumper wouldn’t leap off a bridge tethered by a chain, and most people wouldn’t buy a car with its axle welded directly to the frame. It needs a flexible spring system...
Uniformitarians Stumble on Distant Starlight
The accuracy and authority of God’s Word are often attacked by those who claim that science shows biblical claims to be erroneous if not impossible. 1 Peter 3:15 calls on believers to be always...
The Gospel and ICR
The Institute for Creation Research (ICR) exists to explore and explain the science that confirms the Bible. We target scientific discoveries and analyses that confirm biblical creation. Scripture tells...
Just What Is Homo naledi?
Over four years have passed since Lee Berger’s discovery of Homo naledi bones in the Rising Star Cave system of South Africa.1 Yet, back-and-forth bone disputes in the scientific literature...
Beauty in Motion: Formula 1 Drivers
Bright red with perfect details, a Ferrari Formula 1 F1 SF15-T diecast model race car would make a great present! Young boys around the world push their model Ferraris across the floor while making...
Cactus, Bats, and Christmas Gift-Giving
Darwinists teach that nature is just a gladiatorial arena of cutthroat competition and selfish struggle—a conquer-or-be-conquered “survival of the fittest” contest. They routinely...
The Universe Out of Nothing
ICR founder Dr. Henry Morris wrote this article in 1984. Despite the many discoveries and developments in cosmology since then, the points he makes about the creation of the universe are still valid....
Young Radiocarbon in Old Samples
Old-earth advocates often claim that dating methods, including radiocarbon, show the earth must be older than the Bible says. But is this true? This chart reflects the radiocarbon that still lingers...
Engineered Adaptability: Engineering Causality Studies .,.
Imagine the challenges facing an engineer who’s been tasked with designing a fully automated, unmanned spacecraft that needs to travel to a planet and safely return. The vessel will be equipped...
Mechanical Multitasking on the Mayflower
For want of a nail, or a horseshoe, unforeseen consequential damages may follow.1 For the Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, however, it was a screw jack—not a nail—that provided...
Creation Salvation
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. (2 Corinthians 5:17)
Twice Born
Nicodemus asked the key question “How...
How Did Homo naledi Get in That Cave?
Homo naledi is the most recent claim of a human evolutionary ancestor.1 Exactly what the bones represent remains unclear, but they are certainly not human.2 An additional mystery...
Engineered Adaptability: Engineering Causality Is the A.,.
A popular film version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol begins, “Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. This must be distinctly understood if anything of use is to come of this story.”...
Luther, the Reformation, and Taking Creation Seriously
Five hundred years ago in Wittenberg, Germany, an unusual scholar changed the course of human history using pen and hammer. Dr. Martin Luther protested unbiblical teachings and practices—especially...
Eternal Perspective
...remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thessalonians 1:3)
One of the more difficult disciplines of the Christian life...
Did Heavy Elements Come from Supernovas?
Have you ever wondered where all of Earth’s chemical elements came from? There is such a diversity of elements in the crust—ranging from the hydrogen atom with a single proton orbited by...
Lee Huntington's Creation Story
Editor’s note: Prominent San Diego engineer and industrialist Lee Huntington was an ICR Board member for over two decades. This article describes his creation journey.
Lee Huntington graduated...
Engineered Adaptability: Adaptability via Nature or Des.,.
Does Darwin deserve all the homage he gets? After all, the idea of evolution didn’t originate with him. Others before him recognized that less “fit” animals die, and his book on human...
Using Pointed Questions to Point to Answers
Do pointed questions help people think? Good questions can make them curious and open their minds to things they might not have considered. When people express doubts about the truth of the Bible, asking...
Behind the Scenes of The Universe: A Journey Through Go.,.
How do you tell the story of the universe? That’s a tall order, but I’ll give you a clue—it doesn’t start with a Big Bang somewhere in the outer reaches of space. The real account...
Sinking the Floating Forest Hypothesis
by Tim Clarey, Ph.D., and Jeffrey P. Tomkins, Ph.D.*
The concept of a pre-Flood floating forest ecosystem has been promoted in creationist literature for several decades and is often...
Engineered Adaptability: Arriving at a Design-Based Fr.,.
A map is crucial for all travelers, from fun-seeking vacationers to serious scientific researchers. This month’s article is a map of the Engineered Adaptability series and highlights the places...
Polar Bears, Fitted to Fill and Flourish
Polar bears are really cool. These furry frost-giants are fitted to fill frigid habitats in Arctic Ocean waters, ice floes, and shore lands.1
Polar bears also provide four living lessons...
Discover ICR
In May, we officially began construction on the ICR Discovery Center for Science and Earth History. Many of you have given generously to make this vision a reality, knowing that ICR plans to showcase...
Ethical Science
From time to time, people ask why the Institute for Creation Research doesn’t use a particular line of evidence or a specific argument for creation. Often, the person asking is very fond of that...
Engineered Adaptability: Engineering Principles Should .,.
In our detailed exposition of Romans 1:18-25 last month, we discovered that people inevitably come to one of two conclusions about nature—either God created nature or nature created itself.1...
Rats, Rabbits, and Roadrunners: Fitted to Fill
The word “desert” usually refers to dry, hot habitat—arid, torrid, and sometimes even horrid.1 Deserts are often deemed uninhabitable and empty.
However, most deserts...
Breaking Up Fallow Ground
Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the LORD, till He comes and rains righteousness on you. (Hosea 10:12)
Most major construction...
Chicxulub Crater Theory Mostly Smoke
In secular literature and movies, the most popular explanation for the dinosaurs’ extinction is an asteroid impact. The Chicxulub crater in Mexico is often referred to as the “smoking gun”...
Engineered Adaptability: Engineering Principles Point t.,.
When you observe nature, especially living things, does what you see look purposeful or messy? In other words, do living things have body parts that look like they have a proper fit and function, or...
Dinosaur DNA Trumps Mammoth Expert
According to Dr. Adrian Lister, a British paleobiologist, DNA cannot survive in dinosaur bones because dinosaurs lived far too long ago for their DNA, which is inherently unstable, to survive to the...
Important Mothers in Scripture
Several women are given recognition in Scripture. Some are recognized in unusual ways for traits of a mother’s heart seldom given much thought. This Mother’s Day might be a good time to...
Exploring Exo-planets
For thus says the LORD, Who created the heavens, Who is God,
Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it,
Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited:
“I am...
Major Evolutionary Blunders: Evolutionists Strike Out w.,.
“Casey at the Bat” is one of America’s best-known poems. Surprisingly, even operas have dramatized the story of Mudville Nine’s baseball slugger. In Ernest Thayer’s 1888...
Sloppy Religion and Sloppy Science
In 1633, Galileo Galilei faced hostile inquisitors who opposed his astronomical discoveries. Galileo claimed that Earth moves around the sun while the sun stays stationary, which was opposite to...
Lessons from Amos
But do not seek Bethel, nor enter Gilgal, nor pass over to Beersheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing. Seek the LORD and live. (Amos 5:5-6)
By the time...
Radiocarbon Dating Can't Prove an Old Earth
Recently, I conversed with an educated man who maintained Earth must be millions of years old because radiocarbon dating proved it. Although this argument is common, it’s simply inaccurate. Even...
Major Evolutionary Blunders: Evolutionists Strike Out w.,.
The suspense is palpable as fans watch baseball slugger Casey at the plate primed to wallop a game-winning home run. “And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go, and now the air...
An Evening at Campbell University
Sometimes ICR speakers are invited to speak to a potentially hostile crowd. In January 2017, I spoke at Campbell University in North Carolina in a creation event that a group of dedicated Christian...
Thank God for Earthworms!
Despite their size, earthworms are surprisingly helpful creatures. They occasionally venture above ground in broad daylight but are mostly night crawlers. They are best known for their underground habits,...
All in Favor…
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious oil upon the head, running down on the beard, the beard of Aaron, running down on the edge of...
South America Shows the Flood Progression
New research confirms that the Flood recorded in Genesis was global. It also reflects the exact step-by-step biblical account of the floodwaters’ progression.
In previous articles, I described...
Major Evolutionary Blunders: Convergent Evolution Is a .,.
When it comes to swindles, it would be hard to top Liz Carmichael. She spun a tale about obtaining proprietary secrets from her deceased NASA engineer husband that enabled her to start and become CEO...
Clever Creatures: 'Wise from Receiving Wisdom'
Animals fascinate children. They should amaze adults, too, yet often we are too busy to take time to ponder and appreciate the God-given traits of the creatures who share our world.
Why should animals...
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Creation Is the Foundation
It’s time that people in general, and Bible-believing Christians in particular, recognize the foundational significance of special creation—the creation of a fully functional universe by...
Monkey Business in the Chimp Genome
Evolutionists continue to contend that genetic studies have proved humans and chimpanzees share a common ancestor. But many people don’t realize the current chimpanzee genome has not been constructed...
Major Evolutionary Blunders: Evolutionary Psychology fo.,.
Grocery shopping can be enlightening in many ways. While waiting to check out, a shopper can read why someone has a crush on their alien abductor, or loves their talking poodle’s poetry, or enjoys...
Pushy Parasites and Parental Passwords
In this fallen world, even bird households have troubles. One family problem encountered by many bird parents is the nest-security issue of brood parasites, a sneaky form of fowl “home invasion.”
Brood...
Sowing and Reaping
“Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! And...
Minuscule Erosion Points to Hawaii's Youth
Secular scientists claim the Hawaiian Islands are millions of years old based primarily on radioisotope dating. Yet, the landforms and measured erosion rates tell a far different story—a story...
Major Evolutionary Blunders: Neanderthals Were Subhuman.,.
“So easy, a caveman could do it” is the witty slogan of a company hoping to lure customers to switch car insurance. The humorous catch to the commercial was the brutish-looking, yet endearing,...
Dung Beetles: Promoters of Prairie Preservation
The apostle Paul evaluated social and materialistic success as disposable dung compared to the ultimate value of belonging to and living for Christ.1 Yet, even dung has value, especially...
The Only Begotten
Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men....
Earth's Young Magnetic Field Revisited
What sustains Earth’s magnetic field? Creationists and secularists disagree on the answer, but a recent update from Physics Today seems to lend support to the creationists’ hypothesis that...
Book Review: Approaching "The Scientific Approach .,.
Did evolution really happen? That depends on what you mean by “evolution.” Rob Stadler’s new book The Scientific Approach to Evolution, his first, evaluates evolutionary ideas using...
Major Evolutionary Blunders: Imagining That Life Is Onl.,.
Some people who watch American football only see players running in zigzags and senselessly colliding until there is a pile of men lying on the field. But to the cheering fans, they just witnessed a...
There's Nothing Like an Eyewitness
How was one of the largest German warships ever built sunk?1 How did marine animals get fossilized alongside dinosaurs?2 Do we need reliable eyewitness reports to know the real...
Eternal Thanksgiving
One of the more delightful passages of the book of Revelation describes the uncountable throng surrounding the Throne, joining the 144,000 freshly sealed saints from the tribes of Israel and the 24...
Fresh Water and Salt Water Don't Mix
On a recent visit to the Royal Tyrell Museum in Alberta, Canada, I headed straight to the famous Dinosaur Hall that houses over 40 mounted specimens, including the Tyrannosaurus rex known as “Black...
Major Evolutionary Blunders: Haeckel's Embryos Born of .,.
“Generations of biology students may have been misled by a famous set of drawings of embryos published 123 years ago by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel.”1 Science magazine...
Balancing Church and State, Part 3: Luther's Stand Revisited
Like Dr. Martin Luther’s stand of old, a Missouri Synod Lutheran church took a stand, asserting their religious liberty and conscience rights when they invoked the U.S. Constitution’s First...
Behind the Scenes of Uncovering the Truth about Dinosaurs
In 2014, ICR produced Unlocking the Mysteries of Genesis. The following year, we produced Made in His Image. This year, our scientists and host Markus Lloyd are back for a new DVD series—Uncovering...
Internal Telomere-like Sequences Are Abundant and Functional
The prevailing evolutionist mantra holds that humans and chimpanzees share a common ancestor that lived about six million years ago. One of the most cited evidences for this belief is the alleged human...
Major Evolutionary Blunders: Evolutionists Can't See Ey.,.
Ignorance and a limited perspective can lead to some pretty amazing blunders. Robert H. Goddard was a visionary trailblazer in the early days of rocket science. NASA lauded his accomplishments in a...
SOBA Graduate Interview: Pastor Richard Corwin
In 2009, the Institute for Creation Research founded the School of Biblical Apologetics to provide training in biblical education and apologetics with a special emphasis on Genesis 1–11. ICR’s...
Creation Research Society Conference 2016
On July 29–30 this past summer, 128 creationists gathered at Concordia University in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to attend the Creation Research Society’s annual conference. Headquartered in Chino...
Hearing Revival
When God created man, He created five senses: taste, touch, sight, smell, and sound. For the growing human embryo, the sense of hearing is the first to develop. Studies show that babies in the womb...
ISS Commander Returns from Space
Col. Jeff Williams took his Bible with him to space. He posted this on Facebook, May 22: “Sunday thought…60 days into the stay at this orbital outpost. The weeks are flying by and they...
Major Evolutionary Blunders: The Imaginary Archaeoraptor
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is quite serious about flying safety. If an aircraft crashes, the FAA will conduct an investigation called a Root Cause Analysis. This involves methodical detective...
Balancing Church and State, Part 2: Evolutionary Law
What is law and the rule of law? Is law objective and stable, like a wooden ruler, or is it stretchy and unstable, like a rubber band? Many citizens expect government officials to obey the law, yet...
Tim LaHaye and the Institute for Creation Research
“Well done, good and faithful servant.” (Matthew 25:21)
Tim LaHaye, well-known evangelical leader and co-author of the Left Behind series, went home to be with the Lord on July 25, 2016,...
Complete the Doing
It is to your advantage not only to be doing what you began and were desiring to do a year ago; but now you also must complete the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to desire it, so there also...
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