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Are Stars Still Forming Today?
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The secular media often report new evidence of stars in the process of formation. They say this supports star evolution. What do creationists think?
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Telling Time with the Stars
| Answers in Genesis
With a little practice it’s possible to know the time of night, just by looking at the stars.
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Blue Stars—Unexpected Brilliance
| Answers in Genesis
Among the kaleidoscope of stars, brilliant blue stars are of special interest.
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What Was the Christmas Star?
| Answers in Genesis
A recent headline from a pop science site: “Was the Christmas Star a Real Astronomical Event?”
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Did the James Webb Telescope Capture Baby Stars “At the Moment of Birth”?
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Recent articles highlighting a photograph from the James Webb Space Telescope claim they’ve captured images of 50 baby stars, “at the moment of birth.”
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Have Our Universe’s First Stars Finally Been Spotted?
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Have they finally found elusive Population III stars? Well, a recent article claims that scientists might have spotted “the first direct evidence” of these stars.
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Polaris: A Brief History of the Current North Star
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How astronomers track Polaris and other Cepheid stars, issues related to the North Star, and how it relates to cosmology in a stellar evolutionary framework.
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Betelgeuse: Supernova or Fading Star?
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Betelgeuse, the 2nd brightest star in Orion, is one of the brightest stars in our sky. Some reports suggest it’s becoming a supernova—which is doubtable.
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What Was the Star of Bethlehem?
| Answers in Genesis
There have been many attempts to explain the Christmas Star scientifically, and three will be mentioned here.
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Is There a Flood in the Stars?
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Since early times,
the human imagination has connected
stars into familiar patterns, which we
call constellations. Most sound like a
complete stretch. Yet a surprising number
of basic images appear across cultures—a fish,
a snake, a ship, a sacrifice.
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Lithium-Rich Stars Confound Astronomers
| Answers in Genesis
In a recent paper published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, a team of Chinese and Japanese astronomers reported on high-Lithium concentrations in 12 newly discovered low-mass, metal-poor, main-sequence and Red giant stars in the Milky Way halo.
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Spinning Stardust into Gold
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What caught the public’s attention was the claim that this event produced perhaps 10 times the earth’s mass in gold. What does this mean?
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Reflections on September 23, 2017
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Many who object to my criticism of the September 23, 2017, mania believe that a host of evidences converge on this date to fulfill Revelation 12:1–2.
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HD 140283: Older than the Universe?
| Answers in Genesis
The best stellar evolution models fix HD 140283’s age to slightly older than the big bang model age for the universe.
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Are the Stars Lining Up on September 23 for the Lord’s Return?
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The belief that there will be a literal fulfillment of the Revelation 12:1–2 sign on September 23, 2017, depends upon there being nine stars in Leo.
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What Will Happen on September 23, 2017?
| Answers in Genesis
Could September 23 of this year be a day of great prophetic significance? Let’s take a look at the evidence.
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Where Do the Constellation Names Come From?
| Answers in Genesis
Did you know that cultures all over the world have very similar legends behind such constellations as Ursa Major and Ursa Minor?
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New Stars in Bright Blue Galaxy?
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A bright blue galaxy: is it bursting with new stars?
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Message of the Stars
| Answers in Genesis
Here and there around the globe, Christians are putting feet to their burden to tell the real message of the stars.
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Star Charts
| Answers in Genesis
Five star charts depicting the wonder of God's creation.
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Stellar Evolution and Millions of Years
| Answers in Genesis
Does the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram prove that the universe must be millions of years old? Dr. Jason Lisle answers.
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Teach the Lost—Look to the Stars
| Answers in Genesis
The Bible says that the heavens are a ready-made platform for declaring the glory of God and showing His handiwork.
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Cosmology Topic
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How should Christians approach cosmology? Is it a field hopelessly ruled by the secular worldview, or does it proclaim the glory of God and the truth of his Word?
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Universe by Design: Twentieth-Century Cosmology
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For two centuries Newtonian physics had successes unparalleled in the history of science. Failures in Newtonian physics led to the modern physics of the 20th century.
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The Primordial Lithium Problem Persists
| Answers in Genesis
The measured abundances of hydrogen and helium in the universe match the big bang model predictions, but the lithium measurements are far less than the abundance predicted by the model. This mismatch is called the primordial lithium problem.
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Is the Bible’s Cosmology Borrowed from Pagan Myths?
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Did the Bible simply borrow its view of the universe from ancient pagan religions?
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Universe by Design: More Recent Developments in Cosmology
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Since the 1970s many exciting things have been happening in cosmology. This article is a discussion of various cosmological ideas.
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Misconceptions About General Relativity, Cosmology, and Big Bang
| Answers in Genesis
Just as all ideas have consequences, incorrect ideas can have very bad, or even dangerous, results.
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Universe by Design: Creation-Based Cosmologies
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There are many Christian theologians, scientists, and philosophers who accept the big-bang cosmology and make it part of their apologetics.
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Universe by Design: Conclusions and Recommendations
| Answers in Genesis
The development of a creation model of astronomy has lagged development of creation models in biology and geology.
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Galaxies—Unexplained Spirals
| Answers in Genesis
Since they were first discovered, galaxies have been a source of wonder. Many are arranged into beautiful spirals.
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Straight Answers to Common Questions
| Answers in Genesis
Answers magazine attempts to answer many of the most-asked questions about astronomy.
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The Search for a Cursed Cosmos
| Answers in Genesis
Finding evidence of the Curse outside our planet is not as easy as you might think.
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What About Cosmology?
| Answers in Genesis
Since the late 1960s, the dominant cosmology has been the big-bang model.
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Galaxy-Quasar ‘Connection’ Defies Explanation
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Astronomers have known for decades about the strange ‘connection’ between the galaxy NGC4319 and the quasar Markarian 205.
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A Modern Space Mystery
| Answers in Genesis
Could creation cosmologies shed light on recent unexplained phenomena in our solar system?
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Secular Cosmology Tries to Cope with Visible Evidence
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As secular cosmology tries to cope with the visible evidence, the explanatory model gets more and more “improbable” and “outlandish.”
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Perfect Cosmic Constants
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Two weeks ago, we looked at the argument—and responses to it—that certain cosmological constants are perfectly “fine tuned” for life, thus proving the existence of an intelligent designer. Now comes another rebuttal.
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Dark Matter—What’s the Matter?
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As we gaze into the
heavens to understand
more about our
universe, we find
evidence for something
vast yet invisible.
Though shrouded in
mystery, dark matter
is more than myth.
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Despite the Big Bang, “Cosmic Origins Remain a Mystery”
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Did you know that evolutionary scientists can’t explain where space, time, matter, and energy came from?
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The Elusive Search for Dark Matter Continues—Does It Even Exist?
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What you won’t see when you gaze up at the night sky is what astronomers believe makes up 25 to even 90% of the universe: invisible dark matter.
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Faith in the Multiverse
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The “anthropic principle” has been an annoyance to those who believe that our universe and life on earth are products of random processes. Indeed, it has been difficult to explain even the physical constants of the universe without resorting to some sort of “intelligent design” position. Multiverse to the rescue!
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Pièrre Simon Laplace: The Nebular Hypothesis
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Pièrre Simon Laplace is famous for his concept that the solar system formed from a spinning cloud of gas.
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Water Found Near the Edge of the (Observable) Universe
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Astronomers have detected water ~13 billion light-years away, which may be confirmation of biblical cosmology recorded in Genesis.
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What Were the Waters of Day Two
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The waters on Day 2 of creation from Genesis 1, where they may be now, and how they relate to biblical and secular cosmologies
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Multiverse: Is Our Universe One of Many?
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Scientists increasingly talk and write about the multiverse. What is the multiverse? The multiverse is the belief that our universe is just one of many.
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Recent Studies of Cosmological (Cosmic?) Importance
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Recently there have been press accounts of two new studies related to cosmology. However, before he can discuss this new research, Dr. Danny Faulkner provides background information on the Hubble Law, measuring the Hubble constant, and the cosmological constant versus dark energy.
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Are Redshifts Cosmological?
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Dr. Danny Faulkner recently published an article in the Answers Research Journal making the case for redshifts being cosmological. He makes a number of important points about redshifts, quasars, and an expanding universe. This article summarizes Dr. Faulkner’s research.
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What Krauss and Scherrer’s “End of Cosmology” Scenario Means for the Epistemology of Modern-Day Cosmology
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After examining the present and future state of cosmology, Krauss and Scherrer conclude that we live in a very special time in the universe.
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Interpretations of Data Reflect Evolutionary Expectations
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Interpretations of data from Deep Evolutionary Exploratory Probe reflect evolutionary expectations.
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Astronomers Redraw the Cosmic Map
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Precise measurements of distortions in cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) are now being used to redraw the cosmic map of ancient deep space.
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Cosmic Curveballs
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Searching for dark matter, the antiuniverse, and our cosmic roots
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The Wonders of the Whole
| Answers in Genesis
God designed His creation to remind the beholders that His wonders are inexhaustible.
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The Big Cover-up?
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A reader accuses Dr. Jason Lisle, AiG–U.S., of attempting to cover up the scientific consensus. As Dr. Lisle shows, however, the critic missed the point of the article.
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Galaxy Games
| Answers in Genesis
This year stretched the imaginations of many astronomers and cosmologists. They have discovered amazing features at the outer reaches of the universe.
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White Hole Cosmology
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After reading the latest volleys in the debate over Dr Humphreys' 'white hole cosmology' in CEN Technical Journal 13(1), I have a few comments that might be of use to the Christian community.
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The End of the World is Not April 6 (or May 5)!
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Perhaps you have already heard some doomsayers predict that a worldwide catastrophe will befall our planet on either April 6 or May 5 when some of the planets will be in alignment.
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Big Bang Cosmology
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Quote from Burbidge, G., in Scientific American.
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Models of the Origin of the Universe
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It is human nature to be curious about how things began. Here we shall consider the question of the origin of all things, the origin of the Universe.
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Cosmic Bubble Hypothesis Highlights Another Big Bang Problem
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It’s often been said in cosmology circles that data should never get in the way of a good model.
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Taking Back Astronomy Excerpt
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Many of the Bible’s statements about astronomy went against the generally accepted teachings of the past. Modern science, however, has confirmed what the Bible has taught.
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Cepheid Confusion
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Is “distant starlight” as distant as we think?
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Far Out Claims About Astronomy
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Christians should uphold the highest standards of excellence in their science, questioning all quirky claims and avoiding hasty conclusions.
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Alien Life
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Science fiction has popularized the idea that—somewhere in space—ETs, aliens, and UFOs thrive. Do the Bible and the evidence support this notion?
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The Evidence Is In: We’re Alone in the Universe
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ET isn’t a mystery if you’re willing to examine the data from 60 years of research and take it to its logical conclusion.
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Should We Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence?
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The idea that other civilizations exist in outer space is based on evolutionary assumptions. Such reasoning is faulty, though, because evolution does not have any biblical or true scientific basis.
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The Search for Alien Life
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Why do we even bother seeking out alien life?
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Any Little Green Men Out There?
| Answers in Genesis
Would scientists seriously contemplate such an idea as Little Green Men? In fact, this year millions of US tax-payers’ dollars are being spent on a massive search for just that.
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Stephen Hawking Against Speaking to Aliens
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There’s no evidence that aliens even exist—so why is famous physicist Stephen Hawking so worried we’ll talk to them?
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What Went Wrong at NASA?
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Some attribute the decline of NASA to the change in leadership in the early 1970s when NASA began to pursue evolutionary ideas.
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Alien Abductions: Freaky or Fiction?
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Some report communication with aliens and some even claim to have been taken aboard spaceships. What are we to make of claims of alien abductions?
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Are Aliens Real?
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Many Christians have bought into the idea of extraterrestrial alien life. But is this idea really biblical?
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Starchild—Alien-human Hybrid?
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In response to a question on Ken Ham’s Facebook page, we decided to review the history and claims regarding Starchild, the misshapen skull claimed by some to be an alien-human hybrid.
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Talking to Aliens?
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The Creator of the universe has already communicated with us, yet a U.S. agency is using your tax dollars to teach students how to communicate with aliens!
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Is Belief in Alien Life Harmless?
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The thought that aliens might be living on other planets may sound innocent enough. But lurking underneath are some deep theological dangers.
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Is Anyone out There?
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Among the innumerable galaxies of our universe are various planets, some similar in shape and size to Earth. Could some of these distant planets harbor life?
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Water Less Likely to Support Life
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Searching the heavens for water as a proxy for life has been astrobiologists’ pastime for years now. But what if—evolutionary beliefs aside—water is even less likely to support life than was believed?
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Is ET Calling Us?
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SETI experiment suggests non-natural radio signal coming from the vicinity of Proxima Centauri, but it seems to be another failed attempt to find alien life.
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Is There Life on Other Planets?
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Is there life out
there? Science doesn’t
have the answer,
but the Bible does.
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Are Aliens Going to Hell?
| Answers in Genesis
Many media outlets are guilty of spreading outright lies for the sake of maligning those of us who stand for God’s Word beginning in Genesis.
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Alien Thinking
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Both the X-rays and simple visual examination of Ata, however, are consistent with a miscarried human baby.
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Life as an Outcast
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Just a few weeks ago we reported that the continued search for habitable extrasolar planets has revealed just how special Earth is. So if aliens aren’t on planets orbiting other stars, where else could they be?
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Don’t Alienate the Aliens
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The UK’s Daily Mail now reports that another Vatican astronomer also says he would be happy to baptize an alien.
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Aliens in Other Universes
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So what if we can’t find alien life in our own universe? Maybe aliens exist in the next universe over.
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Daily Growth in Evidence for Extraterrestrial Life?
| Answers in Genesis
Is the evidence for extraterrestrial life “mounting daily”? It’s the first we’ve heard of it!
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Earth Alien Discovery Under Attack
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Last week we reported on hot news that “alien” life had been discovered—albeit aliens from earth. But since then the widely reported research has come under attack.
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"Aliens" on Earth
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We reported in February and October 2009 on the quest to find “aliens” on earth. This week’s news? They’ve found them.
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Would Christianity Survive Discovery of Aliens?
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Would Christianity “survive” the discovery of alien life-forms? Does such a question even make sense?
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Extraterrestrial Cofounder is Far From Giving Up Search
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Despite the ongoing lack of evidence for extraterrestrial life, one cofounder of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence is far from giving up.
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Vatican Looks for Aliens
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For the Vatican, the question of whether “sentient life forms exist on other worlds” has yet to be answered
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Water Speculation over Saturn Moon
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Scientists have found [indirect evidence of liquid water, which can be spun through evolutionary interpretations as indirect evidence of] life on one of Saturn’s moons!
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Aliens Among Us
| Answers in Genesis
Never mind looking for “aliens” out in space; what if they’re living here among us?
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Vatican States Beliefs About the Possibility of Alien Life
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Alien life may exist, says Father Gabriel Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory and labeled by the BBC as “the Pope’s chief astronomer.”
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Vatican Astronomer Believes in ET?
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Vatican astronomer Father Jose Gabriel Funes recently claimed that there could be alien intelligences in space. What does the Bible say?
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Stephen Hawking on Unintelligent Life
| Answers in Genesis
Speaking at George Washington University this week in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of NASA, Stephen Hawking discussed whether extraterrestrial life exists and, if so, why we haven’t found it, speculating on three answers to that elusive question.
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California Dreaming?
| Answers in Genesis
A new telescope system, designed to detect intelligent life in space, came to life last year near San Francisco.
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"Precursors" to Life Found In Distant Galaxy
| Answers in Genesis
The indication of the presence of an amino acid “precursor” in a distant galaxy is the latest “evidence” that life can spring up wherever.
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Why We Can't Phone the Aliens
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Science fiction author Ben Bova offers a few explanations for why our search for extraterrestrial life (which is growing more robust with time) has turned up nothing so far.
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Allen Telescope Array Commencing Search for Alien Life
| Answers in Genesis
A new telescope array designed in part to spot alien life got to work this week near San Francisco, California.
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Secrets of the Universe
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Man knows there is a higher intelligence—he realizes there is something more. This is because the knowledge that there is an infinite God is written on man's heart and is obvious from all around us.
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Could We Use AI to Communicate with Aliens?
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According to a recent article, AI and dolphins (yes, dolphins!) may be the best way to communicate with an alien.
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Black Holes
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What are black holes, and are they real? How can we observe them if their gravity is so strong that not even light can escape?
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Black Hole Raises Questions About the Early Universe
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Big black hole and its bright quasar raise questions about the early universe.
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Black Holes
| Answers in Genesis
Black holes are real phenomena in our universe.
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First Photo of a Black Hole
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The first "photo" of a black hole, the accretion disk around the black hole, and how biblical creationists sometimes understand black holes.
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Black Holes in Space Don’t Support Evolution!
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Black holes may or may not exist. If they do exist, they are invisible, weigh billions of tons, and are smaller than a kernel of corn!
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Comets
| Answers in Genesis
Comets can’t last even hundreds of thousands of years. The bright tail of the comet reminds us that the universe is young—just as the Bible says!
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Oort Cloud—No Evidence Required
| Answers in Genesis
Most evolutionary astronomers talk about the Oort cloud like it’s a fact. Yet they admit no direct observational evidence exists.
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Feedback: Assuming the Origin of Comets
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Dr. Danny Faulkner identifies how different assumptions provide different explanations of the origin of comets.
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Comets and the Age of the Solar System
| Answers in Genesis
The existence of comets as an argument for a recent creation is examined.
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Short-Lived Comets
| Answers in Genesis
Comets can’t survive billions of years.
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Kuiper Belt Objects: Solution to Short-Period Comets?
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Recently, astronomers have discovered that several KBOs (‘Kuiper Belt Objects’) are binary—they consist of two co-orbiting masses. What are the implications for Creation?
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More Problems for the ‘Oort Comet Cloud’
| Answers in Genesis
Comets are continually being lost through decay, collisions with planets, and ejections from the solar system. If the solar system were billions of years old, then all comets would have died long ago.
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Comet ISON—Evidence of a Young Universe
| Answers in Genesis
Comets can be breathtakingly beautiful spectacles in the night sky. What do these heavenly objects tell us about the age of our universe and solar system?
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Could a Comet Construct Life on Earth?
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Could the destructive impact of a comet construct life on earth?
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Comet ISON’s Fiery Fate but Not Oort Origins
| Answers in Genesis
Comet ISON’s fate fuels speculation about its origins. Since comets simply cannot survive for millions of years, where could new comets come from?
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Comet with Asteroid Build Discovered by NASA
| Answers in Genesis
At least one comet isn’t quite what astronomers expected, based on the results of NASA’s Stardust mission.
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A Comet’s Tale
| Answers in Genesis
You may have seen the footage of the S-W 3 comet breaking apart, but it’s doubtful that you heard anything about its implications for evolutionary beliefs.
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Another Comment on the Comet
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Last weekend, in a historic astronomical event, fragment C of comet Schwassmann–Wachmann 3 passed by the famous Ring Nebula (M57).
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The Tale of a Comet
| Answers in Genesis
A camera on the Hubble Space Telescope has recently captured remarkable images of a comet breaking apart. This event has something important to say about the age of the solar system.
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Cosmic Fireworks on the Fourth of July!
| Answers in Genesis
The "Deep Impact" spacecraft of NASA is scheduled to rendezvous with Comet Tempel 1 this Fourth of July.
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Earth Topic
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Is the earth unique and special, or is it just one of many similar habitable planets scattered across the universe?
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God’s Flawless Design of Water Makes Life Possible
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Water, the most abundant compound on earth, perhaps in the solar system, has many properties that make it truly remarkable especially in regard to making earth habitable and life possible. Each of the following properties discussed here clearly shows that water is purposefully designed for making the earth habitable.
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3.3 The Center of the Universe (OB12)
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The earth occupies the central position in the entire universe because of its God-given role, even though it may not be in the geometrical center.
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Does the Bible Teach that the Earth is Flat?
| Answers in Genesis
In this article, I will examine many of the biblical passages that supposedly teach that the earth is flat, and I will show that in fact they do not.
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Fossil Magnetism Reveals Rapid Reversals of Earth Magnetic Field
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Fossils with magnetic properties demonstrate the rapid reversals of the Earth's magnetic field in the past.
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The Earth’s Magnetic Field and the Age of the Earth
| Answers in Genesis
Dr. Thomas G. Barnes drew attention to the fact that the strength of the earth’s magnetic field was decreasing. On this basis he concluded that the magnetic field was less than 10,000 years old.
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The Earth’s Magnetic Field
| Answers in Genesis
The aim of this paper is to give a brief description of the Earth’s magnetic field and the models associated with it.
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Physics Creating the Earth
| Answers in Genesis
In the beginning were the laws of physics (not!).
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
| Answers in Genesis
The inner makeup of our planet may be hidden from view, but we can still discover many things about it that help us understand earth history.
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Celestial Navigation and Flat Earth
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Flat-earthers use globe earth assumptions when they navigate by the stars
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Does the North Star (Polaris) Prove the Earth Is Flat?
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Flat-earthers falsely claim that Polaris remains motionless in the sky as all other stars circle it. That is the impression one gets by watching the sky over several hours. Even long exposure photographs and time-lapse videos seem to show this too. However, appearances can be deceiving.
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Is the Earth Flat?
| Answers in Genesis
The earth could be both round and flat, if it were disk-shaped. Have we all been fed a whopping lie about the true shape of the earth?
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The Book of Enoch and the Flat Earth
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Some flat-earthers have appealed to the Book of Enoch to support their argument that the Bible teaches that the earth is flat. Does the Book of Enoch teach that the earth is flat? Let us examine some of its passages that supposedly do.
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Flat Earth Proof—Just a Mirage
| Answers in Genesis
Here I wish to expand upon the phenomenon that caused Rowbotham’s experiment to go awry. Rowbotham was a victim of a superior mirage.
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Source of Earth’s Water
| Answers in Genesis
Carbonaceous chondrites steal comets’ credit for watering the early earth.
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Contradictions: Hanging on Pillars of Nothing?
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Erik Lutz, AiG–US, explains why the Bible records both a statement that the earth is immovably set on pillars and that it is hanging on nothing.
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Earth the Beautiful
| Answers in Genesis
An astronaut testifies to the dramatic beauty of our planet—and, indirectly, to the unique habitability our planet offers.
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A Unique Blend
| Answers in Genesis
As long as a planet is the right size, it could retain an atmosphere with all the right ingredients needed for life. Just one problem. Only one known planet does.
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The Created World
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Starting with the facts of God's Word and world, we fashion models to know God and see His truth.
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Answers Magazine Preview: Vol. 3 No. 4
| Answers in Genesis
Our earthly home takes center stage in this issue of Answers, providing Christians the needed context in order to properly interpret global warming.
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Falling for a Flat Earth
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A resurgent flat-earth movement claims we need to get back to what the Bible says—but what does God’s Word really say about the earth’s shape?
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Reflections on the Flat-Earth Movement
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In preparation for the premiere of the documentary Faith on the Edge: Exploring the Biblical and Scientific Case Against Flat Earth, I gathered my thoughts on the sociology of the flat-earth movement into 20 points. Though I’m no sociologist, I’ve fleshed most of those 20 points into a narrative.
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Water: An Underappreciated Gift of the Creator
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Water might not immediately come to mind when we think of God’s good gifts to us. But water is so well designed for our use that a seemingly simple glass of the clear liquid should cause us to recognize the fingerprint of the Creator and give him glory.
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Enjoy Some Extra Daylight on the Summer Solstice
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The summer solstice, or the June solstice, occurred at 6:07 a.m. EDT on June 21, 2018. For six months, the sun has slowly trekked northward, reaching its farthest point north of the equator. Noon-timeNoontime shadows are shortest on the summer solstice. This is the longest day of the year, and nights are shortest now.
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A Flat-Earth Prediction Falls Flat
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In this article, Dr. Danny Faulkner tests a prediction based upon the flat-earth model and shows that the results of the test contradict the prediction.
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How Will You Use Your Extra Second at the End of This Month?
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At the end of the day on June 30, 2015, there will be a leap second. There is a fascinating connection to creation in this story.
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Watery Beginning
| Answers in Genesis
Challenged to explain where all the ocean water came from, some secular scientists are now rethinking their old beliefs.
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Is Earth One of Many Trillion?
| Answers in Genesis
Far from being one of a kind, might the earth be one of many trillion?
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They Think the Earth is Flat?
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They’re a tiny minority of untrained, pseudoscientific hacks who—partially based on an overly literal interpretation of Scripture—buy into a disproven, centuries-old myth rather than accepting well-established modern science.
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What Makes Earth So Unique?
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Earth is one special planet—and it seems the more we learn, the more we know it!
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Is the ’Erets (Earth) Flat? Seely
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P. H. Seely responds to J. P. Holding’s criticism of his writings about a flat earth.
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Who Invented the Flat Earth?
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Evolutionists often falsely accuse creationists of believing in a flat Earth. But neither history nor modern scholarship supports the claim.
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The Puzzle Continues: Where Did Earth’s Water Come From?
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Earth is a “pale blue dot,” thanks to oceans, lakes, and rivers that cover 71% of the planet’s surface. But where did this abundance of water come from?
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Extrasolar Planets
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Astronomers are constantly discovering extrasolar planets orbiting distant stars. Are these mysterious bodies other earths with the potential to contain life?
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Just Right for Life
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We’re just one out of millions of planets where life is likely to exist. You’ll hear this claim more and more. Don’t believe it.
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Define Habitable
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Define habitable. It’s harder than it sounds!
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Kepler Mission: To Boldly Seek Out Where Life Could Have Evolved
| Answers in Genesis
Kepler dominates the headlines, and the reason may involve more than just the excitement superlatives generate.
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Super-Earths?
| Answers in Genesis
Astronomers may soon find more “Earth-like” planets—and with them, alien life?
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Quest for Goldilocks Planet Scores a Hit with Kepler-186f
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Kepler Space Telescope pinpoints a potentially habitable earth-sized exoplanet.
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Retrograde Exoplanets Challenge Theories
| Answers in Genesis
The following examines some of the new observational methods applied today in studying extrasolar planets and relates recent discoveries to a young age creation viewpoint.
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Unseen Planet
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When a planet bears any resemblance to our own planet, the speculation begins that it may be the home to extraterrestrial life.
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Discovery of 7 Earth-Sized Planets
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Three of the planets found orbiting TRAPPIST-1 were within its habitable zone, the area around a star where liquid water might exist on a planet’s surface.
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Planets Likely to Have Life Named
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It’s the “Standard Microbial Habitability index,” an attempt to quantitatively define a planetary body’s suitability for life.
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The Youngest Planet?
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Astronomers have discovered signs of a planet outside our solar system which may be less than two thousand years old.
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Scientists Reveal Earth-Sized Exoplanet
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Scientists presenting at the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society have revealed the smallest exoplanet discovered so far.
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The Earths Keep Coming
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Each new discovery showcases not the possibility of life, but the far-flung wisdom and power of our Creator.
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Home Away from Home
| Answers in Genesis
Astronomers have found yet another “Earth-like” planet (how many does this make, anyway?). Once again, it’s not exactly home away from home.
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First Light from Extrasolar Planets
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Astronomers have detected the first light from planets which orbit other stars.
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Exoplanets—Unpredictable Patterns
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If other stars had planets, what would they look like?
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5,000 Known Exoplanets and Counting
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There are 5,000 known extrasolar planets, and they are a problem for evolution because they defy naturalistic origins.
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Goldilocks Is Dead: Exoplanets Are Inhospitable to Life
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In a recent news article, researchers at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo took a look at the most recent number of extrasolar planets (around 4,000) in the habitable zone (also frequently called the Goldilocks zone) and applied an additional set of conditions needed for “life to form.”
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M51-ULS-1b: The First Extragalactic Exoplanet
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How the first exoplanet outside our galaxy was discovered using a new technique to investigate deep space objects and what that means for life beyond the Milky Way
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Proxima Centauri b: An Earth-Like Planet?
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From time to time there are reports of the discovery of a possible earth-like planet. This is the situation of Proxima Centauri b, announced on August 24, 2016.
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KIC 8462852: One Strange Little Star
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The purpose of the Kepler mission and other searches for extrasolar planets is to find evidence that life is common in the universe.
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Extrasolar “Super-Earth” Atmosphere Contradicts Evolutionary Assu
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A news story in February 2016 reported the first detection of an atmosphere around a super-earth extrasolar planet, 55 Cancri e.
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Is Near-Earth-Size Kepler-452b Suitable for Life?
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We here at Answers in Genesis believe that life is unique to Earth, so is the discovery of Kepler-452b a problem for us?
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Not So Sure After All
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Everyone has a bias, and everyone makes mistakes.
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Gliese 581d
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It’s almost comical that a scientist would express “almost no doubt” about life on a non-existent planet.
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There’s No Place Like Home
| Answers in Genesis
New technologies show how special our home really is.
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Tatooine On Repeat
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Kepler: boldly seeking where life could have evolved
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Five More Earths?
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The Bible affirms in Genesis 1 that earth is the special place that God chose to fill with living things.
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100% Questionable
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The recent discovery of a unique (so far) planet outside our solar system has caused a lot of excitement and speculation.
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“Alien Planet” Is an Outsider
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No, the "alien planet" isn't home to alien life (as far as we know); according to astronomers, the planet itself is a veritable outsider in not only its own solar system, but in our entire galaxy.
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Possible Planet with Life Forms
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If true, it would be perhaps the most revolutionary discovery in human history: a planet twenty light-years from earth that is not only habitable, but that has its own life-forms. There’s only one problem: scientists aren’t even sure the planet is there.
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Astronomical Objects Formed "Recently"
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Two stories this week report on astronomical objects—moons and a planet—that may have formed relatively “recently,” at least in terms of billions-of-years belief.
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Gaseous Planet May be Rocky
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A faraway gaseous planet may also be, in a metaphorical sense, “rocky”: astronomers hope it will be a “Rosetta stone” for exoplanetary research.
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Poor Planet WASP-12b
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Pity poor planet WASP-12b: its host star not only heats it to more than 4,700˚F (2600˚C), but also is in the process of eating it.
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Kepler Space Telescope Finds First Hot Exoplanets
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Hot, hot, hot, hot, and hot—meet the first exoplanets found by NASA’s Kepler space telescope.
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The Demise of Planet WASP-18b
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A recently discovered exoplanet may have been found just in the nick of time—in time for us to witness its demise, that is.
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Goofy Planet is Backwards
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For the first time, astronomers have detected a planet that could be said to “swim against the flow”—orbiting in the opposite direction from the spin of its star.
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Leaning Tower of Planet Formation
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A planet with a “steeply tilted” orbit—will it help refine theories of planetary formation or reveal their flaws?
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The Earth That Wasn't
| Answers in Genesis
Astronomers have found another “Earthlike” planet outside of our solar system.
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How Many Earths Again?
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Two weeks ago we covered a study that said there could be up to 37,964 alien civilizations in the Milky Way. Now, the number of Earth-like planets in the Milky Way has been enumerated: 100,000,000,000.
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Extrasolar Planet Now Hottest Ever Discovered
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If Earth’s neighbor Venus—known for high pressure, high temperatures, and toxic gases—sounds unwelcoming, wait till you learn about planet WASP-12b.
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Minor Planet Helps Answer Comet Conundrum
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It may not have an impressive name, but minor planet 2006 SQ372 has a big role to play. Could this be the answer to the old-age comet conundrum?
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Astronomers On the Verge of Finding Extrasolar Planets like Earth
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Sooner or later, say some astronomers, we’ll run across an extrasolar planet so similar to our own planet that we’ll be able to call it “Earth’s twin.”
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Astronomers Discover Three “Super Earths”
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None of them have been named Krypton, but astronomers have identified three “Super-Earths” in a star system 42 light-years from Earth.
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Extrasolar Planets Give Hope For the Search for Alien Life
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The finding of the smallest known extrasolar planet yet is giving hope to those who already believe aliens are out there.
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Livable Planets Believed to Be More Common
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The search for life far from earth seems to expand every month, with greater attention—and money—focused on finding planets with “conditions suitable for life.” Now, a new study suggests these “livable” planets may be more common than we thought.
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Possible Water Vapor Tantalizes Astronomers
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The exoplanetary-analysis community is buzzing with news this week of the possible discovery of water on HD189733b, an exoplanet 64 light-years from earth.
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Search for Spock: New Mission
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Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are eagerly considering the prospect of life on an earth-like planet (named Vulcan in homage to Star Trek) orbiting a nearby star.
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Earth #2
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Scientists are exuberant following the discovery of a planet only slightly larger than earth.
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The Existence and Origin of Extrasolar Planets
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Experimental evidence for the existence of extrasolar planets is evaluated and planet origin theories are critiqued from a creation perspective.
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Scientists Search for a New Earth
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In a major surprise to those looking for earth-like planets beyond our solar system, the first extrasolar planet examined-HD 189733b, for those keeping score-shows no signs of “common molecules like water, methane, or carbon dioxide,” announced Carl Grillmair and David Charbonneau of the Spitzer Science Center and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, respectively.
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A Visual Tour Of the New Evolving Planet Exhibit in Chicago
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Evolving Planet will no doubt impress its visitors with what appears to be a cornucopia of evidences for evolution.
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Flat Earth Topic
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Contrary to common misconception, the medieval church did not teach that the earth was flat, and there are many ways we know that the earth is spherical.
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Was the Final Experiment a Success?
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Directly observing the 24-hour sun in the Antarctic convinced some, but not all, that the earth is a globe.
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The Analemma and Flat Earth
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What this little-known globe feature teaches us about the shape of the earth.
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Life on Mars
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Will life be found inhabiting the rocky, desert-like surface of the Red Planet, our nearest celestial neighbor, Mars?
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Life’s Molecular Building Blocks from Mars?
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While Curiosity continues to search for signs of life on Mars, eager earth-bound evolutionary scientists are out-sourcing the origin of life off-world.
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Martian Ancestry
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Evolutionary scientists have spent years—and billions of dollars—searching for Martian life, coming up empty-handed despite their best efforts. Or is the problem their assumption that Martian life would be on Mars at all—instead of, say, Earth?
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Say Goodbye, Say Hello
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Last year a Mars robotic rover reminded us about man’s ongoing plans to set foot on other worlds.
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Hole Holds Promise?
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A huge spot on Mars found last year by astronomers had some scientists wondering whether it contained life.
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Mars Methane: Life?
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Finally—life on Mars! Is it the evidence for what evolutionists already believe?
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Can Lake on Mars Support Life?
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When a feature on Mars was noted to resemble a dry lake bed, researchers anticipated it would be a “candy store of targets” in the search for Martian life.
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Curiosity Rover Finally Scratches the Surface
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The Mars rover Curiosity made history on February 8 by drilling 2 ½ inches into the Martian surface.
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Curiosity Landing Starts New Phase
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Curiosity’s landing inaugurates a new phase in the quest for alien life.
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The Curious Case of Martian Mania
| Answers in Genesis
With the successful on-target Mars landing of the robotic rover dubbed Curiosity, a normally staid group of engineers and scientists erupted with joy as a fruit of their labor was achieved.
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Looking for Hints for Life on Mars
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Looking for hints-there-might-ever-have-been-life in all the right places . . . on Mars.
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Martian Fossils
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It’s no secret that fossils play a prominent role in the debate over the history of life on Earth. But will we soon be arguing over the meaning of Martian fossils?
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Questioning Life on Mars
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There may not be life on Mars, but there’s plenty of life left in life-on-Mars speculation.
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No News Like Old News
| Answers in Genesis
Is there life on Mars? Some of this week’s biggest “news” is also this week’s oldest news.
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Life in Mars Volcano?
| Answers in Genesis
After years and years of searching for life on Mars, scientists have finally found it.
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Soil on Mars Might Not Be Suitable for Life
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In the emotional soap opera that is the search for life on Mars, one of the main players—the habitability of Martian soil—may have just lapsed into a coma.
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Mars May Hold Nutrients for Life
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If off-season vegetables shipped in from far-away places are getting too expensive, perhaps it won’t be too long before vegetables will come straight from Mars!
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Salt Content of Mars Bad For Life
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Yet another door slams on the idea of Martian life, thanks to a new report in the journal Science.
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Mars Believed Too Salty to Support Life
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In a pair of stories related to our above item, new evidence gathered by one of the Mars rovers indicates Mars “was too salty to sustain life for much of its history.” Even the hardiest microbes would have found it difficult to survive amid brackish water. Meanwhile, a Dutch–American study indicates that unique geological features on Mars were formed by “brief bursts of water.”
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We Are All Martians
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Men (and women) are from Mars—though the popular tongue-in-cheek hypothesis lacks proof, it received an injection of plausibility in September from a baseball-sized rock that fell from the sky.
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New Life Test for Mars
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A new test to check for life on Mars has just had its initial components launched into space.
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Martian Life: Old News?
| Answers in Genesis
Hypothesis that Mars lander accidentally discovered life called bogus.
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I Dream of Caves (on Mars)
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A large dark spot, possibly indicating a deep hole, found on Mars, leaves researchers excited.
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Secular Scientists Jubilant over Martian Caves
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Thermal imaging experts analyzing photos of Mars have announced the possible presence of caves beneath Mars’ famous red surface.
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Mars Landing—Success or Failure?
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Missions to the surface of Mars have been plagued with problems.
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Creationists Take Old Bacterium with a Grain of Salt
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Once again the science world has caused a big media frenzy over little bacteria, similar to what happened in 1996 with “ALH84001,” the Antarctic rock supposedly from Mars.
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Mars
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As rovers and probes are sent to explore the uncharted surface of Mars, the discoveries are exciting. How should Bible-believing Christians view these finds?
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Mars—The Other Blue Planet?
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Did Mars once contain vast oceans? Some creationists now think so.
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Water on Mars: A Creationist Response
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How does the possiblity of water existing on Mars and relate to the possibility of it being linked to the Genesis flood?
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Was Noah a Martian?
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Noah's Flood actually occurred on Mars—not Earth! Sounds ridiculous doesn't it? But a recent New York Times article suggested, in essence, exactly that!
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The Martian Runt
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Mars is a runt because it formed quickly and was lucky enough to stay out of the way of on-coming traffic. So goes the latest step in the planetary shuffle.
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Looking for Water in all the Right Places
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Early Mars missions failed to find life on the Red Planet, so the focus shifted to finding evidence for water.
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Life on Mars!
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Well, water was found on Mars,
actually. But with water present can life be
far behind?
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The Rusting Planet
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What does the coloration of Mars say about its age?
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Meteorite Water Evidence Suggests Mars’ Wet Past
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Evidence of water in Martian meteorite suggests a wet past for the Red Planet.
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Purported Evidence of Water on Ancient Mars
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For the third time in as many weeks, we’re reporting on purported evidence of water on ancient Mars.
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Hot Air Over Mars
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The fuss over martian methane—which had fueled hopes for life on the Red Planet—may be misplaced, according to a new study.
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Oceans of Liquid Water On . . . Mars?
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The word Mars conjures up an image of a red, dusty planet surrounded by the blackness of space. But many researchers believe Mars was once a watery world.
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“Dog Door” Discovered on Mars?
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As the rover Curiosity explores our red neighbor Mars, many scientists and space buffs wait with bated breath for news that the planet held (or maybe even holds) life.
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Was Your Great-Great-Great Grandma a Martian?
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NASA’s life-hunting lab, Perseverance, has landed on Mars in another (likely vain) attempt to find signs of life on the Red Planet.
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Red Planet Day: Did Mars Have a Global Flood?
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What can we learn from Mars research, and did Mars have a global flood?
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The Search for Life Continues
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Perseverance isn’t just a virtue—this new space rover is going to Mars.
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Happy Red Planet Day!
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Why did they pick November 28 as Red Planet Day? On November 28, 1964, NASA launched Mariner 4, the first successful space probe to visit the planet Mars.
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A Methane Explosion on Mars—Evidence for Life?
| Answers in Genesis
Within the solar system, Mars appears most promising for life outside of the earth, so much attention has been given to the search for biogenic markers on Mars.
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Wind Not Water Built the Martian Mount Sharp
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A new analysis of photos of Mount Sharp taken from Curiosity’s vantage point suggests that water was not involved in the origin of the bulk of Mount Sharp.
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Water in Mars History
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Yet another discovery suggests that the history of Mars was a wet one.
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Water in the (Martian) Desert
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Once again, the news is awash in coverage of a new “water on Mars” claim. Does this one stand up to scrutiny?
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A Belief to Put on Ice
| Answers in Genesis
NASA brings us yet more excitement about water on Mars.
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Gamma-Rays Illuminate Massive Martian Oceans
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Thanks to the Mars Odyssey orbiter, there’s another drop of evidence that part of Mars was once covered in water.
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New Minerals Found On Mars Hint at Wetter Planet
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NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has discovered a gem of evidence that gives further support to the idea of an ancient, wet Mars.
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Phoenix Mars Rover Dectects Red Snow
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Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow—perhaps the tune the Phoenix Mars lander hums as it goes about its work?
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Mars Lander Takes Sample of Water for Testing
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NASA’s Phoenix lander has identified water in a soil sample collected from Mars—no small source of excitement for those who proclaim “where there’s water, there’s life.”
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More Ice on Mars?
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NASA’s Phoenix team has announced the possible discovery of more ice on Mars—so what’s the creation/evolution connection?
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Ice Caps on the Equator (of Mars)
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The existence of water on Mars is once again on scientists’ minds, this time because of new high-resolution radar images of the red planet.
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Prospects of Martian Oceans Excite Astronomers
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A study published in this week’s issue of the journal Nature supposedly supports the nearly two-decades-old belief that Mars hosted vast oceans more than two billion years ago.
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Scientists Expect Sub-Martian Water
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Evolutionists postulate that there is life on Mars do the possible prescence of underground water on Mars.
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Gullies Posit Water on Mars
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The science hullabaloo this week is that liquid water may have recently flowed on Mars, according to one interpretation of recent photography from the late Mars Global Surveyor.
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NASA Announces Evidence for Water on Mars
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NASA announced on Tuesday that their scientists have uncovered evidence that part of Mars was once “soaking wet.”
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Mission to Mars
| Answers in Genesis
For nearly two centuries, the planet Mars has captured the imagination of Earth-bound astronomers. The Red Planet displays intriguing features and ever-changing conditions.
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Mars: Losing Face
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Now that NASA spacecraft have had a chance to take a closer look, the so-called 'Face on Mars' turns out to be just a play of light and shadow on an ordinary looking geological feature.
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Mars Photos—No Martians
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The latest pictures from the surface of this barren, rocky red planet once again fail to show any Martians, or any evidence to support evolution.
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The sun, a star situated the perfect distance from earth to supply needed heat and light, shows evidence of special design by a loving Creator.
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Faint Sun Paradox
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Evidence now supports astronomers’ belief that the sun’s power comes from the fusion of hydrogen into helium deep in the sun’s core, but there is a huge problem.
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The Young Faint Sun Paradox and the Age of the Solar System
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The Sun derives energy by the thermonuclear conversion of hydrogen into helium, deep inside its core. There is convincing evidence that the Sun is getting at least half of its energy by this method.
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Solar Neutrinos—The Critical Shortfall Still Elusive
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Neutrinos have fascinated physicists since they were ‘invented’ 67 years ago
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Not Just Another Star
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Our sun is just a tiny yellow star in a vast collection that could support life. You’ll hear this more and more. Don’t believe it.
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Shining Right Away
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When God created the sun, it was shining right away—not because the photons had taken a long time to travel from the core, but because God made the sun hot!
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Is the Sun Shrinking?
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Some biblical creationists have suggested the sun is shrinking, which is unlikely—but that still doesn't mean a nuclear-powered sun is billions of years old.
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New Discoveries of Order in the Sun
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Without design and order, the sun would not supply the earth with life-giving heat and light.
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Should We Dim the Sun to Save the Planet?
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According to reports, the UK will soon approve experiments to “dim the sun” in an effort to slow down “global warming.” How will they dim our sun?
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Young Faint Sun Paradox—A New Solution
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Stellar evolutionists have aimed to solve the young faint sun paradox since Carl Sagan’s attempt a half-century ago, and the solution still eludes them.
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Where Will You Be for the August 21 Total Solar Eclipse?
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A total solar eclipse is such an amazing event; I’m encouraging people to travel to where the eclipse is total, if it is at all possible.
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Was the Sun Far Less Stable in the Past?
| Answers in Genesis
If κ1 Ceti truly is a good example of what the sun was like in its youth, then the evolutionary view of life may be in trouble.
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More Surprising Results from JWST: Most Galaxies Rotate Clockwise
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There are an estimated 200 billion galaxies in our universe, and this new study surveyed 263 of them to determine the direction that the galaxies rotate.
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Rocket Science for the Glory of God!
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The purpose of this book is to give you a starting point in understanding rocket science from a biblical perspective and how to defend your faith in a currently secular space industry.
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Did Man Really Land on the Moon?
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Why it’s important for Christians to reject the moon landing conspiracy theory.
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Rocky Remnants of a Catastrophic Collision?
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Evolutionists believe that about 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized planet, called Theia, collided with the earth.
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What Does the James Webb Space Telescope Show Us?
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Since becoming fully operational in 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been collecting some of the most breathtaking images of the heavens ever seen.
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Evolutionists Can’t Adequately Explain These Beautiful Astronomical Objects
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Our Creator justly deserves credit, praise, and worship for making the heavens a place of beauty and wonder-upon-wonder as well as loving, life-giving power.
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Responding to Flat-Earther Claims Regarding Meteors
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Flat-earthers assert that since no meteors have ever appeared to move upward, the conventional explanation for meteors must be wrong. Let us examine these two claims.
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The James Webb Space Telescope Turns Its Attention to Exoplanets
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The James Webb Space Telescope shows that exoplanets like Smertrios are very different from our earth and solar system.
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Should Christians Support Space Exploration?
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Starting with a Biblical worldview, Christians can see how scripture defines our role in exploring the cosmos.
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What the James Webb Space Telescope Has Revealed About Distant Galaxies So Far
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One of the prime objectives of the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to study very distant galaxies: ones that are too far away to be effectively observed prior to the JWST. How should creationists interpret the images from the farthest galaxies yet?
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Dark Matter Doesn’t Exist? Not so Fast!
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How should creationists view the recent study that calls into question whether dark matter exists?
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Rocket Science Confirms Biblical Creation
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Is rocket science purely secular, and should we just leave the Bible out of it? Obviously not. As briefly shown in this article, by starting our thinking with the Bible (i.e., through a biblical “lens”), we expect the universe to be organized and to consistently obey the natural laws that make rocket science possible.
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A Brief History of Rocket Science
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How believers in biblical creation started rocket science in the twentieth century and the study’s continued dependence upon the orderly construction of the universe by God
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A Biblical Response to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Launch
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The expected benefits from the new NASA telescope, the naturalistic assumptions integrated into its mission, and the only way to make sense of scientific investigation: God.
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Betelgeuse Is Back in the News
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The star Betelgeuse drastically faded in 2019, but now it’s back to its normal, bright self—what does that mean for stellar evolution or creation?
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2020 Hindsight: The Astronomy Year in Review
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Happy New Year! With COVID-19, 2020 was a weird year, a year many of us are glad to see go. Hopefully, 2021 will see the demise of COVID-19 and the many restrictions prompted by concerns about its spread, and so perhaps we soon can get back to normal.
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This Just in: There Is Water on the Moon
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Using a modified Boeing 747 equipped with infrared instruments, NASA discovered small amounts of water on the moon. What does that mean for biblical creation?
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Superhabitable Planets
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Astronomers have attempted to identify exoplanets likely to support life though their efforts have generated scant results so far.
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The Rise of the Modern Geocentric Theory Movement
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Does the Bible teach or demand geocentrism? Hardly. Does good science indicate that the earth is motionless? Certainly not. Then why do some Christians believe otherwise?
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Heraclitus: Original Proponent of the Eternal Universe
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Greek philosopher Heraclitus was one of the first promoters of an eternal universe, which found its way into Christian theology. The Bible tells a different story.
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Common Big Bang Cosmology Misconceptions
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Unfortunately, several misconceptions about cosmology have crept into the thinking of biblical creationists.
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The Cosmological Principle Fails?
| Answers in Genesis
A new study undermines homogeneity and isotropy, the foundations of the cosmological principle. But will it overthrow secular cosmology?
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The Newest Finding on the Expansion of the Universe
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The latest measure of the Hubble constant (H0) recently made headlines. A team of collaborators found a value a bit larger than their previous measurement. Many people have questions about this new study, so Dr. Faulkner explains some of the technical details.
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Does the Vatican Have a Telescope Called LUCIFER?
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From time to time here at Answers in Genesis we get inquiries about a telescope called LUCIFER that the Vatican supposedly owns. This story has been circulating around the internet for nearly a decade. It certainly sounds shocking, so it’s no wonder why people ask us about this. Is there any truth to this rumor?
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The Universe Confirms the Bible
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In this chapter, we will explore some passages of Scripture which touch upon the topics of astronomy and astrophysics.
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Should You Follow The (Copernican) Principle?
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The Principle is a documentary film in defense of an absolute geocentric model, in which the entire universe moves around the Earth.
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The Bible and Modern Astronomy, Part 1
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In this chapter, we will see that the scientific evidence very much supports the Genesis record of creation.
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Does the Bible Prohibit Space Travel?
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Does Psalm 115:16 prohibit aerial or space travel, or does the dominion mandate of Genesis 1:28 extend into outer space?
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The Bible and Modern Astronomy, Part 2
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Unfortunately, many Christians have bought into the idea of extraterrestrial “alien” life without critically assessing such a belief in light of Scripture.
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The Dubious Apologetics of Hugh Ross
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The astronomer Hugh Ross has had a great impact on many churches and individuals in recent years. But those who agree with his approach to Genesis should be embarrassed with the extent of his sloppy work.
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Misunderstood Messengers from Space
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Meteorites have an amazing story to tell, but it has been misunderstood.
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Rethinking Dark Energy: A Fly in the Cosmic Ointment
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How Big Bang cosmology requires dark energy to work and how the reality of dark energy are now being called into question by mainstream scientists.
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Helium Hydride: The First Molecule?
| Answers in Genesis
Astronomers have thought that the conditions in planetary nebulae might be conducive to production of helium hydride, with temperatures and densities high enough to mimic the conditions during the first hundred-thousand years of the big bang universe
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How Old Is the Solar System?
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Dr. Faulkner examined 25 of the most popular models for the age of the solar system: some need to be discarded, others updated, and others refined.
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How Big Is the Universe?
| Answers in Genesis
I will address the question of whether the universe really is as big as is often claimed. The short answer is, yes, the universe most certainly is that large.
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The Age of the Universe, Part 1
| Answers in Genesis
The Bible implicitly teaches us about the age of the universe. Why is it that so many scientists choose to ignore the recorded history of the Bible, and instead believe in a vastly inflated age of the universe?
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Particles from Distant Space!
| Answers in Genesis
For the first time, scientists have
traced the possible origin of a subatomic
particle that came from outside
our galaxy.
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The Age of the Universe, Part 2
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Clearly, there are many evidences which are fully consistent with the biblical age of the universe and are difficult to reconcile with a belief in billions of years.
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Astronomy and the Bible
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Scripture gives a refreshing contrast to secular thinking by declaring that earth and mankind are not an insignificant result of accidental evolution.
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James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Fast-Growing Galaxies
| Answers in Genesis
The James Webb Space Telescope is in the news again because it keeps finding things about galaxies that astronomers and astrophysicists did not expect.
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TOI 700d: The Latest Earth-Like Exoplanet?
| Answers in Genesis
Astronomers discovered another possible exoplanet transiting near the star TOI 700. But data is inconclusive on whether it’s a viable exoplanet.
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Leap Day 2020: A Brief History of Leap Day
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Today is February 29—Leap Day 2020! This date occurs once every four years. Why do we have this quadrennial practice?
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Will a Rare “Christmas Star” Appear in the Sky This December?
| Answers in Genesis
A rare conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn almost appears to be a single bright “star” on December 21. Does this point to Christ’s birth?
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Astronomical Events in 2008
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This is a list of astronomical events occuring in 2008.
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The Universe is Nothingness!
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The April 2002 Discover magazine cover shows a red marble a little larger than a centimeter across with the text, ‘The Universe at about 10^–34 seconds (actual size).’
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The Moon’s Regression and Density Waves
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Calling Dr. Jason Lisle, AiG–U.S., incompetent or a liar, a critic blasts the two key evidences of a young universe. But, as Dr. Lisle explains, the critic has not done his research.
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National Alien Abduction Day
| Answers in Genesis
March 20 is Alien Abduction Day, so beware of green lights (except at intersections), UFOs (drones don’t count), and ETs (unless they just want to borrow your phone to call home). You might want to avoid Roswell, New Mexico, too.
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What's Up in 2019?
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What’s up in 2019? The year begins with a bang, for on the morning of January 1, the moon and Venus will be close together in the sky. Both rise about three hours before the sun. Look to the southeast before sunrise; Venus will be the bright star near the moon.
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Astronomical Myths
| Answers in Genesis
Far from promoting true scientific literacy, Cosmos pushes students to reject the Designer of the cosmos.
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Finding the Right Telescope for You
| Answers in Genesis
Want to get a better glimpse of God’s handiwork in the night sky? Ready to move beyond basic binoculars but don’t know which telescope to buy?
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Enceladus: Frozen Stripes and Frozen Pipes
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Ever since the Cassini probe photographed
them in 2005, the tiger stripes
on Saturn’s moon Enceladus have
stumped scientists.
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Bible Timeline
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The Bible provides a reliable history of the universe and the events described in the
Bible, through which we can interpret science and history.
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Bible Genealogy
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The genealogies of the Bible are used to construct a biblical chronology and timeline of 6,000 years, but can these genealogies be trusted?
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Are There Gaps in the Genesis Genealogies?
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Most people believe the genealogies contain only dull details, but since “every word is given by inspiration of God” even these so-called dull passages contain vital truth that can be trusted.
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Ancient Biblical Lifespans
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Exploring how Adam, Methuselah, and Noah in the book of Genesis really lived for centuries and biological/genetic reasons why humans no longer live that long.
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Food for Thought
| Answers in Genesis
The Bible records some pretty astounding ages for the pre-Flood patriarchs.
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The Amram Question
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How could Moses and Aaron have so many relatives (about 8,600) when their father only had two sons and one daughter?
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Are There Gaps in the Genesis Genealogies?
| Answers in Genesis
A common argument against young-earth creationism is that gaps exist in the genealogies listed in the fifth and tenth chapters of Genesis.
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Contradictions: Generational Gaffe?
| Answers in Genesis
Tim Chaffey, AiG–U.S., explains why 1 Samuel 9:1 states that Kish (Saul’s father) was the son of Abiel, but 1 Chronicles states that Kish was the son of Ner.
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Contradictions: An Extra Cainan?
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Does the genealogy in Luke 3:36 give an extra Cainan not found in similar genealogies, such as Genesis 11:12?
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Do the Genesis Genealogies Contain Gaps?
| Answers in Genesis
Despite attempts to add to the biblical account, Dr. Freeman shows that the genealogies in Genesis 5 and 11 do not contain gaps.
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Chronology Conundrums
| Answers in Genesis
Some have claimed that the Bible contradicts itself.
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The ‘Recolonisation Theory’—The Latest Compromise
| Answers in Genesis
In the last few years, another compromise of biblical truth has emerged, actually from within what might be termed the ‘Young Earth Creation’ movement. This compromise is the 'Recolonisation Theory.'
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7.7 Danger No 7: Loss of Biblical Chronology
| Answers in Genesis
The Bible provides us with a timescale for history. Although not measured by means of atomic clocks, the following dates and facts underlay a proper understanding of the Bible.
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The World: Born in 4004 BC?
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In today’s culture, the thought of creation occurring about 6,000 years ago is frequently mocked by non-Christians—and also by many Christians.
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Timeline for the Flood
| Answers in Genesis
So when exactly was the Flood? There are two possible ways of calculating the date. David Wright, AiG–U.S., explains.
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Ussher’s Time Line for the Divided Kingdom
| Answers in Genesis
The time line for the divided kingdom has caused many problems recently for those who do not take the Bible as their final authority.
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How Long Did It Take for Noah to Build the Ark?
| Answers in Genesis
Many assume that it took Noah 120 years to build the ark, but what does Scripture actually tell us?
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When Did the Animals Exit the Ark?
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If you search Genesis 1–11, you won’t find an explicit time stamp for the disembarking event. So when did the Ark land? When did animals restart their lives?
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Grappling with the Chronology of the Flood Excerpt
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Read an excerpt from the book Grappling with the Chronology of the Flood.
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Why Study the Chronology of the Flood?
| Answers in Genesis
In a crucial research project, a team of Hebraists conducted an exhaustive linguistic and literary study of the Hebrew narrative of the Genesis Flood.
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Geology
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While many think rock formations and rock layers are evidence of an old earth, the Bible’s history and the rocks themselves teach a different story.
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Carbon-14
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Carbon, which dissipates in just tens of thousands of years, is present in diamonds and fossils! Carbon-14 calls the whole old-earth paradigm into question.
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Doesn’t Carbon-14 Dating Disprove the Bible?
| Answers in Genesis
Unaware of the many fallacious assumptions used in the dating process, many people believe Carbon-14 dating disproves the biblical timeline. Mike Riddle demonstrates otherwise.
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Carbon-14 in Fossils and Diamonds
| Answers in Genesis
If the radioactive element carbon-14 breaks down quickly—within a few thousand years—why do we still find it in fossils and diamonds?
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A Creationist Puzzle
| Answers in Genesis
How do creationists explain dates of 50,000 years?
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Carbon Dating: Questions Answered
| Answers in Genesis
Although many people think radiocarbon is used to date rocks, it is limited to dating things that contain carbon and were once alive (fossils).
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Carbon-14 in Fossils, Coal, and Diamonds
| Answers in Genesis
Carbon-14 (or radiocarbon) is a radioactive form of carbon that scientists use to date fossils. But it decays quickly.
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DNA Decay Rate Evaluated
| Answers in Genesis
DNA-bearing tissue found in fossils has generally been considered a contaminant, leaving the acquisition of DNA from dinosaurs in the realm of science fiction.
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Response: Accusations of Noah’s Ark Ministries International
| Answers in Genesis
In April 2010, a press conference was held in Hong Kong to announce to the world the potential discovery of the remains of Noah’s Ark on Mt. Ararat. What are we to make of these claims?
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The Maximum Date for Carbon-14
| Answers in Genesis
Do Answers in Genesis articles present different maximum dates for Carbon-14? Dr. Andrew Snelling explains.
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Carbon-14 Dating—Understanding the Basics
| Answers in Genesis
Many people assume that rocks are dated at “millions of years” based on radiocarbon (carbon-14) dating. But that’s not the case.
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Measurable C-14 in Fossilized Organic Materials: Creation-Flood
| Answers in Genesis
An astonishing discovery made over the past 20 years is that, almost without exception, organic samples from every portion of the Phanerozoic record show detectable amounts of 14C!
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Radiocarbon Dating and New Zealand Rats
| Answers in Genesis
The subject is radiocarbon dating, and we think we smell a rat!
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Oldest Living Tree Located In Sweden
| Answers in Genesis
It’s the world’s oldest living tree, say Swedish researchers—but don’t worry, they didn’t stay up late counting the rings.
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Radiocarbon in Diamonds Confirmed
| Answers in Genesis
During the RATE (Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth) research project, some of the research effort was focused on investigating radiocarbon (carbon-14) dating.
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Much-Inflated Carbon-14 Dates from Subfossil Trees
| Answers in Genesis
Artificially-inflated 14C dates have been found to occur when trees absorb ‘infinitely old’ carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere from local, volcanogenic, subterranean sources.
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Geological Conflict
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Many do not realise that index fossils are still crucial to the millions-of-years geological dating, in spite of the advent of radioactive 'dating' techniques.
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Radioactive “Dating” Failure
| Answers in Genesis
Recent New Zealand lava flows yield ‘ages’ of millions of years.
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Dating in Conflict
| Answers in Genesis
Mainstream geologists would never think of trying to get a radiocarbon (14C) date for the coalified wood in this Mägenwil sandstone, because anything that old should not be datable by this method.
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Brushwork Beats Boffins!
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‘However, publicity of the find attracted the attention of Mrs Joan Ahrens, a Capetown resident, who recognised the paintings as being produced by her at art classes and later stolen from her garden…’
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Radiometric Dating
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How does radiometric dating work? Does radiometric dating prove rocks are millions or billions of years old?
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Radiometric Dating: Back to Basics
| Answers in Genesis
Radiometric dating is often used to “prove” rocks are millions of years old.
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Radiometric Dating and Proof
| Answers in Genesis
Isn’t radiometric dating irrefutable proof that the earth is approximately four billion year old? Dr. Andrew Snelling, AiG—U.S., responds.
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Radiohalos—The Mysterious Vanishing Bullets
| Answers in Genesis
Geologists have discovered a great mystery—tiny black circles, called radiohalos, formed by polonium decay. Where'd it come from, and where'd it go?
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Diamonds—Time Capsules of Billions of Years?
| Answers in Genesis
Evolutionary geologists claim diamonds are billions of years old, but they ignore major issues with radiometric dating and Carbon-14 in diamonds.
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How Reliable Are Dates for Human Fossils?
| Answers in Genesis
How much do we really know about all those human and ape fossils displayed in museums and textbooks? Glossy charts declare their dates and stories with journalistic certainty, but the dating methods aren’t as rock-solid as most people assume.
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Uranium-Lead Radioisotope Dating Problems
| Answers in Genesis
Uranium-lead radioisotope dating is now the preferred absolute dating method among geochronologists. Consequently, the scientific community and the general public around the world appear convinced of the earth’s claimed great antiquity. But there are several problems with this particular radiometric dating method.
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The Dating Game
| Answers in Genesis
Selected data and unprovable assumptions are a problem with all methods for determining the age of the earth, as well as for dating its fossils and rocks.
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Radioactive Dating: Questions Answered
| Answers in Genesis
Let’s take a closer look at the radioactive dating method and the radiometric dating methods and see how reliable they really are.
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Key Flaw Found in Radioisotope Isochron Dating
| Answers in Genesis
NCSU’s recent research revealed an “oversight in a radioisotope dating technique used to date everything from meteorites to geologic samples.”
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Does the Earth’s Mantle Preserve Evidence of Its Origin?
| Answers in Genesis
New chemical analyses appear to show that some of the early mantle rock may have survived until today in rock formations called flood basalts.
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Helium Diffusion Rates Support Accelerated Nuclear Decay
| Answers in Genesis
A significant fraction of the earth’s radioactive elements, particularly uranium and thorium, appear to be in the granitic rock of the upper continental crust.
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Are the RATE Results Caused by Contamination?
| Answers in Genesis
Internet posts continue to accuse the RATE team of ignoring clear evidence of contamination. But is this really the case?
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Do Zircons Contain Reliable Time Stamps and Early Earth’s Secrets
| Answers in Genesis
Despite debate about the accuracy of the uranium “clocks” they contain, scientists say they’ve found a zircon with a confirmed age of 4.4 billion years.
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Feedback: Dating Rocks Helps Creation Scientists
| Answers in Genesis
Dr. Andrew Snelling explains how radioactive dating methods may help us derive not absolute but relative ages of rocks.
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Clock in the Rock
| Answers in Genesis
Rockin’ around the clock’s assumptions
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Dating Techniques
| Answers in Genesis
Just how far off are the commonly accepted dating methods? Dr. Andrew Snelling explains.
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Radiometric Dating: Making Sense of the Patterns
| Answers in Genesis
Interpreted in a biblical framework, radiometric dating methods help us better understand the earth's history since creation six thousand years ago.
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Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth
| Answers in Genesis
This article summarizes the purpose, history, and intermediate findings of the RATE project five years into an eight-year effort.
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Solar Flares and Radioactive Decay Relationship
| Answers in Genesis
Last year we mentioned research that showed a relationship between earth’s distance from the sun and the rate at which certain elements undergo radioactive decay—an eyebrow-raising linkage.
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Fallacious Refutations
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Dr. Andrew Snelling, AiG–U.S., explains how to deal with refutations of creationist material
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Radiometric Dating: Problems with the Assumptions
| Answers in Genesis
Once you understand the basic science of radiometric dating, you can see how wrong assumptions lead to incorrect dates.
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Radiometric Dating
| Answers in Genesis
Does radiometric dating show that rocks are millions of years old? No!
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Whole-Rock K-Ar Model Somerset Dam Layered Mafic Intrusion
| Answers in Genesis
The Somerset Dam layered mafic intrusion in southeast Queensland, Australia, has been conventionally dated as Late Triassic by the apparently successful application of radioisotopic dating techniques.
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History of Recent Andesite Flows
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Mt. Ngauruhoe in the Taupo Volcanic Zone of New Zealand erupted andesite lava flows in 1949 and 1954, and avalanche deposits in 1975.
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U-Th-Pb “Dating”: An Example of False “Isochrons”
| Answers in Genesis
As with other isochron methods, the U-Pb isochron method has been questioned in the open literature.
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Radiohalos and Diamonds
| Answers in Genesis
We offer an explanation for the radiohalos and for the “tubes” in these diamonds in terms of a hydrothermal fluid transport model for Po radiohalo formation.
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Radiohalos New South Wales, Australia
| Answers in Genesis
The Cooma granodiorite was generated as a consequence of the regional metamorphism that resulted from the catastrophic large-scale emplacement during the catastrophic plate tectonics of the Flood.
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Radiohalos in the Shap Granite, Lake District, England
| Answers in Genesis
The Po radiohalos and other evidence associated with this granite thus remove objections to Flood geology and any need to place the Flood/post-Flood boundary in the lower Carboniferous.
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Radiohalos—A Tale of Three Granitic Plutons
| Answers in Genesis
The origin and significance of radiohalos have been debated for almost a century, perhaps largely because their geological distribution has been poorly understood.
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Time and Time Again
| Answers in Genesis
The chemical data used in the radiometric dating method requires interpretation, which is sure to be wrong if Biblical data is ignored.
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Questioning Reliability of RATE Group and Its Findings
| Answers in Genesis
A feedback submitter suggests that the RATE team was dishonest because “[t]hey already know the truth [and] the facts that they find will reflect their presuppositions.”
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Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth
| Answers in Genesis
The RATE research project demonstrated that creationists could support a larger-scale collaborative research effort.
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Does Radiometric Dating Prove the Earth Is Old?
| Answers in Genesis
Many accept radiometric dating methods as proof that the earth is millions of years old, in contrast to the biblical timeline. Mike Riddle exposes the unbiblical assumptions used in these calculations.
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Radiometric Dating—Not Infallible
| Answers in Genesis
There are plenty of indications that these radiometric dating methods are not as infallible as they would have you believe!
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The Fallacies of Radioactive Dating of Rocks
| Answers in Genesis
Deep in the eastern Grand Canyon, Arizona, is a stacked sequence of “ancient” basalt lava flows known by geologists as the Cardenas Basalt.
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Radioisotope Dating of Rocks in the Grand Canyon
| Answers in Genesis
Was Dr. Andrew Snelling “irresponsible” for pointing out dating discrepancies at the Grand Canyon?
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RATE Strikes at the Heart of Evolution
| Answers in Genesis
The RATE team has confirmed the trustworthiness of Scripture, thus upholding its authority, and has shown that the battle is not between science and the Bible.
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Radioisotope Dating of Rocks in the Grand Canyon
| Answers in Genesis
The radioisotope methods, long touted as irrefutably dating the earth as countless millions of years old, have repeatedly failed to give reliable and meaningful absolute ages for Grand Canyon rocks.
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National Geographic Plays the Dating Game
| Answers in Genesis
A recent National Geographic article fails to portray the commonly used age-determination methods either accurately or objectively.
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Rating Radiodating
| Answers in Genesis
A group of young-Earth researchers called RATE (Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth) are investigating radioactive dating methods and developing alternative young-Earth explanations.
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Radio-Dating in Rubble
| Answers in Genesis
Radioisotope dating conveys an aura of reliability both to the general public and professional scientists. But is the method all it’s cracked up to be?
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Countering the Critics
| Answers in Genesis
Understandably, Dr Austin’s devastating research into radioisotopic dating has been criticized by those who believe in millions of years.
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More and More Wrong Dates
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Is this dating failure from Mount St Helens an isolated case of radioisotope dating giving wrong results for rocks of known age? Certainly not!
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Contra Rb-Sr Dating
| Answers in Genesis
It is important that alternative models are developed to explain the observed patterns of strontium isotopes.
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Polonium Radiohalos, Stone Mountain Granite, Georgia (USA)
| Answers in Genesis
The Stone Mountain granite samples in this study yielded no zircon crystals and no diffuse radiation stains. These data are insufficient to determine the timing and mode of formation of these radiohal
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Conflicting ‘Ages’ of Tertiary Basalt and Contained Fossilised Wo
| Answers in Genesis
The fossilised wood’s radiocarbon demonstrates the basalt’s youthfulness and the failure of radioisotopic ‘dating’, but is consistent with a Flood/immediate post-Flood stronger magnetic field.
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Radioactive “Dating” in Conflict!
| Answers in Genesis
When miners were sinking a ventilation shaft for the new Crinum Coal Mine in Central Queensland in 1993 (see map below) they unearthed a rare find.
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The Pigs Took It All
| Answers in Genesis
A popular myth is that radioactive dating methods confirm the geologic time-scale and the concept of human evolution.
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The Failure of U-Th-Pb ‘Dating’ at Koongarra, Australia
| Answers in Genesis
As with other radiometric ‘dating’ methods, the U-Pb and Pb-Pb isochron methods have been questioned in the open literature.
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Rock Layers
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Do rock layers prove the earth is billions of years old? How does what we see in the world match what we read in God’s Word?
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“Sedimentary Layers Show Millions of Years of Geological Activity.”
| Answers in Genesis
Riding the rapids between the mile-high walls of the Grand Canyon, a rafter supposedly peers up at millions of years of earth history. How do scientists arrive at such an old age? And is the worldwide geologic column really a clincher for the long ages required for evolution?
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“Fossil” Clock: How fast do rocks form?
| Answers in Genesis
Intense evolutionary indoctrination has conditioned people to assume it take millions of years to form rock. What about a clock found encased in solid rock?
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Were Rock Layers and Fossils Formed Quickly?
| Answers in Genesis
15 pieces of fossil and geological evidence for a young earth and global flood—with pictures.
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Mudrocks in Minutes
| Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists scoff at biblical creationists who say that many mudrock layers were deposited all at once in the yearlong, global Genesis flood. Conventional wisdom assumes the mud in earth’s mudrocks took millions of years to settle. What do new experiments suggest?
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Clues from Creation Week
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Did you know that even today you can still see and touch rocks that date back to God’s original creation during the creation week? Well, you can! The Hamersley area in Australia’s northwest is part of two-thirds of the continent’s surface not covered today by flood rocks.
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Bent Rock Layers
| Answers in Genesis
In many mountainous areas, rock layers thousands of feet thick have been bent and folded without fracturing. How can that happen if they were laid down separately over hundreds of millions of years?
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Folded Rock Layers
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How could a series of sedimentary layers fold without fracturing? The only way is for all the sedimentary layers to be laid down in rapid succession and then be folded while still soft and pliable.
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Sifting Through Layers of Meaning
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According to science textbooks, a series of rock layers covers the earth, representing many eras over “millions of years.” Are these charts accurate?
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Water from Rock
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People often refer to rock layers as though the earth is made of solid rock, impervious to water. Thankfully, this isn’t true.
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Rainbow Mountains
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Like every other rainbow, China’s Rainbow Mountain was formed by water.
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Time for an Upgrade?
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The biblical framework of history explains the world around us.
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Transcontinental Rock Layers
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Every continent contains layers of sedimentary rocks that span vast areas. Many of these layers can even be traced across continents.
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Granite and the Rock of God’s Word
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As far as this ‘granite problem’ is concerned, there would now seem to be a glimpse of an answer developing, on the basis of experimental work done by non-creationist geologists.
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Chalking Up Another One For Flood Geology
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The famous White Cliffs of Dover, immortalized in song and print, are made of a type of limestone called chalk. If you look at this rock closely, it is made up largely of microscopic shells.
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The Case of the ‘Missing’ Geologic Time
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Traditional evolutionary geology maintains that the deposition of sediments to form major rock layers often takes long periods of time.
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The Cambrian Explosion—An “Illusion of Animal Communities Which Never Existed?”
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The Cambrian explosion is not a snapshot of animal communities millions of years ago but a collection of fossils in a rock layer laid down during the global flood.
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Geologic Time Scale
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How should we interpret the geologic time scale, traditionally associated with millions of years, in light of the Bible’s history?
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Geologic Column
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Modern examples of canyon formation and erosion provide models to explain how many geological formations can be described by the Flood and its aftereffects.
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Rapid Rocks
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The timescale and conditions for the formation and cooling of granites are totally consistent with a 6,000–7,000 year-old earth and a global cataclysmic flood 4,500–5,000 years ago.
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Unlocking the Geologic Record
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Evolutionists hold up the fossil record as evidence that evolution has taken place over the billions of years of earth history.
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No Hadean Hell on Earth
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Zircons may hint at a story about the early earth, but only with the help of God’s Word.
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Unreasonable Reliance on Dating Methods
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The “geologic timescale” is full of assumptions and the timescale has changed drastically over the past 150 years.
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Are We Living in a New Geologic Age?
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Are we living in a new geologic age? Recently, geologists announced a name for the geologic age we live in: the Meghalayan Age. This new age is supposed to have begun 4,250 years ago. This further divides up earth’s supposed 4.5 billion year history into various lengths of time.
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The Stones Cry Out
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The geologic record should be interpreted using a Biblical framework.
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Earlier Start for Animal Evolution
| Answers in Genesis
It could almost be the plot of an evolutionary Indiana Jones adventure: deep beneath the sands of Arabia, lost and hidden for millennia, lay a secret molecule that transcends what we think we know.
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Mexican Markings and Chronological Chaos
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Dr. Sylvia Gonzales of John Moores University in Liverpool, England reported in 2005 about the discovery of 269 footprints preserved in volcanic ash in the Valsequillo region of central Mexico.
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Sparking Interest in Rapid Rocks
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Examination of rapid formation of rocks by looking at the example of a rock formed around a modern spark plug.
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‘Fossil’ Pliers Show Rock Doesn’t Need Millions of Years to Form
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Contrary to evolutionary claims, rock can form in a very short time, as shown by the example of the pliers.
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Oil in Less Than a Century?
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How long does it take oil to form? Centuries? Thousands of years? Millions of years? Architect Hans Timmers, of Maleny, a town in Queensland, Australia, told us of the following experience.
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The Origin of Oil
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For more than 100 years oil has been the “black gold” that has fueled transport vehicles and powered global economic growth and prosperity. So how does oil form, and what is its origin?
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Wonders of Geography: Grand Canyon
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The Grand Canyon does not speak of millions of years of formation; it clearly testifies of rapid formation.
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The Fight for 53 Rocks
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Searching for evidence of the global flood led Dr. Andrew Snelling into the Grand Canyon—and
sparked the fight of his career.
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Coconino Sandstone—The Most Powerful Argument Against the Flood?
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The Flood is impossible because one of the Grand Canyon’s
layers was deposited in a desert. Or so evolutionists claim.
Do the facts back them up?
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What’s Wrong With The Grand Canyon, Monument to an Ancient Earth?
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A geology historian’s book review of “The Grand Canyon, Monument to an Ancient Earth” and why its arguments should fail to convince a careful Bible student.
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Natural Features
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The world of geology is filled with beautiful and awe-inspiring natural formations. How did these formations get there?
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Chalk It Up to a Global Flood
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At today’s rate of ocean-floor
buildup, chalk layers would take
millions of years to form. How do
creationists explain them?
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A Superior History
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When you look closely at Lake Superior’s landscape, you’ll see evidence of a catastrophic past.
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Sand Pillars—Breaking Through Millions of Years
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Secluded in the canyon country of southern Utah is a beautiful but often overlooked state park called Kodachrome Basin.
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Hoodoos of Bryce Canyon
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The visitor overlooks at Bryce Canyon, Utah, provide a breathtaking spectacle of row upon row of towering columns painted pink, red, white, and orange. Together, these columns were formed in a series of horseshoe-shaped amphitheaters, cut into the surrounding cliffs.
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The Devils Marbles
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The Devils Marbles are an iconic landmark in Australia’s Outback.
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Arches of Utah
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Located just outside Moab, Utah, is a wonderland of more than 2,000 natural arches.Everywhere you turn are spectacular arches of various shapes and sizes, such as Double Arch, Skyline Arch, and Tower Arch. Why are there so many natural arches in this one area?
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Giant’s Causeway
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The Giant’s Causeway is Northern Ireland’s most iconic landmark.
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Cotton Castle
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Every year “Cotton Castle” in Turkey attracts a million visitors eager to see its spectacular stepped terraces and “frozen” waterfalls or to find refreshment in its oyster-shaped mineral pools. In New Testament times it was part of the city of Hierapolis, famed for the healing qualities of its hot mineral springs.
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A Canyon in Six Days!
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The idea that canyons invariably take vast ages to form is unfortunately very firmly cemented in the public mind. Even today, most school students are still taught the older, long-age model.
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Uluru and Kata Tjuta: A Testimony to the Flood
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No visit to Central Australia is complete without seeing two of Australia's most famous landmarks-Uluru and Kata Tjuta.
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Durham’s Grand Canyon
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A quickly formed canyon in England provides clues to how the Grand Canyon and other geological features formed recently—and not over millions of years.
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Mysterious Natural Wonders—What Park Rangers Won't Tell You
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Rare geologic wonders—like delicate arch—draw gawking tourists from around the world.
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Volcanoes—Windows Into Earth’s Past
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God has given us a window into the earth’s past. Starting with God’s Word and studying modern volcanoes and the huge deposits of past volcanoes, we can piece together a dramatic picture of unique catastrophes during the Flood.
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Utah’s Testimony to Catastrophe
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In July 2006 I had the privilege of visiting Utah and wandering through some of the amazing geological formations there.
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Encounter Geology
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The guides at Creation Encounter tours haven’t missed the opportunity God gave them in the Pacific Northwest.
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Giant’s Causeway of Northern Ireland
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Some geologists claim that the Causeway was formed over 60 million years ago. But other geologists, who approach Giant’s Causeway with a biblical understanding of the past, have another explanation.
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Protests by Giant's Causeway's New Visitor Center
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Controversy? What controversy? Giant’s Causeway’s new visitor center becomes target for protest.
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Devils Tower in Wyoming
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Devils Tower, an impressive formation amid a relatively flat region, raises natural questions among many viewers as to how it formed.
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Everglades: An Ever-Changing Environment
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The Everglades features one of the most diverse ecosystems on earth—with a surprising geological history.
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Red River Gorge: An Astronomer in the Arches
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For astronomer Dr. Danny Faulkner, the most intriguing spot in God’s creation is far below the stars.
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The Hawaiian Islands: String of Pearls
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The biblical account of an earth-ravaging flood helps explain
this imperfect paradise.
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Beauty in Broken Places
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What do so many beautiful geological formations around the world have in common?
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Answers Magazine Preview: Vol. 9 No. 3
| Answers in Genesis
The July 2014 issue of Answers is on its way! Get ready to explore some of the world’s greatest natural wonders.
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Nightmare Forest
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Imagine walking across a field of razor blades. That’s what it is like to climb the hills in a remote part of Madagascar.
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The Slightly Less Grand Canyon
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It’s the “Grand Canyon of Durham” in England: a miniature canyon carved into a barley field by “torrential rain” over a weekend.
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Uluru (Ayers Rock) in Australia
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One of Australia’s most famous landmarks stands tall against the flat desert region of the “Red Center” of the Northern Territory. Find out how it formed.
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White Cliffs of Dover
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These towering escarpments, stretching 10 miles (16 km) along the coast, not only guard England from its enemies but, more importantly, give tribute to the global Flood.
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Stone Arch Collapse Doesn't Support Old Earth Theory
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If an arch collapses in a desert and no one is around to hear it, does it still shout “millions of years”?
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Niagara Falls in North America
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Every part of Niagara Falls testifies to a biblical timescale and a worldwide Flood as recorded in Genesis 6–9.
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Study Suggests Canyon Was Created by a Megaflood
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A new study of Idaho’s Box Canyon suggests the canyon was formed by “a megaflood—a catastrophic outpouring of massive amounts of water in a relatively short period.”
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Geologic Rate Change in Yellowstone Valley
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Geologists working in Yellowstone National Park have discovered that the Yellowstone Valley is rising more than three times faster than “usual.”
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Plane Flies in the Face of Glaciology
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The P-38’s 1942 flight to the U.K. ended when bad weather forced the pilot to land the plane on one of Greenland’s glaciers. Although the pilot—along with the 24 other airmen from seven other planes forced down—were rescued shortly thereafter, the planes were left and summarily buried under 250 ft (91 m) of ice.
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Creation Road Trip: More Destinations
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If you’re planning an outing to one of these locations, be sure to read the following biblical explanations of how catastrophic processes formed these amazing sights during Noah’s Flood.
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Collapsed Apostle Tells a Story
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The famous 'Twelve Apostles' off the coast of Victoria, Australia have eroded much faster than most people imagine.
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Warped Earth
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Geologic formations commonly show clear evidence that the rocks could not have been hard and brittle before they were folded.
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Canyon Creation
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Many people believe canyons take a long time to form. In North America, though, there is a canyon that simply wasn't there 150 years ago.
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Niagara Falls and the Bible
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Aside from the beauty and grandeur of the Falls, very few visitors realise they are looking at one of the major excuses for abandoning biblical chronology.
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Catastrophism
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Are current, slow geologic processes the key to understanding earth’s past, or was history marked by a global, earth-shaping catastrophe?
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Sculpting a New Home
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We can only imagine what happened after the Flood! Consider five major examples of catastrophes
that reshaped the planet.
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Petrified Forest National Park—Painting A Different Picture
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Looking at this landscape through biblical glasses, we see a rainbow of evidence confirming the global flood.
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Yellowstone
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Beneath the surface of Yellowstone’s beauty lie fearful clues to the past—and a possible future.
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Yosemite Valley—Colossal Ice Carving
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Mountains and breathtaking valleys adorn our planet. Each one speaks of God’s handiwork, but they were formed by water and ice in judgment, not creation.
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Continuing Catastrophes
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The rock layers speak of a violent period after the Flood, lasting many centuries.
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Five Mass Extinctions or One Cataclysmic Event?
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Many scientists claim the fossil record shows many mass extinctions separated by
millions of years. Does the Bible give a better explanation?
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Having It Both Ways?
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If the present isn’t the key to the past, a critic wants to know why AiG uses present events to explore what happened in the global Flood. Dr. Andrew Snelling, AiG–U.S., explains.
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“Rapid” Granite Formation?
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Contrary evidence pointing to relatively rapid, even catastrophic, formation of granites is now beginning to surface.
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Coal Beds and Noah’s Flood
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Coal beds formed from plant debris catastrophically buried by Noah’s Flood about 4,500 years ago? Evolutionists believe that the material in coal beds accumulated over millions of years.
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In Brief—Mt. Isa Metal Ores and Noah’s Flood
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Mount Isa in north-west Queensland, Australia, is one of the world’s largest (and richest) metal deposits, with silver-lead-zinc and copper ore bodies in the same beds.
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Green River Blues
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The Green River Formation of Wyoming, USA, is familiar to geologists not only for its well-preserved fossils but also because it has come to the forefront of debate on the age of the earth.
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Medieval Ice Age Indonesian Volcano
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Historical records corroborate frozen testimony that unravels the riddle of the Little Ice Age.
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Lamellibranch Shells—Evidence of Catastrophe
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Modern geology usually dismisses the possibility of a worldwide flood and therefore never examines the evidence in terms of such a flood.
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Out of the Box Thinking
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A new study of Idaho’s Box Canyon suggests that the canyon was formed rapidly by a megaflood.
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F.A.S.T. and Furious
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Creation geologists have undertaken a major new research project to better understand how the Flood deposited sediments across continents while tectonic forces within the crust reshaped the earth.
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Post-Flood World
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After the Flood, the world was a warm, wet and stormy world. The warm oceans and cooler temperatures caused snow and ice to accumulate, creating the Ice Age.
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Common Ground
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Tourists have another reason to find common ground with biblical creationists when it comes to the formation of canyons.
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The Slow-and-Gradual Catastrophe
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An ancient extinction wasn’t as sudden and catastrophic as once believed. Now, how does that reinforce the Flood model?
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Super-salty Water Sealed Beneath Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater
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Does the Chesapeake Bay crater memorialize a meteorite impact from the time of Noah’s Flood?
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A Dark and Stormy World
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The Flood caused radical changes in the land, seas, and atmosphere. The weather would never be the same.
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The Story That Won’t Be Told
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Secular geologists believe that it a marked trail commemorating the Missoula flood’s path and explaining its significance needs to be set up from western Montana into northwest Oregon.
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Scientists Coming to Grips with Catastrophic Geology
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With a headline worded as if written by a young-earther, the press release for a new study of Texas’s Canyon Lake Gorge reveals that an increasing number of scientists are coming to grips with catastrophic geology.
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How Did Britain Become an Island?
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It’s not just young-earth creationists who lean on catastrophic geological processes in explaining earth history. Increasingly, old-earthers are also seeing the work of catastrophes in shaping the planet.
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Did Greenhouse Gases Help Create Dinosaurs?
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Global greenhouse gases: paving the way for dinosaurs or documenting the upheavals of the global Flood?
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A Flash for Geologists
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A flash flood at Havasu Canyon is a reminder of the amazing power of a lot of water over a little time.
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From a Trickle to a Flood
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Did a massive ancient Flood fill in the Mediterranean Sea?
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Catastrophe at Work
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It’s not only creationists who point to the role of catastrophic events in shaping earth’s geologic history. A new study sheds light on how Britain was separated from the rest of Europe by a “super-river.”
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Salt Lake Extinction
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Yet another explanation for a catastrophic mass extinction—could it be?
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World's Longest Mud Slide
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A team of researchers reporting in the journal Nature recently has described a catastrophic landslide that dumped 225 billion metric tons of sediment into the ocean in just a few days or less.
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Megaflood Makes Britain
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Recent research suggests that Great Britain was formed as the result of a megaflood.
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New Theory Impacts Crater Site
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The Silverpit structure, an impact crater in the North Sea, is, according to University of Edinburgh geologist John Underhill, not the vestige of a prehistoric meteorite, but rather “probably the movement of salt rocks at depth.”
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British Isles
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Britain’s secular newspaper The Daily Telegraph, in its September 25, 2006 publication, has unwittingly given support to the reality of Noah’s Flood.
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Birth of a Hill
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Rapid drumlin growth in Antarctica lends credence to Creationism.
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Flood Cuts off Europe
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It is said that a British newspaper headline once announced “Fog Over Channel—Continent Isolated.” The headline aptly and amusingly sums up Britain’s ambivalent relationship with its neighbors.
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How Could the Heart Mountain Slide Occur in Only 30 Minutes?
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Despite more than 100 years of study, the Heart Mountain detachment remains among the world’s most puzzling geological structures.
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Did 'Old World Early Paleolithic' People Travel to North America?
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For creationists, these reports of 'Early Paleolithic tools' raise questions that need further research.
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A Tropical Reptile in the 'Cretaceous' Arctic
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A century ago, a shock went through the scientific community when a whaling crew reported finding fossil wood on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Sandy Surprise
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Scientifically, it has never been a problem to explain that hard rock can form quickly, given the right conditions.
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That Choking Feeling ...
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Seeing such solid, layered rock forming in only three months shows that long time-spans are not necessary.
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Fascinating Fossil Fence-Wire
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The rock is a hard, dense, calcareous sandstone. The wire is ordinary 'Number 8' fencing wire of the type used at nearby Wallal Downs station between 1920 and 1970.
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Thundering Burial
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This fossil graveyard on the Lake Huron coastline of Michigan is thus just another example of the devastation resulting from that catastrophic global Flood.
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Bell-ieve It: Rapid Rock Formation Rings True
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These ‘fossil’ ship’s bells (pictured in Creation magazine) were found recently about 50 metres (170 feet) off the coast of Victoria, Australia.
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The Clock in the Rock
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The item shown in the photograph here is a striking example of the fact that rock can form quickly.
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Folded Ferns
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Fossil fern fronds fly in the face of beliefs held by the majority of the most highly educated people in the world.
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Tarawera’s Night of Terror
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Mt Tarawera is yet another testimony to the rapidity with which fossilization can occur, and that the evolutionary concept of fossils as being ‘prehistoric’ does not conform with the evidence.
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'Fossil' Hat
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This miner's hat is rock hard. It was found in a mine in Tasmania where it had been covered with water for more than 50 years.
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Keys to Rapid Rock Formation
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If you know anyone who thinks rocks and fossils must take thousands or millions of years to form, here's an example to show them they may need to revise their ideas.
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Deluge!
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The fact of the biblical Deluge is the keystone with which the whole of the biblical history of life, man and the universe comes into line with the evidence of the real world.
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How Fast Can Oil Form?
| Answers in Genesis
Many people today, including scientists, have the idea that oil and natural gas must take a long time to form, even millions of years. Such is the strong mental bias that has been generated.
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The Lessons of Surtsey
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By way of a specific example of rapid geomorphological development, we may refer to the volcanic island of Surtsey, off Iceland.
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How Could Geology Possibly Affect Spiritual Truth?
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You can’t separate the truth about God’s work in the physical world from spiritual truths without drastic consequences.
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Basic Geology Disproves Creationism?
| Answers in Genesis
Noah’s Flood is the key to explaining most of the geological record and as such it washes away millions of years.
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Life in the Anthropocene
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We can’t deny that humans have left their mark on the earth. But have we ushered in a new geologic epoch?
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Rocks and Minerals
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The hidden beauty of rocks and minerals, such as diamonds, rubies, and gold, praises the creativity of the Designer and reminds us of His Flood judgment.
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Carbon—The Building Blocks of Life
| Answers in Genesis
Atoms are some of the most spectacular wonders that God created and we just take them for granted.
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Jade—Beauty Under Pressure
| Answers in Genesis
Forming the coveted qualities of jade requires unique conditions unlike anything on earth today.
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Dazzling Diamonds by Special Delivery
| Answers in Genesis
Diamonds are dazzling but definitely not “forever.” In fact, they wouldn’t exist without special conditions that God provided.
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Did Earth’s Earliest Life Leave Carbon Footprints?
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Carbon residue preserved in zircon dated 4.1 billion years old does not reveal life’s evolution or the time of life’s beginning.
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Crystal Clear Confirmation of a Young Earth
| Answers in Genesis
Can the size of a crystal further confirm the timescale in God’s Word?
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From Where Did the Earth’s Water Come?
| Answers in Genesis
“Planet Earth makes its own water from scratch deep in the mantle” was the article headline in the January 27, 2017, New Scientist’s Daily News.
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Shape-Shifting Silicon
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Minerals display not only God’s incredible creativity and His care for our needs, but also His unbounded love of variety and beauty.
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Rapid Opals in the Outback
| Answers in Genesis
Only one place on Earth holds a treasure trove of precious opals—Australia’s Outback.
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Gold
| Answers in Genesis
No other mineral has provoked so much wonder and strife.
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Emeralds—Treasures from Catastrophe
| Answers in Genesis
What unique forces brought emeralds to the earth’s surface for us to enjoy?
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Rubies & Sapphires—Sparkling Reminders of God’s Judgment
| Answers in Genesis
God’s Word gives these two stones special attention. Indeed, rubies and sapphires are mentioned more often than diamonds.
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Microscopic Diamonds Confound Geologists
| Answers in Genesis
Diamond grains discovered in high-grade metamorphic rocks (gneisses) from Norway may force geologists to rethink ideas about the Earth’s crust and processes.
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Diamond Ringwoodite Water in Earth’s Mantle
| Answers in Genesis
Discovery inside a diamond in the rough shows Jules Verne wasn’t far off when he wrote about a hidden ocean in Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
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Diamonds May Offer Clues to Earth's Earliest Life
| Answers in Genesis
The diamond may be more than a girl’s proverbial best friend—it may be an old-earther’s best friend, too, if a recent Nature report is accurate.
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Diamonds—Evidence of Explosive Geological Processes
| Answers in Genesis
Diamonds have been highly prized throughout history, being regarded as symbols of wealth and power.
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Tiny Diamonds, Big Explosion
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists are taking the gold standard for proof of extinction to the next level—with diamonds.
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Diamonds Are the Latest Evidence For Evolution
| Answers in Genesis
To see the newest evidence for evolution—and what Darwinists rest their faith on—look no further than the local jewelry shop!
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Do Diamonds Take Millions of Years to Form?
| Answers in Genesis
If you search for “how long it takes a natural diamond to form” using Google, the preferred answer pops up as “between 1 billion and 3.3 billion years, which is approximately 25% to 75% of our earth’s [supposed] age.” Is that true?
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Buried Treasure
| Answers in Genesis
Down in the Cave of Crystals under Mexico’s Naica silver mine, you’ll find crystals measuring up to 36 feet (11 m) long.
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“Pass the Salt, Please”
| Answers in Genesis
What’s one of the most sought-after commodities in human history—the only rock we eat because it’s so essential to life?
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Woman's Best Friend Disrupts Man's Plans
| Answers in Genesis
The Jack Hills region of Western Australia is home to diamonds “nearly as old as the Earth itself and considered the oldest terrestrial diamonds ever discovered,” according to a new study.
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The Rapid Formation of Granitic Rocks: More Evidence
| Answers in Genesis
It was once thought that granitic magma was so viscous that it would take hundred of millions of years for granitic rocks to form.
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Growing Opals—Australian Style
| Answers in Genesis
In a dusty old wooden shed on a side street in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia, a bush scientist trying to discover the origin of opal has been able to ‘grow’ opal.
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Sedimentation
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Under what circumstances do sand, mud, silt and clay deposits turn into rock? Could the Bible’s history shed light on this process?
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Thirty Miles of Dirt in a Day
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When God lifted up the dry land on the third day of creation, thirty miles of dirt fell into the sea. The remnants of this event are still visible today.
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Very Little Sediment on the Seafloor
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If sediments have been accumulating on the seafloor for three billion years, the seafloor should be choked with sediments many miles deep.
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Sand Transported Cross Country
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We find thick layers of sandstone around the earth. Where did it come from?
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Sedimentation Experiments: Nature Finally Catches Up!
| Answers in Genesis
Readers of Nature could have read all about it more than a decade ago in the Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal.
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Can Flood Geology Explain Thick Chalk Beds?
| Answers in Genesis
By working from what is known to occur today, even if rare and catastrophic by today’s standards, we can realistically calculate production of thick chalk beds within the conditions of the Flood.
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Are There Half a Million Years in the Sediments of Lake Van?
| Answers in Genesis
On March 15, the Science Daily website reported that there may be half a million years of precise climate information stored in the sediments of Lake Van in eastern Turkey.
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Experiments on Lamination of Sediments
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Experiments on lamination of sediments, resulting from a periodic graded-bedding subsequent to deposition—a contribution to the explanation of lamination of various sediments and sedimentary rocks.
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Sinking a Floating Forest
| Answers in Genesis
This is a personal account of how the bizarre idea of a continent-sized floating forest came into being.
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Flood Currents Frozen in Stone
| Answers in Genesis
You can’t walk into Paria Canyon without being struck dumb. The bizarre landforms look just like waves of sand frozen in time.
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Natural Teaching Tool
| Answers in Genesis
Nowhere is evidence of the worldwide Flood more accessible than Colorado Springs’ Garden of the Gods or nearby Glen Eyrie.
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Slow Deposition vs. Rapid Flow
| Answers in Genesis
A longstanding understanding of how the “sedimentary geological record” was formed is apparently in error, according to research by geologists at Indiana University–Bloomington and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Dredged Up Again
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Bible-believers don’t need Ballard to confirm the Flood. Ballard does not accept its global extent and considers the biblical account to be a myth.
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Globe-Trotting Sands
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Geologists have confirmed even more examples of sands that were carried by waters flowing across the entire U.S. continent.
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Appalachian Mountain Siliciclastics Source for Navajo Sandstone
| Answers in Genesis
Recent studies have identified the provenance of the Navajo Sandstone by age-dating zircons contained within the formation. However, an alternative interpretation is possible.
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“Green River Blues” Raises Red Flag . . .
| Answers in Genesis
AiG editors respond point-by-point, interspersed as per normal email fashion to a skeptic regarding the formation of the Green River Formation.
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Sedimentation Experiments: Is Extrapolation Appropriate? Reply From Video Creator - Part 2
| Answers in Genesis
The conclusions drawn from the sedimentation experiments presented on the video Drama in the Rocks are reiterated and defended.
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Sedimentation Experiments: Is Extrapolation Appropriate? - Part 1
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The experiments investigated the stratification of heterogeneous sand mixtures either in still water or in a unidirectional water flow presumably at room temperature.
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Experiments on Stratification of Heterogeneous Sand Mixtures
| Answers in Genesis
Superposed strata in sedimentary rocks are believed to have been formed by successive layers of sediments deposited periodically with interruptions of sedimentation.
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Caves
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The eerie darkness of caves hosts strange growths called stalagmites and stalactites. Caves, and their features, take millions of years to form—don’t they?
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Caves—Underground and Upside Down
| Answers in Genesis
All our lives we’ve heard that caves formed slowly, over tens of thousands of years, as surface water seeps into the earth. But recent discoveries are turning old assumptions upside down and the real story may be much more dramatic.
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Caves—The Greatest Show Under Earth
| Answers in Genesis
Every night the heavens display God’s glory, but to view another show, you must first plunge into complete darkness, grime, and other extremes.
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Rapid Cave Formation by Sulfuric Acid Dissolution
| Answers in Genesis
Anti-creationist, Arthur Strahler, takes biblical creationists to task for not having enough time to dissolve limestone caves and deposit speleothems.
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The Florida Sinkhole Tragedy
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On Thursday, February 28, at about 11:00 PM (Eastern Time) a Florida man was in bed sleeping when a huge hole opened under his house, swallowing part of the inside of his house and him with it.
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Crystal Rate of Growth Debated
| Answers in Genesis
The extreme clarity and uniformity of the beautiful crystals in Naica, Mexico, indicate that the conditions under which they formed remained quite stable.
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Cave Formations
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Two of the world’s most spectacular caves are Mammoth Caves in central Kentucky and Carlsbad Caverns in southeastern New Mexico. Find out how they formed.
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Mollie Kathleen's Marvellous Mysteries
| Answers in Genesis
Our family arrived early at the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine, eager for the tour of our lives.
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Bottle Stalagmite
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The ‘bottle stalagmite’ became a public testimony to the fact that stalactites and stalagmites don’t take tens of thousands of years or more to form.
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Do Ancient Stalactites Really Exist?
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Is the earth really young? After all, he had just come back from touring the caves of Western Australia’s south-west, and had seen all those stalactites.
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Grand Canyon Facts
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Was the Grand Canyon formed with a little bit of water over a long period of time or a lot of water over a little bit of time? What are the facts?
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Grand Canyon—Nine Days Below the Rim
| Answers in Genesis
Who hasn’t heard this? You can see the photos, hear the stories, and read all about the Eiffel Tower, the Lincoln Memorial, the Taj Mahal, and Niagara Falls. But nothing compares to being there. We wanted to experience the Grand Canyon’s beauty and see evidences of the flood that few ever get to see.
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What Is Unique About the Colorado River?
| Answers in Genesis
Why, according to evolutionists, would rivers other than the Colorado River not form canyons? Dr. Andrew Snelling, AiG–U.S., responds.
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Climbing the “Ladder of Life” in the Grand Canyon
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I visited the Canyon on three different occasions and twice hiked its trails from river to rim. I discovered that not only are the evolutionist’s “missing links” truly missing—their whole “ladder of life” is missing!
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The Grand Canyon
| Answers in Genesis
The best place to see, test, and put together all these ideas about stacks of fossil-bearing rock is the Grand Canyon.
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When and How Did the Grand Canyon Form?
| Answers in Genesis
The Grand Canyon is one of the world’s most awesome erosional features. How did it form?
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Radioisotopes Bass Rapids, Grand Canyon, Arizona
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Only changing radioisotope decay rates in the past could account for these discordant isochron ‘ages’ for the same geologic event
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Radioisotope Dates for Precambrian Amphibolites in Grand Canyon
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The pattern in the discordances may provide clues into the physics responsible for time variations in the decay process.
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Discordant Potassium-Argon Model Eastern Grand Canyon, Arizona
| Answers in Genesis
For more than twenty years it has been known that the Rb-Sr and K-Ar systems give discordant ‘ages’ for Cardenas Basalt and associated Proterozoic diabase sills and dikes of Grand Canyon.
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No Slow and Gradual Erosion
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Today we see the effects of weathering and erosion all around us. But where is the evidence of millions of years between rock layers?
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Startling Evidence for Noah’s Flood
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Footprints and sand ‘dunes’ in a Grand Canyon sandstone provide startling evidence for Noah’s Flood.
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The Correction the New York Times Refuses to Print
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The venerable New York Times has a policy that “welcomes … information about errors [that appear in its pages] that call for correction.”
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What Carved the Grand Canyon?
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Because Grand Canyon’s northern rim is at a high elevation, the Colorado River as we know it today could not have carved the Grand Canyon.
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Geologists in an Uproar
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What provoked the presidents of seven geological societies to write a letter of protest to the superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park?
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Grand Canyon—What Is the Message?
| Answers in Genesis
The Grand Canyon is a place to find and explore the wonders of God’s creation.
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Ruptured Dam Gives Insight Into the Formation of the Grand Canyon
| Answers in Genesis
A lot of rain, a lot of water, and a gorge transformed in a matter of minutes. What can a ruptured earthen dam tell us about the formation of the Grand Canyon?
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Surprised by God’s Majesty
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Founded in 1997,
the nonprofit Canyon Ministries has a vision
to inspire awe in God’s handiwork, as
the Lord intends for this natural wonder.
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Another View of the Grand Canyon
| Answers in Genesis
Regarding the age of the Grand Canyon, we can now take our pick from a growing selection of dates.
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Grand Canyon Rafting
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Of the approximately 22,000 people who have the privilege of rafting the Colorado River each year, only about one percent will hear a biblical interpretation of how the canyon was formed.
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Feedback: Grand Canyon Elevation
| Answers in Genesis
Is the higher elevation of the rim in the center of the Grand Canyon evidence of catastrophic formation? Dr. Andrew Snelling, AiG–U.S., explains.
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Dripping Canyon Crust
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The Grand Canyon slices through the high Colorado Plateau, but how did the plateau come to be so high? New seismic data paints a picture of the plateau’s underbelly.
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Evidences for a Global Flood—Grand Canyon
| Answers in Genesis
View the chart “Evidences for a Global Flood—Grand Canyon” in PDF format
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On-Site Apologetics
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Patient apologetics can be a powerufl witness.
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Canyon Rapids and Rapid Formations
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The current edition of World magazine includes an article by the editor-in-chief encouraging Christians to rethink how they view Creation and the Flood.
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Backdrop of a Grand Canyon Raft Trip
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What should the Christian believe about the age of the earth and the origin of life? WORLD magazine editor-in-chief Marvin Olasky explores the issue against the backdrop of a Grand Canyon raft trip.*
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Along for the Ride
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Ever dreamed of visiting the most famous natural wonders of the world? Now you can take along an audio tour by leading creation geologist Andrew Snelling.
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Rapid Erosion of Grand Canyon Sandbars Discovered
| Answers in Genesis
The place is the Grand Canyon, and the story is an indisputable case of rapid erosion caused by massive amounts of water.
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Grand Canyon Age Getting Pushed Back through Time of Dinosaurs
| Answers in Genesis
Any article on old-age dating methods that begins, “How could everyone have gotten it so wrong?” is obviously going to be of interest to creationists.
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Carving the Grand Canyon: Eons or Years?
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If you thought six million years was too old an age for the Grand Canyon, think again—or at least, that’s what a group of scientists from the University of New Mexico argues in a recent Science paper.
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The question: to ban or not to ban?
| Answers in Genesis
The effort to ban creationist Tom Vail’s beautifully photographed picture book Grand Canyon: A Different View once again is promising to become an international controversy.
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PEERing into the manufacturing of an anti-creationist urban myth
| Answers in Genesis
AiG had been tracking the efforts of anti-creationists in America who have been trying to ban a book from National Park Service bookstores.
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Shenanigans Recently Uncovered in Grand Canyon Book Controversy
| Answers in Genesis
AiG has been following the efforts of leading evolutionists to ban the creationist photo-essay book Grand Canyon: A Different View from the bookstores at Grand Canyon National Park.
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Eighth Graders and the Grand Canyon Controversy
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The eighth-grade class at Burlington Christian Academy of Burlington, North Carolina, USA used the controversial book, Grand Canyon: A Different View, in a recent worldview class.
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Deluged with Pro-Flood Email!
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Grand Canyon: A Different View has been available at Grand Canyon bookstores since August, but was in jeopardy of being removed after pressure by prominent evolutionists.
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Remove God from the Grand Canyon?
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For over thirty years, three bronze plaques at Grand Canyon have displayed brief quotes from the Psalms. However, last week US Park Service officials decided that the plaques had to go.
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Grand Canyon Limestone—Fast or Slow Deposits?
| Answers in Genesis
It is not true that modern-day lime muds are structurally identical to the ancient Canyon limestone layers.
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Grand Canyon Legend
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The Grand Canyon originated in the following way according to the Havasupai Indians who live in its deep gorges.
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Mount St. Helens
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Mount St. Helens violently erupted on May 18, 1980, rapidly dispelling many false long-age notions about the formation of canyons, rock layers, and coal.
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Why Is Mount St. Helens Important to the Origins Controversy?
| Answers in Genesis
A catastrophic geologic event occurred that not only shocked the world because of its explosive power, but challenged the foundation of evolutionary theory.
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Mount St. Helens in Washington State
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The explosion loosened the already unstable northern side of the volcano, and not only changed the visage of that portion of the Cascades, but deeply shook the foundation of the geological timescale.
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Mount St. Helens—Evidence for Genesis!
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As I stood staring at the incredible geologic features that resulted from the eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington State, I was reminded afresh of how small and vulnerable we are as humans.
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Lasting Lessons from Mount St. Helens
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The eruption of Mount St. Helens 35 years ago provided an amazing opportunity for scientists to study the effects of catastrophe.
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Thirtieth Anniversary of a Geologic Catastrophe
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The May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens in the state of Washington is regarded by many as the most significant geologic event of the twentieth century.
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Forked Seams Sabotage Swamp Theory
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Most geologists believe the process of coal formation was slow and gradual, but this is denied by the field evidence.
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Blasting away at Mount St. Helens
| Answers in Genesis
Last month, an anti-AiG guest column appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer, the largest circulation newspaper in AiG-USA's "backyard."
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Argon In Mineral Concentrates from Mount St Helens Volcano
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The study of this Mount St Helens dacite causes the more fundamental question to be asked—how accurate are K-Ar ‘ages’ from the many other phenocryst-containing lava flows worldwide?
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Remembering a Catastrophic Classroom
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Forty years ago, one of the most violent
natural disasters of our modern time unfolded.
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Three Decades Since Eruption of Mount St. Helens
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Three decades have passed since the devastating eruption of Washington State’s Mount St. Helens.
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Where Were You When . . .
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Sooner or later, we all have one of those, “Where were you when . . .” stories.
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Mount St. Helens Stirs Creationist Community
| Answers in Genesis
Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington State, USA, has awakened, and lava is oozing out.
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’I got excited at Mount St Helens!’
| Answers in Genesis
Ken Ham shares about his tour of the site of Mt. St. Helens after its eruption in 1980.
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Nature Spot
| Answers in Genesis
Unsuspected ‘insect rain’ is just one of the many mechanisms which could have contributed to the rapid biological recovery of the post-Flood earth.
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Mt. St. Helens
| Answers in Genesis
That hellish symphony finished over 3 years ago, but its results have now provided further pointers to the possible rapid and catastrophic origin of coal.
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Plate Tectonics
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How do plate tectonics and continental drift fit with the Bible’s history? Can plate tectonics help explain the global Flood?
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Plate Tectonics
| Answers in Genesis
The motion of the earth’s crust is accepted by uniformitarian and creationist scientists alike. The difference lies in the time frame over which the movement has happened.
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Making More of the Mountains
| Answers in Genesis
The Smoky Mountains offer much more than breathtaking vistas and vacation getaways. The hills resound with a symphony from the rocks, testifying to God’s creation of the world and the global Flood.
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When Continents Collide
| Answers in Genesis
When geologists assume the
earth changes slowly, they
overlook astonishing evidence
of Noah’s global Flood.
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Can Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Explain Flood Geology?
| Answers in Genesis
How could a massive, global flood be triggered? Do plate tectonics provide a valid mechanism? Geologist Andrew Snelling answers.
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Did Tectonic Activity Trigger the Ice Age?
| Answers in Genesis
Evidently, just prior to both periods, massive tectonic collisions took place near the earth's equator—a tropical zone where rocks undergo heavy weathering.
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How Did Plate Tectonics Get Started on Earth?
| Answers in Genesis
Secular geologists are puzzled by how plate tectonics got started if early earth’s surface was covered by a layer of crust that kept the surface motionless.
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Why Do Some US Earthquakes Occur in Unexpected Places?
| Answers in Genesis
Why would the Southeastern USA experience such a devastating earthquake, a region that sits snugly in the middle of a tectonic plate?
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Plate Tectonics—The Reality Behind a Theory
| Answers in Genesis
The idea that continents move sounds crazy . . . until you look at the facts.
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Noah’s Lost World
| Answers in Genesis
The world that we see today is not the one that existed in Noah’s day.
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Hawaii’s Volcanic Origins—Instant Paradise
| Answers in Genesis
The biblical worldview changes how you see everything, even a “paradise” like Hawaii.
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Catastrophic Plate Tectonics: Global Flood Model of Earth History
| Answers in Genesis
Because of the enormous explanatory and predictive success of the plate tectonics model, we feel that at least some portion of plate tectonics theory should be incorporated into the creation model.
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A Catastrophic Breakup
| Answers in Genesis
When you look at a globe, have you ever thought that the earth looks cracked? Or, maybe the continents have reminded you of a giant jigsaw puzzle.
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New Ocean in Africa?
| Answers in Genesis
Thousands of years ago, God parted the Red Sea. Is He parting Ethiopia now?
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Getting Closer to Down Under
| Answers in Genesis
An earthquake moved New Zealand closer to Australia.
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When Is the Big One Coming?
| Answers in Genesis
In 1906, a massive earthquake shook San Francisco. Some people fear the next big one is due. What do seismologists predict, and what does Scripture say?
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Plate Tectonics: Creationist Idea Still Makes Accurate Predictions
| Answers in Genesis
The science of plate tectonics in geology, started by a creationist in the 19th century, continues to provide testable predictions within a biblical worldview.
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Ancient Supercontinent
| Answers in Genesis
Every student in US public schools will likely
come across illustrations claiming the earth’s tectonic plates have been
moving slowly for millions of years.
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A New Ocean in the Making?
| Answers in Genesis
Is Ethiopia splitting in two? A huge cut in the ground appeared suddenly in 2005 due to volcanic activity.
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Rocks Tell us About Scientists
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists have honed a geological technique to piece together the history of tectonic plates.
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Dealing Carefully with the Data, Continued
| Answers in Genesis
More information is provided from the ocean floor on the uniformitarian assumptions that undergird his belief in plate tectonics.
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A Constructive Quest for Truth
| Answers in Genesis
When one examines Michael Oard’s own alternative explanations for the tectonic features of the Earth, it should be plain he is not concerned with serious alternatives to the paradigm he is attacking.
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Does Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Model Assume Uniformitarianism?
| Answers in Genesis
Baumgardner’s model is elegant, but contains many problems. The most serious seems to be assuming plate tectonics has been proven and too much uniformitarianism.
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Dealing Carefully with the Data
| Answers in Genesis
Michael Oard’s first contribution in this forum lays out a valid criticism of uniformitarian plate tectonics—namely the quantity and character of the sediments in the deep ocean trenches.
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Catastrophic Plate Tectonics: Geophysical Context Genesis Flood
| Answers in Genesis
Any serious model for the Genesis Flood must account for the massive tectonic changes evident in the geological record since the point in that record where metazoan fossils first appear.
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Forum on Catastrophic Plate Tectonics
| Answers in Genesis
We publish here six articles that address catastrophic plate tectonics as a framework for Biblical Earth history.
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'Nucha' and Plate Tectonics
| Answers in Genesis
This bias against the plate tectonics paradigm has developed after examining the paradigm for 25 years. I find many serious problems with it that I have recently catalogued.
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3 More Grand Canyon Evidences that Confirm God’s Word
| Answers in Genesis
Why the last 3 geological evidences in this BioLogos article DO confirm God’s Word.
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2 Grand Canyon Evidences that Confirm the Bible
| Answers in Genesis
BioLogos says layers over entire continents and rapidly deposited sea animals are NOT evidence of a global flood. Here’s why they’re wrong.
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Responding to BioLogos’ Tactics on Their Opposition to Young-Earth Flood Geology
| Answers in Genesis
This BioLogos article has been influential in confusing and/or convincing unsuspecting theologians, biblical and other scholars, and inquiring informed lay people.
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The Grand Canyon Was Formed Rapidly
| Answers in Genesis
Research has confirmed convincingly that the Grand Canyon’s layers were deposited violently during the yearlong global flood cataclysm only about 4,350 years ago.
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Sand—It Gets Everywhere
| Answers in Genesis
Sand can be a nuisance after a day at the beach. But a deep dig into our surroundings reveals that our world is built on sand.
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Crimson Cascade
| Answers in Genesis
This crimson cascade offers a majestic reminder of God’s global flood of judgment—but also of the blood of Christ who died to one day redeem our fallen world.
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How Long Have Arches Been Around?
| Answers in Genesis
The recent collapse of many arches is a problem for evolution.
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Raising the Rocky Mountains
| Answers in Genesis
Creation geologists use God’s Word, which details the Creator’s eyewitness account of creation and the flood, thus providing a clearer account of the Rockies’ formation.
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In the Garden
| Answers in Genesis
The grandeur of this rocky garden reveals the righteousness of the one true God who judged the world with a global flood, changing earth’s landscapes forever.
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God’s Provision for Pottery
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Unlike soil and dirt, which crumble when you pick them up, God created clay with plasticity, the ability to be molded. And when this clay is fired, it transforms chemically into ceramic—a durable substance that can’t be turned back into clay.
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Mountain-Building Quiescence in Earth’s “Middle Age”
| Answers in Genesis
Uniformitarian storytellers aim to interpret earth’s “Middle Age” while ignoring the only eyewitness to our planet’s catastrophic past: God.
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Large Gem Crystals Grew within Hours: Consistent with Rapid Granite Formation on a Young Earth
| Answers in Genesis
Evidence of rapid gem formation in California clash with the old earth model but supports the biblical timescale and a young earth.
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Why Are Mountains High and Oceans Deep?
| Answers in Genesis
The high and deep
landscapes of earth
give insight into
the Creator’s wise
design of rocks.
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Four Lessons from the Mount St. Helens Eruption
| Answers in Genesis
Forty years later, Mount St. Helens still teaches us lessons about the powerful forces the Creator uses to shape the earth.
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Geology & Paleontology: 2019 Year in Review
| Answers in Genesis
The biggest stories in 2019 in geology and paleontology: includes how diamonds can take weeks to form in a lab, fossilized insects in gemstones, mass extinctions, and more.
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Mica, Mica in the Sand, Tell Us Something Really Grand!
| Answers in Genesis
Sometimes skeptical scientists just need
to listen to what the rocks are saying.
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Sometimes a Rock Is Just a Rock
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists are now suggesting
that what they once thought to be
the world’s oldest fossils may just
be deformed rocks.
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Yellowstone Close to Eruption
| Answers in Genesis
The process of magma
buildup, which evolutionary scientists thought would
take centuries, can happen in mere
decades or even years.
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Beauty Beneath the Desert
| Answers in Genesis
Slot canyons, like this one in Arizona’s world-famous
Antelope Canyon, are hidden just below
the desert surface, waiting to delight our eyes.
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Field Studies in the Columbia River Basalt, Northwest USA
| Answers in Genesis
Taken together, the features of the Columbia River basalts suggest that they were mostly extruded and emplaced during the Late Abative Phase of the Recessive Stage of the Flood.
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The “Principle of Least Astonishment”!
| Answers in Genesis
Prévot and Coe (and colleagues) reported evidence they found of extremely rapid changes of the Earth’s magnetic field recorded in lava flows at Steens Mountain.
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Aren’t Millions of Years Required for Geological Processes?
| Answers in Genesis
Millions of years are not required to explain the earth’s rocks, as Hutton, Lyell, Darwin, and so many others have assumed.
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A Deeper Understanding of the Flood—A Complex Geologic Puzzle
| Answers in Genesis
The details of the Flood have profound implications for explaining the geology of the earth today.
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How Could Most Scientists Be Wrong?
| Answers in Genesis
What better place to teach geology than the Grand Canyon? Exposed there is a large slice through the rock record of a major part of earth history.
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Regional Metamorphism: What Garnet Compositions Reveal
| Answers in Genesis
Of the two styles of metamorphism, contact and regional, the latter is most often used to argue against the young-earth creation-Flood model.
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The Cooling of Thick Igneous Bodies on a Young Earth
| Answers in Genesis
One of the scientific objections to a young earth is the apparent evidence that large plutons of granitic and other igneous intrusive rocks necessarily required millions of years to cool from magmas.
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Towards a Creationist Explanation of Regional Metamorphism
| Answers in Genesis
The ‘classical’ model for regional metamorphism presupposes elevated temperatures and pressures due to deep burial and deformation/tectonic forces over large areas over millions of years.
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Uniformity or Catastrophe?
| Answers in Genesis
Most creation scientists agree that the continents were probably once together, for the most part, in a super-continent based on Genesis 1:9.
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A Classic Tillite Reclassified as a Submarine Debris Flow
| Answers in Genesis
Tillites, assumed to be the lithified equivalents of glacial till (rubble), are often found in the strata of the Earth.
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Feedback: Is the Bible Silent on Geological Events?
| Answers in Genesis
Dr. Andrew Snelling, AiG–U.S., responds to a common misconception that the Bible is silent on geological events.
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More Evidence Against So-Called Paleokarst
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A long-accepted mid-Carboniferous ‘paleokarst’ in the western United States fails several tests for subaerial exposure at the time of ‘karstification.’
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Geology That Makes Sense
| Answers in Genesis
Creation has been in the news a lot recently.
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Days of Creation
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Did God really create everything in six literal, 24-hour days? A study of the Hebrew text and biblical teaching as a whole reveals that He did!
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Six Literal Days
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Did God create the whole universe, including the original plants, animals, and first two people (Adam and Eve) in six literal 24-hour days?
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The Days of Creation: A Semantic Approach
| Answers in Genesis
By applying a semantic approach to Genesis 1 we can accurately understand the word ‘day' in the days of creation to mean 24 hour days.
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Could God Really Have Created Everything in Six Days?
| Answers in Genesis
If God created the world over millions of years, there would have been death before the Fall—hardly the definition of a "very good" creation.
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Hebrew Scholars: 24-Hour Days in Creation
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The top Hebrew scholars all agree that the writer of Genesis 1 intended the word “day” to mean 24 hours. If they all agree . . . then why can’t we?
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Contradictions: Not Enough Hours in the Day
| Answers in Genesis
Several old-earth creationists have argued that the events of Day Six could not have fit within a single day. Tim Chaffey, AiG–U.S., responds.
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Augustine on the Days of Creation
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Old-earthers claim Augustine as support for figurative interpretations of Genesis 1. But what did Augustine really say?
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Jonah Was in the Fish . . . 3,000 Years?
| Answers in Genesis
Why is it that we understand what “day” means in every other place in Scripture, except Genesis 1? Is this due to ambiguity in the text or outside influences?
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Which Came First—The Chicken or the Egg?
| Answers in Genesis
Some questions don’t ever seem to get resolved. What about the age-old question: "What came first, the chicken or the egg"?
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Dustup over Adam
| Answers in Genesis
Did God make Adam from dust?
The answer is obvious, isn’t it?
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Creation: The Longest Week Ever?
| Answers in Genesis
For more than 200 years, Christians have been trying to reinterpret
the six days of Creation in Genesis 1 to make them align with
millions of years.
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Why Is a Week Seven Days?
| Answers in Genesis
A biblical overview for why our week is only seven days, how the secular world explains it, and the benefits we enjoy from God’s ordained work-rest weekly pattern
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Is the Seventh Day 24-Hours Long?
| Answers in Genesis
There are many objections to the days in Genesis 1 being 24 hours. Many old-earth creationists believe their “silver bullet” argument concerns the seventh day. Does the fact that day seven lacks “evening and morning” mean it is not an ordinary, 24-hour day, and can we give an adequate account for its absence?
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Feedback: Why Wasn’t Day Two Declared “Good”?
| Answers in Genesis
The account of what God created on day two of creation week is found in Genesis 1:6–8. Unlike the other five days of creation week, God does not look over what he has made and see that it was “good.” Some people have wondered why God doesn’t specifically say that this day was good.
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Did God Really Create Plants Before the Sun?
| Answers in Genesis
God created plants on Day Three of Creation Week, the day before he created the sun. How could this be, and what does this imply about the age of the earth?
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Religion and the Question of Origins
| Answers in Genesis
Is the evidence for evolution so overwhelming that teachers may be justified in running over the religious beliefs of many students and their parents?
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In The Space of Six Days?
| Answers in Genesis
The words in the space of six days came from John Calvin’s comments on Genesis. But was Calvin unclear about the length of the days of creation?
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How the Apostle Peter Relates to the Age of the Earth Debate
| Answers in Genesis
The Apostle Peter understood Genesis to refer to a supernatural creation and global Flood which he used to counter the arguments of the scoffers in his time.
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Whose Word Do You Tremble At?
| Answers in Genesis
Is it really necessary for AiG to be so adamant about the six days?
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Explain a Young Earth in Five Easy Steps
| Answers in Genesis
“Why make such a big deal about the age of the earth? It’s so divisive!”
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Feedback: Operational Science and Light Without a Source
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Dr. Danny Faulkner answers questions about the light created on Day One and celestial objects on Day Four. Does belief in God violate operational science?
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I Dare You to Publish This
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In this week’s feedback article Tim Chaffey, AiG–U.S. responds to someone who dared us to publish his comments about too many events allegedly happening on Day Six.
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Why I Believe in 24-Hour Days
| Answers in Genesis
Learn why we should support a traditional, plain-language reading of Genesis 1 and 2.
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The Six Days of Creation and Evolutionary Theory: Compatible?
| Answers in Genesis
What is at stake, if the idea of billions of years creation is true, is nothing less than the authority of Scripture and the character of God.
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How Long Is a Day?
| Answers in Genesis
Can’t “day” just mean a period of time? Darius and Karin Viet explain.
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Warring for Peace
| Answers in Genesis
Should Christians be battling over the age of the earth and the length of the days of creation?
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When Did Time Begin?
| Answers in Genesis
Did time begin on Day Four when God created the sun, moon, and stars? After all, the Bible doesn’t give an exact date for creation. Tim Chaffey, AiG–U.S., addresses this misconception.
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Are (Biblical) Creationists “Cornered”?
| Answers in Genesis
We agree when Dr. Moreland states that “we ought not allow science to dictate to us our exegesis of the Old Testament,” but then he proceeds to do exactly that.
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Did Jesus Say He Created in Six Literal Days?
| Answers in Genesis
A very important question we must ask is, “What was Jesus’ view of the days of creation? Did He say that He created in six literal days?”
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Six Days of Creation—A Superstition?
| Answers in Genesis
Not many people realize that the Vatican employs astronomers and even operates its own observatory.
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God created animals, man, and woman—in that order?
| Answers in Genesis
A common misconception made by skeptics of the Bible is to assume that Genesis 1 and 2 are separate creation accounts without looking carefully at the text.
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Death, Dating, and the Days of Creation
| Answers in Genesis
Dr. Jason Lisle recently debated Dr. Eugenie Scott on TV and he also participated in a radio debate with well-known progressive creationist Dr. Hugh Ross.
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Creation Days and Orthodox Jewish Tradition
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After years of agonizing over the literal days of creation in Genesis, I decided to spend time researching this problem at the London School of Jewish Studies in Hendon, England.
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Our Rallying Cry
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Our Culture sees many in the church compromising Scripture with millions of years, the big bang, etc. The result: the authority of the Bible in the culture has been undermined.
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“Hocus Pocus”
| Answers in Genesis
AiG received a number of letters and e-mails from people dismayed and shocked by Pat Robertson‘s recent comments on a couple of TV programs about those who believe in the six literal days of Creation.
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“Get off that 6/24 business!”
| Answers in Genesis
Pat Robertson recently took a swipe at people who are dogmatic that the Bible teaches Creation in six 24-hour days.
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Sizing the Day
| Answers in Genesis
This volume is the most recent in a spate of publications presenting multiple views on Genesis and creation. This one focuses on what the Bible says about the length of the creation days.
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When Does “Day” Mean “Day”?
| Answers in Genesis
Many people continue to question our all-knowing God when He says He created in six normal-length days and rested on the seventh.
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Creation at the Academy
| Answers in Genesis
Interview with Academic Theologian Dr Douglas Kelly
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Is the Seventh Day an Eternal Day?
| Answers in Genesis
Some people object to a literal Creation Week by claiming that the seventh day on which God rested was not an ordinary day.
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Days of Revelation or Creation?
| Answers in Genesis
This article is a discussion of a new theory concerning the 6 days of creation and how they could be where God revealed facts about his creation but did not necessarily create.
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Professors: A Day Means a Day!
| Answers in Genesis
Charles Darwin observed coral atolls in the south seas which were more than 1,000 metres (3,000 feet) thick. He believed that this proved that millions of years must have elapsed.
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Six 24-hour Days ... ?
| Answers in Genesis
How could the first three days of creation be ordinary days, if the sun wasn’t created till the fourth day?
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Why Did God Take Six Days?
| Answers in Genesis
When people accept at face value what Genesis is teaching and accept the days as ordinary days, they will have no problem understanding what the rest of Genesis is all about.
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Death Before Sin?
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Genesis 1 reveals that God’s original creation was “very good.” Death and suffering are the result of Adam’s sin—we can’t blame God for it.
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Did Adam Step on an Ant Before the Fall?
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The question to ask first is why the idea of death before sin is so important that the accidental death of an ant would be an objection.
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Animal Death Before the Fall?
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Did animals die before the fall? The short answer is “no,” but let’s unpack that answer. There are several reasons we believe animals did not die before the fall.
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What Is the Scriptural Understanding of Death?
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Some who believe in theistic evolution teach incorrectly that it was only spiritual death that came as a result of the Fall. We need to understand Genesis 2:17.
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Genesis 2:17—“You Shall Surely Die”
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Many old-earth creationists (OEC) try to get around young-earth creationist arguments about there being no death (animal or human) before Adam sinned.
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Death Is Not Good
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A vast number of conservative theologians accept animal death before Adam’s Fall.
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2.5 The Origin of Death (OB5)
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The tragic effect that evolution and its view of death has on evolutionists becomes quite clear. The danger of eternal death is eclipsed, and many people miss the offer of salvation.
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Spiritual Death
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While agreeing with most of what Kulikovsky says, I was surprised to find that he had difficulty accepting the concept of spiritual death since this is clearly stated in Scripture.
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Kangaroos, Dinosaurs and Eden
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I often ask Christian audiences — did Kangaroos once live in the Middle East? Usually I find that very few, if any, put their hands up in agreement.
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Six Days or Billions of Years...
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As a Christian, do you clearly understand why young-earth creationists believe that a billions-of-years-old earth is incompatible with the Bible? Most Christians do not.
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Fossils
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Is the fossil record millions of years old, or is it powerful evidence for the global Flood of Genesis? And where are the transitional fossils and missing links?
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How Are Fossils Formed?
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Do fossils really require millions of years to form? The evidence shouts no! A lot of water and a little bit of time rapidly laid down the fossil record.
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Experiment: Fast-Formed Fossils
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Do fossils require millions of years to form? Hardly! Even secular geologists now recognize that rocks form very quickly.
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Four: Amazingly Preserved Leaves
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When leaves die, they shrivel up and crumble. So why is the fossil record full of well-preserved, flat leaves?
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Petrified Animals Died Quickly
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A team examining a fossil deposit in the Canadian Rockies has determined that the fossil “bonanza” was buried by a rapid, muddy “miracle of preservation.”
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Well-Preserved Octopus
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If you needed an “exhibit A” of evidence for catastrophic fossil formation, this is it.
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Half a Billion Years, Five Mass Extinctions, and No Evolution?
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Very tiny fossils—preserved in 3D—were uncovered of a green algae species almost identical to a modern seaweed called Codium and “surprisingly complex.”
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Ken Ham Solves Great Paleontological Mystery
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Tucked away in the corner of a museum in Japan is a slab of limey shale. This rock features something incredible—259 fish, with scales, eyes, and fins—frozen as if in mid-swim. It appears these fish were preserved in the position they were in the instant they died. But how on earth is this possible?
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The Race Against Decay: Forensic Decomposition vs. Fossilization
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Decomposition and fossilization are rapid processes that remind us all living things will die under the curse—and that eternal life is only found through Jesus Christ.
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Amazingly Preserved Leaves
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Beautifully preserved fossils are so common that we overlook how
unusual they are.
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How Fast?
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Can science help us decide how fast fossils form, and how fast those sedimentary rock layers pile up?
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Ancient “Fossil Reefs”—Formed in the Flood?
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Exposed in various rock layers are large structures that look very much like ocean reefs preserved in stone.
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Do Fossils Show Signs of Rapid Burial?
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Is uniformitarianism really a true understanding of the rock and fossil records?
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Fossil Mosquito Found Filled with Blood
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Not old enough for Jurassic Park, this mosquito likely filled up on North American bird blood long ago.
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Rotting Fish and Creationists
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How can rotting fish join the origins battle on the creationist side?
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Unusual Fossilized Creatures
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Once again, scientists have discovered the “remarkably well preserved” fossilized remains of creatures that, it would seem, shouldn’t have fossilized in the first place.
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Look for Fossils in Your Backyard
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Read practical tips of how you can look for fossils in your own area.
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Soft Tissue Fossilization
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Fossilization occurs rapidly when the conditions are right. The conditions necessary for lithification of soft tissue give clues to unlock the history of a fossil deposit.
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Lessons Learned from a Fossil
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For 24 years students in Bill Minnich’s music class memorized more than notes and scales; they learned about fossilization and paleontology.
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Exploding Fish
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Because so many beautiful specimens have been harvested from the Green River Formation, few realize that many of the fish remains are far from perfect.
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"Prehistoric" Embryos Caught Dividing
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Researchers discover an embryo fossilized while dividing.
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The Amazing Stone Bears of Yorkshire
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When Vet author James Herriot wrote about life in Yorkshire last centrury, he probably had no idea that this area of England held a fascinating key to unlocking one of the myths of evolution's long-ag
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Fossil Reptiles on the Russian Platform
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This fossil graveyard is consistent with the Biblical Flood and a contradiction to the slow-and-gradual uniformitarian doctrine.
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Make No Bones About It!
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While 90% of the letters/emails we receive at Answers in Genesis are positive, we sometimes get a negative comment or two.
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How Did Millions of Mammoth Fossils Form?
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Answering the question of whether there was enough time for a large mammoth population to form.
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‘Instant’ Petrified Wood
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‘Instant petrified wood’—so ran the heading to the announcement in Popular Science, October 1992.
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Rapid Fossils
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This is a sketch of the fossilized skull of a reptilian predator (Hypopnous squaliceps) with remains of its prey still lodged in its mouth! This remarkable preservation was found in the Permian beds.
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Petrified Waterwheel
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Tourists who visit Cape Leeuwin in Western Australia are astonished at the sight of this waterwheel which has become entombed in solid rock in less than 65 years.
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Fossil Jellyfish Greeted with Derision!
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Countless millions of fossilized jellyfish and other ‘soft’ creatures are contained in an extensive layer of sandstone at Ediacara in South Australia.
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Fossils in Just 24 Hours?
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When you hear about fossils, it’s generally within the context of hundreds of thousands or millions of years. Indeed, a recent news article on lab-made fossils began with “fossils are certainly fascinating, but [they] do take rather a long time to form.” But what did the lab-made fossils demonstrate?
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Types of Fossils
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The fossil record shows more biodiversity than our current ecosystems. This incredible diversity clearly demonstrates the handiwork of the Creator!
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Five Fossil Mysteries . . .
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How skilled are you at properly handling the Word of truth (2 Timothy 2:15)? Would you know how to answer these questions?
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The La Brea Tar Pits—Welcome to Los Angeles
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Anyone who doubts there was once a “lost world” during the ice age simply needs to visit the La Brea Tar Pits in downtown L.A.
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What Kinds?
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According to evolution, the boundaries between kinds should blur as we look further and further back into their fossil history.
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Fossil Plants
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Did you ever wonder what kind of plants the dinosaurs tromped around on? The answer may surprise you.
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Summary: Fossil Kinds
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When it comes to fossils, creation has passed the scientific test with flying colors.
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Burgess Shale’s Cambrian Fossils Should Change View of Evolution
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Smithsonian’s list of historic icons that shaped America credits the Burgess Shale with putting us in our rightful place.
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First Life on Earth
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Microbially-induced sedimentary structures (MISS) in ancient Australian Archean rock match marks made by modern microbes.
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Secrets of Messel Pit, Fossil Graveyard
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The Messel Pit preserves animals suddenly and catastrophically buried in the wake of the global Flood.
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Petrified Forests in Yellowstone
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The petrified forests in Yellowstone were revealed when the edge of a cliff eroded, leaving many layers of stone trees visible.
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Bat Fossil Disproves Long-Standing Evolutionary Question
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Evolutionists’ question of which came first, bat echolocation (like sonar) or bat flight, has finally been answered—we just know that’s a question that’s been on your mind for a while!
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Trilobites Fossilized “While Playing ‘Follow the Leader’”
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Scientists studying fossil deposits in Morocco recently announced a stunning new find—a series of trilobites (believed to be extinct sea creatures), fossilized in a single-file line. That’s the observational evidence. That’s the observational evidence. But how to understand these fossils is a matter of interpretation.
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Fossil Flies with Human-Like Eyes?
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Convergent evolution—it’s the term used to describe similar features that have supposedly arisen in organisms separated by vast evolutionary distances due to environments or stressors. And the newest example of so-called “convergent evolution” is the eyes of crane flies and humans, as revealed by the fossil record.
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Surprise: “Oldest” Fossil Lily Looks Just Like a Lily
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SEO Description: Creationists were shocked to read a news article about the evolution of lilies—astonishingly, a fossilized lily, the supposed oldest ever discovered, looked just like . . a lily. The evolution is incredible! So that was very tongue-in-cheek, of course—we weren’t surprised to see that lilies have always been . . well . . lilies!
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“Primitive” Mammal Reveals Advanced Designs
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Like modern rodents, “primitive” multituberculates were already fully equipped to go anywhere and eat anything.
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Does This Evolutionary Claim Have Any Legs?
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A recent AP article on a new fossil find claims that "snakes evolved on land rather than in the sea.”
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No Brain Drain
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Researchers have discovered a fossilized fish brain in Kansas.
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Turtles Found in Chinese Jurassic Rock Layer
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1,800 turtles violently swept into a watery grave: found in Chinese Jurassic rock layer.
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“In-Place” Fossils by Chance
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Considering the fact that most fossils are not “in-place,” how often do those that appear to be “in-place” come up that way by chance?
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Fossilized Plumage Adds to the Creation/Evolution Controversy
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What could the plumage of extinct birds have to do with the creation/evolution controversy?
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Teeth When There Should Be None
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A collection of nine fossilized teeth found in Ethiopia is overturning previous evolutionary thought, reports the BBC.
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Fossil Facade
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Recently, there have been reports of two fossils that are not all they appear to be!
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Fossil Jellyfish in Australia
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How did this jellyfish get fossilized in a sandstone?
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Living Fossils Topic
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Living fossils, organisms previously known only through the fossil record and having no close living relatives, pose a grim threat to the evolutionary paradigm.
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Shell Survivor
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Creation biologists don’t find the existence of living fossils so mysterious.
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Living Fossils—Here, There, and Everywhere
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Evolutionists like to talk about change,
so how do they explain so many living creatures
that look like their fossilized ancestors?
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Sensational Australian Tree . . . Like “Finding a Live Dinosaur”
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Any time someone finds a “living fossil” this supports the creation model by showing that things either have not evolved, or the vast ages are not real—or both.
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What About Living Fossils?
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“Living fossils” are organisms that can be found both living in the world today and also found preserved in the rock record as fossils, with the living animals showing little if any difference from their fossil counterparts.
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An Eel Emerges as the Next "Living Fossil"
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Dubbed Protoanguilla palau—meaning “first eel”—this little eel is prompting a redrawing of his family tree. Discovered in western Pacific caves 35 meters deep, the eel seems like a patchwork from the eel time machine.
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Rare Fossil Insect Discovery by Creationist Confirms ‘No Change’
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In Caribbean amber (fossilized tree resin which may contain the bodies of insects), originally lent to the writer for identification of its enclosed insects, an unusual specimen caught his attention.
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Living Fossils
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Far from being an oddity, living fossils are found throughout the fossil layers.
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Living Fossil Found In Grape-Sized Cell
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A grape-sized cell inching along the ocean floor may be one of the world’s “oldest” living fossils.
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Tropical Huntsman
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Tropical Huntsman spider trapped in Baltic amber for millions of years?
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Fossil Turtles Confound Evolutionists
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Australian scientists announced in February the discovery of dozens of fossilized sea turtles that they say have exciting implications for evolution.
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Living Fossils
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There are literally thousands of different types of animals and plants which are alive and essentially unchanged from the way they appear as fossils. The polistes wasp is one example.
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Living Proof
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A giant salamander has been discovered in rock layers that evolutionists date at 30 million years. Yet it is virtually identical to giant salamanders living today.
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Has Evolution Ground to a Stop in Living Fossil Gars?
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A recent news item caught my eye, as it stated that “a biological mechanism can explain [gar’s] status as ‘living fossils.’”
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Very Tiny Clam the Newest “Living Fossil”
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The clam species a researcher recently discovered wasn’t really a new species. It had been observed and documented before . . . as a fossil.
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Is This Famous Fish a “Living Fossil”? Well, That Depends on Your Assumptions
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Evolutionists consider this famous six-foot fish a “living fossil”—a term steeped in assumptions and fanciful storytelling, not observational science.
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Great Sea Depths Hiding Ancient Creature
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Great sea depths have been hiding an ancient creature. Is it Leviathan?
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Living Fossils: Detachable Chart
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Living fossils are found throughout the fossil layers.
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World's Oldest Flying Insect Fossil Found In Massachusetts
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The world’s oldest (allegedly) fossilized impression of a flying insect wasn’t found in a rock quarry in an exotic setting; it was found behind a strip mall in suburban Massachusetts.
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Living Fossil: Lobster
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For once, the evolutionists have found something that they believe is too old.
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A Tree of Today?
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A study published in this week’s issue of the science journal Nature describes two recent discoveries of the world’s oldest (allegedly) tree fossils.
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Rodent Resurrected?
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When an animal or plant has gone “extinct”, and then is found living today, unchanged from what is found in the fossil record, this shocking discovery is called a “living fossil”
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‘Dinosaur Tree’ Behind Bars
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The botanic gardens in Australia’s national capital, Canberra, has on show a tree which is presently so rare that it is grown in a special cage (pictured, left).
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Lily of the Sea
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The beautifully preserved fossil is of a crinoid, or sea-lily.
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Living Fossils: Acer Monspessulanum
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The fossil maple leaf (Acer monspessulanum), found in Tertiary rock in southern France, is supposedly millions of years old. Yet the same species of maple lives today around the Mediterranean and has been photographed in climatically favoured south-west Germany where it has a northern outlier.
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Living Fossils: Busycon Contrarium
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The fossil Busycon contrarium in the right picture comes from Pliocene rock (alleged evolutionary age of 5.3-1.6 million years ago) at Sarasota, Florida, in the United States. Yet a modern Busycon contrarium, also found in Florida, shows that absolutely no evolution has taken place.
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Living Fossils: Anthedons
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The fossil crinoid Anthedon (a feathery-looking marine invertebrate) was found in the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone of western Germany. It is supposedly around 150 million years old. Yet the modern-day living Anthedon is virtually identical—showing no evolution has taken place.
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Living Fossils: Pleurotomarias
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The fossil Pleurotomaria shell, shown in the right photo here, was found in England in Jurassic deposits (supposedly 135-205 million years old on the evolutionists' time-scale). Yet the modern-day version from Japan, shown in the photo on the left, is virtually identical.
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Living Fossils: Antrimpos and Penaeus
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It could hardly be more obvious that this shrimp is essentially the same as this fossil shrimp. Yet according to evolutionary theory, they are separated by an alleged 150 million years.
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Living Fossils: Ferns and Crabs
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There are literally hundreds of different types of animals and plants which are alive and well and which are essentially unchanged from the way they appear as fossils.
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'Living Fossil' in Australian Caves
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A rare blind crustacean has been found in Jenolan Caves in New South Wales, Australia.
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Living Fossils: Flowers and Fish
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Most of the public are unaware that there are literally hundreds of different types of animals and plants which are alive and which are essentially unchanged from the way they appear as fossils.
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Preserved Cretaceous Collagen and Dinosaur Blood
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Evolutionists have come to largely accept the fact that soft tissues can be preserved in fossils for an extraordinarily long time. But millions of years . . . ?
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Was Our Oldest Itty-Bitty Ancestor All Mouth?
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Saccorhytus is, the authors believe, the oldest and simplest known deuterostome, the evolutionary forebear of all vertebrates and some invertebrates.
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Fossil Record
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The fossil record, billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth, is dramatic evidence of the historicity of Noah’s Flood.
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Mystery of the First Animals
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What is the first animal at the bottom of the fossil record? Most
people think it’s in the Cambrian, among the trilobites. Not so.
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Doesn’t the Order of Fossils in Rock Record Favor Long Ages?
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The fossil record is hardly “the record of life in the geologic past” that so many scientists incorrectly espouse, assuming a long prehistory for the earth and life on it.
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The Evolution of the Permian Extinction?
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Geologists claim their work with the fossil Dicynodon shows that the supposed terrestrial mass extinction happened before the marine extinction.
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Where Are All the Pre-flood Human Fossils?
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If there really was a global flood as described in Genesis, what would we expect to see today? Billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth. And that is exactly what we do see. But where are all the fossils of pre-flood humans?
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The Fossil Record
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Extensive fossil graveyards and coal deposits are more consistent with a global catastrophe than with slow and steady processes over millions of years.
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Order in the Fossil Record
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Rock layers can be explained within the biblical framework of earth history.
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Where Are All the Bunny Fossils?
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If most of the fossil record was laid down all at once by the global Flood, then why are rabbits found only in “recent” Tertiary and Quaternary sediments?
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Where Are All the Human Fossils?
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We can be satisfied that there are reasonable explanations, consistent with Scripture, for the seeming lack of human fossils in Flood rocks.
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Completeness of the Fossil Record
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Creationists predict that we have a nearly complete record of all species that ever lived.
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What Do the Fossils Say?
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What does the fossil evidence say, and does it really support the evolutionary view of origins—or is it perhaps more consistent with Creation?
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The Hopeful Monsters of Evolution
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Since the time of Darwin, evolutionists have looked to the fossil record for historical evidence of evolution.
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Canada New Cambrian Explosion
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Rich new fossil bed promises to revolutionize evolutionary understanding of the Cambrian explosion.
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Sulphuric Fossils Give Insight On Ancient Earth
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Sulfur-based life: for real? And what does Australian sandstone have to do with Mars?
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Not-So-Ancient Algae
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Tiny fossils of algae found at the edge of Loch Torridon in Scotland have been hailed as evidence that life evolved in freshwater and on land a billion years ago.
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Were Fossils Created During Creation Week?
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Feedback: Were fossils created ex nihilo during Creation Week?
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Cincinnati—Built on a Fossil Graveyard
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The Creation Museum was built on top of one of the most well-stocked and uniquely well-preserved “fossil graveyards” on the planet.
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Beneath the Cross
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Have you ever stopped to think about how much evidence of death surrounded Jesus?
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The World’s a Graveyard
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If the Genesis Flood, as described in Genesis 7 and 8 really occurred, what evidence would we expect to find?
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High & Dry Sea Creatures
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Fossils of sea creatures are found in rock layers high above sea level. This is just one more evidence of the truth of God’s Word.
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Disharmonious Fossils
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Though evolutionists point to the fossil record, fossils are often found where they are not expected which frequently cause revisions to their timelines.
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Should Fragile Shells Be Common in the Fossil Record?
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Experiments have shown that many shells disappear completely in a short period of time.
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Mystery of Flowering Plants Solved?
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Evolutionists take another stab at answering what Charles Darwin called an “abominable mystery”: the abrupt appearance and ubiquity of flowering plants in the fossil record and on earth.
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The Origin of Invertebrates
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The appearance of multicellular animals occurs in an event known as the Cambrian explosion.
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How Well do Paleontologists Know Fossil Distributions?
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It would be great if we could know the actual three-dimensional distribution of the fossils in the earth. This would go a long way towards understanding their deposition during the Flood.
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God of the Gaps
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If minor variations in species have produced all the differences we see today, where's the evidence in the fossil record?
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Fossils—Do They Get More Complex?
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One thing that most people think they 'know' about evolution is that organisms become more complex as they evolve.
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Precambrian Puzzle
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Millions of years of supposed evolution without a trace in the fossil record—a puzzle of Precambrian proportions!
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The Most Horrific Graveyard in the World
| Answers in Genesis
It’s a record of death, of disease, of violence—the most horrific graveyard in the world.
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“Revolutionary Rethink”: Did the Permian Extinction Really Happen?
| Answers in Genesis
So evolution is being rewritten. . . again! Yes, this seems to happen every week with some aspect of evolution or big bang cosmology.
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Will the Puzzle of the Cambrian Explosion Finally Be Solved?
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Evolutionists claim fossil found in the Ediacaran layer to be ancestor to Cambrian creatures—while ignoring the more credible and biblical explanation.
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Study: Ancient Tree with “Most Complicated” Growth Mechanism Ever
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Why are the oldest trees, in an evolutionary timeframe, the most complicated and unlike anything surviving today?
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Birds Buried with Dinos at K-T Boundary
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Assorted archaic birds buried with dinosaurs up to the K-T boundary.
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Doubt on Complex Species Evolving Slowly
| Answers in Genesis
New varieties of ancient fossils in the Cambrian rocks cast more doubt on the evolutionary model of complex species evolving slowly over time.
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Sophisticated Sea Scorpions
| Answers in Genesis
Who were the first tool users: Humans? Apes? Crows? No, say evolutionists; it may have been “scorpion-like sea beasts” (and no, they’re not kidding)!
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New Set of Oldest Footprints Found In Nevada
| Answers in Genesis
They may not be much to look at, but the supposed oldest “footprints” are trampling over previous estimates of the age of animals.
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Tibetan Fossils Revise History of Elevation and Climate
| Answers in Genesis
High in the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau, 15,000 feet (4500m) above sea level, scientists found surprising evidence of “warmer, wetter climates.”
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Early Evolutionary Ecosystems Considered Complex
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One of the most stunning reminders of the distance between evolutionary ideas and actual fact is the rapid appearance, in the fossil record, of advanced forms of life across the biotic kingdoms.
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Evolutionary Big Bang: Information Explosions
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Scientists have been forced to propose an evolutionary “big bang” to explain an evolutionary conundrum Charles Darwin referred to as an “abominable mystery.”
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The Karoo Vertebrate Non-problem: 800 Billion Fossils or Not
| Answers in Genesis
Although of questionable validity, the 800-billion figure in no way vitiates creationist discussions about the richness of the Karoo vertebrate fauna.
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The Role of Interpretation in Fish Phylogeny (Part 2)
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In a “natural scheme” all facets of an animal’s existence are taken into account-internal and external structure, behavior, etc., before it is classified.
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Fish—Their Origin and History (Part 1)
| Answers in Genesis
This series of articles will examine the evidence for the reconstruction of the history of the fishes and look at the conclusions which can be drawn from such evidence.
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Fossil Bird Uncovered with Unlaid Egg Inside
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After examining a fossil left in a box in storage for ten years, scientists made a surprising discovery—this fossilized bird was preserved with her unlaid egg still inside her. There was also evidence of medullary bone, “a calcium-bearing tissue that aids in eggshell formation.”
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Microraptor Discovered with Lizard in Its Belly
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Recently, scientists announced the discovery of a new species of lizard inside the stomach of a microraptor, what they call a type of supposedly “gliding dinosaur.” The researchers believe these fossils were buried during a series of volcanic explosions some 130 million years ago. But there’s a better explanation!
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Transitional Fossils
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Evolution predicts a fossil record bursting with transitional fossils. Curiously, there are only a handful of highly-disputed fossils that are claimed as such.
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I Must Go Down to the Seas Again
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Cartorhynchus lenticarpus, whose discovery was hailed last November, is being hailed as an evolutionary link, but this characterization is premature.
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Feet of Imagination
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“Little Foot” is an australopithecine (southern ape), the most complete specimen yet discovered, and some say the oldest.
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Is “Grandfather Turtle” the Transitional Form that Puts Creationi
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With Pappochelys’s shell characteristics like those of other extinct turtles and a diapsid skull, should creation scientists be having nightmares?
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If Fish Could Walk . . .
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Tiktaalik has been touted as evidence of how a limbless fish could turn into an amphibian.
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Multicellular Life Evolving in Microfossils, Evolutionists Say
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Ancient microfossils have supposedly solved the evolutionary enigma of the Cambrian Explosion.
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Hallucigenia Really Does Have a Head
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Finding an unexpected combination of traits in one animal does not demonstrate that animal is a transitional form.
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Extinct Carnivore Ancestor Lion Tiger Bear
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Teeth and tarsals build an arboreal Belgian beast said to be the ancestor of cats, canines, and bears.
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Jaw-Dropping Discovery in the Burgess Shale
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Did this little fish lose a gill to build a jaw for its evolutionary descendants?
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Fossils Transition Dinosaur Legs Bird Wings
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How did birds get their wings? This “classic major evolutionary transition” fails to take flight in the fossil record.
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Another Whale of a Tale: Creationists Without a “Whimper”?
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The alleged evolutionary history of whales continues to be a hotly debated topic in the current creation/evolution controversy, despite what some evolutionists are saying.
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The Origin of Vertebrates
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The evolution of organisms with complex internal skeletons is supposed to have occurred around 500 million years ago.
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Fossil Record of Tetrapods: Evidence of a Evolutionary Transition
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According to evolutionary theory, the origin of tetrapods from a fish-like ancestor was one of the major events in the history of life on earth.
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Digging up Dirt on Ida?
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Did AiG nefariously trade on the authority of “real” scientists with our Ida coverage and imply that those scientists agreed with us on more than just the fossil?
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Sediba Fossils Fail to Connect the Evolutionary Dots
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Sediba fossils shuffle the deck of diversity but fail to connect the evolutionary dots.
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Fossils vs. Clocks: Both Camps Have Flawed Foundation
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A study packed with anatomical data and a significant bit of whimsy attempts to explain when the ancestor of most mammals (the placental ones) evolved.
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Fossil Finds Cause Little Change in Evolutionary History
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A new, overarching study of fossil discoveries reveals that most fossil finds cause little change in scientists’ view of evolutionary history. Why is that newsworthy for creationists?
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Is Fossil Missing Link Between Man and Monkeys?
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Is a fossil found in Saudi Arabia the latest “missing link” between man and monkeys? Or is it only the latest misunderstood ape-like creature?
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Tiktaalik—Walking Off the Stage
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Fossilized footprints are causing evolutionists to rethink their beliefs about the fish Tiktaalik.
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Did Fingers and Toes Originate From Fins?
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Evolutionary scientists have discovered the origin of fingers and toes: fishlike creatures that swam the seas hundreds of millions of years ago. So what exactly was the science behind the discovery, which was reported in Nature?
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Glee Club
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A chorus of secular media outlets were gloating a few weeks ago in the discovery of a supposed “missing link” between fish and land-dwelling creatures.
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Mammal-like Reptiles: Major Trait Reversals and Discontinuities
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Evolutionists repeatedly claim that their assembled chain of mammal-like reptiles shows a step-by-step morphological progression to mammals.
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Those Fossils Are a Problem
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Dr David Pilbeam came to the attention of the scientific community as being an objective scientist when he wrote an article for Human Nature magazine, entitled, ‘Rearranging Our Family Tree’.
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Grounds for Reevaluation
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The fossil of a creature resembling a groundhog that lived during the time of dinosaurs has become an anomaly for evolutionists.
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Monkey Teeth: Proof of God’s Post-Flood Provisions
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Animals can show up in the oddest places and make evolutionists scratch their heads as is the case with the newly discovered monkey fossils.
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Dinosaur National Monument in Utah
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Dinosaur National Monument houses one of the largest on-location dinosaur fossil displays in the entire world.
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Jigsaw Puzzle Challenge
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Reassembling half-billion-year-old fossils from bone fragments: a task so complicated that only computers can handle it?
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Fossil Droppings Reveal “Oldest” Evidence of Butterflies
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Which came first—the butterfly or the flower? Evolutionary ideas claim the butterfly existed long before flowering plants, but does this make the best sense of the evidence?
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Creationists Don’t Mind the Gap
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When we start with the history in Genesis, Christians can explain fossils without fear.
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Chinese Dragons Found!
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The Bible explains the violent, aquatic burial of several fossils.
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Parts of the World
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Paleontologists have dusted off 45 new dinosaur species every year since 2003, and many of these discoveries unearthed dinosaurs with especially unique features.
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Were Plesiosaurs Both Marine and Freshwater Animals?
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How creationists can interpret unique plesiosaur fossil evidence in a flood context
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Stromatolites—Rare Reminders of a Lost World
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In a few rare spots, geologists find fossils of strange
eight-foot-tall “mushrooms.” What do they tell us about
the mysterious world they came from?
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Does Soft Tissue in Fossils Confirm a Young Earth?
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Ask the average layperson how he or she knows that the earth is millions or billions of years old, and that person will probably mention the dinosaurs.
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Vampire Squid Can't Escape This Coffin
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Pair of fossilized squid preserved in a catastrophic event—a snapshot of the post-fall world and the global flood
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Santana Fossils
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The fine details preserved in fossils mystify evolutionists
but not paleontologists who believe in the Genesis flood.
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Fascinating Fossils: Glimpse the Creation Museum’s Collection
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Fossils act as a record preserved to teach us about the earth’s past, to confirm Scripture, and to glorify God. They can be found everywhere from the bottom of canyons to mountain peaks and maybe even in your back yard.
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Dinosaur Tissue
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Despite a large body of evidence for the authenticity of the dinosaur tissue, there remains a pattern of denial within the evolutionist community.
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The Fossil Evidence—Introduction
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Can changes from molecules-to-man (macroevolution) be explained by (extrapolated from) the process of mutation-selection (microevolution)?
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Ancient Tropical “Transitional” Forests Found Fossilized in the A
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Thus this fossil-bearing sedimentary rock sequence on Spitsbergen is better understood from the biblical perspective of the eyewitness account in Genesis.
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3D Fossil Images Force Evolutionists to Revise Terrestrial Story
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Three-dimensional images of fossil will force evolutionists to revise their terrestrial story, but not much.
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Pinpointed Origin of Intelligence
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Evolutionary researchers claim to have pinpointed the origin of intelligence.
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Fossil Stumps Experts
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Dry Dredger’s local fossil stumps experts.
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Orphan Eggs Offer Clues to Missing Parents
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Orphan eggs in Cretaceous Spain offer ambiguous clues to their missing parents.
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Which Version of History Do Fossils Reflect?
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Fossil diversity “accurately reflects history”—but which version of history?
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Embryos or Spores?
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Barking up the wrong multicellular tree