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More Microfossils
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Algae to bones . . . what’s the difference?
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Dating Dilemma: Fossil Wood in “Ancient” Sandstone
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Sydney has its beautiful harbour and famous bridge, its Opera House and golden beaches, but it also has some unique and characteristic rock formations.
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Prehistoric Ink
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Scientists cannot only write about amazing fossil discoveries; now, they can write with one!
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An Example of Circular Reasoning
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The fossil record is more like a record of the effects of sin when the Flood demolished the vast majority of life on earth, creating massive fossil graveyards.
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Fossil Footprints—Found Millions of Years Before the Creatures Who Made Them?
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Evolutionsts struggle to explain how fossilized footprints are older (by millions of years) than the corresponding bones that made them.
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Buried Birth
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There is an exquisitely preserved fossil of an extinct marine reptile called an ichthyosaur. The mother ichthyosaur is shown having almost completed giving birth to a live infant.
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Common Ancestor Hidden in Burgess Shale
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Burgess Shale said to shelter “the most primitive known vertebrate and therefore the ancestor of all descendant vertebrates, including humans.”
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Classifying the Blue Whale by Jaw Type
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Another big mouth beast becomes an honorary member of the baleen club.
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Dead Whales: Telling Tales?
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“We knew it was a great find,” said paleontologist Leonard Brand about the fossil whales he saw in Peru in 1999, 350 km (200 miles) south of Lima, the capital.
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Fossil Expert Says ... Think Weird!
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Can 'thinking weird' help creationists? Dr Kurt Wise believes so, and he encourages his students to break new ground in their thinking by doing just that.
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Lizard Found Trapped in Amber
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We’ve all seen photographs of insects, arachnids, and other small creatures trapped in amber. But a lizard?
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The Fossils Say What?
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Some of the most devastating attacks on evolution by creationists have been associated with the fossil record.
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Fossil Fuss
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How could “the greatest
promoter of creationism in Alberta,”
Edgar Nernberg, be the discoverer of
some of the most significant fish fossils
in recent history?
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Is the Bible True?
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The Bible claims to be written by God—through human authors—but can we trust it as error-free and authoritative on everything it touches?
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Truth + Fable = Lies
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God claims to be the source of truth. The idea of absolute truth and morality is offensive to many people today, but we must be proclaimers of truth!
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How Do We Know that the Bible Is True?
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A number of Christians have tried to answer this question. Unfortunately, not all of those answers have been as cogent as we might hope. Some answers make very little sense at all.
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Can We Prove the Bible Is True?
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Jesus Christ and His followers were fearless when it came to proclaiming God’s Word. What gave them such boldness and self-assuredness?
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Why Should We Believe in the Inerrancy of Scripture?
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Many people deny that Scripture teaches its own inerrancy, but Brian Edwards shows that, based on Scripture, Christians should absolutely hold to biblical inerrancy.
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“And God Said”
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Ever since the serpent said to Eve, “Indeed, has God said?” the Word of God has been questioned and attacked.
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Is the New Testament Reliable?
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Can we trust the New Testament as a reliable record of what actually happened, and do we possess what was actually written in the first century?
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Who Wrote the Bible?
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Isn’t the Bible just an old, man-made document?
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Who Wrote Genesis?
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Strong evidence suggests that Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible, but not everyone agrees.
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Can We Trust the Bible Is True?
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From archaeology to astronomy, evidence from many fields points to the veracity of God’s Word.
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Should the Bible Be Interpreted Figuratively?
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Responding to a listicle claiming it is wrong to interpret the Bible literally.
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5 Reasons to Trust God‘s Word
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How do we know the Bible is true? Consider these five reasons to trust God’s Word from the very first verse.
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Did Peter Write 2 Peter?
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Arguing for the authenticity of the most-contested New Testament book
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How Old-Earth Inerrantists Are Unintentionally Undermining Inerrancy
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How theological scholars, who affirm the truthfulness of the Bible, actually sabotage its authority through their science-over-Scripture hermeneutic.
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What Are the Dangers of Quote Mining?
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Quote mining (or proof-texting) leaves out crucial details, misrepresenting the quote and hurting your Christian witness.
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Bible Wins Debate Carbon-Dated Camel Bones
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“There is a book . . .” Ken Ham reminded Nye at their 2014 debate, and the Bible’s history is history we can trust.
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Book of Job: Fact or Fiction
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Exploring the biblical and ancient Near Eastern historical evidence shows how the book of Job records actual events.
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10 Theses We Cannot Support
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Todd Wilson proposes ten points of what he calls “Mere Creation.” These are points that he claims most evangelical Christians, “at most times, have believed and should believe about creation.” We will consider several of his points.
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One Indivisible Word
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A seismic shift rocked Christianity in the eighteenth century. The idea grew that the Bible speaks authoritatively about morality and religion, but not history and science. Is that viable, based on Scripture?
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Fighting for Truth
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Who would have thought that people claiming to be Christians—even pastors—would attack the very notion of truth? But they are. But they are. Emerging church members claim to believe in the God of the Bible, yet still they say they are comfortably uncertain about what is true.
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Inerrancy and the Test of Truth
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The doctrine of the inerrancy of Scripture is one of Christianity’s most important doctrines to be defended. Let’s define the foundational concept of truth, review the case for the truthfulness (inerrancy) of Scripture, and then discuss how the Bible passes the “test of truth” even down to the details of its claims.
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Correcting a Pastor Who Denies Biblical Inerrancy
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A guest column by a pastor that took biblical creationists to task for supposedly being antiscience, appeared recently in the Holland Sentinel.
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Does Scripture Contain Error Because It Was Written by Humans?
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The question that needs to be asked is whether the Bible contains error because it was written by human authors.
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3 Evidences That Confirm the Bible Is Not Made Up
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How do you know the Bible isn’t just made up? Let’s look at three aspects of the Bible taken together to explain how we know it wasn’t simply made up.
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AiG Scientists Appearing in Is Genesis History? Documentary
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Is Genesis History? features interviews with scholars and scientists on the evidences for Creation and the Flood—including two AiG scientists.
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Ready to Give an Answer
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Truth is at the heart of what has become warfare in the marketplace of worldviews. Which ideas will get your attention and gain prominence in your mind?
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Dealing with Skeptics
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They need to be shown that what we see in this world around us only makes sense in the light of God’s Word.
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Not What You’d Expect
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On the surface they appear to be very similar. As we studied the research findings further, we soon found we were dealing with two different types of individuals who were no longer attending church.
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Embarrassed by the Bible
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When people ask why we believe what we do, many are hesitant to quote the Bible.
After all, few people believe the Bible, and many parts are hard to explain.
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Were New Testament Books Forged?
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This review will provide a cursory review of Forged, critique Ehrman’s methodology, and expose his many exaggerated conclusions.
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Review of the Lecture “Evolution & Creation: Conflicting or Compa
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Drs. Elizabeth Mitchell and Terry Mortenson discuss a recent local presentation that they attended.
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7. Life-Changing Power
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Even if you don’t yet know any other compelling evidences that the Bible is true, you should know the experience of your own life.
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5. Scientific Accuracy
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Every claim the Bible makes about science is not only true but crucial for filling in the blanks about the origin of the universe.
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How Do I Know the Bible Is True?
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When children start to ask tough questions about the Bible, even when they are very young, what should you do?
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The Rise and Fall of Inerrancy in the American Fundamentalism
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This article will survey the history of Christian fundamentalism in America along with its strengths and weaknesses, victories and defeats, and the significance of the doctrine of biblical inerrancy
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Not Just a Container of Truth
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“The Bible contains truth,” we often hear. But what do such words really mean? Behind them is a flawed view of biblical authority, with deadly consequences.
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Jesus Believed Every Event of the Old Testament
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The debate about the Bible’s accuracy is not a secondary, theoretical concern. The integrity of Jesus Christ Himself is at stake. He accepted the Old Testament’s historical accounts as real.
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Online Apologetics Toolkit
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“How do you know the Bible is true?” Do you know your Bible well enough to give a satisfying response?
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Can You Prove the Bible is True?
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If you actively share your faith, you’ll be asked, “How do you know the Bible is true?”
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No Easy Answers
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God’s Word—even in the hands of a child—is sufficient to penetrate even the thorniest thicket.
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4. Fulfilled Prophecy
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Among the many amazing evidences that confirm the Bible’s divine origin, surely the wealth of fulfilled prophecies is near the top.
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Seven Compelling Evidences Confirm the Bible Is True
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With all the knowledge and resources readily available today, God’s children have no excuse for not being prepared to “Give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you.”
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Answers Magazine Preview: Vol. 6 No. 2
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If you actively share your faith, it won’t take long before you’re asked, “How do you know the Bible is true?”
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Why Won’t They Listen?
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Because of technology, students have a great respect for what is called science. But to them the Bible is just an outdated religious book.
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“[B]latantly devoid of proven scientific evidence”
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If we cannot trust all of God’s Word, then how do we figure out what parts we can trust?
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Isn’t the Bible Full of Errors?
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The claim that the Bible has errors is frequently just an excuse for not believing. Few who make the claim have read the Bible and actually analyzed any alleged contradictions.
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Is the Bible Authoritative and Inerrant?
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Since the Bible has been copied and translated so many times, can we really trust that we have the words of the authors? Tim Chaffey, AiG–U.S., responds.
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Is the Old Testament Reliable?
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Must we have blind, unreasonable faith to believe the Bible to be true? Or are there sound reasons that the Bible, and specifically the Old Testament, can be accepted as reliable in every part?
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The Bible—Is It True or Is It Truth? (And Does It Matter?)
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A recent article pokes fun at those who read the Bible “literally,” specifically calling out the flood account as “pretty farfetched.”
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Why We Proclaim the Bible as the Truth
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Why should Christians witness to others? What evidence is there that the Bible is the true Word of God?
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Generations' Changing Views on the Bible
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Results compiled from Barna Group surveys reveal an unsurprising result: younger generations are less likely to consider the Bible sacred or accurate.
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A Low View of Scripture
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One of the major problems in the church today is that Christian leaders (and Christians in general) have been conditioned to treat God’s Holy Word as a fallible human work.
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A Worrisome Trend
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There’s no doubt that our once-Christianized Western nations are not only becoming more secularized, but that an anti-Christian element is growing with increasing fervor.
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Generational Gaps
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A recent Barna survey shows that younger Americans are less likely to consider the Bible accurate.
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All to the Glory of God
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Even though a major AiG emphasis is the evolution/creation issue, the real goal is to see the confidence of believers grow in the accuracy and truthfulness of all of the Bible.
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The Search for the True Holy Book of all “Holy” Books
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Only the Bible never makes a claim in the spiritual/supernatural realm that is contradicted by facts from the physical/natural realm.
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Theory of Evolution
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Biological evolution: is it a scientific fact, a theory, or just a hypothesis? How does this model of origins hold up under careful scientific scrutiny?
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Millions of Years
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The evolutionary timeline of millions of years is not compatible with the Bible or with the scientific evidence.
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Millions of Years—Are Souls at Stake?
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When creationists take a strong stand that God created the earth six thousand years ago, they’re often accused of making this a salvation issue. Well, it isn’t a salvation issue—but it is!
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Why Shouldn’t Christians Accept Millions of Years?
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Is the age of the earth unimportant and divisive, as some Christians claim? Answers in Genesis thinks not.
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Seven Reasons Why We Should Not Accept Millions of Years
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There is an intensifying controversy in the church all over the world regarding the age of the earth.
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Evolution or Millions of Years
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When you talk to an evolutionist, which subject arouses the strongest reaction?
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Where Did the Idea of “Millions of Years” Come From?
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Today, most people in the world, including most people in the Church, take for granted that the earth and universe are millions and millions of years old.
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RATE Research Results—Fatal Blow to Billions of Years
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This past weekend I had the privilege of attending the "Thousands ... Not Billions" conference where the results of the RATE (Radioisotopes and the age of the earth) project were presented.
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RATE: Overturning Millions of Years
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Cutting-edge research by the RATE team has vividly shown that radiometric dating is founded upon unprovable assumptions and cannot accurately date rocks.
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The Fall and the Problem of Millions of Years of Natural Evil
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Can the evolutionist view of the history of natural evil be harmonized with the Bible’s apparent teaching that all of this evil is the consequence of the Fall?
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The “Disease” of Millions of Years
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The idea of millions of years is like a disease, and biological evolution is like the symptom. Many Christians are willing to deal with the “symptom,” but not the “disease.”
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Does Answers in Genesis Accept “Billions of Years”?
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With a better understanding of the concept of time, we will see that the article in question was in no way saying or implying the possibility of billions of years.
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Would Planes Sink into Ice?
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Recalling the common school experiment in which a wire tensioned with weights ‘sinks’ through a block of ice, some wondered whether the planes could have sunk to that depth.
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Top Geology Student: Millions of Years Needs Imagination
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Exceptional geology student Karen Odling is only the second woman since World War II to win the University Medal in Geology from Australia’s University of Sydney.
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Australia’s Burning Mountain
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For as long as anyone can remember Mt Wingen has been burning, with an acrid smell of sulphur in the fumes issuing from cracks along its summit.
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Molecular Clock
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Do studies that use mutation rates to calibrate a “molecular clock” confirm or deny the evolutionary model? Are the assumptions in such calibrations correct?
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Getting a New Clock
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When the clock’s answers don’t meet expectations, get a new clock.
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Fast Flower Evolution
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Analysis of data from the Ancestral Angiosperm Genome Project presumably has solved the mystery of how such a variety of flowering plants could evolve in such a short evolutionary time-span.
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Resolving Human Evolutionary Dating Dilemmas
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Let’s look at the molecular clock credited with resolving the timeline and see if we are “closer than ever to a timeline for human evolution.”
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Geneticists Duel Dates Y-Chromosomal Adam
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Setting the molecular clock to ring for “Adam” is creating controversy among geneticists.
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Tinkering With the Molecular Clock
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Tinkering with the molecular clock: which assumptions should we accept?
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Presence of Ancient Anatomically Modern Humans in Africa
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Genomic study suggests the presence of ancient anatomically modern humans all over Africa.
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Tree Frog Biodiversity
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Statistical analyses swimming in a sea of assumptions sing of millions of years in both directions.
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"Old" Virus Fragments from Same Family as Hepatitis B Virus
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Researchers at University of Texas–Arlington have found “old” virus fragments from the same family as modern Hepatitis B virus in the genomes of modern songbirds.
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SIV in Present Form
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A new study of the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV), a virus infecting “almost all African monkeys” but not sickening them, has led to speculation about how long the virus has been around in its present form.
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Pink Iguana Throws Off Scientists
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A quarter-century ago, they might have been considered just as fantastic as pink elephants—but now pink iguanas are in the scientific spotlight.
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New Science Can’t Save an Old Farce
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Geneticists are increasingly relying on the technique of comparing genomes in the search for dates, as opposed to the old method of digging up fossil bones.
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Evolution: Not Even a Theory
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Although some Christians have attacked evolution as “just a theory,” that would be raising Darwin’s idea to a level it doesn’t deserve.
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Do Evolutionists Believe Darwin’s Ideas about Evolution?
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Few people have actually read the works of Darwin, and if they did they might be shocked to read some of Darwin’s ideas.
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Will Fish Fossil Change Evolutionary Tree?
| Answers in Genesis
Did jawed vertebrates start out with bones or not? Evolutionists want to know.
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Evolution Timeline
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The timeline of evolution, far from being set in stone, is constantly adjusting to new fossils found millions of years before their evolutionary time.
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Cambrian Predator Wore Its Brain out in Front
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This predatory beast of very little brain drove evolution of brighter brains, evolutionists say.
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Evolutionists Must Know Something That Algae Don’t
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A recent study on algae supposedly sheds light on how aquatic life became terrestrial.
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Muscles Appear Deep in the Fossil Record
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Animals were flexing their muscles even “before” the Cambrian Explosion.
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Open Tree of Life Summarizes Evolutionary Beliefs
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The Open Tree of Life represents a rejection of our Creator’s account of our origins in favor of man’s unverifiable belief that random processes produced life.
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Cambrian Explosion or Creation Week—Key to Vertebrate Success?
| Answers in Genesis
Does the Cambrian explosion mark the beginning of the catastrophic global Flood or the beginning of vertebrate evolution?
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Cambrian Explosion Cascading Causes
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Expanding underwater territory claimed as key to the Cambrian conundrum.
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Comb Jelly: World’s Most Primitive Animal?
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Evolutionists are having a difficult time deciding which animal came first: the sea sponge, comb jellies, or placozoans.
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Sea Sponges Challenge View of How Oceans Became Oxygenated
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The earliest animals, not plants, promoted oxygenation of the oceans, scientists say.
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Fish Brains to Faces, Evolutionists Say
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Mirror, mirror, on the wall, what’s the fishiest fable of them all? Evolutionists say they have filled in the gaps in the origin of the human face.
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Lizards Trapped in Amber Said to Show Evolutionary Links
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Scientists believe resin froze these lizards in time 99 million years ago, and the resin’s subsequent transformation into amber saved them for us to see.
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Bigger Marine Animals Favored by Evolution?
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Some say evolutionary advantages led to the average size increase of marine animals in the fossil record, but they assume a timeline of millions of years.
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Wormlike Evolutionary Misfit Burgess Shale
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Crazy-looking fossil’s evolutionary descendants are crawling around in the tropics, evolutionists say.
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Rapid Evolution of Genome Size
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Different genome size in two “related” species of cress (genus Arabidopsis) is called the result of a rapid evolutionary process.
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So-Called Evidence for Accelerated Evolution
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A spate of recent genomic changes is responsible for today’s variance in human skin color, stature, and other traits, reports ScienceNOW.
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A Greater Evolutionary Ancestral Family
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Recalibration of molecular clock marches ape-human divergence back to encompass a greater evolutionary ancestral family.
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An (Un)Reasonable Hypothesis for Bilaterian Evolution
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The best question to pose about this article on bilaterian evolution would be, “Are the contents of this article absolutely true?”
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Many Giant Leaps for Evolution
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Evolution is thought to progress slowly, step by step, the accumulation of hundreds of millions of years’ worth of small changes. Or is it?
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Evolution on a Crash Course
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Evolution is a one-way street, new research confirms. So can it go only forward, or only backward?
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Evolution 'Ahead of Schedule'
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Fossil specimens discovered in Russia 15 years ago have finally landed in the news—for reasons including the fact that they were millions of years “ahead of schedule.”
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Earth's First Animal
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This just in: sea sponges are not the oldest animal around, according to a recent evolutionary analysis.
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Split Personalities
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A leading evolutionary theorist at the London School of Economics predicts that humans will split into two races.
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Monkeys: "New" Color Vision
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Evolutionary researchers debate when, exactly, color-vision "evolved" in apes.
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Treewalking Orangutans
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Primatologist Robin Crompton and graduate student Susannah Thrope are rekindling a “30-year-old hypothesis that upright walking first evolved in the trees.”
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Evolution: Just 4 Million Years Ago
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Recent evolutionary research direcltly contradicts prior research.
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Arthropods Supposedly Invaded Land 40 Million Years Earlier
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Researchers claim they have pushed back the appearance of arthropods on land by 40 million years within the uniformitarian timescale.
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Horse Ancestor Said to Have Evolved in India
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Like other extinct mammals that “suddenly” appear in the fossil record, this “discovery” is no mystery but a descendant of animals God created 6,000 years ago.
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Evolution in Schools
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Instead of being an open platform where students can critically discuss the merits and flaws of a scientific model, education is overcome by evolutionary dogma.
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The UK’s New State Religion
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Bible-believing Christians in the United Kingdom are lamenting the loss of more religious liberties.
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Evolution as Philosophy
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Why in our sophisticated and technically advanced culture should a significant group of secularly educated Christians be in rebellion against the teaching of evolution?
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Error in the UK Classroom
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It is a serious matter to refer to error as ‘truth’, especially in the classroom with so many impressionable young people listening.
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“Slam Dunk for Science and the Constitution”?
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Noted philosophy professor and author Dr. Barbara Forrest came to Northern Kentucky University to attack creation.
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Academic Freedom Under Fire in Scotland
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Nobel laureates petition Scottish government to prohibit teachers from presenting creation science as alternative to evolutionism.
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“Stupid” If You Don’t Believe in Evolution!
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Every day, AiG receives many wonderful, positive comments about this website. We are most encouraged when we learn that our site has been useful in presenting the creation/gospel message.
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Evolution in Kindergarten
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According to news reports, a new project will “research how children acquire the concepts of biological evolution and look at new ways to engage children in exploring the topic.”
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Presuppositions in the Classroom
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The point that should concern Christian parents and teachers is that only one worldview—a secular evolutionary worldview—is taught as if it were established fact.
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Games Some People Play
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A leading evolutionary scientist has made a revealing admission.
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School: A Battleground?
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Public school is a battleground, warring for the hearts and minds of our children. How should Christian parents equip their children for this fierce battle?
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No Room for the Creator?
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Barak Obama speaks against teaching intelligent design in government schools.
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Evolution Survey Evaluates Public School Indoctrination
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Author Roger Patterson, AiG–U.S., evaluates a public school quiz given to identify what students knew about biologists’ thoughts about evolution.
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Those Who Question Evolution, Pennsylvania
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By questioning carefully, discerning students may learn that evolutionary claims really don’t hold water.
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Government Funding in the UK Means an Evolutionary Education
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Starting in 2013, all free schools in England will have to teach evolution as a “comprehensive and coherent scientific theory.” How should Christians respond to this situation?
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Academic Freedom Not OK in the UK
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The U.K.’s Department of Education has dealt a blow to the academic freedom of free schools.
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Weird History: “Anti-evolution” Linked to Apartheid
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Strange train of historical connections illogically links “anti- evolution” to apartheid.
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Has Religion Really Been Kept out of the Classroom?
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Americans United for Separation of Church and State aren’t removing religion from public schools; they’re simply forcing their religion onto students.
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What a Difference One Word Makes
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Today in the UK has been called by a number of theologically conservative Christians as a National Day of Prayer—days before the nation’s General Election.
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Evolution Professor Receives Spirituality Award
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This year’s $1.5 million Templeton Prize has gone to Francisco Ayala, an ordained Catholic priest and professor of evolutionary biology.
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Compulsory Evolution Education in UK’s Primary Schools Proposed
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A new education bill in the UK could potentially push more evolutionary propaganda on primary students. Paul Taylor, AiG–UK, explains.
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Tell Us Something We Don't Know
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Darwinism is a controversial topic, and many believe creation should be taught in the classroom. But why is that news?
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Are YOU Evolutionized?
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Evolution can become so ingrained in our thinking that we don’t even notice it. Our government schools and universities are entrenched in evolution.
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US Presidential Candidates Weigh in On Origins Education
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The U.S. presidential election pits two evolutionists against one another, it seems, as Nature News reports candidate Barack Obama’s comments on origins education.
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Controversy In the Classroom as Faith and Science Clash
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A lengthy article in the New York Times examines a microcosm of the controversy over evolution education in public school classrooms.
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English Schools Now Teach Evolution as Fact
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The new Science National Curriculum in England is telling students not to think or analyze, but rather to accept what they are taught about evolution on blind faith.
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Europe Fights to Keep Creation out of Schools
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In a 48 to 25 vote, the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly passed a resolution entitled, "The dangers of creationism in education.”
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Strengthening Families Through God’s Word
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If critical thinking isn’t the process of evaluating evidence in light of conflicting viewpoints . . . what is it?
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Relocation or Indoctrination: the Mennonites' Choice
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A small Mennonite community in Quebec is planning a possible exodus to the provinces of Ontario or New Brunswick to protect their children.
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Stuck in Censorship Mode
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Four years after the legal battle began, the school board of Cobb County, Georgia, U.S., gave up its
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The Genesis Nemesis
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The National Center for Science Education sounds as if the organization is serving the noble purpose of promoting science education. But the group’s ostensibly positive name (and that it is “for” something) obscures the fact that the very mission of the NCSE is actually a highly negative one: to aggressively counter the creationist and intelligent design movements.
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Educator Warns About De-Emphasizing Evolution Education
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Canada’s Toronto Star reports on McGill University professor Brian Alters’ efforts to “warn” Canada of the dangers of “de-emphasizing” evolution education.
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Can Evolution Be Criticized in Public Schools?
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The furor over teaching evolutions shortcomings has moved to a small town in Louisiana.
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Belief in evolution—required for college admission?
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Secular humanists have, by and large, won the culture war in America’s public schools. But not just satisfied with victories there, they are now aiming at Christian schools and homeschools. Yes, Christian institutions are becoming more and more marginalized in the US.
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Creation vs. Evolution in Poland
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Poland is the largest of the ten new countries that joined the European Union in 2004.
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Sliding Down the Polls
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Gallup polls dating back to 1982 have consistently shown that at least 44% of Americans agree to the statement: “God created humans pretty much in their present form either exactly as the Bible descri
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Conventional Thinking
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science featured several sessions on the teaching of origins in America's public schools.
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Evolution-Dominated Academies Attack Creationism
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A large number of international academies of science have issued a statement on the teaching of evolution, calling for the teaching of molecules-to-man evolution as if it were factual and proven.
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Continuing the Momentum to Impact Society
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The Times and the UK’s Guardian recently featured lengthy stories about an increasing number of public school students are challenging their instructors when evolution is taught as fact.
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Stuck on Pause in Georgia
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Academic freedom ganed a tenative victory yesterday as a federal court sent back a lower court's order regarding the case involving Cobb County, Georgia, schools.
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Time to Consider Other Persons of the Year?
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Maybe Charles Darwin should be considered as a candidate for Time magazine's Person of the Year award.
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Time for Evolution Wars
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This week's coverage includes a Time magazine cover story, "The Evolution Wars," and an evolution documentary on "ape-men" that appeared Sunday evening (August 7) on The History Channel.
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Time to Get More Transparent
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Comments on the Time article article about efforts across the US to expose public school students to the grave scientific problems with molecules-to-man evolution.
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Another Vote for Evolution
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Across America and the rest of the world, evolution is solidifying its position in the halls and classrooms of government schools.
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Nation’s Educators Challenged “Question Evolution” This Weekend!
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The National Education Association (NEA) is one of the most liberal, anti-Christian organizations in the United States.
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Textbook Tyranny
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Although naturalistic evolution is now accepted as ‘fact’ both by many scientists and non-scientists, most of them have not carefully considered the other side.
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Honest Science “Left Behind” in U.S. Education Bill
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After months of debate, the U.S. Congress has passed a massive, 1,000-page education bill, promising that “no child will be left behind.”
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Your Tax Dollars at Work!
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Wouldn’t you just love to know that many of you will have your taxes used to aggressively ‘combat the creationist movement?’
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New Center at Harvard to Promote Evolution!
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America’s best-known evolutionist, Stephen Jay Gould, is one of several scientists involved in establishing a new center called the “Evolution Education Research Centre.”
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Supreme Court’s Ruling Reveals Hostility Toward Christianity
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The United States Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling that had struck down a policy that mandated that teachers read a disclaimer about evolution.
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Education Week Needs Educating!
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An article in Education Week offers the bizarre observation that the results of various political races in America this year will be decided on a candidate’s belief or non-belief in evolution.
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Quotable Quote: Ronald Reagan
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I can’t help but wonder, are we now seeing the fruit of education that predominantly throughout our country has stopped performing any teaching on the basis of moral principles...
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The Origin of Evolutionism: It Didn’t Begin with Darwin
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Evolutionism is a belief system based upon the assumption that there is a materialistic explanation for the origin of everything.
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Top Ten: Myths About Evolution
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Popular opinion routinely espouses ten arguments for evolution that are simply nothing more than myths.
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1.2 The Basic Assumptions of Evolution
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These assumptions are fundamental principles of the doctrine of evolution but, unfortunately, they very seldom if ever appear explicitly in evolutionary writings.
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Feedback: Observed Evolution
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A recent tweet directed at Ken Ham made a frequent evolutionary assertion: “Evolution has been directly observed both in the lab and in the field. If you had done any research whatsoever, you would know this.” The commenter then linked to a couple of studies, which he claimed proved his point.
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Evidence of Evolution
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Evolution is often presented as a fact proven by science. If this is true, there should be mountains of evidence supporting evolution—but is there?
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Hasn’t Evolution Been Proven True?
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Evolution is taken as fact by both unbelievers and some Christians. Monty White demonstrates that evolution has never been proven.
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Did “Life on Earth” Ever “Favour Evolution Over Creationism”?
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The observations of science continue to be consistent with the true history of life on Earth as recorded in the Word of God by the Creator of all that exists.
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Invertebrates: Animals Without Backbones
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Trilobites are very famous as fossils and may have a lot to tell us about how life began.
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Vertebrates: Animals with Backbones
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Despite phenomenal fossil failure, faith in evolution remains unbounded.
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The Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium Model: Evidence for Evolution?
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We will discuss how instructors are using the Hardy-Weinberg Principle as evidence for molecules-to-man Darwinian Evolution, why this method of application is incorrect.
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Brainfood: Cooking
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Cooking: the key to evolutionary success
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Butterflies the Evolution Icon
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They’re not quite peppered moths, but might black swallowtail butterflies be a new icon of evolution?
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“Common Design Means Common Ancestry”
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The argument “common design means common ancestry” falsely claims to prove an untenable assumption about the past (i.e., all life forms from a common ancestor) by pointing out similar body plans in organisms today. Evolutionists claim common design as evidence of evolution.
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Has Evolution Really Been Observed?
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Molecules-to-man evolution requires that non-intelligent processes could produce vast quantities of functional complex information.
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News that Proves Evolution?
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It’s the news that, in the mind of one of our critics, “proved” evolution.
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Similarities Don’t Prove Evolution
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So-called homologous structures are no proof of common descent, so are no proof of evolution.
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Does Homology Provide Evidence of Evolutionary Naturalism?
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A review of the literature on homology indicates that the theory does not provide evidence for evolutionary naturalism, and that the common examples of homology can be better explained by Creation.
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Believing in Evolution
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Blogger displays his lack of understanding of creation science.
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Bedbugs Bite Evolution
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One of the latest claims of “evolution in action” comes via a new study of the lowly bedbug.
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Organ Recital: A Parade of Presumed Design Flaws Devoid of Truth
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Health column blames our propensity for physical problems on faulty body design, but evolutionary presuppositions obscure the real facts.
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Mission Minded
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Recently well known paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey predicted that as more evidence for evolution is uncovered, doubters will ultimately accept it.
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Common Ancestor or Common Designer?
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Homology is presented as solid evidence for biological evolution. Is there another explanation for the similarities among limbs?
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How You Can Help (Dis)prove Evolution
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If you’re living in Europe, you’ve been asked to help find evidence for evolution in your backyard.
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Evolutionary Faith
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Theoretical biophysicists have built a mathematical model showing how “protocells” could have originated from simple chemical interactions.
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BBC News: “Mouse Set to be ‘Evolution Icon’”
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Peppered moths, move over! There’s a new alleged “icon of ‘evolution in action’” in town.
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Gecko Diversity and Evolution
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Gecko feet: Does their fabulous diversity make them the flagship for convergent evolution?
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"Top-Ten" List Declares Evidence of Evolution
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Are the evidences of evolution walking around with us every day? A recent “top ten” list answers in the affirmative.
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Dawkins' Crusade
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Although we frequently decline to comment when individuals inveigh against creationists (especially because such comments are often redundant and misinformed), we can hardly help but respond to vocal atheist (and anti-creationist) Richard Dawkins.
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Rigging the Numbers
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Our cursed universe is not nearly as tidy as evolution forces people to assume.
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Missing the Obvious
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Should the creation/evolution debate cease because the answer is “clear”? Join David Wright, AiG–U.S., in examining some common logical fallacies used to support an atheistic worldview.
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Wanting Proof
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Perhaps it’s a fault, but we can hardly pass up on responding to any study that, it’s claimed, “proves Darwin right.” But it’s no surprise that we find this “proof” wanting as well.
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Coral Reefs Seen as General Cradles of Evolution
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Are beautiful coral reefs Charles Darwin’s best friends? Perhaps so, for according to one team of paleontologists, they serve as “general cradles of evolution.”
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Four-Legged Animals Causing Evolution Problems
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The supposed earliest evidence of four-legged animals—at 395 million years old—sounds like a boon for evolutionary research.
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Robots and Evolution
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Laboratory scientists designing robots, then making changes to improve the robots’ success—is that really evolution?
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Proteins: Evidence For Evolution or Intelligent Design
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Proteins that act like “adaptive machines”—are they evidence for evolution or intelligent design?
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Fin Evidence
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“Researchers Find Dolphin Loose with Remains of Legs,” blared some news reports.
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Frog that Lays Land and Water Eggs Seen as Evidence for Evolution
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The hourglass treefrog from Panama is about to become an icon of evolution due to its strange egg-laying behavior.
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ABC News: Evolution Overwhelming and Compelling
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On Thursday night on American television, ABC News included a segment in its nightly news broadcast (World News Tonight with Charles Gibson) covering the National Academy of Sciences’ newly released book, Science, Evolution and Creationism, described as “a strongly-worded answer to the Creationist movement and the doubts about Darwin that many people express in polls and elsewhere.”
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Which is Better: Two Legs or Four?
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To test the theory that “human ancestors began walking upright because it used less energy than quadrupedal walking,” scientists hooked five chimpanzees and four humans up to facemasks and placed them on a treadmill to measure their “energy expenditure and biomechanics.”
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Museum Mania
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Science museums in some of America’s largest cities have recently been staging major pro-evolution exhibits, each purporting to show how the fossil record supports molecules-to-man evolution.
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Robotic Study Shows Differences Between Walking and Swimming
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European scientists formerly “puzzled” over the workings of a key episode in the story of evolution have developed a salamander-esque robot in an effort to elucidate an answer to the puzzle.
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Lizards Touted as Proving Evolution
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Scientists in the Bahamas have been carefully observing the leg lengths of brown anole lizards after scientists released predatory curly-tailed lizards onto the islands.
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Dolphin Found with “Remains of Legs”
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The following headline was featured Sunday morning (November 5) on Fox News Television: “Japanese Researchers Find Dolphin with Remains of Legs.”
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“Breakthrough” of the Year?
| Answers in Genesis
A cover story in the reputable journal Science evolution proclaimed evolution as the “breakthrough of the year” for 2005.
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Evolution of a Phantom
| Answers in Genesis
A whole age of scientific endeavour was wasted searching for a phantom. It is time we stopped and looked at the facts. Natural sciences failed to supply any evidence for evolution.
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Supergerms—Do They Prove Evolution?
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Lurking in even our finest hospitals is an unwelcome visitor—the supergerm. Doctors have exposed it to every available antibiotic, but it merrily goes on growing.
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Evolution: The Anti-Science
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Some evolutionists have argued that science isn’t possible without evolution. But is evolution even science?
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Evolution Quotes
| Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists have made some pretty incredible admissions about the nature of evolution, science, and evidence that actually supports the biblical account.
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Amazing Admission
| Answers in Genesis
A revealing comment by Richard Lewontin
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Media Bias on Origins
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“Anyone who questions man’s reasoning, particularly on the origin of the physical world, faces an arrogance almost beyond comprehension.”
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Science and Bias
| Answers in Genesis
The fact is that scientists are not really as objective and dispassionate in their work as they would like you to think.
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Who Said This About Evolution?
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A quote by Adam Sedgwick about the reason why the theory of evolution was created.
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Education for loss
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A quote by Huston Smith concerning the loss of religious faith due to the teaching of evolution.
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H.G. Wells, evolution and the Gospel
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A quote by Herbert George Wells concerning evolution and the gospel.
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Hutton’s a priori commitment to materialism
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Uniformitarianism dogmatically refuses to consider biblical teaching on Creation and the Flood as possible explanations for the rocks and fossils we observe.
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U.S. Doomed if Darwin Denied by a President
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A University of Michigan professor predicts that America will be headed to ruin if it elects a creationist president.
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Fascinating Quotes
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'Thus evolution, for example, may prove as powerful a principle to co-ordinate men's beliefs and hopes as God was in the past.'
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Quotable Quote: The Religion of Scientism
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A quote from by Shallis, M about evolutionists' opinions of purpose.
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Call for honesty on origins
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A quote by Hubert P. Yockey dealing with honesty about origins.
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Telling It Straight
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I myself have little doubt that in England it was [uniformitarian, long-ages] geology and the theory of evolution that changed us from a Christian to a pagan nation.
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The Pinnacle of Evolutionary Wisdom?
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‘The current state of knowledge can be summarised thus: In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded.
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Ape-Man Olympics
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“…finding the oldest member of the Hominidae—the family of Man—is like winning gold at the Olympics.”
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Quotable Quote: Spontaneous Generation and Perpetual Motion
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The origin of life by chance in a primeval soup is impossible in probability in the same way that a perpetual machine is in probability.
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Classrooms: Temples of Humanism?
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I am convinced that the battle for humankind's future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith.
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Evolution: No Morality
| Answers in Genesis
‘All I can say is, That’s just tough. We have to face up to the truth.’
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Cosmology
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‘… much of contemporary cosmology deals with things like inflation and the big bang that have not been directly observed, and probably never will be.’
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Missing the Point
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Unless people are looking for evidence that nothing is millions of years old, they will overlook the obvious under their noses.
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The Evolutionary Religion: Defying the Rules
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Evolution describes origins in epic proportion and therefore rivals other stories of similar scope, for example, religious stories of origins.
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‘A Disgrace to Biology’
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When Professor-Dr P.W.J. van Oordt retired from his position at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands), in his farewell address he made some memorable remarks.
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Big-Bang Certainty ...
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At the beginning of his book The God Particle, Nobel physicist Leon Ledermann [referring to cosmological speculations like the big bang in science books and articles] writes:
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Quotable Quote
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Artist John Gurche on the role of evolutionary preconceptions in the artist’s human-like depiction of Australopithecus afarensis...
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Are People Getting Smarter?
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Quote from Marvin Minsky on human intelligence...
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A Few Comments Concerning the Passing of Carl Sagan
| Answers in Genesis
As you know, Carl Sagan died last month. He was vehemently anti-Christian and an ardent evolutionist who fought the creation movement.
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Mysterious Evolution
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Discover what Dr. Jérôme J. Lejeune, who discovered the cause of Down's Syndrome, said about evolution.
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Mass Murderer (Dahmer) on Evolution v. Morality
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If a person doesn’t think there is a God to be accountable to, then—then what’s the point of trying to modify your behaviour to keep it within acceptable ranges?
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Seeing Ape-Men Everywhere?
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‘In the course of the past century, the discoverer of every new hominid or hominoid has nominated it as a potential human ancestor.’
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Why Kids go Ape in School!
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While evolution teaches that we are accidents or freaks of nature, creationism shows humankind as the offspring of a divine Creator.
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'Humans Are All Virtually the Same!'
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‘“It is exciting to look at differences at the genetic level”, she said, adding that humans, regardless of race, are genetically virtually the same.’
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Spurgeon on Evolution
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The great Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon rejected evolution on the basis of God's Word.
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Frog Evolution Mystery
| Answers in Genesis
This quotation illustrates one of evolution's many unanswered questions.
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Twisted Thinking
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In September 1992, a Scientific American article called ‘Mind and Brain’ said that human brain is …
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Fossil Evidence for Evolution . . . Expert Says “FORGET IT”
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“If you brought in a smart scientist from another discipline and showed him the meagre evidence we’ve got he’d surely say, ‘forget it: there isn’t enough to go on.’”
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Singing Bones
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Everybody knows fossils are fickle; bones will sing any song you want to hear.
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Darwinists’ tactics
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Darwinists use carefully thoughtout tactics to influence the public's beliefs about evolution.
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Groping in the Dark
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The best efforts of scientists to describe the universe may be nothing more than "groping in the dark."
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Quotable Quotes
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The greatest joke and the trouble with horse evolution…
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Atomic Clocks Reset?
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There has been in recent years the horrible realization that radiodecay rates are not as constant as previously thought, nor are they immune to environmental influences.
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Lack of Fossils
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Palaeoanthropologists seem to make up for a lack of fossils with an excess of fury, and this must now be the only science in which it is still possible to become famous just by having an opinion.
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12 Arguments Evolutionists Should Avoid
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For years, we’ve maintained a list of arguments creationists should avoid. Now we want to address a similar topic: arguments evolutionists should avoid. These worn-out tropes have not only passed their expiration date, but they never should have been made to begin with.
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The Process of Evolutionary Thought
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Is life a product of chance over millennia and of no value? Consider the impact of evolution and millions of years on the minds of our youth in today’s culture.
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Misguided God of the Gaps
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Curricula like Integrate accuse biblical creationists of appealing to a “God of the gaps”—yet this charge often forgets humanity’s smallness and the universe’s complexity.
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Evolution Day Struggles For Survival
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There has been a push for an Evolution Day celebration on November 24, the publication date of On the Origin of Species and the discovery of Lucy.
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Recapitulation Theory: How Embryology Does Not Prove Evolution
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Evolutionists have speculated embryos replay the evolutionary history of their species as they develop - but this is demonstrably false.
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When Evolutionists Help Creationists Make Their Case, Part 3
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Repeated misrepresentations of creationist views protect the legal basis for excluding creationism from the classroom.
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When Evolutionists Help Creationists Make Their Case, Part 2
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We previously reported an egregious case of professional scientific misconduct; one of the perpetrators has responded with additional dishonesty.
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When Evolutionists Help Creationists Make Their Case
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We recently broke the news, via video, of professional misconduct on the part of one of our leading evolutionary opponents. Here, we document the news in print.
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How Should Christians View Biological Classification?
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Modern classification is largely dependent on a technique known as cladistics. Cladistics examines character traits, assigns values to them and attempts to build a family tree for a given set of organisms based on statistical similarity.
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Taking the BBC's Evolution Test
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The BBC put a “Quiz: Test your knowledge of evolution” on their website. The reason for it is that the BBC believes there are still many misconceptions about it amongst people. The quiz involved seven questions that had to be answered true or false. So, let’s take the quiz and test the BBC’s understanding of evolution.
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“It’s Here, so It Must Have Evolved.”
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A conclusion does not prove the premises are true. That is, if the answer is “four,” we could arrive at that any number of ways: 2 + 2, 5 - 1, etc. In the same way, evolutionists often assume that since certain species or traits exist, this is proof of evolution because that’s how it must have happened.
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“Doubting Evolution Is like Doubting Gravity.”
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Only the biblical worldview can support the uniformity of nature, without which the practice of science would be impossible. The fundamental laws of nature operate consistently through time and space because the omnipotent, immutable Creator ordained them and is upholding the cosmos by his power.
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Replacing Darwin . . . During Reformation Month!
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From both inside and outside the church, the Darwinian revolution changed the hearts and minds of generations concerning biblical authority.
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“Evolution Is a Fact.”
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Evolution is a framework built on assumptions about the past—assumptions that will never have direct, first-hand, observational proof.
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Is Evolution a Theory, a Fact, or a Law?—or None of the Above?
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Since many Christians have concluded that evolution is incompatible with the Biblical account of creation, we should investigate if it is a fact or theory.
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The Origin of Life
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Perhaps the reason so many people continue to reject the notion of evolution is that it seems contrary to ordinary experience.
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Finding Adam in the Genome: A Response to Chapter 1 of Adam and the Genome
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In this article, Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson reviews chapter 1 (written by Venema and titled “Evolution as a Scientific Theory”) of Adam and the Genome.
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Faster Evolution after Dinosaur Extinction?
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Researchers made the claim that evolution of the placental mammals sped up faster in the 10 million years following the extinction of the dinosaurs.
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Tree or Orchard of Life?
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A comprehensive new Open Tree of Life has been released.
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Evolution (Not Creation) Is a God of the Gaps
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Creationists are sometimes accused of ignoring scientific evidence and being anti-science. But belief in God in no way diminishes zeal for how life works.
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Hard to Swallow
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Except perhaps for food and cooking, it seems the word most commonly uttered by the “world’s greatest chef” is probably evolution.
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Evolutionism—Is There Such a Word?
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What is evolutionism? Is it even a word? Dr. David Menton explores these questions and examines the worldview of evolution.
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What Do Biologists Believe About Evolution?
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Author Roger Patterson, AiG–U.S., continues his evaluation of a public school quiz given to identify what students knew about biologists’ thoughts about evolution.
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Turtle in the Gap
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Turtle embryology said to connect the evolutionary dots and reveal transitional turtle.
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Evolutionary Mystery of Flightlessness
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A biomechanical study of murre—one that dives well but also flies—presumably sheds light on penguin flightlessness.
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Evolution—The Least Important Topic in Medicine
| Answers in Genesis
Could physicians be better doctors if they applied evolution to their practice of medicine?
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Hologenomic Theory on Evolutionary Development Resurfaces
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The cover art of New Scientist describes a rather unpopular view of evolution that has been periodically proposed by some evolutionary scientists.
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Bill Nye and More
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Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell, AiG–U.S., answers objections to the videos AiG posted in response to Bill Nye’s video.
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Yeast Hatches New Evolutionary Model
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Extrapolation from yeast hatches new evolutionary model.
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Selfish Gene vs. Social Conquest
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Dawkins’ Selfish Gene versus E. O. Wilson’s Social Conquest
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1.1 The Principles of Science Theory
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Science theory concerns itself with the possibilities and the limits of scientific knowledge.
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Evolutionary Naturalism: An Ancient Idea
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The theory of biological evolution is not a modern idea. Organic evolution was first taught by the Greeks at least as early as the 7th century BC.
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Evolution Is Religion
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It is easy to grasp the basic tenets of science and quickly come to the conclusion that evolution is really a religion.
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Can an Evolutionist Celebrate Earth Day?
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This essay examines two questions: “Can an evolutionist celebrate Earth Day?” and “Can a creationist celebrate Earth Day?”
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Evolution—A Framework in Which to Interpret Evidence
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Creationists agree that the diversity of life changes over time, but only in thousands of years and by variation within kinds.
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Nothing New Under the Sun: Media Report Hypes Evolution Claims
| Answers in Genesis
A recent article from The Washington Post had the headline, “New Analyses Bolster Central Tenets of Evolution Theory.”
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Does the Majority Rule?
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Since the majority of scientists believe in evolution, should this “majority opinion” matter to the Bible-believer?
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Evolution Isn’t Random?
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A new study challenges “decades of scientific understanding” by suggesting that maybe evolution isn’t as random as was thought.
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Does Evolution Go Backward? A Look at Blind Cave Fish
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“Regressive evolution” refers to the loss of complex features and functions. Now, are blind cave fish an example of this supposed “regressive evolution”?
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From Ferrari to Model T: Is Reverse Evolution Possible?
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Question: If your brand new car breaks down and you take parts from an older car to fix it, is your new car closer to becoming a Model-T?
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Animals
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God created earth teeming with life: mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, fish, creepy crawlies and dinosaurs. These animals testify to their awesome Creator.
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10 Cursed Creatures with Undeniable Design
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Don’t be fooled by the supposed tree of life. Animals have not evolved into higher life forms but rather God created animals with amazing genetic diversity.
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Are Animals Morally Responsible for Their Actions?
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Most of us have experienced a pet displaying what looks like “guilty” behavior for doing something they shouldn’t have. But is there any reality behind this cute display?
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Life in the City
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Animals and other wildlife are moving into urban areas. How are they adapting to life in the big city?
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10 Sin-Cursed Animals That Still Show Divine Design
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Animals fascinate humans. Whether playing with the family pet or gawking at the zoo wildlife, we marvel at the variety and complexity of these creatures.
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Wolves—Strength of the Pack
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The strength of a wolf pack isn’t its numbers or the fear it inspires. Since sometime after Adam’s fall into sin, that howl has signaled danger to mankind, so it makes sense that wolves would often be the bad guys in fables and legends.Human beings have been fascinated with wolves for thousands of years.
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The Gift of Tongues
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This magnificent muscle speaks of God’s creative genius—and refutes blind evolutionary chance.
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Caring Past Our Prejudice
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Ugly, worthless,
annoying—does our
opinion of some
creatures reflect the
Creator’s care or do
we need an attitude
adjustment?
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Animal Tool Use
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Some animals use “tools” to perform tasks, but these phenomena are far simpler than the tool-making abilities God gave to people.
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Hermaphroditism in Animals
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One way that organisms have been designed to deal with reproduction is hermaphroditism, in which individuals have both reproductive organs. This condition is most commonly found in fish, but other animals exhibit it was well.
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Survival of the Show-Offs
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Flashy feathers, hulking heft, amazing antlers—why do the males and females of some species look different?
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Do Animals Go to Heaven When They Die?
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Will there be animals in heaven, do animals have souls, and how does the Bible address what happens to animals when they die?
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Is Australia’s Dingo Fence Driving Kangaroos to Evolve?
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Are red kangaroos evolving because of the 3,400-mile (5,600 km) “dingo fence” built to keep farms and sheep in Australia’s southwest safe from hungry dingoes?
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Mother Knows Best
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God has equipped some animal moms with intense ways to care for their offspring and to teach them survival in our fallen world.
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Antarctica: Life on the Ice
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God created the world to be inhabited, right down to the frozen continent—Antarctica.
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Sublime Slime
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For some creatures, slime is an all-purpose tool for survival.
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Out of the Blue—Animal Color
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While some flowers and foods are blue, such as bluebonnets and blueberries, blue is rare among animals. Most animals are unable to make blue pigments.Often the blue color comes from specially designed features that bend the sun’s light.
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Do Your Ears Hang Low?
| Answers in Genesis
Nature is up to its ears in, well, amazing ears of every
shape and size. But far from organs just to listen with,
ears are a multipurpose tool designed by the Creator
to help his creatures thrive in a sin-cursed world.
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The Science of Adorable
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Your irresistible urge to
snatch up that cute little puppy
and hug it for all you’re worth isn’t
just a feeling. It’s science.
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Every Tail Has a Tale
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That extra appendage swinging on the back of your favorite animal isn’t there by accident, and it wasn’t put there primarily for the benefit of cartoonists drawing Garfield or Snoopy. It serves a purpose—in fact, many purposes. And every hand-selected designer accessory has traits unique to its owner.
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Recognizing the Riot, Delighting in the Dance
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The Riot and the Dance films are reclaiming the nature documentary genre
for the Creator’s glory. And Gordon Wilson is having the adventure of a lifetime.
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Nature’s Midas Touch
| Answers in Genesis
What if there were organisms that could turn
organic material into gold (and other metals)?
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Extremophiles—Staying Alive
| Answers in Genesis
These super survivors are an extreme example of how God has equipped his creatures
with exactly what they need to live.
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Haute Couture Headwear
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Horns, antlers, and other headwear are some of the
most extravagant features in creation.
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Animal Olympics
| Answers in Genesis
While these animal “athletes” don’t win medals, they do set the gold standard of the animal world. And they certainly show that God’s glory is all over the earth (Psalm 57:11). But in an animal Olympics, which critters might take the top prizes? There’s only one way to find out. Let the games begin!
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Painkillers from Poisons
| Answers in Genesis
Research suggests that many natural venoms and poisons contain chemicals that can block
pain without the adverse effects posed by opioid-based drugs.
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Are Animals “Persons”?
| Answers in Genesis
How some evolutionists are pushing for “elephant rights” against the better judgment of the courts and the Word of God.
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Amphibians
| Answers in Genesis
The clever design of amphibians, from tree frogs to spotted salamanders, is a powerful demonstration of God’s creativity.
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Scientists Discover Hundreds of Frog Species “Glow”
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists have discovered that at least 151 different frog species in South America “fluoresce under the blue hues of twilight.”
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How Frog-Hopping Evolved?
| Answers in Genesis
Does a “primitive” frog show how frog-hopping evolved?
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Piggybacking Pollywogs
| Answers in Genesis
How God gifted the strawberry poison dart frogs in Central America to care for their young pollywogs from hatching until their metamorphosis is complete
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Axolotl—Forever Young
| Answers in Genesis
Their ability to regenerate makes these salamanders the closest thing to the fountain of youth found in nature.
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Poison Dart Frogs—Drop Dead Gorgeous
| Answers in Genesis
Living jewels of dazzling beauty inhabit the rainforests of Central and South America.
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A Sticky Solution
| Answers in Genesis
What if we could design tape and adhesives that automatically cleaned themselves every time they got dirty or wet?
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Wonder Jumpstart
| Answers in Genesis
As is the case with many groups of living creatures, the frogs and toads (order Anura) are packed full of surprises waiting to be discovered and unveiled.
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Super-Sticky Spit: How a Frog Gets a Meal
| Answers in Genesis
A frog’s ability to grab and eat such a variety of food—and so quickly—is a testament to the creativity of the Designer.
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Darwin's Zombies
| Answers in Genesis
A marsupial frog from South America may not realize how special it is, but a team from Stony Brook University does.
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First Lungless Frog Found
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists have officially recorded a frog, Barbourula kalimantanensis, that has no lungs but instead breathes through its skin.
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The Frog: A Relic of Evolution?
| Answers in Genesis
During conversations about creation and evolution it has become apparent to me that most people regard the two ideas as merely philosophical matters related only to the past.
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Animal Behavior
| Answers in Genesis
Evolution fails to explain the origin of diverse and complex animal behaviors including instinct, intelligence, migration, diet, and communication.
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Animal Intelligence Topic
| Answers in Genesis
Many animals, such as chimps, dolphins, and crows, are remarkably smart. These cleverly designed creatures clearly display the intelligence of their Creator.
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Animal Intelligence
| Answers in Genesis
Several news stories this week examine aspects of various animals’ surprising levels of intelligence.
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Bearded Capuchin Monkeys Bash Nuts with Skill
| Answers in Genesis
Bearded capuchin monkeys are bright little creatures, indicating that chimpanzees and crows don’t have the market cornered on animal intelligence.
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Are Animals as Smart as Some Say?
| Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists who claim humans evolved from ape-like ancestors assume language and bigger, better brains gradually evolved, making humans just a higher animal.
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Elephants and Their Surprising Math Skills
| Answers in Genesis
Move over (again), chimpanzees: it’s not only you in the animal kingdom that has calculable intelligence.
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Elephant Intelligence
| Answers in Genesis
In previous editions of News to Note, we’ve frequently reported on the high intelligence of crows. Now, it’s elephants’ turn again.
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Gorillas and Tools?
| Answers in Genesis
The BBC News and other media outlets have been circulating an Associated Press article that states that gorillas in the wild have been observed using tools.
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Crows May Outsmart Chimpanzees and Dolphins
| Answers in Genesis
If there were an animal version of the popular trivia program Jeopardy!, it might pit a chimpanzee against a dolphin against a crow. The surprising thing is, the crow might win!
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Did Snakes Shape Our Brains?
| Answers in Genesis
Grandma Primate, What good eyes you have! “The better to see snakes,” evolutionists suggest.
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Clear Intelligence
| Answers in Genesis
By evolutionary standards, chimps are supposed to be our closest living relative, but when it comes to understanding humans, they don’t hold a bone to man’s best friend.
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Crows’ Intelligence
| Answers in Genesis
Crows’ remarkable intelligence has been one of our favorite topics over the years (our last update came in April). Here’s the latest.
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Bird Brains
| Answers in Genesis
If someone calls you a bird brain, it may not be completely wrong to respond, “that’s right!”
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Octopus Intelligence
| Answers in Genesis
It’s an amazing animal known for its intelligence and, now, for its tool-use: the chimpanzee? The dolphin? The crow? Not quite.
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Crow the Builder
| Answers in Genesis
They’re the incredibly intelligent, tool-wielding animals we’ve covered frequently in the past. No, not chimps; we’re talking about crows once again.
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Genius Fish
| Answers in Genesis
Chimpanzees, dolphins, crows: out o’ the way! There’s a new “genius animal” in the spotlight.
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Bird Brains VI
| Answers in Genesis
In yet another study, scientists have revealed the intelligence and sophisticated tool-use abilities of crows.
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Chicks Can Do Math
| Answers in Genesis
We had to check to make sure it wasn’t an April Fools’ prank, but yes, it seems baby birds can do simple math!
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Apes Show Signs of Mentally Planning Ahead
| Answers in Genesis
Chimps and orangutans are capable of sophisticated “mental time travel,” reports LiveScience on research at Lund University in Sweden.
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Monkey See, Monkey Remember
| Answers in Genesis
Based on test results published in Current Biology, chimpanzees have “an extraordinary photographic memory that is far superior to ours.” The tests were devised by Japanese scientists and pitted university students against three pairs of mother-and-child chimps.
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Crows and Their Tools
| Answers in Genesis
BBC News reports on a University of Auckland study that highlights the tool-adapting and tool-using ability of New Caledonian crows.
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Rats: Thinking About Failing
| Answers in Genesis
This week, a new animal joins our showcase of “underestimated animal geniuses”: the humble lab rat.
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Birdbrains?
| Answers in Genesis
David Attenborough's acclaimed television series, The Life of Birds, provided many examples of remarkable features and behaviours in birds. These provide reasons to doubt evolutionary philosophy.
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Bird-Brain Matches Chimps
| Answers in Genesis
It turns out that there is at least one parrot that can rival chimps in creative language use and complexity of reasoning.
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What Doesn’t Animal Behavior Tell Us?
| Answers in Genesis
A “cold and calculating chimp,” canines catching yawns, and harmonious hyraxes—what doesn’t animal behavior tell us?
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Electrical Charges Direct Bees to Nectar
| Answers in Genesis
How do bees know which flowers to visit to load up on nectar? Which flowers have already been plundered?
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Animal Migration
| Answers in Genesis
After animals came off the Ark following the Flood and spread across the earth, they established complex migratory patterns that continue to puzzle scientists.
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Journey Home—Astonishing Animal Migrations
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The Creator equipped numerous animals, large and small, with astonishing tools to find their way as they migrate around the world.
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The Magnificent Migrating Monarch
| Answers in Genesis
This tiny, yet beautiful, insect can perform a migration flight of thousands of kilometres, navigating unerringly to reach a place it has never seen.
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How Did Animals Spread All Over from Where the Ark Landed?
| Answers in Genesis
The worldwide distribution of animals, say critics, proves that there could never have been a global Flood or an Ark. Paul Taylor refutes this claim.
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Oceanic Dispersal Rafted Worm Lizards Around the World
| Answers in Genesis
After the Flood, how did worm lizards spread around the world? Fossil evidence supports an idea long held by many Bible-believing scientists.
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Birds’ Flawless Flight Plan
| Answers in Genesis
Twice each year, the sky is filled with birds seeking new grounds for feeding and nesting.
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Mysterious Madagascar
| Answers in Genesis
At least 75% of the species living on Madagascar are found nowhere else on earth.
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How Did the Platypus Get ‘Down Under’?
| Answers in Genesis
Many have tried to lampoon God’s sober account of Noah’s world-wide Flood by asking how platypuses could travel from Mount Ararat to Australia.
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What Animals Eat
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The herbivorous diets of many traditionally carnivorous animals provide a glimpse into the original creation when all animals were vegetarians.
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4.3 Animal Nourishment (OB15)
| Answers in Genesis
On the sixth creation day God determined what man and beast should eat.
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Creation’s Original Diet and the Changes at the Fall
| Answers in Genesis
One must, in humble obedience, simply believe God at His word. God, through His Word, clearly shows that the original, created creatures were to eat only plants.
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Giant Panda’s Vegetarian Plight: An Evolutionary Dilemma?
| Answers in Genesis
The giant panda’s adaptations for its specialized herbivorous diet may have fit it for its environment through the ordinary processes of natural selection.
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No Taste for Meat?
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A lion that wouldn’t eat meat? What does this tell us about the pre-Fall world?
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Diet of Snake Frozen in Time
| Answers in Genesis
The location of a snake found “frozen in time” reveals a component of its diet: newly hatched dinosaurs.
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Vegetarian Ants
| Answers in Genesis
Most ants are carnivorous, yet some are herbivorous. But how do the herbivorous species get the nutrients they need?
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Does New Evidence Show Chimpanzees Are “Engineers”?
| Answers in Genesis
A new study claims chimpanzees have “folk physics” and use “rudimentary engineering” as they use sticks to pull termites out of mounds.
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Wolves Observed Feeding on . . . Nectar?
| Answers in Genesis
The Ethiopian wolf has been newly documented with a surprising behavior: feeding on nectar from red hot poker flowers.
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Do Rock Hyraxes Chew Their Cud?
| Answers in Genesis
Simple observation suggests that rock badgers do not chew their cud, but the Bible says otherwise.
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New Discovery: Baby Birds Learn Their Songs Before Hatching
| Answers in Genesis
What might seem commonplace since we’re so used to hearing birds sing, is actually very complex—and a new study just revealed yet another layer of complexity.
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Speak!
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As we listen in on animal communication, it seems clear that animals have their own form of language. How does this knowledge affect our responsibility to steward God’s creatures?
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Vampires of the Animal Kingdom
| Answers in Genesis
Sometime after the fall, several animals became omnivorous, carnivorous, parasitic, and/or insectivorous, then started incorporating blood into their diet.
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Dads on Duty
| Answers in Genesis
While some animal fathers were created to simply pass on their DNA and then stay away, God created others to go above and beyond to protect and provide.
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Smarter Than You Think
| Answers in Genesis
Astonishing examples of high intelligence in
“lower” animals point to an all-knowing Creator.
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The History of Domestication—Taming the Tale
| Answers in Genesis
It took human intervention to transform wild beasts into domestic farm animals and household pets. So when did this transformation happen?
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Slow-Moving Animal Dispersion After the Flood
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How land bridges, rafts, swimming, and other means can account for the dispersion of slower moving animals from the “mountains of Ararat” after the flood.
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Why Are Australian Animals So Unique, and How Did They Get There?
| Answers in Genesis
Noah’s ark and how unique animals like the kangaroo, platypus, and emu came to reside in Australia (and nowhere else) from a global flood perspective
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Regeneration: Worth an Arm and a Leg
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Evolution can’t account for
an animal’s ability to regrow
limbs or heal its body. But
regeneration like this points
to an all-wise Creator.
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The Great Escape
| Answers in Genesis
These animal escape artists know how to get away in style.
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The Right Tool for the Job
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists
are constantly finding new ways that
animals use tools.
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The Dark Side of Nature
| Answers in Genesis
Nature isn’t all peace and beauty. But even the dark side
of creation can tell us something about God’s grace.
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Interspecific Adoption: Can Evolution Explain Altruism in Animals?
| Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists have serious problems with interspecific animal adoptions, something many of them recognize. Creationists are in a much better position when it comes to discussing animal adoptions. While this cannot be argued dogmatically, incredible adoptions could point back to the original design.
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Battle of the Sexes or Designed Lizard Niches?
| Answers in Genesis
Researchers found that sexual size dimorphism may be limiting South American lizards’ speciation. Males and females of the same species may be filling ecological niches usually filled by separate species. Is this an example of evolution in action or a designed adaptive feature input into the lizard kind’s genome?
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The Miracle of Flight
| Answers in Genesis
Despite all our advances with human flight, we don’t come close to matching the wonder of birds and their feathered flight.
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Is Sexual Selection the Origin of Beauty?
| Answers in Genesis
Sexual selection is the process by which the traits that affect mate choice shape the genetics of the species.
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The Intricacies of Flight in the Natural World
| Answers in Genesis
Richard Dawkins sought to justify an idea of gradually producing flight, but showed little understanding of the engineering principles involved in aerodynamics.
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Have Evolutionists Found the Root of REM Sleep?
| Answers in Genesis
Does the discovery that sleeping dragons as well as mammals and birds experience REM sleep support the evolutionary story of their common ancestry with humans?
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Colugos—Soaring Above Expectations
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The colugo glides like no other mammal on earth and proves that our ingenious Creator knows how to surprise us.
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Peacock Tail Feathers Don’t Drag Them Down
| Answers in Genesis
Evolution explains neither the peacock’s beauty nor its aerodynamic efficiency.
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Empathy Imitation Chimps Yawn Because Care
| Answers in Genesis
Some scientists think contagious yawning is connected to the ability to empathize. Chimpanzees “empathize” as they mature, but do they really understand?
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Does Your Dog Yawn Because He Cares?
| Answers in Genesis
What does your doggie’s copycat yawn reveal about evolution?
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Evolution Peacock Secrets Revealed
| Answers in Genesis
Can a birds’ eye view explain the evolution of animal ornamentation and courtship behavior?
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Bees Bond on the Right
| Answers in Genesis
Honeybees depend on their right antennae to differentiate friends from foes, scientists have learned.
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Jungle Doctors
| Answers in Genesis
Many of God’s creatures find their own herbal remedies … without a doctor’s help! They know where to look for medicine all around them.
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How a Multitude of Homing Pigeons Vanished
| Answers in Genesis
How 60,000 homing pigeons got lost when something disturbed the sounds of silence.
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Animal Sexual Behavior
| Answers in Genesis
Biologists take journalists to task for teasing titillation.
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Dying to Live Another Day
| Answers in Genesis
God gave certain creatures an amazing ability to shut down their bodies—in suspended animation—until circumstances get better.
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Super-Sized Teamwork
| Answers in Genesis
Elephants’ ability to intentionally cooperate has boosted them into an “elite group” of animals, BBC News reports.
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Mourning Chimpanzees
| Answers in Genesis
Last May we covered research that suggested chimpanzees “provide special attention to loved ones before they die and grieve afterward,” which unsurprisingly prompted comparisons to human behavior
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Chimp Stones Zoo Visitors
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The almost humorous—yet sad—story of a frustrated chimp throwing stones at zoo visitors could come straight out of a children’s story.
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How Did Dingoes Get to Australia from Ararat?
| Answers in Genesis
Dingoes, Australia’s native wild dogs, were the subject of a recent genetic study comparing “ancient” DNA with the modern genome of the species.
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Aquatic Animals
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The oceans—filled with incredible creatures like jellyfish, starfish, dolphins, seals, crabs, coral reefs, and octopuses—declare the majesty of their Creator.
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Blue Whale: the Mammoth of the Sea
| Answers in Genesis
What is the largest animal of all time—even larger than the most massive dinosaurs? The answer is the blue whale.
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Bioluminescent Sea Creatures
| Answers in Genesis
Before modern cameras and technology, the inky blackness of the deep barred its mysteries from human eyes. But now these wonders are coming to light.
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Reef Belief is Challenged
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Coral reefs in Indonesia are bouncing back from the tsunami, showing how quickly life recovers from a catastrophe.
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Four for One, One for All
| Answers in Genesis
The terror of the high seas, the Portuguese man-of-war is not a single animal but a colony working together.
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Fish
| Answers in Genesis
The diversity and streamlined design of fish and sharks testifies to the God of creation, not to the mindless process of evolution.
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Cichlid Variety—Fishy Evolution
| Answers in Genesis
Though a mystery to evolutionists, the incredible variety of cichlid fish
showcases the Creator’s brilliant design for His creatures to diversify.
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A Fishy Source for Sunscreen
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A fish with sunburn?
Not a chance! God provided
a wash-free, eco-friendly
sunscreen we hope to imitate.
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Designed to Go Blind
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists once thought cave
fish lost their sight by accident.
Now we know they were
designed that way!
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Natural Selection in Guppies
| Answers in Genesis
Guppies have some major advantages when it comes to using them as a model organism for evolutionary biology. Because of their isolation, guppy populations have been used to study the processes of “evolution” in the wild. These guppies have been used as model organisms for evolution since at least the 1970s.
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Origin of Fangblenny Fish's Unusual Venom
| Answers in Genesis
The tiny tropical fangblenny reveals fangs when it opens its mouth, but unusual venom is the real key to its defense—and to the defense of its look-alikes.
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A Fin with a Function
| Answers in Genesis
Recently marine biologists noticed the importance of a seemingly useless small fin on the backs of salmon.
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Cleaner Wrasses Demonstrate Providential Design
| Answers in Genesis
Cleaner wrasses are famous for their cleaning of larger predatory fish. They are believed to be crucial to the overall health of a reef biome and to be surprisingly altruistic. What many people may not know is how the cleaning relationship exhibited by the cleaner wrasses demonstrates God’s design.
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Do Walking Fish or the SHH Gene Reveal How Life on Land Evolved?
| Answers in Genesis
Walking fish, waterfall-climbing cavefish with a tetrapod-like pelvic girdle, and the gene that shapes skates’ gills all supposedly show how legs evolved.
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Hagfish Eyes Debunks Claim Eye Evolution
| Answers in Genesis
Discovery of sophisticated eyes in a fossilized hagfish has dethroned the modern blind hagfish as the only observable intermediate form in eye evolution.
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Glow-in-the-Dark Sharks Super-Sensitive Eyes
| Answers in Genesis
In the twilight zone, bright sharks know how to hide in the light.
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The Wonder of the Fish Called Menhaden
| Answers in Genesis
Humanity was never meant to venerate or worship nature, but rather to preserve, protect, and harvest the bounty provided by God through His physical creation.
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Piranhas, the Feared Fish
| Answers in Genesis
The word “piranha” conjures up visions of vast schools of small fishes quickly devouring anyone that should happen to fall into the river by accident.
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Sticklebacks Recycling Ancient Genetic Information
| Answers in Genesis
Sticklebacks said to recycle ancient genetic information in “an evolutionary blink of an eye.”
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Hot-blooded Sharks
| Answers in Genesis
It’s not easy being a great white shark—how can such a massive body ever hope to sustain high speeds in such cold water?
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Vegetarian Piranha Teeth Pre-Fall Perfection
| Answers in Genesis
The fearsome piranha’s vegetarian version uses its teeth to shred plants, not meat.
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A Shark Tale
| Answers in Genesis
Researchers down under were surprised to discover 57 hybrid sharks off Australia’s east coast.
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Did Fish Gills Evolve?
| Answers in Genesis
Did fish gills evolve to help fish breathe, or did they evolve to help fish regulate body chemicals? Or did fish gills evolve at all?
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Flying Fish—Aquatic Flight Instructors
| Answers in Genesis
Flight engineers have discovered another source of inspiration—creatures of the sea!
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Sex-Swapping Swimmers
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Some fish swap sexes for survival. How do biblical creationists explain this?
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Designing Nemo
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Perhaps the most iconic and easily recognizable fish in the world is the clownfish. What many of its aficionados do not realize, however, is that the clownfish is clearly designed for the environment in which it lives while providing some startling challenges to the standard evolutionary model.
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Rapidly Reproducing Killifish Defy Evolution
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Killifish have only rarely been addressed in major creationist literature and generally only in response to evolutionists claiming they had evolved some new ability. Killifish deserve a deeper look as they strongly point to a designer.
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Fickle Sticklebacks
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A surprising report
supports the creationist
idea that diversification
can take place rapidly.
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Boxy Beauty
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While it may look more like an underwater ice
cream truck, the boxfish’s square design has distinct
advantages over its sleek competitors.
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Antarctic Icefish—Cozy Below Freezing
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Subzero water is a death trap for most animals. Icefish, on the other hand, make their home in it.
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Sharks in a New Light
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Did you know that about 50 species of sharks can produce their own light to glow in the dark?
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Did Paired Fins Foreshadow Paired Limbs in Terrestrial Animals
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Evolutionists suggest that we can thank an early jawless fish’s experimentation for the fact that we have right and left versions of our arms and legs.
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Developments in Fish Said to Show How Limbs Evolved
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Development of “pre-hands” in fish said to show how terrestrial animals evolved limbs.
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Blind Cavefish Favor Flood Geology Model
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Blind cavefish cousins provide evidence consistent with Flood geology model of earth’s history.
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Migrating Flatfish Eye
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Migrating flatfish eye expected to flummox creationists.
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Shark GPS
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Certain species of sharks have developed “mental maps” to help them find destinations in their range with pinpoint accuracy
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Shark Navigator
| Answers in Genesis
Thinking of taking a GPS-powered navigational device on your next road trip? Why not let a shark “ride shotgun” instead?
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Now the Fish Are in on It
| Answers in Genesis
In April 2009 we reported on a study showing that mosquito fish can perform basic math tasks (specifically, counting and comparing numbers of symbols). New research goes a step farther, suggesting that mosquito fish have the numerical skills of college students.
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Fast Fish Evolutionary Response
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“[O]ne of the fastest evolutionary responses ever recorded in wild populations,” claims a press release about recent research. But is it really “evolution”?
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Hammerhead Shark "Creation" of Evolution?
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At least in terms of shape, the hammerhead shark is one of God’s stranger creations. Or was it a “creation” of evolution?
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A Fishy Riddle
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It’s a bit of a riddle: three fish are totally unlike one another, yet they’re all the same species. How can it be?
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'Spookfish' Looks in the Mirror
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The brownsnout spookfish isn’t exactly a household name, but scientists have just discovered its claim to fame: eyes that incorporate not only lenses, but also mirrors to see into murky Pacific Ocean depths.
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Fish Story
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The beautiful clownfish possesses incredible navigation abilities.
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How Clownfish Find Their Way Back to Familiar Waters
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After young orange clownfish hatch, they spend nearly two weeks in the open sea, probably carried by currents far from home.
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Grunting Fish a Tie to Evolutionary Vocal Cues
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The latest entities speaking in favor of evolution may be 400-million-year-old fish, according to researchers reporting in the journal Science.
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Reverse Evolution Found In Small Fish Species
| Answers in Genesis
Evolution supposedly had constructive results over millions of years. But what about a new study documenting “reverse evolution” in the last half century?
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Shaking Hands with a Shark
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A University of Florida study focusing on genes that control “how and where body parts develop in animals” has resulted in evidence that the genetic “potential” to grow fingers and toes is found in sharks as well as bony fish.
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Jaws of Life
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A frilled shark living over half a mile under the sea has been caught on tape. Evolutionists and creationists are both calling this a “living fossil.”
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Sharks: Denizens of the Deep
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Sharks come in all shapes and sizes, from the bizarre-looking hammerhead shark, with its eyes at either end of a double hammer-shaped head, to the angel shark, which has ray-like 'wings'.
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Sharks and Rays
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One cruises through the water like a heat-seeking missile, the other swims gracefully like a giant bird in slow motion. They are the shark and the ray.
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Fish That “Fly”
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Having propelled themselves out of the water with great force, they spread these fins out like wings to glide through the air for up to several dozen metres.
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New Study: Blue Sharks Can Change Color
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Based on a study of nanostructures in the skin of blue sharks, scientists believe that they can change color as they dive, better matching the water around them.
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“Flue” Whales Confirm the Bible’s Teaching
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A new study of blue whale DNA found that around 3.5% of a blue whale’s genome is actually the result of interbreeding with fin whales.
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Narwhal—Unicorn of the Sea
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The narwhal’s unusual tusk clearly didn’t grow by accident—but what is it there for?
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Mantis Shrimp—Pint-Sized Prizefighters
| Answers in Genesis
One of the ocean’s most beautiful creatures is also one of the deadliest.
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Magnificent Monsters
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Ancient sailing lore tells of the dreaded hippocampus, or “horse sea monster.” When it raised its fearsome head above the waves, sailors recoiled in terror. The legendary beast’s namesake still lurks in the oceans today.
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Shells—The Ultimate Beach House
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Next time you’re at the beach and see a shell,
let your mind wander. Consider how much
careful design went into making this wonderful home for
even the tiniest, most insignificant animal. If God cared so
much for an animal’s temporary home on earth, how much
does he care for you?
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Underwater Christmas: Christmas Tree Worm
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You’ll find these festive decorations
year-round on coral reefs all
over the world. They’re actually the
feeding and breathing organs of
Spirobranchus giganteus, the Christmas
tree worm (although at 1½ inches [3 cm], giganteus seems a bit of a stretch).
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Killer Communicators
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What makes orcas so successful at filling the oceans? If you think it’s their size and strength, listen up. You might think the orcas’ success is due to their strong, sleek bodies and sharp teeth. But these majestic cetaceans really owe their success to their advanced social skills.
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How to Solve a Monster Mystery
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In 1955, an amateur fossil hunter found a bizarre fossil in Illinois.
To this day, the exact nature of this monster remains a mystery.
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Horseshoe Crab—Lifesaving Living Fossil
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The Creator’s provision for the horseshoe crab is provision for us.
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Horseshoe Crabs—Divinely Designed Medical Marvel
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The strange and unique horseshoe crab demonstrates design and yields medical benefits to humans and pets.
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Whale Evolution
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Evolutionists tout the whale series as one of the best evidences for evolution. However, there are lots of problems with the story of whale evolution.
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Nudibranchs
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The words “slug” and “festive display of color” don’t usually come to mind at the same time. Fun facts about nudibranchs or sea slugs.
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Trichoplax adhaerens: Not So Simple After All
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Even this seemingly
simple animal bears the
mark of divine design.
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The End of the Trail: Horseshoe Crabs
| Answers in Genesis
Horseshoe crabs are called “living
fossils” because the ones you see in
aquariums today look the same as their
ancestors deep in the fossil record.
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Clear as Blood: How Did Antarctic Icefish Survive Their “Evolution”?
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Although the Antarctic blackfin icefish, (Chaenocephalus aceratus) had been known by scientists to have clear blood since the 1950s, it was assumed that this was some type of adaptation to a cold-water environment by these fish. But a new study reveals just how radical this “adaptation” turns out to be.
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Anemone Complexity Confounds Evolutionary Classification
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Anemones come in a wide range of sizes, shapes, and colors. A recent study sequenced the mitochondrial genome of several species of tube anemones and revealed some startling surprises that provide headaches for evolutionary classification.
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Biological Cloaking Device Renders Shrimp Larvae Invisible
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Tiny technology—an environmentally matched biological cloaking device—hides shrimp in plain sight.
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Tripod Fish: Denizens of the Deep Sea
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With all its remarkable features, tripod fish are challenging to evolutionists. For the creationist, the tripod fish is a marvelous example of God’s handiwork in his creation. It also is an excellent example of the detail he built into his world.
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Giant Coral Reefs—Too Old for a Young Earth?
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How could large reef systems with many generations of coral have grown in the approximately 4,400 years since Noah’s Flood?
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Terrors or Treasures?
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Recent invasions of massed jellyfish prompted new studies of these ocean terrors. Scientists were astonished by what they found. What purpose did God have for designing something that can cause such pain and fear? Really—what’s the point of jellyfish?
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Masters of Disguise
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Every day, the world’s master of disguise, the cuttlefish, finds new ways to blend into its ever-changing surroundings in search of its next meal. Cuttlefish are so good at imitation that they can instantly transform into a black-and-white chessboard or any other surrounding that mischievous researchers can think of.
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Seeing the Glory of God in Scallop Eyes
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If you could look at a live scallop, you'd see its shell frilled with tentacles and a layer of flesh on the inside rim, edged with little dots—its eyes.
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How and When Did Baleen Whales Get So Large?
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A study published in May in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B hypothesized how and when baleen whales grew so large.
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Does Gill Embryology Show Fish Evolved from a Common Ancestor?
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Evolutionists believe that new information about gill embryology suggests gills evolved in the common ancestor of all fish.
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Armed with Brains
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How’d you like to think with
your arms? Ask the smartest
invertebrate on the planet!
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Massive Modern Reefs—Finding Time to Grow
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How is it possible to get such thick ocean reefs, if they had only a few thousand years to grow, after the Flood?
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Certain Blind Crustaceans Said to Show Evolution in Action
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Did millions of years in the dark evolve away cave crustaceans’ eyes and the brain to see?
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Bubbles for Breakfast
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When you weigh 50 tons and haven’t had a full meal in months, you’re ready for some serious chow.
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Did Eels Evolve Better By Biting?
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Biting opened the way for biodiversity, evolutionists say.
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Big Blue
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Alone in the ocean depths swims the largest creature that has ever lived on land or sea.
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No Oxygen for Jellyfish-Like Creatures
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Oxygen is critical to survival. But for tiny jellyfish-like creatures living on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea, oxygen is nothing special.
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The Sponge’s Squeeze
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The secret of the sponge’s squeeze . . . revealed at last.
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Coral: Animal, Vegetable and Mineral
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The world’s coral reefs provide some of the most spectacular natural colour on the planet.
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Jurassic Squid’s Ink
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Jurassic squid’s ink is chemically identical to melanin in modern cuttlefish.
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Fossil Evidence of Whale Evolution?
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The creature Pakicetus was initially regarded as a primitive whale, while further analysis confirms it was a land-dwelling mammal.
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Cold Edits
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Why the octopus doesn’t have to come in from the cold
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The World of Whales
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Teremedia's 'World of Whales' exhibition was at the Auckland Museum, New Zealand, June to September 1996, including two creatures which are claimed to be ancestors of the whales.
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No Small Thing
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Did you know that the creature with “the most complex vision systems known to science” is a shrimp?
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Creation’s Crustaceans
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Lobsters, crabs, crayfish, prawns … seafood lovers everywhere relish the mention of such culinary delights. But there’s much more to know about these shellfish than how tastily they can be served.
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Primitive Thinking
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As researchers examined the “simple” comb jellies, they were baffled by their complexity.
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Dolphins by Design?
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Dolphins-by-design or big-thinkers-that-bumbled-into-existence?
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A Shark That Eats Its Veggies?
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Scientists noticed bonnethead sharks eating seagrass for several years, but perhaps influenced by their evolutionary worldview had assumed that they were just eating the seagrass to get at crabs, shrimp, or small fish living in and around the seagrass.
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From the Ocean to Your Living Room
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Genesis 1 makes no mention of DVD players, of course, and we’re certainly not saying God had such technology in mind when He designed sea life.
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Sea Urchins—The Daily Grind
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For sea urchins, a broken tooth reveals an incredible design.
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Are Humans Animals?
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Are humans animals? The answer all boils down to your view of the world.
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4.4 Differences Between Human Life and Animal Life (OB16)
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The Bible clearly distinguishes between man and beast—something evolution does not do.
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Primetime for “Primates”
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As a visible way to buttress evolutionary claims, the London Zoo has the three men and five women displayed next to (but separated by a fence) their "primate relatives".
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Why Did God Create Apes with Human Features?
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“If God knew that apes and the like would be used so passionately by evolutionists to support their theory, why did he create them?”
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What Are Humans? Animals or Mammals?
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What is it about these behaviors that prompts us to call a fellow human an animal, whether in jest or seriously? It is any behavior that we deem less than civilized, behavior that we associate with animals more than with humans. But do those behaviors mean those individuals are actually animals? Of course not.
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God’s Image—The Difference Maker
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Are we just another animal? We can argue about DNA, brain size, and upright stature, but Genesis 1 emphasizes an infinitely greater privilege that sets mankind apart. But what exactly is the image of God and what are the implications of man being made in His image?
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Should Animals Have Equal Rights as Humans?
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It’s ironic that in PETA’s evolutionary worldview humans are just animals, yet PETA does not petition against the “animal cruelty” of killing unborn children.
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Why “Evolution in 90 Seconds” Video Is Just Art
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Where is the objective, observational “science”? It is found at the beginning and the end of the video, but nowhere in between.
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Evolution and What the Image of God Is Not
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A recent two-part piece on The BioLogos Forum admits that meshing evolution and the image of God that all humans possess is a “challenging issue.”
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Chimp Rights
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“They’re not people, you know . . . ”
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The Close Relationship Between Humans and Animals
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From pets to livestock, humans often have a close relationship with animals. But is that part of the story of human evolution?
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Crows Intellectually Close to Man
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They’re back in the news: crows, which sometimes seem to rival—or beat out—dolphins and chimps for the title of “man’s closest intellectual rival.”
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Spanish Parliament Supports Extending Human Rights to Animals
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For the first time, a national legislature has voiced support for extending human rights to animals.
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Chimps Outpacing Humans in Short-Term Memory Tests
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Chimps are seen outpacing humans in a computer-based mental challenge in a National Geographic News video.
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The Chimp Connection?
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The idea that humans and chimpanzees are related species is an evolutionary concept almost ingrained in society.
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Chimp-Human Hybridization: Two of a Kind or Two Different Kinds?
| Answers in Genesis
There seems to be a never-ending stream of media reports that promote evolution. The latest is the provocative notion that there was hybridization between human and chimpanzee ancestors.
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Human Rights for Chimpanzees?
| Answers in Genesis
The mental image inferred by the suggestion of granting “humanity” to chimps owes more to a “chimp tea party” mentality than to actual science.
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Aping Art
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She thought it was a great discovery. However, the painting was done by Gypsy the chimpanzee.
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Differences Between Humans and Animals
| Answers in Genesis
Are there differences between humans and animals, or are we free to be animals like our evolutionary ancestors—as low-down as snakes, and to make pigs of ourselves, and to act like donkeys.
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Birds
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The design of birds—from the delicate egg to the intricate feather to the efficient wing—all declare the praise of their wise Creator.
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The Incubator Bird: Nest Engineers
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If you were an unhatched Malleefowl chick, your life would depend on the ability of your parents to incubate their eggs between 29 to 38 degrees Celsius.
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Emperor Penguins: Equipped for Life at the “Bottom” of the World
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In God’s wise foresight, He equipped the original penguin kind with the genetic information necessary for penguins like the emperor penguin to exist today.
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Cowbirds—Passing on Parenthood
| Answers in Genesis
These absent
parents,
extortioners,
and interlopers
are a reminder
of the fall. But
their intelligence
showcases
the Creator’s
brilliant design.
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Birds Are Brainy
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Birds are smarter than primates,
according to a study published in a
recent issue of PNAS.
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What We Knew About the Woodpecker
| Answers in Genesis
As we study God’s world, new scientific discoveries sometimes change what we thought we knew. Can we still explain these changes with our understanding of God’s design?
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Life-Saving Vultures?
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Vultures are usually associated with death. But can vultures save lives?
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Bird Brain Refines Songs On-the-Go
| Answers in Genesis
Bird’s brain is no “birdbrain” but fine-tunes songs on-the-go.
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Turtledove: A Bird in Season
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Turtledoves in the Bible are significant as a sacrifice, a symbol for Israel, and a bird in season. This paper sets out to help us appreciate the sight and sound of these birds in spring. Archaeology and ornithology unsurprisingly corroborate what we read in the Scriptures.
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Prepared for Perpetual Flight
| Answers in Genesis
Some birds don’t know when to quit,
like the great frigatebird. It’s uniquely
designed to stay aloft for weeks
without touching the ground.
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Hummingbirds—Avian Acrobats of the Americas
| Answers in Genesis
We marvel at birds in flight.
But one kind of bird stands apart in
its acrobatic talents, with a complex
flight system unlike any other.
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The Puffin Paradox
| Answers in Genesis
There’s more to this funny-looking fowl than meets the eye.
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Barn Owl: Frozen Dinner
| Answers in Genesis
This owl reflects the brilliance of our Creator, who built into
the bird’s genetic code a variety of feather colors
so it could survive in our fallen world.
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Peregrine Falcon—Nature’s Top Gun
| Answers in Genesis
The peregrine falcon comes equipped with all the necessary technology to defy deadly speeds.
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Barn Owl & Heart-Shaped Hearing
| Answers in Genesis
The valentine face of a barn owl is not just for decoration. It actually helps him find dinner.
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Lesser Yellow-Headed Vulture
| Answers in Genesis
Vultures are possibly the creepiest birds on the planet. But there is a beautiful design behind this yellow-headed vulture.
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Passenger Pigeon Extinct: Remembrance Day for Lost Species
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The passenger pigeon, the philosophy behind Remembrance Day for Lost Species, and the biblical precedent for animal conservation.
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Bird Decline: A Biblical Response
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A major study recently published in the journal Science analyzed immense amounts of population data of more than 500 species of birds since 1970. The bottom line is very disturbing.
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Penguins—Perplexing and Proficient!
| Answers in Genesis
January 20 is Penguin Awareness Day. The penguin is a common favorite among both children and adults, bird lovers, and cartoonists. Evolutionists have a hard time explaining such a creature, especially since there’s no agreed-upon ancestor. Here are some fun facts about a fun bird on Penguin Awareness Day.
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Scrub Jays—The Ultimate Bird Brain
| Answers in Genesis
When it comes to cleverness,
you can’t beat these bird brains.
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Hoatzin Bird: Evidence Against Evolutionary Ideas
| Answers in Genesis
The hoatzin is a very unique bird, something of a conglomeration of traits typical of birds, reptiles, and even mammals. It is roughly the size of a turkey, with a colorful, crested head and long tail feathers. However, its most interesting and unique features are distinctly un-birdlike.
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Modern Birds in the Cretaceous?
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Since at least 2009, when Dr. Carl Werner published Living Fossils the second volume of his Evolution: The Grand Experiment series, creation researchers have used the argument that modern-type birds have been found in the same Cretaceous layers with dinosaurs.
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Why “Egg-Shaped” Varies So Much
| Answers in Genesis
The diversity of bird egg shapes spans a wide range from spherical to elliptical with many degrees of asymmetry. Why?
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Salt Removal on Demand
| Answers in Genesis
Seabirds have a special gland that helps them drink seawater. Amazingly, a few other birds can develop this salt gland, as needed.
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Cold Feet
| Answers in Genesis
Try standing barefoot on a pile of snow and see how long you last.
Ducks do it all the time and aren’t bothered. How is this possible?
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Emperor of the Ice
| Answers in Genesis
Emperor penguins are among the world’s most recognizable and well-loved birds.
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Do Naked Bearded Dragons Reveal Ancestry
| Answers in Genesis
Discovery of placodes on reptile embryos is being seen as proof of the evolutionary connection between reptilian scales, bird feathers, and mammalian hair.
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God’s Spaceships
| Answers in Genesis
Thank you, Lord, for daily reminders of your
provision.
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Birdbrained Breakthrough
| Answers in Genesis
How can we better protect
athletes from concussions?
A newly discovered woodpecker
design may help.
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Flightless Birds
| Answers in Genesis
When we think of birds, we think of flight. But it appears the Creator had other plans, too.
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Bird Speciation from the Flood to the Present
| Answers in Genesis
A scientist with a biblical worldview has to account for the different species of birds found today in each created bird kind from the Flood to the present.
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Bird’s-Eye View
| Answers in Genesis
A bird’s-eye view involves much more than the panoramic view we see from an airplane.
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Rewinding Evolution from Bird Beak to Dinosaur Snout
| Answers in Genesis
Researchers claim to rewind evolution of bird beaks from dinosaur snouts by blocking beak-building genes to revert embryos to their ancestral state.
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Domesticated Pigeons—Anything but Common
| Answers in Genesis
We often associate “common” with “ordinary.” But there’s nothing ordinary about pigeons.
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The Big Bang of Bird Evolution?
| Answers in Genesis
Researchers say the “big bang” of bird evolution has been mapped, revealing the history and origin of birds, but they assume all life shares a common ancestry.
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Northern Gannets—Death-Defying Dive Bombers
| Answers in Genesis
The capabilities of these seafaring dive bombers are unmatched in the animal world.
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The Hummingbird: God’s Tiny Miracle
| Answers in Genesis
I cannot doubt the hand of God the Creator in the design of the remarkable hummingbirds. Truly they are ‘God’s tiny miracle.’
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Our Creator’s Sweet Design for Hummingbirds
| Answers in Genesis
Most birds are blind to sweets. But hummingbirds are experts at telling what is sweet and even fending off fakes.
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Why Do So Many Birds Fly in a V Formation?
| Answers in Genesis
Birds flying in V formation take aeronautical engineering to new heights.
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Were Zigzag Legs an Evolutionary Adaptation for Flight?
| Answers in Genesis
Bird posture was well-designed from the beginning to support heavy upper bodies by positioning the center of gravity over the feet.
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Building a Beak
| Answers in Genesis
There’s more than one way to build a beak.
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Classic Black
| Answers in Genesis
Classic black never goes out of style.
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A Humdinger of a Challenge
| Answers in Genesis
Hummingbirds seem to have been designed specifically to defy evolution.
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Bowerbird’s Artistic Sense
| Answers in Genesis
Before the discovery of bowerbirds’ optical effects, only humans were known to design optical illusions. But does the bowerbird possess an artistic sense like humans?
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Function of the Wings of Flightless Birds
| Answers in Genesis
Biologists have identified the function of what were once considered vestigial structures: the wings of flightless birds.
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Three: Without a Leg to Stand On
| Answers in Genesis
Birds are vastly different from dinosaurs. How could one come from the other?
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The Evolution of Feathers: A Major Problem for Darwinism
| Answers in Genesis
One of the most difficult issues related to bird evolution is the evolution of feathers. Feathers are complex, designed structures required for flight, and are today found only on birds.
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Bird-Brained Toolmakers
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists have determined experimentally that crows can learn to use tools to some extent.
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Penguins
| Answers in Genesis
So where did penguins come from? The Bible tells us in Genesis 1:20–22 that God created all sea creatures and birds on Day 5 of the Creation Week.
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Bird and Baby Physics
| Answers in Genesis
Yet another experimental study teaches us more about the sophisticated (and, perhaps, surprising) intelligence of crows.
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Giant Toucan Bills Help Birds Keep Their Cool
| Answers in Genesis
The brilliantly colored bills of toucans aren’t just eye candy. Rather, they play an essential role in helping the birds control their temperature, scientists report.
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Birds Able to Cooperate and Solve Problems
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A team at the University of Cambridge has found that pairs of birds can solve a problem “as well as” pairs of chimps, reports BBC News.
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Claws on Wings
| Answers in Genesis
Did you know that there are three living birds with claws on their wings?
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Birds in a Family Tree
| Answers in Genesis
A consortium of two hundred evolutionary
scientists representing twenty
countries wants to answer the question of
how birds became so diverse.
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Creation Science
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Can Bible-based creation science make successful predictions, explain the evidence, and properly explain reality?
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Created Kinds (Baraminology)
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God made living things to reproduce according to their kind. The taxonomic science of baraminology seeks to classify modern and fossil organisms within their original kinds.
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Variety Within Created Kinds
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Today’s species show the potential variation that God designed within the original kinds, but this variety remains limited—cats are still cats, and dogs are dogs.
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Classifying Life
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Classification systems are used to help us organize and study living things.
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Bara-What?
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Giving names to things seems to be a very important part of God's plan.
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They’re All the Same to Us
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Is it a jackal or a wolf—or just another reminder of an original created “dog” kind?
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“World’s Oldest Rain Forest Frog” Was a Frog
| Answers in Genesis
Our Creator put a tremendous amount of variety into the DNA of the frog kinds that he made. This extinct frog species, preserved in amber for us to find today, is just another example of God’s limitless creativity. While this may be a new species, it’s a frog, a member of one of the many frog kinds created by God.
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Lime-Green Blood Thanks to Evolution Gone Weird?
| Answers in Genesis
We typically think of blood as red, but six species of lizard in Papua New Guinea bleed green, not red. A new study claims this bright green blood evolved four times throughout these lizard species, which have all been placed in the same genus.
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One of a Kind?
| Answers in Genesis
Forget evolution’s tree of life. God made an entire orchard of “kinds” all at once.
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All Aboard—Unexpected Passengers on Noah’s Ark
| Answers in Genesis
By studying the diversity of animals on Noah’s ship, we can understand how many creatures were destroyed in the flood and how so few animals repopulated the earth with the variety we enjoy today.
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What a Dog’s Nose Knows!
| Answers in Genesis
In the Dog Spies blog, Scientific American highlighted a recent study that starts to answer some questions about a new scent assessment for dogs.
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Getting Enough Genetic Diversity
| Answers in Genesis
The major remaining question is how tens of thousands of species could arise in a few thousand years.
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Which Animals Were On the Ark with Noah?
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Male and female animals were on board Noah’s Ark to reproduce after the Flood. This has profound ramifications for identifying what the kinds looked like.
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Variation, Yes; Evolution, No
| Answers in Genesis
Could there be enough variation in two created human beings to produce all the variation among human beings we see today?
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Red Wolf Species Classification Affirms Biblical Creation, Puzzle
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As researchers sequence the DNA of more organisms, they find species (like the red wolf) they called unique physically are not so unique genetically.
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Feedback: What Does “Two of Every Kind” Mean?
| Answers in Genesis
While there is a straightforward answer, the issue of animal “kinds” is crucial to grasp when answering common objections concerning Noah and the Ark.
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Suite Dogs
| Answers in Genesis
God designed “man’s best friend” to produce a vast array of types, each with a suite of traits just right for a special need.
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Counting Kinds
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How could Noah have fit all those animals into his big ship? How could only he and seven other people have cared for them?
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A Horse Is a Horse, of Course, of Course
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DNA from an ancient horse’s foot suggests horses have been horses for a long time.
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4.2 “Each According to Its Kind” (OB14)
| Answers in Genesis
From the creation account, it is clear that all living beings were created in clearly separate groups—each according to its kind.
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The Meaning of Mîn
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If God finished creating on Day Six, why did so many varieties of animals and plants appear after Creation Week?
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Variety in Penguins
| Answers in Genesis
While structures found in fossilized penguin feathers make evolutionists reconsider their ideas about these early aquatic birds, creationists can enjoy the variety God has put within this fascinating animal kind.
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Classic Multidimensional Scaling and Baraminology
| Answers in Genesis
The underlying assumptions of statistical baraminology should be better scrutinized, its role and utility in the baraminological toolbox should be seriously reconsidered, and strong conclusions should be avoided when other supporting data is absent.
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Not So Common Descent
| Answers in Genesis
If creationists accept “descent with modification” as a natural process, how are we any different from evolutionists?
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Creation’s Hidden Potential
| Answers in Genesis
Darwin’s ideas about species, when put to the test, have run into insurmountable hurdles.
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Explaining Diversity within Created Kinds
| Answers in Genesis
What can the lowly crustacean teach about genetic diversity? Quite a bit, as it turns out.
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Bearing Out Creation
| Answers in Genesis
DNA tests have confirmed that a grizzly bear father and polar bear mother have produced what some people are calling a “pizzly.”
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Origin of the Chicken
| Answers in Genesis
Whether it’s the answer to “which came first: the chicken or the egg?” or the corollary answer to that classic riddle “why did the chicken cross the road?” Darwin’s answer to the origin of the chicken was wrong.
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The Encyclopedia of Life
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists worldwide have begun work on an online catalog of the world’s 1.8 million known species, known as the “Encyclopedia of Life.”
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Babel for Elephants
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists from the U.S., Germany, and Switzerland have “calculated the date at which the African and the Asian elephant went their separate ways”—supposedly some 7.6 million years ago.
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The Elephant Kind
| Answers in Genesis
Creationists understand that the classification category of species is not the same as the Genesis kind.
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Don’t Creationists Deny the Laws of Nature?
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The laws of nature are perfectly consistent with biblical creation, and pose a serious problem for naturalism.
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Can Statistics Tell Us Whether Dinosaurs Had Feathers?
| Answers in Genesis
What are the limitations and possible pitfalls of statistical baraminology?
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God and Math
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How God is the ultimate foundation for mathematics. Math has sometimes been revered as supreme and final truth...until a mathematician proved we must look higher.
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Imagine
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The more I learn about creation science, the more excited I get about my Savior and my God.
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Successful Predictions by Creation Scientists
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For many years, creation researchers have been studying the biblical record and the world around us to understand the history that God’s Word records.
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Why Do So Many Reject Creation Science?
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Why do so many people reject creation science? Why do 98% of professional scientists accept evolution? This page seeks to answer these questions by documenting the behavior of opponents of young-earth creation science.
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Top Ten: Myths About Creation
| Answers in Genesis
Many of the common perceptions of creation and arguments against creation are merely misrepresentations of the true creationist position.
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Why Bring Back Extinct Species?
| Answers in Genesis
Researchers are attempting to take species closely related to extinct ones and, using DNA from preserved specimens, to recreate the extinct species.
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The Dinosaur Guys
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A name like “Creation Research, Science Education Foundation (CRSEF)” may not capture much attention. But dinosaurs sure will.
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Field Trip
| Answers in Genesis
Natural history museums store some of earth’s greatest treasures.
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Can Bible-Based Predictions Lead to Scientific Discoveries?
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Several scientists share their favorite examples of Bible-based predictions that led to demonstrably true scientific discoveries.
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Does the Creation Model Make Predictions? Absolutely!
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Dr. David DeWitt responds to claims that the creation model is not scientific and does not make predictions.
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7.8 Danger No 8: Misinterpretation of Reality
| Answers in Genesis
Certain statements which appear constantly in evolutionist publications, should make us prick up our ears.
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10 Basics Every Creationist Must Know
| Answers in Genesis
Every Christian who stands unashamedly on the authority of God’s Word should be ready to show how the Bible unlocks our understanding of the world.
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Mapping Out the Truth
| Answers in Genesis
A creationist dig site in eastern Wyoming has set a new standard of excellence in fossil fieldwork.
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Stumbling Stones or Stepping Stones
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To understand fossils, we either begin with God’s Word or with human opinion that rejects God’s Word. Our starting point makes all the difference in the world.
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1.5 Some Consequences
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Bible-believing Christians ought to know that there are no scientific philosophical objections today which prohibit the use of the Bible for explaining the facts of nature (creation science).
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Why the Land of Milk and Honey Is Now a Desert
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In the biblical view of history after the Flood, how is it possible that the dry Middle East of today was once fertile?
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Is There an “Ultimate Proof of Creation”?
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Many creationists are looking for a “magic bullet” to prove creation is true. The proof, however, is not simply in the evidence.
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Science and the Inquisition
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Can scientists be unbiased? What are the limits of science? And were earlier scientists simply cowed into creationism by the Inquisition?
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The Wonderful Unscientific Teachings of Christianity
| Answers in Genesis
It has always been an interesting historical point that the contemporary creation movement began not in the pulpit, but in the laboratory.
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Searching for Truth
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What is the nature of truth? Can facts be refuted by science? Roger Patterson, AiG–U.S., addresses an attack on his book series Evolution Exposed.
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Loving Science, Loving God
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Science is an essential activity of the church.
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The Wildest Goose Chase in Scientific History?
| Answers in Genesis
By going back to God's Word, we can see the world much more clearly.
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Caught in the Act!
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The editor of the Answers Research Journal has received and identified the first attempt at scamming the journal.
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Worldviews and Occam’s Razor
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Does creation and a young universe, as revealed in the Bible, require “convoluted theories” to deal with the facts? Dr. Jason Lisle, AiG–U.S., responds.
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The Ultimate Standard
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Sometimes critics of Creation refer to the creation/evolution debate as “science vs. the Bible” or “reasoning vs. faith.” Of course, nothing could be further from the truth.
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Bringing Balance to the Shelf
| Answers in Genesis
Would you like to see more creation material in your local public library or school library?
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Can Creation Models Be Wrong?
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If scientific evidence causes a creationist model to change, we should not let that shake our confidence in the accuracy and authority of Scripture.
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“Putting Science and Its Studies in Their Proper Place”
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“It is about time someone really pointed out the fallacy that medicine and other science's cannot survive without the belief in evolution.”
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Science Facts? Or Science Fiction?
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Dr. Jason Lisle responds to a Christian astronomer's comments regarding creationist astrononmy.
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The Great Divide Continues
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Grand Canyon: A Different View is back in the headlines in America with a dispute over whether or not a federal review of the book actually took place.
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Non-Creationist Compliments AiG’s Intelligent Discussion
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“I hope that we, the debaters, regardless of opinion, can allow our discussions to encompass two of the wonders central to the human condition - thse of friendship and of reason.”
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Understanding Poisons from a Creationist Perspective
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The problem of poisons is considered, and it is concluded that a false dichotomy exists between poisonous and non-poisonous chemicals.
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Test Your Knowledge
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Following is a list of six words and phrases used by creationists. Pick the meaning beside each which you think comes closest to the true meaning of that word.
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It Helps to Think Creation
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Can you think of one area where evolutionary thinking has ever helped? Does it make our children smarter or keep them off drugs? Does it put meat on the table or men on the moon?
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A Christian Creationist View of Teaching Science
| Answers in Genesis
Science teaching is made more than normally important, because science in the modern world has for many replaced God as the source of authority.
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Creation Science—Methodology
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After two years of heavy involvement with the Creation Science Ministry in Queensland, I write this article to share some of our experiences and the reasons for our approach and our methods.
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Creation as Science Part 3
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Any theory of the origin and history of life is a theory on the nature of life. Nowhere could this be more true, than theories or models or beliefs about the origin and history of man.
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Creation Science in the Churches
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Many Christians and churches cannot see the relevance of creation science.
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Creation as Science Part 2
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Creation is often criticized as being religious while evolution is scientific. In reality, both have religious aspects and both have points which are testable by repeatable observation.
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Creation as Science
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Those who propose evolution of any sort (atheistic or theistic) usually raise one major criticism against creation.
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Are Creationists Trying to Stop “Sound Science Education”?
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A blog appeared recently on the website for Americans United for Separation of Church and State titled, “Creationists Remain Hard at Work Trying to Block Sound Science Education.” It laments the tide of public opinion against evolution in the US and the way this influences how teachers present evolutionary ideas.
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Creepy Crawlies
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Even the unusual and gross creatures—spiders, insects, and other creepy crawlies—distinctly proclaim their Maker’s praise.
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Butterflies: Beautifully Designed!
| Answers in Genesis
These insects show God’s ingenious and beautiful design
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Insects
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The insect world displays stunning variety from butterflies to ants to beetles to bees. This variety is not the result of evolution but of God’s creativity.
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Bombardier Beetle–The Arsenal Insect
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The bombardier beetle’s tail end is equipped with twin “spray nozzles” (or gland openings) to shoot its gaseous ammunition.
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Honeybees: One of God’s Sweetest Designs
| Answers in Genesis
A single worker bee may add merely one-twelfth of a teaspoon of prized honey to its colony. Yet the power of the bee is in the cooperation of the colony.
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Ants
| Answers in Genesis
One reason ants are so successful is because of their ability to communicate with each other.
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Honeybees
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The next time you see a honeybee, take a moment to thank the Creator for his abundant provision through these amazing little creatures.
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Zombie Ants and Genesis
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Carpenter ant colonies evade zombie apocalypse because only the climbing dead become weapons of mass dispersion.
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Why Are Wasps So Evil?
| Answers in Genesis
If God is good, why are some creatures so bad?
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Termites: A House in Order
| Answers in Genesis
When they work together,
these insignificant
insects can accomplish
significant things.
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Miniature Metropolises
| Answers in Genesis
Gifted ant architects have built thriving cities on every continent—using every imaginable kind of material.
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Giant Silk Moths—Butterflies’ Unsung Rivals
| Answers in Genesis
The family of giant silk moths, or Saturniidae, includes the largest—and arguably most beautiful—moths in the world.
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In Case of Fire, Follow the Ants
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Ant behavior may help us save lives. Creation is overflowing with such practical ideas and possible solutions to our most vexing problems.
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Periodical Cicadas—Synchronized Swarming
| Answers in Genesis
What’s fascinating about periodical cicadas is their sheer numbers and the mysterious timing of their emergence from hiding.
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The Indestructible Cockroach
| Answers in Genesis
Most people would be happy to live in a world without cockroaches. But even creatures we see as pests show God’s amazing designs.
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Silence of Crickets Variation and Selection
| Answers in Genesis
Hawaiian cricket “evolution” into stealth mode saves them from extinction.
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Vampire Hell Ants Preserved in Burmese Amber
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Detailed images of a newly discovered species of hell ant—extinct ants with scythe-like jaws—in Burmese amber may hold the answer to how they ate.
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Butterflies on the Battlefield
| Answers in Genesis
What if badges could change color in an explosion, giving doctors vital information about the severity of the shock?
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Aphids: A Change for the Better
| Answers in Genesis
Animals that can grow wings in a single generation—only an imaginative Creator could think of that!
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“35-Million-Year-Old” Mayfly Looks Astonishingly Like a Mayfly
| Answers in Genesis
Breaking news: ancient (“35-million-year-old”) mayflies looked extremely similar to modern-day mayflies!
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Peppered Moths . . . Evidence for Evolution?
| Answers in Genesis
The story of the peppered moth has been set forth for decades as the prime example of evolution in action. It is a fascinating story about how, due to a combination of environmental changes and selective predation, a moth turned into, well, a moth. But, are peppered moths really evidence of evolution?
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Honey Bee Medicine
| Answers in Genesis
It was recently discovered by Maori and collaborators that double-stranded microRNA (miRNAs) fed to honey bees conferred resistance to certain viral diseases that they were exposed to. It worked through a process called “RNA interference”; a molecular mechanism whereby ingested RNA actually silences certain genes.
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Early Development of the Fruit Fly as Evidence of Design
| Answers in Genesis
In this article, we will look at some of the intricate steps that God put in place to ensure the proper formation from generation to generation of one type of beneficial organism, the fruit fly, following the miraculous ex nihilo creation of their kind.
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Honeybees Navigate with a Map of Polarized Light
| Answers in Genesis
The uncanny ability of honeybees to remember and communicate the location of sweet nectar has been the subject of ongoing investigations.
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Lessons from a Beetle
| Answers in Genesis
A team at the University of Leeds in England has engineered a spray nozzle that replicates the bombardier beetle’s (in)famous defense mechanism.
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A Sweet Revelation
| Answers in Genesis
The honey bee is a wonderful example of this intricate design and complex genetic information, the knowledge of which forever changed my life.
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Hissing Cockroaches
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Shy, gentle, and easy to care for — does the hissing cockroach sound like an ideal pet?
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Monarch Butterflies Prescribing Medicine for Offspring
| Answers in Genesis
Monarch butterflies are famous for their distinctive coloration and multigenerational migration. Now, they may become famous for something else: prescribing medicine for their offspring.
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God’s Rainbow in Living Color
| Answers in Genesis
There is no better place to see God's palette of colors than in butterflies.
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Fire-Chasing Beetles
| Answers in Genesis
The Melanophila beetle is one of many creatures that actually hunt for fires.
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Pollinators: Meant to Bee
| Answers in Genesis
The author experienced firsthand God’s incredible design for bees—and mankind’s opportunity to steward even the smallest of God’s creatures.
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Bumblebees: An Electric Exchange
| Answers in Genesis
A bumblebee may be an unwelcome
sound to you. But for a
flower, it’s positively electric.
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Bedazzling Beetles
| Answers in Genesis
This
beetle’s colors serve as camouflage against the dense
backdrop of trees and plants. How is this possible?
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Beetles—Go Anywhere, Do Anything
| Answers in Genesis
The most diverse order of animals on the planet is by far the beetle order. God shows how He can take one design and create a spectacular array of forms.
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Cockroaches—The Right Creatures for the Job
| Answers in Genesis
Despite their bad reputation, cockroaches
were designed to do good things.
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The Mystery of the Exploding Beetle
| Answers in Genesis
When Dr. Andy McIntosh investigated the bombardier beetle,
he discovered explosive evidence of God’s intricate design.
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God’s Design in Creation: Water Strider Legs and Leafhopper Eggs
| Answers in Genesis
Two examples of our Lord’s creativity involve insects you’ve probably seen before but perhaps not thought much about: the water strider and the leafhopper.
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Milking Roaches for All They’re Worth
| Answers in Genesis
God’s creativity is as infinite as He is, and discoveries like the protein sequence in roach milk point back to our amazing Creator.
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Bee Beacons
| Answers in Genesis
Flowers guide bees in ways invisible to human
eyes. And the bees have some pretty sophisticated
onboard equipment to detect those floral beacons.
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Dinosaur Moth
| Answers in Genesis
Researchers on Australia’s Kangaroo Island have discovered a tiny moth they claim has remained essentially unchanged for 40 million years.
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Metamorphosis—A Symphony of Miracles
| Answers in Genesis
Since the dawn of time, people have marveled at the caterpillar’s visible transformation into a butterfly.
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Solar-Powered Hornets
| Answers in Genesis
Recently the abdomen of a certain hornet was discovered to have intricate structures that look like space-age solar panels.
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Desert Dessert
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Honeypot ants gorge until they can’t leave the nest.
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Providential Provider
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A special moth-flower relationship, discovered in arid regions of North America, has inspired the wonder of biologists worldwide.
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How Do Leafhopper Legs Survive the Launch?
| Answers in Genesis
Discoveries about Leafhopper locomotion may provide useful lessons in biomechanics and robotics.
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The “Impossible” Insects
| Answers in Genesis
Better known as stick (or leaf) insects, the phasmids are the undisputed masters of camouflage in the living world.
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Hitch-Hiking Insects
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These fascinating creatures, known to insect specialists as Strepsiptera (from the Greek meaning ‘twisted wing’), are virtually unknown to the public.
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Ants: Swarm Intelligence
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The behaviour of ants has long fascinated scientists. And why not? These insects haveamazingly complex colonies, with social 'castes' in which every member has a role.
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Ready to Prey
| Answers in Genesis
The praying mantis is one of the most recognizable and striking members of the insect kingdom.
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A Monarch is Never Late
| Answers in Genesis
The astonishing navigational abilities of the monarch butterfly seem all the more astonishing in the light of new research.
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Symbiosis—The Cooperation of Life
| Answers in Genesis
One secret of the ants’ success is their ability to cooperate with numerous other organisms.
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Water Striders—Walking on Water
| Answers in Genesis
Since creation, water striders have been skipping effortlessly across lakes and ponds. The secret is an ingenious design that only the Great Designer could have invented.
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Marvels of the Monarch
| Answers in Genesis
A monarch’s development from caterpillar to adult and its incredible ability to migrate clearly display the Creator’s design.
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Lightning Bugs: The Beetle Beacons
| Answers in Genesis
The most amazing thing about lightning bugs is their ability to produce light.
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Water Striders: Hallmark of Evolution or Testimony to Creation?
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The incredible water strider: is its “just so” construction a hallmark of evolution or a testimony to creation?
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Scorpions—Armed and Dangerous
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Scorpions appear armed to scare and kill. Are we supposed to be afraid, or is it just our imagination?
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New Species of “Sparkly Blue” Bee Discovered in Texas
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists have just named a brand-new species of mining bee (small bees that are very important pollinators): Andrena androfovea.
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Bolas Spiders—Eight Legged Gauchos
| Answers in Genesis
The bolas spider uses a droplet of strong adhesive on the end of a strand of silk to snag moths from midair.
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It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a . . . Moth?
| Answers in Genesis
This agile flyer scoots in and
out of tight spots faster than
any plane Boeing or Airbus
ever dreamed of.
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The Great Veggie Burglar
| Answers in Genesis
Two marvels in one: a spider that loves vegetables and a master thief, adept at nabbing golden treasures from fiercely guarded repositories.
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Why Are There So Many Mosquitoes?
| Answers in Genesis
While sometimes a nuisance and a carrier of unwanted disease, the mosquito has a role in the success of the environment that was implemented by the Creator.
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Snails, Slugs, and Semi Slugs
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Carnegie Museum biologist suggests a new evolutionary history for snails and slugs but fails to account for differences in anatomy and lack of evidence.
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Tough as Snails
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The lowly sea snail, of all things, has a unique way of manufacturing armor from soft ingredients.
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Parasites
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Our world is filled with the little monsters and these parasites can be pretty nasty.
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Spectacular Spider Fossils—How Do We Explain the Evidence?
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Paleontologists working in the Jinju Formation (Early to Mid-Cretaceous) in southeast South Korea discovered ten well-preserved spider specimens in shale. Of the ten spider fossils, two, from the extinct Family Lagonomegopidae, had tapeta in their eyes.
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Recent Amber Fossil Finds
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Two recent amber fossil finds, one in Myanmar (Burma) and the other in Lebanon, have revealed some very interesting examples of similarities between fossil and extant forms, both in morphology and in lifestyle/behavior. These two studies are mainly focused on Orders of arthropods and insects.
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Parasitoid Wasps Shed Light on the Origin of Venom
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Many parasitoid wasps optimize the reception for their larvae by injecting venom that disables the host insect’s immune system or changes its behavior.
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Jaws of Life
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Sometimes we’d be better off if we just
kept our jaws shut. It’s a different story for the
trap-jaw ant.
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Did Spiders Evolve Knees Through Gene Duplication?
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Spiders were designed with two versions of the dachshund gene, one essential to knee formation, but spider knees did not evolve through gene duplication.
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Fear the Parasitic Wasp: Spider Zombies Caught in Web of Deceit
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When a parasitic wasp skewers an orb spider and glues an egg to its back, she sets off a chain of events that alters the behavior and destiny of the spider.
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Face Mites ‘R’ Us
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Germophobes beware: a new study suggests that all adults have face mites. But did they follow us through evolutionary history?
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Dust Mites Defy Dollo’s Law
| Answers in Genesis
University of Michigan researchers believe these free-living, non-parasitic, but allergy-causing arachnids prove that reverse evolution is possible.
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Bacterial Bodyguard
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists were shocked to discover that some stinkbugs have developed resistance to insecticide.
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Snails and Their Unique Genetic Variations
| Answers in Genesis
Convinced that genetic similarities confirm a common ancestry for two kinds of snails, researchers sought a transitional form and believe they found it.
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At a Snail’s Pace
| Answers in Genesis
According to researchers, garden snails are evolving slower metabolisms.
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Scuba Spiders
| Answers in Genesis
This remarkable spider shouts the wisdom of its Designer.
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A Few Facts from Under the Rocks
| Answers in Genesis
The Robber (or Coconut) Crab, Birgus latro, is not only the world’s largest land invertebrate, it’s also a thief that climbs trees at night and steals coconuts!
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Wonderful Worms
| Answers in Genesis
Earthworms are highly specialized creatures. They seem obviously designed for their important task of burrowing through soil.
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What is Peripatus?
| Answers in Genesis
At first glance, it looks like a caterpillar. However, on closer examination the external appearance is more like an annelid (earth) worm.
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Hairy Horror or High-Tech Marvel?
| Answers in Genesis
Without spiders, we would be literally suffocated out of existence, if not actually eaten alive, by all manner of bugs.
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Extinct Animals
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The rocks preserve the memory of many unusual and often gigantic now-extinct animals that inhabited the world before and after the Flood of Noah’s day.
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Ice Age Animals
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The Ice Age was home to some giant and intimidating creatures, from mammoths to saber-tooth cats to giant sloths to massive cave bears.
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What Mean These Mastodons?
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Varieties of fossilized mastodons, mammoths, and other elephants are widely distributed across North America and around the world.
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Mystery Mammoth Points to a Global Flood and Ice Age
| Answers in Genesis
According to a report recently published in The Washington Post, researchers have uncovered the cranial remains of an enigmatic mammoth.
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Wyoming Cave Traps Animals from the Ice Age Until the Space Age
| Answers in Genesis
Natural Trap Cave preserves a treasure trove of animals from the Ice Age until the 1970s.
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Messages on Stone
| Answers in Genesis
It was once held that mammoths and mastodons became extinct 30,000 to 40,000 years ago.
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The Confusion of Elephant and Mammoth Classification
| Answers in Genesis
It is likely that all mammoths should be classified as one species, or at least within one biblical kind.
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Woolly Mammoths—Flood or Ice Age?
| Answers in Genesis
There is plenty of evidence that the woolly mammoths in Siberia, Alaska, and the Yukon and almost all other surficial sites in the Northern Hemisphere died after the Flood.
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Frozen in Time
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The bones, tusks, and especially carcasses of millions of woolly mammoths frozen in the tundra of Siberia have excited the imaginations of children and scientists for hundreds of years.
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Frozen Mammoth Carcasses in Siberia
| Answers in Genesis
Frozen mammoth carcasses have challenged our imagination for centuries. These carcasses sometimes come with skin, hair, and internal organs including the heart.
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Why Live in Siberia?
| Answers in Genesis
What drew millions of woolly mammoths to the far north where the winters are currently so fiercely cold and the summers so dangerously boggy? And what did they eat while they were there?
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A Mammoth Number of Mammoth Hypotheses
| Answers in Genesis
Efforts to understand the mysteries associated with the woolly mammoth have led to an abundance of hypotheses — all with mammoth problems.
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The Extinction Wars
| Answers in Genesis
The worst problem uniformitarian scientists encounter with the extinction of the Siberian woolly mammoths is that they disappeared not just in Siberia but everywhere at about the same time.
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Mammoths Thrive Early in the Post-Flood Ice Age
| Answers in Genesis
We have developed the post-Flood Ice Age model based on the climatic aftermath of the Genesis flood. Now we are in a position to delve into the mysteries of the woolly mammoth.
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Were Siberian Mammoths Quick Frozen?
| Answers in Genesis
Despite its appeal, there is much evidence against the quick-freeze hypothesis.
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Extinction of the Woolly Mammoth
| Answers in Genesis
Climate change at the end of the Ice Age was the main cause of late Ice Age extinctions.
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Why Were Ice Age Animals So Big?
| Answers in Genesis
When you think of the Ice Age, you think of big critters like the woolly mammoth and giant sloth. Why was this huge size so helpful?
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Forget Jurassic, Now It’s Pleistocene as the Coolest Theme Park
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In only 10 years or so, you’ll be able (so we’re told) to see woolly mammoths, rhinos, cave lions, and long-extinct horses in a Siberian “Pleistocene Park”. Scientists from Russia, South Korea, and Japan are working towards cloning ice age animals to put into a research (and tourist) park in Yakutsk, Siberia.
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Megalonyx—Gentle Giant of the Ice Age
| Answers in Genesis
When you think “sloth,” you usually think of the slow-moving, tree-hanging creatures from South America. But not all sloths lived in trees.
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Woolly Rhinoceros Skull Found In Himalayas
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Pliocene rhino plowing pre-Pleistocene snow pleases paleontologists.
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What Happened to Woolly Mammoths?
| Answers in Genesis
What happened to the woolly mammoths? It’s a whodunit (or, rather, a “what-done-it”) mystery of extinction that rivals the question of what did in the dinosaurs.
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Mammoth Tour
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Lyuba, a deceased baby woolly mammoth, has left frosty Siberia for a world tour.
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Mystery Rock
| Answers in Genesis
Neither mom nor I can remember my age, but we both remember that rock!
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Youth-Earth Evolutionism
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Mammoths didn’t die out that long ago: a creationist conclusion or the latest evolutionary idea?
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A Mammoth Find
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In a special guest news analysis, creationist (and mammoth expert) Michael Oard considers the well-preserved mammoth “Lyuba.”
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A Mammoth Discovery
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The frozen remains of a baby mammoth discovered in 2007 are stirring up talk—especially because the mammoth is “remarkably preserved.”
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Mammoth Undertaking
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Mapping the genetic code of the woolly mammoth has opened the possibility of bringing one back to life.
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Woolly Mammoth Genome Has Been Mapped
| Answers in Genesis
The genetic code of the woolly mammoth has finally been (mostly) mapped, and the question on (almost) everyone’s mind is: can we bring one back?
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“Mr. Ice Age” Solves Woolly Mammoth Mystery
| Answers in Genesis
The woolly mammoths have puzzled scientists for hundreds of years, but Ice Age researcher, Mike Oard, has proposed a radical solution in the latest issue of TJ.
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Mammoth Among the Pharaohs?
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A mammoth in an Egyptian painting? Surely not—haven’t we been told in textbooks that mammoths definitely died out some 9,500 years ago?
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Are Mammoths Still Alive?
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Two Russian scientists have found the remains of a group of woolly mammoths, on an island off northeastern Siberia, which give radiocarbon ages of less than 4,000 years.
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Can Scientists Resurrect Extinct Species?
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Scientists are working on trying to bring back a variety of extinct species, such as the woolly mammoth and Tasmanian tiger (thylacine). Will they be successful?
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Unicorns—“More Legit Than You Think”?
| Answers in Genesis
Unicorns—were they real? Most people immediately answer “no,” but not so fast.
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Ancient Crocodiles Ate . . . Plants?
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Evidence suggests extinct crocodiles were herbivores, which aligns with the biblical perspective that animals were originally vegetarian.
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Will Woolly Mammoths Walk the Earth Again?
| Answers in Genesis
The goal of a new start-up is to resurrect an ice-age era “woolly mammoth” by 2027. What does the Bible say about these created kinds?
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Unicorns in the Bible?
| Answers in Genesis
To think of the biblical unicorn as a fantasy animal is to demean God’s Word, which is true in every detail.
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“Feathered Dinosaur” Featured Long Tail Plumage Evolutionists Say
| Answers in Genesis
Up, up, and away—this large, long-feathered microraptorine was equipped for fast flight, steep descent, and a controlled landing.
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Archaeopteryx’s Feathery Legs Fuel Flightless Evolutionary Claims
| Answers in Genesis
While there is nothing “transitional” about the feathers on Archaeopteryx, researchers claim new insight concerning the evolution of quill-like feathers.
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Crash Landing for Archaeopteryx?
| Answers in Genesis
It’s an evolutionary icon, a supposed transitional form between two different kinds of animals. But the certainty about Archaeopteryx is now clouded by debate.
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Whale Skull Shows Echolocation Appears Abruptly in Fossil Record
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Moby Dick’s ancient cousin was well-equipped with sonar for hunting and mapping the bottom of the sea.
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Did Tiktaalik’s Pelvis Prepare Fish to Walk on Land?
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Previously shrouded in mystery, Tiktaalik’s pelvis supposedly sheds new light on the evolution of ambulatory hindquarters.
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Archaeopteryx Evolve Flight, Get Grounded
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“Proto-bird” or transitional form? Archaeopteryx gets its walking papers at Los Angeles conference.
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Dawn of the Early Bird Too Good To Be True?
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Feathers are ruffled because the newest candidate for the first bird upsets the currently popular claim that Archaeopteryx was not a bird at all.
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Prey Before Eating
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The largest-known open-ocean crocodile was more than 20 feet (6 m) long and had a head the size of T. rex.
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Cambrian Arthropod Had Legs on Its Head
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Well-preserved Cambrian arthropod fossils prompt a response.
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Toothed Bird Adds to Avian Biodiversity in Age of Dinosaurs
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A toothy robin-sized bird has been identified in the Early Cretaceous Chinese Jehol Group in northeastern China.
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Ancient Flying Fish Around the Globe
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Ancient flying fish flew in far-flung reaches of the globe.
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Invertebrate with a Neural Network Similar to Modern Insects
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Cambrian critter with neural complexity comparable to modern insects surprises evolutionary scientists.
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Trilobite Eyes—Ultimate Optics
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What do physicists and paleontologists have in common? When discovering God’s complex design for trilobite eyes, expertise from both fields was required.
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Mosasaur: Lizard or Whale?
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The mosasaur was a marine lizard, not a whale. But like the whale, evolutionists believe it started out—ancestrally speaking—without much in the way of swimming adaptations. Over 27 million years, researchers claim it evolved into such an excellent swimming predator that it ruled the seas.
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The World’s Largest Marsupial Found In Queensland
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A nearly complete skeleton of the world’s biggest marsupial, the Diprotodon, was unearthed at Floraville Station in Queensland. This specimen, 6-½ feet tall and 11 feet long, is estimated to have weighed three tons.
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Will the Real Unicorn Please Stand Up?
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The unicorns mentioned in the Bible are not the fairy tale creatures many people think of, but real creatures familiar to the people living in ancient times.
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The Bunny King
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Once upon a time a rabbit king was buried on Minorca . . .
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Fossil with Crocodile and Cat Traits
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Cats and crocodiles may appear about as different as two vertebrates can possibly be. But a fossil found in Tanzania has traits of both.
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Leviathan Found - According to Broad Definition
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Leviathan has at last been found—according to a broad definition of “Leviathan,” anyway.
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Five: Tracks But No Trilobites
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Why do we find lots of trilobite tracks in lower rock layers, but we don’t find any trilobite fossils until higher up?
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Fossil Seal Walks In
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“Evolution at [w]ork,” declares National Geographic News. “[T]he evolutionary evidence we have been lacking for so long,” reports BBC News. So just what is this new fossil?
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Fishy Old Brains
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What’s so “remarkable” about the fossil preservation of a fish brain?
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The Web of Spider Evolution
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What was once “the world’s oldest spider” is now just a primitive version of the “web-spinning modern spider,” BBC News reports.
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New Species Found In Insect Fossil On eBay
| Answers in Genesis
Forget fieldwork. The trendy new way to discover fossils is as close as your Internet browser.
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Ancient Shark Has a Bite Stronger Than a T rex
| Answers in Genesis
T. rex, stay out of the water: the ancient giant shark megalodon had a bite far more powerful than yours!
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Monster Record
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The Monster, a partial fossil of what is presumed to be the largest known marine reptile has been found on a Norwegian island.
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Giant Frog Fossil Unearthed
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A team of American and British scientists has discovered a fossil frog so large it’s been dubbed “Beelzebufo,” or the “frog from hell.”
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How to Catch an Extinct Fossil Fish
| Answers in Genesis
Indonesian fisherman Yustinus Lahama’s capture of a rare coelacanth fish is a reminder of the perpetual fallibility of paleontologists (and much of what they say!).
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Tiktaalik and the Fishy Story of Walking Fish, Part 2
| Answers in Genesis
Now that the euphoria in the media has settled down on the “walking fish,” it is time to reflect upon what must surely be the biggest fish story of the decade.
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Tiktaalik and the Fishy Story of Walking Fish
| Answers in Genesis
Now that the euphoria in the media has settled down on Tiktaalik, it is time to reflect upon what must surely be the biggest fish story of the decade.
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Did Microraptor gui Invent the Biplane Before the Wright B
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Once again, the media is abuzz with feathered dinosaurs busily “experimenting” with flight. This time the presumed dinosaur, Microraptor gui.
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Swimming with the Dinosaurs
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One way or another, in the creation model, Castorocauda is another example of God’s fascinating design in a pre-Flood organism; in the evolution model, Castorocauda is a surprise and challenge.
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Peruvian Walking Whale
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A recent journal article published by Current Biology, features the discovery of a fossil (MUSM 3580) touted as a “walking whale,” in the Pisco Basin, located in the desert of the southern coast of Peru. Peregocetus pacificus is the name that was given to this new “protocetid” which was discovered in middle Eocene.
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Hybrid Animals
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Genesis infers that all creatures reproduce after their kinds. Hybrid animals like ligers, wholphins, and zonkeys help to define the boundaries of kinds.
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Creationism, Evolution, and Hybrid Animals
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James Owen, in a National Geographic News story, explains how a growing number of “hybrid species” have been observed in the wild.
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The Great Species Mix-Up
| Answers in Genesis
The wild and woolly world of hybrids is setting evolutionary ideas
back on their heels.
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Does the Bible Forbid Animal Hybridization?
| Answers in Genesis
Hybrids fit well into the biblical history of our world, and they glorify the design of our amazing Creator!
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Shark Hybrids
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Scientists in Australia have discovered 57 hybrid black-tip sharks off Australia’s coast. Is this evidence of “evolution in action” or variation within a kind?
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Pizzly or Grolar Bear?
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If you’re in the forest, beware the menacing grolar bear.
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Interpreting an Unusual Arctic Bear in Creation Model of Origins
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In 2006, on the south end of Banks Island, that a 65-year-old hunter shot and killed the first documented grizzly/polar hybrid (grolar bear) in the wild.
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Toads Voluntarily Hybridize
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Research published in the journal Science details how some female toads violate an “evolutionary rule.” Perhaps no one has told them about it!
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New Hybrid: Salsmanders
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Joining the ranks of such hybrid animals as ligers and wholphins, is a new hybrid salamander breed of the California tiger salamander and barred salamanders.
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Mammals
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Great diversity exists within the mammal group. From koalas to deer to bats to primates to whales to cheetahs, mammals declare the glory of their Creator.
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Carnivorous . . . Squirrels?
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Some squirrels have started hunting smaller mammals!
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Images of the Mysterious Okapi Finally Captured on Film
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It may be neither a unicorn nor a dinosaur, but the African okapi, which appears to be a strange combination of giraffe and zebra, was nonetheless long rumored to be a “mythical animal.”
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Giraffes: Testimonies to God’s Design
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Towering tall over the African savanna, the giraffe looks as if it belongs in the circus. It strolls on stilt-like legs, and its neck parades high in the sky. But the giraffe is no comic freak of nature. It displays divine design.
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Bats: Equipped for the Hunt
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As the only true flying mammals, bats are well equipped for the hunt. Their wings can maneuver nimbly to abruptly change directions and carry them swiftly.
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Elephant: The Giant with Specialized Tools
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An elephant’s trunk is like a built-in multi-purpose tool. Weighing in at roughly 300 to 400 pounds, the trunk is no lightweight piece of equipment.
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Platypus: The Mystery Mammal
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From an acorn-size egg hatches a creature with a duck-like bill, beaver-like tail, and reptile-like stance. It’s a bird! It’s a reptile! It’s a—platypus!
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Tasmanian Tigers: Extinct or Elusive?
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Sightings of Thylacines have been reported over the years from explorers and from indigenous people groups who send hunters into the jungle or mountains.
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Kitty Kinds
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The first high-quality sequence of the cat genome has yielded some answers to why cats condescend to grace ordinary human beings with their companionship.
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Which Came First: "Egg-Laying or Live Bearing Mammals"?
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“Eggs-actly what evolved first, egg-laying or live-bearing mammals?” evolutionists ask.
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The Platypus
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The platypus has perplexed scientists since its discovery by Europeans in the late 18th century.
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Primates
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Are primates close relatives of humans or a distinct group created for God’s glory?
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Apes Are Smart, Not Creative
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Chimpanzees have proven to be quite skillful at learning certain basic tasks—particularly those related to obtaining food—but even evolutionists have to admit that “technological innovation and improvement seem to be uniquely human traits.”
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Orangutan—King of the Treetop Trapeze
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With their red hair and funny faces, orangutans have won a place in our hearts. But they stand out, even among apes, for other reasons too.
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Easing Out of Hammocks
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Easing out of hammocks into earthbound beds presumably helped apelike ancestors awaken to new possibilities.
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Primordial Primate Like Squirrel
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Primordial primate said to have scampered about the trees in ancient Montana.
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Clue to How Human Behavior Evolved
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Gentle gorilla "gestural motherese" said by some to be a clue to how human behavior evolved.
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Gamboling Gibbons
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No human acrobat ever attempted the kind of superhuman feats that gibbons perform every day.
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Chimps Help Each Other Too
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Chimps, especially mothers and their offspring, help each other. While that makes them “more similar to humans than previously thought,” does it mean we’re all just apes?
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Bonobos Less Humane Than Once Thought
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They may not be outright cannibals, but even so, bonobos are decidedly less “humane” than once thought.
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Hitch-Hiking Lemurs
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Evolutionists used to think the lemurs got to Madagascar before the island broke off from Africa. Now they have to assume that the island was in its present place before these creatures arrived.
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Purring Cats and Roaring Tigers
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The variety of domestic cats and wild cats like the Sumatran and Siberian tigers display common features, impressive diversity, and God's glory.
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Obscured Knowledge of Original Domestic Dog
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Designing man’s best friend has obscured knowledge of the original domestic dog.
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Have Anteaters Evolved 12 Times?
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According to a new study, the specialized ability to primarily dine on ants and termites has evolved “at least 12 times since the Cenozoic era began.”
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Tree Squirrels—Method to the Madness
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There’s more to a squirrel’s mad dash to collect nuts than meets the eye.
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Practical Prickles: Streaked Tenrec
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Watch out — this critter’s outrageous hairdo is more than a fashion statement. With a prickly exterior and a matching disposition, these crazy critters overcome the odds in a dangerous place. How do they do it? The secret is in the spines.
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Top Notch
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Beavers expertly engineer our waterways and landscapes—but can we work together to better steward God’s creation?
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How the Arctic Fox Got Its Winter Wardrobe
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When winter arrives, this fox takes off his thin summer coat and puts on a luxurious new wardrobe just for the occasion.
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Souped-Up Sniffers
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Dogs are always sniffing around, but it’s not because they’re always hungry. Unlike us, they interpret the world primarily through smell.
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Wolverines—More Than Claws & Fury
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The wolverine’s fearsome features help this formidable creature survive in its harsh environment.
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Aquatic Engineer at Your Service—North American Beaver
| Answers in Genesis
Beavers aren’t just great dam builders.
They’re specially equipped to work in the
water as God’s wetland engineers.
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Quokka: The Happiest Animal on Earth?
| Answers in Genesis
Even the cutest critter reminds us that we live in a fallen world.
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Platypus: One of a Kind
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The platypus may not fit into a manmade box, but it fits perfectly in God’s design.
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Why Bears Don’t Bench-Press
| Answers in Genesis
The next time you consider skipping a workout, remember that exercise
isn’t for the birds . . . or bears.
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Snow Leopard—The Ultimate Cool Cat
| Answers in Genesis
The snow leopard survives in its frigid climate thanks to a collection
of cool features.
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Meerkats —The Original Social Network
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Meerkat clans were working together in southern Africa long before Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey came on the scene.
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Camel Diversity—Spitting Image
| Answers in Genesis
Despite living continents
apart, this caravan of
creatures clearly confirms
the Bible’s history.
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Short-Legged Reminder
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From the giant Newfoundland
to my short-legged dachshund, dogs
are a pleasing reminder of our
Creator’s fantastic ingenuity.
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Koala Conundrum
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The slow loris’ large eyes have
a reflective layer to help them
see in almost total darkness.
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Slow Loris: Fuzzy Can Be Fatal
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The slow loris’ large eyes have
a reflective layer to help them
see in almost total darkness.
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Marsupial Fingerprints
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The amazing design of fingerprints
helps us get a good grasp on God’s Word.
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Blind Mole-Rats: Evidence for Intelligent Design
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A skeptical social media post is making the claim that the lesser mole-rat (one of several blind mole rats) is evidence against intelligent design.
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Giant Panda: The Veggie Bear
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How can a bear live on plants? Surprisingly well.
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Feedback: Have Domestic Cats Remained Virtually Unchanged for 2,000 Years?
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It can seem contradictory when we look at ancient Egyptian art that often shows remarkable stability in appearance to today’s cats.
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Reindeer: Thriving in a Winter Wonderland
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Reindeer, with their brilliant design
for navigating life in a frigid home,
will go down in history.
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White-Tailed Deer—All-American Athletes
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Want to race? It’s easy to see why white-tailed deer have become winners in the Americas.
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Naked Mole Rats: A Special Kind of Ugly
| Answers in Genesis
It’s just as well that these unsightly
creatures live underground.
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Evolved to Feel No Pain?
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Researchers studying mole-rats and the East African root rat discovered that several had pain insensitivity to several different irritants (called “algogens” throughout the journal paper). Some had multiple pain insensitivities, while others had none.
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Beavers: God’s Natural Builders
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Because of the curse after Adam and Eve’s sin, life for all living things is hard. But God is gracious and gifted creation with natural builders to restore habitats and create ecosystems. Since April 7 is International Beaver Day, let’s look at these busy builders.
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The Bloodhound—Natural Born Smeller
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What a nose! If you’ve ever seen a bloodhound at work, you can’t help but be impressed.
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Cute Clandestine Climber
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Hiding in Indonesia’s tropical forests is
one of the cutest—and most creatively
designed—creatures on the planet.
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Speedsters of the Serengeti
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You donʼt need to be
an expert to appreciate the
fine details that make this
sleek machine run.
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Flying Foxes
| Answers in Genesis
Bats comprise nearly one fifth of all mammal species and are distinct from other mammals in several ways. There are over 1,100 different bat species. As the only mammal designed for sustained flight, bats are very distinctive in appearance.
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What’s in a Look?
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Does the difference in eye contact times between domesticated dogs, dingoes, and wolves prove an evolutionary progression from one to another?
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The Not-So-Nutty Habits of Squirrels
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A close look past squirrels’ annoying habits reveals a creature designed by the Creator with some not-so-nutty—actually brilliant—behaviors.
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Connecting the Dots
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The ScienceBlogs website indicates intra-abdominal testicles show that elephants may have evolved from a common ancestor of manatees or whales.
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How Domestic Cats Came to Rule the World (at Least the Part I Live in)
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The colorful history of the domestic cat, filled in by the latest paleogenetic study, illustrates many fun facts that are consistent with biblical truth.
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Sloths: Slow on Purpose
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Turns out, the three-toed sloth is a complex creature that serves as a testimony to the resourceful and highly imaginative Creator God.
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Yaks—Living the High Life
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God designed one mighty beast to thrive in extreme Tibetan conditions.
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Naked Mole-Rats: Evolutionary Marvel or God’s Grand Design?
| Answers in Genesis
Naked mole-rats survive extreme oxygen deprivation in their crowded burrows by switching on fructose metabolizing machinery in their heart and brain cells.
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The Bear That Isn’t!
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The all-knowing and wise Creator designed the lovable Australian koala to be what he is: unique!
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Australia’s Amazing Kangaroos and the Birth of Their Young
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They’re Australia’s best-known marsupials - and they display all the evidence of planned, purposeful creation.
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Do Drinking Giraffes Have Headaches?
| Answers in Genesis
Darwin saw no problems with giraffe evolution. However, he was not aware of certain problems peculiar to giraffes which make his easy assumption of giraffe evolution even more difficult to accept.
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Genes Hold the Giraffe’s Head Up High
| Answers in Genesis
The giraffe’s genome explains its long neck but does not support an evolutionary tall tale.
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Did Mammals Evolve to Rule the Night?
| Answers in Genesis
Evolutionary researchers contend mammalian ancestors evolved night vision before the age of dinosaurs.
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Rodent-like Mammal Shakes the Evolutionary Tree
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Does this giant groundhog-like animal that shared the world with dinosaurs tell us anything about how we evolved?
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Bats: Sophistication in Miniature
| Answers in Genesis
When it comes to hunting and catching prey, few creatures use a system as complex and highly specialized as that of the insect-eating bats.
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Camels
| Answers in Genesis
From their nose to their feet, camels are perfectly suited to their desert environments.
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Tabby Trait Ties Cat Evolutionary Tree
| Answers in Genesis
Tabby trait traced through genetic analysis ties together the cat family tree.
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The Dracula Connection to a Young Earth
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Some scientists have suggested that the vampire bat developed its blood-sucking practice while it was an insect-eater, as most bats are.
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Bat Sonar Points to Creation
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‘This sonar [of the bat] is a marvellous discriminator: in a bat–swarm, in cave or night air, a bat can know its own sound among thousands of mobile neighbours, even detecting its own signals.
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Defining Species—An Elephant-Sized Problem
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Quick, can you tell the difference between an African and an Asian elephant?
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The Opossum—Survival of the Generalist
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Rummaging in the trash heap, scrambling to avoid cars at night—the opossum’s pervasiveness is a testament to his unique design: to make do.
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Jurassic Rat Now Considered Oldest Mammalian Ancestor
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Once upon a time, in a Jurassic park long, long ago, grandmother rat climbed a tree.
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Tiptoes and Trunks
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The “sixth” key to a balanced view of foot evolution . . . or design!
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Climbing Feat
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God designed goats to face altitude with
attitude and to take death-defying feats in stride.
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Pinnipeds—Blurring the Boundaries
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We love to categorize creatures into neat little niches. But what about those strange creatures that dip their fins in two different worlds?
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The Aww-Inspiring Koala
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If you hear “cute” and “Down Under,” what comes to mind? Surely it’s the koala.
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Climate-Controlled Coworkers
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The Creator gave a few select animals—such as horses and camels—unique abilities to serve alongside people in harsh environments.
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Panda and Dysteleological Arguments of Stephen Jay Gould
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The panda’s ‘odd’ forelimb arrangement has an enlarged wristbone ‘digit’ commonly called the panda’s ‘thumb’.
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The Platypus Is an Evolutionary Puzzle—Have They Finally Solved It?
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The platypus continues to baffle evolutionists with its webbed feet, glowing fur (in UV light) and venom—but it makes sense in a God-ordered world.
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Echidna—Outback Oddity
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Evolution is hard-pressed to
explain this prickly little digger.
That’s because the Creator made
it like no other single animal.
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The Ultimate Team Players
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Scientists are learning more and more about the marvelous abilities of animals, which go far beyond physical design.
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Sea Bear of the Frozen North
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The polar bear is also referred to as the “white bear,” “sea bear,” and “northern bear.” An estimated 40,000 of them make their home on the southern edge of the Arctic ice cap.
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Skunks—A Design that Makes Scents
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God has given the skunk the ability to live in a fallen world, by using a perfect defense mechanism.
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Camels—Confirmation of Creation
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It is a dry, hot, day in the desert. There is no water in sight. The wind is thick with sand, and the dunes continually shift underfoot. These conditions prove no problem for the camel.
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Kangaroos: God’s Amazing Craftsmanship
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Kangaroos' faces, the way they carry their young in a pouch, their phenomenal leaping power, and their deadly 'karate kicking' have long intrigued people.
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Nature Spot: Why Numbats Have Teeth
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Why do numbats have teeth? If you think it’s because they need to chew, try again!
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Reptiles
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Snakes, lizards, alligators, and other reptiles may or may not be your favorite animals, but certainly their brilliant design draws attention to their Designer.
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Lethal Lizards
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The existence of venom in so many animals has long challenged creationists. How did it show up in a very good creation?
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Gecko: Designed to Climb
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The gecko is designed to climb. Scientists had to magnify the gecko’s foot thousands of times to find out its secret to defying gravity.
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Eastern Box Turtles—Frozen Alive!
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Eastern box turtles can literally be “frozen alive” and emerge unharmed.
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The Snake Can Walk?
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A snake with a leg—is it evidence of evolution, creation, both, or neither?
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Chameleons
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A chameleon might look bizarre to you, but not to a bug.
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How Did Iguanas Get to Fiji?
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How Fijian iguanas made the journey to the islands of Fiji has been a mystery in the evolutionary worldview—but researchers think they’ve solved the mystery.
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Show Your Teen This Example of “Evolution in Action”
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According to reports, scientists are getting “front row seats of evolution unfolding in real time,” as two lizard species interact for the first time in Florida.
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Lizards on Lava
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Scientists studying a species in the Mojave Desert, known as side-blotched lizards, have learned that individual lizards can change coloring within a few weeks.
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Decked Out for the Desert
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Horned lizards aren’t known for speed to avoid predators or
venom to bring down threats. But these miniature dragons
have tricks for desert survival.
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Does the Bible Say That Cobras Make Themselves Deaf?
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When examining the text, it is easy to see that Scripture is not claiming that snakes are or have the ability to make themselves deaf. David, through the use of poetic imagery, is comparing his enemies to dangerous serpents that appear to be docile but are cunning and deadly.
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How Did Snakes Get Their Venomous Bite?
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If God called His creation “very good,” then why does it include dangerous venomous snakes today? Are secular researchers on the right track as they examine the snake genome in order to find clues about gene evolution in humans? The answer is clear when you start with God’s Word.
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Four-Legged Snake Fails as a Transitional Form and Perhaps Even a
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Hailed as a transitional form between modern snakes and their supposed lizard ancestors, Tetrapodophis amplectus is now the subject of heated controversy.
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Walking Cathedrals
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You don’t have to travel to Paris to see one of the world’s greatest cathedrals. If you look carefully, one may be walking around in your own backyard.
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Winged Wonders
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Winged reptiles were primitive, clumsy, “prehistoric” beasts, barely
able to get off the ground, right? Take a closer look and see.
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Four-Legged Snake Fossil Found in Museum
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Many evolutionists believe the discovery of a four-legged fossilized snake is evidence of a burrowing lizard in the snake’s evolutionary past, but is it?
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Turtle Wrestling?
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This issue of Answers in filled with muscular tools—many articles to help you on topics where the Bible is under attack.
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Chameleons’ Color of Divine Wisdom
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Chameleons’ skin color can shift dramatically, and in just a few minutes their colors can revert back to the original. How do they do this?
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The Butcher Crocodile and the Bible
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To evolutionists, the "butcher" crocodile demonstrates crocodiles had evolved to be major Triassic predators millions of years before dinosaurs ruled the world.
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Thorny Dragon—Oasis on Demand
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Ever race in the hot sun without a hydration pack? Well, you wouldn’t stand a chance against this scary-looking critter.
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Fruit-Eating Crocodiles
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, crocodilians not only can digest fruit but seem to commonly and intentionally consume it.