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Why Is It Good Friday?
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Good Friday is the day when Christians commemorate the death of our Lord Jesus on the cross.
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Who Were the Magi Who Visited Jesus?
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Who were the magi, and should they be part of the Nativity?
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Immanuel: God with Us
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Did Isaiah really prophesy about the virgin birth?
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Jesus’ Genealogies in Matthew and Luke
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Why does Jesus have two different genealogies in Matthew and Luke?
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Who Is the Prophet Like Moses?
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Why only Jesus fits the description of the prophet like Moses.
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Picturing Jesus
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Is it idolatry to create images depicting the Lord Jesus? Christians throughout church history have debated this question as they seek to honor the second commandment.
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Jesus: The Word, Life, and Light
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The apostle John draws our attention to the coming of Jesus into the world as a “new creation” by referring to him as the “Word” (logos), “life” (zōē), and the “light” (phōs), which constitute creation terminology. It is helpful therefore to understand why these words are used to describe Jesus.
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Why Do We Celebrate Birthdays?
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The focus of a birthday celebration should not be on self but on the one who created life.
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Genealogy of Jesus: Why Is It Important?
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Both Matthew and Luke record the genealogy of Jesus. Why was this so important?
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Did Others Know What Was to Come?
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There are many prophecies in the Old Testament foretelling the coming Messiah and the sacrifice to be made, but did people recognize these prophecies and associate them with Jesus? How much did even the disciples really understand about the reason Jesus came to earth?
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Did Mary Know What Was to Come?
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Mary was given certain information about the birth of the Savior, but how much did she really know? Jeremy Ham, AiG–U.S., explores this topic.
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What's the Significance of the Name “Jesus”?
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What is the significance of the name “Jesus”? The angel told Joseph to name Mary’s son Jesus. Is there some holy significance to this particular sequence of letters or sounds? The Bible often discusses the significance of this name.
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Did Jesus Contradict Himself by Calling People Fools?
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Why are people called fools in Scripture even though Jesus told us not to call people fools?
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Evolution and the Atonement of Jesus Christ
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If the Cross was not required to save sinners, then why did God permit Jesus to face such torture if it wasn’t even necessary?
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The Battle to Keep Christ in Christmas
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If you told the average American 50 years ago that “in the 21st century, America will take Christ out of Christmas and make it nothing but a pagan holiday,” I’m sure most would have responded with something like, “No—not here—that would never happen.” But it is happening.
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Intercultural Communication Lesson Demonstrates What Not to Do
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Florida Atlantic University has now issued an apology for instructing students to stomp on the name of Jesus.
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7.5 Danger No 5: Relativation of Jesus’ Work of Redemption
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The first man’s fall into sin was a real event and is the direct cause of sin in this world; everybody else became tainted.
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More Questions
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“Early man”—the field is loaded with unanswered questions.
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Contradictions: Did Jesus Go Up or Down the Mountain?
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Did Jesus go up or down the mountain to deliver the Sermon on the Mount? Tim Chaffey, AiG–U.S., explains.
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Contradictions: First Impressions
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Did Jesus first appear to the eleven disciples on a mountain in Galilee or in Jerusalem behind closed doors?
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The Biggest Question of All
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I was only 19 years old and visiting my first foreign country. I witnessed firsthand the hopelessness of a world without the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Did Jesus Say He Created in Six Days?
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Did Jesus anywhere clearly state that the Earth was created in six ordinary (approximately 24 hours each) days?
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The Temple Cleansing
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Tim Chaffey, AiG–U.S., explains why John’s account of the temple cleansing must necessarily have been a different event from the one found in the Synoptic Gospels.
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It’s an Attack on the Son
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When you compromise the Word of God, it is also an attack on the Son of God, whose Word it is.
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Jesus on Creation
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In these words of Jesus we find He teaches that Adam and Eve were created in 'the beginning of the creation'-not billions of years after the beginning!
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Contradictions: When Did Jesus Cleanse the Temple?
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John states that Jesus cleansed the temple early in His ministry, but the other Gospels place the temple-cleansing near the end of His ministry. Tim Chaffey, AiG–U.S. explains these accounts.
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Jesus Christ: The Last Adam
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From the very beginning, Adam’s relationship with God was dependent on faith and obedience to God’s word as absolute truth.
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Jesus Christ on the Infallibility of Scripture
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There is considerable debate these days concerning the inerrancy (infallibility) of Scripture.
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Is Jesus “Woke”?
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Texas Lieutenant Governor candidate Matthew Dowd suggests Jesus would affirm LGBTQ “rights” and other liberal causes – a far cry from the Jesus in the Bible.
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Sin
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How should Christians understand the origin of sin? Why did God create man if He knew we would sin? What else does the Bible teach about sin?
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Original Sin Topic
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Does the doctrine of original sin stand or fall on the historicty of Genesis, Adam and Eve, the perfect creation, and the Fall of mankind?
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Lessons From the Fall
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Genesis 3 is one of the most important chapters in the Bible.
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Two Histories of Death
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When Charles Darwin wrote his famous book On the Origin of Species, he was in essence writing a history concerning death. God’s Word presents a different view.
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Is Male Headship a Curse?
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Because sin has entered the relationship, the spheres of
responsibility for a husband and wife,
as well as their marriage relationship,
now face conflict.
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Contradictions: Who Gets the Blame for Original Sin—Adam or Eve?
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Genesis 3 states that Eve ate the fruit first, but Romans 5 states that Adam caused sin to enter the world. Dr. Georgia Purdom, AiG–U.S. examines these Scriptures.
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Did the Fall Have Consequences on Creation? Romans 8:18–22
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A text that is very relevant to our understanding of Genesis 3, and the result of God’s cursing the entire creation, is Romans 8:18–22.
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Original Sin: How Original Is It? Romans 5:12
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The question we have to ask is this: does Romans 5:12 teach that we are guilty sinners in Adam and that physical death came about through him?
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Cartoon: Let There Be Truth
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But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat.
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Evolution and Original Sin
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Belief in evolution does more than just undermine the foundation for the doctrine of salvation found in Genesis. It also distorts our eschatological hope.
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Original Sin
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Does the Bible tell us that all men are born into sin? Tim Chaffey, AiG–U.S., explains.
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The Curse’s Significance
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Sunday school is often the place of stories. Monday-through-Friday school is the place of facts.
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Original Sin at the BBC
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The article is written as a statement of fact, but it contains a number of factual errors, and much in the way of personal opinion, dressed up as fact.
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The Lost Message of Jesus Is no Message at All!
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Steve Chalke may not be so well known outside the UK, but he is a well-known British evangelical personality who appears regularly on the TV.
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The Experience Trap—Healing
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As I returned to my room after visiting the nursing home, my youngest brother Stephen gave me an audio tape of one of Robert's sermons, entitled "The Experience Trap—Healing,"
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God and Sin = Gibberish?
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Our culture no longer understands “God” or “sin” the same way that the Bible does. Before we attempt to communicate the gospel, we must define our terms.
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The First Sin
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The first sin wasn’t eating the forbidden fruit in Eden. So what was it?
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Why Did God Create Mankind if He Knew Man Would Sin?
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Ask me why God created mankind even though He knew man would sin, and I hesitate.
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Death’s Cleanup Crew
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Cleaning up dead animals really stinks—and that’s a good thing, which shows God’s wise provision even in a fallen world.
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Was Creation Changed by Adam’s Sin?
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Genesis asserts and Romans confirms that sin corrupted the earth as well as humanity.
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Labor: A Blessing and a Curse
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Was work part of God’s perfect creation? Or is labor a result of Adam’s sin in the garden?
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Pride—Before and After the Fall
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What does the Bible say about pride and people who are proud?
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Childbirth: A Genesis Memorial
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Only the history God has revealed in the book of Genesis makes sense of childbirth: Great pain followed by indescribable joy.
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Cheating—Shaped by Environment or Behavior?
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A recent study examined the question of whether cheating was influenced by scarcity and/or abundance and also delved into the question of in-group versus outside group factors (an “us versus them” scenario). The study was conducted by Dr. Marco Palma and Dr. Billur Aksoy.
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Is Lying Justified?
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Is lying justified? Old heresies come back in new clothes but that does not alter the fact that they are still heresies. For those for whom the Bible is their final authority, there is no question that lying is never justified.
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Is Pride Worth Celebrating?
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Throughout the month various activities, including Pride Parades, will be taking place in celebration and honor of the LGBT community and sexual diversity. But this celebration of LGBT Pride points to something the Bible warns against time and time again—and it is not just sexual immorality.
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Can the Church Embrace Homosexual Behavior in the Name of Love?
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Is the compassionate answer to embrace sinful behavior and change our churches into inclusive sanctuaries that affirm and celebrate sinful behaviors?
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A Tangled Web: The Science of Lying Agrees with God’s Word
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True to the old saying, one lie becomes two, which can spiral into a web of deceit. New research shows the more we lie, the easier it is to continue lying.
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Reminding the World of What They Willfully Forgot
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The advent of sin in the heart of mankind brought into crystal-clear focus the reality that God’s holiness is now a threat to us.
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7.3 Danger No 3: Loss of the Key for Finding God
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The Bible describes man as being completely ensnared by sin after Adam’s fall.
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Contradictions: Did Animal Sacrifices Remove Sin?
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Leviticus 4:20–35 seem to teach that animal sacrifices can take away sins, while Hebrews 10:4–11 reveal they did not. Ron Dudek explains.
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Understanding the Answer in Genesis 3:16
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We live in a cursed world as a result of sin, and that Curse affects all areas of our lives, not just childbirth.
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Ken’s article on the Virginia Tech tragedy
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Feedback: A reader responds to Ken’s article on the Virginia Tech tragedy
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9/11 and the Real “Enemy”
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Two years ago, an enemy “from without” attacked the US by destroying the towers of the World Trade Center in New York, and also heavily damaging the Pentagon in Washington, DC, killing almost 3,000.
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Tragic Massacre at School in Germany
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An angry student at Gutenberg High School in Erfurt, Germany, has taken the lives of 14 teachers, 2 students, and a policeman, before killing himself.
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Our Heart Condition
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Imagine going to your doctor for your annual medical checkup.
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Omitting the “Sin” Word
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The culture in Western nations is changing. It just isn’t politically correct to call sin “a sin” anymore.
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The Fall Into Sin
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It is very true that familiarity breeds contempt. Who is not familiar with the story of man’s first sin?
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Suffering
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How can an all-powerful, loving God allow suffering and death?
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Why Does God’s Creation Include Death and Suffering?
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Why do bad things happen? Human beings seek to reconcile their understanding of an all-powerful, loving God with the seemingly endless suffering around them.
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Genesis at Ground Zero
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Ken Ham interviews Ralph DiCosimo, a New York police officer with first-hand experience of the aftermath of the horrific happenings of 11 September 2001.
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Why Do We Age?
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Aging is a
result of
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Natural Disasters
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How should we understand the horrible devastation and human suffering caused by natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and floods?
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Japan Tsunami Reminder
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Japan is still suffering from the effects of a devastating earthquake and tsunami that have taken more than 6,000 lives with over ten thousand more missing.
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A Lesson from a Hurricane
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As Hurricane Katrina bears down on Gulf Coast, it’s not God’s fault, but rather, it is our fault—the Bible says we sinned in Adam.
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Natural Disasters—God Getting His Revenge?
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It seems you can’t turn on the news without
hearing about another disaster.
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Southeast Asia Tsunami Anniversary
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Last week marked the fourth anniversary of a deadly natural disaster.
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“Lost” Without Genesis
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The issue of comprehending death and suffering in terms of a loving God has once again hit the media airwaves.
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Massive Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan
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For anyone watching the news, such devastation is shocking. How should Christians respond? Please continue to pray for the people of Japan.
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Hundreds of Species Voyage Across the Pacific After Japanese Tsunami
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The Japanese tsunami debris didn’t travel alone. Thousands of tiny voyagers survived the long passage at sea by riding on plastics.
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Tsunami Survivors Flooded with Memories
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Even a year later, debris remains from the March 11, 2011, tsunami that devastated Japan and caused thousands of deaths.
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Bringing Relief
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On Tuesday, the island nation of Haiti—already a desperately poor nation—was devastated by a major earthquake.
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Remembering Katrina
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For weeks now, the news channels have been busy reliving the horrors of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The one-year anniversary of its landfall is upon us and television is full of coverage.
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“Coals of Fire”
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AiG initiated a special relief effort to help thousands of public school students in Ocean Springs, Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina
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A Doctor’s ‘House Calls’ That Changed His Life
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Answers in Genesis-USA outreach team travels to Ocean Springs in southern Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina.
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On the Road to Mississippi — Katrina Outreach Update
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Read daily updates from the AiG Relief Team working in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
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Katrina Outreach Update
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An outpouring of generosity for those impacted by Hurricane Katrina has come into Answers in Genesis–USA as a work team prepares this week to take nearly 3,000 backpacks to Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
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More Than a Spiritual Problem
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When children grow up around violence, they need to see that this is not the way it's supposed to be. This isn't normal.
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Pope Francis Dies—A Reminder of the Sad Reality of a Groaning World
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When anyone passes away, whether someone we knew personally or a public figure, it’s always a reminder—a sad reminder of what our sin has done to creation.
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Death, Friend of Evolution
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Is death a problem or an evolutionary solution to cull the “unfit”?
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Nothing Undone—Asking for More Time
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Facing my mortality has reminded me to follow Christ’s example rather than Hezekiah’s as I spend my “extra time.”
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The Problem of Death
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At some point, everyone struggles with tragedy. Without the Bible’s account of creation, there are no good answers.
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Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen?
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We know death and suffering aren’t God’s fault—they are the result of living in a sin-cursed world. And Bible-believing Christians have hope in the midst of pain.
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Christian Reflections on the 80th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor
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The brutality of war, the value of people, our common ancestry in Adam, and need for a Savior on this 80th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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A Mourning to Remember—20 Years After 9/11
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Looking back at the events of September 11, 2001, we recount where we were and how God fortified our understanding of how he uses suffering in our lives.
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A God of Suffering?
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Why do innocent people and animals
have to face the consequences of Adam
and Eve’s sin?
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Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) and the Christian
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What are near-death experiences, types of NDEs, materialistic explanations of the phenomena, and how biblical Christians understand NDEs.
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Why Do Innocent Children Suffer?
| Answers in Genesis
Only God’s Word
can give us answers
about suffering—and offer comfort.
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Death, the Enemy: Child & a Dead Possum
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Thankfully, the Bible tells us we can have the hope of a day when the rotting opossum shall be no more. Through the conquering death and resurrection of Jesus Christ on the Cross, death has been defeated (2 Timothy 1:10). I’m thankful for my son’s moral intuition concerning animal death and the witness it bears.
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Did God Give Stephen Hawking ALS?
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Ken Ham’s Twitter post and the accompanying post on Facebook pertaining to Dr. Stephen Hawking’s death quickly garnered dozens of responses. Many were from skeptics, some accusing God of giving Dr. Hawking ALS, the motor neuron disease he suffered with nearly his whole life. Did God give him ALS?
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Suffering & Death
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If God is so good, why is this world filled with suffering and death? The answer is plainly described in Genesis 1–3. God created a “very good” world, but Adam’s rebellion brought a curse and death. The disease and death in the fossil record reflect this curse.
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Where was God?
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What does all the death and suffering in the world tell us about God? Is He simply a distant, disinterested being, or the loving Creator of a now-broken world?
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No One Is Good Except God Alone
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Do Christians accuse
God of calling cancer,
brain tumors, and
death “very good”?
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We Now Grieve with a Texas Church
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We pray for the families and friends of the 26 people killed and 20 wounded during a worship service at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas.
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Why Is the World Broken?
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This world is broken and can’t seem to find its way. Where is the all-knowing, loving Creator God in the midst of all this pain and suffering?
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Bill Nye’s Undeniable and the Fear of Death
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Bill Nye not only connects fear of death with rejection of evolution but even explains this seemingly “irrational” notion as a result of human evolution!
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The Intensive Care Unit
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When times are great, we should praise God and thank Him for His goodness. When times are tough, we should do the same and lean completely on Him.
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School Tragedy in Connecticut
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The tragic school shooting in Connecticut is another vivid reminder that we live in a fallen and sin-cursed world. Our hearts go out to those affected by this tragedy.
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Were They “Worse Sinners”?
| Answers in Genesis
Each year on September 11, Americans recall the horror of the 2001 terrorist attacks against the USA.
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Tragedy in Colorado
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Tragedy in Colorado is a stark reminder of the sin and death that clouds this world.
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Steve Jobs’ Views of Religion Shown in Biography
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Steve Jobs, like so many described in AiG’s book Already Gone, did not get the answers to the questions troubling his heart and so walked away from God.
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Ten Years Later—Remembering 9/11
| Answers in Genesis
It’s one of the most sobering anniversaries that Americans (especially those over the age of 18) will ever commemorate—recalling the horrible terrorist acts that struck America 10 years ago today.
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A Valentine’s Love Story . . . with a Poignant Twist
| Answers in Genesis
We look back on appreciation for Paul’s talent and ministry that will continue inside the museum.
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Is It Really a Beautiful World?
| Answers in Genesis
Sometimes Christians give the wrong impression that the existence of a “loving and wise Designer” is obvious simply because we see so much “beauty” in creation.
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A Young Earth—It’s Extremely Relevant
| Answers in Genesis
Many Christians have been led to believe that the debate over the age of the earth is unimportant because it is “just a side issue.” In reality, however, this thinking is erroneous.
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Now, But Not Yet
| Answers in Genesis
When we understand the beauty and perfection of Eden, and how sin changed everything, we are forced to be consistent when we talk about good and bad, and right and wrong.
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Bowing the Knee
| Answers in Genesis
When “the fog” becomes so thick that we can’t see any of God's promises, we have no choice but to return to His living Word to give us the full, big picture.
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Beauty from Ashes
| Answers in Genesis
For some reason, many Christians have picked up the notion that everything should work out the way they want now that they have given their lives to Christ.
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Beyond the Grave
| Answers in Genesis
Sometimes facing reality can be discouraging. It’s disillusioning when we see that life is not what we thought it would be.
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A Voice from the Past
| Answers in Genesis
Facing a serious illness and the certainty of death is a humbling experience and wakes us up by shattering the illusion of security and health that surrounds us
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HCALG: The Big Picture
| Answers in Genesis
In the midst of the difficult details of what we were facing, I needed to put things in the context of the “big picture.”
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Only “Time and Death”?
| Answers in Genesis
A question as important and integrated as the one dealing with pain, suffering, and death cannot be answered superficially.
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And It Was Good
| Answers in Genesis
The words of Genesis chapters 1 and 2 present to us the incredible chronicle of the first six days of existence.
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Foreword
| Answers in Genesis
Humanity is always looking for someone else to blame, and it seems that it may as well be God. Do you notice, though, that the blame is always laid before a “loving God.”
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It Started in Eden
| Answers in Genesis
The ongoing spate of violence in America’s public schools saw tragic manifestations last year, including the murder of five Amish girls.
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September 11, 2001—Five Years On
| Answers in Genesis
The events of September 11, 2001 are etched on my mind. I know precisely what I was doing on that day, when the airplanes were crashed into the Twin Towers. I was planning my father’s funeral.
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September 11—An Anniversary of Death and Suffering
| Answers in Genesis
“Why is there death and suffering?” is an oft-asked question, but there is little doubt that exactly five years ago, it was on the minds of nearly everyone.
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“Crocodile Hunter” Dies
| Answers in Genesis
I woke up on the Labor Day holiday in the USA (September 4) to hear the news that the famed “Crocodile hunter,” Steve Irwin, died in Queensland Australia.
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Living After the Loss
| Answers in Genesis
How can the tragic, totally unexpected death of a 17-year-old young man produce anything good?
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Why Us?
| Answers in Genesis
Numerous books have been written to try to explain what seems to be an irreconcilable problem—Christianity’s claim of a God of love in the face of the evil, death, suffering in this world.
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Why Is School Violence in the Headlines Again?
| Answers in Genesis
Why did a 16-year-old Minnesota student go on a shooting spree and cause the deadliest school shooting in the USA in six years?
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Creation, Suffering and the Problem of Evil
| Answers in Genesis
The problem of evil continues to be a supposed ‘safe haven’ for the skeptic. He believes that issue gives evidence to support his rebellious attitude toward God.
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Why Do Bad Things Happen? US Adults Answer
| Answers in Genesis
Twenty-three percent of Americans have pondered the problem of suffering over the past two years. God’s Word has answers.
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September 11—a Tragic Reminder
| Answers in Genesis
September 11 is a solemn reminder about our need to pray for one another in our efforts to give real answers to a troubled nation.
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New Witnessing Booklet Addresses Tough Question
| Answers in Genesis
On the morning of September 11th, I was on my computer writing an article entitled ‘The Two Histories of Death.’
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April 1999 Newsletter
| Answers in Genesis
An explanation of how the world is full of death and suffering and God, at the same time, be good.
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What Does God Want from Me?
| Answers in Genesis
How can people be made right with God? And how can Christians please God in both the seemingly mundane decisions and in the serious choices of life?
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Who’s Number One in the Universe?
| Answers in Genesis
When people look at your life, who has the preeminence?
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Decision, Decisions
| Answers in Genesis
Life is full of decisions, big and small, every day. How can we be sure we’re making the right decision?
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Zombies, Vampires, and Werewolves—Oh No!
| Answers in Genesis
Whether we like it or not, scary monsters permeate our culture, particularly during this season. What should our attitude be toward these “monsters”?
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Paper or Priceless?
| Answers in Genesis
Before you rush off and follow the crowd, take a minute to consider: How much do you value your purity?
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Having a Purpose to Your Life Keeps You Healthy
| Answers in Genesis
An article in New Scientist, by Teal Burrell, describes the health benefits that come from having a purpose and meaning to your life.
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Through Your Lens
| Answers in Genesis
Christians should do much more than just admire God’s
handiwork as an end in itself.
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What Are the Most Important Questions?
| Answers in Genesis
The most important questions really come down to who is God and what does He want from you?
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Is My Love for the Lord Real?
| Answers in Genesis
We can say that we love God and others, but talk is cheap. How can we know for certain whether our love is real?
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Lost
| Answers in Genesis
We are facing a major culture shift, and the losses are mounting. It's never too late to begin implementing biblical solutions.
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Dangerous Vacations
| Answers in Genesis
Spiritual vacatons from God always spell disaster.
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You Can Make a Difference!
| Answers in Genesis
What comes to mind when you think of October 31st?
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The Humility Factor
| Answers in Genesis
It takes the eyes of humble faith for humans to see that “the whole earth is full of His glory” (Isaiah 6:3).
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For Whom Should We Vote?
| Answers in Genesis
How should we pick among candidates? What is the “heart” of the issue?
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“I Know Nothing!”
| Answers in Genesis
The book of Job is a revelation of God and His creation, including extensive treatment of behemoth and leviathan!
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Who Is God?
| Answers in Genesis
Who is God? What is He like? What is His character? What is His nature?
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It All Starts with God’s Character
| Answers in Genesis
What is the ultimate, unshakable source of the Bible’s authority?
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The Trinity
| Answers in Genesis
Three Persons yet one essence—the doctrine of the Trinity may be difficult to understand, but it is an essential, non-negotiable doctrine.
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The Trinity
| Answers in Genesis
The Bible clearly affirms the existence of three distinct Persons that are all identified as the one God of the universe.
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Is the Trinity Three Different Gods?
| Answers in Genesis
Have you ever wondered about the doctrine of the Trinity? How could the God of the Bible be one God, but at the same time three Persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?
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God, the Holy Spirit
| Answers in Genesis
The Holy Spirit is not an impersonal force. The Bible teaches that he is active in our lives, a distinct person, and fully God.
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Prayer and the Trinity
| Answers in Genesis
Our view of the members of the Trinity shape our view of prayer. Dr. Mark Bird will discuss how the New Testament authors relate prayer to the Trinity.
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The Trinity and Creation
| Answers in Genesis
The doctrine of the Trinity is not just “traditional”; it has a firm basis in Scripture.
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Refuting Unitarian Errors Regarding the Deity of Jesus
| Answers in Genesis
Unitarians reject the triune nature of God and argue that the Bible teaches Jesus was not a divine Person but is simply the one Lord Messiah (a human being). This issue is important, because if we deny the deity of Jesus then we do not know the Father and, therefore, we do not have eternal life.
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The Trinity—A Non-negotiable Doctrine
| Answers in Genesis
Tim Chaffey, AiG–U.S., explains why the Trinity is such an essential biblical doctrine.
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God Is Good
| Answers in Genesis
Skeptics often claim that the God of the Bible is a cruel, vindictive God, but the Bible paints a different picture—God is a good and loving God.
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Is God really good?
| Answers in Genesis
How can a good God send someone to hell.
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God’s Biggest “Problem”
| Answers in Genesis
AIDS, genocide, slavery, earthquakes, hurricanes, terrorism—where did these evils come from, and how could a loving God allow people to endure such horrors?
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Did God Create Williams Syndrome?
| Answers in Genesis
As Christians who embrace a life-affirming worldview, we often discuss how beautifully designed the human body is—a masterpiece of God’s creation. We know that we are “fearfully and wonderfully” made. So how does a child with a genetic disorder (or any “problem”) fit into this worldview?
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If God Made Woman for Man, Then What Is God’s Plan for Singleness
| Answers in Genesis
This Valentine’s Day, in your singleness, I encourage you to look for love, for belonging, and for acceptance in what Jesus offers.
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The “god” of an Old Earth
| Answers in Genesis
Does the Bible teach that disease, bloodshed, violence and pain have always been ‘part of life’? What would this say about God?
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Death: A Curse and a Blessing
| Answers in Genesis
There is an easy to understand reason why death and suffering exist in a world created by a God of love. Evolution (death over millions of years) destroys the foundation of the message of the cross.
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Contradictions: Can God Be Tempted?
| Answers in Genesis
The Bible clearly states that God cannot be tempted by evil, so why do other passages speak of God being tempted? Chris Russell, AiG–U.S., explains.
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Is God Selfish and Vindictive?
| Answers in Genesis
A concerned reader wonders how to respond to the claim that God is vindictive. Tim Chaffey, AiG–U.S., responds.
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Examining the True Character of God the Father
| Answers in Genesis
Some people mischaracterize God the Father as only judgment and righteousness. While these are true characteristics, there is much more to our gracious heavenly Father.
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Is God Deceiving Us?
| Answers in Genesis
Dr. Lisle responds to feedback concerning his recent paper on the distant starlight problem.
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Why Won’t God Heal Amputees?
| Answers in Genesis
A surprising often-asked question is “why doesn’t God heal amputees”? Peter Galling and John UpChurch join in answering this alleged problem.
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Hurricanes and a Loving God?
| Answers in Genesis
If there really is a God of love, how can He allow these horrible things to happen?
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Did God Make Pathogenic Viruses?
| Answers in Genesis
A review of the structure, function, and role of viruses in ecology is presented.
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How Could a Loving God ... ?
| Answers in Genesis
When we accept Genesis as it was meant to be taken—as literal history—then we understand that death, disease, and violence are intrusions into this world.
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Evil at God’s Hand
| Answers in Genesis
We give God credit for the good things, but what is His role in the bad?
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Good God—Bad World? How Can That Be?
| Answers in Genesis
The world is filled with pain, suffering, and death. How does a loving Creator fit into this messy picture?
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Why Do God’s Children Suffer?
| Answers in Genesis
A swimming accident as a teenager left Joni Eareckson Tada paralyzed.
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The Source of All Wisdom
| Answers in Genesis
Why do so many scientists and intellectuals say “There is no God?”
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God and the Australian Floods
| Answers in Genesis
Tragedies beyond description have hit Queensland. The question often comes up at this point: Where is God in the midst of all this loss of life and property?
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The God Problem?
| Answers in Genesis
Apparently, the author of God’s Problem never took seriously Genesis’s account of the origin of death and suffering.
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How Could a Loving God: Introduction
| Answers in Genesis
Underneath these questions was a deeper question still, and it was a question that demanded an answer: Why would a loving God allow, or even cause, such pain, decay, and death?
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Why does the universe continue to exist?
| Answers in Genesis
God is not simply a passive observer, the Bible tells us that He sustains His creation—something that is evident from scientific research.
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When God’s Plan Hurts
| Answers in Genesis
Through Barbara Edwards’ painful struggle with rheumatoid arthritis, she and her husband Brian developed a deep relationship with, and an everlasting hope in, their God and Savior.
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News Anchor Searches for God
| Answers in Genesis
John Humphrys is a household name in the UK. He is one of the principal anchors of BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, which broadcasts every morning of the week except Sunday.
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How Could a Loving God Allow It?
| Answers in Genesis
The tremendous loss of life and property caused by the December 26, 2004 tsunami prompted many people to re-ask the question: how could a loving God allow it?
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Given in the Love of Our Creator, Jesus Christ
| Answers in Genesis
Hurrican Katrina devastated much of the Gulf Coast, and Answers in Genesis asked the question, "How can we help?".
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Powerful Testimony: Sharing God’s Love in the Midst of Tragedy
| Answers in Genesis
Ken Ham interviews Frank and Sue Zitzman about the tragic death of their 17-year-old son and the way God is using them to minister to others as a result.
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God Glorified in Life and Death of a ‘Handicapped’ Child
| Answers in Genesis
The testimony of AiG supporter, Tom Carpenter of Georgia, USA, who recently lost his 15-year-old son after years of struggling with a devastating health condition.
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National Academy of Science is Godless to the Core–Survey
| Answers in Genesis
The National Academy of Science (USA) has recently produced a guidebook for public school teachers, Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science.
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Since God is the Author of Creation ...
| Answers in Genesis
There are many who have rejected the Genesis record of Creation on what they believe are 'scientific grounds.'
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Who is the God of Evolution—And Can He be Trusted?
| Answers in Genesis
Was life created fully formed? Or did it evolve gradually by mutation and natural selection over millions of years? Why should anyone care?
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The Lord Is a Great God and a Great King Above All Gods
| Answers in Genesis
One of the many criticisms leveled at biblical creationists is “if we teach about your God, why not teach about the many other gods in the world?”
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Creator God
| Answers in Genesis
The Bible reveals God as the Creator of the universe who carefully fashioned mankind in His very own image.
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The Missing Ingredient in History
| Answers in Genesis
The Creator has revealed Himself in both science and history.
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Man: The Image of God
| Answers in Genesis
According to the Bible, the first man was perfect, made in the image of God.
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Of Creation in General
| Answers in Genesis
Baptist theologian Dr. John Gill had an essential grasp on how the creation account is extremely important to Christianity in the 1700s. It still is.
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The Creator
| Answers in Genesis
I now want to look at the most important aspect of Creation; Who is the Creator? How does the Hebrew language of Genesis describe Him?
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The Root of the Problem
| Answers in Genesis
The reason that people do not want to accept creation is that it means there is a Creator who sets the rules. Thus, no person can write his own rules.
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Creation, Flood, and Coming Fire
| Answers in Genesis
A message and warning from 2 Peter 3 concerning the rejection in the last days of the belief in God as Creator. This should be a real warning to everyone of the importance of origins.
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“He Could Have Done It That Way . . . Couldn’t He?”
| Answers in Genesis
“It’s not a matter of what God could have done, but what He said He did!”
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Are We Restricting God?
| Answers in Genesis
Does a straightforward reading of the Bible restrict God? Dr. Jason Lisle, AiG–U.S., looks at this oft-repeated claim.
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Secularist Intolerance Against Scientific Paper
| Answers in Genesis
Intolerance against Christians’ freedom to express their Christian worldview is increasing from a minority of secularists who are in positions of authority.
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Science in the Balance
| Answers in Genesis
Science is a powerful, God-given tool, but only the Bible is true in every aspect.
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What Has God Been Doing All These Years?
| Answers in Genesis
Was God “sitting on His throne twiddling His thumbs” for eternity past until a few thousand years ago?
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Remembering the Creator—From Space
| Answers in Genesis
As the world turned its attention to the heavens on December 24, 1968, the Apollo 8 crew turned their eyes to earth and their thoughts to the One who formed it.
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He Could Have Done It That Way
| Answers in Genesis
Many times I’ve heard people tell me something like “God could have used evolution” or “God could have created over millions of years.”
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“I Have Been Told Its All About Faith”
| Answers in Genesis
“Now although one must respect others views, beliefs, and opinions, I by my own nature must disagree whole heartedly with the creation story etc.”
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Why Should We Listen to You?
| Answers in Genesis
Evolutionary scientists seem to delight in coming up with ever more evidence that man is not unique or special in any sense of the word.
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Creation Combats ‘Old Universe’ Idea
| Answers in Genesis
From our everyday experience we know that the greater the intelligence and skill of a person making something, the less time is required to make it.
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The “Greenness” of God
| Answers in Genesis
In an effort to link Christianity with the conservation movement, some people portray God as the ‘Original Greenie’ whose chief concern is the preservation of the natural environment.
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The Creator God of the Bible
| Answers in Genesis
Condensed from a taped lecture by Ivan Bowden Dean of Queensland Bible Institute, given at the Summer Institute of Creation Science 1979/80.
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Is the God of the Old Testament Brutal and Evil?
| Answers in Genesis
God is as merciful and forgiving in the Old Testament as in the New.
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The Overflowing Love of God
| Answers in Genesis
Substantive and enduring love is ultimately rooted in and continually flows from God himself, even from before creation. God eternally existed before the world in intra-trinitarian fellowship in which there is an overflowing of love and delight for each of the other members of the Godhead.
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Does God Hear?
| Answers in Genesis
Many churches now place a heavy emphasis on praise and worship music in their services. It’s important to make sure our priorities line up.
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Is God Male or Female?
| Answers in Genesis
An overview of God revealed as a male in Scripture and a critique of feminist biblical revisionism.
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What Was God Doing Before Creation?
| Answers in Genesis
One reason people give for rejecting a young universe is that they think it somehow limits God. After all, what was He doing all that time before creation?
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Give Thanks to the Lord for He Is Good
| Answers in Genesis
Thanksgiving Day provides an opportunity to thank God for his goodness and his steadfast love. Throughout history, God is praised by thankful people.
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Does God Change His Mind?
| Answers in Genesis
In recent years, advocates of a theory called open theism have argued that God can and does change and that we can cause that change.
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Did God Forget about Noah?
| Answers in Genesis
Genesis 8:1 teaches an important truth in the Flood account: God’s attention was focused on Noah and those with him on the Ark.
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Is God Omnipotent?
| Answers in Genesis
The clear, biblical answer is yes. Nothing that is possible according to God’s character and purpose is impossible for Him.
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7.2 Danger No 2: Misrepresentation of the Nature of God
| Answers in Genesis
Jesus reveals God to us as our Father in heaven who is absolutely perfect, and the angels proclaim, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty.”
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Don’t Be the Devil’s Fool: Why God Hates Lying
| Answers in Genesis
April Fools’ Day is here, and the time seems right to briefly explore the subject of foolery and lies, examining what the Bible has to say about deception.
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It’s a Sign!
| Answers in Genesis
In God’s Word, we can read of a number of signs (or reminders) that help us never forget the truths of the Bible.
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1. God’s Character
| Answers in Genesis
How can we help people believe that the Bible is true? It is by sharing with others the matchless character of the God who ultimately wrote the Bible.
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Can We Understand God’s Ways?
| Answers in Genesis
A supportive pastor asks us why we teach that God’s ways are understandable to humans. But understanding God’s ways is impossible for finite minds.
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Just How Omnipotent?
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A reader wants to know why there are some things an omnipotent God cannot do. Dr. Jason Lisle, AiG–U.S., responds.
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Contradictions: A Change of Heart
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If God never changes, then how can He change His mind?
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Is the Present the Key to the Past?
| Answers in Genesis
Does the fact that God is rational and consistent necessitate that present processes are the key to understanding the past?
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The Story of God—An Overview
| Answers in Genesis
The Story of God—a review of part one of the new BBC–TV series on the evolution of religion
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“Shopping for God”
| Answers in Genesis
Last year, a national newspaper in Australia (The Weekend Australian) ran a series of editorials/letters/interviews concerning God, Christianity, the church, and religion.
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What Is Science?
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Observational science is testable and repeatable, whereas historical (origins) science is extrapolation of current rates and processes back into the past.
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Biblical Faith is Not “Blind”—It’s Supported by Good Science
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The word “science” is used in many ways. Many secular humanists try to redefine science as “naturalism”—the belief that nature is “all there is.”
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What Is Science?
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Science: Knowledge that is testable, repeatable, observable, and falsifiable - originally developed by men who assumed God created an orderly universe.
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Do Creationists Reject Science?
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Anyone familiar with the creation/evolution debate should know that anti-creationists love to lob the accusation that creationists are “anti-science” or that they “reject science.”
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Are We Anti-science?
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Creationists are often accused of being “anti-science” or of “rejecting science.” But how well does this claim reflect reality? Are we really against science?
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Science or the Bible?
| Answers in Genesis
Ever heard one of these claims? Perhaps you’ve even said one yourself. We’ve heard them all—but they’re all false, or at least they imply a falsehood.
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Prosecution—The Philosophy and Correct Application of Science
| Answers in Genesis
In this chapter we will examine the nature and role of science, as well as the ability and limitations of scientific dating methods.
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Yes, “Science Is Good” but Not the Way BioLogos Thinks
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BioLogos recently published “An Open Letter to People of Faith About Science” in which they announced their new “Science is Good” initiative.
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Two Kinds of Science?
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We are often told that “evolution is science.” But what is meant by “science” makes all the difference in understanding the origins debate.
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Galileo & Creation in Early Modern Science
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The controversies regarding the early chapters of Genesis and the geological discoveries and theories were part of a complex movement of thought which pulsed through the educated minds of Europeans.
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Is Historical Science Useful?
| Answers in Genesis
The differences between empirical and historical science, how predictions can be helpful in the sciences, and how worldview affects our perspective about the past.
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Doesn’t Science Disprove the Bible
| Answers in Genesis
In today’s world we often hear statements like “science disproves creation” or “science proves evolution.”
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A Response to “Talking Science as Christians”
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On June 5, 2018, a self-described Christian and professor of chemistry published a provocative blog post titled “Talking Science as Christians.” The author, “RJS,” under the guise of offering advice from a career in science, took young-earth creation (YEC) to task and sharply rebuked it.
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Feedback: “You Can Question Science”
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Many evolutionists believe creationists ignore or have a low view of science. Of course, those familiar with science know scientists try to disprove, not prove, their hypothesis. And future evidence can overturn what was already believed to be established science. So, of course, scientific findings can be questioned.
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First Usage of Origins vs. Operational Science
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Did YECs invent the terms origin science or historical science, and if so did we invent these terms just to discredit evolution? Do we deny that we can know anything about the past because we weren’t there to observe it, or that any event in the past is unknowable?
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“Overwhelming Evidence in All Fields of Science Supports Evolution.”
| Answers in Genesis
There is no “neutral” starting point; everyone—whether they acknowledge it or not—interprets the “facts” according to a particular worldview.
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Is There Really a War on Science?
| Answers in Genesis
Is the collective body of knowledge and the methodology we call “science” teetering on the precipice of extinction or, worse, about to be pushed off?
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Can Forensic Science Trace the World’s Origins?
| Answers in Genesis
One of the most popular facets of science right now is forensics. But no investigative science is more accurate than an eyewitness account.
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Conflict Between the Classrooms
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Most people think that the battle over creation and evolution is being fought between “science” and “religion.” But there are two problems with this thinking.
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Is Scientific Research Flawed?
| Answers in Genesis
Is it possible that we are facing a situation where there is a massive production of wrong information or distortion of information?
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Evolution Won’t Heal
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Today we constantly hear warnings that evolution is necessary for science. Oh, really?
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Mystick Mystery: Scientists Investigate Connecticut’s Pequot War
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Examining the battlefield of Fort Mystick, almost 400 years later, can illustrate both the value and limitations of forensic science, showcasing apologetics.
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National Geographic Accuses AiG of Doubting Science
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A National Geographic article featuring the Creation Museum considers AiG science doubters, but the evidence always confirms the biblical creation account.
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Science of Uncertainty
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A physicist makes clear that the essence of science is gathering data and interpreting that data in ways that are often insufficient, limited, and changeable.
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Bill Nye: Fighting for “Science”?
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Bill Nye’s technique uses the same word science to refer to what is clearly historical science as well as for what is clearly observational science.
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Popular Science Is Now Popular Spin?
| Answers in Genesis
Popular Science’s September 2014 issue jumped into an arena that it is unprepared for, and this particular issue should be renamed Popular Spin.
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Does Religion Cripple Science Innovation?
| Answers in Genesis
Cosmos astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson asserts that religious influence on science intellectually cripples would-be innovators.
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De-Nyeing Science
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The latest message of Bill Nye, “the Science Guy,” is that creation is dangerous and evolution the basis for modern science. Does he truly understand science?
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Science Teacher Reveals Unscientific Bias, Blind Spot
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Despite the common claim that scientists objectively evaluate their observations, this teacher’s predetermined decision to reject and mock all he saw is clear from the beginning.
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Bill Nye Denies Young Earth
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Bill Nye claims denying the earth is 4.54 billion years old is like believing the earth is flat.
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Deceitful Terms—Historical and Observational Science
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Is there a legitimate distinction between historical and observational science, or are we being misleading to use those terms? Troy Lacey, AiG–U.S., explains.
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Elaine Ecklund's Survey of Scientists
| Answers in Genesis
In June we discussed the work of Rice University sociologist Elaine Ecklund, whose survey of scientists revealed that, among other things, “the academy seems to have a ‘strong culture’ that suppresses discussion about religion in many areas.” Ecklund now weighs in on the topic in a USA Today opinion piece.
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Dinosaur Doubts Down Under
| Answers in Genesis
An Australian national survey reveals that one in three Australians believes humans and dinosaurs coexisted and thus were not separated by millions of years.
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Does Science Need God?
| Answers in Genesis
Could science operate if the biblical God didn’t exist? Dr. Jason Lisle, AiG–U.S., shows why even atheist scientists unwittingly depend upon a God they don’t believe in.
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The Cost of Skepticism?
| Answers in Genesis
“Questioning theories is usually a healthy pursuit”—except when life and death are concerned, or when the “theory” in question is evolution.
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Must Science Exclude the Supernatural?
| Answers in Genesis
A reader claims that “natural” phenomena are the only valid scientific explanations. Dr. Jason Lisle, AiG–U.S., examines this often repeated claim.
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Selling Science to the Public
| Answers in Genesis
In a recent swath of articles and letters, evolutionists have been examining how they frame “science” to the public—though ignoring their own presuppostions.
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Scare tactics
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The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) headed by Dr. Eugenie Scott has started a campaign to try to discourage parents from bringing their children to the Creation Museum.
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Pseudoscience: More or Less?
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A recent study by Jon D. Miller of Michigan State University reveals interesting developments in the U.S. populace’s familiarity with science and beliefs about alleged “pseudoscience.”
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Two Very Different Looks at the Role of Evolution in Medicine
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Well-known NBC-TV reporter Robert Bazell suggests that the evolution debate adds little to the education of physicians. He also ridicules those who are proponents of intelligent design and creation.
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Science and Faith
| Answers in Genesis
Should we keep the Bible out of science? Is that even possible?
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American Leadership in the Sciences: Endangered?
| Answers in Genesis
A feature of the growing creation-evolution controversy in this nation is the near-universal misrepresentation or misunderstanding of the issues by most in the secular media.
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Answers or Ignorance?
| Answers in Genesis
Sadly, many people confuse science with philosophy and accordingly seem to confuse themselves into thinking that the unrepeated philosophy of evolution is science.
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Being Brainwashed?
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Editors respond to critic who feels AIG is "brainwashing" people.
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Popular Science—It May Be Popular, but It’s Not Science!
| Answers in Genesis
The magazine Popular Science often jazzes up evolutionary ‘science’ to appeal to a broad audience.
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Biology
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Biology, the study of living things, is a rich science filled with intricacy and complexity that demands the presence of an intelligent Creator God.
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Plants
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Plants grow in nearly every environment and come in an amazing variety of shapes, sizes, colors, and types. These “solar machines” are marvels of design.
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What's in a Cup?
| Answers in Genesis
Down the road and around the world, coffee connects a community of people.
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Experiment: Growing Plastics on the Farm
| Answers in Genesis
The master Engineer
provided all the parts for
plastics, long before the
modern Plastic Age began.
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Flowers—Not Just a Pretty Face
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The Creator is practical and hardworking. He made the heavens and earth, and he calls his creations to continue that work. Flowers answer this mandate through fulfilling their wonderful underlying purpose—seed making. They’re among the most remarkable structures in nature.
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Talking Trees—Secrets of Plant Communication
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Forests are nurseries
of health and well-being.
New discoveries
are showing that this
doesn’t happen by
accident. The trees are
working together.
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Experiment: Hiding Their True Colors
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The rich and vibrant greens of the forest canopy delight our eyes. But did you know that these leaves are hiding something they won’t reveal until fall?
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Experiment: Why Not a Square Tree?
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Some realities of nature are so common that we don’t even stop to ask why. Like round trees.
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Farming Frustrations? ...
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No matter where you are, growing food surely is frustrating and hard work.
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Plant Communication: How Plants Learned to Talk
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Plants have an awkward predicament. Since they’re unable to simply get up and walk, or even shout when in danger, we often think of plants as passive receivers of whatever the environment throws at them. However, plants are far from passive.
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How Did We Get All This Coal?
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Were enough plants alive at the time of the Flood to produce huge reserves of coal so quickly?
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Power Plants
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What if we could find an efficient process that extracted a pure source of power—hydrogen gas—directly out of water. Between concerns about global warming, oil shortages, and increasing gasoline prices, what can the general public do? Where can we find an alternative energy source?
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Carnivorous Plants: Plants III
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An overview of carnivorous plants, differing mechanisms in plants, and whether carnivorous plants contradict the “very good” original creation in Genesis.
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Parasitic Plants
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In light of a perfect pre-fall creation, parasitic plants may appear to be a thorny issue for a biblical worldview. But, digging deeper reveals a more biblical understanding.
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Plant Communication: Into the Roots
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Plants communicate for a variety of reasons and in many more ways than we have probably discovered. This article discusses some of the documented “under-the-table” communications.
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Is Plant Polyploidy a Viable Mechanism for Evolution?
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This and the next paper from this author will discuss whether polyploidy is deleterious, give examples of polyploid organisms, and attempt to explain polyploidy in a biblical creation paradigm, while assessing whether it is a viable mechanism for evolution.
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The Creation of Plants, Pollinators, and their Post-Flood Adaptations
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How should young-earth creationists explain the formation of highly specific relationships between plants and insects in light of our current understanding that Ark kinds may have been more generalized on (insects) and off (plants) the Ark?
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How Did Plants Survive and Disperse after the Flood?
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This article addresses these and other questions regarding post-Flood plant survival and dispersal, and consider mechanisms by which this may have occurred.
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Mystery Plant of the Desert
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There is no other plant like it because it is so strange that some scientists have classified it as the only member of its species, genus, family, and order.
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Thorns and Thistles
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Scripture contains many references to plants and agriculture as examples of spiritual realities.
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Peat Moss—Man’s Wisdom or God’s Wisdom?
| Answers in Genesis
When we examine the world in the light of God’s Word, what we see makes sense—including the amazing design of Sphagnum peat moss.
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The Genesis of “Rat-Eating” Plants
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As improbable as it sounds, there are plants that can digest rats and other small vertebrates.
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Origin of Photosynthesis
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Certainly evolutionsts do not believe that bacteria consciously invented photosynthesis. So, what evolutionary mechanisms might be responsible for bacteria being able to “invent” photosynthesis?
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Do Plants and Leaves Die?
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Do plants and leaves die? What is the difference between plants and animals or man? For a biblical answer, we need to look at the phrase nephesh chayyah.
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Are GMOs Ethical?
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What are genetically modified organisms (GMOs), are GMOs unhealthy, and ultimately how should a Christian should view GMOs in light of the dominion mandate in Genesis 1?
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Contradictions: Planting Confusion
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Critics have charged that the first two chapters of the Bible contain a contradiction regarding the creation of the vegetation. Tim Chaffey, AiG–U.S., explains.
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Little Green Machines
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Reminders about the loving Creator are all around us, even in the grass we walk on.
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Pollen Floral Roots Deeper in Fossil Record
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Flower evolution has long been assigned to the Early Cretaceous period. Did Triassic dinosaurs wake up and smell the roses?
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The Origin of Plants
| Answers in Genesis
The creation of plants in their many diverse forms is apparent in the intricate design of plant systems.
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Carefree Clean
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God constructed the lotus with the most advanced nanotechnology imaginable.
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Orchids—A Bouquet of Adaptations
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The existence of thousands of orchid species staggers the imagination. Yet each species seems perfectly adapted for the insects that pollinate the flower.
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Countdown to Dinner
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A Venus flytrap isn’t interested
in eating salad. It’s
waiting for signs of fresh meat.
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Rock Garden
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Imagine a plant trying to hide from being eaten in the brown desert.
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Beauty Eye of the Beholder: Copycat orchids
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Did evolution teach this orchid how to get a bee in its bonnet?
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Ancient Blobs of the Andes
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Strange green blobs are taking over the Atacama Desert in the Chilean Andes.
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Plant Mites Untouched by Evolutionary Change
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Plant mites sail through the sands of time untouched by evolutionary change.
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Plant Sensitivity
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“What’s good for the goose is good for the gooseberry.”
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God's Seed Bank
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By God’s unique design, the forest is already preparing for the next big catastrophe. From floods, forest fires, and volcanoes to insect swarms, ice storms, and clear-cutting, a devastating variety of environmental disasters threaten forests all over the world.
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How Do Seeds Spread?
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The journey each seed takes from its source to
its destination illustrates the Creator’s design.
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Sugar Beets—Farm-Fresh Deicers
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One-third of the world’s sugar comes from the lowly sugar beet. But God stored other treasures in this tuber, which we’re just beginning to exploit.
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Succulent Splendor
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Enjoy caring for your own succulents at home—and let their wild varieties remind you of their Designer’s inexhaustible creativity.
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Plant Rights
| Answers in Genesis
In 2008, Ecuador guaranteed constitutional rights to plants, and an attorney in the United States is now planning to file lawsuits to secure plants rights.
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Creepy Crawly Plants
| Answers in Genesis
Imagine a plant that’s sensitive to its surroundings and responds accordingly. Sound like science fiction? It’s not!
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Bladderworts—Fastest Trap in the West
| Answers in Genesis
This marvel of miniature design is set by tiny plants, called bladderworts, which seek to supplement their diet.
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The Miracle Tree
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Can you imagine a plant that is nutritious, grows rapidly without special care, has medicinal value, and provides chemicals to purify water in remote places?
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Plants—Standing Their Ground
| Answers in Genesis
In a fallen world where it’s eat or be eaten,
even plants need protection.
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Desert Rhubarb—Three-Foot Oasis
| Answers in Genesis
Jewish scientists have discovered an amazing species of rhubarb that “irrigates itself” through the advanced irrigation system on its broad leaves.
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Seeing the Forest amid the Trees
| Answers in Genesis
Creationists get so focused on finding evidence of design in individual organisms that they overlook the bigger picture—design of the ecosystems.
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Experiment: Those Swell Seeds
| Answers in Genesis
God placed within small seeds an astonishing ability to move mountains, which even pyramid builders sought to imitate.
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Forests in Antarctica After the Flood?
| Answers in Genesis
After the flood, there is evidence that forests sprang up in Antarctica.
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Pint-Size Predators
| Answers in Genesis
Today's carnivorous plants show how topsy-turvy the world has become after Adam;s rebellion.
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Those Cursed Weeds!
| Answers in Genesis
After God cursed the earth, the war between man and weeds began. And the weeds seem to have the upper hand.
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Da Vinci Formula Explains Tree Growth
| Answers in Genesis
Tree trunk math . . . more complicated than meets the eye.
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Super-Plants
| Answers in Genesis
Plants capture a little of the sun’s abundant energy and make it available for us. What if we could help them to do it better?
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Pitcher Plants Symbiosis
| Answers in Genesis
Creationists often respond to challenges that certain animals could not have been vegetarian before the Fall. Only rarely does this topic turn to carnivorous plants, but a new study of pitcher plants may provide support for creationists’ views.
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Evolution of Flowers
| Answers in Genesis
It’s what Charles Darwin called an “abominable mystery” and what ScienceDaily says “scientists have yet to solve”: the origin of flowering plants.
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1,000-Year-Old Seed from Biblical Tree Revived
| Answers in Genesis
Archaeologists found a seed believed to be about 1,000 years old in a cave and decided to plant it—and now 14 years later they have a 10-foot-tall tree growing.
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Worries and Wildflowers
| Answers in Genesis
What can the flowers of the field teach us about trusting God?
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Another Walk Through the Garden
| Answers in Genesis
The garden of Eden was likely much different than we might imagine.
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The Cranberry and Evolution
| Answers in Genesis
This small fruit plays a big role in the traditional Thanksgiving holiday dinner in the United States. So should we have given thanks to evolution for the cranberry?
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Kelp Forests—The Essentials of an Ecosystem
| Answers in Genesis
A host of organisms enjoy a five-star stay in one of the most intricate ecosystems on earth.
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Experiment: Growing a Cursed Plant
| Answers in Genesis
If you have ever tried to keep one
of these plants, you know they are
tricky to grow.
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Fireproof Forest
| Answers in Genesis
Giant sequoias are some of the oldest and
largest living organisms on earth.
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Gender-Fluid Tomato: You Read That Right
| Answers in Genesis
I never thought gender-fluid tomatoes—from Australia no less—would be one of them. But that’s where our culture has ended up—having a discussion about how a strange plant, a species of bush tomato from the Outback, somehow shows that the “sexual binary” is “a fallacy.”
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The Splendor of Thorns
| Answers in Genesis
God wove even the harshest elements of the original Curse into His beautiful plan of ultimate redemption through Christ.
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Should Christians “Love a Tree”?
| Answers in Genesis
Surely God himself “loves” trees, for his creation displays a vast array of thousands of species—tall, short, winding, flexible, strong—each a testament to the Creator. So is it good to celebrate “Love a Tree Day”? The answer stems from your worldview.
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Take Time to Smell the Roses
| Answers in Genesis
As one of the most popular flowers around the globe, roses are often considered the grandest and most beautiful—proved by their expansive presence in history, literature, and the arts. It’s no wonder the whole month of June is dedicated to them.
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Why Did God Make Weeds?
| Answers in Genesis
Weeds like dandelion are infamous for ravaging lawns, gardens, and driveways everywhere. But could this lowly weed be a blessing in disguise? A closer look reveals God’s very good design even for these ambitious and surprising plants.
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How the Poinsettia Came to Brighten Christmas
| Answers in Genesis
Few things signal the start of the Christmas season quite like the poinsettia, and December 12 is a day to celebrate it with National Poinsettia Day.
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Is the Origin of Flowering Plants a Mystery?
| Answers in Genesis
Researchers have announced what they believe to be the oldest flowering plant, a flower with a tree-shaped style and spoon-shaped petals from the early Jurassic, some supposed 174 million years ago. The fossils of this plant were examined with high-powered microscopes which revealed it was an angiosperm.
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Study: Photosynthesis Evolved a Billion Years Earlier than Thought
| Answers in Genesis
According to a recent study, there’s been a minor tweak in the evolutionary story of the early evolution of life. Photosynthesis, the process by which plants, algae, and some microbes produce oxygen, might have evolved a billion years earlier than previously thought, and faster too!
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Kingdom of the Plants: Defying Evolution
| Answers in Genesis
The alleged sequence of evolution of various plants contradicted their actual order of burial in the fossil record!
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Scientists Map Plant Protein Interactions
| Answers in Genesis
A cellular roadmap for the mustard plant reveals some secrets.
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Best Seat in the House
| Answers in Genesis
Consider what the fossils really tell us, when we start with the Bible as factual history.
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Orchids ... A Witness to the Creator
| Answers in Genesis
There is no evidence whatsoever that flowering plants evolved.
- did-plants-evolve/1 page
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Did Plants Evolve?
| Answers in Genesis
Have you ever seen a fossil plant series in a museum display or textbook on evolution? I haven’t.
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God’s Little Green Machines
| Answers in Genesis
God’s little green machines all run on solar power. Long before man discovered how to harness solar power, the Creator had installed miniature ‘solar panels’ in every green leaf.
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Ancestral Tree Branches
| Answers in Genesis
Ancestral tree’s branches proliferate while seeking their roots.
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Is “God in the DNA”?
| Answers in Genesis
Why it’s a lie that God’s name is written in your DNA.
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Parasitic Wasps
| Answers in Genesis
Did God design wasps to lay their eggs in living hosts?
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Phylogenetic Trees Are Not Evidence
| Answers in Genesis
Phylogenetic trees are often evolutionary fairy tales posing as science.
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Did Two Life-Forms Merge to Create a New Organelle?
| Answers in Genesis
The case of UCYN-A is an interesting one but does not represent what pop-sci articles claim.
- where-do-all-the-species-come-from/1 page
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Where Do All the Species Come From?
| Answers in Genesis
What is speciation, and do creationists think it happens?
- evolution-doesnt-explain-brood-parasitism-cowbird/1 page
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Brood Parasitism
| Answers in Genesis
Why do some creatures leave their young for others to raise?
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Microbiology
| Answers in Genesis
The fascinating study of microbiology reveals the unbelievable diversity of microscopic organisms—some that even dwell in toxic sea vents and the Dead Sea!
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Noah’s Ark on a Microscopic Scale
| Answers in Genesis
References to Noah’s Ark abound in the culture and even have been used to describe recent efforts to store strains of microbes (instead of animals). Here, I consider the ramifications of what it means to have an ark of microbes, whether it is biblical, and how to move forward.
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Did God Create Parasites?
| Answers in Genesis
How did disgusting parasites become part of God’s “very good” creation? By definition, all parasites live at least part of their lives in or on another organism and cause harm. But not all symbiotic relationships are parasitic. And that may hint at an answer to the origin of parasites.
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Magnificent Motors
| Answers in Genesis
What if we could design a super-small, versatile machine that could travel up blood vessels to deliver targeted medical aid?
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The Motor of Life
| Answers in Genesis
Bacteria depend on tail-like structures called flagella to get around. But they’re not alone.
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Kinesins: Millions of Micro Movers
| Answers in Genesis
The cells in your body
are bustling with a
protein, called kinesin,
that faithfully delivers
hefty “packages”
to each destination.
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Microbes by Design, Example 2, Serratia marcescens
| Answers in Genesis
Another example of design which can be seen in the microbial world is the production of a blood-red pigment made by Serratia marcescens.
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Why We Help: Do Our Microbes Make Us Do It?
| Answers in Genesis
A group of scientists at Tel Aviv University propose that bacteria in our intestines may be responsible for human altruism.
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Friendly Viruses
| Answers in Genesis
If God’s creation was originally “very good,” wouldn’t we find some good roles that viruses play, even in our fallen world?
- the-origin-of-microorganisms/1 page
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The Origin of Microorganisms
| Answers in Genesis
Evidence for the origin of life confirms the biblical account that God supplied the information for complex features when He created each kind.
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The Transformational Power of Yeasts
| Answers in Genesis
A scientific overview of yeast. Yeast has been used since ancient times, is mentioned 39 times in the Bible, and has widespread applications.
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Life Is in the Blood
| Answers in Genesis
Knowledge of the blood and circulatory system gives us insight into spiritual, biological, and clinical applications. Blood reveals much about the majesty of our Creator and Master Craftsman, irreducible complexity, and the health or disease state of the human body.
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Staph Bacteria from First Breath
| Answers in Genesis
The emphasis of this article is to explain some of the “very good” design and purpose of Staphylococci and other good, beneficial bacteria of the nose.
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Eukaryote Without Mitochondria Is Not a Product of Evolution
| Answers in Genesis
Named Monocercomonoides, this eukaryotic microorganism doesn’t have the slightest trace of mitochondria. How does it survive?
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Bacteria’s Unique Design
| Answers in Genesis
God created bacteria to perform vital roles in every imaginable environment.
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Deep-Sea Vents—Life’s Toxic Sanctuary
| Answers in Genesis
Some locations on earth seem just too extreme to support life. One such extreme environment is vents at the bottom of the ocean.
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Oldest Hairy Microbes Found In “Snowball Earth”
| Answers in Genesis
From “snowball” to “snowball,” evolution experimented with modern microbes.
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Bacteria Back from the Grave
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists claim some bacteria have been resurrected after hundreds of millions of years. But what’s really happening?
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DNA´s Hidden Codes
| Answers in Genesis
The world’s most complex language system is located within every cell of your body. Scientists are now discovering that our DNA really does have hidden codes that have a practical function and purpose in our cells. Hidden codes pose a real problem for evolution.
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A New Spin on the Bacterial Flagellum: Its Normal Niche and Displacement
| Answers in Genesis
The structural complexity and finely tuned coordination of flagella attest to the work of a Master Engineer who designed and created them to function in a wonderfully intricate manner.
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The Organosubstrate of Life
| Answers in Genesis
Microbes and viruses were created as a link between macro-organisms and a chemically rich but inert physical environment.
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Do Endogenous Retroviruses (ERVs) Support Common Ancestry?
| Answers in Genesis
ERVs are found in the same location in the genome across species, so evolutionists apply their ideas of common ancestry and say ERVs demonstrate evolution.
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The Genesis of the “Brain-Eating” Amoeba
| Answers in Genesis
The Creator made all creatures, including amoebas, with variation and plasticity in their genome for global differences of climate, terrain, and environment. Naegleria fowleri is a global amoeba pathogen that is the causative agent of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), thus termed “brain-eating.”
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Serratia marcescens, the “Flame” Strain: The Genesis of a New Variant
| Answers in Genesis
This article explains the mysterious origin of a new strain of Serratia marcescens, which can naturally produce prolific flame-red pigment, that produces prodigiosin up to 40°C without any enrichment to media. S. marcescens is a wonderful example of intelligent design commonly seen in the microbial world.
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The Coliform Kind: E. coli and Its “Cousins”
| Answers in Genesis
Even though some intestinal bacteria strains are pathogenic and even deadly, most coliforms strains still show evidence of being one of God’s “very good” creations. In fact, bacteria serve an intrinsic role in the colon of the human body.
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Creating Order from Disorder?
| Answers in Genesis
It has been commonly assumed that mutations associated with genetic diseases and cancers occur because they disrupted otherwise ordered proteins. But in recent years scientists have uncovered many proteins that have no ordered structure to begin with.
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The Dirt Is Alive: God’s Design for Soil Microbiome
| Answers in Genesis
While it’s often swept under the rug, we shouldn’t dismiss the amazing design found in soil particulates.
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The Design of Giardia and the Genesis of Giardiasis
| Answers in Genesis
We read in Genesis 1:31 that God made everything “very good.” If everything that God made was good, where did Giardia come from?
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The Beneficial Functions of Endogenous Retroviruses
| Answers in Genesis
The list of beneficial functions for Endogenous Retroviruses continues to grow. ERVs also promote healthy immune responses—another creationist confirmation.
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Endogenous Retroviruses: Key to Mammalian Brain Development?
| Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists credit endogenous retroviruses with making mammalian evolution possible, but scientists now show they play a critical role in brain development.
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Where Did Ebola Come From?
| Answers in Genesis
Ebola is a virus with a high mortality rate. The outbreak in West Africa has killed thousands. Where is God amid all this death, disease, pain, and suffering?
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Criteria Biogenicity of Fossil Stromatolites
| Answers in Genesis
Microbes, fully-functioning stromatolites, and even stromatolite reefs may have been created by God before Day Three of the Creation Week.
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Moving Forward in Our Understanding of Molecular Motors
| Answers in Genesis
During scientific discovery more questions often arise. This leads to one of the most wondrous aspects of science: the more we learn, the more we realize how much is left to learn.
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Serratia marcescens: The Miracle Bacillus
| Answers in Genesis
The objectives of this article are to explain the mysterious appearance of crimson-colored bacteria on food and communion bread/wafers, over the centuries, as well as to describe the biological basis
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Robert Koch, Creation, and the Specificity of Germs
| Answers in Genesis
Microbiology is dominated by evolution today. Just look at any text, journal article, or the topics presented at professional scientific meetings.
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The Genesis of Pathogenic E. coli
| Answers in Genesis
Even though some strains are pathogenic, most E. coli strains still show evidence of being one of God’s “very good” creations.
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Creation and the Germ Theory
| Answers in Genesis
Today, we take for granted that germs cause disease, and many people fear them. Yet for centuries, the concept of germs was virtually unknown.
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Microbiota
| Answers in Genesis
Through complex biochemical interactions, there is actual communication between the gut lining and the microbiota to establish a healthy equilibrium. Communication that reflects the Creator.
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Laminin & The Cross
| Answers in Genesis
Much has been made of laminin having a cross shape. But should we look for such “signs” to prove the accuracy of God’s Word?
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Why Did God Make Viruses?
| Answers in Genesis
If God created everything good and with a purpose, why are there disease-causing bacteria and viruses in the world?
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Were Retroviruses Created Good?
| Answers in Genesis
Rather than being added on during evolution by accident, some endogenous retroviruses must have been incorporated into the initial design of eukaryotic life.
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What About Bacteria?
| Answers in Genesis
If God finished creation in six days and declared it “very good,” where did disease-causing designs come from?
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Disinfectants Train Microbes
| Answers in Genesis
We’ve responded to the claim that antibiotics cause microbes to “evolve” resistance. Is the idea that disinfectants “train” microbes to become resistant any different?
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Is the Ebola Epidemic Evolution in Action?
| Answers in Genesis
In the past, outbreaks have remained geographically confined to the regions where the organism that harbors them lives. Why is this one different?
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Bleeding Rainbow
| Answers in Genesis
In God’s
vibrant
creation,
even blood
comes in
different
colors.
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Partners in Slime Mucus and Viral Friends
| Answers in Genesis
Muco-viral symbiosis may be key to a ubiquitous immune system . . . but it’s not evolution.
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More Than Human
| Answers in Genesis
For years it was considered quackery to transplant “healthy” bacteria into the gut of sick patients.
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The Matrix—Life's Support System
| Answers in Genesis
The Creator filled the earth with all the chemicals that living things could ever need. Bacteria play a special role in converting them into forms we can use.
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Aren’t 250 Million Year Old Live Bacteria a Bit Much?
| Answers in Genesis
We are being bombarded by numerous scientific reports describing the discovery of ‘living’ organisms or parts of organisms in ‘old’ rocks.
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Poisoned Thinking
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists have shown that some bacteria can substitute arsenic in place of phosphorus in their DNA and other molecules.
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Microbes by Design
| Answers in Genesis
This book will describe designed structures and purposeful functions in microorganisms, explain the origin of disease, and showcase Bible-believing scientists.
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The Dead Sea, Not So Dead After All
| Answers in Genesis
Even the most extreme parts of our planet contain life, including the bottom of the so-called Dead Sea.
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Just Endosymbiosis
| Answers in Genesis
This ciliate gets the most from its veggies.
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Water Bear Wonders
| Answers in Genesis
“Cute” may not be the best word to describe water bears. But once you learn more about them, words like “indestructible,” “one of a kind,” and “unbelievable” jump to mind!
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The Little Microbes That Could
| Answers in Genesis
Geologists have discovered microbes living inside salt crystals. The twist? The microbes are said to be 34,000 years old!
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Phytoplankton Power
| Answers in Genesis
Even in a fallen world, we see how God has arranged everything to work together in an orderly—and brilliant—fashion.
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Man vs. Microbe
| Answers in Genesis
Antibiotics allow us to combat bacteria, but bacteria are fighting back.
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Slime Mold—Mindless Mapmakers
| Answers in Genesis
Food-gathering slime molds can build a complex network as efficient as Tokyo’s rail system in just 24 hours, without giving it a second thought!
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Bacteria in Your Home
| Answers in Genesis
Bacteria are everywhere—in air,
water, soil, plants, animals,
and even inside you!
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Complex Shape Found in Cells
| Answers in Genesis
The cells in your body don’t use
just simple boxes to build things.
Some appear to employ a surprisingly
complex geometric shape.
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Another ‘Twist’ on the Origin of Species
| Answers in Genesis
Recently, a team of scientists from the United States, Canada, and Europe discovered a new species of unusual microbe.
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How Bacteria Affect Your Everyday Life
| Answers in Genesis
We need to balance our understanding of the microscopic world because it is an essential part of and critically affects our everyday life.
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Simple is as Simple Does
| Answers in Genesis
It could be “the most thorough study ever of a single organism,” and what is the unsurprising conclusion? “[E]ven the simplest creatures are more complex than scientists suspected,” reports Wired’s Brandon Keim.
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What’s Really Hiding in Those Deserted Caves?
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists were shocked to discover bacteria hidden deep in caves—far from any contact with humans—that already had the ability to fight antibiotics.
- the-amazing-cell/1 page
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The Amazing Cell
| Answers in Genesis
As a microbiologist, the bacterial flagellum has always fascinated me.
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Ancient Protein a Potent Antimicrobial
| Answers in Genesis
Answers for antibiotic resistance sought in “ancient” Australian antimicrobials.
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The Greatest Absence of Evolution Ever Reported
| Answers in Genesis
Can an organism survive
billions of years of evolution
without evolving?
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Is the Human Embryo Essentially a Fish Without Gills?
| Answers in Genesis
Almost from the beginning, evolutionists have attempted to equate the process of evolution with the progressive development of the embryo.
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Disease
| Answers in Genesis
Disease, an enemy in a once-perfect creation, does not provide evidence of evolution but rather shows the destructive and often deadly effects of sin.
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Quick Takes
| Answers in Genesis
Zika, spread by mosquitoes,
can severely damage unborn
babies’ nervous systems and
cause them to be born with
tiny heads (microcephaly).
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Evolutionary Conjecture Cannot Cure Cancer
| Answers in Genesis
Evolutionary scientists assume the patterns they see result from evolution and therefore erroneously believe evolutionary thinking can help the war on cancer.
- can-evolutionary-clues-cure-cancer/1 page
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Can Evolutionary Clues Cure Cancer?
| Answers in Genesis
A physicist and an astrobiologist team up to explain to medical doctors how knowledge of evolution holds the key to curing cancer.
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Why New Diseases Keep Popping Up
| Answers in Genesis
Why would a good Creator allow these new diseases? Why do new diseases keep popping up? Mutation and displacement of original types of microbes account for many new diseases; however, the answer is more complex than just these two factors.
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The Origin of Ticks and the Genesis and Emergence of Lyme Disease
| Answers in Genesis
Tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease have plagued humans for millennia. Did God make them that way, and what do they teach us about a fallen creation?
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The Flu: Everything You Need to Know
| Answers in Genesis
Understanding the flu’s origins will practically aid us in treating the flu virus, so let’s take a look first at what causes the flu.
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The Design of the Mosquito and Its Dangers
| Answers in Genesis
If everything that God made was good, where did disease-causing mosquitoes come from? What is the origin of mosquito-borne diseases?
- malaria-carrying-super-mosquitoes-resist-insecticide/1 page
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Malaria-Toting “Super-Mosquitos” Find Tools of Resistance In Thei
| Answers in Genesis
Is the war on malaria plagued by “rapid evolution of insecticide resistance” in mosquitoes?
- origin-of-fleas-and-the-genesis-of-plague/1 page
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The Origin of Fleas and the Genesis of Plague
| Answers in Genesis
Fleas are considered a nuisance. How can they be explained as a part of God’s very good creation?
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Super Staph in the Community: Is It Evolving?
| Answers in Genesis
Is Community-associated (CA)-MRSA “evolution in action”? Microbiology research based on creation provides some answers to its emerging dominance in the USA.
- the-genesis-of-malaria/1 page
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The Genesis of Malaria
| Answers in Genesis
Microbiology and parasitology research based on the creation paradigm appears to provide some answers puzzling questions.
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Malaria in the News
| Answers in Genesis
Can bad-smelling feet, probiotics for mosquitoes, and evolutionary presuppositions solve the problem of malaria?
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The First Book of Public Hygiene
| Answers in Genesis
The nuns at the Yambuku mission hospital were using five unsterilized needles to give injections to hundreds of people each day. Epidemiologists have concluded that this caused the outbreak.
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Biblical Leprosy: Shedding Light on the Disease that Shuns
| Answers in Genesis
Leprosy has terrified humanity since ancient times and was reported as early as 600 BC in India, China, and Egypt. Hansen’s disease is still a major health problem.
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Swine Flu—Cause for Concern?
| Answers in Genesis
The latest influenza outbreak has people in a panic. What should Christians think?
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Grandpa Cancer
| Answers in Genesis
Cancer reminds us of brokenness, suffering, and mortality traceable to Adam’s sin. But evolutionists propose that cancer may be our ancestor!
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Bird Flu
| Answers in Genesis
Is the bird flu evolving? The bird flu is changing, but not in the Darwinian sense that it will become something other than an influenza virus.
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Williams Syndrome and the Gospel
| Answers in Genesis
When our oldest son was diagnosed with Williams syndrome—a rare genetic disorder that causes cognitive and physical disabilities—my husband and I found ourselves in a whole new world.
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Zika Virus, the Olympics, and Genesis
| Answers in Genesis
No one knows the origin of the Zika virus. Like all other viruses, it probably came into existence as a result of the Fall.
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Cholera “Evolutionary Pressure” on People?
| Answers in Genesis
Evolving people? . . . Or just natural selection in action? Researchers suspect the long presence of cholera has been recorded in the human genome.
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Flu Away
| Answers in Genesis
H1N1 flu virus is an example of mutation, not evolution in the usual sense of the word.
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Firefighter Flippantly Mentions Creation-Evolution Debate
| Answers in Genesis
An off-hand comment by a firefighter writing in Newsweek reminds us of the immense influence of the creation–evolution debate.
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AIDS—No End in Sight
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Last year marked the 25th anniversary of the discovery of HIV/AIDS. The deadly pandemic virus has been responsible for more than 25 million deaths.
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Pandemic Panic?
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Governments and industries are attempting to educate the public with a basic understanding of the bird flu virus and precautionary measures to take against it.
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Rats! Another Case of Sickle Cell Anaemia
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As a biology teacher I explain to my higher biology class the so-called 'evidence' for evolution. This often means demonstrating that the evidence is inconclusive.
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Sickle-Cell Anaemia Does not Prove Evolution!
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Sixth-graders I have lectured on genetic counselling invariably pop some questions such as: ‘Is it true that the sickle-cell phenomenon has established Darwinian evolution as fact?’
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Are They Teaching the Truth in Biology Class?
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Science has become somewhat of an idol in our culture. Some have promoted it as the ultimate method for finding truth.
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Comparative Similarities: Homology
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Why should a person’s arm have the same kind of bone pattern as the leg of a dog and the wing of a bat? There are two basic ideas.
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Fungi
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Mushrooms, molds, yeasts, and more—fungi are God-designed organisms that decompose and clean up organic waste.
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The Fungus Among Us
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Though humans aren’t related to fungi as evolutionists claim, we are more connected than you might imagine.
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Bird’s Nest Fungus
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The forest is full of unseen wonders. Consider just one common type of fungus on the forest floor.
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“Brainless Fungi” Extraordinarily Complex
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When you think of fungi, you probably don’t automatically think “smart”—especially considering they don’t have brains! But these incredible organisms are indeed “smart,” in the sense that they are designed to do what they do, and what they do, they do well.
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Fungus Firearms
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The life cycle of the Pilobolus fungus shows how our Creator can display beautiful design.
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Tree Fungus a factor In Petroleum Production
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Factors in petroleum production: high pressure and heat, millions of years, underground drilling, and . . . tree fungus?
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Fungal “family tree” identifies problems with evolution
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This research does little to support molecules-to-man evolution as a theory of origins. Since this type of research is historical in nature, the conclusions made by the authors are their guesses given their naturalistic worldview.
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Splashing Success
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They are fungi, but you wouldn’t know it. They are only a few millimetres high, but contained within these minute hunks of life is a universe of fascination.
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Clearly Designed
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God ingeniously preprogrammed the genetic information essential for glass frogs to control their transparency.
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Designed Distinctions in a Single Strand of Hair
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A quick microscopic examination can determine if the hair is of human or animal origin and directly confirms the creation account described in Genesis 1.
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Celebrating Leeuwenhoek’s Life 300 Years Later
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The father of bacteriology was motivated by his faith in the Creator.
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Penguins: All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go
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What makes penguins so unique and the subject of continued scientific research? Reuters recently highlighted the research of Theresa Cole and others on penguins, as they look to obtain a more robust understanding of what makes these birds unique both physically and genetically.
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The Directed Steps of Hans Christian Gram
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How Christian Gram’s providential bacteria discovery in 1883 helped improve bacterial taxonomy and identify pathogens of infectious diseases.
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Cell Diversity Explained by Creation
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The abundance of cellular diversity is better explained by biblical creation than evolutionary theory.
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Hemoglobin: An Exquisitely Designed, Multifunctional Protein
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When we begin to examine life on the molecular level, we quickly begin to realize that hemoglobin is specially designed for multiple purposes.
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Top Stories in Biology: Year in Review 2019
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Top stories of 2019 in biology: Plant communication, Human Y chromosome molecular clock, and remembering popular AiG speaker, Dr. Tommy Mitchell.
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An Eye for Every Occasion
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Don’t look now, but you’re being watched by an amazing variety of magnificent eyes.
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The Origin of Sexual and Asexual Reproduction
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Life cycles are an interesting thing to study. Organisms are born and produce offspring in so many ways. These differences produce a great deal of variation in what we observe in the world. They also provide a significant challenge to any model of origins that rejects the biblical account, including evolution.
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A New Branch on the Tree of Life
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A Canadian graduate student has
discovered a life form so different
from everything else that it doesn’t
fit into the plant, animal, or other
known kingdoms.
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Top Biology News of 2018: Year in Review
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2018 was a busy year for biology on a number of different fronts. We covered many of these events on Answers News or on our website as we continue to strive to equip the church to answer the various skeptical questions of our day.
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Taste & See
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God created an infinite diversity of food
for us to explore in infinite combinations.
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Winding Back Life’s Story: Evolution of Mitochondria
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Evolutionists claim to know when mitochondria evolved yet still cannot show how or that mitochondria are anything but one of God’s great designs.
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Reproductive Thievery in Salamanders?
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Two evolutionary hypotheses have been put forth to explain the Jefferson complex and the various modes of reproduction that may have taken place.
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A Serious Problem for Homology
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The fact is, however, that it has been proved in many cases that homologous structures are not produced by homologous genes!
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Cold-Blooded or Warm-Blooded?
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Study proves growth rings in bone cannot be used to determine whether an animal is cold-blooded or warm-blooded.
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Chemistry
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Chemistry, the study of the elements that make up matter, powerfully demonstrates the complexity of life and the inability of chemicals to produce life.
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Water Doesn’t Always Mix
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We’ve always heard that oil and water don’t mix, but
sometimes water and water don’t mix.
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A Flood of Arsenic
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Arsenic contaminates water around the world. How’d it get here?
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Composite Creations
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Wherever you are, you’re probably surrounded by
some common manmade composites
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God’s Gift of Metals: Crafted for Life
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A study of the roles that metals (both transition metals and alkali and alkaline earth metals) play in life shows that each has been uniquely designed by a wise Creator to carry out specific and complex functions essential for life.
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Proportionally Perfect for Life: O2, CO2, N2
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Nitrogen constitutes the major component (approximately 78%) of our atmosphere, with oxygen following at about 21%, and carbon dioxide at 0.04%. Though carbon dioxide constitutes a minor part of the atmosphere, life, as we know it, could not exist without it.
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Carbon: God’s Building Blocks for Life
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Whereas carbon may be viewed as a LEGO® piece, carbon-based compounds are the whole LEGO® set as the same pieces are used to construct the multitude of life forms from plants to insects to humans each with very different structures and purposes.
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Formed to Be Inhabited
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When we see Scripture refer to “invisible things” as being evidence for our Creator, do we often think of chemistry?
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Graphene: Seeing God’s Handiwork and Care in Chemistry
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Have you ever stopped to consider how even chemistry showcases God’s handiwork, creativity, and care for his creation?
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Life in the Lab
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Every student in US public schools will likely come across pictures
of the famous Miller-Urey experiment of 1953.
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Rubber Chicken Leg
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What makes bones so strong? If they were made out of minerals alone, they would be too brittle and break.
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Chemical Candidate to Carry Genetic Information in Earliest Life
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Evolutionary scientists suggest a simple chemical candidate to carry genetic information in the earliest life forms.
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Brain Chemistry in Rats Altered by Parasite
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Bizarre bravery in rats explained . . . with serious implications for the human brain.
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Alien Amino Acids
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Organic chemistry lab in a meteorite sparks speculation about the origin of life.
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Mirror Images and Amino Acids
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The complexity of life continues to astound even the most skeptical scientist. Dr. Georgia Purdom looks at recent discoveries that reveal God’s handiwork.
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Space Rock Acid
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A meteorite that landed in Canada supposedly holds a clue to the origin of life: record levels of formic acid, a substance rich in carbon.
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The Molecular Sledgehammer
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The amazing story of how scientists struggled for years to duplicate an important bit of chemistry.
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Proof of Life Evolving in the Universe?
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Newspapers across the United States carried headlines similar to that of The Cincinnati Post: “Key Ingredients for Life Found in Universe,” with the byline “Chemistry Happens Around Distant Stars.”
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Environmental Science
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How should we view climate change, global warming, environmental conservation, and biblical stewardship? Where does the Ice Age fit into biblical history?
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Charged
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Electric cars are parked at the center of a charged debate. How can you know when and whether to buy in?
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Ice Age
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How should the Ice Age, glaciers, and wooly mammoths be understood within the framework of the Bible’s history?
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What Started the Ice Age?
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Geophysicists have a love-hate relationship with “the Ice Age.”
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Chapter 12: Do Ice Cores Show Many Tens of Thousands of Years?
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From the top of the Greenland ice sheet, glaciologists further claim that they can count the annual layers downward. They arrive at 110,000 years for the top 90 percent. Is their claim justified?
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Rapid Changes in Oxygen Isotope Content of Ice Cores
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Oxygen isotopes in ice cores extracted from polar regions exhibit a decreasing trend in the ratio of the heavy to light isotopes from the beginning of the Ice Age to its end.
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The Ice Age
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When we start our reasoning from the truth of Scripture, we can develop a model to help us understand the one and only Ice Age.
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Where Does the Ice Age Fit?
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The ice age is a popular topic that is often discussed. Sadly, most people hear the secular/uniformitarian view and don’t look at this subject from a biblical perspective.
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Catastrophic Melting
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Accelerated melting would mark the end of the Ice Age.
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A Snail’s Tale of the Past
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Protein degradation purported to peer into the past.
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The Multiplication of Ice Age Theories
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Researchers have generated a lot of theories to explain the mysteries surrounding the mammoths, but questions about the cause of the Ice Age have also spawned a multitude of ideas.
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The Genesis Flood Caused the Ice Age
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The two ingredients required for an Ice Age, cool temperatures and tons of snow, were dramatically fulfilled immediately after the Genesis flood.
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When Was the Ice Age in Biblical History?
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The Bible doesn’t say, “And then there was an Ice Age.” Yet it does help us narrow down when the ice built up and then melted away.
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Setting the Stage for an Ice Age
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The Flood of Noah’s day was the greatest catastrophe in earth history, and it involved much more than rain.
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Do Greenland Ice Cores Show One Hundred Thousand Years?
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It is the Greenland Ice Sheet that exhibits annual cycles of one or more of the variables down an ice core.
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Ice Cores vs the Flood
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Show that ice core dating methods are not independent and open to significant reinterpretation. The root of the problem is the uncritical acceptance of the uniformitarian paradigm.
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Still Trying to Make Ice Cores Old
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Dr. Hugh Ross’s Reasons to Believe website featured a new result from the Dome C ice core.
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Was Mammoth Extinction Caused by Rapid Global Warming?
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Both the Ice Age and the many millions of woolly mammoths buried in Siberian permafrost have been major mysteries for about years despite numerous theories.
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Possible Explanations for Disharmonious Associations
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There are four possible explanations for the unique mix of cold- and heat-loving animals that were common during the Ice Age.
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The Mystery of the Ice Age
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Although it is evident there was an Ice Age, scientists run into a blank wall when they try to provide the cause. They run into mystery after mystery.
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The Snowblitz
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The Genesis flood provides the two ingredients necessary for an ice age. From this point on we can use basic meteorology to estimate the storm patterns and where ice sheets would develop.
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The Peak of the Ice Age
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After the Flood drained off the land, the world’s ocean and land temperatures were constantly changing as they strove toward the relative equilibrium we experience today.
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Only One Ice Age
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We often hear glacial geologists speak of numerous ice ages, as if it is certain. They hypothesize up to 30 different ones, each separated by interglacials, during the past 2.5 million years.
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Migrant Native Americans
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A new genetic study conducted at the University of Michigan “bolsters claims that Native Americans are descended from one migrant group that crossed a lost land link from modern Siberia to Alaska,” reports Agence France-Presse.
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Ice Age Feedback
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Secular scientists are finally showing by their research that they recognize a problem creationists have been pointing out for decades.
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Special Feature—Mysteries of Our Frozen Past
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Few people dispute that an Ice Age once struck the planet, leaving telltale marks. But many mysteries remain.
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Who Killed the Iceman?
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PBS recently aired an intriguing documentary covering an investigation into the death of earth’s oldest cold case. How and why was Ötzi killed?
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Frozen Mountains Measured
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A mountain range the size of the European Alps—larger than anyone expected—has finally been measured.
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A Problem for the Supposed Origin of Multicellular Animals
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For creationists, the rocks and their associated ‘glacial diagnostic features’ can be explained very easily. They are the result of gigantic submarine landslides in a warm ocean in the Genesis Flood.
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Wild Ice-Core Interpretations by Uniformitarian Scientists
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Uniformitarian scientists derive many more ‘annual layers’ in the Greenland ice cores than creationists because of their assumed old age time scale.
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Lots of Ice, Too Much Age
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Twentieth Century Fox has turned the period of Earth history known as the Ice Age into an animated movie for children called Ice Age.
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More on the Ice Age
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This article discusses the weather after the global flood and the conditions needed to create an ice age.
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Was There an Ice Age?
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This article discusses the possiblity of there having been a global ice age following the global flood.
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Hotting Up For an Ice Age
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Ask just about anyone, ‘Was the Ice Age caused by things getting colder or warmer?’ They will almost certainly say, ‘That’s obvious. Colder, of course!’
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The Ice Age
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What do you know about the Ice Age? How does it fit into world history?
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Climate Change
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Both the media and popular culture are saturated in the hype of global warming and climate change. How should Christians understand this sensitive issue?
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Global Warming in Perspective
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Global warming's top five claims: fact or fiction?
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Disagreements on Climate Change
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Scientifically literate people can disagree about the causes and cures of climate change, study finds.
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Climate Emergency or Hot Air?
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In reality, only a small sampling of climate scientists believes we are facing imminent doom. So why all the insistence on anxiety and panic?
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Alabama’s Underwater Forest
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Remnants of a cypress forest were recently discovered off Alabama’s coast. What climate changes could explain such a massive rise in ocean level?
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Australia’s Great Barrier Reef under Threat from Climate Change
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The rate at which the corals grow in the Great Barrier Reef of Australia has declined recently. Is global warming to blame?
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The Globe Is Warming, But It’s Not Your Fault!
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The globe is warming, and many blame humans for causing it, but today’s temperature is not unprecedented. How should Christians respond to climate change?
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What Scientists Ignore About Climate Change
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We cannot
understand the
climate change
issue unless
we ground our
perspective in
God’s Word.
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Get the Facts: Hurricanes and Global Warming
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Hurricanes, like Harvey and Irma, are not evidence of global warming, but their effects are exaggerated by alarmists.
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Global Climate Models Are Improving, But Are Not Yet Useful
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Almost all of the climate models predict a significant increase in the global temperature in the future and include the possibility of a dramatic increase.
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Are We Globally Warming Our World to Death?
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The United Nations has spoken, declaring that it’s our fault. Global warming, that is.
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Global Warming and Earth’s Design
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Recent scandals, such as “climategate” and questionable practices of the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University, have raised new doubts about the conclusions of climate scientists.
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How Much Global Warming Is Natural?
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The concern over global warming seems to be escalating. But what do the data show?
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Human-Caused Global Warming Slight So Far
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Reasons why Christians should be cautious about the controversial topic of global warming are listed.
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Climate Change Facts
| Answers in Genesis
Are temperature changes a serious threat to our way of life?
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Environmentalism: A Biblical Perspective
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Fear of environmental catastrophe grows out of the lack of the fear of God. That is the real root of the environmental scares that have plagued the modern world.
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Global Warming
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Many articles and books have been written in recent years on the subject of global warming—much of the information confusing.
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The End of Global Warming?
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A century ago, scientists feared global cooling. Now they fear global warming. What do the numbers really show us? What does this century-old debate have to do with us today? Revisiting these still-unresolved questions may prevent modern politicians from making one of the greatest mistakes in our times.
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Science Confirms Climate Change!
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Climate change is real—but what should we do about it? Trusting in man’s word or God’s Word will determine how we interpret the evidence and fix our response.
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Global Warming: Fact or Fiction?
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The media is constantly abuzz with dire news about global warming and climate change. What does biblical history add to the discussion?
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Burned by Global Warming
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The editor of the scientific journal Remote Sensing recently stepped down. His crime? Publishing a paper that raises questions about anthropogenic global warming.
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Global Warming—Normal in an Abnormal World
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The Bible is the foundation for understanding every challenge facing us. Global warming is no exception.
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Did Bill Nye Lie About Creationists and Climate Change?
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Bill Nye claims that we want to “raise a generation of kids in denial of climate change,” but we say the opposite.
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Eugenie Scott Focuses on Climate
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Eugenie Scott offers her services to squelch even more academic freedom.
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Will Penguin Guano Save the Planet?
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A recent study of Adélie penguins found that their guano releases ammonia that “may help form clouds that insulate the Earth and prevent sea ice from melting.”
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Protected Rainforest Paved Over for Climate Summit
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A highway is being built through the Amazon Rainforest and wetlands to accommodate the COP30 climate summit visitors.
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New Study Finds Our Climate Is More Complex Than Previously Thought
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A new study quantifying sulfur emissions from plankton found these emissions contribute to climate change much more than previously thought.
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Sounding the Alarm on Climate Alarmists
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How should Christians respond to climate change alarmists who claim the earth is on the brink of disaster?
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Climate Change and the Bible
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Four reasons Scripture gives us not to be afraid of climate change—and how to deal with climate alarmist fear.
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Church Without God—Does It Work?
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The Atlantic recently published a lengthy article titled, “They Tried to Start a Church Without God. For a While It Worked.” It describes the initial popularity of so-called secular churches, which is supposed to be a replacement for the community found in churches. But does it work?
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I’m a Climate Change Alarmist
| Answers in Genesis
Christians should
be alarmed
about the coming
climate change
and its destruction.
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Danger at the Drive-Through
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Temperatures are rising on the global warming issue, and it’s more than just hot air.
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Jail the Skeptics
| Answers in Genesis
But why are some scientists certain that
climate change is so dangerous?
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Global Cooling?
| Answers in Genesis
Some proponents of catastrophic global warming are finally admitting that the actual global temperature is not rising as fast as their models predict.
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Climate Change Predictions Prove Miscalculated
| Answers in Genesis
Climate change predictions in the news have been proven to be inaccurate.
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Climate Change: the Watershed Issue for Two Davids
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A few years back BBC television viewers could enjoy both David Attenborough and David Bellamy bringing wildlife and plants into their homes.
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Global Warming—When Politics and Science Collide
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The global warming debate would not be so heated if it were simply a question of science. It’s no surprise that science gets drowned out by politics.
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Global Warming’s Solar Connection
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Based on typical news reports, you would assume that the cause of global warming is obvious—coal and burning gasoline. But we should look closer at a more obvious source of fluctuation.
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Adios, Alaska
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Should we bid “bye-bye” to Alaska?
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Is Having a Baby “Pure Environmental Vandalism”?
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Vogue magazine suggests new parents are guilty of “environmental vandalism” for having children and doesn't acknowledge that climate alarmism is rejected by some left-leaning pols.
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Earth Day—A Christian Perspective
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April 22 marks the 31st celebration of Earth Day—an effort initiated to increase awareness about environmental issues.
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Stewardship
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God has commanded man to be a good steward of the earth that He entrusted to us. In a time of almost cultish concern for the earth, how do Christians respond?
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Caring About Creation for the Right Reasons
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Some people believe creation is something we should worship. Others believe its purpose is to serve mankind’s greater good. Which view is right?
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How “Evolution” Might Save Coral Reefs
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What can we do to help corals survive and why should we want to?
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Stewarding American Black Bears with Trust
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What mechanisms have caused bears to diversify since the Flood? What is their role in Creation?
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Clarifications Regarding Stewarding American Black Bears
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In response to some feedback regarding a recent Answer in Depth article, Tom Hennigan takes the occasion to clarify some points.
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Is Stewardship the Same as Going Green?
| Answers in Genesis
What should be the Christian response to the environmental concerns of the Green Movement? What is our responsibility to the earth and to its inhabitants?
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Earth Day and Creation
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Earth Day: what is the creation perspective?
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Why We Work
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A biblical perspective on work, the dominion mandate, how the fall affected work, and the way we expand God’s glory (and our good) through work.
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Creation and Conservation
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People today are becoming more and more concerned with the environment and what humans are doing to it. For many, including many Christians, this issue has become very emotional.
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Skewed Stewardship
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Without a biblical view of stewardship, animal rights activists often hurt the very creatures they claim to protect.
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Should Christians Save the Rhinos?
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We ought to care about creation, for God himself made it and cares about it. We know that not one sparrow falls without God’s noticing (Matthew 10:29). The rhino is a magnificent creature who exhibits our Creator’s handiwork. Here are some fascinating facts to know on Save the Rhino Day.
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Should We Take Care of the Earth?
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As Christians we must reject the view that nature should be revered above the well-being of mankind. Fearful of being associated with worshipping the earth and depreciating the value of mankind, many Christians shy away from anything environmentally friendly. What should be our proper response to caring for the earth?
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Earth Day—A Creationist Perspective
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There is more behind what has been designated today as Earth Day than planting trees, reducing pollution, and conserving natural resources.
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Fortieth Anniversary of Earth Day
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This week marked the fortieth anniversary of Earth Day, an occasion to celebrate—or even worship—“Mother Earth.”
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Arctic Insurance
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Scientists hope to deposit samples of 4.5 million varieties of seeds in a vault.
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The Root of our Ecological Crisis
| Answers in Genesis
Presents land conservation and stewardship from a Biblical worldview and challenges Christians to apply the Biblical principles of Christian stewardship to the use of God’s Creation.
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Practical Creation Care: Gardening for Butterflies
| Answers in Genesis
By adding host plants to your landscape, you can help care for butterflies and moths, a wonderful part of God’s creation.
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Winter’s Lively Microbiome
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Even snow harbors its own microscopic garden of life that we have only just unearthed within the last decade.
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The Ivory Trade
| Answers in Genesis
The lust for ivory threatens elephant populations around the world. Are there solutions to this sinister business?
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Climate Alarmism
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Five reasons not to believe climate alarmism claims when they ignore major relevant data in favor of economy-crippling regulations.
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Earth Day—The History of Two Trees
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God made everything perfect, but our sin corrupted it, and Earth Day began as an ethical ideal, but now exists as a secular holiday.
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Environmental Clean-Up Crew
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Did the Creator foresee the biological resources we would need to help correct our mistakes, as we fulfill His command to “subdue the earth”?
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Wildfires: Cause for Alarm?
| Answers in Genesis
As stewards of creation, sometimes we must work with fire, not against it.
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A Deeper Shade of Green
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The green movement is dominated
by secular environmentalists.
But when it comes to creation care,
Christians have a deeper calling.
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Welcome to Harmony Hillside
| Answers in Genesis
As modern homesteaders,
Erik and Patty Lutz have a firsthand
understanding of biblical dominion.
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Plastics in Paradise
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Plastic pollution has invaded
even the most remote places.
Should Christians be concerned?
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Should We Abandon Some Species to Extinction?
| Answers in Genesis
As God’s creatures disappear,
Christians have the opportunity
to model the Creator’s spirit
of wise conservation.
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Fossil Record Evolution: Any Transitional Forms?
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Transitional forms in the fossil record are rarely, if ever, observed. This lack of evidence is very damaging to macroevolutionary theory.
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Cloudy with a Chance of Confusion
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Weather
forecasting
is a good
reminder
of the limits
of science. It is
a useful tool,
but it is bound
by human
finiteness
and fallibility.
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Go (Truly) Green—by Starting with Genesis
| Answers in Genesis
Many evolutionists are celebrating Earth Day by telling the world to stop climate change by “going green.” The great irony is that only the Bible gives a foundation for taking care of the earth. When God created the first humans, He gave them charge over the Garden of Eden to care for the animals and plants.
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Arbor Day: Celebrating God’s Design for Trees
| Answers in Genesis
Whether you realize it or not, trees are quietly providing mankind with many benefits besides their aesthetic appeal.
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The Everlasting Storm
| Answers in Genesis
If lightning never strikes the same place twice, it’s running out of options on the Catatumbo River in Venezuela, South America.
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Pollution Evolution
| Answers in Genesis
Another prominently reported example of “evolution” illustrates just the opposite—and supports the creationist critique of Darwinian evolution.
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Conservation Clashes
| Answers in Genesis
Last issue's environment article got the most response. We list the main objections here, followed by comment in brackets.
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Tropical Rainforests—a Created Treasure Trove!
| Answers in Genesis
Amid the pessimism and gloom over the future of the rainforests of the earth, conservation funds are being obtained from the pharmaceutical industry.
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Ice Cores—The Secret to Understanding Earth’s Climate?
| Answers in Genesis
How polar ice sheets developed after the global flood and why ice cores don’t tell us how to address climate change.
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Genetics
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DNA, the information stored within it, and the processes surrounding it are clear evidence of the need for an intelligent Creator God.
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Parasitic DNA?
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Non-coding DNA, far from being “junk,” has multiple functions that are a problem for evolutionists and point to the Creator.
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Epigenetics
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Our physical makeup is determined by our genes, not our environment—right? The science of epigenetics is forcing scientists to rethink their assumptions.
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Can Learned Behaviors be Inherited?
| Answers in Genesis
A recent article in the peer-reviewed journal Cell discussed the epigenetic inheritance of learned traits in roundworms. The article discusses the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans and its ability to transmit a learned trait from parent to offspring through four generations.
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Looking Between Genes Reveals Differences by Design, Not Evolutio
| Answers in Genesis
From almost the same genetic building blocks, DNA, very different results are achieved! But is that the result of evolution, or God’s design?
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Epigenetic Changes Mice Inherit Father Fears
| Answers in Genesis
Are inherited fears mere fodder for novels, or is there some basis for them in science?
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Beneficial Mutations
| Answers in Genesis
Epigenetics, a field of science, displays the providence of God to help organisms adapt and survive in a fallen world which helps explain beneficial mutations.
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Epigenetics—Inheriting More Than Genes
| Answers in Genesis
All our lives, we’ve heard that our physical makeup is determined by our genes, not environment. But the science of epigenetics is forcing scientists to rethink their assumptions.
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Epigenetic On-Off Switches
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Epigenetic inheritance allows rapid adaptation without loss—or gain—of information.
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Secret of Epigenetic Inheritance Discovered
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists have long known the process of passing parental characteristics to offspring reaches a level of complexity only partially understood.
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Epigenetic Code: the Hidden DNA
| Answers in Genesis
Epigenetic mutations can produce rapid variation and defy Mendelian genetics.
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A New Headline for The Guardian
| Answers in Genesis
Think evolution has anything to do with Charles Darwin? If so, you’re apparently wrong, if the Guardian’s provocative headline is taken literally.
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Animal Genetics
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Does our growing understanding of animal genetics support evolutionary principles or special creation by a caring, intelligent Designer as the Bible proclaims?
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Whale Genetics and Evolution
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Whale evolution is presented in most biology textbooks as absolute fact, often with inaccurate depictions of the supposed transitional forms.
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Speedy Horses Can't Outrun Loss of Diversity
| Answers in Genesis
Researchers have dug into the genome of the horse and made some pretty startling discoveries. In an attempt to discover the lineage of horses, over one hundred researchers have recently examined the genomes of over two hundred fossil horses and compared it to the genomes of modern horses.
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Snakes Appear to Live a Cursed Life
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A recent study was published purporting to explain how snakes lost their limbs, and it revealed some surprising findings. The aforementioned study not only probed the question of snake limbs but also sightless subterranean mammals.
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On the Origin of Man's Best Friend
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If the idea behind item #1 (above) is correct, perhaps the domestic dog would be the biggest “winner” of all.
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The Naked-Neck Gene
| Answers in Genesis
Creationists emphasize that genetic mutations have never been shown to generate new, beneficial information in organisms (and often have deleterious effects), which undermines Darwinists’ case. And mutations in the naked-neck chicken are no exception.
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Animal Polyploidy: A Mechanism for Evolution?
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Polyploidy, though less common in animals than it is in plants, appears to have played a role in the speciation in animals. Since evolutionists need an increase in information in the genome to go from molecules to man, polyploidy is claimed to be a mechanism to increase genetic information available to a population.
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Jacob’s Odd “Breeding Program” of Genesis 30
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So many questions have been raised regarding Genesis 30–31: Does Jacob’s “peeled bark” practice have any bearing on how sheep and goats breed? Does it offer any health or reproductive value? Did God instruct Jacob in this practice?
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Salivary Protein: Evolution or Just Adaptation?
| Answers in Genesis
A recent study of the salivary mucin-7 gene (MUC7) demonstrated there was genetic variation of this gene among different primate species.
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Hairy New Findings in Dog Variation
| Answers in Genesis
There is astounding variation that exists within dogs. There are different sizes, shapes, and colors. What causes this variety?
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Going to the Dogs
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Scientists are comparing the DNA of dogs to determine where they originally came from.
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Examining the Platypus Genetic Code
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It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for: the mapping of the genome of the funny, furry duck-billed platypus.
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Did Speedy Horses Evolve Only Recently?
| Answers in Genesis
A new study looked at the genome of over 200 fossil horses, as well as domesticated horses and the Przewalski’s horse. The National Geographic headline declared, “Speedy horses evolved only recently, says landmark equine study.” But what they were really looking at was not evolution—it was artificial selection!
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Did God Create Poodles?
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Now before the poodle lovers of the world unite, I do not hate poodles. They may be degenerate mutants, but they are cute ones!
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As I Always Said: “It’s a Mutant!”
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She may look cute, but the science of genetics is confirming what I’ve always said about her: “She’s a degenerate mutant affected by sin and the Curse.”
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Is Your Dog Some Kind of Degenerate Mutant?
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Next time you pat your dog on the head, look a bit closer. Is it a mutt or mutant?
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Dog Fur Evolution
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The many differences in dog fur are reducible to just a few genetic factors, a team reports in Science.
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Hundreds of Thousands of Species in a Few Thousand Years?
| Answers in Genesis
A recent review paper proposed a controversial claim—that the vast majority
of animal species arose contemporary with modern humans. Not surprisingly, this claim was met with backlash from the evolutionary community. On what basis did the authors make this wide-reaching claim? Is their assertion true?
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How Manatees Lost Their Legs?
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A ScienceDaily article reported that research published in a recent PNAS article gives new evidence as to how manatees may have lost their hindlimbs.
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Eyeless Fish in Caves
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‘We read about fish that live in caves. They can’t see, and they have scars where most fish have eyes. Were they created like this?’
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Pigeon’s Crest Genome Mutation Biodiversity
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Genomic secret of the pigeon’s crest shows the power of a single mutation to produce an explosion of biodiversity.
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How Did Tigers Get Stripes and Leopards Get Spots?
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Creationists often discuss how the species we see today descended from the original “created kinds.” But how did tigers end up with stripes while leopards got spots?
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First Lizard Genome Sequenced
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Lizard’s genomic agility unravels the mystery of modern life.
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Mouse Genome Project
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Making mice more useful with the Mouse Genome Project
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More Mutant Pets!
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For some pet lovers, the extensive wrinkling of one breed of dog that makes it so adorable.
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Resurrected Mammoth Hemoglobin Protein
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists have resurrected a mammoth—a mammoth hemoglobin protein, that is.
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Meet Chickenosaurus
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It sounds like an April Fools’ Day joke that came months too late: a Canadian scientist declares he will “flip some levers” and develop a dinosaur out of a chicken embryo.
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Tame this Gene
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What makes an animal wild or tame—is it only human intervention? On the contrary, a decades-long study seeks to identify a genetic basis for animals’ attitudes toward humankind.
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Super Rats “Evolving” in Britain
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The Daily Telegraph has reported that rats in many parts of the UK have become resistant to rat poison. The development is being pronounced by the media as an example of evolution in action.
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Opossum: Genome Sequenced
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A team of scientists led by Tarjei Mikkelsen and Kerstin Lindblad-Toh of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University announced this week in Nature the completed sequencing of the opossum genome.
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Totally Naked Rooster
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We’d like you to meet TNR—a chicken with no feathers. His feathers were not pulled out by someone anxious to have him for a meal—feathers simply don’t grow on him!
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Genetic Engineering: Are We Playing God?
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A recent Pew Research poll asked several interesting and introspective questions about potential or real genetic engineering experiments on animals. The results were mostly what would be expected, with a few surprises along the way.
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A Fresh Look at Human-Chimp DNA Similarity
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Creationist scientists Drs. Tomkins and Bergman came up with an overall DNA similarity between humans and chimps of around 81%—quite a difference!
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New Genetic Information Proposals Fail
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Getting new genetic information is required for evolution—but every proposed (and imaginative) method for obtaining it fizzles one way or another
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Mutations
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Are mutations—copying errors in DNA—the driving force for biological evolution? Or do they represent the sad reality of a sin-cursed world?
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A Poke in the Eye?
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Has E. coli “evolved” new complex traits in the lab? Or is this more evidence of evolutionists grasping at anything to promote their ideas?
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Evidence of New Genetic Information?
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Can duplication and mutations cause new information to “arise” in the genome? Dr. Georgia Purdom accepts this challenge posted to creationists.
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The Effect of Mutations Down on the Farm
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A closer look at how different mutations affect livestock can give a better understanding of the role mutations play in our world.
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Sickle Cell Anemia and Other Mutations
| Answers in Genesis
The survival of living species depends on its ability to pass on its genetic instructions, from generation to generation, without significant alteration.
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Molecular Time-Travel
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“Molecular machine’s evolutionary trajectory” is an imaginary marvel.
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Duplicate to Make Something New?
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Evolutionists claim to have demonstrated the evolution of a new function through gene duplication.
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De-Regulation of an Existing Trait
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Genome analysis confirms “a key evolutionary innovation” is only de-regulation of an existing trait.
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A Creationist Perspective of Beneficial Mutations in Bacteria
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Creationists have tended to offer an inconsistent or incomplete perspective of “beneficial mutations” within a creation framework.
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Mutations, Yes; Evolution, No
| Answers in Genesis
Contrary to popular opinion, drug resistance in bacteria does not demonstrate evolution.
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Mutation-Selection in Biblical Perspective
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Mutations are no real help in explaining the origin of species, but they are great for explaining the origin of disease, disease organisms, and birth defects.
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Selective Switch Toggles Bacterial Traits
| Answers in Genesis
Gluttonous bacteria on the fast track compete with biofilm-makers boldly going where bacteria haven’t gone before.
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Testing the Limits
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Evolution would require an enormous amount of change. Modern laboratory experiments have tested bacteria’s ability to change. Is this ability truly unlimited?
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Fins to Limbs?
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How zebrafish mutation guides species to extinction instead of theoretical improvement, despite evolutionary propaganda attempts
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One Small Step for DNA, One Giant Leap for Man’s Brain
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If we share a common ancestor with a chimpanzee, as evolutionists confidently maintain, then how did our brains leap so far ahead in size and capability?
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Just How Random Are Mutations?
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Changes to the sequence of nucleotides (e.g., mutations) can alter the genetic information of the organism, which, in turn can alter its physical features
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Hijacking Good Science: Lenski’s Bacteria Support Creation
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Lenski's long-term evolution experiment does not distinguish between observable limited change and unobservable molecules-to-man evolution.
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Are Some Mutations Directed?
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Scientific American recently described the molecular basis for a number of traits as supporting evolution, but a closer looks reveals that there’s more to mutation than randomness.
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Analysis of Barry Hall’s Research of E. coli ebg Operon
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Much research has been done on the ebg operon of the bacterium Escherichia coli over the last 30 years. specific mutations within this operon enable the bacterium to metabolize lactose.
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“Mutations Drive Evolution.”
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Neo-Darwinism offers this basic equation for evolution: mutations + natural selection + millions of years = particles-to-person evolution. In this view, evolution is like a white-haired tinkerer, fiddling around with components in his shop until a workable innovation is rolled out.
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Scientists Admit Genetic Data Timing Uncertain
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“The inability to observe past mutation rates means that the timing of events from genetic data remains uncertain,” report Cambridge geneticists.
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Fruit Flies and Advantageous Mutations
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A study of 600 generations of fruit flies, just reported in Nature, sought to unravel the mystery of how advantageous mutations could become fixed in the population.
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Mutated Sense of Taste
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Many meat-eating mammals have mutated sweet sense.
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From Bacteria to Giraffes
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What can pink shower scum tell us about the origin of the giraffe’s long neck?
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Are There Beneficial Mutations?
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What are beneficial mutations? Does AiG need to change its stance regarding them? Dr. Georgia Purdom, AiG–U.S., clarifies this often-contentious area.
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Are You a Mutant?
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A team of researchers has added to our knowledge of the genetic mutation rate in humans, as they report in Current Biology.
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Leaps of Developmental Logic
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Small biological changes that take generations—like some birds’ beaks growing longer or shorter in certain ecological niches—can be explained and understood by creationists and evolutionists. But when it comes to explaining developmental “leaps,” evolutionists must make a leap of logic.
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Evolution is Just Mistakes
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A major fault line between creationists and evolutionists concerns the appearance of novel genetic information in nature. What does the latest research say about what’s supposed to be the driving force of evolution?
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Mutational Secrets of a Virus
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Series of mutations said to evolve a “key innovation”
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Milk-Digestion Gene Disables, Evolution Proved?
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“Recent instance of human evolution!” is the cry of evolutionists (that phrase coming from The New York Times), who are cheering an analysis of mutations that have led to lactose tolerance in various human populations.
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Gene-Editing of Babies, Potential Consequences
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In November 2018 a pair of twin girls born in China were the first gene-edited humans. He Jiankui used CRISPR technology to edit a gene to make the girls resistant to the HIV virus. A new study in the journal Nature Medicine revealed a nasty downside to the mutant gene variant of CCR55, which prevents HIV infection.
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Is Dark DNA Evolution’s Secret Weapon?
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Since evolutionists view mutations as the genetic engine driving dramatic transformations, dark DNA could be a source of rapid and extensive evolutionary change. However, mutations have never been shown to accomplish the types of transformations required by universal common descent.
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The Werewolf’s Curse
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Since ancient times history has recorded legends of people turning into animals, particularly dangerous wolves. Does some truth lurk behind the stories?
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The Ancient Mega-Clone
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Models suggest massive Mediterranean meadows are millenary mega-clones.
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Cryptic Mutations
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Cryptic variation and preadaptation—fancy words for the obvious.
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Leaping Mutants
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Statistics suggest a way for eukaryotic mutants to leap over fitness valleys.
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"Directed Evolution" in MIT Laboratory
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“Directed evolution” sounds like a page out of the theistic evolutionist’s playbook. So what’s it doing turning up in an MIT laboratory?
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Making the Evolution Pill Easier to Swallow, Part 2
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According to one presenter at a recent Darwin and medicine conference, children with birth defects are “bumps” in the road on our way to becoming more evolved.
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DNA Mutations Are More Counterproductive Than Helpful
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From mid-November, a reminder that mutations are nearly always counterproductive.
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Scientists Raise the Dead and Kill the Living
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Scientists have “reversed evolution”-converting a modern enzyme into its “theoretical distant ancestor” in one case, and reactivating a supposedly five-million-year-old retrovirus in the other.
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How We Got Red Hair (It Wasn’t By Evolution)
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Recent research has shown that red hair in people often results from mutations in just one gene.
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A Feet of Imagination
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No story related to human evolution has drawn as much press in recent times as the account of family members in Turkey who walk hunched over, using their hands as well as feet to ambulate.
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Special Tools of Life
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Did you know that living things make their own tools? For example, they use enzymes to break down large molecules for parts (building blocks) and some for energy.
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Protein Mutational Context Dependence 1
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Whenever amino acids can be changed at a residue position, it is generally assumed this mutation is compatible with all other tolerated residue substitutions. We show here that this cannot be assumed.
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Ancon Sheep: Just Another Loss Mutation
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A major problem for Darwinists is that the Ancon mutation (a Mendelian recessive), as is true with most other mutations, is a loss mutation.
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Dawkins’ Weasel Revisited
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Zoology Professor Richard Dawkins claimed to show that random mutations could generate new structures such as organs or limbs by a computer programming exercise.
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Directed Evolution
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Are intelligently designed experiments, done in state-of-the-art facilities, using already present features in already-existing bacteria and viruses really examples of molecules-to-man evolution?
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Long Live the Men
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According to some evolutionists, sometime “between infinity and a few thousand years,” the Y chromosome will become extinct unless we can evolve a new sex gene.
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DNA Similarities
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Do similarities in DNA between organisms suggest a common ancestor or a common Designer? Are chimps and humans actually 98% similar?
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DNA—The Language of Life
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DNA resembles a language in many uncanny ways.
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Apes Are Our Brothers—Just Ask the Post Office
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'Do you realise our DNA is 98.5% identical?’ These are the words in an advertisement for the first-class stamp in a new series called ‘The secret of life,’ released by Royal Mail (UK).
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Seventy Percent of Human Genes Traced Back to Acorn Worm?
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Some think acorn worms, virtually unchanged since the Cambrian explosion, represent an evolutionary link between invertebrates and humans.
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Trace Your Family History through DNA Testing
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According to American Demographics, 113 million Americans have begun to trace their roots.
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Sponge Synapses
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Sponge nerve system genes correlate with human nervous system genes by 25%.
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Chromosome Tales and the Importance of a Biblical Worldview
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When evidence is interpreted in a particular worldview, it can sound very convincing that the evidence supports that worldview.
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A Tale of Two Chromosomes
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There are many anatomical similarities between humans and apes. Our chromosomes are similar as well. But do human chromosomes hint of chimp ancestry?
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Chimp-Human DNA Similarity: What Does It Really Mean?
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The Human Genome Project, supposedly disproved the possibility of all humans being descended from one man and woman. But what does the science really show?
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The Untold Story Behind DNA Similarity
| Answers in Genesis
When you hear stories about the astonishing
similarity between human and chimp DNA, there’s
something they’re not telling you . . .
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Denisovan Human Genome Sequenced
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Revolutionary DNA sequencing technique said to be “a powerful new tool to fish for genes that have recently evolved.”
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If human and chimp DNA are so similar, why differences?
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It seems that if a protein performs a certain function in one organism, then that same protein should perform the same function in a variety of organisms.
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Easy-Going Ape Joins Genome Club
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Scientists recently analyzed the bonobo ape's genome.
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Odd Non-Man Out
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When considered alongside humans and chimps, the orangutan is the genomic “odd man out.” Is that because it hasn’t evolved as quickly?
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Chimp Genome Sequence Very Different from Man
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Last week, in a special issue of Nature devoted to chimpanzees, researchers report the initial sequence of the chimpanzee genome.
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The Differences Make the Difference
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While there is much similarity in DNA sequences and gene expression among them, there are also important differences. In the case examined, as in other cases, the differences make the difference.
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Greater Than 98% Chimp/Human DNA Similarity? Not Any More.
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A new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the common value of >98% similarity of DNA between chimp and humans is incorrect.
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Turtles Still Baffle Evolutionists
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Turtles in search of their long lost ancestor discover genes trump holes in the head.
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Finding Adam in the Genome: A BioLogos cover-up?
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Venema took Tomkins’ claims to task on the BioLogos website regarding the supposed remnants of an egg-laying gene (vitellogenin) in human DNA.
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Finding Adam in the Genome: Does BioLogos Have Even More Egg on Its Face?
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BioLogos has engaged in systematic scientific error on one of their “evidences” for evolution, and they have misrepresented the arguments for several years.
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A Simple Answer
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Can a simple “yes or no” answer be adequate for a question about Adam and Eve’s genetic code and today’s human traits?
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Human/Chimp DNA Similarity Continues to Decrease: Counting Indels
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It is conventionally held that humans and chimps differ only very slightly in their DNA. However, new evidence suggests that the difference might be much more drastic.
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Are Pseudogenes ‘Shared Mistakes’ Between Primate Genomes?
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The claim that pseudogenes and their respective variations are shared between primates in a nested hierarchy, and can only be explained through common evolutionary descent, is found wanting.
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The Question of Y
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We’ve all heard that humans and chimps share up to 98% of their DNA. But new studies are accentuating the differences between humans and chimps.
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Study Finds Chimp DNA Is Not “99% Identical” to Ours
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A “shocking” new study has confirmed what we’d expect—chimpanzee DNA is not 98–99% identical to human DNA.
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DNA We're Missing Makes Us Human
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No one, not even evolutionists, disputes that humans have crossed a threshold that sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom—even chimpanzees, our “close evolutionary relatives.” But according to new research, it’s actually the genes we don’t have that sets us apart.
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Genetic Connections with Chimpanzees
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Evolutionists often emphasize our genetic similarity to chimpanzees, but our genetic connections don’t end there.
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Time Keeps on Slipping
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Twice in the past five years, our alleged ancestry with apes has made the cover of Time magazine.
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More Different Than We Thought
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Scientists publishing in the journal Genetics last week have showed that “[m]any more genes separate humans from chimpanzees than scientists believed.”
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Group Think
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All humans today can be traced back to the same small group of people.
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Chimp Filing for Person-hood
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His name notwithstanding, the current legal case for the personhood of Mr. Matthew Hiasl Pan (a chimp) is in jeopardy, reports the Associated Press from Vienna, Austria.
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Not Only How Much, But Also How Fast: Gene Sequences
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The inadequacy of similar “genetic potential” in explaining organisms’ similarity is perhaps most notable in comparisons of chimps and humans.
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All About the Differences
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A sensational headline ran across the science media this week: “Chimps More Evolved than Humans.”
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The Trouble with Sequencing
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The news has been buzzing lately about two recent papers that are reporting the sequencing of up to one million bases of the Neanderthal genome.
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Visiting the Family?
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I have a soft spot for Twycross Zoo. It is a favourite with my children and me, since it is only a 30-minute drive from our house in the west of Leicestershire.
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Evolution: Fact or Fiction?
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In the current controversies about teaching about the origin of life in public schools, there is a general misunderstanding of the differences between “origin science” and “operation science."
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“Junk” DNA
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Using evolutionary assumptions about life’s history, geneticists have branded vast sums of DNA as junk, but research is showing this DNA is far from useless.
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DNA Prevents Reproducing Between Two Species
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Has the U.S. government finally supported creationist research? Alas, no, but the results of a National Institutes of Health study fit squarely within the young-earth creation framework.
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Decoding the Debris
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For decades, evolutionary scientists have ignored “junk” DNA that supposedly littered our genetic sequence.
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Junk DNA and ENCODE Revisited
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The ENCODE project’s recent discoveries help make sense of the DNA referred to as “junk.”
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The Smell of Change in Our Understanding of Pseudogenes
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For years pseudogenes have been used by skeptics to promote evolution. But you can refute this every time you breathe in.
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“Junk” DNA—past, present, and future, part 1
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For many years this notion that non-coding DNA was not functional (“junk”) actually inhibited science.
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“Junk” DNA—Past, Present, and Future, Part 2
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The ENCODE Project findings have made it clear that junk DNA is not junk and that most of it is functional in the form of RNA or protein.
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Junk Science
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The evolutionary assumption that 98% of human DNA is "junk" actually inhibited our understanding of the human genome.
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Defining the “Junk” Genes That Separate Chimps and Humans
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We have been hearing for years that chimp and human DNA is 98.5% identical, as if that proves our common ancestry.
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Human Endogenous Retroviruses (HERVs)—God’s Tools?
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Contrary to being “junk” DNA, HERVs are thought to play at least three major roles.
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Junk DNA Evolutionary Discards God’s Tools
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That functions are being found for junk DNAs fits in well with creation science. But evolutionary theory is being adjusted again to accommodate the data.
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Humans May Have Fewer Genes Than Expected?
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A recent study revealed some surprising results about the number of coding genes (those which produce proteins) in the human genome. In this study, led by the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, they found that around 20% of the genes which had been classified as coding genes were not coding.
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Unnecessary DNA
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How can rats, mice, and humans share so many identical DNA sequences? Look inside!
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Neutral DNA
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DNA elements sometimes confer neither benefits nor disadvantages.
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Brain Size and Evolution: Is There a Valid Correlation?
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For many years a dogma within evolutionary biology has been that as organisms evolved from mouse to chimp to human their brain size increased (even relative to body weight). Is this valid?
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Vestigial Genes?
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Scientists have found supposedly worthless DNA. What are these pseudogenes and what do they mean?
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Evidence Against Pseudogene Shared Mistakes
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Recent discoveries of function in certain pseudogenes have led to the recognition, by some evolutionists, of widespread function in pseudogenes.
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Pseudogene Function: More Evidence
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According to standard evolutionary thinking, pseudogenes are simply disabled copies of genes.
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Pseudogene Function: Regulation of Gene Expression
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The discovery of a functional nitric oxide synthase (NOS) pseudogene compels us to understand pseudogenes in a new light.
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Hox Hype
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From the hype of the press release, it would seem that evolution was finally proven once and for all and the creationists should just give up and go home.
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How Low Can You Go?
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An article published in Nature indicates previous studies may have underestimated the size of the minimal bacterial genome by as much as 50%. Yet, evolutionary significance seems to be lacking.
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DNA Structure
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The iconic, complex double-helix structure of DNA displays the masterful design and creativity of the all-wise Creator.
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Limited Genetic Code Proof God Not Required?
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Evolutionists frequently cite the genetic code’s universality as proof of evolution from a common ancestor.
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New Letters for DNA Alphabet God’s Design
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Can genetic engineers—by building a bacterium that speaks an unearthly tongue—reenact ancient evolution in the laboratory?
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It’s Elementary, My Dear Watson
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Two ardent atheists are being honored this year on the 50th anniversary of their discovery of the double helix structure of the molecule of heredity, DNA.
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Breaking the Code
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Breaking the code was only the beginning.
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DNA in the Kitchen
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In case you thought DNA was a subject only for science classes and high-tech laboratories, think again! You can isolate a lump of DNA in your own kitchen.
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DNA “First Responders”?
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God gave DNA a proofreading system to catch mistakes and “dedicated DNA repair machinery that routinely fixes mistakes.” But how do they work?
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Common Code . . . Common Designer?
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In a world of random chance, what are the odds that almost all lifeforms would use the same basic genetic code?
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DNA—What Does It Prove?
| Answers in Genesis
Conferences worldwide are celebrating a landmark in 20th century science—the 50th anniversary of Watson and Crick’s discovery of DNA’s structure.
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Computers Without Chips
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Like any other computer software, the DNA helix is packed with information, a complete set of instructions for the complex working of the cell.
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Human Genome
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The exhaustive project of mapping the human genome has provided further evidence of biblical truths as presented in Genesis.
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Are We Really That Different?
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The latest craze is to
learn what DNA tests
reveal about family
heritage. When an
adoptive Christian
family decided to look
beneath the surface,
however, they discovered
a more amazing truth, providing powerful evidence that we are all one
race, or “one blood,” just as the Bible
teaches.
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Human Evolution—Faster than a Speeding Bullet
| Answers in Genesis
A recent study claims that the rate of mutation has sharply increased over the last 10,000 years. But what is the reason for this change?
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South Carolina Man’s DNA Tells Ancient Story
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A DNA sample submitted to the National Geographic Genographic Project created quite a stir in the world’s genomic databases.
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ABO Blood and Human Origins
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The ABO blood group is the most significant blood factor in clinical applications involving blood transfusions. With our recent ability to rapidly sequence genes, the ABO blood group is also proving to be a valuable asset for determining human migration patterns and origins.
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The highly efficient genome
| Answers in Genesis
A number of genes are now known to be polycistronic, that is, they produce more than one protein.
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Denisovan DNA’s Secrets
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Denisovan DNA’s secrets—unveiled and interpreted
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What Makes Us Human?
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Has “EnhancerFinder” unraveled the secret of human origins?
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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 post, we begin exploring Venema’s evidences in chapter two of Adam and the Genome, titled “Genomes as Language, Genomes as Books.”
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Recovery of Neandertal mtDNA: An Evaluation
| Answers in Genesis
The recovery of mitochondrial DNA from the right arm bone of the original Neandertal fossil discovered in a cave in the Neander Valley has been hailed as a stunning feat of modern biochemistry.
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Do Genetic Differences Disprove Neandertals and Humans Interbred?
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New research results comparing the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have shown substantial divergence between Neandertals and modern humans.
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Predisposition to Religion?
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Watch as one researcher tries desperately to implicate population biology and genetics in the spread of religion.
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Three Genetic Groupings
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A new genetic study of 53 human populations shows that each falls into one of three genetic groups—yet that the three groups aren’t as different as was thought. The legacy of Shem, Ham, and Japheth (Noah’s three sons), perhaps?
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More Than Meets the Eye: The Human Genome
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“A close-up view of the human genome has revealed its innermost workings to be far more complex than first thought,” reports a BBC NEWS article on a recent Encyclopaedia of DNA Elements (Encode) study.
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Two Decades of DNA Discovery
| Answers in Genesis
Twenty years ago, US President Bill
Clinton declared the human genome
project “the most wondrous map ever
created by humankind.”
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The Creator’s Human Genome Project
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EnhancerFinder, a supercomputer program, is supposedly revealing genetic enhancements that once upon a deep time put an apelike ancestor on the fast track to becoming human.
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Racing to a Conclusion
| Answers in Genesis
Africa may be the most genetically diverse place on earth. Is that evidence of evolutionary origins?
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Human Genome Project Complete ... Again
| Answers in Genesis
The Human Genome Project has officially finished its task of sequencing the human genome, according to a press conference on Monday, 14 April 2003.
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The Living Database
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When a new human being is conceived, he or she consists of only one tiny microscopic cell. How does that single cell grow into a complete body?
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Information Theory
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Information only comes from other information. DNA is a complex information system, so it must have come from an information source—the mind of the Creator God!
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5.2 What Is Information? The Biblical View (OB18)
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The aspects of information that we studied earlier are also found in the Bible.
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5.4 What Is Life? The Informational View (OB19)
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Matter and energy are necessary aspects of living forms, but they do not fundamentally distinguish between living and inanimate systems.
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5.5 What Is Life? The Biblical View (OB20)
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Up to this point, we emphasized that information is an essential characteristic of life.
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Information: Evidence for a Creator?
| Answers in Genesis
What if it could be shown through empirical science that the universe consists of more than just mass and energy?
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Information in Living Organisms
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There is an extreme multiplicity of life-forms around us, and even a simple unicellular organism is much more complex and purposefully designed than anything that human inventiveness can produce.
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The Three Forms in which Information Appears
| Answers in Genesis
Information accosts us from all sides and presents itself over a wide range of manifestations.
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The Five Levels of the Information Concept
| Answers in Genesis
The question is whether these pictures represent information or not.
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The Quality and Usefulness of Biblical Information
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According to biblical assertions all information given out by humans is evaluated by God.
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Quantities Used for Evaluating Information Application to Bible
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Let us now examine how the Bible addresses the six measures for quantitatively evaluating information (especially its semantics) .
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Principles of Laws of Nature
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Through the natural sciences, the world around us is observed for the purpose of discovering the rules governing it.
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Information Is a Fundamental Entity
| Answers in Genesis
Many scientists therefore justly regard information as the third fundamental entity alongside matter and energy.
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Delineation of the Information Concept
| Answers in Genesis
Information always plays a substitutionary role. The encoding of reality is a mental process.
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Three Kinds of Transmitted Information
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If someone presents a model for explaining the origin of life, but he cannot say where the creative information characteristic of all life-forms came from, the crucial question remains unanswered.
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The Quality and Usefulness of Information
| Answers in Genesis
To rise above Shannon’s information theory, it is necessary to define measures for semantic information which must be generally valid.
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Some Quantitative Evaluations of Semantics
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We can now begin to evaluate semantic information quantitatively, after having considered the essentials at the semantics level in the preceding chapters.
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Questions Often Asked about the Information Concept
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A small selection of the frequently asked questions about information theory are now listed and answered briefly.
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Life Requires a Source of Information
| Answers in Genesis
The common factor present in all living organisms, from bacteria to man, is the information contained in all their cells.
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A Biblical Analogy of the Four Fundamental Entities
| Answers in Genesis
The question about the origin of matter and the energies we observe in action is already answered in the first verse of the Bible.
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The Statistical View of Information
| Answers in Genesis
Shannon’s definition of information entails only one minor aspect of the nature of information, as we will discuss at length.
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Language: Creating, Communicating, and Storing Information
| Answers in Genesis
Man’s natural language is the most comprehensive as well as the most differentiated means of expression.
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Creation’s Amazing Computer
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‘Where’, questions the creationist, ‘would the information come from to effect such a transformation?
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Magic, Information, and Faith
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A recent post on the Daily Telegraph accuses creationists of believing in “magic,” but it fails to see the faith needed to believe in evolution.
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Hope that secular publishers may provide creation information
| Answers in Genesis
The cracks are beginning to show in the monopoly that evolutionist have had on academic publications.
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Two Heads Are Better Than One?
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It’s often said that ‘two heads are better than one’. But, in the case of Sam and Ella, two heads aren’t so good.
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Evolution: Bad Economics
| Answers in Genesis
A riddle illustrating the idea of molecules-to-man evolution.
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Billionaire on Biological Information
| Answers in Genesis
The most famous of all computer software gurus has recently acknowledged the brilliance of the programming in our bodies (without any hint of acknowledging the Programmer, so far).
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That Depends on Your Definition of ‘Information’
| Answers in Genesis
The ‘information’ argument is used by many creationists to show that particles-to-people evolution is impossible. Following is an attempt by a critic to discredit this argument, and our response.
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Information, Science and Biology
| Answers in Genesis
A rigorous analysis of the characteristics of information demonstrates that living things intrinsically reflect both the mind and will of their Creator.
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Think Spot: Where’s the Intelligence?
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Most would acknowledge that as complexity of information and design increases, there has to be an increase in the intelligence and ability of the one who produces it.
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Mitochondrial DNA
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Mitochondrial DNA research confirms that all humans alive today share common ancestors just a few thousand years ago as the Bible teaches.
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Modern European Family Tree Has Stone Age Roots
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Family tree of much of modern European population has Stone Age roots.
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Origin of Mitochondrial DNA Differences
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While Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson has published previously on the topic of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), this article brings a study of African mtDNA differences and how it supports the young earth creation model. This article will summarize Dr. Jeanson’s research.
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Mitochondrial Eve
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When evolutionary scientists speak of “mitochondrial Eve,” they may be referencing the biblical Eve, but the woman they have in mind isn’t quite the same.
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“Out of Africa”? A brief response . . .
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Striving to understand the world apart from the true history found in the Bible, evolutionists have devised varying ideas about where and when ‘modern’ humans originated.
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Humans Considered to have Evolved Separately for 100,000 Years
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New research published in the American Journal of Human Genetics purports to describe how humankind diverged, then nearly went extinct, and then finally reunited more than 50,000 years ago—at least, that’s the hypothesis. Associated Press and BBC News articles also take a look at different aspects of the epic chapter of human history supposedly uncovered by the study.
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Feces Give Clues to Confirm the origins of Native Americans
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Coprolites found in a cave in Oregon may confirm that all the original inhabitants of the Americas came from East Asia.
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Native American DNA Linked by Six Women
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Nearly all Native Americans—including those in North, Central, and South America—have descended (in part) from just six women, says a new DNA study published this week in PLoS One.
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One People
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Research confirms it: all humans alive today can be traced back to the same small group of people.
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The Lost History of the Aztecs
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Ancient Mexican city Tenochtitlan’s history is being rewritten by new genetic evidence.
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Breaking News: Lost American History Discovered in DNA
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New research published today pulls back the curtain on a long-standing mystery: the history of the Americas before Europeans arrived.
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An Unexpectedly Strong Argument for a Young Earth
| Answers in Genesis
The story of how this creation scientist made discoveries showing that DNA confirms the Bible
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I Wasn’t Supposed to Be There
| Answers in Genesis
When research biologist Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson uncovered groundbreaking genetic discoveries, a new door opened for him.
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Rediscovering Pre-Colombian America
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How creation science is giving Native Americans back their history
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“Spatial Grammar” in DNA Speaks to God’s Gift of Language
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All DNA is important, even when acting simply as a spacer—just as the spaces between words in written English help readers make sense of the words themselves.
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Memories May be Genetic Mementos
| Answers in Genesis
The finding shows how our biology and life experiences are more deeply connected than scientists previously thought possible.
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How DNA Reveals God’s Design
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DNA: The transforming principle as a code and its discovery in the genesis of germs
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Biblical Boundaries for Human Gene Editing
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Christians need to be able to make biblical decisions about gene editing.
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Does New Mouse Experiment Explain How Humans Lost Their Tails?
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Evolutionists claim a new mouse experiment explains how humans lost their tails. Does it?
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How Grandma’s Recipes Can Remind Us of God’s Recipes for Life–Genomes
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How a humble recipe box compares with what we are learning about how living things are formed.
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They’re My Genes, and I’ll Edit Them If I Want To
| Answers in Genesis
After years of predictions, gene editing is finally becoming a reality. The issues are complex, pitting human freedom against the risk of corrupting the DNA of future generations. Who should make these choices and oversee them?
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Tracing the Lost History of the New World
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What happened to the early Americans? New research is turning evolutionary narratives upside down—and creation scientists like geneticist Nathaniel Jeanson are leading the way.
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Can Genetic Mutations Be Purged from Genome?
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Evolutionists must theorize a way for deleterious mutations to be eliminated from the genomes of living things. There have been several proposed mechanisms to do this for different contexts, but here we will focus on just one: purging by purifying selection.
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The Best-Kept Secrets of DNA
| Answers in Genesis
Creation science is quietly making groundbreaking discoveries.
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Unraveling the Chromosome 2 Connection
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Upon closer examination, this popular evolutionary argument quickly comes undone.
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What Color Was Adam?
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The diversity of eye, hair, and skin pigmentations across the globe actually demonstrates a genetic relationship with our first parents, Adam and Eve.
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CRISPR: A Clear-Cut Issue?
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Does this popular
gene-editing tool combat the curse
or cut away at God’s design?
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The Shocking and Glorious New Science of Human “Race” & Ethnicity
| Answers in Genesis
How biblical timelines and modern genetics unveil a new understanding of people group identity and migration.
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CRISPR and the Creator
| Answers in Genesis
The powerful new gene-editing
tool CRISPR will soon
be used in the US for the first
time in human trials.
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The Secondary Language That Leaves Evolutionists Speechless
| Answers in Genesis
Researchers continue to unveil incredible
complexities in a secondary DNA language, complicating
efforts to explain life by evolution.
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Gene-Edited Babies Cause Uproar
| Answers in Genesis
In November 2018 global headlines
announced the stunning birth of the
first gene-edited humans.
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DNA Paramedics
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A new study discovered the complexity
of a cell’s DNA repair system. It
seems the cell repairs damaged strands
of DNA.
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Do Humans Have Genes for Laying Eggs?
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In this article, we explore Venema’s claims in Adam and the Genome about genetic sequences that he thinks have lost their function.
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Finding Adam in the Genome: A Response to Chapter 2 of Adam and the Genome
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Venema claims that the published, comprehensive genetic comparisons between humans and chimpanzees reveal a genetic identity of 95–98%.
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Finding Adam in the Genome: A Response to Chapter 1 of Adam and the Genome
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In our series, we’ve discovered ample support that evolutionists fit facts to conclusions. In this article, we’ll continue to explore whether it is true.
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Gene Editing and Designer Babies—Why the Future Desperately Needs
| Answers in Genesis
The discovery of an easy way to “edit” genes may someday make it possible to manufacture “designer babies.”
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Genetics and God’s Natural Selection
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What particularly fascinated Gregor Mendel was the way in which the plants handed on their characteristics to the next generation.
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The RNA-Way From Molecules-to-Man Remains Muddled
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The RNA-way from molecules-to-man remains mired by its complete lack of information.
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Gene Duplication
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Gene duplications followed by subsequent mutation of the duplicated genes are often cited by evolutionists as a mechanism for adding new information to the genome.
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Did We All Come from Adam and Eve?
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Have genetic discoveries broken the tie that binds us to Adam?
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How Are New Genes Made?
| Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists conclude “the birth of new genes is an important motor of evolutionary innovation,” but how are new genes made?
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Ancient Protein “Resurrected”?
| Answers in Genesis
As Science Daily reports, “state-of-the-art computational and molecular techniques [were used] to re-create the ancient progenitors of an important human protein.”
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Field-Evolved Resistance Rootworms Corn
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Resistant rootworms can ravage corn if farmers put all their eggs in a genetically modified high-tech basket.
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Why Do Arms and Legs Come in Pairs?
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You only have two arms and two legs because your gut got in the way, evolutionists say.
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Genetic Links Lion Lineages Common Ancestor
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Beautiful Barbary lion, now extinct, could be “re-built” and restored from its closest cousins.
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DNA Codes Reveal Rule-Breaking in Language
| Answers in Genesis
When does “stop” mean “go”? Surprisingly often! The DNA code common to all living things is not quite as uniform as previously thought.
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Denisovan Gene Gave Tibetans Their High-Altitude Tolerance
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Tibetan natives ability to tolerate high-altitude conditions is a genetic inheritance obtained from mixing with the long-extinct Denisovan people.
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Fungal RNA Splicing Mechanism
| Answers in Genesis
A recent study claimed to offer proof of the RNA-world hypothesis or the origin of life. The evidence, however, is greatly lacking.
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Persistent Protein
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Preservation of collagen fibers in a marine reptile fossil is said to prove “biomolecular preservation over deep time.”
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Ultrafast Parasite Evolution
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Bird parasite said to “evolve” rapidly while losing information.
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Professor of Genetics Says 'No!' to Evolution
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I often contribute chapters on genetics. I know of no biological data relevant to tree genetics that would require evolutionary explanations.
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Genetics: No Friend of Evolution
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Genetics and evolution have been enemies from the beginning of both concepts.
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Are Genetic Mechanisms For Speciation Multiple Choice?
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Speciation’s secrets are multiple-choice. What do phlox flowers, stickleback fish, monkeyflowers, and Bogota fruit flies have in common? They all suggest genetic mechanisms for speciation.
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Copying Confusion
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Molecules-to-man evolution requires the production of large amounts of new genetic information.
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Genetics and Biblical Demographic Events
| Answers in Genesis
With the relatively recent mapping of the human genome, new questions can be raised concerning potential genetic evidence for Biblical events such as Creation and the global Flood.
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Cousin Fly
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Hox gene researchers sniff at a common ancestor.
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DNA—An “Energy Code”?
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Some geneticists have postulated how DNA could have evolved complete with a “story” based on low free energy and high free energy codons.
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Human Body
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The human body is an absolute marvel of design. The intricate combination of muscles, bones, organs and tissues is a symphony that cries out for a Creator.
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Wise Blood: Antibodies, The Principle of Overcoming in Disease (Part 2)
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The immune system serves more than just to “defend” against disease – it was designed to interact with microbes and to cleanse the body.
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Wise Blood: The Principle of Overcoming in Disease and Immunity (Part 1)
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How our immune system protects us from deadly pathogens and parasites through antibodies to demonstrate how we’re fearfully and wonderfully made.
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There’s a Map for That—Human Cell Atlas
| Answers in Genesis
Medical researchers have launched one of the most ambitious mapping projects ever—the human cell atlas.
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Lymphocytes—Our Body’s Dynamic Defenders
| Answers in Genesis
What we know today confirms what God taught the Israelites nearly 4,000 years ago. We’ve now unlocked some of our body’s incredible secrets for rapid response to the ever-changing threat from microbe invaders.White blood cells defend us from constant intrusion.
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The Motors That Move Us
| Answers in Genesis
From head to heels, your body teems with minuscule machines driving your everyday physical processes.
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A Trillion First Responders
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To keep us safe, our body coordinates with a vast network of foreign agents that have joined our side. It’s the largest security force in the world. A teeming network of first responders that live on nearly every surface of your body, inside and out.
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The Wonderful World of Bacteria in Your Body
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The “superorganism” that you are testifies to the superlative wisdom of our Creator God.
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The Wonderfully Made Design of the Skin and Its Microbiome
| Answers in Genesis
Microbes live in a mutualistic relationship with the human body, make up the human microbiome, and play a role in our health by modulating the immune system.
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Body of Evidence
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In this new 16-part video series, Dr. David Menton, former anatomy teacher and professor of the year, gives you an insider’s look at the wonders of the human body.
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Heart
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The same God who designed our hearts to sustain physical life designed a miraculous way for us to obtain a new spiritual “heart” that will beat for eternity.
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Experiment—Iron: Toxin on the Table
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Rusty old iron is toxic to our bodies. Yet God designed all living things to depend on a steady supply of iron to continue living.
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“Vestigial” Organs
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Several organs have been labeled “vestigial” evolutionary relics with little or no function. These organs are now proving purposeful. It’s the label, not the organs, that is vestigial.
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Setting the Record Straight on Vestigial Organs
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In a recent article, New Scientist discusses five supposed vestigial organs in the human body, but as Dr. David DeWitt shows, there’s more to the story than evolutionists will admit.
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Appendix
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The appendix has gotten a bad rap over the years. It’s often tossed out as a useless evolutionary leftover.
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The Human Vermiform Appendix
| Answers in Genesis
The appendix is commonly referred to as a classic example of a vestigial organ.
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The Human Tail and Other Tales of Evolution
| Answers in Genesis
The “human tail” is just one example of what evolutionists call a “vestigial organ.”
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Vestigial Organs—Evidence for Evolution?
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Vestigial organs have long been one of the classic arguments used as evidence for evolution.
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Are “Vestigial Organs” Really “Proof of Evolution . . . on Your B
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Can YouTube video “Proof of Evolution That You Can Find on Your Body” prop up the human evolutionary story through our presumably useless body parts?
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Vestigial hiccups, folding fish-eyes, and other fables
| Answers in Genesis
Time-lapse photos of a human embryonic face taking shape—unlike Haeckel’s fraudulent woodcuts—are authentic. But not even those assembled photos can peer back through time to prove evolution.
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The Appendix: Useless Vestige or Evolutionary Innovation?
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The appendix has long been maligned as an obsolete vestigial remnant of digestive evolution. Is it really as worthless as people say?
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Vestigial Organs: A Vanishing Argument
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Vestigial organs are supposedly useless leftovers from our evolutionary past. However, this claim requires preconceived belief and an ignorance of the evidence.
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Why Do Men Have Nipples?
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If there were an all-knowing Creator, why would He design men with a structure for which they have no use? Dr. Tommy Mitchell, AiG-U.S., explains why males have nipples.
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Vestigial Salmon Organ Actually Useful
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Marine biologists have long thought the “adipose fin” on the back of some fish was vestigial. But a recent study finds a function for this fin.
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Was a Baby Born with a Human Tail?
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Baby recently born in Brazil with “human tail with a ball at the end of it” though it is far from evidence of human evolution or a vestigial organ.
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Are Wisdom Teeth Evidence for Evolution?
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Wisdom teeth are still thought of and touted today as vestigial structures and as evidence for evolution. But is this actually the case? Why do we humans have so many problems with wisdom teeth? And does this imply a poor design by the Creator?
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Vestigial Structures—Leftover News
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Charles Darwin once claimed the human body contains evolutionary leftovers, and Fox news ran with the story—150 years later.
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Losing Any Remaining Vestige
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Students still see the appendix mentioned as vestigial.
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Appendix Isn’t Useless
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“Creationists will have a field day with this one,” writes one blogger on the news. Bingo.
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Vestigial Ideas
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Another study reminds us that the idea of “vestigial organs” is, itself, vestigial!
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Appendix May Harbor Useful Bacteria
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If you’re a creationist, you’ve probably known it for a while; if you’re an evolutionist, you may be just finding out: the human appendix does have a function.
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Hard to Digest
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The function of the human appendix—long derided as a useless leftover of evolution—has “finally” been uncovered.
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Appendix: Where the Good Bacteria Live
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Surgeons and immunologists at Duke University Medical School suggest that the appendix produces and protects beneficial germs for use in the intestines.
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Vestigial Structures
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Almost every secular biology textbook today includes a section on vestigial structures—structures that are supposed remnants from ancestors that have lost their original function or capacity.
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Cutting Out a Useless Vestigial Argument
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Many have abandoned faith in the Bible influenced by such arguments—arguments which are themselves ‘vestigial’, the vestiges of supposed truths that, when used today, are useful only to mislead.
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The Plantaris and the Question of Vestigial Muscles in Man
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Evolutionists continue to propose a few of our smaller and least understood muscles as being vestiges of once useful organs left over from putative evolutionary ancestors.
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Do Any Vestigial Organs Exist in Humans?
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The standard definition of ‘vestigial’ is an organ that once was useful in an animal’s evolutionary past, but that now is useless or very close to useless.
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Are Wisdom Teeth (Third Molars) Vestiges of Human Evolution?
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Research now indicates that the reasons for most third molar problems today are not due to evolutionary changes but other reasons.
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Brain
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The human brain is so complex that scientists have barely tapped its intricacy. The quiet workings of the brain point toward its Designer.
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God’s Gift of Sleep
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When you’re drifting off to dreamland, God unwraps one of his greatest presents.
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Brain Convolutions in Mice and Men
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Evolutionists trying to explain what causes convolutions to form in a human fetus suggest how the human brain evolved from apelike ancestors.
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Synapses Speak
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Dramatic difference found between human and chimpanzee brains.
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Recalling Creation
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Mr. Williams' amazing mind gives us a glimpse into how God may have originally created the human brain.
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Pituitary—A Miniscule Master
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Your body is run by a tiny gland the size of a pea. How is this possible?
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Wired for Awe
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That feeling of “veneration” in the face of the “sacred” has sent atheists scurrying for generations, denying that awe even exists except among religious fanatics. But today everyone is forced to embrace its reality. Neuroscientists can detect its effects in the brain.
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Rise and Fall of Human Intelligence
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A recent study indicates that human intelligence may be declining.
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Religion Is in Your Head
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Religion? It’s all in your head: New Scientist takes an unmitigated swipe at theism.
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Baby Brains
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Evolutionists claim that children become less "monkey-like" as they age. Once again, data is interpreted based on worldviews.
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The Gene that Folds the Brain
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The gene LAMC-3 is essential to the formation of convolutions in the human brain, but how it “evolved to gain [these] novel functions” remains a mystery.
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Brain
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The brain's marvelous design makes it possible for us to grow and adapt to our changing environment.
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What Memories Are Made Of
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“Where’d I park my
car?” Many people mistakenly believe that the brain
permanently stores all the information it encounters,
but we just can’t always access it. In fact, we
forget many things, which appear to be gone forever.
And that’s a good thing!
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Evolutionary Psychology Threatens Accountability
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A Christian response to an article regarding evolutionary psychology.
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Is a Bigger Brain Better?
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When it comes to intelligence, the size of your noggin isn’t a factor.
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How Much Brain Do We Need to Be Human?
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The design and plasticity of the human brain shows God’s goodness.
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Marriage Decreases Likelihood of Dementia
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Recently, a new study was published in which 19,579 men and women aged 52 and older from the US and who exhibited no signs of dementia were interviewed (beginning in 2000). The purpose of the study was to determine if there was any correlation between the risk of dementia and marital status.
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Biblical Counseling—Common Cause with Creation
| Answers in Genesis
The so-called “culture wars” have spilled into every field of study, not just origins.
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The Brain’s Adaptability: A Testimony of the Creator
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Real-life examples are increasingly showing the brain (particularly the infant brain) to be much more complex than this simplistic understanding.
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Are Conflicting Beliefs Tied to the Brain?
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Researchers using neuroimaging technology claim to have found the cause for the conflict between science and religion (evolution and creationism) in the brain.
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Experiment: The Brain—Your Nimble Noggin
| Answers in Genesis
Would you rather have a computer or a brain in an emergency? Knock a robot off its legs, and you decide!
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Mindboggling
| Answers in Genesis
U.S. President Barack Obama last year announced the BRAIN Initiative—an ambitious research effort to better understand the human brain.
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Answers Magazine Preview: Vol. 8 No. 3
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Learn about the matchless miracles of the mind in Answers magazine.
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What Makes the Human Brain Function?
| Answers in Genesis
Does a designer DNA duplicate or a lucky genetic goof make the human brain do what it does do so well?