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Aliens Among Us | Answers in Genesis
Never mind looking for “aliens” out in space; what if they’re living here among us?
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Vatican Astronomer Believes in ET? | Answers in Genesis
Vatican astronomer Father Jose Gabriel Funes recently claimed that there could be alien intelligences in space. What does the Bible say?
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California Dreaming? | Answers in Genesis
A new telescope system, designed to detect intelligent life in space, came to life last year near San Francisco.
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Why We Can't Phone the Aliens | Answers in Genesis
Science fiction author Ben Bova offers a few explanations for why our search for extraterrestrial life (which is growing more robust with time) has turned up nothing so far.
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Breakthrough on Creator's Code! | Answers in Genesis
Carl Sagan, an ardent evolutionist, atheist and fervent believer in life in outer space, has been involved in a search for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI).
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Allen Telescope Array Commencing Search for Alien Life | Answers in Genesis
A new telescope array designed in part to spot alien life got to work this week near San Francisco, California.
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Potential Hydrocarbons on Hyperion | Answers in Genesis
NASA scientists’ recent assert that Saturn’s moon Hyperion is home to “cup-like craters filled with hydrocarbons that may indicate more widespread presence in our solar system of basic chemicals necessary for life.”
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No Mystery to Me | Answers in Genesis
I wonder if anyone there at Mystery Park in Switzerland has considered that the park’s content had anything to do with its demise?
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Life on Other Planets? | Answers in Genesis
Although the Scriptures do not directly say that no life was created elsewhere, the suggestion that it was is not only totally unnecessary, but loaded with logical and theological problems.
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Bubble, Bubble, Hoyle in Trouble | Answers in Genesis
The renowned astronomer Fred Hoyle has proposed that life originated from non-life not on Earth, but rather in the interior of a comet in space.
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Black Holes | Answers in Genesis
What are black holes, and are they real? How can we observe them if their gravity is so strong that not even light can escape?
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Black Holes | Answers in Genesis
Black holes are real phenomena in our universe.
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First Photo of a Black Hole | Answers in Genesis
The first "photo" of a black hole, the accretion disk around the black hole, and how biblical creationists sometimes understand black holes.
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Black Hole Raises Questions About the Early Universe | Answers in Genesis
Big black hole and its bright quasar raise questions about the early universe.
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Black Holes in Space Don’t Support Evolution! | Answers in Genesis
Black holes may or may not exist. If they do exist, they are invisible, weigh billions of tons, and are smaller than a kernel of corn!
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Extrasolar Planets | Answers in Genesis
Astronomers are constantly discovering extrasolar planets orbiting distant stars. Are these mysterious bodies other earths with the potential to contain life?
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M51-ULS-1b: The First Extragalactic Exoplanet | Answers in Genesis
How the first exoplanet outside our galaxy was discovered using a new technique to investigate deep space objects and what that means for life beyond the Milky Way
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Just Right for Life | Answers in Genesis
We’re just one out of millions of planets where life is likely to exist. You’ll hear this claim more and more. Don’t believe it.
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There’s No Place Like Home | Answers in Genesis
New technologies show how special our home really is.
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Answers Magazine Preview: Vol. 9 No. 1 | Answers in Genesis
Are there other life-supporting planets in the universe? Find out in this issue of Answers.
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Retrograde Exoplanets Challenge Theories | Answers in Genesis
The following examines some of the new observational methods applied today in studying extrasolar planets and relates recent discoveries to a young age creation viewpoint.
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The Earths Keep Coming | Answers in Genesis
Each new discovery showcases not the possibility of life, but the far-flung wisdom and power of our Creator.
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First Light from Extrasolar Planets | Answers in Genesis
Astronomers have detected the first light from planets which orbit other stars.
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Exoplanets—Unpredictable Patterns | Answers in Genesis
If other stars had planets, what would they look like?
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Kepler Mission: To Boldly Seek Out Where Life Could Have Evolved | Answers in Genesis
Kepler dominates the headlines, and the reason may involve more than just the excitement superlatives generate.
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5,000 Known Exoplanets and Counting | Answers in Genesis
There are 5,000 known extrasolar planets, and they are a problem for evolution because they defy naturalistic origins.
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Goldilocks Is Dead: Exoplanets Are Inhospitable to Life | Answers in Genesis
In a recent news article, researchers at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo took a look at the most recent number of extrasolar planets (around 4,000) in the habitable zone (also frequently called the Goldilocks zone) and applied an additional set of conditions needed for “life to form.”
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Discovery of 7 Earth-Sized Planets | Answers in Genesis
Three of the planets found orbiting TRAPPIST-1 were within its habitable zone, the area around a star where liquid water might exist on a planet’s surface.
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Proxima Centauri b: An Earth-Like Planet? | Answers in Genesis
From time to time there are reports of the discovery of a possible earth-like planet. This is the situation of Proxima Centauri b, announced on August 24, 2016.
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KIC 8462852: One Strange Little Star | Answers in Genesis
The purpose of the Kepler mission and other searches for extrasolar planets is to find evidence that life is common in the universe.
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Extrasolar “Super-Earth” Atmosphere Contradicts Evolutionary Assu | Answers in Genesis
A news story in February 2016 reported the first detection of an atmosphere around a super-earth extrasolar planet, 55 Cancri e.
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Is Near-Earth-Size Kepler-452b Suitable for Life? | Answers in Genesis
We here at Answers in Genesis believe that life is unique to Earth, so is the discovery of Kepler-452b a problem for us?
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Not So Sure After All | Answers in Genesis
Everyone has a bias, and everyone makes mistakes.
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Gliese 581d | Answers in Genesis
It’s almost comical that a scientist would express “almost no doubt” about life on a non-existent planet.
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Define Habitable | Answers in Genesis
Define habitable. It’s harder than it sounds!
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Tatooine On Repeat | Answers in Genesis
Kepler: boldly seeking where life could have evolved
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Five More Earths? | Answers in Genesis
The Bible affirms in Genesis 1 that earth is the special place that God chose to fill with living things.
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Scientists Reveal Earth-Sized Exoplanet | Answers in Genesis
Scientists presenting at the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society have revealed the smallest exoplanet discovered so far.
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100% Questionable | Answers in Genesis
The recent discovery of a unique (so far) planet outside our solar system has caused a lot of excitement and speculation.
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“Alien Planet” Is an Outsider | Answers in Genesis
No, the "alien planet" isn't home to alien life (as far as we know); according to astronomers, the planet itself is a veritable outsider in not only its own solar system, but in our entire galaxy.
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The Existence and Origin of Extrasolar Planets | Answers in Genesis
Experimental evidence for the existence of extrasolar planets is evaluated and planet origin theories are critiqued from a creation perspective.
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A Field Trip to an Evolving Planet | Answers in Genesis
The Field Museum in Chicago is the newest battlefront in the ever-growing creation/evolution controversy over what to truly believe about life’s origins.
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The Age of the Jovian Planets | Answers in Genesis
Since the jovian planets have only recently been formed, they do not need nuclear processes to keep them hot for non-existent evolutionary aeons.
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Kepler Space Telescope Finds First Hot Exoplanets | Answers in Genesis
Hot, hot, hot, hot, and hot—meet the first exoplanets found by NASA’s Kepler space telescope.
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The Youngest Planet? | Answers in Genesis
Astronomers have discovered signs of a planet outside our solar system which may be less than two thousand years old.
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Super-Earths? | Answers in Genesis
Astronomers may soon find more “Earth-like” planets—and with them, alien life?
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Leaning Tower of Planet Formation | Answers in Genesis
A planet with a “steeply tilted” orbit—will it help refine theories of planetary formation or reveal their flaws?
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Planets Likely to Have Life Named | Answers in Genesis
It’s the “Standard Microbial Habitability index,” an attempt to quantitatively define a planetary body’s suitability for life.
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The Earth That Wasn't | Answers in Genesis
Astronomers have found another “Earthlike” planet outside of our solar system.
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Unseen Planet | Answers in Genesis
When a planet bears any resemblance to our own planet, the speculation begins that it may be the home to extraterrestrial life.
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How Many Earths Again? | Answers in Genesis
Two weeks ago we covered a study that said there could be up to 37,964 alien civilizations in the Milky Way. Now, the number of Earth-like planets in the Milky Way has been enumerated: 100,000,000,000.
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The Demise of Planet WASP-18b | Answers in Genesis
A recently discovered exoplanet may have been found just in the nick of time—in time for us to witness its demise, that is.
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Extrasolar Planets Suggest our Solar System is Unique and Young | Answers in Genesis
Because of its naturalistic evolutionary philosophy, modern science does not want to recognise that our solar system is specially created, and so it has problems explaining the data for exoplanets.
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New Planet Challenges Evolutionary Models | Answers in Genesis
Recently, and as has been widely reported, astronomers announced the discovery of an extra-solar planet in the distant M4 star cluster.
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Possible Planet with Life Forms | Answers in Genesis
If true, it would be perhaps the most revolutionary discovery in human history: a planet twenty light-years from earth that is not only habitable, but that has its own life-forms. There’s only one problem: scientists aren’t even sure the planet is there.
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Astronomical Objects Formed "Recently" | Answers in Genesis
Two stories this week report on astronomical objects—moons and a planet—that may have formed relatively “recently,” at least in terms of billions-of-years belief.
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Gaseous Planet May be Rocky | Answers in Genesis
A faraway gaseous planet may also be, in a metaphorical sense, “rocky”: astronomers hope it will be a “Rosetta stone” for exoplanetary research.
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Poor Planet WASP-12b | Answers in Genesis
Pity poor planet WASP-12b: its host star not only heats it to more than 4,700˚F (2600˚C), but also is in the process of eating it.
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Goofy Planet is Backwards | Answers in Genesis
For the first time, astronomers have detected a planet that could be said to “swim against the flow”—orbiting in the opposite direction from the spin of its star.
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Home Away from Home | Answers in Genesis
Astronomers have found yet another “Earth-like” planet (how many does this make, anyway?). Once again, it’s not exactly home away from home.
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Extrasolar Planet Now Hottest Ever Discovered | Answers in Genesis
If Earth’s neighbor Venus—known for high pressure, high temperatures, and toxic gases—sounds unwelcoming, wait till you learn about planet WASP-12b.
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Minor Planet Helps Answer Comet Conundrum | Answers in Genesis
It may not have an impressive name, but minor planet 2006 SQ372 has a big role to play. Could this be the answer to the old-age comet conundrum?
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Astronomers On the Verge of Finding Extrasolar Planets like Earth | Answers in Genesis
Sooner or later, say some astronomers, we’ll run across an extrasolar planet so similar to our own planet that we’ll be able to call it “Earth’s twin.”
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Astronomers Discover Three “Super Earths” | Answers in Genesis
None of them have been named Krypton, but astronomers have identified three “Super-Earths” in a star system 42 light-years from Earth.
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Extrasolar Planets Give Hope For the Search for Alien Life | Answers in Genesis
The finding of the smallest known extrasolar planet yet is giving hope to those who already believe aliens are out there.
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Livable Planets Believed to Be More Common | Answers in Genesis
The search for life far from earth seems to expand every month, with greater attention—and money—focused on finding planets with “conditions suitable for life.” Now, a new study suggests these “livable” planets may be more common than we thought.
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Possible Water Vapor Tantalizes Astronomers | Answers in Genesis
The exoplanetary-analysis community is buzzing with news this week of the possible discovery of water on HD189733b, an exoplanet 64 light-years from earth.
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Search for Spock: New Mission | Answers in Genesis
Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are eagerly considering the prospect of life on an earth-like planet (named Vulcan in homage to Star Trek) orbiting a nearby star.
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The Search for Planets Around Other Stars | Answers in Genesis
When is a planet not a planet? When it is a telescope wobble.
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Scientists Search for a New Earth | Answers in Genesis
In a major surprise to those looking for earth-like planets beyond our solar system, the first extrasolar planet examined-HD 189733b, for those keeping score-shows no signs of “common molecules like water, methane, or carbon dioxide,” announced Carl Grillmair and David Charbonneau of the Spitzer Science Center and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, respectively.
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A Visual Tour Of the New Evolving Planet Exhibit in Chicago | Answers in Genesis
Evolving Planet will no doubt impress its visitors with what appears to be a cornucopia of evidences for evolution.
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Wanted: One Planet, With Water | Answers in Genesis
This week’s report of the first sign of planetary water outside our solar system has some evolutionists nearly giddy-but others remain skeptical.
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Earth #2 | Answers in Genesis
Scientists are exuberant following the discovery of a planet only slightly larger than earth.
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Flat Earth Topic | Answers in Genesis
Contrary to common misconception, the medieval church did not teach that the earth was flat, and there are many ways we know that the earth is spherical.
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Was the Final Experiment a Success? | Answers in Genesis
Directly observing the 24-hour sun in the Antarctic convinced some, but not all, that the earth is a globe.
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The Analemma and Flat Earth | Answers in Genesis
What this little-known globe feature teaches us about the shape of the earth.
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Life on Mars | Answers in Genesis
Will life be found inhabiting the rocky, desert-like surface of the Red Planet, our nearest celestial neighbor, Mars?
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Say Goodbye, Say Hello | Answers in Genesis
Last year a Mars robotic rover reminded us about man’s ongoing plans to set foot on other worlds.
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Mars Methane: Life? | Answers in Genesis
Finally—life on Mars! Is it the evidence for what evolutionists already believe?
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Martian Ancestry | Answers in Genesis
Evolutionary scientists have spent years—and billions of dollars—searching for Martian life, coming up empty-handed despite their best efforts. Or is the problem their assumption that Martian life would be on Mars at all—instead of, say, Earth?
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Martian Fossils | Answers in Genesis
It’s no secret that fossils play a prominent role in the debate over the history of life on Earth. But will we soon be arguing over the meaning of Martian fossils?
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Questioning Life on Mars | Answers in Genesis
There may not be life on Mars, but there’s plenty of life left in life-on-Mars speculation.
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No News Like Old News | Answers in Genesis
Is there life on Mars? Some of this week’s biggest “news” is also this week’s oldest news.
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Life in Mars Volcano? | Answers in Genesis
After years and years of searching for life on Mars, scientists have finally found it.
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Soil on Mars Might Not Be Suitable for Life | Answers in Genesis
In the emotional soap opera that is the search for life on Mars, one of the main players—the habitability of Martian soil—may have just lapsed into a coma.
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Mars May Hold Nutrients for Life | Answers in Genesis
If off-season vegetables shipped in from far-away places are getting too expensive, perhaps it won’t be too long before vegetables will come straight from Mars!
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Salt Content of Mars Bad For Life | Answers in Genesis
Yet another door slams on the idea of Martian life, thanks to a new report in the journal Science.
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Mars Believed Too Salty to Support Life | Answers in Genesis
In a pair of stories related to our above item, new evidence gathered by one of the Mars rovers indicates Mars “was too salty to sustain life for much of its history.” Even the hardiest microbes would have found it difficult to survive amid brackish water. Meanwhile, a Dutch–American study indicates that unique geological features on Mars were formed by “brief bursts of water.”
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Hole Holds Promise? | Answers in Genesis
A huge spot on Mars found last year by astronomers had some scientists wondering whether it contained life.
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We Are All Martians | Answers in Genesis
Men (and women) are from Mars—though the popular tongue-in-cheek hypothesis lacks proof, it received an injection of plausibility in September from a baseball-sized rock that fell from the sky.
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New Life Test for Mars | Answers in Genesis
A new test to check for life on Mars has just had its initial components launched into space.
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Martian Life: Old News? | Answers in Genesis
Hypothesis that Mars lander accidentally discovered life called bogus.
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I Dream of Caves (on Mars) | Answers in Genesis
A large dark spot, possibly indicating a deep hole, found on Mars, leaves researchers excited.
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Secular Scientists Jubilant over Martian Caves | Answers in Genesis
Thermal imaging experts analyzing photos of Mars have announced the possible presence of caves beneath Mars’ famous red surface.
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Mars Landing—Success or Failure? | Answers in Genesis
Missions to the surface of Mars have been plagued with problems.
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Creationists Take Old Bacterium with a Grain of Salt | Answers in Genesis
Once again the science world has caused a big media frenzy over little bacteria, similar to what happened in 1996 with “ALH84001,” the Antarctic rock supposedly from Mars.
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Mars | Answers in Genesis
As rovers and probes are sent to explore the uncharted surface of Mars, the discoveries are exciting. How should Bible-believing Christians view these finds?
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The Search for Life Continues | Answers in Genesis
Perseverance isn’t just a virtue—this new space rover is going to Mars.
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Water on Mars: A Creationist Response | Answers in Genesis
How does the possiblity of water existing on Mars and relate to the possibility of it being linked to the Genesis flood?
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Was Noah a Martian? | Answers in Genesis
Noah's Flood actually occurred on Mars—not Earth! Sounds ridiculous doesn't it? But a recent New York Times article suggested, in essence, exactly that!
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The Rusting Planet | Answers in Genesis
What does the coloration of Mars say about its age?
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The Martian Runt | Answers in Genesis
Mars is a runt because it formed quickly and was lucky enough to stay out of the way of on-coming traffic. So goes the latest step in the planetary shuffle.
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Purported Evidence of Water on Ancient Mars | Answers in Genesis
For the third time in as many weeks, we’re reporting on purported evidence of water on ancient Mars.
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Life on Mars! | Answers in Genesis
Well, water was found on Mars,
actually. But with water present can life be
far behind?
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Hot Air Over Mars | Answers in Genesis
The fuss over martian methane—which had fueled hopes for life on the Red Planet—may be misplaced, according to a new study.
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Oceans of Liquid Water On . . . Mars? | Answers in Genesis
The word Mars conjures up an image of a red, dusty planet surrounded by the blackness of space. But many researchers believe Mars was once a watery world.
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Red Planet Day: Did Mars Have a Global Flood? | Answers in Genesis
What can we learn from Mars research, and did Mars have a global flood?
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“Dog Door” Discovered on Mars? | Answers in Genesis
As the rover Curiosity explores our red neighbor Mars, many scientists and space buffs wait with bated breath for news that the planet held (or maybe even holds) life.
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Was Your Great-Great-Great Grandma a Martian? | Answers in Genesis
NASA’s life-hunting lab, Perseverance, has landed on Mars in another (likely vain) attempt to find signs of life on the Red Planet.
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Happy Red Planet Day! | Answers in Genesis
Why did they pick November 28 as Red Planet Day? On November 28, 1964, NASA launched Mariner 4, the first successful space probe to visit the planet Mars.
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Mars—The Other Blue Planet? | Answers in Genesis
Did Mars once contain vast oceans? Some creationists now think so.
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A Methane Explosion on Mars—Evidence for Life? | Answers in Genesis
Within the solar system, Mars appears most promising for life outside of the earth, so much attention has been given to the search for biogenic markers on Mars.
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Water in Mars History | Answers in Genesis
Yet another discovery suggests that the history of Mars was a wet one.
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Water in the (Martian) Desert | Answers in Genesis
Once again, the news is awash in coverage of a new “water on Mars” claim. Does this one stand up to scrutiny?
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A Belief to Put on Ice | Answers in Genesis
NASA brings us yet more excitement about water on Mars.
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Gamma-Rays Illuminate Massive Martian Oceans | Answers in Genesis
Thanks to the Mars Odyssey orbiter, there’s another drop of evidence that part of Mars was once covered in water.
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New Minerals Found On Mars Hint at Wetter Planet | Answers in Genesis
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has discovered a gem of evidence that gives further support to the idea of an ancient, wet Mars.
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Phoenix Mars Rover Dectects Red Snow | Answers in Genesis
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow—perhaps the tune the Phoenix Mars lander hums as it goes about its work?
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Mars Lander Takes Sample of Water for Testing | Answers in Genesis
NASA’s Phoenix lander has identified water in a soil sample collected from Mars—no small source of excitement for those who proclaim “where there’s water, there’s life.”
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More Ice on Mars? | Answers in Genesis
NASA’s Phoenix team has announced the possible discovery of more ice on Mars—so what’s the creation/evolution connection?
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Ice Caps on the Equator (of Mars) | Answers in Genesis
The existence of water on Mars is once again on scientists’ minds, this time because of new high-resolution radar images of the red planet.
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Prospects of Martian Oceans Excite Astronomers | Answers in Genesis
A study published in this week’s issue of the journal Nature supposedly supports the nearly two-decades-old belief that Mars hosted vast oceans more than two billion years ago.
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Scientists Expect Sub-Martian Water | Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists postulate that there is life on Mars do the possible prescence of underground water on Mars.
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NASA Announces Evidence for Water on Mars | Answers in Genesis
NASA announced on Tuesday that their scientists have uncovered evidence that part of Mars was once “soaking wet.”
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Mission to Mars | Answers in Genesis
For nearly two centuries, the planet Mars has captured the imagination of Earth-bound astronomers. The Red Planet displays intriguing features and ever-changing conditions.
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Gullies Posit Water on Mars | Answers in Genesis
The science hullabaloo this week is that liquid water may have recently flowed on Mars, according to one interpretation of recent photography from the late Mars Global Surveyor.
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Mars: Losing Face | Answers in Genesis
Now that NASA spacecraft have had a chance to take a closer look, the so-called 'Face on Mars' turns out to be just a play of light and shadow on an ordinary looking geological feature.
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Mars Photos—No Martians | Answers in Genesis
The latest pictures from the surface of this barren, rocky red planet once again fail to show any Martians, or any evidence to support evolution.
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Sun | Answers in Genesis
The sun, a star situated the perfect distance from earth to supply needed heat and light, shows evidence of special design by a loving Creator.
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Not Just Another Star | Answers in Genesis
Our sun is just a tiny yellow star in a vast collection that could support life. You’ll hear this more and more. Don’t believe it.
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Faint Sun Paradox | Answers in Genesis
Evidence now supports astronomers’ belief that the sun’s power comes from the fusion of hydrogen into helium deep in the sun’s core, but there is a huge problem.
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Is the Sun Shrinking? | Answers in Genesis
Some biblical creationists have suggested the sun is shrinking, which is unlikely—but that still doesn't mean a nuclear-powered sun is billions of years old.
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The Young Faint Sun Paradox and the Age of the Solar System | Answers in Genesis
The Sun derives energy by the thermonuclear conversion of hydrogen into helium, deep inside its core. There is convincing evidence that the Sun is getting at least half of its energy by this method.
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Solar Neutrinos—The Critical Shortfall Still Elusive | Answers in Genesis
Neutrinos have fascinated physicists since they were ‘invented’ 67 years ago
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Shining Right Away | Answers in Genesis
When God created the sun, it was shining right away—not because the photons had taken a long time to travel from the core, but because God made the sun hot!
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New Discoveries of Order in the Sun | Answers in Genesis
Without design and order, the sun would not supply the earth with life-giving heat and light.
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Should We Dim the Sun to Save the Planet? | Answers in Genesis
According to reports, the UK will soon approve experiments to “dim the sun” in an effort to slow down “global warming.” How will they dim our sun?
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Young Faint Sun Paradox—A New Solution | Answers in Genesis
Stellar evolutionists have aimed to solve the young faint sun paradox since Carl Sagan’s attempt a half-century ago, and the solution still eludes them.
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Our Sun Is Special | Answers in Genesis
We’ve all heard that our sun is just another boring yellow
star, but biblical creationists know better. God made it special
to support life on earth.
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Where Will You Be for the August 21 Total Solar Eclipse? | Answers in Genesis
A total solar eclipse is such an amazing event; I’m encouraging people to travel to where the eclipse is total, if it is at all possible.
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Was the Sun Far Less Stable in the Past? | Answers in Genesis
If κ1 Ceti truly is a good example of what the sun was like in its youth, then the evolutionary view of life may be in trouble.
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Artemis II: Over 250,000 Miles from Home—and They Never Stopped Looking Back | Answers in Genesis
Four brave astronauts lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on the first crewed mission to the moon since 1972. But the most remarkable thing? What they kept staring at.
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To the Moons and Back | Answers in Genesis
Each moon’s spectacular features point to the workmanship of God.
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More Surprising Results from JWST: Most Galaxies Rotate Clockwise | Answers in Genesis
There are an estimated 200 billion galaxies in our universe, and this new study surveyed 263 of them to determine the direction that the galaxies rotate.
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Rocket Science for the Glory of God! | Answers in Genesis
The purpose of this book is to give you a starting point in understanding rocket science from a biblical perspective and how to defend your faith in a currently secular space industry.
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Did Man Really Land on the Moon? | Answers in Genesis
Why it’s important for Christians to reject the moon landing conspiracy theory.
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JWST and Star Formation—An Example of Observational vs. Historical Science | Answers in Genesis
What do we make of recent headlines such as, “Stunning [James Webb Space Telescope] image proves we were right about how young stars form”?
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James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Fast-Growing Galaxies | Answers in Genesis
The James Webb Space Telescope is in the news again because it keeps finding things about galaxies that astronomers and astrophysicists did not expect.
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Rocky Remnants of a Catastrophic Collision? | Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists believe that about 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized planet, called Theia, collided with the earth.
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What Does the James Webb Space Telescope Show Us? | Answers in Genesis
Since becoming fully operational in 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been collecting some of the most breathtaking images of the heavens ever seen.
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Evolutionists Can’t Adequately Explain These Beautiful Astronomical Objects | Answers in Genesis
Our Creator justly deserves credit, praise, and worship for making the heavens a place of beauty and wonder-upon-wonder as well as loving, life-giving power.
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Responding to Flat-Earther Claims Regarding Meteors | Answers in Genesis
Flat-earthers assert that since no meteors have ever appeared to move upward, the conventional explanation for meteors must be wrong. Let us examine these two claims.
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The James Webb Space Telescope Turns Its Attention to Exoplanets | Answers in Genesis
The James Webb Space Telescope shows that exoplanets like Smertrios are very different from our earth and solar system.
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Should Christians Support Space Exploration? | Answers in Genesis
Starting with a Biblical worldview, Christians can see how scripture defines our role in exploring the cosmos.
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The Newest Finding on the Expansion of the Universe | Answers in Genesis
The latest measure of the Hubble constant (H0) recently made headlines. A team of collaborators found a value a bit larger than their previous measurement. Many people have questions about this new study, so Dr. Faulkner explains some of the technical details.
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Does the Vatican Have a Telescope Called LUCIFER? | Answers in Genesis
From time to time here at Answers in Genesis we get inquiries about a telescope called LUCIFER that the Vatican supposedly owns. This story has been circulating around the internet for nearly a decade. It certainly sounds shocking, so it’s no wonder why people ask us about this. Is there any truth to this rumor?
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Should You Follow The (Copernican) Principle? | Answers in Genesis
The Principle is a documentary film in defense of an absolute geocentric model, in which the entire universe moves around the Earth.
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Rocket Science Confirms Biblical Creation | Answers in Genesis
Is rocket science purely secular, and should we just leave the Bible out of it? Obviously not. As briefly shown in this article, by starting our thinking with the Bible (i.e., through a biblical “lens”), we expect the universe to be organized and to consistently obey the natural laws that make rocket science possible.
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The Bible and Modern Astronomy, Part 1 | Answers in Genesis
In this chapter, we will see that the scientific evidence very much supports the Genesis record of creation.
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Does the Bible Prohibit Space Travel? | Answers in Genesis
Does Psalm 115:16 prohibit aerial or space travel, or does the dominion mandate of Genesis 1:28 extend into outer space?
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The Bible and Modern Astronomy, Part 2 | Answers in Genesis
Unfortunately, many Christians have bought into the idea of extraterrestrial “alien” life without critically assessing such a belief in light of Scripture.
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How Old Is the Solar System? | Answers in Genesis
Dr. Faulkner examined 25 of the most popular models for the age of the solar system: some need to be discarded, others updated, and others refined.
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2020 Hindsight: The Astronomy Year in Review | Answers in Genesis
Happy New Year! With COVID-19, 2020 was a weird year, a year many of us are glad to see go. Hopefully, 2021 will see the demise of COVID-19 and the many restrictions prompted by concerns about its spread, and so perhaps we soon can get back to normal.
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Rethinking Dark Energy: A Fly in the Cosmic Ointment | Answers in Genesis
How Big Bang cosmology requires dark energy to work and how the reality of dark energy are now being called into question by mainstream scientists.
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Common Big Bang Cosmology Misconceptions | Answers in Genesis
Unfortunately, several misconceptions about cosmology have crept into the thinking of biblical creationists.
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Geocentrism: History and Background | Answers in Genesis
Like geocentrists of old, modern geocentrists are divided as to whether the earth rotates, but they are united in belief that the earth does not revolve. Modern geocentrists usually pursue two lines of arguments: scientific and biblical.
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The Rise of the Modern Geocentric Theory Movement | Answers in Genesis
Does the Bible teach or demand geocentrism? Hardly. Does good science indicate that the earth is motionless? Certainly not. Then why do some Christians believe otherwise?
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Helium Hydride: The First Molecule? | Answers in Genesis
Astronomers have thought that the conditions in planetary nebulae might be conducive to production of helium hydride, with temperatures and densities high enough to mimic the conditions during the first hundred-thousand years of the big bang universe
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How Big Is the Universe? | Answers in Genesis
I will address the question of whether the universe really is as big as is often claimed. The short answer is, yes, the universe most certainly is that large.
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The Age of the Universe, Part 1 | Answers in Genesis
The Bible implicitly teaches us about the age of the universe. Why is it that so many scientists choose to ignore the recorded history of the Bible, and instead believe in a vastly inflated age of the universe?
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Extraterrestrial Life More Common Than Previously Thought? | Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists love searching for evidence of extraterrestrial life. But even theoretical research into binary star systems isn’t helping their case.
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The Age of the Universe, Part 2 | Answers in Genesis
Clearly, there are many evidences which are fully consistent with the biblical age of the universe and are difficult to reconcile with a belief in billions of years.
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The Universe Confirms the Bible | Answers in Genesis
In this chapter, we will explore some passages of Scripture which touch upon the topics of astronomy and astrophysics.
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Astronomy and the Bible | Answers in Genesis
Scripture gives a refreshing contrast to secular thinking by declaring that earth and mankind are not an insignificant result of accidental evolution.
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Superhabitable Planets | Answers in Genesis
Astronomers have attempted to identify exoplanets likely to support life though their efforts have generated scant results so far.
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The Cosmological Principle Fails? | Answers in Genesis
A new study undermines homogeneity and isotropy, the foundations of the cosmological principle. But will it overthrow secular cosmology?
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What the James Webb Space Telescope Has Revealed About Distant Galaxies So Far | Answers in Genesis
One of the prime objectives of the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to study very distant galaxies: ones that are too far away to be effectively observed prior to the JWST. How should creationists interpret the images from the farthest galaxies yet?
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Dark Matter Doesn’t Exist? Not so Fast! | Answers in Genesis
How should creationists view the recent study that calls into question whether dark matter exists?
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A Brief History of Rocket Science | Answers in Genesis
How believers in biblical creation started rocket science in the twentieth century and the study’s continued dependence upon the orderly construction of the universe by God
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A Biblical Response to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Launch | Answers in Genesis
The expected benefits from the new NASA telescope, the naturalistic assumptions integrated into its mission, and the only way to make sense of scientific investigation: God.
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Betelgeuse Is Back in the News | Answers in Genesis
The star Betelgeuse drastically faded in 2019, but now it’s back to its normal, bright self—what does that mean for stellar evolution or creation?
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This Just in: There Is Water on the Moon | Answers in Genesis
Using a modified Boeing 747 equipped with infrared instruments, NASA discovered small amounts of water on the moon. What does that mean for biblical creation?
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P/2019 LD2 (ATLAS): The Latest Proof of the Kuiper Belt? | Answers in Genesis
Another SSSB (asteroid or comet) discovery suggests the existence of the Oort cloud or Kuiper belt . . . or does it?
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The Moon’s Regression and Density Waves | Answers in Genesis
Calling Dr. Jason Lisle, AiG–U.S., incompetent or a liar, a critic blasts the two key evidences of a young universe. But, as Dr. Lisle explains, the critic has not done his research.
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A Different View of the Universe | Answers in Genesis
A review of Quasars, Redshifts and Controversies by Halton Arp and Seeing Red: Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science by Halton Arp
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The Dubious Apologetics of Hugh Ross | Answers in Genesis
The astronomer Hugh Ross has had a great impact on many churches and individuals in recent years. But those who agree with his approach to Genesis should be embarrassed with the extent of his sloppy work.
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Is Our Universe in Its “Final Era”? | Answers in Genesis
Secularists arrogantly (and ignorantly) declare our universe is in its “sixth and final era,” appealing to a mythical timeline while completely ignoring God’s Word.
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Is the “Multiverse” Real? | Answers in Genesis
The concept of multiple universes springs from atheistic beliefs in cosmology in order to deny obvious design in the universe as understood through God's Word.
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Astronomer: “Was Our Universe Created in a Laboratory?” | Answers in Genesis
Prof. Avi Loeb proposes our universe may have been created by aliens, an acceptable hypothesis in our secularist Western world and a rejection of God’s Word.
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Life Really, Really Not Discovered on Venus | Answers in Genesis
Signs of life on Venus evaporate after more studies justifying our original, biblically based skepticism about such wild-eyed assertions.
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Will a Rare “Christmas Star” Appear in the Sky This December? | Answers in Genesis
A rare conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn almost appears to be a single bright “star” on December 21. Does this point to Christ’s birth?
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Enceladus: Frozen Stripes and Frozen Pipes | Answers in Genesis
Ever since the Cassini probe photographed
them in 2005, the tiger stripes
on Saturn’s moon Enceladus have
stumped scientists.
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Astronomical Events in 2008 | Answers in Genesis
This is a list of astronomical events occuring in 2008.
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The Universe is Nothingness! | Answers in Genesis
The April 2002 Discover magazine cover shows a red marble a little larger than a centimeter across with the text, ‘The Universe at about 10^–34 seconds (actual size).’
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National Alien Abduction Day | Answers in Genesis
March 20 is Alien Abduction Day, so beware of green lights (except at intersections), UFOs (drones don’t count), and ETs (unless they just want to borrow your phone to call home). You might want to avoid Roswell, New Mexico, too.
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What's Up in 2019? | Answers in Genesis
What’s up in 2019? The year begins with a bang, for on the morning of January 1, the moon and Venus will be close together in the sky. Both rise about three hours before the sun. Look to the southeast before sunrise; Venus will be the bright star near the moon.
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Astronomical Myths | Answers in Genesis
Far from promoting true scientific literacy, Cosmos pushes students to reject the Designer of the cosmos.
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Finding the Right Telescope for You | Answers in Genesis
Want to get a better glimpse of God’s handiwork in the night sky? Ready to move beyond basic binoculars but don’t know which telescope to buy?
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Particles from Distant Space! | Answers in Genesis
For the first time, scientists have
traced the possible origin of a subatomic
particle that came from outside
our galaxy.
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Created to Be Inhabited | Answers in Genesis
The more astronomers discover, the more evidence they
seem to find that the earth occupies a special place in the
universe. Perhaps that’s because God created our part of the
universe especially for humans to inhabit.
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TOI 700d: The Latest Earth-Like Exoplanet? | Answers in Genesis
Astronomers discovered another possible exoplanet transiting near the star TOI 700. But data is inconclusive on whether it’s a viable exoplanet.
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Apophis, Bible Prophesy, and the Year 2029 | Answers in Genesis
The Apophis asteroid is scheduled to pass near earth on April 13, 2029. But is it the ‘Wormwood’ star that will fall from heaven according to Revelation? All evidence indicates that Apophis will miss the earth entirely. So, why are some people concerned that there will be an impact in 2029?
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Leap Day 2020: A Brief History of Leap Day | Answers in Genesis
Today is February 29—Leap Day 2020! This date occurs once every four years. Why do we have this quadrennial practice?
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The Beauty & Wonder of our Universe | Answers in Genesis
This chart shows the beauty and wonder of the universe.
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Heraclitus: Original Proponent of the Eternal Universe | Answers in Genesis
Greek philosopher Heraclitus was one of the first promoters of an eternal universe, which found its way into Christian theology. The Bible tells a different story.
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The Milky Way Galaxy Just Got Bigger (at Least for a While) | Answers in Genesis
Some astronomers estimate the Milky Way Galaxy is larger than thought because dark matter may extend beyond the original boundary—or so models predict.
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Signs in the Skies? | Answers in Genesis
Take a look at some of these astronomy/astrophysics-related news stories from the cosmic-evolutionary view and see how some have been paradigm changers.
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“Newborn Stars” Form in the Pillars of Creation? | Answers in Genesis
Photos of iconic gas clouds lead to another stellar hypothesis, unproven by observational science and running contrary to God’s Word.
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Seizing the Moment | Answers in Genesis
Until it’s behind us, we don’t recognize the moment we could have seized to excite a teachable mind.
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Not Just an Ordinary Star | Answers in Genesis
The Gospel of Matthew records a star appearing at the birth of the Lord Jesus. What was this star? And how did it lead the magi to the Lord?
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Supersonic Hail and Boulder Teams | Answers in Genesis
Scientists searching for water among the stars may have a new ally with an earthly counterpart: hail.
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The Leonid Meteor Shower: Evidence for a Young Universe! | Answers in Genesis
Astronomers and sky watchers all over the world are preparing for one of the most spectacular Leonid sky shows since 1966.
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Bible Timeline | Answers in Genesis
The Bible provides a reliable history of the universe and the events described in the
Bible, through which we can interpret science and history.
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Bible Genealogy | Answers in Genesis
The genealogies of the Bible are used to construct a biblical chronology and timeline of 6,000 years, but can these genealogies be trusted?
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Did Methuselah’s Death Herald the Global Flood? | Answers in Genesis
The genealogy in Genesis 5 shows that Methuselah’s death was close to the flood’s beginning. Does this have special significance?
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Are There Gaps in the Genesis Genealogies? | Answers in Genesis
Most people believe the genealogies contain only dull details, but since “every word is given by inspiration of God” even these so-called dull passages contain vital truth that can be trusted.
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Ancient Biblical Lifespans | Answers in Genesis
Exploring how Adam, Methuselah, and Noah in the book of Genesis really lived for centuries and biological/genetic reasons why humans no longer live that long.
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Food for Thought | Answers in Genesis
The Bible records some pretty astounding ages for the pre-Flood patriarchs.
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The Amram Question | Answers in Genesis
How could Moses and Aaron have so many relatives (about 8,600) when their father only had two sons and one daughter?
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Are There Gaps in the Genesis Genealogies? | Answers in Genesis
A common argument against young-earth creationism is that gaps exist in the genealogies listed in the fifth and tenth chapters of Genesis.
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Contradictions: Generational Gaffe? | Answers in Genesis
Tim Chaffey, AiG–U.S., explains why 1 Samuel 9:1 states that Kish (Saul’s father) was the son of Abiel, but 1 Chronicles states that Kish was the son of Ner.
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Contradictions: An Extra Cainan? | Answers in Genesis
Does the genealogy in Luke 3:36 give an extra Cainan not found in similar genealogies, such as Genesis 11:12?
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Do the Genesis Genealogies Contain Gaps? | Answers in Genesis
Despite attempts to add to the biblical account, Dr. Freeman shows that the genealogies in Genesis 5 and 11 do not contain gaps.
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Chronology Conundrums | Answers in Genesis
Some have claimed that the Bible contradicts itself.
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The ‘Recolonisation Theory’—The Latest Compromise | Answers in Genesis
In the last few years, another compromise of biblical truth has emerged, actually from within what might be termed the ‘Young Earth Creation’ movement. This compromise is the 'Recolonisation Theory.'
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7.7 Danger No 7: Loss of Biblical Chronology | Answers in Genesis
The Bible provides us with a timescale for history. Although not measured by means of atomic clocks, the following dates and facts underlay a proper understanding of the Bible.
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The World: Born in 4004 BC? | Answers in Genesis
In today’s culture, the thought of creation occurring about 6,000 years ago is frequently mocked by non-Christians—and also by many Christians.
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Timeline for the Flood | Answers in Genesis
So when exactly was the Flood? There are two possible ways of calculating the date. David Wright, AiG–U.S., explains.
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How Long Did It Take for Noah to Build the Ark? | Answers in Genesis
Many assume that it took Noah 120 years to build the ark, but what does Scripture actually tell us?
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When Did the Animals Exit the Ark? | Answers in Genesis
If you search Genesis 1–11, you won’t find an explicit time stamp for the disembarking event. So when did the Ark land? When did animals restart their lives?
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Grappling with the Chronology of the Flood Excerpt | Answers in Genesis
Read an excerpt from the book Grappling with the Chronology of the Flood.
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Why Study the Chronology of the Flood? | Answers in Genesis
In a crucial research project, a team of Hebraists conducted an exhaustive linguistic and literary study of the Hebrew narrative of the Genesis Flood.
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Ussher’s Time Line for the Divided Kingdom | Answers in Genesis
The time line for the divided kingdom has caused many problems recently for those who do not take the Bible as their final authority.
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Geology | Answers in Genesis
While many think rock formations and rock layers are evidence of an old earth, the Bible’s history and the rocks themselves teach a different story.
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Carbon-14 | Answers in Genesis
Carbon, which dissipates in just tens of thousands of years, is present in diamonds and fossils! Carbon-14 calls the whole old-earth paradigm into question.
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Carbon-14 in Fossils, Coal, and Diamonds | Answers in Genesis
Carbon-14 (or radiocarbon) is a radioactive form of carbon that scientists use to date fossils. But it decays quickly.
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The Maximum Date for Carbon-14 | Answers in Genesis
Do Answers in Genesis articles present different maximum dates for Carbon-14? Dr. Andrew Snelling explains.
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Carbon-14 in Fossils and Diamonds | Answers in Genesis
If the radioactive element carbon-14 breaks down quickly—within a few thousand years—why do we still find it in fossils and diamonds?
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Response: Accusations of Noah’s Ark Ministries International | Answers in Genesis
In April 2010, a press conference was held in Hong Kong to announce to the world the potential discovery of the remains of Noah’s Ark on Mt. Ararat. What are we to make of these claims?
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A Creationist Puzzle | Answers in Genesis
How do creationists explain dates of 50,000 years?
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Measurable C-14 in Fossilized Organic Materials: Creation-Flood | Answers in Genesis
An astonishing discovery made over the past 20 years is that, almost without exception, organic samples from every portion of the Phanerozoic record show detectable amounts of 14C!
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Carbon-14 Dating—Understanding the Basics | Answers in Genesis
Many people assume that rocks are dated at “millions of years” based on radiocarbon (carbon-14) dating. But that’s not the case.
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Radiocarbon in Diamonds Confirmed | Answers in Genesis
During the RATE (Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth) research project, some of the research effort was focused on investigating radiocarbon (carbon-14) dating.
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Geological Conflict | Answers in Genesis
Many do not realise that index fossils are still crucial to the millions-of-years geological dating, in spite of the advent of radioactive 'dating' techniques.
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Radioactive “Dating” Failure | Answers in Genesis
Recent New Zealand lava flows yield ‘ages’ of millions of years.
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Doesn’t Carbon-14 Dating Disprove the Bible? | Answers in Genesis
Unaware of the many fallacious assumptions used in the dating process, many people believe Carbon-14 dating disproves the biblical timeline. Mike Riddle demonstrates otherwise.
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Carbon Dating: Questions Answered | Answers in Genesis
Although many people think radiocarbon is used to date rocks, it is limited to dating things that contain carbon and were once alive (fossils).
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Radiocarbon Dating and New Zealand Rats | Answers in Genesis
The subject is radiocarbon dating, and we think we smell a rat!
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Oldest Living Tree Located In Sweden | Answers in Genesis
It’s the world’s oldest living tree, say Swedish researchers—but don’t worry, they didn’t stay up late counting the rings.
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Much-Inflated Carbon-14 Dates from Subfossil Trees | Answers in Genesis
Artificially-inflated 14C dates have been found to occur when trees absorb ‘infinitely old’ carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere from local, volcanogenic, subterranean sources.
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Dating in Conflict | Answers in Genesis
Mainstream geologists would never think of trying to get a radiocarbon (14C) date for the coalified wood in this Mägenwil sandstone, because anything that old should not be datable by this method.
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Brushwork Beats Boffins! | Answers in Genesis
‘However, publicity of the find attracted the attention of Mrs Joan Ahrens, a Capetown resident, who recognised the paintings as being produced by her at art classes and later stolen from her garden…’
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Radiometric Dating | Answers in Genesis
How does radiometric dating work? Does radiometric dating prove rocks are millions or billions of years old?
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How Reliable Are Dates for Human Fossils? | Answers in Genesis
How much do we really know about all those human and ape fossils displayed in museums and textbooks? Glossy charts declare their dates and stories with journalistic certainty, but the dating methods aren’t as rock-solid as most people assume.
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Key Flaw Found in Radioisotope Isochron Dating | Answers in Genesis
NCSU’s recent research revealed an “oversight in a radioisotope dating technique used to date everything from meteorites to geologic samples.”
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Does the Earth’s Mantle Preserve Evidence of Its Origin? | Answers in Genesis
New chemical analyses appear to show that some of the early mantle rock may have survived until today in rock formations called flood basalts.
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Do Zircons Contain Reliable Time Stamps and Early Earth’s Secrets | Answers in Genesis
Despite debate about the accuracy of the uranium “clocks” they contain, scientists say they’ve found a zircon with a confirmed age of 4.4 billion years.
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Radiohalos—The Mysterious Vanishing Bullets | Answers in Genesis
Geologists have discovered a great mystery—tiny black circles, called radiohalos, formed by polonium decay. Where'd it come from, and where'd it go?
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Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth | Answers in Genesis
This article summarizes the purpose, history, and intermediate findings of the RATE project five years into an eight-year effort.
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Radiometric Dating and Proof | Answers in Genesis
Isn’t radiometric dating irrefutable proof that the earth is approximately four billion year old? Dr. Andrew Snelling, AiG—U.S., responds.
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Dating Techniques | Answers in Genesis
Just how far off are the commonly accepted dating methods? Dr. Andrew Snelling explains.
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Helium Diffusion Rates Support Accelerated Nuclear Decay | Answers in Genesis
A significant fraction of the earth’s radioactive elements, particularly uranium and thorium, appear to be in the granitic rock of the upper continental crust.
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Whole-Rock K-Ar Model Somerset Dam Layered Mafic Intrusion | Answers in Genesis
The Somerset Dam layered mafic intrusion in southeast Queensland, Australia, has been conventionally dated as Late Triassic by the apparently successful application of radioisotopic dating techniques.
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History of Recent Andesite Flows | Answers in Genesis
Mt. Ngauruhoe in the Taupo Volcanic Zone of New Zealand erupted andesite lava flows in 1949 and 1954, and avalanche deposits in 1975.
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Radiometric Dating: Making Sense of the Patterns | Answers in Genesis
Interpreted in a biblical framework, radiometric dating methods help us better understand the earth's history since creation six thousand years ago.
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Radiometric Dating | Answers in Genesis
Does radiometric dating show that rocks are millions of years old? No!
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U-Th-Pb “Dating”: An Example of False “Isochrons” | Answers in Genesis
As with other isochron methods, the U-Pb isochron method has been questioned in the open literature.
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Anomalous Potassium-Argon “Ages” and Implications | Answers in Genesis
Mt. Ngauruhoe is an andesite stratovolcano, rising above the Tongariro volcanic massif within the Tongariro Volcanic Center of the Taupo Volcanic Zone.
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Radiometric Dating: Problems with the Assumptions | Answers in Genesis
Once you understand the basic science of radiometric dating, you can see how wrong assumptions lead to incorrect dates.
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Radiometric Dating: Back to Basics | Answers in Genesis
Radiometric dating is often used to “prove” rocks are millions of years old.
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Radiohalos in the Shap Granite, Lake District, England | Answers in Genesis
The Po radiohalos and other evidence associated with this granite thus remove objections to Flood geology and any need to place the Flood/post-Flood boundary in the lower Carboniferous.
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Radiohalos New South Wales, Australia | Answers in Genesis
The Cooma granodiorite was generated as a consequence of the regional metamorphism that resulted from the catastrophic large-scale emplacement during the catastrophic plate tectonics of the Flood.
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Radiohalos—A Tale of Three Granitic Plutons | Answers in Genesis
The origin and significance of radiohalos have been debated for almost a century, perhaps largely because their geological distribution has been poorly understood.
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Radiohalos and Diamonds | Answers in Genesis
We offer an explanation for the radiohalos and for the “tubes” in these diamonds in terms of a hydrothermal fluid transport model for Po radiohalo formation.
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Questioning Reliability of RATE Group and Its Findings | Answers in Genesis
A feedback submitter suggests that the RATE team was dishonest because “[t]hey already know the truth [and] the facts that they find will reflect their presuppositions.”
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The Fallacies of Radioactive Dating of Rocks | Answers in Genesis
Deep in the eastern Grand Canyon, Arizona, is a stacked sequence of “ancient” basalt lava flows known by geologists as the Cardenas Basalt.
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Radioisotope Dating of Rocks in the Grand Canyon | Answers in Genesis
Was Dr. Andrew Snelling “irresponsible” for pointing out dating discrepancies at the Grand Canyon?
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Radioactive “Dating” in Conflict! | Answers in Genesis
When miners were sinking a ventilation shaft for the new Crinum Coal Mine in Central Queensland in 1993 (see map below) they unearthed a rare find.
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Diamonds—Time Capsules of Billions of Years? | Answers in Genesis
Evolutionary geologists claim diamonds are billions of years old, but they ignore major issues with radiometric dating and Carbon-14 in diamonds.
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Uranium-Lead Radioisotope Dating Problems | Answers in Genesis
Uranium-lead radioisotope dating is now the preferred absolute dating method among geochronologists. Consequently, the scientific community and the general public around the world appear convinced of the earth’s claimed great antiquity. But there are several problems with this particular radiometric dating method.
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The Dating Game | Answers in Genesis
Selected data and unprovable assumptions are a problem with all methods for determining the age of the earth, as well as for dating its fossils and rocks.
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Radioactive Dating: Questions Answered | Answers in Genesis
Let’s take a closer look at the radioactive dating method and the radiometric dating methods and see how reliable they really are.
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Are the RATE Results Caused by Contamination? | Answers in Genesis
Internet posts continue to accuse the RATE team of ignoring clear evidence of contamination. But is this really the case?
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Feedback: Dating Rocks Helps Creation Scientists | Answers in Genesis
Dr. Andrew Snelling explains how radioactive dating methods may help us derive not absolute but relative ages of rocks.
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Clock in the Rock | Answers in Genesis
Rockin’ around the clock’s assumptions
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Solar Flares and Radioactive Decay Relationship | Answers in Genesis
Last year we mentioned research that showed a relationship between earth’s distance from the sun and the rate at which certain elements undergo radioactive decay—an eyebrow-raising linkage.
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Fallacious Refutations | Answers in Genesis
Dr. Andrew Snelling, AiG–U.S., explains how to deal with refutations of creationist material
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The Pigs Took It All | Answers in Genesis
A popular myth is that radioactive dating methods confirm the geologic time-scale and the concept of human evolution.
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More and More Wrong Dates | Answers in Genesis
Is this dating failure from Mount St Helens an isolated case of radioisotope dating giving wrong results for rocks of known age? Certainly not!
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Radiometric Dating—Not Infallible | Answers in Genesis
There are plenty of indications that these radiometric dating methods are not as infallible as they would have you believe!
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Does Radiometric Dating Prove the Earth Is Old? | Answers in Genesis
Many accept radiometric dating methods as proof that the earth is millions of years old, in contrast to the biblical timeline. Mike Riddle exposes the unbiblical assumptions used in these calculations.
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Radio-Dating in Rubble | Answers in Genesis
Radioisotope dating conveys an aura of reliability both to the general public and professional scientists. But is the method all it’s cracked up to be?
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Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth | Answers in Genesis
The RATE research project demonstrated that creationists could support a larger-scale collaborative research effort.
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Radioisotope Dating of Rocks in the Grand Canyon | Answers in Genesis
The radioisotope methods, long touted as irrefutably dating the earth as countless millions of years old, have repeatedly failed to give reliable and meaningful absolute ages for Grand Canyon rocks.
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Time and Time Again | Answers in Genesis
The chemical data used in the radiometric dating method requires interpretation, which is sure to be wrong if Biblical data is ignored.
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RATE Strikes at the Heart of Evolution | Answers in Genesis
The RATE team has confirmed the trustworthiness of Scripture, thus upholding its authority, and has shown that the battle is not between science and the Bible.
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Countering the Critics | Answers in Genesis
Understandably, Dr Austin’s devastating research into radioisotopic dating has been criticized by those who believe in millions of years.
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In Brief—Summary of Technical Article for the Layman | Answers in Genesis
Before 1955, it was popular to believe the age of the earth was only 3 billion years.
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The age of Australian Uranium | Answers in Genesis
The objective of this study is to examine the published U/Pb dating results obtained from mineral samples from the Koongarra uranium deposit, Northern Territory.
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Rating Radiodating | Answers in Genesis
A group of young-Earth researchers called RATE (Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth) are investigating radioactive dating methods and developing alternative young-Earth explanations.
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Radioactive Dating Method ‘Under Fire’ | Answers in Genesis
In most people’s minds today, the radioactive dating of the earth’s rocks by geologists has supposedly proved that the earth is billions of years old.
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National Geographic Plays the Dating Game | Answers in Genesis
A recent National Geographic article fails to portray the commonly used age-determination methods either accurately or objectively.
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Contra Rb-Sr Dating | Answers in Genesis
It is important that alternative models are developed to explain the observed patterns of strontium isotopes.
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Polonium Radiohalos, Stone Mountain Granite, Georgia (USA) | Answers in Genesis
The Stone Mountain granite samples in this study yielded no zircon crystals and no diffuse radiation stains. These data are insufficient to determine the timing and mode of formation of these radiohal
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Conflicting ‘Ages’ of Tertiary Basalt and Contained Fossilised Wo | Answers in Genesis
The fossilised wood’s radiocarbon demonstrates the basalt’s youthfulness and the failure of radioisotopic ‘dating’, but is consistent with a Flood/immediate post-Flood stronger magnetic field.
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The Failure of U-Th-Pb ‘Dating’ at Koongarra, Australia | Answers in Genesis
As with other radiometric ‘dating’ methods, the U-Pb and Pb-Pb isochron methods have been questioned in the open literature.
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Rock Layers | Answers in Genesis
Do rock layers prove the earth is billions of years old? How does what we see in the world match what we read in God’s Word?
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Mudrocks in Minutes | Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists scoff at biblical creationists who say that many mudrock layers were deposited all at once in the yearlong, global Genesis flood. Conventional wisdom assumes the mud in earth’s mudrocks took millions of years to settle. What do new experiments suggest?
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Clues from Creation Week | Answers in Genesis
Did you know that even today you can still see and touch rocks that date back to God’s original creation during the creation week? Well, you can! The Hamersley area in Australia’s northwest is part of two-thirds of the continent’s surface not covered today by flood rocks.
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Sifting Through Layers of Meaning | Answers in Genesis
According to science textbooks, a series of rock layers covers the earth, representing many eras over “millions of years.” Are these charts accurate?
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Bent Rock Layers | Answers in Genesis
In many mountainous areas, rock layers thousands of feet thick have been bent and folded without fracturing. How can that happen if they were laid down separately over hundreds of millions of years?
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Transcontinental Rock Layers | Answers in Genesis
Every continent contains layers of sedimentary rocks that span vast areas. Many of these layers can even be traced across continents.
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Folded Rock Layers | Answers in Genesis
How could a series of sedimentary layers fold without fracturing? The only way is for all the sedimentary layers to be laid down in rapid succession and then be folded while still soft and pliable.
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“Sedimentary Layers Show Millions of Years of Geological Activity.” | Answers in Genesis
Riding the rapids between the mile-high walls of the Grand Canyon, a rafter supposedly peers up at millions of years of earth history. How do scientists arrive at such an old age? And is the worldwide geologic column really a clincher for the long ages required for evolution?
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The Origin of the Badlands, South Dakota | Answers in Genesis
The Badlands canyons and cliffs are beautiful. What is the real history behind the rock layers and fossils found there, and what can we learn along the way?
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The Tonto Deformation: Responding Again to “Peaceful Science” Critics | Answers in Genesis
As Part 3 of his response to Mitchell and Tillman’s critique, Dr. Snelling discusses the Tonto deformation from a biblical geologist’s perspective.
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Tonto Depositional Processes and Rates: Responding Again to “Peaceful Science” Critics | Answers in Genesis
Dr. Snelling responds to Michell and Tillman’s critique, discussing the rates and process of the Tonto deposition from a biblical geologist’s perspective.
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Responding to “Peaceful Science” Critics on Grand Canyon Evidence | Answers in Genesis
Dr. Snelling sets the stage by examining the critics’ worldview and the implications of the Tapeats Sandstone’s areal extent.
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Were Rock Layers and Fossils Formed Quickly? | Answers in Genesis
15 pieces of fossil and geological evidence for a young earth and global flood—with pictures.
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The Cambrian Explosion—An “Illusion of Animal Communities Which Never Existed?” | Answers in Genesis
The Cambrian explosion is not a snapshot of animal communities millions of years ago but a collection of fossils in a rock layer laid down during the global flood.
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Water from Rock | Answers in Genesis
People often refer to rock layers as though the earth is made of solid rock, impervious to water. Thankfully, this isn’t true.
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Rainbow Mountains | Answers in Genesis
Like every other rainbow, China’s Rainbow Mountain was formed by water.
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Time for an Upgrade? | Answers in Genesis
The biblical framework of history explains the world around us.
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Granite and the Rock of God’s Word | Answers in Genesis
As far as this ‘granite problem’ is concerned, there would now seem to be a glimpse of an answer developing, on the basis of experimental work done by non-creationist geologists.
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Chalking Up Another One For Flood Geology | Answers in Genesis
The famous White Cliffs of Dover, immortalized in song and print, are made of a type of limestone called chalk. If you look at this rock closely, it is made up largely of microscopic shells.
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The Case of the ‘Missing’ Geologic Time | Answers in Genesis
Traditional evolutionary geology maintains that the deposition of sediments to form major rock layers often takes long periods of time.
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“Fossil” Clock: How fast do rocks form? | Answers in Genesis
Intense evolutionary indoctrination has conditioned people to assume it take millions of years to form rock. What about a clock found encased in solid rock?
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Geologic Time Scale | Answers in Genesis
How should we interpret the geologic time scale, traditionally associated with millions of years, in light of the Bible’s history?
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Geologic Column | Answers in Genesis
Modern examples of canyon formation and erosion provide models to explain how many geological formations can be described by the Flood and its aftereffects.
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Rapid Rocks | Answers in Genesis
The timescale and conditions for the formation and cooling of granites are totally consistent with a 6,000–7,000 year-old earth and a global cataclysmic flood 4,500–5,000 years ago.
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Unlocking the Geologic Record | Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists hold up the fossil record as evidence that evolution has taken place over the billions of years of earth history.
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Mexican Markings and Chronological Chaos | Answers in Genesis
Dr. Sylvia Gonzales of John Moores University in Liverpool, England reported in 2005 about the discovery of 269 footprints preserved in volcanic ash in the Valsequillo region of central Mexico.
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Unreasonable Reliance on Dating Methods | Answers in Genesis
The “geologic timescale” is full of assumptions and the timescale has changed drastically over the past 150 years.
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Earlier Start for Animal Evolution | Answers in Genesis
It could almost be the plot of an evolutionary Indiana Jones adventure: deep beneath the sands of Arabia, lost and hidden for millennia, lay a secret molecule that transcends what we think we know.
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Are We Living in a New Geologic Age? | Answers in Genesis
Are we living in a new geologic age? Recently, geologists announced a name for the geologic age we live in: the Meghalayan Age. This new age is supposed to have begun 4,250 years ago. This further divides up earth’s supposed 4.5 billion year history into various lengths of time.
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The Stones Cry Out | Answers in Genesis
The geologic record should be interpreted using a Biblical framework.
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Sparking Interest in Rapid Rocks | Answers in Genesis
Examination of rapid formation of rocks by looking at the example of a rock formed around a modern spark plug.
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‘Fossil’ Pliers Show Rock Doesn’t Need Millions of Years to Form | Answers in Genesis
Contrary to evolutionary claims, rock can form in a very short time, as shown by the example of the pliers.
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Oil in Less Than a Century? | Answers in Genesis
How long does it take oil to form? Centuries? Thousands of years? Millions of years? Architect Hans Timmers, of Maleny, a town in Queensland, Australia, told us of the following experience.
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Grand Canyon Facts | Answers in Genesis
Was the Grand Canyon formed with a little bit of water over a long period of time or a lot of water over a little bit of time? What are the facts?
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When and How Did the Grand Canyon Form? | Answers in Genesis
The Grand Canyon is one of the world’s most awesome erosional features. How did it form?
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What Is Unique About the Colorado River? | Answers in Genesis
Why, according to evolutionists, would rivers other than the Colorado River not form canyons? Dr. Andrew Snelling, AiG–U.S., responds.
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Radioisotopes Bass Rapids, Grand Canyon, Arizona | Answers in Genesis
Only changing radioisotope decay rates in the past could account for these discordant isochron ‘ages’ for the same geologic event
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Radioisotope Dates for Precambrian Amphibolites in Grand Canyon | Answers in Genesis
The pattern in the discordances may provide clues into the physics responsible for time variations in the decay process.
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Discordant Potassium-Argon Model Eastern Grand Canyon, Arizona | Answers in Genesis
For more than twenty years it has been known that the Rb-Sr and K-Ar systems give discordant ‘ages’ for Cardenas Basalt and associated Proterozoic diabase sills and dikes of Grand Canyon.
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No Slow and Gradual Erosion | Answers in Genesis
Today we see the effects of weathering and erosion all around us. But where is the evidence of millions of years between rock layers?
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Startling Evidence for Noah’s Flood | Answers in Genesis
Footprints and sand ‘dunes’ in a Grand Canyon sandstone provide startling evidence for Noah’s Flood.
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Grand Canyon—Nine Days Below the Rim | Answers in Genesis
Who hasn’t heard this? You can see the photos, hear the stories, and read all about the Eiffel Tower, the Lincoln Memorial, the Taj Mahal, and Niagara Falls. But nothing compares to being there. We wanted to experience the Grand Canyon’s beauty and see evidences of the flood that few ever get to see.
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Another View of the Grand Canyon | Answers in Genesis
Regarding the age of the Grand Canyon, we can now take our pick from a growing selection of dates.
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Climbing the “Ladder of Life” in the Grand Canyon | Answers in Genesis
I visited the Canyon on three different occasions and twice hiked its trails from river to rim. I discovered that not only are the evolutionist’s “missing links” truly missing—their whole “ladder of life” is missing!
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The Correction the New York Times Refuses to Print | Answers in Genesis
The venerable New York Times has a policy that “welcomes … information about errors [that appear in its pages] that call for correction.”
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Surprised by God’s Majesty | Answers in Genesis
Founded in 1997,
the nonprofit Canyon Ministries has a vision
to inspire awe in God’s handiwork, as
the Lord intends for this natural wonder.
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The Grand Canyon | Answers in Genesis
The best place to see, test, and put together all these ideas about stacks of fossil-bearing rock is the Grand Canyon.
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Rapid Erosion of Grand Canyon Sandbars Discovered | Answers in Genesis
The place is the Grand Canyon, and the story is an indisputable case of rapid erosion caused by massive amounts of water.
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Grand Canyon—What Is the Message? | Answers in Genesis
The Grand Canyon is a place to find and explore the wonders of God’s creation.
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Geologists in an Uproar | Answers in Genesis
What provoked the presidents of seven geological societies to write a letter of protest to the superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park?
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Ruptured Dam Gives Insight Into the Formation of the Grand Canyon | Answers in Genesis
A lot of rain, a lot of water, and a gorge transformed in a matter of minutes. What can a ruptured earthen dam tell us about the formation of the Grand Canyon?
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Grand Canyon Rafting | Answers in Genesis
Of the approximately 22,000 people who have the privilege of rafting the Colorado River each year, only about one percent will hear a biblical interpretation of how the canyon was formed.
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Feedback: Grand Canyon Elevation | Answers in Genesis
Is the higher elevation of the rim in the center of the Grand Canyon evidence of catastrophic formation? Dr. Andrew Snelling, AiG–U.S., explains.
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Dripping Canyon Crust | Answers in Genesis
The Grand Canyon slices through the high Colorado Plateau, but how did the plateau come to be so high? New seismic data paints a picture of the plateau’s underbelly.
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Evidences for a Global Flood—Grand Canyon | Answers in Genesis
View the chart “Evidences for a Global Flood—Grand Canyon” in PDF format
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On-Site Apologetics | Answers in Genesis
Patient apologetics can be a powerufl witness.
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Canyon Rapids and Rapid Formations | Answers in Genesis
The current edition of World magazine includes an article by the editor-in-chief encouraging Christians to rethink how they view Creation and the Flood.
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Backdrop of a Grand Canyon Raft Trip | Answers in Genesis
What should the Christian believe about the age of the earth and the origin of life? WORLD magazine editor-in-chief Marvin Olasky explores the issue against the backdrop of a Grand Canyon raft trip.*
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Along for the Ride | Answers in Genesis
Ever dreamed of visiting the most famous natural wonders of the world? Now you can take along an audio tour by leading creation geologist Andrew Snelling.
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Grand Canyon Age Getting Pushed Back through Time of Dinosaurs | Answers in Genesis
Any article on old-age dating methods that begins, “How could everyone have gotten it so wrong?” is obviously going to be of interest to creationists.
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PEERing into the manufacturing of an anti-creationist urban myth | Answers in Genesis
AiG had been tracking the efforts of anti-creationists in America who have been trying to ban a book from National Park Service bookstores.
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Deluged with Pro-Flood Email! | Answers in Genesis
Grand Canyon: A Different View has been available at Grand Canyon bookstores since August, but was in jeopardy of being removed after pressure by prominent evolutionists.
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Shenanigans Recently Uncovered in Grand Canyon Book Controversy | Answers in Genesis
AiG has been following the efforts of leading evolutionists to ban the creationist photo-essay book Grand Canyon: A Different View from the bookstores at Grand Canyon National Park.
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Grand Canyon Legend | Answers in Genesis
The Grand Canyon originated in the following way according to the Havasupai Indians who live in its deep gorges.
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Remove God from the Grand Canyon? | Answers in Genesis
For over thirty years, three bronze plaques at Grand Canyon have displayed brief quotes from the Psalms. However, last week US Park Service officials decided that the plaques had to go.
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Carving the Grand Canyon: Eons or Years? | Answers in Genesis
If you thought six million years was too old an age for the Grand Canyon, think again—or at least, that’s what a group of scientists from the University of New Mexico argues in a recent Science paper.
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The question: to ban or not to ban? | Answers in Genesis
The effort to ban creationist Tom Vail’s beautifully photographed picture book Grand Canyon: A Different View once again is promising to become an international controversy.
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Eighth Graders and the Grand Canyon Controversy | Answers in Genesis
The eighth-grade class at Burlington Christian Academy of Burlington, North Carolina, USA used the controversial book, Grand Canyon: A Different View, in a recent worldview class.
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Grand Canyon | Answers in Genesis
The formation of the Grand Canyon is a problem for evolutionists, but fits well into the framework of the Bible.
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Grand Canyon Limestone—Fast or Slow Deposits? | Answers in Genesis
It is not true that modern-day lime muds are structurally identical to the ancient Canyon limestone layers.
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Plate Tectonics | Answers in Genesis
How do plate tectonics and continental drift fit with the Bible’s history? Can plate tectonics help explain the global Flood?
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Can Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Explain Flood Geology? | Answers in Genesis
How could a massive, global flood be triggered? Do plate tectonics provide a valid mechanism? Geologist Andrew Snelling answers.
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Plate Tectonics | Answers in Genesis
The motion of the earth’s crust is accepted by uniformitarian and creationist scientists alike. The difference lies in the time frame over which the movement has happened.
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Making More of the Mountains | Answers in Genesis
The Smoky Mountains offer much more than breathtaking vistas and vacation getaways. The hills resound with a symphony from the rocks, testifying to God’s creation of the world and the global Flood.
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When Continents Collide | Answers in Genesis
When geologists assume the
earth changes slowly, they
overlook astonishing evidence
of Noah’s global Flood.
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Why Do Some US Earthquakes Occur in Unexpected Places? | Answers in Genesis
Why would the Southeastern USA experience such a devastating earthquake, a region that sits snugly in the middle of a tectonic plate?
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Did Tectonic Activity Trigger the Ice Age? | Answers in Genesis
Evidently, just prior to both periods, massive tectonic collisions took place near the earth's equator—a tropical zone where rocks undergo heavy weathering.
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Plate Tectonics—The Reality Behind a Theory | Answers in Genesis
The idea that continents move sounds crazy . . . until you look at the facts.
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How Did Plate Tectonics Get Started on Earth? | Answers in Genesis
Secular geologists are puzzled by how plate tectonics got started if early earth’s surface was covered by a layer of crust that kept the surface motionless.
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Noah’s Lost World | Answers in Genesis
The world that we see today is not the one that existed in Noah’s day.
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Hawaii’s Volcanic Origins—Instant Paradise | Answers in Genesis
The biblical worldview changes how you see everything, even a “paradise” like Hawaii.
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Catastrophic Plate Tectonics: Global Flood Model of Earth History | Answers in Genesis
Because of the enormous explanatory and predictive success of the plate tectonics model, we feel that at least some portion of plate tectonics theory should be incorporated into the creation model.
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A Catastrophic Breakup | Answers in Genesis
When you look at a globe, have you ever thought that the earth looks cracked? Or, maybe the continents have reminded you of a giant jigsaw puzzle.
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Ancient Supercontinent | Answers in Genesis
Every student in US public schools will likely
come across illustrations claiming the earth’s tectonic plates have been
moving slowly for millions of years.
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Forum on Catastrophic Plate Tectonics | Answers in Genesis
We publish here six articles that address catastrophic plate tectonics as a framework for Biblical Earth history.
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New Ocean in Africa? | Answers in Genesis
Thousands of years ago, God parted the Red Sea. Is He parting Ethiopia now?
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When Is the Big One Coming? | Answers in Genesis
In 1906, a massive earthquake shook San Francisco. Some people fear the next big one is due. What do seismologists predict, and what does Scripture say?
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Plate Tectonics: Creationist Idea Still Makes Accurate Predictions | Answers in Genesis
The science of plate tectonics in geology, started by a creationist in the 19th century, continues to provide testable predictions within a biblical worldview.
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A New Ocean in the Making? | Answers in Genesis
Is Ethiopia splitting in two? A huge cut in the ground appeared suddenly in 2005 due to volcanic activity.
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Getting Closer to Down Under | Answers in Genesis
An earthquake moved New Zealand closer to Australia.
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Rocks Tell us About Scientists | Answers in Genesis
Scientists have honed a geological technique to piece together the history of tectonic plates.
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Dealing Carefully with the Data, Continued | Answers in Genesis
More information is provided from the ocean floor on the uniformitarian assumptions that undergird his belief in plate tectonics.
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A Constructive Quest for Truth | Answers in Genesis
When one examines Michael Oard’s own alternative explanations for the tectonic features of the Earth, it should be plain he is not concerned with serious alternatives to the paradigm he is attacking.
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Does Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Model Assume Uniformitarianism? | Answers in Genesis
Baumgardner’s model is elegant, but contains many problems. The most serious seems to be assuming plate tectonics has been proven and too much uniformitarianism.
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Dealing Carefully with the Data | Answers in Genesis
Michael Oard’s first contribution in this forum lays out a valid criticism of uniformitarian plate tectonics—namely the quantity and character of the sediments in the deep ocean trenches.
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Catastrophic Plate Tectonics: Geophysical Context Genesis Flood | Answers in Genesis
Any serious model for the Genesis Flood must account for the massive tectonic changes evident in the geological record since the point in that record where metazoan fossils first appear.
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'Nucha' and Plate Tectonics | Answers in Genesis
This bias against the plate tectonics paradigm has developed after examining the paradigm for 25 years. I find many serious problems with it that I have recently catalogued.
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Wonders of Geography: Grand Canyon | Answers in Genesis
The Grand Canyon does not speak of millions of years of formation; it clearly testifies of rapid formation.
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The Fight for 53 Rocks | Answers in Genesis
Searching for evidence of the global flood led Dr. Andrew Snelling into the Grand Canyon—and
sparked the fight of his career.
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Coconino Sandstone—The Most Powerful Argument Against the Flood? | Answers in Genesis
The Flood is impossible because one of the Grand Canyon’s
layers was deposited in a desert. Or so evolutionists claim.
Do the facts back them up?
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What’s Wrong With The Grand Canyon, Monument to an Ancient Earth? | Answers in Genesis
A geology historian’s book review of “The Grand Canyon, Monument to an Ancient Earth” and why its arguments should fail to convince a careful Bible student.
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Mountain-Building Quiescence in Earth’s “Middle Age” | Answers in Genesis
Uniformitarian storytellers aim to interpret earth’s “Middle Age” while ignoring the only eyewitness to our planet’s catastrophic past: God.
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Rocks and Minerals | Answers in Genesis
The hidden beauty of rocks and minerals, such as diamonds, rubies, and gold, praises the creativity of the Designer and reminds us of His Flood judgment.
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Crystal Clear Confirmation of a Young Earth | Answers in Genesis
Can the size of a crystal further confirm the timescale in God’s Word?
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From Where Did the Earth’s Water Come? | Answers in Genesis
“Planet Earth makes its own water from scratch deep in the mantle” was the article headline in the January 27, 2017, New Scientist’s Daily News.
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Jade—Beauty Under Pressure | Answers in Genesis
Forming the coveted qualities of jade requires unique conditions unlike anything on earth today.
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Dazzling Diamonds by Special Delivery | Answers in Genesis
Diamonds are dazzling but definitely not “forever.” In fact, they wouldn’t exist without special conditions that God provided.
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Shape-Shifting Silicon | Answers in Genesis
Minerals display not only God’s incredible creativity and His care for our needs, but also His unbounded love of variety and beauty.
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Rapid Opals in the Outback | Answers in Genesis
Only one place on Earth holds a treasure trove of precious opals—Australia’s Outback.
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Gold | Answers in Genesis
No other mineral has provoked so much wonder and strife.
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Emeralds—Treasures from Catastrophe | Answers in Genesis
What unique forces brought emeralds to the earth’s surface for us to enjoy?
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Rubies & Sapphires—Sparkling Reminders of God’s Judgment | Answers in Genesis
God’s Word gives these two stones special attention. Indeed, rubies and sapphires are mentioned more often than diamonds.
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Microscopic Diamonds Confound Geologists | Answers in Genesis
Diamond grains discovered in high-grade metamorphic rocks (gneisses) from Norway may force geologists to rethink ideas about the Earth’s crust and processes.
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Carbon—The Building Blocks of Life | Answers in Genesis
Atoms are some of the most spectacular wonders that God created and we just take them for granted.
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Growing Opals—Australian Style | Answers in Genesis
In a dusty old wooden shed on a side street in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia, a bush scientist trying to discover the origin of opal has been able to ‘grow’ opal.
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Diamond Ringwoodite Water in Earth’s Mantle | Answers in Genesis
Discovery inside a diamond in the rough shows Jules Verne wasn’t far off when he wrote about a hidden ocean in Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
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Diamonds—Evidence of Explosive Geological Processes | Answers in Genesis
Diamonds have been highly prized throughout history, being regarded as symbols of wealth and power.
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Diamonds Are the Latest Evidence For Evolution | Answers in Genesis
To see the newest evidence for evolution—and what Darwinists rest their faith on—look no further than the local jewelry shop!
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Do Diamonds Take Millions of Years to Form? | Answers in Genesis
If you search for “how long it takes a natural diamond to form” using Google, the preferred answer pops up as “between 1 billion and 3.3 billion years, which is approximately 25% to 75% of our earth’s [supposed] age.” Is that true?
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Buried Treasure | Answers in Genesis
Down in the Cave of Crystals under Mexico’s Naica silver mine, you’ll find crystals measuring up to 36 feet (11 m) long.
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“Pass the Salt, Please” | Answers in Genesis
What’s one of the most sought-after commodities in human history—the only rock we eat because it’s so essential to life?
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Tiny Diamonds, Big Explosion | Answers in Genesis
Scientists are taking the gold standard for proof of extinction to the next level—with diamonds.
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Diamonds May Offer Clues to Earth's Earliest Life | Answers in Genesis
The diamond may be more than a girl’s proverbial best friend—it may be an old-earther’s best friend, too, if a recent Nature report is accurate.
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Woman's Best Friend Disrupts Man's Plans | Answers in Genesis
The Jack Hills region of Western Australia is home to diamonds “nearly as old as the Earth itself and considered the oldest terrestrial diamonds ever discovered,” according to a new study.
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The Rapid Formation of Granitic Rocks: More Evidence | Answers in Genesis
It was once thought that granitic magma was so viscous that it would take hundred of millions of years for granitic rocks to form.
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Creating Opals | Answers in Genesis
Today we admire and enjoy the beauty opals and opalized bones. But when we realize their formation resulted from catastrophic judgment, we worship God for His salvation in Christ at the cross.
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Large Gem Crystals Grew within Hours: Consistent with Rapid Granite Formation on a Young Earth | Answers in Genesis
Evidence of rapid gem formation in California clash with the old earth model but supports the biblical timescale and a young earth.
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Why Are Mountains High and Oceans Deep? | Answers in Genesis
The high and deep
landscapes of earth
give insight into
the Creator’s wise
design of rocks.
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Catastrophism | Answers in Genesis
Are current, slow geologic processes the key to understanding earth’s past, or was history marked by a global, earth-shaping catastrophe?
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Petrified Forest National Park—Painting A Different Picture | Answers in Genesis
Looking at this landscape through biblical glasses, we see a rainbow of evidence confirming the global flood.
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Five Mass Extinctions or One Cataclysmic Event? | Answers in Genesis
Many scientists claim the fossil record shows many mass extinctions separated by
millions of years. Does the Bible give a better explanation?
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Yosemite Valley—Colossal Ice Carving | Answers in Genesis
Mountains and breathtaking valleys adorn our planet. Each one speaks of God’s handiwork, but they were formed by water and ice in judgment, not creation.
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Having It Both Ways? | Answers in Genesis
If the present isn’t the key to the past, a critic wants to know why AiG uses present events to explore what happened in the global Flood. Dr. Andrew Snelling, AiG–U.S., explains.
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“Rapid” Granite Formation? | Answers in Genesis
Contrary evidence pointing to relatively rapid, even catastrophic, formation of granites is now beginning to surface.
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Coal Beds and Noah’s Flood | Answers in Genesis
Coal beds formed from plant debris catastrophically buried by Noah’s Flood about 4,500 years ago? Evolutionists believe that the material in coal beds accumulated over millions of years.
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In Brief—Mt. Isa Metal Ores and Noah’s Flood | Answers in Genesis
Mount Isa in north-west Queensland, Australia, is one of the world’s largest (and richest) metal deposits, with silver-lead-zinc and copper ore bodies in the same beds.
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Sculpting a New Home | Answers in Genesis
We can only imagine what happened after the Flood! Consider five major examples of catastrophes
that reshaped the planet.
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Yellowstone | Answers in Genesis
Beneath the surface of Yellowstone’s beauty lie fearful clues to the past—and a possible future.
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How Fast Can Oil Form? | Answers in Genesis
Many people today, including scientists, have the idea that oil and natural gas must take a long time to form, even millions of years. Such is the strong mental bias that has been generated.
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Continuing Catastrophes | Answers in Genesis
The rock layers speak of a violent period after the Flood, lasting many centuries.
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Green River Blues | Answers in Genesis
The Green River Formation of Wyoming, USA, is familiar to geologists not only for its well-preserved fossils but also because it has come to the forefront of debate on the age of the earth.
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Lamellibranch Shells—Evidence of Catastrophe | Answers in Genesis
Modern geology usually dismisses the possibility of a worldwide flood and therefore never examines the evidence in terms of such a flood.
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F.A.S.T. and Furious | Answers in Genesis
Creation geologists have undertaken a major new research project to better understand how the Flood deposited sediments across continents while tectonic forces within the crust reshaped the earth.
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Post-Flood World | Answers in Genesis
After the Flood, the world was a warm, wet and stormy world. The warm oceans and cooler temperatures caused snow and ice to accumulate, creating the Ice Age.
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Super-salty Water Sealed Beneath Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater | Answers in Genesis
Does the Chesapeake Bay crater memorialize a meteorite impact from the time of Noah’s Flood?
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The Story That Won’t Be Told | Answers in Genesis
Secular geologists believe that it a marked trail commemorating the Missoula flood’s path and explaining its significance needs to be set up from western Montana into northwest Oregon.
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Scientists Coming to Grips with Catastrophic Geology | Answers in Genesis
With a headline worded as if written by a young-earther, the press release for a new study of Texas’s Canyon Lake Gorge reveals that an increasing number of scientists are coming to grips with catastrophic geology.
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How Did Britain Become an Island? | Answers in Genesis
It’s not just young-earth creationists who lean on catastrophic geological processes in explaining earth history. Increasingly, old-earthers are also seeing the work of catastrophes in shaping the planet.
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Did Greenhouse Gases Help Create Dinosaurs? | Answers in Genesis
Global greenhouse gases: paving the way for dinosaurs or documenting the upheavals of the global Flood?
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A Dark and Stormy World | Answers in Genesis
The Flood caused radical changes in the land, seas, and atmosphere. The weather would never be the same.
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A Flash for Geologists | Answers in Genesis
A flash flood at Havasu Canyon is a reminder of the amazing power of a lot of water over a little time.
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From a Trickle to a Flood | Answers in Genesis
Did a massive ancient Flood fill in the Mediterranean Sea?
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Catastrophe at Work | Answers in Genesis
It’s not only creationists who point to the role of catastrophic events in shaping earth’s geologic history. A new study sheds light on how Britain was separated from the rest of Europe by a “super-river.”
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Salt Lake Extinction | Answers in Genesis
Yet another explanation for a catastrophic mass extinction—could it be?
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The Slow-and-Gradual Catastrophe | Answers in Genesis
An ancient extinction wasn’t as sudden and catastrophic as once believed. Now, how does that reinforce the Flood model?
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Out of the Box Thinking | Answers in Genesis
A new study of Idaho’s Box Canyon suggests that the canyon was formed rapidly by a megaflood.
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Common Ground | Answers in Genesis
Tourists have another reason to find common ground with biblical creationists when it comes to the formation of canyons.
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British Isles | Answers in Genesis
Britain’s secular newspaper The Daily Telegraph, in its September 25, 2006 publication, has unwittingly given support to the reality of Noah’s Flood.
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Thundering Burial | Answers in Genesis
This fossil graveyard on the Lake Huron coastline of Michigan is thus just another example of the devastation resulting from that catastrophic global Flood.
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Flood Cuts off Europe | Answers in Genesis
It is said that a British newspaper headline once announced “Fog Over Channel—Continent Isolated.” The headline aptly and amusingly sums up Britain’s ambivalent relationship with its neighbors.
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World's Longest Mud Slide | Answers in Genesis
A team of researchers reporting in the journal Nature recently has described a catastrophic landslide that dumped 225 billion metric tons of sediment into the ocean in just a few days or less.
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Did 'Old World Early Paleolithic' People Travel to North America? | Answers in Genesis
For creationists, these reports of 'Early Paleolithic tools' raise questions that need further research.
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A Tropical Reptile in the 'Cretaceous' Arctic | Answers in Genesis
A century ago, a shock went through the scientific community when a whaling crew reported finding fossil wood on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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The Lessons of Surtsey | Answers in Genesis
By way of a specific example of rapid geomorphological development, we may refer to the volcanic island of Surtsey, off Iceland.
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Megaflood Makes Britain | Answers in Genesis
Recent research suggests that Great Britain was formed as the result of a megaflood.
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New Theory Impacts Crater Site | Answers in Genesis
The Silverpit structure, an impact crater in the North Sea, is, according to University of Edinburgh geologist John Underhill, not the vestige of a prehistoric meteorite, but rather “probably the movement of salt rocks at depth.”
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Birth of a Hill | Answers in Genesis
Rapid drumlin growth in Antarctica lends credence to Creationism.
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How Could the Heart Mountain Slide Occur in Only 30 Minutes? | Answers in Genesis
Despite more than 100 years of study, the Heart Mountain detachment remains among the world’s most puzzling geological structures.
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Sandy Surprise | Answers in Genesis
Scientifically, it has never been a problem to explain that hard rock can form quickly, given the right conditions.
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That Choking Feeling ... | Answers in Genesis
Seeing such solid, layered rock forming in only three months shows that long time-spans are not necessary.
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Fascinating Fossil Fence-Wire | Answers in Genesis
The rock is a hard, dense, calcareous sandstone. The wire is ordinary 'Number 8' fencing wire of the type used at nearby Wallal Downs station between 1920 and 1970.
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Bell-ieve It: Rapid Rock Formation Rings True | Answers in Genesis
These ‘fossil’ ship’s bells (pictured in Creation magazine) were found recently about 50 metres (170 feet) off the coast of Victoria, Australia.
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The Clock in the Rock | Answers in Genesis
The item shown in the photograph here is a striking example of the fact that rock can form quickly.
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Folded Ferns | Answers in Genesis
Fossil fern fronds fly in the face of beliefs held by the majority of the most highly educated people in the world.
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Tarawera’s Night of Terror | Answers in Genesis
Mt Tarawera is yet another testimony to the rapidity with which fossilization can occur, and that the evolutionary concept of fossils as being ‘prehistoric’ does not conform with the evidence.
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'Fossil' Hat | Answers in Genesis
This miner's hat is rock hard. It was found in a mine in Tasmania where it had been covered with water for more than 50 years.
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Keys to Rapid Rock Formation | Answers in Genesis
If you know anyone who thinks rocks and fossils must take thousands or millions of years to form, here's an example to show them they may need to revise their ideas.
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Deluge! | Answers in Genesis
The fact of the biblical Deluge is the keystone with which the whole of the biblical history of life, man and the universe comes into line with the evidence of the real world.
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Flood coal—A research trust report | Answers in Genesis
The concept of coal formed slowly in swamps is widespread and intimately associated with evolutionary geology.
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Four Lessons from the Mount St. Helens Eruption | Answers in Genesis
Forty years later, Mount St. Helens still teaches us lessons about the powerful forces the Creator uses to shape the earth.
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Natural Features | Answers in Genesis
The world of geology is filled with beautiful and awe-inspiring natural formations. How did these formations get there?
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Chalk It Up to a Global Flood | Answers in Genesis
At today’s rate of ocean-floor
buildup, chalk layers would take
millions of years to form. How do
creationists explain them?
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Mysterious Natural Wonders—What Park Rangers Won't Tell You | Answers in Genesis
Rare geologic wonders—like delicate arch—draw gawking tourists from around the world.
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Volcanoes—Windows Into Earth’s Past | Answers in Genesis
God has given us a window into the earth’s past. Starting with God’s Word and studying modern volcanoes and the huge deposits of past volcanoes, we can piece together a dramatic picture of unique catastrophes during the Flood.
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A Superior History | Answers in Genesis
When you look closely at Lake Superior’s landscape, you’ll see evidence of a catastrophic past.
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Hoodoos of Bryce Canyon | Answers in Genesis
The visitor overlooks at Bryce Canyon, Utah, provide a breathtaking spectacle of row upon row of towering columns painted pink, red, white, and orange. Together, these columns were formed in a series of horseshoe-shaped amphitheaters, cut into the surrounding cliffs.
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The Devils Marbles | Answers in Genesis
The Devils Marbles are an iconic landmark in Australia’s Outback.
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Arches of Utah | Answers in Genesis
Located just outside Moab, Utah, is a wonderland of more than 2,000 natural arches.Everywhere you turn are spectacular arches of various shapes and sizes, such as Double Arch, Skyline Arch, and Tower Arch. Why are there so many natural arches in this one area?
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Giant’s Causeway | Answers in Genesis
The Giant’s Causeway is Northern Ireland’s most iconic landmark.
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Cotton Castle | Answers in Genesis
Every year “Cotton Castle” in Turkey attracts a million visitors eager to see its spectacular stepped terraces and “frozen” waterfalls or to find refreshment in its oyster-shaped mineral pools. In New Testament times it was part of the city of Hierapolis, famed for the healing qualities of its hot mineral springs.
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A Canyon in Six Days! | Answers in Genesis
The idea that canyons invariably take vast ages to form is unfortunately very firmly cemented in the public mind. Even today, most school students are still taught the older, long-age model.
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Uluru and Kata Tjuta: A Testimony to the Flood | Answers in Genesis
No visit to Central Australia is complete without seeing two of Australia's most famous landmarks-Uluru and Kata Tjuta.
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Giant’s Causeway of Northern Ireland | Answers in Genesis
Some geologists claim that the Causeway was formed over 60 million years ago. But other geologists, who approach Giant’s Causeway with a biblical understanding of the past, have another explanation.
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Durham’s Grand Canyon | Answers in Genesis
A quickly formed canyon in England provides clues to how the Grand Canyon and other geological features formed recently—and not over millions of years.
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Sand Pillars—Breaking Through Millions of Years | Answers in Genesis
Secluded in the canyon country of southern Utah is a beautiful but often overlooked state park called Kodachrome Basin.
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Utah’s Testimony to Catastrophe | Answers in Genesis
In July 2006 I had the privilege of visiting Utah and wandering through some of the amazing geological formations there.
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Everglades: An Ever-Changing Environment | Answers in Genesis
The Everglades features one of the most diverse ecosystems on earth—with a surprising geological history.
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Encounter Geology | Answers in Genesis
The guides at Creation Encounter tours haven’t missed the opportunity God gave them in the Pacific Northwest.
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Devils Tower in Wyoming | Answers in Genesis
Devils Tower, an impressive formation amid a relatively flat region, raises natural questions among many viewers as to how it formed.
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Red River Gorge: An Astronomer in the Arches | Answers in Genesis
For astronomer Dr. Danny Faulkner, the most intriguing spot in God’s creation is far below the stars.
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The Hawaiian Islands: String of Pearls | Answers in Genesis
The biblical account of an earth-ravaging flood helps explain
this imperfect paradise.
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Beauty in Broken Places | Answers in Genesis
What do so many beautiful geological formations around the world have in common?
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Answers Magazine Preview: Vol. 9 No. 3 | Answers in Genesis
The July 2014 issue of Answers is on its way! Get ready to explore some of the world’s greatest natural wonders.
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Nightmare Forest | Answers in Genesis
Imagine walking across a field of razor blades. That’s what it is like to climb the hills in a remote part of Madagascar.
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The Slightly Less Grand Canyon | Answers in Genesis
It’s the “Grand Canyon of Durham” in England: a miniature canyon carved into a barley field by “torrential rain” over a weekend.
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Uluru (Ayers Rock) in Australia | Answers in Genesis
One of Australia’s most famous landmarks stands tall against the flat desert region of the “Red Center” of the Northern Territory. Find out how it formed.
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White Cliffs of Dover | Answers in Genesis
These towering escarpments, stretching 10 miles (16 km) along the coast, not only guard England from its enemies but, more importantly, give tribute to the global Flood.
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Niagara Falls in North America | Answers in Genesis
Every part of Niagara Falls testifies to a biblical timescale and a worldwide Flood as recorded in Genesis 6–9.
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Niagara Falls and the Bible | Answers in Genesis
Aside from the beauty and grandeur of the Falls, very few visitors realise they are looking at one of the major excuses for abandoning biblical chronology.
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Canyon Creation | Answers in Genesis
Many people believe canyons take a long time to form. In North America, though, there is a canyon that simply wasn't there 150 years ago.
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Stone Arch Collapse Doesn't Support Old Earth Theory | Answers in Genesis
If an arch collapses in a desert and no one is around to hear it, does it still shout “millions of years”?
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Study Suggests Canyon Was Created by a Megaflood | Answers in Genesis
A new study of Idaho’s Box Canyon suggests the canyon was formed by “a megaflood—a catastrophic outpouring of massive amounts of water in a relatively short period.”
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Geologic Rate Change in Yellowstone Valley | Answers in Genesis
Geologists working in Yellowstone National Park have discovered that the Yellowstone Valley is rising more than three times faster than “usual.”
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Plane Flies in the Face of Glaciology | Answers in Genesis
The P-38’s 1942 flight to the U.K. ended when bad weather forced the pilot to land the plane on one of Greenland’s glaciers. Although the pilot—along with the 24 other airmen from seven other planes forced down—were rescued shortly thereafter, the planes were left and summarily buried under 250 ft (91 m) of ice.
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Creation Road Trip: More Destinations | Answers in Genesis
If you’re planning an outing to one of these locations, be sure to read the following biblical explanations of how catastrophic processes formed these amazing sights during Noah’s Flood.
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Collapsed Apostle Tells a Story | Answers in Genesis
The famous 'Twelve Apostles' off the coast of Victoria, Australia have eroded much faster than most people imagine.
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Warped Earth | Answers in Genesis
Geologic formations commonly show clear evidence that the rocks could not have been hard and brittle before they were folded.
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Mount St. Helens | Answers in Genesis
Mount St. Helens violently erupted on May 18, 1980, rapidly dispelling many false long-age notions about the formation of canyons, rock layers, and coal.
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Lasting Lessons from Mount St. Helens | Answers in Genesis
The eruption of Mount St. Helens 35 years ago provided an amazing opportunity for scientists to study the effects of catastrophe.
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Thirtieth Anniversary of a Geologic Catastrophe | Answers in Genesis
The May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens in the state of Washington is regarded by many as the most significant geologic event of the twentieth century.
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Forked Seams Sabotage Swamp Theory | Answers in Genesis
Most geologists believe the process of coal formation was slow and gradual, but this is denied by the field evidence.
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Why Is Mount St. Helens Important to the Origins Controversy? | Answers in Genesis
A catastrophic geologic event occurred that not only shocked the world because of its explosive power, but challenged the foundation of evolutionary theory.
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Remembering a Catastrophic Classroom | Answers in Genesis
Forty years ago, one of the most violent
natural disasters of our modern time unfolded.
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Mount St. Helens in Washington State | Answers in Genesis
The explosion loosened the already unstable northern side of the volcano, and not only changed the visage of that portion of the Cascades, but deeply shook the foundation of the geological timescale.
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Mount St. Helens—Evidence for Genesis! | Answers in Genesis
As I stood staring at the incredible geologic features that resulted from the eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington State, I was reminded afresh of how small and vulnerable we are as humans.
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Argon In Mineral Concentrates from Mount St Helens Volcano | Answers in Genesis
The study of this Mount St Helens dacite causes the more fundamental question to be asked—how accurate are K-Ar ‘ages’ from the many other phenocryst-containing lava flows worldwide?
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Blasting away at Mount St. Helens | Answers in Genesis
Last month, an anti-AiG guest column appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer, the largest circulation newspaper in AiG-USA's "backyard."
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Three Decades Since Eruption of Mount St. Helens | Answers in Genesis
Three decades have passed since the devastating eruption of Washington State’s Mount St. Helens.
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Where Were You When . . . | Answers in Genesis
Sooner or later, we all have one of those, “Where were you when . . .” stories.
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Mount St. Helens Stirs Creationist Community | Answers in Genesis
Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington State, USA, has awakened, and lava is oozing out.
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’I got excited at Mount St Helens!’ | Answers in Genesis
Ken Ham shares about his tour of the site of Mt. St. Helens after its eruption in 1980.
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Nature Spot | Answers in Genesis
Unsuspected ‘insect rain’ is just one of the many mechanisms which could have contributed to the rapid biological recovery of the post-Flood earth.
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Mt. St. Helens | Answers in Genesis
That hellish symphony finished over 3 years ago, but its results have now provided further pointers to the possible rapid and catastrophic origin of coal.
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A Deeper Understanding of the Flood—A Complex Geologic Puzzle | Answers in Genesis
The details of the Flood have profound implications for explaining the geology of the earth today.
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Sedimentation | Answers in Genesis
Under what circumstances do sand, mud, silt and clay deposits turn into rock? Could the Bible’s history shed light on this process?
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Very Little Sediment on the Seafloor | Answers in Genesis
If sediments have been accumulating on the seafloor for three billion years, the seafloor should be choked with sediments many miles deep.
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Thirty Miles of Dirt in a Day | Answers in Genesis
When God lifted up the dry land on the third day of creation, thirty miles of dirt fell into the sea. The remnants of this event are still visible today.
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Sand Transported Cross Country | Answers in Genesis
We find thick layers of sandstone around the earth. Where did it come from?
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Sedimentation Experiments: Nature Finally Catches Up! | Answers in Genesis
Readers of Nature could have read all about it more than a decade ago in the Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal.
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Can Flood Geology Explain Thick Chalk Beds? | Answers in Genesis
By working from what is known to occur today, even if rare and catastrophic by today’s standards, we can realistically calculate production of thick chalk beds within the conditions of the Flood.
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Dredged Up Again | Answers in Genesis
Bible-believers don’t need Ballard to confirm the Flood. Ballard does not accept its global extent and considers the biblical account to be a myth.
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Experiments on Lamination of Sediments | Answers in Genesis
Experiments on lamination of sediments, resulting from a periodic graded-bedding subsequent to deposition—a contribution to the explanation of lamination of various sediments and sedimentary rocks.
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Are There Half a Million Years in the Sediments of Lake Van? | Answers in Genesis
On March 15, the Science Daily website reported that there may be half a million years of precise climate information stored in the sediments of Lake Van in eastern Turkey.
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Sinking a Floating Forest | Answers in Genesis
This is a personal account of how the bizarre idea of a continent-sized floating forest came into being.
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Flood Currents Frozen in Stone | Answers in Genesis
You can’t walk into Paria Canyon without being struck dumb. The bizarre landforms look just like waves of sand frozen in time.
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Natural Teaching Tool | Answers in Genesis
Nowhere is evidence of the worldwide Flood more accessible than Colorado Springs’ Garden of the Gods or nearby Glen Eyrie.
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Slow Deposition vs. Rapid Flow | Answers in Genesis
A longstanding understanding of how the “sedimentary geological record” was formed is apparently in error, according to research by geologists at Indiana University–Bloomington and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Globe-Trotting Sands | Answers in Genesis
Geologists have confirmed even more examples of sands that were carried by waters flowing across the entire U.S. continent.
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Appalachian Mountain Siliciclastics Source for Navajo Sandstone | Answers in Genesis
Recent studies have identified the provenance of the Navajo Sandstone by age-dating zircons contained within the formation. However, an alternative interpretation is possible.
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“Green River Blues” Raises Red Flag . . . | Answers in Genesis
AiG editors respond point-by-point, interspersed as per normal email fashion to a skeptic regarding the formation of the Green River Formation.
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Sedimentation Experiments: Is Extrapolation Appropriate? Reply From Video Creator - Part 2 | Answers in Genesis
The conclusions drawn from the sedimentation experiments presented on the video Drama in the Rocks are reiterated and defended.
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Sedimentation Experiments: Is Extrapolation Appropriate? - Part 1 | Answers in Genesis
The experiments investigated the stratification of heterogeneous sand mixtures either in still water or in a unidirectional water flow presumably at room temperature.
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Experiments on Stratification of Heterogeneous Sand Mixtures | Answers in Genesis
Superposed strata in sedimentary rocks are believed to have been formed by successive layers of sediments deposited periodically with interruptions of sedimentation.
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How Could Most Scientists Be Wrong? | Answers in Genesis
What better place to teach geology than the Grand Canyon? Exposed there is a large slice through the rock record of a major part of earth history.
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Regional Metamorphism: What Garnet Compositions Reveal | Answers in Genesis
Of the two styles of metamorphism, contact and regional, the latter is most often used to argue against the young-earth creation-Flood model.
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The Cooling of Thick Igneous Bodies on a Young Earth | Answers in Genesis
One of the scientific objections to a young earth is the apparent evidence that large plutons of granitic and other igneous intrusive rocks necessarily required millions of years to cool from magmas.
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The Origin of Oil | Answers in Genesis
For more than 100 years oil has been the “black gold” that has fueled transport vehicles and powered global economic growth and prosperity. So how does oil form, and what is its origin?
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The “Principle of Least Astonishment”! | Answers in Genesis
Prévot and Coe (and colleagues) reported evidence they found of extremely rapid changes of the Earth’s magnetic field recorded in lava flows at Steens Mountain.
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Towards a Creationist Explanation of Regional Metamorphism | Answers in Genesis
The ‘classical’ model for regional metamorphism presupposes elevated temperatures and pressures due to deep burial and deformation/tectonic forces over large areas over millions of years.
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Rocky Road Trip | Answers in Genesis
The global flood left an erosion scar, called the Great Unconformity, that we can still see around the world.
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How Could Geology Possibly Affect Spiritual Truth? | Answers in Genesis
You can’t separate the truth about God’s work in the physical world from spiritual truths without drastic consequences.
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Life in the Anthropocene | Answers in Genesis
We can’t deny that humans have left their mark on the earth. But have we ushered in a new geologic epoch?
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Caves | Answers in Genesis
The eerie darkness of caves hosts strange growths called stalagmites and stalactites. Caves, and their features, take millions of years to form—don’t they?
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Caves—Underground and Upside Down | Answers in Genesis
All our lives we’ve heard that caves formed slowly, over tens of thousands of years, as surface water seeps into the earth. But recent discoveries are turning old assumptions upside down and the real story may be much more dramatic.
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A Mammoth Cave of Wonders | Answers in Genesis
From daring hideouts to buried treasure coves, caves show up in history and literature with the promise of adventure, secrets, and riches.
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Caves—The Greatest Show Under Earth | Answers in Genesis
Every night the heavens display God’s glory, but to view another show, you must first plunge into complete darkness, grime, and other extremes.
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Rapid Cave Formation by Sulfuric Acid Dissolution | Answers in Genesis
Anti-creationist, Arthur Strahler, takes biblical creationists to task for not having enough time to dissolve limestone caves and deposit speleothems.
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The Florida Sinkhole Tragedy | Answers in Genesis
On Thursday, February 28, at about 11:00 PM (Eastern Time) a Florida man was in bed sleeping when a huge hole opened under his house, swallowing part of the inside of his house and him with it.
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Crystal Rate of Growth Debated | Answers in Genesis
The extreme clarity and uniformity of the beautiful crystals in Naica, Mexico, indicate that the conditions under which they formed remained quite stable.
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Cave Formations | Answers in Genesis
Two of the world’s most spectacular caves are Mammoth Caves in central Kentucky and Carlsbad Caverns in southeastern New Mexico. Find out how they formed.
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Mollie Kathleen's Marvellous Mysteries | Answers in Genesis
Our family arrived early at the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine, eager for the tour of our lives.
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Bottle Stalagmite | Answers in Genesis
The ‘bottle stalagmite’ became a public testimony to the fact that stalactites and stalagmites don’t take tens of thousands of years or more to form.
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Do Ancient Stalactites Really Exist? | Answers in Genesis
Is the earth really young? After all, he had just come back from touring the caves of Western Australia’s south-west, and had seen all those stalactites.
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Gemstones—From Eden to Eternity | Answers in Genesis
Inside the earth, a rainbow of gems teaches us about God’s judgment, beauty, and grace.
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3 More Grand Canyon Evidences that Confirm God’s Word | Answers in Genesis
Why the last 3 geological evidences in this BioLogos article DO confirm God’s Word.
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2 Grand Canyon Evidences that Confirm the Bible | Answers in Genesis
BioLogos says layers over entire continents and rapidly deposited sea animals are NOT evidence of a global flood. Here’s why they’re wrong.
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Responding to BioLogos’ Tactics on Their Opposition to Young-Earth Flood Geology | Answers in Genesis
This BioLogos article has been influential in confusing and/or convincing unsuspecting theologians, biblical and other scholars, and inquiring informed lay people.
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The Grand Canyon Was Formed Rapidly | Answers in Genesis
Research has confirmed convincingly that the Grand Canyon’s layers were deposited violently during the yearlong global flood cataclysm only about 4,350 years ago.
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Sand—It Gets Everywhere | Answers in Genesis
Sand can be a nuisance after a day at the beach. But a deep dig into our surroundings reveals that our world is built on sand.
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Crimson Cascade | Answers in Genesis
This crimson cascade offers a majestic reminder of God’s global flood of judgment—but also of the blood of Christ who died to one day redeem our fallen world.
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Secular Geologists Accidentally Supporting the Global Flood? | Answers in Genesis
A recent article highlighted several features of the Grand Canyon’s Tonto Group that sound rather like there was a global flood as described in Genesis!
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How Long Have Arches Been Around? | Answers in Genesis
The recent collapse of many arches is a problem for evolution.
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Raising the Rocky Mountains | Answers in Genesis
Creation geologists use God’s Word, which details the Creator’s eyewitness account of creation and the flood, thus providing a clearer account of the Rockies’ formation.
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In the Garden | Answers in Genesis
The grandeur of this rocky garden reveals the righteousness of the one true God who judged the world with a global flood, changing earth’s landscapes forever.
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God’s Provision for Pottery | Answers in Genesis
Unlike soil and dirt, which crumble when you pick them up, God created clay with plasticity, the ability to be molded. And when this clay is fired, it transforms chemically into ceramic—a durable substance that can’t be turned back into clay.
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Field Studies in the Columbia River Basalt, Northwest USA | Answers in Genesis
Taken together, the features of the Columbia River basalts suggest that they were mostly extruded and emplaced during the Late Abative Phase of the Recessive Stage of the Flood.
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Aren’t Millions of Years Required for Geological Processes? | Answers in Genesis
Millions of years are not required to explain the earth’s rocks, as Hutton, Lyell, Darwin, and so many others have assumed.
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Uniformity or Catastrophe? | Answers in Genesis
Most creation scientists agree that the continents were probably once together, for the most part, in a super-continent based on Genesis 1:9.
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Yellowstone Close to Eruption | Answers in Genesis
The process of magma
buildup, which evolutionary scientists thought would
take centuries, can happen in mere
decades or even years.
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Basic Geology Disproves Creationism? | Answers in Genesis
Noah’s Flood is the key to explaining most of the geological record and as such it washes away millions of years.
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A Classic Tillite Reclassified as a Submarine Debris Flow | Answers in Genesis
Tillites, assumed to be the lithified equivalents of glacial till (rubble), are often found in the strata of the Earth.
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Mica, Mica in the Sand, Tell Us Something Really Grand! | Answers in Genesis
Sometimes skeptical scientists just need
to listen to what the rocks are saying.
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Geology & Paleontology: 2019 Year in Review | Answers in Genesis
The biggest stories in 2019 in geology and paleontology: includes how diamonds can take weeks to form in a lab, fossilized insects in gemstones, mass extinctions, and more.
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Beauty Beneath the Desert | Answers in Genesis
Slot canyons, like this one in Arizona’s world-famous
Antelope Canyon, are hidden just below
the desert surface, waiting to delight our eyes.
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More Evidence Against So-Called Paleokarst | Answers in Genesis
A long-accepted mid-Carboniferous ‘paleokarst’ in the western United States fails several tests for subaerial exposure at the time of ‘karstification.’
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Antiquity of Landforms | Answers in Genesis
Non-creationists do not believe there is objective evidence for a young earth. However, landforms now provide that evidence.
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Fine Gems—Grown in Minutes? | Answers in Genesis
Rice University researchers discover some fine gems can be grown in minutes and hours, not hundreds of thousands of years according to standard, secular timescales.
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Mount St. Helens 40 Years Later | Answers in Genesis
The eruption of Mount St.Helens shows us how geological catastrophes affect the earth and how it relates to the global flood in Noah’s day.
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Early Earth May Have Been Completely Covered by Oceans | Answers in Genesis
According to a University of Colorado study, the early earth may have been covered by water. Confirmation of a global flood or something else?
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Sometimes a Rock Is Just a Rock | Answers in Genesis
Scientists are now suggesting
that what they once thought to be
the world’s oldest fossils may just
be deformed rocks.
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Feedback: Is the Bible Silent on Geological Events? | Answers in Genesis
Dr. Andrew Snelling, AiG–U.S., responds to a common misconception that the Bible is silent on geological events.
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Geology That Makes Sense | Answers in Genesis
Creation has been in the news a lot recently.
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Black Sea Flood Link to Noah Sinking Fast | Answers in Genesis
An international team of scientists have recently rejected the idea that the Black Sea ever flooded suddenly in the past.
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Days of Creation | Answers in Genesis
Did God really create everything in six literal, 24-hour days? A study of the Hebrew text and biblical teaching as a whole reveals that He did!
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Six Literal Days | Answers in Genesis
Did God create the whole universe, including the original plants, animals, and first two people (Adam and Eve) in six literal 24-hour days?
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The Days of Creation: A Semantic Approach | Answers in Genesis
By applying a semantic approach to Genesis 1 we can accurately understand the word ‘day' in the days of creation to mean 24 hour days.
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Could God Really Have Created Everything in Six Days? | Answers in Genesis
If God created the world over millions of years, there would have been death before the Fall—hardly the definition of a "very good" creation.
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Hebrew Scholars: 24-Hour Days in Creation | Answers in Genesis
The top Hebrew scholars all agree that the writer of Genesis 1 intended the word “day” to mean 24 hours. If they all agree . . . then why can’t we?
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Contradictions: Not Enough Hours in the Day | Answers in Genesis
Several old-earth creationists have argued that the events of Day Six could not have fit within a single day. Tim Chaffey, AiG–U.S., responds.
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Augustine on the Days of Creation | Answers in Genesis
Old-earthers claim Augustine as support for figurative interpretations of Genesis 1. But what did Augustine really say?
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Misinterpreting Genesis: What Does “Day” Really Mean? | Answers in Genesis
We seem to know what the word “day” means everywhere else in the Old Testament, but not in Genesis 1. Why is there a problem with Genesis 1?
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Days Without a Sun? | Answers in Genesis
In Genesis 1:3–5, we are greeted with light. According to most commentators, the light was either created or manifested by God himself. One of the most frequently asked questions we receive at Answers in Genesis is about this passage and specifically the question, “What was the light source on days one through three if not the sun?”
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Which Came First—The Chicken or the Egg? | Answers in Genesis
Some questions don’t ever seem to get resolved. What about the age-old question: "What came first, the chicken or the egg"?
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Dustup over Adam | Answers in Genesis
Did God make Adam from dust?
The answer is obvious, isn’t it?
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Creation: The Longest Week Ever? | Answers in Genesis
For more than 200 years, Christians have been trying to reinterpret
the six days of Creation in Genesis 1 to make them align with
millions of years.
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Why Is a Week Seven Days? | Answers in Genesis
A biblical overview for why our week is only seven days, how the secular world explains it, and the benefits we enjoy from God’s ordained work-rest weekly pattern
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Is the Seventh Day 24-Hours Long? | Answers in Genesis
There are many objections to the days in Genesis 1 being 24 hours. Many old-earth creationists believe their “silver bullet” argument concerns the seventh day. Does the fact that day seven lacks “evening and morning” mean it is not an ordinary, 24-hour day, and can we give an adequate account for its absence?
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Feedback: Why Wasn’t Day Two Declared “Good”? | Answers in Genesis
The account of what God created on day two of creation week is found in Genesis 1:6–8. Unlike the other five days of creation week, God does not look over what he has made and see that it was “good.” Some people have wondered why God doesn’t specifically say that this day was good.
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Did God Really Create Plants Before the Sun? | Answers in Genesis
God created plants on Day Three of Creation Week, the day before he created the sun. How could this be, and what does this imply about the age of the earth?
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Religion and the Question of Origins | Answers in Genesis
Is the evidence for evolution so overwhelming that teachers may be justified in running over the religious beliefs of many students and their parents?
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In The Space of Six Days? | Answers in Genesis
The words in the space of six days came from John Calvin’s comments on Genesis. But was Calvin unclear about the length of the days of creation?
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How the Apostle Peter Relates to the Age of the Earth Debate | Answers in Genesis
The Apostle Peter understood Genesis to refer to a supernatural creation and global Flood which he used to counter the arguments of the scoffers in his time.
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Whose Word Do You Tremble At? | Answers in Genesis
Is it really necessary for AiG to be so adamant about the six days?
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Explain a Young Earth in Five Easy Steps | Answers in Genesis
“Why make such a big deal about the age of the earth? It’s so divisive!”
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Four Ways to Destroy the Creation Account | Answers in Genesis
Many Christians reject the straightforward, historical reading of the Genesis creation account simply because they believe it cannot be verified by science.
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Feedback: Operational Science and Light Without a Source | Answers in Genesis
Dr. Danny Faulkner answers questions about the light created on Day One and celestial objects on Day Four. Does belief in God violate operational science?
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I Dare You to Publish This | Answers in Genesis
In this week’s feedback article Tim Chaffey, AiG–U.S. responds to someone who dared us to publish his comments about too many events allegedly happening on Day Six.
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Why I Believe in 24-Hour Days | Answers in Genesis
Learn why we should support a traditional, plain-language reading of Genesis 1 and 2.
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Creation at the Academy | Answers in Genesis
Interview with Academic Theologian Dr Douglas Kelly
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Did Jesus Say He Created in Six Literal Days? | Answers in Genesis
A very important question we must ask is, “What was Jesus’ view of the days of creation? Did He say that He created in six literal days?”
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Are (Biblical) Creationists “Cornered”? | Answers in Genesis
We agree when Dr. Moreland states that “we ought not allow science to dictate to us our exegesis of the Old Testament,” but then he proceeds to do exactly that.
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The Six Days of Creation and Evolutionary Theory: Compatible? | Answers in Genesis
What is at stake, if the idea of billions of years creation is true, is nothing less than the authority of Scripture and the character of God.
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Days of Revelation or Creation? | Answers in Genesis
This article is a discussion of a new theory concerning the 6 days of creation and how they could be where God revealed facts about his creation but did not necessarily create.
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Why Did God Take Six Days? | Answers in Genesis
When people accept at face value what Genesis is teaching and accept the days as ordinary days, they will have no problem understanding what the rest of Genesis is all about.
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God created animals, man, and woman—in that order? | Answers in Genesis
A common misconception made by skeptics of the Bible is to assume that Genesis 1 and 2 are separate creation accounts without looking carefully at the text.
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How Long Is a Day? | Answers in Genesis
Can’t “day” just mean a period of time? Darius and Karin Viet explain.
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Warring for Peace | Answers in Genesis
Should Christians be battling over the age of the earth and the length of the days of creation?
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Sizing the Day | Answers in Genesis
This volume is the most recent in a spate of publications presenting multiple views on Genesis and creation. This one focuses on what the Bible says about the length of the creation days.
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Jonah Was in the Fish . . . 3,000 Years? | Answers in Genesis
Why is it that we understand what “day” means in every other place in Scripture, except Genesis 1? Is this due to ambiguity in the text or outside influences?
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Is the Seventh Day an Eternal Day? | Answers in Genesis
Some people object to a literal Creation Week by claiming that the seventh day on which God rested was not an ordinary day.
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When Did Time Begin? | Answers in Genesis
Did time begin on Day Four when God created the sun, moon, and stars? After all, the Bible doesn’t give an exact date for creation. Tim Chaffey, AiG–U.S., addresses this misconception.
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Six Days of Creation—A Superstition? | Answers in Genesis
Not many people realize that the Vatican employs astronomers and even operates its own observatory.
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Death, Dating, and the Days of Creation | Answers in Genesis
Dr. Jason Lisle recently debated Dr. Eugenie Scott on TV and he also participated in a radio debate with well-known progressive creationist Dr. Hugh Ross.
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Creation Days and Orthodox Jewish Tradition | Answers in Genesis
After years of agonizing over the literal days of creation in Genesis, I decided to spend time researching this problem at the London School of Jewish Studies in Hendon, England.
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Our Rallying Cry | Answers in Genesis
Our Culture sees many in the church compromising Scripture with millions of years, the big bang, etc. The result: the authority of the Bible in the culture has been undermined.
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“Hocus Pocus” | Answers in Genesis
AiG received a number of letters and e-mails from people dismayed and shocked by Pat Robertson‘s recent comments on a couple of TV programs about those who believe in the six literal days of Creation.
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“Get off that 6/24 business!” | Answers in Genesis
Pat Robertson recently took a swipe at people who are dogmatic that the Bible teaches Creation in six 24-hour days.
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When Does “Day” Mean “Day”? | Answers in Genesis
Many people continue to question our all-knowing God when He says He created in six normal-length days and rested on the seventh.
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Professors: A Day Means a Day! | Answers in Genesis
Charles Darwin observed coral atolls in the south seas which were more than 1,000 metres (3,000 feet) thick. He believed that this proved that millions of years must have elapsed.
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Six 24-hour Days ... ? | Answers in Genesis
How could the first three days of creation be ordinary days, if the sun wasn’t created till the fourth day?
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Death Before Sin? | Answers in Genesis
Genesis 1 reveals that God’s original creation was “very good.” Death and suffering are the result of Adam’s sin—we can’t blame God for it.
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Did Adam Step on an Ant Before the Fall? | Answers in Genesis
The question to ask first is why the idea of death before sin is so important that the accidental death of an ant would be an objection.
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Animal Death Before the Fall? | Answers in Genesis
Did animals die before the fall? The short answer is “no,” but let’s unpack that answer. There are several reasons we believe animals did not die before the fall.
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What Is the Scriptural Understanding of Death? | Answers in Genesis
Some who believe in theistic evolution teach incorrectly that it was only spiritual death that came as a result of the Fall. We need to understand Genesis 2:17.
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Genesis 2:17—“You Shall Surely Die” | Answers in Genesis
Many old-earth creationists (OEC) try to get around young-earth creationist arguments about there being no death (animal or human) before Adam sinned.
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Death Is Not Good | Answers in Genesis
A vast number of conservative theologians accept animal death before Adam’s Fall.
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2.5 The Origin of Death (OB5) | Answers in Genesis
The tragic effect that evolution and its view of death has on evolutionists becomes quite clear. The danger of eternal death is eclipsed, and many people miss the offer of salvation.
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Spiritual Death | Answers in Genesis
While agreeing with most of what Kulikovsky says, I was surprised to find that he had difficulty accepting the concept of spiritual death since this is clearly stated in Scripture.
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Kangaroos, Dinosaurs and Eden | Answers in Genesis
I often ask Christian audiences — did Kangaroos once live in the Middle East? Usually I find that very few, if any, put their hands up in agreement.
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Six Days or Billions of Years... | Answers in Genesis
As a Christian, do you clearly understand why young-earth creationists believe that a billions-of-years-old earth is incompatible with the Bible? Most Christians do not.
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Fossils | Answers in Genesis
Is the fossil record millions of years old, or is it powerful evidence for the global Flood of Genesis? And where are the transitional fossils and missing links?
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How Are Fossils Formed? | Answers in Genesis
Do fossils really require millions of years to form? The evidence shouts no! A lot of water and a little bit of time rapidly laid down the fossil record.
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Ancient “Fossil Reefs”—Formed in the Flood? | Answers in Genesis
Exposed in various rock layers are large structures that look very much like ocean reefs preserved in stone.
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Experiment: Fast-Formed Fossils | Answers in Genesis
Do fossils require millions of years to form? Hardly! Even secular geologists now recognize that rocks form very quickly.
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Four: Amazingly Preserved Leaves | Answers in Genesis
When leaves die, they shrivel up and crumble. So why is the fossil record full of well-preserved, flat leaves?
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Petrified Animals Died Quickly | Answers in Genesis
A team examining a fossil deposit in the Canadian Rockies has determined that the fossil “bonanza” was buried by a rapid, muddy “miracle of preservation.”
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Well-Preserved Octopus | Answers in Genesis
If you needed an “exhibit A” of evidence for catastrophic fossil formation, this is it.
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The Race Against Decay: Forensic Decomposition vs. Fossilization | Answers in Genesis
Decomposition and fossilization are rapid processes that remind us all living things will die under the curse—and that eternal life is only found through Jesus Christ.
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Half a Billion Years, Five Mass Extinctions, and No Evolution? | Answers in Genesis
Very tiny fossils—preserved in 3D—were uncovered of a green algae species almost identical to a modern seaweed called Codium and “surprisingly complex.”
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Ken Ham Solves Great Paleontological Mystery | Answers in Genesis
Tucked away in the corner of a museum in Japan is a slab of limey shale. This rock features something incredible—259 fish, with scales, eyes, and fins—frozen as if in mid-swim. It appears these fish were preserved in the position they were in the instant they died. But how on earth is this possible?
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Fossils in Just 24 Hours? | Answers in Genesis
When you hear about fossils, it’s generally within the context of hundreds of thousands or millions of years. Indeed, a recent news article on lab-made fossils began with “fossils are certainly fascinating, but [they] do take rather a long time to form.” But what did the lab-made fossils demonstrate?
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Amazingly Preserved Leaves | Answers in Genesis
Beautifully preserved fossils are so common that we overlook how
unusual they are.
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How Fast? | Answers in Genesis
Can science help us decide how fast fossils form, and how fast those sedimentary rock layers pile up?
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Do Fossils Show Signs of Rapid Burial? | Answers in Genesis
Is uniformitarianism really a true understanding of the rock and fossil records?
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Fossil Mosquito Found Filled with Blood | Answers in Genesis
Not old enough for Jurassic Park, this mosquito likely filled up on North American bird blood long ago.
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Rotting Fish and Creationists | Answers in Genesis
How can rotting fish join the origins battle on the creationist side?
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Unusual Fossilized Creatures | Answers in Genesis
Once again, scientists have discovered the “remarkably well preserved” fossilized remains of creatures that, it would seem, shouldn’t have fossilized in the first place.
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Look for Fossils in Your Backyard | Answers in Genesis
Read practical tips of how you can look for fossils in your own area.
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Soft Tissue Fossilization | Answers in Genesis
Fossilization occurs rapidly when the conditions are right. The conditions necessary for lithification of soft tissue give clues to unlock the history of a fossil deposit.
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Lessons Learned from a Fossil | Answers in Genesis
For 24 years students in Bill Minnich’s music class memorized more than notes and scales; they learned about fossilization and paleontology.
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Exploding Fish | Answers in Genesis
Because so many beautiful specimens have been harvested from the Green River Formation, few realize that many of the fish remains are far from perfect.
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"Prehistoric" Embryos Caught Dividing | Answers in Genesis
Researchers discover an embryo fossilized while dividing.
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The Amazing Stone Bears of Yorkshire | Answers in Genesis
When Vet author James Herriot wrote about life in Yorkshire last centrury, he probably had no idea that this area of England held a fascinating key to unlocking one of the myths of evolution's long-ag
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Fossil Reptiles on the Russian Platform | Answers in Genesis
This fossil graveyard is consistent with the Biblical Flood and a contradiction to the slow-and-gradual uniformitarian doctrine.
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Make No Bones About It! | Answers in Genesis
While 90% of the letters/emails we receive at Answers in Genesis are positive, we sometimes get a negative comment or two.
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How Did Millions of Mammoth Fossils Form? | Answers in Genesis
Answering the question of whether there was enough time for a large mammoth population to form.
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Rapid Fossils | Answers in Genesis
This is a sketch of the fossilized skull of a reptilian predator (Hypopnous squaliceps) with remains of its prey still lodged in its mouth! This remarkable preservation was found in the Permian beds.
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Petrified Waterwheel | Answers in Genesis
Tourists who visit Cape Leeuwin in Western Australia are astonished at the sight of this waterwheel which has become entombed in solid rock in less than 65 years.
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Fossil Jellyfish Greeted with Derision! | Answers in Genesis
Countless millions of fossilized jellyfish and other ‘soft’ creatures are contained in an extensive layer of sandstone at Ediacara in South Australia.
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‘Instant’ Petrified Wood | Answers in Genesis
‘Instant petrified wood’—so ran the heading to the announcement in Popular Science, October 1992.
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Living Fossils Topic | Answers in Genesis
Living fossils, organisms previously known only through the fossil record and having no close living relatives, pose a grim threat to the evolutionary paradigm.
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Living Fossils | Answers in Genesis
What are living fossils, and what do they reveal about interpreting the fossil record?
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Very Tiny Clam the Newest “Living Fossil” | Answers in Genesis
The clam species a researcher recently discovered wasn’t really a new species. It had been observed and documented before . . . as a fossil.
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Living Fossils—Here, There, and Everywhere | Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists like to talk about change,
so how do they explain so many living creatures
that look like their fossilized ancestors?
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Has Evolution Ground to a Stop in Living Fossil Gars? | Answers in Genesis
A recent news item caught my eye, as it stated that “a biological mechanism can explain [gar’s] status as ‘living fossils.’”
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Is This Famous Fish a “Living Fossil”? Well, That Depends on Your Assumptions | Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists consider this famous six-foot fish a “living fossil”—a term steeped in assumptions and fanciful storytelling, not observational science.
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Tropical Huntsman | Answers in Genesis
Tropical Huntsman spider trapped in Baltic amber for millions of years?
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Sensational Australian Tree . . . Like “Finding a Live Dinosaur” | Answers in Genesis
Any time someone finds a “living fossil” this supports the creation model by showing that things either have not evolved, or the vast ages are not real—or both.
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What About Living Fossils? | Answers in Genesis
“Living fossils” are organisms that can be found both living in the world today and also found preserved in the rock record as fossils, with the living animals showing little if any difference from their fossil counterparts.
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Shell Survivor | Answers in Genesis
Creation biologists don’t find the existence of living fossils so mysterious.
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Living Fossils | Answers in Genesis
Far from being an oddity, living fossils are found throughout the fossil layers.
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Fossil Turtles Confound Evolutionists | Answers in Genesis
Australian scientists announced in February the discovery of dozens of fossilized sea turtles that they say have exciting implications for evolution.
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Living Fossils | Answers in Genesis
There are literally thousands of different types of animals and plants which are alive and essentially unchanged from the way they appear as fossils. The polistes wasp is one example.
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Living Proof | Answers in Genesis
A giant salamander has been discovered in rock layers that evolutionists date at 30 million years. Yet it is virtually identical to giant salamanders living today.
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An Eel Emerges as the Next "Living Fossil" | Answers in Genesis
Dubbed Protoanguilla palau—meaning “first eel”—this little eel is prompting a redrawing of his family tree. Discovered in western Pacific caves 35 meters deep, the eel seems like a patchwork from the eel time machine.
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Great Sea Depths Hiding Ancient Creature | Answers in Genesis
Great sea depths have been hiding an ancient creature. Is it Leviathan?
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Living Fossils: Detachable Chart | Answers in Genesis
Living fossils are found throughout the fossil layers.
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Living Fossil Found In Grape-Sized Cell | Answers in Genesis
A grape-sized cell inching along the ocean floor may be one of the world’s “oldest” living fossils.
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World's Oldest Flying Insect Fossil Found In Massachusetts | Answers in Genesis
The world’s oldest (allegedly) fossilized impression of a flying insect wasn’t found in a rock quarry in an exotic setting; it was found behind a strip mall in suburban Massachusetts.
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Living Fossil: Lobster | Answers in Genesis
For once, the evolutionists have found something that they believe is too old.
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A Tree of Today? | Answers in Genesis
A study published in this week’s issue of the science journal Nature describes two recent discoveries of the world’s oldest (allegedly) tree fossils.
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Rodent Resurrected? | Answers in Genesis
When an animal or plant has gone “extinct”, and then is found living today, unchanged from what is found in the fossil record, this shocking discovery is called a “living fossil”
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‘Dinosaur Tree’ Behind Bars | Answers in Genesis
The botanic gardens in Australia’s national capital, Canberra, has on show a tree which is presently so rare that it is grown in a special cage (pictured, left).
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Lily of the Sea | Answers in Genesis
The beautifully preserved fossil is of a crinoid, or sea-lily.
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Living Fossils: Acer Monspessulanum | Answers in Genesis
The fossil maple leaf (Acer monspessulanum), found in Tertiary rock in southern France, is supposedly millions of years old. Yet the same species of maple lives today around the Mediterranean and has been photographed in climatically favoured south-west Germany where it has a northern outlier.
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Living Fossils: Busycon Contrarium | Answers in Genesis
The fossil Busycon contrarium in the right picture comes from Pliocene rock (alleged evolutionary age of 5.3-1.6 million years ago) at Sarasota, Florida, in the United States. Yet a modern Busycon contrarium, also found in Florida, shows that absolutely no evolution has taken place.
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Living Fossils: Anthedons | Answers in Genesis
The fossil crinoid Anthedon (a feathery-looking marine invertebrate) was found in the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone of western Germany. It is supposedly around 150 million years old. Yet the modern-day living Anthedon is virtually identical—showing no evolution has taken place.
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Living Fossils: Pleurotomarias | Answers in Genesis
The fossil Pleurotomaria shell, shown in the right photo here, was found in England in Jurassic deposits (supposedly 135-205 million years old on the evolutionists' time-scale). Yet the modern-day version from Japan, shown in the photo on the left, is virtually identical.
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Living Fossils: Antrimpos and Penaeus | Answers in Genesis
It could hardly be more obvious that this shrimp is essentially the same as this fossil shrimp. Yet according to evolutionary theory, they are separated by an alleged 150 million years.
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Living Fossils: Ferns and Crabs | Answers in Genesis
There are literally hundreds of different types of animals and plants which are alive and well and which are essentially unchanged from the way they appear as fossils.
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Living Fossils: Flowers and Fish | Answers in Genesis
Most of the public are unaware that there are literally hundreds of different types of animals and plants which are alive and which are essentially unchanged from the way they appear as fossils.
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Rare Fossil Insect Discovery by Creationist Confirms ‘No Change’ | Answers in Genesis
In Caribbean amber (fossilized tree resin which may contain the bodies of insects), originally lent to the writer for identification of its enclosed insects, an unusual specimen caught his attention.
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'Living Fossil' in Australian Caves | Answers in Genesis
A rare blind crustacean has been found in Jenolan Caves in New South Wales, Australia.
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Fossil Record | Answers in Genesis
The fossil record, billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth, is dramatic evidence of the historicity of Noah’s Flood.
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Doesn’t the Order of Fossils in Rock Record Favor Long Ages? | Answers in Genesis
The fossil record is hardly “the record of life in the geologic past” that so many scientists incorrectly espouse, assuming a long prehistory for the earth and life on it.
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Cincinnati—Built on a Fossil Graveyard | Answers in Genesis
The Creation Museum was built on top of one of the most well-stocked and uniquely well-preserved “fossil graveyards” on the planet.
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Order in the Fossil Record | Answers in Genesis
Rock layers can be explained within the biblical framework of earth history.
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Beneath the Cross | Answers in Genesis
Have you ever stopped to think about how much evidence of death surrounded Jesus?
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The World’s a Graveyard | Answers in Genesis
If the Genesis Flood, as described in Genesis 7 and 8 really occurred, what evidence would we expect to find?
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High & Dry Sea Creatures | Answers in Genesis
Fossils of sea creatures are found in rock layers high above sea level. This is just one more evidence of the truth of God’s Word.
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Where Are All the Human Fossils? | Answers in Genesis
We can be satisfied that there are reasonable explanations, consistent with Scripture, for the seeming lack of human fossils in Flood rocks.
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Mystery of the First Animals | Answers in Genesis
What is the first animal at the bottom of the fossil record? Most
people think it’s in the Cambrian, among the trilobites. Not so.
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Where Are All the Pre-flood Human Fossils? | Answers in Genesis
If there really was a global flood as described in Genesis, what would we expect to see today? Billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth. And that is exactly what we do see. But where are all the fossils of pre-flood humans?
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Mystery of Flowering Plants Solved? | Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists take another stab at answering what Charles Darwin called an “abominable mystery”: the abrupt appearance and ubiquity of flowering plants in the fossil record and on earth.
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The Fossil Record | Answers in Genesis
Extensive fossil graveyards and coal deposits are more consistent with a global catastrophe than with slow and steady processes over millions of years.
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Disharmonious Fossils | Answers in Genesis
Though evolutionists point to the fossil record, fossils are often found where they are not expected which frequently cause revisions to their timelines.
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Where Are All the Bunny Fossils? | Answers in Genesis
If most of the fossil record was laid down all at once by the global Flood, then why are rabbits found only in “recent” Tertiary and Quaternary sediments?
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Completeness of the Fossil Record | Answers in Genesis
Creationists predict that we have a nearly complete record of all species that ever lived.
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Were Fossils Created During Creation Week? | Answers in Genesis
Feedback: Were fossils created ex nihilo during Creation Week?
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What Do the Fossils Say? | Answers in Genesis
What does the fossil evidence say, and does it really support the evolutionary view of origins—or is it perhaps more consistent with Creation?
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The Hopeful Monsters of Evolution | Answers in Genesis
Since the time of Darwin, evolutionists have looked to the fossil record for historical evidence of evolution.
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Should Fragile Shells Be Common in the Fossil Record? | Answers in Genesis
Experiments have shown that many shells disappear completely in a short period of time.
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The Origin of Invertebrates | Answers in Genesis
The appearance of multicellular animals occurs in an event known as the Cambrian explosion.
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God of the Gaps | Answers in Genesis
If minor variations in species have produced all the differences we see today, where's the evidence in the fossil record?
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Not-So-Ancient Algae | Answers in Genesis
Tiny fossils of algae found at the edge of Loch Torridon in Scotland have been hailed as evidence that life evolved in freshwater and on land a billion years ago.
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How Well do Paleontologists Know Fossil Distributions? | Answers in Genesis
It would be great if we could know the actual three-dimensional distribution of the fossils in the earth. This would go a long way towards understanding their deposition during the Flood.
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Fossils—Do They Get More Complex? | Answers in Genesis
One thing that most people think they 'know' about evolution is that organisms become more complex as they evolve.
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The Evolution of the Permian Extinction? | Answers in Genesis
Geologists claim their work with the fossil Dicynodon shows that the supposed terrestrial mass extinction happened before the marine extinction.
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Precambrian Puzzle | Answers in Genesis
Millions of years of supposed evolution without a trace in the fossil record—a puzzle of Precambrian proportions!
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The Most Horrific Graveyard in the World | Answers in Genesis
It’s a record of death, of disease, of violence—the most horrific graveyard in the world.
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Fossil Record Against Darwinian Evolution | Answers in Genesis
The fossil record doesn’t agree with Darwinian evolution: are evolutionists finally catching up to this long-time creationist claim?
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“Revolutionary Rethink”: Did the Permian Extinction Really Happen? | Answers in Genesis
So evolution is being rewritten. . . again! Yes, this seems to happen every week with some aspect of evolution or big bang cosmology.
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Will the Puzzle of the Cambrian Explosion Finally Be Solved? | Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists claim fossil found in the Ediacaran layer to be ancestor to Cambrian creatures—while ignoring the more credible and biblical explanation.
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Microraptor Discovered with Lizard in Its Belly | Answers in Genesis
Recently, scientists announced the discovery of a new species of lizard inside the stomach of a microraptor, what they call a type of supposedly “gliding dinosaur.” The researchers believe these fossils were buried during a series of volcanic explosions some 130 million years ago. But there’s a better explanation!
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Fossil Bird Uncovered with Unlaid Egg Inside | Answers in Genesis
After examining a fossil left in a box in storage for ten years, scientists made a surprising discovery—this fossilized bird was preserved with her unlaid egg still inside her. There was also evidence of medullary bone, “a calcium-bearing tissue that aids in eggshell formation.”
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Study: Ancient Tree with “Most Complicated” Growth Mechanism Ever | Answers in Genesis
Why are the oldest trees, in an evolutionary timeframe, the most complicated and unlike anything surviving today?
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Birds Buried with Dinos at K-T Boundary | Answers in Genesis
Assorted archaic birds buried with dinosaurs up to the K-T boundary.
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Doubt on Complex Species Evolving Slowly | Answers in Genesis
New varieties of ancient fossils in the Cambrian rocks cast more doubt on the evolutionary model of complex species evolving slowly over time.
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Evolutionary Big Bang: Information Explosions | Answers in Genesis
Scientists have been forced to propose an evolutionary “big bang” to explain an evolutionary conundrum Charles Darwin referred to as an “abominable mystery.”
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Sophisticated Sea Scorpions | Answers in Genesis
Who were the first tool users: Humans? Apes? Crows? No, say evolutionists; it may have been “scorpion-like sea beasts” (and no, they’re not kidding)!
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New Set of Oldest Footprints Found In Nevada | Answers in Genesis
They may not be much to look at, but the supposed oldest “footprints” are trampling over previous estimates of the age of animals.
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Tibetan Fossils Revise History of Elevation and Climate | Answers in Genesis
High in the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau, 15,000 feet (4500m) above sea level, scientists found surprising evidence of “warmer, wetter climates.”
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The Karoo Vertebrate Non-problem: 800 Billion Fossils or Not | Answers in Genesis
Although of questionable validity, the 800-billion figure in no way vitiates creationist discussions about the richness of the Karoo vertebrate fauna.
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Early Evolutionary Ecosystems Considered Complex | Answers in Genesis
One of the most stunning reminders of the distance between evolutionary ideas and actual fact is the rapid appearance, in the fossil record, of advanced forms of life across the biotic kingdoms.
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The Role of Interpretation in Fish Phylogeny (Part 2) | Answers in Genesis
In a “natural scheme” all facets of an animal’s existence are taken into account-internal and external structure, behavior, etc., before it is classified.
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Fish—Their Origin and History (Part 1) | Answers in Genesis
This series of articles will examine the evidence for the reconstruction of the history of the fishes and look at the conclusions which can be drawn from such evidence.
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Types of Fossils | Answers in Genesis
The fossil record shows more biodiversity than our current ecosystems. This incredible diversity clearly demonstrates the handiwork of the Creator!
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The La Brea Tar Pits—Welcome to Los Angeles | Answers in Genesis
Anyone who doubts there was once a “lost world” during the ice age simply needs to visit the La Brea Tar Pits in downtown LA.
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Fossil Flies with Human-Like Eyes? | Answers in Genesis
Convergent evolution—it’s the term used to describe similar features that have supposedly arisen in organisms separated by vast evolutionary distances due to environments or stressors. And the newest example of so-called “convergent evolution” is the eyes of crane flies and humans, as revealed by the fossil record.
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Five Fossil Mysteries . . . | Answers in Genesis
How skilled are you at properly handling the Word of truth (2 Timothy 2:15)? Would you know how to answer these questions?
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Secrets of Messel Pit, Fossil Graveyard | Answers in Genesis
The Messel Pit preserves animals suddenly and catastrophically buried in the wake of the global Flood.
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Petrified Forests in Yellowstone | Answers in Genesis
The petrified forests in Yellowstone were revealed when the edge of a cliff eroded, leaving many layers of stone trees visible.
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Summary: Fossil Kinds | Answers in Genesis
When it comes to fossils, creation has passed the scientific test with flying colors.
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What Kinds? | Answers in Genesis
According to evolution, the boundaries between kinds should blur as we look further and further back into their fossil history.
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Fossil Plants | Answers in Genesis
Did you ever wonder what kind of plants the dinosaurs tromped around on? The answer may surprise you.
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Bat Fossil Disproves Long-Standing Evolutionary Question | Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists’ question of which came first, bat echolocation (like sonar) or bat flight, has finally been answered—we just know that’s a question that’s been on your mind for a while!
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Trilobites Fossilized “While Playing ‘Follow the Leader’” | Answers in Genesis
Scientists studying fossil deposits in Morocco recently announced a stunning new find—a series of trilobites (believed to be extinct sea creatures), fossilized in a single-file line. That’s the observational evidence. That’s the observational evidence. But how to understand these fossils is a matter of interpretation.
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Does This Evolutionary Claim Have Any Legs? | Answers in Genesis
A recent AP article on a new fossil find claims that "snakes evolved on land rather than in the sea.”
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Surprise: “Oldest” Fossil Lily Looks Just Like a Lily | Answers in Genesis
SEO Description: Creationists were shocked to read a news article about the evolution of lilies—astonishingly, a fossilized lily, the supposed oldest ever discovered, looked just like . . a lily. The evolution is incredible! So that was very tongue-in-cheek, of course—we weren’t surprised to see that lilies have always been . . well . . lilies!
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No Brain Drain | Answers in Genesis
Researchers have discovered a fossilized fish brain in Kansas.
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“In-Place” Fossils by Chance | Answers in Genesis
Considering the fact that most fossils are not “in-place,” how often do those that appear to be “in-place” come up that way by chance?
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Fossilized Plumage Adds to the Creation/Evolution Controversy | Answers in Genesis
What could the plumage of extinct birds have to do with the creation/evolution controversy?
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Teeth When There Should Be None | Answers in Genesis
A collection of nine fossilized teeth found in Ethiopia is overturning previous evolutionary thought, reports the BBC.
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Fossil Facade | Answers in Genesis
Recently, there have been reports of two fossils that are not all they appear to be!
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Fossil Jellyfish in Australia | Answers in Genesis
How did this jellyfish get fossilized in a sandstone?
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Stromatolites—Rare Reminders of a Lost World | Answers in Genesis
In a few rare spots, geologists find fossils of strange
eight-foot-tall “mushrooms.” What do they tell us about
the mysterious world they came from?
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Dating Dilemma: Fossil Wood in “Ancient” Sandstone | Answers in Genesis
Sydney has its beautiful harbour and famous bridge, its Opera House and golden beaches, but it also has some unique and characteristic rock formations.
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Transitional Fossils | Answers in Genesis
Evolution predicts a fossil record bursting with transitional fossils. Curiously, there are only a handful of highly-disputed fossils that are claimed as such.
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I Must Go Down to the Seas Again | Answers in Genesis
Cartorhynchus lenticarpus, whose discovery was hailed last November, is being hailed as an evolutionary link, but this characterization is premature.
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Feet of Imagination | Answers in Genesis
“Little Foot” is an australopithecine (southern ape), the most complete specimen yet discovered, and some say the oldest.
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If Fish Could Walk . . . | Answers in Genesis
Tiktaalik has been touted as evidence of how a limbless fish could turn into an amphibian.
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Another Whale of a Tale: Creationists Without a “Whimper”? | Answers in Genesis
The alleged evolutionary history of whales continues to be a hotly debated topic in the current creation/evolution controversy, despite what some evolutionists are saying.
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Fossils vs. Clocks: Both Camps Have Flawed Foundation | Answers in Genesis
A study packed with anatomical data and a significant bit of whimsy attempts to explain when the ancestor of most mammals (the placental ones) evolved.
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Fossil Finds Cause Little Change in Evolutionary History | Answers in Genesis
A new, overarching study of fossil discoveries reveals that most fossil finds cause little change in scientists’ view of evolutionary history. Why is that newsworthy for creationists?
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Is Fossil Missing Link Between Man and Monkeys? | Answers in Genesis
Is a fossil found in Saudi Arabia the latest “missing link” between man and monkeys? Or is it only the latest misunderstood ape-like creature?
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Tiktaalik—Walking Off the Stage | Answers in Genesis
Fossilized footprints are causing evolutionists to rethink their beliefs about the fish Tiktaalik.
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Digging up Dirt on Ida? | Answers in Genesis
Did AiG nefariously trade on the authority of “real” scientists with our Ida coverage and imply that those scientists agreed with us on more than just the fossil?
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Did Fingers and Toes Originate From Fins? | Answers in Genesis
Evolutionary scientists have discovered the origin of fingers and toes: fishlike creatures that swam the seas hundreds of millions of years ago. So what exactly was the science behind the discovery, which was reported in Nature?
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The Origin of Vertebrates | Answers in Genesis
The evolution of organisms with complex internal skeletons is supposed to have occurred around 500 million years ago.
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Glee Club | Answers in Genesis
A chorus of secular media outlets were gloating a few weeks ago in the discovery of a supposed “missing link” between fish and land-dwelling creatures.
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Fossil Record of Tetrapods: Evidence of a Evolutionary Transition | Answers in Genesis
According to evolutionary theory, the origin of tetrapods from a fish-like ancestor was one of the major events in the history of life on earth.
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Mammal-like Reptiles: Major Trait Reversals and Discontinuities | Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists repeatedly claim that their assembled chain of mammal-like reptiles shows a step-by-step morphological progression to mammals.
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Those Fossils Are a Problem | Answers in Genesis
Dr David Pilbeam came to the attention of the scientific community as being an objective scientist when he wrote an article for Human Nature magazine, entitled, ‘Rearranging Our Family Tree’.
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Grounds for Reevaluation | Answers in Genesis
The fossil of a creature resembling a groundhog that lived during the time of dinosaurs has become an anomaly for evolutionists.
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Dinosaur National Monument in Utah | Answers in Genesis
Dinosaur National Monument houses one of the largest on-location dinosaur fossil displays in the entire world.
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Jigsaw Puzzle Challenge | Answers in Genesis
Reassembling half-billion-year-old fossils from bone fragments: a task so complicated that only computers can handle it?
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New Hornless “Arctic Rhino” Fossil Discovered | Answers in Genesis
In the frigid Canadian Arctic Circle, researchers have found a nearly complete fossil of a new rhinoceros species, Epiatheracerium itjilik.
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Fossil Droppings Reveal “Oldest” Evidence of Butterflies | Answers in Genesis
Which came first—the butterfly or the flower? Evolutionary ideas claim the butterfly existed long before flowering plants, but does this make the best sense of the evidence?
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Creationists Don’t Mind the Gap | Answers in Genesis
When we start with the history in Genesis, Christians can explain fossils without fear.
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The Supposed “Dinosaur Extinction” Gave Us . . . Grapes? | Answers in Genesis
This headline certainly made me look twice, “If dinosaurs hadn’t gone extinct, we may not have delicious grapes.”
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“Incredibly Rare” Fossil Find Reminds Us of the Global Flood | Answers in Genesis
Researchers found a fossilized brittle star “frozen in time” during the brief period between splitting and full regrowth of its missing body half.
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Chinese Dragons Found! | Answers in Genesis
The Bible explains the violent, aquatic burial of several fossils.
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Parts of the World | Answers in Genesis
Paleontologists have dusted off 45 new dinosaur species every year since 2003, and many of these discoveries unearthed dinosaurs with especially unique features.
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Duck-billed Dinosaur Skin Preserved in Alberta, Canada | Answers in Genesis
An incredible find in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada, shows the creature had to be buried very quickly, even before the skin could decay!
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Were Plesiosaurs Both Marine and Freshwater Animals? | Answers in Genesis
How creationists can interpret unique plesiosaur fossil evidence in a flood context
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Does an Armless Fossil Shed Light on How Animals Like Snakes Lost Their Limbs? | Answers in Genesis
A pair of fossils of Nagini mazonense, a small snake-like animal that supposedly lived about 308 million years ago, was discovered in Illinois.
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Does Soft Tissue in Fossils Confirm a Young Earth? | Answers in Genesis
Ask the average layperson how he or she knows that the earth is millions or billions of years old, and that person will probably mention the dinosaurs.
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Vampire Squid Can't Escape This Coffin | Answers in Genesis
Pair of fossilized squid preserved in a catastrophic event—a snapshot of the post-fall world and the global flood
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Santana Fossils | Answers in Genesis
The fine details preserved in fossils mystify evolutionists
but not paleontologists who believe in the Genesis flood.
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Fossil Fish Feces—a Reminder of the Flood | Answers in Genesis
Mass of fossilized fish feces (coprolites) did not decay and point to a global flood and the truth of God’s Word.
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Fossil Footprints—Found Millions of Years Before the Creatures Who Made Them? | Answers in Genesis
Evolutionsts struggle to explain how fossilized footprints are older (by millions of years) than the corresponding bones that made them.
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Squid Was Fossilized Catching Its Dinner | Answers in Genesis
A fossilized belemnoid and fish are interpreted one way by old earth scientists and another way through biblical creation. Which way is correct?
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Dinosaur Tissue | Answers in Genesis
Despite a large body of evidence for the authenticity of the dinosaur tissue, there remains a pattern of denial within the evolutionist community.
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Fossil Expert Says ... Think Weird! | Answers in Genesis
Can 'thinking weird' help creationists? Dr Kurt Wise believes so, and he encourages his students to break new ground in their thinking by doing just that.
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Monkey Teeth: Proof of God’s Post-Flood Provisions | Answers in Genesis
Animals can show up in the oddest places and make evolutionists scratch their heads as is the case with the newly discovered monkey fossils.
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Preserved Cretaceous Collagen and Dinosaur Blood | Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists have come to largely accept the fact that soft tissues can be preserved in fossils for an extraordinarily long time. But millions of years . . . ?
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Prehistoric Ink | Answers in Genesis
Scientists cannot only write about amazing fossil discoveries; now, they can write with one!
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The Fossil Evidence—Introduction | Answers in Genesis
Can changes from molecules-to-man (macroevolution) be explained by (extrapolated from) the process of mutation-selection (microevolution)?
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An Example of Circular Reasoning | Answers in Genesis
The fossil record is more like a record of the effects of sin when the Flood demolished the vast majority of life on earth, creating massive fossil graveyards.
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Buried Birth | Answers in Genesis
There is an exquisitely preserved fossil of an extinct marine reptile called an ichthyosaur. The mother ichthyosaur is shown having almost completed giving birth to a live infant.
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More Microfossils | Answers in Genesis
Algae to bones . . . what’s the difference?
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Classifying the Blue Whale by Jaw Type | Answers in Genesis
Another big mouth beast becomes an honorary member of the baleen club.
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Dead Whales: Telling Tales? | Answers in Genesis
“We knew it was a great find,” said paleontologist Leonard Brand about the fossil whales he saw in Peru in 1999, 350 km (200 miles) south of Lima, the capital.
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Embryos or Spores? | Answers in Genesis
Barking up the wrong multicellular tree
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Lizard Found Trapped in Amber | Answers in Genesis
We’ve all seen photographs of insects, arachnids, and other small creatures trapped in amber. But a lizard?
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Fascinating Fossils: Glimpse the Creation Museum’s Collection | Answers in Genesis
Fossils act as a record preserved to teach us about the earth’s past, to confirm Scripture, and to glorify God. They can be found everywhere from the bottom of canyons to mountain peaks and maybe even in your back yard.
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Ancient Tropical “Transitional” Forests Found Fossilized in the A | Answers in Genesis
Thus this fossil-bearing sedimentary rock sequence on Spitsbergen is better understood from the biblical perspective of the eyewitness account in Genesis.
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Common Ancestor Hidden in Burgess Shale | Answers in Genesis
Burgess Shale said to shelter “the most primitive known vertebrate and therefore the ancestor of all descendant vertebrates, including humans.”
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Which Version of History Do Fossils Reflect? | Answers in Genesis
Fossil diversity “accurately reflects history”—but which version of history?
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Oldest Found Remains of Animals | Answers in Genesis
Last week it was the oldest remains of the earth. This week, it’s the oldest remains of animals.
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Uniformitarian Paleo-Environmental Dilemma at Clarkia, Idaho | Answers in Genesis
A farmer digging a snowmobile course accidentally unearthed one of the most remarkably-preserved plant fossil localities in the world.
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Fish Preservation, Fish Coprolites and the Green River Formation | Answers in Genesis
Uniformitarian models fail to explain the remarkably well-preserved fish fossils in the Green River Formation, Wyoming, USA.
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Biological Remnants in Fossils are Common! | Answers in Genesis
There are 85 reports of organic remains in fossils, some supposedly half a billion years old. A global flood makes more sense of the data than the mainstream timeline.
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Can Brains Be Fossilized? Bug-Like Brains Say, “Yes!” | Answers in Genesis
Soft tissue discovered in fossilized bugs negates the idea of millions of years.
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What Rotting Fish and Worms Tell Us About Fossilization | Answers in Genesis
A recent news item carried the story of a team of scientists at the University of Leicester in England who are recording the results of a really smelly study that involves watching fish and worms rot. This team of paleontologists are “rethinking the way fossils form” with their experiments and observations.
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The Fossils Say What? | Answers in Genesis
Some of the most devastating attacks on evolution by creationists have been associated with the fossil record.
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When Did the Fossils ‘Die’? | Answers in Genesis
We can’t prove, from a strictly scientific perspective, the Flood of Noah. But the nature of the fossil records is just what we would expect to see from the record of the Bible.
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Fossil Fuss | Answers in Genesis
How could “the greatest
promoter of creationism in Alberta,”
Edgar Nernberg, be the discoverer of
some of the most significant fish fossils
in recent history?
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18-Million-Year-Old Muscle | Answers in Genesis
Fossilized soft tissue has been found in a salamander fossil said to be 18 million years old.
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Is the Bible True? | Answers in Genesis
The Bible claims to be written by God—through human authors—but can we trust it as error-free and authoritative on everything it touches?
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Truth + Fable = Lies | Answers in Genesis
God claims to be the source of truth. The idea of absolute truth and morality is offensive to many people today, but we must be proclaimers of truth!
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How Do We Know that the Bible Is True? | Answers in Genesis
A number of Christians have tried to answer this question. Unfortunately, not all of those answers have been as cogent as we might hope. Some answers make very little sense at all.
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Who Wrote the Bible? | Answers in Genesis
Isn’t the Bible just an old, man-made document?
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Who Wrote Genesis? | Answers in Genesis
Strong evidence suggests that Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible, but not everyone agrees.
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5. Scientific Accuracy | Answers in Genesis
Every claim the Bible makes about science is not only true but crucial for filling in the blanks about the origin of the universe.
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Can We Prove the Bible Is True? | Answers in Genesis
Jesus Christ and His followers were fearless when it came to proclaiming God’s Word. What gave them such boldness and self-assuredness?
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Why Should We Believe in the Inerrancy of Scripture? | Answers in Genesis
Many people deny that Scripture teaches its own inerrancy, but Brian Edwards shows that, based on Scripture, Christians should absolutely hold to biblical inerrancy.
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“And God Said” | Answers in Genesis
Ever since the serpent said to Eve, “Indeed, has God said?” the Word of God has been questioned and attacked.
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Is the New Testament Reliable? | Answers in Genesis
Can we trust the New Testament as a reliable record of what actually happened, and do we possess what was actually written in the first century?
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5 Reasons to Trust God‘s Word | Answers in Genesis
How do we know the Bible is true? Consider these five reasons to trust God’s Word from the very first verse.
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Can We Trust the Bible Is True? | Answers in Genesis
From archaeology to astronomy, evidence from many fields points to the veracity of God’s Word.
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The Bible—Is It True or Is It Truth? (And Does It Matter?) | Answers in Genesis
A recent article pokes fun at those who read the Bible “literally,” specifically calling out the flood account as “pretty farfetched.”
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Should the Bible Be Interpreted Figuratively? | Answers in Genesis
Responding to a listicle claiming it is wrong to interpret the Bible literally.
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Did Peter Write 2 Peter? | Answers in Genesis
Arguing for the authenticity of the most-contested New Testament book
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How Old-Earth Inerrantists Are Unintentionally Undermining Inerrancy | Answers in Genesis
How theological scholars, who affirm the truthfulness of the Bible, actually sabotage its authority through their science-over-Scripture hermeneutic.
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What Are the Dangers of Quote Mining? | Answers in Genesis
Quote mining (or proof-texting) leaves out crucial details, misrepresenting the quote and hurting your Christian witness.
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Bible Wins Debate Carbon-Dated Camel Bones | Answers in Genesis
“There is a book . . .” Ken Ham reminded Nye at their 2014 debate, and the Bible’s history is history we can trust.
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Book of Job: Fact or Fiction | Answers in Genesis
Exploring the biblical and ancient Near Eastern historical evidence shows how the book of Job records actual events.
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Embracing Christ’s View of Scripture | Answers in Genesis
Most Christians at least give lip-service to following Christ. But what about His view of the Old Testament?
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10 Theses We Cannot Support | Answers in Genesis
Todd Wilson proposes ten points of what he calls “Mere Creation.” These are points that he claims most evangelical Christians, “at most times, have believed and should believe about creation.” We will consider several of his points.
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One Indivisible Word | Answers in Genesis
A seismic shift rocked Christianity in the eighteenth century. The idea grew that the Bible speaks authoritatively about morality and religion, but not history and science. Is that viable, based on Scripture?
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Fighting for Truth | Answers in Genesis
Who would have thought that people claiming to be Christians—even pastors—would attack the very notion of truth? But they are. But they are. Emerging church members claim to believe in the God of the Bible, yet still they say they are comfortably uncertain about what is true.
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Inerrancy and the Test of Truth | Answers in Genesis
The doctrine of the inerrancy of Scripture is one of Christianity’s most important doctrines to be defended. Let’s define the foundational concept of truth, review the case for the truthfulness (inerrancy) of Scripture, and then discuss how the Bible passes the “test of truth” even down to the details of its claims.
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Correcting a Pastor Who Denies Biblical Inerrancy | Answers in Genesis
A guest column by a pastor that took biblical creationists to task for supposedly being antiscience, appeared recently in the Holland Sentinel.
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Does Scripture Contain Error Because It Was Written by Humans? | Answers in Genesis
The question that needs to be asked is whether the Bible contains error because it was written by human authors.
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3 Evidences That Confirm the Bible Is Not Made Up | Answers in Genesis
How do you know the Bible isn’t just made up? Let’s look at three aspects of the Bible taken together to explain how we know it wasn’t simply made up.
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Embarrassed by the Bible | Answers in Genesis
When people ask why we believe what we do, many are hesitant to quote the Bible.
After all, few people believe the Bible, and many parts are hard to explain.
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Why Won’t They Listen? | Answers in Genesis
Because of technology, students have a great respect for what is called science. But to them the Bible is just an outdated religious book.
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Not What You’d Expect | Answers in Genesis
On the surface they appear to be very similar. As we studied the research findings further, we soon found we were dealing with two different types of individuals who were no longer attending church.
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“[B]latantly devoid of proven scientific evidence” | Answers in Genesis
If we cannot trust all of God’s Word, then how do we figure out what parts we can trust?
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Isn’t the Bible Full of Errors? | Answers in Genesis
The claim that the Bible has errors is frequently just an excuse for not believing. Few who make the claim have read the Bible and actually analyzed any alleged contradictions.
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4. Fulfilled Prophecy | Answers in Genesis
Among the many amazing evidences that confirm the Bible’s divine origin, surely the wealth of fulfilled prophecies is near the top.
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Is the Bible Authoritative and Inerrant? | Answers in Genesis
Since the Bible has been copied and translated so many times, can we really trust that we have the words of the authors? Tim Chaffey, AiG–U.S., responds.
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Is the Old Testament Reliable? | Answers in Genesis
Must we have blind, unreasonable faith to believe the Bible to be true? Or are there sound reasons that the Bible, and specifically the Old Testament, can be accepted as reliable in every part?
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Can You Prove the Bible is True? | Answers in Genesis
If you actively share your faith, you’ll be asked, “How do you know the Bible is true?”
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Seven Compelling Evidences Confirm the Bible Is True | Answers in Genesis
With all the knowledge and resources readily available today, God’s children have no excuse for not being prepared to “Give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you.”
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7. Life-Changing Power | Answers in Genesis
Even if you don’t yet know any other compelling evidences that the Bible is true, you should know the experience of your own life.
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Review of the Lecture “Evolution & Creation: Conflicting or Compa | Answers in Genesis
Drs. Elizabeth Mitchell and Terry Mortenson discuss a recent local presentation that they attended.
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Were New Testament Books Forged? | Answers in Genesis
This review will provide a cursory review of Forged, critique Ehrman’s methodology, and expose his many exaggerated conclusions.
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The Rise and Fall of Inerrancy in the American Fundamentalism | Answers in Genesis
This article will survey the history of Christian fundamentalism in America along with its strengths and weaknesses, victories and defeats, and the significance of the doctrine of biblical inerrancy
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Ready to Give an Answer | Answers in Genesis
Truth is at the heart of what has become warfare in the marketplace of worldviews. Which ideas will get your attention and gain prominence in your mind?
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Dealing with Skeptics | Answers in Genesis
They need to be shown that what we see in this world around us only makes sense in the light of God’s Word.
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Not Just a Container of Truth | Answers in Genesis
“The Bible contains truth,” we often hear. But what do such words really mean? Behind them is a flawed view of biblical authority, with deadly consequences.
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AiG Scientists Appearing in Is Genesis History? Documentary | Answers in Genesis
Is Genesis History? features interviews with scholars and scientists on the evidences for Creation and the Flood—including two AiG scientists.
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How Do I Know the Bible Is True? | Answers in Genesis
When children start to ask tough questions about the Bible, even when they are very young, what should you do?
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Online Apologetics Toolkit | Answers in Genesis
“How do you know the Bible is true?” Do you know your Bible well enough to give a satisfying response?
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Jesus Believed Every Event of the Old Testament | Answers in Genesis
The debate about the Bible’s accuracy is not a secondary, theoretical concern. The integrity of Jesus Christ Himself is at stake. He accepted the Old Testament’s historical accounts as real.
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No Easy Answers | Answers in Genesis
God’s Word—even in the hands of a child—is sufficient to penetrate even the thorniest thicket.
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Answers Magazine Preview: Vol. 6 No. 2 | Answers in Genesis
If you actively share your faith, it won’t take long before you’re asked, “How do you know the Bible is true?”
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Why We Proclaim the Bible as the Truth | Answers in Genesis
Why should Christians witness to others? What evidence is there that the Bible is the true Word of God?
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A Low View of Scripture | Answers in Genesis
One of the major problems in the church today is that Christian leaders (and Christians in general) have been conditioned to treat God’s Holy Word as a fallible human work.
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A Worrisome Trend | Answers in Genesis
There’s no doubt that our once-Christianized Western nations are not only becoming more secularized, but that an anti-Christian element is growing with increasing fervor.
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Generational Gaps | Answers in Genesis
A recent Barna survey shows that younger Americans are less likely to consider the Bible accurate.
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Generations' Changing Views on the Bible | Answers in Genesis
Results compiled from Barna Group surveys reveal an unsurprising result: younger generations are less likely to consider the Bible sacred or accurate.
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“Here I Stand . . .” | Answers in Genesis
My favorite recent film was Luther, a professionally dramatized account of the life of Martin Luther, the great reformer; and one of my favorite Bible teachers is Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones.
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How can we know the Bible is reliable? | Answers in Genesis
Does belief depend upon proof? Or is “proof” dependent upon belief?
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Looking Into the Vatican's Views On Science | Answers in Genesis
In an eye-opening article concerning the Vatican’s views on science, a reporter takes a look into the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Sadly, the fruits of an old-age mentality are on display.
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All to the Glory of God | Answers in Genesis
Even though a major AiG emphasis is the evolution/creation issue, the real goal is to see the confidence of believers grow in the accuracy and truthfulness of all of the Bible.
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Reclaiming God’s Truth—Reforming our Culture | Answers in Genesis
The latest issue of Answers magazine speaks directly to the truth and authority of God’s Word.
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Inerrant In and About All | Answers in Genesis
A recapitulation and explanation of certain statements of Pastor Rick Warren.
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Does the Bible Contain False Statements? | Answers in Genesis
As we read Job, we need to keep in mind that not all statements—with the exception of God’s own words in chapters 38–42)—necessarily express divine truth, but all are correctly recorded.
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The Search for the True Holy Book of all “Holy” Books | Answers in Genesis
Only the Bible never makes a claim in the spiritual/supernatural realm that is contradicted by facts from the physical/natural realm.
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The Da Vinci Code: Secret Hidden Truth? | Answers in Genesis
The Devil is a liar and the father of lies, and the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt.
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A Devilish Ploy! | Answers in Genesis
At a secular radio station in Florida earlier this year, the talk show host informed me that his “favorite atheist” was on the phone waiting to confront me about my belief in creation.
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Bruce Willis and The Gallup Poll—an Alarming Trend | Answers in Genesis
Liberal theologians have labored long to lure Christians away from reading their Bibles as strictly literal history.
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Do Americans Believe the Bible is “Literally” True? | Answers in Genesis
For those who believe in the accuracy and authority of the Bible from its very first verse, findings from pollster George Gallup Jr. present them with both encouraging and discouraging news.
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Theory of Evolution | Answers in Genesis
Biological evolution: is it a scientific fact, a theory, or just a hypothesis? How does this model of origins hold up under careful scientific scrutiny?
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Millions of Years | Answers in Genesis
The evolutionary timeline of millions of years is not compatible with the Bible or with the scientific evidence.
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Millions of Years—Are Souls at Stake? | Answers in Genesis
When creationists take a strong stand that God created the earth six thousand years ago, they’re often accused of making this a salvation issue. Well, it isn’t a salvation issue—but it is!
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Seven Reasons Why We Should Not Accept Millions of Years | Answers in Genesis
There is an intensifying controversy in the church all over the world regarding the age of the earth.
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Evolution or Millions of Years | Answers in Genesis
When you talk to an evolutionist, which subject arouses the strongest reaction?
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Where Did the Idea of “Millions of Years” Come From? | Answers in Genesis
Today, most people in the world, including most people in the Church, take for granted that the earth and universe are millions and millions of years old.
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RATE Research Results—Fatal Blow to Billions of Years | Answers in Genesis
This past weekend I had the privilege of attending the "Thousands ... Not Billions" conference where the results of the RATE (Radioisotopes and the age of the earth) project were presented.
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Dismantling 9 “Proofs” of Millions of Years | Answers in Genesis
People comment on my social media that we’re wrong believing in a young earth because the millions of years have been “proven” from geology. But is this the case?
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Suspicious of “Majority” | Answers in Genesis
Over the years, I’ve had many Christians use much of the argument that we need to trust the majority when it comes to evolution and millions of years.
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The Fall and the Problem of Millions of Years of Natural Evil | Answers in Genesis
Can the evolutionist view of the history of natural evil be harmonized with the Bible’s apparent teaching that all of this evil is the consequence of the Fall?
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The “Disease” of Millions of Years | Answers in Genesis
The idea of millions of years is like a disease, and biological evolution is like the symptom. Many Christians are willing to deal with the “symptom,” but not the “disease.”
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Why Shouldn’t Christians Accept Millions of Years? | Answers in Genesis
Is the age of the earth unimportant and divisive, as some Christians claim? Answers in Genesis thinks not.
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Does Answers in Genesis Accept “Billions of Years”? | Answers in Genesis
With a better understanding of the concept of time, we will see that the article in question was in no way saying or implying the possibility of billions of years.
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Would Planes Sink into Ice? | Answers in Genesis
Recalling the common school experiment in which a wire tensioned with weights ‘sinks’ through a block of ice, some wondered whether the planes could have sunk to that depth.
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Top Geology Student: Millions of Years Needs Imagination | Answers in Genesis
Exceptional geology student Karen Odling is only the second woman since World War II to win the University Medal in Geology from Australia’s University of Sydney.
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Australia’s Burning Mountain | Answers in Genesis
For as long as anyone can remember Mt Wingen has been burning, with an acrid smell of sulphur in the fumes issuing from cracks along its summit.
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RATE: Overturning Millions of Years | Answers in Genesis
Cutting-edge research by the RATE team has vividly shown that radiometric dating is founded upon unprovable assumptions and cannot accurately date rocks.
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Molecular Clock | Answers in Genesis
Do studies that use mutation rates to calibrate a “molecular clock” confirm or deny the evolutionary model? Are the assumptions in such calibrations correct?
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Getting a New Clock | Answers in Genesis
When the clock’s answers don’t meet expectations, get a new clock.
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Geneticists Duel Dates Y-Chromosomal Adam | Answers in Genesis
Setting the molecular clock to ring for “Adam” is creating controversy among geneticists.
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Presence of Ancient Anatomically Modern Humans in Africa | Answers in Genesis
Genomic study suggests the presence of ancient anatomically modern humans all over Africa.
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Tree Frog Biodiversity | Answers in Genesis
Statistical analyses swimming in a sea of assumptions sing of millions of years in both directions.
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"Old" Virus Fragments from Same Family as Hepatitis B Virus | Answers in Genesis
Researchers at University of Texas–Arlington have found “old” virus fragments from the same family as modern Hepatitis B virus in the genomes of modern songbirds.
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SIV in Present Form | Answers in Genesis
A new study of the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV), a virus infecting “almost all African monkeys” but not sickening them, has led to speculation about how long the virus has been around in its present form.
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Pink Iguana Throws Off Scientists | Answers in Genesis
A quarter-century ago, they might have been considered just as fantastic as pink elephants—but now pink iguanas are in the scientific spotlight.
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New Science Can’t Save an Old Farce | Answers in Genesis
Geneticists are increasingly relying on the technique of comparing genomes in the search for dates, as opposed to the old method of digging up fossil bones.