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Mutations, Yes; Evolution, No
| Answers in Genesis
Contrary to popular opinion, drug resistance in bacteria does not demonstrate evolution.
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Mutation-Selection in Biblical Perspective
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Mutations are no real help in explaining the origin of species, but they are great for explaining the origin of disease, disease organisms, and birth defects.
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“Mutations Drive Evolution.”
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Neo-Darwinism offers this basic equation for evolution: mutations + natural selection + millions of years = particles-to-person evolution. In this view, evolution is like a white-haired tinkerer, fiddling around with components in his shop until a workable innovation is rolled out.
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Fruit Flies and Advantageous Mutations
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A study of 600 generations of fruit flies, just reported in Nature, sought to unravel the mystery of how advantageous mutations could become fixed in the population.
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Mutated Sense of Taste
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Many meat-eating mammals have mutated sweet sense.
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De-Regulation of an Existing Trait
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Genome analysis confirms “a key evolutionary innovation” is only de-regulation of an existing trait.
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Duplicate to Make Something New?
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Evolutionists claim to have demonstrated the evolution of a new function through gene duplication.
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From Bacteria to Giraffes
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What can pink shower scum tell us about the origin of the giraffe’s long neck?
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Are There Beneficial Mutations?
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What are beneficial mutations? Does AiG need to change its stance regarding them? Dr. Georgia Purdom, AiG–U.S., clarifies this often-contentious area.
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Are You a Mutant?
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A team of researchers has added to our knowledge of the genetic mutation rate in humans, as they report in Current Biology.
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Leaps of Developmental Logic
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Small biological changes that take generations—like some birds’ beaks growing longer or shorter in certain ecological niches—can be explained and understood by creationists and evolutionists. But when it comes to explaining developmental “leaps,” evolutionists must make a leap of logic.
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Evolution is Just Mistakes
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A major fault line between creationists and evolutionists concerns the appearance of novel genetic information in nature. What does the latest research say about what’s supposed to be the driving force of evolution?
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Mutational Secrets of a Virus
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Series of mutations said to evolve a “key innovation”
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Milk-Digestion Gene Disables, Evolution Proved?
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“Recent instance of human evolution!” is the cry of evolutionists (that phrase coming from The New York Times), who are cheering an analysis of mutations that have led to lactose tolerance in various human populations.
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Fins to Limbs?
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How zebrafish mutation guides species to extinction instead of theoretical improvement, despite evolutionary propaganda attempts
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Gene-Editing of Babies, Potential Consequences
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In November 2018 a pair of twin girls born in China were the first gene-edited humans. He Jiankui used CRISPR technology to edit a gene to make the girls resistant to the HIV virus. A new study in the journal Nature Medicine revealed a nasty downside to the mutant gene variant of CCR55, which prevents HIV infection.
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Is Dark DNA Evolution’s Secret Weapon?
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Since evolutionists view mutations as the genetic engine driving dramatic transformations, dark DNA could be a source of rapid and extensive evolutionary change. However, mutations have never been shown to accomplish the types of transformations required by universal common descent.
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The Werewolf’s Curse
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Since ancient times history has recorded legends of people turning into animals, particularly dangerous wolves. Does some truth lurk behind the stories?
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Selective Switch Toggles Bacterial Traits
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Gluttonous bacteria on the fast track compete with biofilm-makers boldly going where bacteria haven’t gone before.
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The Ancient Mega-Clone
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Models suggest massive Mediterranean meadows are millenary mega-clones.
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Molecular Time-Travel
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“Molecular machine’s evolutionary trajectory” is an imaginary marvel.
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Cryptic Mutations
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Cryptic variation and preadaptation—fancy words for the obvious.
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Leaping Mutants
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Statistics suggest a way for eukaryotic mutants to leap over fitness valleys.
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"Directed Evolution" in MIT Laboratory
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“Directed evolution” sounds like a page out of the theistic evolutionist’s playbook. So what’s it doing turning up in an MIT laboratory?
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Making the Evolution Pill Easier to Swallow, Part 2
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According to one presenter at a recent Darwin and medicine conference, children with birth defects are “bumps” in the road on our way to becoming more evolved.
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DNA Mutations Are More Counterproductive Than Helpful
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From mid-November, a reminder that mutations are nearly always counterproductive.
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Scientists Raise the Dead and Kill the Living
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Scientists have “reversed evolution”-converting a modern enzyme into its “theoretical distant ancestor” in one case, and reactivating a supposedly five-million-year-old retrovirus in the other.
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How We Got Red Hair (It Wasn’t By Evolution)
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Recent research has shown that red hair in people often results from mutations in just one gene.
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A Feet of Imagination
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No story related to human evolution has drawn as much press in recent times as the account of family members in Turkey who walk hunched over, using their hands as well as feet to ambulate.
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Special Tools of Life
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Did you know that living things make their own tools? For example, they use enzymes to break down large molecules for parts (building blocks) and some for energy.
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Protein Mutational Context Dependence 1
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Whenever amino acids can be changed at a residue position, it is generally assumed this mutation is compatible with all other tolerated residue substitutions. We show here that this cannot be assumed.
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Ancon Sheep: Just Another Loss Mutation
| Answers in Genesis
A major problem for Darwinists is that the Ancon mutation (a Mendelian recessive), as is true with most other mutations, is a loss mutation.
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Dawkins’ Weasel Revisited
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Zoology Professor Richard Dawkins claimed to show that random mutations could generate new structures such as organs or limbs by a computer programming exercise.
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Protein Families: Chance or Design?
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We demonstrate that new gene families must overcome prohibitive statistical barriers before Darwinian processes can be invoked.
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Directed Evolution
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Are intelligently designed experiments, done in state-of-the-art facilities, using already present features in already-existing bacteria and viruses really examples of molecules-to-man evolution?
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Long Live the Men
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According to some evolutionists, sometime “between infinity and a few thousand years,” the Y chromosome will become extinct unless we can evolve a new sex gene.
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DNA Similarities
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Do similarities in DNA between organisms suggest a common ancestor or a common Designer? Are chimps and humans actually 98% similar?
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DNA—The Language of Life
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DNA resembles a language in many uncanny ways.
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A Tale of Two Chromosomes
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There are many anatomical similarities between humans and apes. Our chromosomes are similar as well. But do human chromosomes hint of chimp ancestry?
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Apes Are Our Brothers—Just Ask the Post Office
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'Do you realise our DNA is 98.5% identical?’ These are the words in an advertisement for the first-class stamp in a new series called ‘The secret of life,’ released by Royal Mail (UK).
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Easy-Going Ape Joins Genome Club
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Scientists recently analyzed the bonobo ape's genome.
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Odd Non-Man Out
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When considered alongside humans and chimps, the orangutan is the genomic “odd man out.” Is that because it hasn’t evolved as quickly?
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Seventy Percent of Human Genes Traced Back to Acorn Worm?
| Answers in Genesis
Some think acorn worms, virtually unchanged since the Cambrian explosion, represent an evolutionary link between invertebrates and humans.
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Differences Between Chimp and Human DNA Recalculated
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Some assert that humans and chimpanzees are only 1 to 2% different, but careful re-tallying suggests there is a gigantic genetic gap between the two species.
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Chromosome Tales and the Importance of a Biblical Worldview
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When evidence is interpreted in a particular worldview, it can sound very convincing that the evidence supports that worldview.
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Chimp-Human DNA Similarity: What Does It Really Mean?
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The Human Genome Project, supposedly disproved the possibility of all humans being descended from one man and woman. But what does the science really show?
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The Untold Story Behind DNA Similarity
| Answers in Genesis
When you hear stories about the astonishing
similarity between human and chimp DNA, there’s
something they’re not telling you . . .
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Denisovan Human Genome Sequenced
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Revolutionary DNA sequencing technique said to be “a powerful new tool to fish for genes that have recently evolved.”
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Trace Your Family History through DNA Testing
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According to American Demographics, 113 million Americans have begun to trace their roots.
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If human and chimp DNA are so similar, why differences?
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It seems that if a protein performs a certain function in one organism, then that same protein should perform the same function in a variety of organisms.
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Chimp Genome Sequence Very Different from Man
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Last week, in a special issue of Nature devoted to chimpanzees, researchers report the initial sequence of the chimpanzee genome.
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The Differences Make the Difference
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While there is much similarity in DNA sequences and gene expression among them, there are also important differences. In the case examined, as in other cases, the differences make the difference.
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Greater Than 98% Chimp/Human DNA Similarity? Not Any More.
| Answers in Genesis
A new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the common value of >98% similarity of DNA between chimp and humans is incorrect.
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Turtles Still Baffle Evolutionists
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Turtles in search of their long lost ancestor discover genes trump holes in the head.
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Finding Adam in the Genome: A BioLogos cover-up?
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Venema took Tomkins’ claims to task on the BioLogos website regarding the supposed remnants of an egg-laying gene (vitellogenin) in human DNA.
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Finding Adam in the Genome: Does BioLogos Have Even More Egg on Its Face?
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BioLogos has engaged in systematic scientific error on one of their “evidences” for evolution, and they have misrepresented the arguments for several years.
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A Simple Answer
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Can a simple “yes or no” answer be adequate for a question about Adam and Eve’s genetic code and today’s human traits?
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Human/Chimp DNA Similarity Continues to Decrease: Counting Indels
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It is conventionally held that humans and chimps differ only very slightly in their DNA. However, new evidence suggests that the difference might be much more drastic.
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Are Pseudogenes ‘Shared Mistakes’ Between Primate Genomes?
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The claim that pseudogenes and their respective variations are shared between primates in a nested hierarchy, and can only be explained through common evolutionary descent, is found wanting.
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Sponge Synapses
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Sponge nerve system genes correlate with human nervous system genes by 25%.
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The Question of Y
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We’ve all heard that humans and chimps share up to 98% of their DNA. But new studies are accentuating the differences between humans and chimps.
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Study Finds Chimp DNA Is Not “99% Identical” to Ours
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A “shocking” new study has confirmed what we’d expect—chimpanzee DNA is not 98–99% identical to human DNA.
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DNA We're Missing Makes Us Human
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No one, not even evolutionists, disputes that humans have crossed a threshold that sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom—even chimpanzees, our “close evolutionary relatives.” But according to new research, it’s actually the genes we don’t have that sets us apart.
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Genetic Connections with Chimpanzees
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Evolutionists often emphasize our genetic similarity to chimpanzees, but our genetic connections don’t end there.
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Time Keeps on Slipping
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Twice in the past five years, our alleged ancestry with apes has made the cover of Time magazine.
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More Different Than We Thought
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Scientists publishing in the journal Genetics last week have showed that “[m]any more genes separate humans from chimpanzees than scientists believed.”
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The Parade of Chimps
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The chimp and human genome have more differences than previously thought.
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Group Think
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All humans today can be traced back to the same small group of people.
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Chimp Filing for Person-hood
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His name notwithstanding, the current legal case for the personhood of Mr. Matthew Hiasl Pan (a chimp) is in jeopardy, reports the Associated Press from Vienna, Austria.
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Not Only How Much, But Also How Fast: Gene Sequences
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The inadequacy of similar “genetic potential” in explaining organisms’ similarity is perhaps most notable in comparisons of chimps and humans.
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All About the Differences
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A sensational headline ran across the science media this week: “Chimps More Evolved than Humans.”
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The Trouble with Sequencing
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The news has been buzzing lately about two recent papers that are reporting the sequencing of up to one million bases of the Neanderthal genome.
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Visiting the Family?
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I have a soft spot for Twycross Zoo. It is a favourite with my children and me, since it is only a 30-minute drive from our house in the west of Leicestershire.
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Evolution: Fact or Fiction?
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In the current controversies about teaching about the origin of life in public schools, there is a general misunderstanding of the differences between “origin science” and “operation science."
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“Junk” DNA
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Using evolutionary assumptions about life’s history, geneticists have branded vast sums of DNA as junk, but research is showing this DNA is far from useless.
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DNA Prevents Reproducing Between Two Species
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Has the U.S. government finally supported creationist research? Alas, no, but the results of a National Institutes of Health study fit squarely within the young-earth creation framework.
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Decoding the Debris
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For decades, evolutionary scientists have ignored “junk” DNA that supposedly littered our genetic sequence.
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Junk DNA and ENCODE Revisited
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The ENCODE project’s recent discoveries help make sense of the DNA referred to as “junk.”
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The Smell of Change in Our Understanding of Pseudogenes
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For years pseudogenes have been used by skeptics to promote evolution. But you can refute this every time you breathe in.
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“Junk” DNA—past, present, and future, part 1
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For many years this notion that non-coding DNA was not functional (“junk”) actually inhibited science.
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“Junk” DNA—Past, Present, and Future, Part 2
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The ENCODE Project findings have made it clear that junk DNA is not junk and that most of it is functional in the form of RNA or protein.
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Junk Science
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The evolutionary assumption that 98% of human DNA is "junk" actually inhibited our understanding of the human genome.
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Defining the “Junk” Genes That Separate Chimps and Humans
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We have been hearing for years that chimp and human DNA is 98.5% identical, as if that proves our common ancestry.
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Human Endogenous Retroviruses (HERVs)—God’s Tools?
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Contrary to being “junk” DNA, HERVs are thought to play at least three major roles.
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Junk DNA Evolutionary Discards God’s Tools
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That functions are being found for junk DNAs fits in well with creation science. But evolutionary theory is being adjusted again to accommodate the data.
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Humans May Have Fewer Genes Than Expected?
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A recent study revealed some surprising results about the number of coding genes (those which produce proteins) in the human genome. In this study, led by the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, they found that around 20% of the genes which had been classified as coding genes were not coding.
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Unnecessary DNA
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How can rats, mice, and humans share so many identical DNA sequences? Look inside!
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Neutral DNA
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DNA elements sometimes confer neither benefits nor disadvantages.
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Brain Size and Evolution: Is There a Valid Correlation?
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For many years a dogma within evolutionary biology has been that as organisms evolved from mouse to chimp to human their brain size increased (even relative to body weight). Is this valid?
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Vestigial Genes?
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Scientists have found supposedly worthless DNA. What are these pseudogenes and what do they mean?
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Evidence Against Pseudogene Shared Mistakes
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Recent discoveries of function in certain pseudogenes have led to the recognition, by some evolutionists, of widespread function in pseudogenes.
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Pseudogene Function: More Evidence
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According to standard evolutionary thinking, pseudogenes are simply disabled copies of genes.
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Pseudogene Function: Regulation of Gene Expression
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The discovery of a functional nitric oxide synthase (NOS) pseudogene compels us to understand pseudogenes in a new light.
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Hox Hype
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From the hype of the press release, it would seem that evolution was finally proven once and for all and the creationists should just give up and go home.
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How Low Can You Go?
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An article published in Nature indicates previous studies may have underestimated the size of the minimal bacterial genome by as much as 50%. Yet, evolutionary significance seems to be lacking.
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DNA Structure
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The iconic, complex double-helix structure of DNA displays the masterful design and creativity of the all-wise Creator.
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Limited Genetic Code Proof God Not Required?
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Evolutionists frequently cite the genetic code’s universality as proof of evolution from a common ancestor.
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New Letters for DNA Alphabet God’s Design
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Can genetic engineers—by building a bacterium that speaks an unearthly tongue—reenact ancient evolution in the laboratory?
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It’s Elementary, My Dear Watson
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Two ardent atheists are being honored this year on the 50th anniversary of their discovery of the double helix structure of the molecule of heredity, DNA.
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Breaking the Code
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Breaking the code was only the beginning.
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DNA “First Responders”?
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God gave DNA a proofreading system to catch mistakes and “dedicated DNA repair machinery that routinely fixes mistakes.” But how do they work?
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Common Code . . . Common Designer?
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In a world of random chance, what are the odds that almost all lifeforms would use the same basic genetic code?
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DNA in the Kitchen
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In case you thought DNA was a subject only for science classes and high-tech laboratories, think again! You can isolate a lump of DNA in your own kitchen.
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DNA—What Does It Prove?
| Answers in Genesis
Conferences worldwide are celebrating a landmark in 20th century science—the 50th anniversary of Watson and Crick’s discovery of DNA’s structure.
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Computers Without Chips
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Like any other computer software, the DNA helix is packed with information, a complete set of instructions for the complex working of the cell.
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Human Genome
| Answers in Genesis
The exhaustive project of mapping the human genome has provided further evidence of biblical truths as presented in Genesis.
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Are We Really That Different?
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The latest craze is to
learn what DNA tests
reveal about family
heritage. When an
adoptive Christian
family decided to look
beneath the surface,
however, they discovered
a more amazing truth, providing powerful evidence that we are all one
race, or “one blood,” just as the Bible
teaches.
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ABO Blood and Human Origins
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The ABO blood group is the most significant blood factor in clinical applications involving blood transfusions. With our recent ability to rapidly sequence genes, the ABO blood group is also proving to be a valuable asset for determining human migration patterns and origins.
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Human Evolution—Faster than a Speeding Bullet
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A recent study claims that the rate of mutation has sharply increased over the last 10,000 years. But what is the reason for this change?
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South Carolina Man’s DNA Tells Ancient Story
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A DNA sample submitted to the National Geographic Genographic Project created quite a stir in the world’s genomic databases.
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The highly efficient genome
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A number of genes are now known to be polycistronic, that is, they produce more than one protein.
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Denisovan DNA’s Secrets
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Denisovan DNA’s secrets—unveiled and interpreted
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What Makes Us Human?
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Has “EnhancerFinder” unraveled the secret of human origins?
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Finding Adam in the Genome: A Response to Chapter 1 of Adam and the Genome
| Answers in Genesis
In this post, we begin exploring Venema’s evidences in chapter two of Adam and the Genome, titled “Genomes as Language, Genomes as Books.”
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Recovery of Neandertal mtDNA: An Evaluation
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The recovery of mitochondrial DNA from the right arm bone of the original Neandertal fossil discovered in a cave in the Neander Valley has been hailed as a stunning feat of modern biochemistry.
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Do Genetic Differences Disprove Neandertals and Humans Interbred?
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New research results comparing the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have shown substantial divergence between Neandertals and modern humans.
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Predisposition to Religion?
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Watch as one researcher tries desperately to implicate population biology and genetics in the spread of religion.
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Three Genetic Groupings
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A new genetic study of 53 human populations shows that each falls into one of three genetic groups—yet that the three groups aren’t as different as was thought. The legacy of Shem, Ham, and Japheth (Noah’s three sons), perhaps?
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More Than Meets the Eye: The Human Genome
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“A close-up view of the human genome has revealed its innermost workings to be far more complex than first thought,” reports a BBC NEWS article on a recent Encyclopaedia of DNA Elements (Encode) study.
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Two Decades of DNA Discovery
| Answers in Genesis
Twenty years ago, US President Bill
Clinton declared the human genome
project “the most wondrous map ever
created by humankind.”
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The Creator’s Human Genome Project
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EnhancerFinder, a supercomputer program, is supposedly revealing genetic enhancements that once upon a deep time put an apelike ancestor on the fast track to becoming human.
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Racing to a Conclusion
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Africa may be the most genetically diverse place on earth. Is that evidence of evolutionary origins?
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Human Genome Project Complete ... Again
| Answers in Genesis
The Human Genome Project has officially finished its task of sequencing the human genome, according to a press conference on Monday, 14 April 2003.
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The Living Database
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When a new human being is conceived, he or she consists of only one tiny microscopic cell. How does that single cell grow into a complete body?
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Information Theory
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Information only comes from other information. DNA is a complex information system, so it must have come from an information source—the mind of the Creator God!
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5.2 What Is Information? The Biblical View (OB18)
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The aspects of information that we studied earlier are also found in the Bible.
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5.4 What Is Life? The Informational View (OB19)
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Matter and energy are necessary aspects of living forms, but they do not fundamentally distinguish between living and inanimate systems.
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5.5 What Is Life? The Biblical View (OB20)
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Up to this point, we emphasized that information is an essential characteristic of life.
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Information: Evidence for a Creator?
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What if it could be shown through empirical science that the universe consists of more than just mass and energy?
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Information in Living Organisms
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There is an extreme multiplicity of life-forms around us, and even a simple unicellular organism is much more complex and purposefully designed than anything that human inventiveness can produce.
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The Three Forms in which Information Appears
| Answers in Genesis
Information accosts us from all sides and presents itself over a wide range of manifestations.
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The Five Levels of the Information Concept
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The question is whether these pictures represent information or not.
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The Quality and Usefulness of Biblical Information
| Answers in Genesis
According to biblical assertions all information given out by humans is evaluated by God.
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Quantities Used for Evaluating Information Application to Bible
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Let us now examine how the Bible addresses the six measures for quantitatively evaluating information (especially its semantics) .
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Principles of Laws of Nature
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Through the natural sciences, the world around us is observed for the purpose of discovering the rules governing it.
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Information Is a Fundamental Entity
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Many scientists therefore justly regard information as the third fundamental entity alongside matter and energy.
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Delineation of the Information Concept
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Information always plays a substitutionary role. The encoding of reality is a mental process.
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Three Kinds of Transmitted Information
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If someone presents a model for explaining the origin of life, but he cannot say where the creative information characteristic of all life-forms came from, the crucial question remains unanswered.
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The Quality and Usefulness of Information
| Answers in Genesis
To rise above Shannon’s information theory, it is necessary to define measures for semantic information which must be generally valid.
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Some Quantitative Evaluations of Semantics
| Answers in Genesis
We can now begin to evaluate semantic information quantitatively, after having considered the essentials at the semantics level in the preceding chapters.
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Questions Often Asked about the Information Concept
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A small selection of the frequently asked questions about information theory are now listed and answered briefly.
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Life Requires a Source of Information
| Answers in Genesis
The common factor present in all living organisms, from bacteria to man, is the information contained in all their cells.
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A Biblical Analogy of the Four Fundamental Entities
| Answers in Genesis
The question about the origin of matter and the energies we observe in action is already answered in the first verse of the Bible.
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The Statistical View of Information
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Shannon’s definition of information entails only one minor aspect of the nature of information, as we will discuss at length.
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Language: Creating, Communicating, and Storing Information
| Answers in Genesis
Man’s natural language is the most comprehensive as well as the most differentiated means of expression.
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Creation’s Amazing Computer
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‘Where’, questions the creationist, ‘would the information come from to effect such a transformation?
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Magic, Information, and Faith
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A recent post on the Daily Telegraph accuses creationists of believing in “magic,” but it fails to see the faith needed to believe in evolution.
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Hope that secular publishers may provide creation information
| Answers in Genesis
The cracks are beginning to show in the monopoly that evolutionist have had on academic publications.
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Two Heads Are Better Than One?
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It’s often said that ‘two heads are better than one’. But, in the case of Sam and Ella, two heads aren’t so good.
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Evolution: Bad Economics
| Answers in Genesis
A riddle illustrating the idea of molecules-to-man evolution.
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Copy Challenge
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Scientists at the University of California in Berkeley have embarked on a research project to create an artificial ‘housefly’ that can fly around in dangerous or small spaces, such as collapsed buildi
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Billionaire on Biological Information
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The most famous of all computer software gurus has recently acknowledged the brilliance of the programming in our bodies (without any hint of acknowledging the Programmer, so far).
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That Depends on Your Definition of ‘Information’
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The ‘information’ argument is used by many creationists to show that particles-to-people evolution is impossible. Following is an attempt by a critic to discredit this argument, and our response.
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Information, Science and Biology
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A rigorous analysis of the characteristics of information demonstrates that living things intrinsically reflect both the mind and will of their Creator.
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Think Spot: Where’s the Intelligence?
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Most would acknowledge that as complexity of information and design increases, there has to be an increase in the intelligence and ability of the one who produces it.
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Mitochondrial DNA
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Mitochondrial DNA research confirms that all humans alive today share common ancestors just a few thousand years ago as the Bible teaches.
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Origin of Mitochondrial DNA Differences
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While Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson has published previously on the topic of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), this article brings a study of African mtDNA differences and how it supports the young earth creation model. This article will summarize Dr. Jeanson’s research.
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Mitochondrial Eve
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When evolutionary scientists speak of “mitochondrial Eve,” they may be referencing the biblical Eve, but the woman they have in mind isn’t quite the same.
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“Out of Africa”? A brief response . . .
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Striving to understand the world apart from the true history found in the Bible, evolutionists have devised varying ideas about where and when ‘modern’ humans originated.
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Modern European Family Tree Has Stone Age Roots
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Family tree of much of modern European population has Stone Age roots.
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Humans Considered to have Evolved Separately for 100,000 Years
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New research published in the American Journal of Human Genetics purports to describe how humankind diverged, then nearly went extinct, and then finally reunited more than 50,000 years ago—at least, that’s the hypothesis. Associated Press and BBC News articles also take a look at different aspects of the epic chapter of human history supposedly uncovered by the study.
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Feces Give Clues to Confirm the origins of Native Americans
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Coprolites found in a cave in Oregon may confirm that all the original inhabitants of the Americas came from East Asia.
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Native American DNA Linked by Six Women
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Nearly all Native Americans—including those in North, Central, and South America—have descended (in part) from just six women, says a new DNA study published this week in PLoS One.
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One People
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Research confirms it: all humans alive today can be traced back to the same small group of people.
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The Lost History of the Aztecs
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Ancient Mexican city Tenochtitlan’s history is being rewritten by new genetic evidence.
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Breaking News: Lost American History Discovered in DNA
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New research published today pulls back the curtain on a long-standing mystery: the history of the Americas before Europeans arrived.
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An Unexpectedly Strong Argument for a Young Earth
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The story of how this creation scientist made discoveries showing that DNA confirms the Bible
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I Wasn’t Supposed to Be There
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When research biologist Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson uncovered groundbreaking genetic discoveries, a new door opened for him.
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Rediscovering Pre-Colombian America
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How creation science is giving Native Americans back their history
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“Spatial Grammar” in DNA Speaks to God’s Gift of Language
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All DNA is important, even when acting simply as a spacer—just as the spaces between words in written English help readers make sense of the words themselves.
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Memories May be Genetic Mementos
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The finding shows how our biology and life experiences are more deeply connected than scientists previously thought possible.
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How DNA Reveals God’s Design
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DNA: The transforming principle as a code and its discovery in the genesis of germs
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Biblical Boundaries for Human Gene Editing
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Christians need to be able to make biblical decisions about gene editing.
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Does New Mouse Experiment Explain How Humans Lost Their Tails?
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Evolutionists claim a new mouse experiment explains how humans lost their tails. Does it?
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How Grandma’s Recipes Can Remind Us of God’s Recipes for Life–Genomes
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How a humble recipe box compares with what we are learning about how living things are formed.
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They’re My Genes, and I’ll Edit Them If I Want To
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After years of predictions, gene editing is finally becoming a reality. The issues are complex, pitting human freedom against the risk of corrupting the DNA of future generations. Who should make these choices and oversee them?
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Tracing the Lost History of the New World
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What happened to the early Americans? New research is turning evolutionary narratives upside down—and creation scientists like geneticist Nathaniel Jeanson are leading the way.
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Parasitic DNA?
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Non-coding DNA, far from being “junk,” has multiple functions that are a problem for evolutionists and point to the Creator.
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Can Genetic Mutations Be Purged from Genome?
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Evolutionists must theorize a way for deleterious mutations to be eliminated from the genomes of living things. There have been several proposed mechanisms to do this for different contexts, but here we will focus on just one: purging by purifying selection.
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The Best-Kept Secrets of DNA
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Creation science is quietly making groundbreaking discoveries.
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Unraveling the Chromosome 2 Connection
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Upon closer examination, this popular evolutionary argument quickly comes undone.
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What Color Was Adam?
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The diversity of eye, hair, and skin pigmentations across the globe actually demonstrates a genetic relationship with our first parents, Adam and Eve.
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CRISPR: A Clear-Cut Issue?
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Does this popular
gene-editing tool combat the curse
or cut away at God’s design?
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The Shocking and Glorious New Science of Human “Race” & Ethnicity
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How biblical timelines and modern genetics unveil a new understanding of people group identity and migration.
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CRISPR and the Creator
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The powerful new gene-editing
tool CRISPR will soon
be used in the US for the first
time in human trials.
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The Secondary Language That Leaves Evolutionists Speechless
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Researchers continue to unveil incredible
complexities in a secondary DNA language, complicating
efforts to explain life by evolution.
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Gene-Edited Babies Cause Uproar
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In November 2018 global headlines
announced the stunning birth of the
first gene-edited humans.
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DNA Paramedics
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A new study discovered the complexity
of a cell’s DNA repair system. It
seems the cell repairs damaged strands
of DNA.
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Do Humans Have Genes for Laying Eggs?
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In this article, we explore Venema’s claims in Adam and the Genome about genetic sequences that he thinks have lost their function.
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Finding Adam in the Genome: A Response to Chapter 2 of Adam and the Genome
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Venema claims that the published, comprehensive genetic comparisons between humans and chimpanzees reveal a genetic identity of 95–98%.
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Finding Adam in the Genome: A Response to Chapter 1 of Adam and the Genome
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In our series, we’ve discovered ample support that evolutionists fit facts to conclusions. In this article, we’ll continue to explore whether it is true.
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Gene Editing and Designer Babies—Why the Future Desperately Needs
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The discovery of an easy way to “edit” genes may someday make it possible to manufacture “designer babies.”
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Genetics and God’s Natural Selection
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What particularly fascinated Gregor Mendel was the way in which the plants handed on their characteristics to the next generation.
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The RNA-Way From Molecules-to-Man Remains Muddled
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The RNA-way from molecules-to-man remains mired by its complete lack of information.
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Did We All Come from Adam and Eve?
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Have genetic discoveries broken the tie that binds us to Adam?
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Gene Duplication
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Gene duplications followed by subsequent mutation of the duplicated genes are often cited by evolutionists as a mechanism for adding new information to the genome.
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How Are New Genes Made?
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Evolutionists conclude “the birth of new genes is an important motor of evolutionary innovation,” but how are new genes made?
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Why Do Arms and Legs Come in Pairs?
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You only have two arms and two legs because your gut got in the way, evolutionists say.
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Field-Evolved Resistance Rootworms Corn
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Resistant rootworms can ravage corn if farmers put all their eggs in a genetically modified high-tech basket.
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Genetic Links Lion Lineages Common Ancestor
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Beautiful Barbary lion, now extinct, could be “re-built” and restored from its closest cousins.
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DNA Codes Reveal Rule-Breaking in Language
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When does “stop” mean “go”? Surprisingly often! The DNA code common to all living things is not quite as uniform as previously thought.
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Denisovan Gene Gave Tibetans Their High-Altitude Tolerance
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Tibetan natives ability to tolerate high-altitude conditions is a genetic inheritance obtained from mixing with the long-extinct Denisovan people.
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Fungal RNA Splicing Mechanism
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A recent study claimed to offer proof of the RNA-world hypothesis or the origin of life. The evidence, however, is greatly lacking.
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Ancient Protein “Resurrected”?
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As Science Daily reports, “state-of-the-art computational and molecular techniques [were used] to re-create the ancient progenitors of an important human protein.”
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Persistent Protein
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Preservation of collagen fibers in a marine reptile fossil is said to prove “biomolecular preservation over deep time.”
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Ultrafast Parasite Evolution
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Bird parasite said to “evolve” rapidly while losing information.
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Professor of Genetics Says 'No!' to Evolution
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I often contribute chapters on genetics. I know of no biological data relevant to tree genetics that would require evolutionary explanations.
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Genetics: No Friend of Evolution
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Genetics and evolution have been enemies from the beginning of both concepts.
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Are Genetic Mechanisms For Speciation Multiple Choice?
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Speciation’s secrets are multiple-choice. What do phlox flowers, stickleback fish, monkeyflowers, and Bogota fruit flies have in common? They all suggest genetic mechanisms for speciation.
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Copying Confusion
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Molecules-to-man evolution requires the production of large amounts of new genetic information.
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Genetics and Biblical Demographic Events
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With the relatively recent mapping of the human genome, new questions can be raised concerning potential genetic evidence for Biblical events such as Creation and the global Flood.
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The Language of Inconsistency
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In his new book The Language of God, a famous scientist and evangelical has written the following about the human genome and science in general
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Making the Evolution Pill Easier to Swallow, Part 1
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Dr. Georgia Purdom attended a series of lectures titled “Your Genes and You: Health, Disease, and Medicine.” The title might better have been “Sleight of Hand.”
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Human Skin “Color” More Complicated Than Previously Thought
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A new study has shown that the genetics involved in skin “color” is far more complicated than we thought!
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Many Prenatal Genetic Tests Are Wrong 85% of the Time
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The New York Times reports that many supposedly “reliable” and “highly accurate” prenatal tests report inaccurate results, influencing abortion decisions.
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DNA—An “Energy Code”?
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Some geneticists have postulated how DNA could have evolved complete with a “story” based on low free energy and high free energy codons.
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“The Days of ‘Junk DNA’ Are Over”
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The evolutionary concept of “junk DNA” held research back but would have never been believed had scientists accepted biblical creation.
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14-Year-Old Lands Article in Science Journal
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Who ever said that science journals are just for highly trained Ph.D. scientists? That’s certainly not the case with TJ—the in-depth Journal of Creation.
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Human Body
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The human body is an absolute marvel of design. The intricate combination of muscles, bones, organs and tissues is a symphony that cries out for a Creator.
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The Breath of Life
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References to breath or breathing are frequent in the Bible, with many allusions to God as the giver of breath (and life) to man and animals.
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Wise Blood: Antibodies, The Principle of Overcoming in Disease (Part 2)
| Answers in Genesis
The immune system serves more than just to “defend” against disease – it was designed to interact with microbes and to cleanse the body.
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Wise Blood: The Principle of Overcoming in Disease and Immunity (Part 1)
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How our immune system protects us from deadly pathogens and parasites through antibodies to demonstrate how we’re fearfully and wonderfully made.
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There’s a Map for That—Human Cell Atlas
| Answers in Genesis
Medical researchers have launched one of the most ambitious mapping projects ever—the human cell atlas.
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Lymphocytes—Our Body’s Dynamic Defenders
| Answers in Genesis
What we know today confirms what God taught the Israelites nearly 4,000 years ago. We’ve now unlocked some of our body’s incredible secrets for rapid response to the ever-changing threat from microbe invaders.White blood cells defend us from constant intrusion.
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The Motors That Move Us
| Answers in Genesis
From head to heels, your body teems with minuscule machines driving your everyday physical processes.
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A Trillion First Responders
| Answers in Genesis
To keep us safe, our body coordinates with a vast network of foreign agents that have joined our side. It’s the largest security force in the world. A teeming network of first responders that live on nearly every surface of your body, inside and out.
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The Wonderful World of Bacteria in Your Body
| Answers in Genesis
The “superorganism” that you are testifies to the superlative wisdom of our Creator God.
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The Wonderfully Made Design of the Skin and Its Microbiome
| Answers in Genesis
Microbes live in a mutualistic relationship with the human body, make up the human microbiome, and play a role in our health by modulating the immune system.
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Body of Evidence
| Answers in Genesis
In this new 16-part video series, Dr. David Menton, former anatomy teacher and professor of the year, gives you an insider’s look at the wonders of the human body.
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Heart
| Answers in Genesis
The same God who designed our hearts to sustain physical life designed a miraculous way for us to obtain a new spiritual “heart” that will beat for eternity.
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Experiment—Iron: Toxin on the Table
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Rusty old iron is toxic to our bodies. Yet God designed all living things to depend on a steady supply of iron to continue living.
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“Vestigial” Organs
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Several organs have been labeled “vestigial” evolutionary relics with little or no function. These organs are now proving purposeful. It’s the label, not the organs, that is vestigial.
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Setting the Record Straight on Vestigial Organs
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In a recent article, New Scientist discusses five supposed vestigial organs in the human body, but as Dr. David DeWitt shows, there’s more to the story than evolutionists will admit.
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Appendix
| Answers in Genesis
The appendix has gotten a bad rap over the years. It’s often tossed out as a useless evolutionary leftover.
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The Human Vermiform Appendix
| Answers in Genesis
The appendix is commonly referred to as a classic example of a vestigial organ.
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Are “Vestigial Organs” Really “Proof of Evolution . . . on Your B
| Answers in Genesis
Can YouTube video “Proof of Evolution That You Can Find on Your Body” prop up the human evolutionary story through our presumably useless body parts?
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Vestigial hiccups, folding fish-eyes, and other fables
| Answers in Genesis
Time-lapse photos of a human embryonic face taking shape—unlike Haeckel’s fraudulent woodcuts—are authentic. But not even those assembled photos can peer back through time to prove evolution.
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Vestigial Organs—Evidence for Evolution?
| Answers in Genesis
Vestigial organs have long been one of the classic arguments used as evidence for evolution.
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The Human Tail and Other Tales of Evolution
| Answers in Genesis
The “human tail” is just one example of what evolutionists call a “vestigial organ.”
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The Appendix: Useless Vestige or Evolutionary Innovation?
| Answers in Genesis
The appendix has long been maligned as an obsolete vestigial remnant of digestive evolution. Is it really as worthless as people say?
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Vestigial Organs: A Vanishing Argument
| Answers in Genesis
Vestigial organs are supposedly useless leftovers from our evolutionary past. However, this claim requires preconceived belief and an ignorance of the evidence.
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Why Do Men Have Nipples?
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If there were an all-knowing Creator, why would He design men with a structure for which they have no use? Dr. Tommy Mitchell, AiG-U.S., explains why males have nipples.
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Vestigial Salmon Organ Actually Useful
| Answers in Genesis
Marine biologists have long thought the “adipose fin” on the back of some fish was vestigial. But a recent study finds a function for this fin.
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Was a Baby Born with a Human Tail?
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Baby recently born in Brazil with “human tail with a ball at the end of it” though it is far from evidence of human evolution or a vestigial organ.
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Are Wisdom Teeth Evidence for Evolution?
| Answers in Genesis
Wisdom teeth are still thought of and touted today as vestigial structures and as evidence for evolution. But is this actually the case? Why do we humans have so many problems with wisdom teeth? And does this imply a poor design by the Creator?
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Vestigial Structures—Leftover News
| Answers in Genesis
Charles Darwin once claimed the human body contains evolutionary leftovers, and Fox news ran with the story—150 years later.
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Losing Any Remaining Vestige
| Answers in Genesis
Students still see the appendix mentioned as vestigial.
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Appendix Isn’t Useless
| Answers in Genesis
“Creationists will have a field day with this one,” writes one blogger on the news. Bingo.
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Vestigial Ideas
| Answers in Genesis
Another study reminds us that the idea of “vestigial organs” is, itself, vestigial!
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Appendix May Harbor Useful Bacteria
| Answers in Genesis
If you’re a creationist, you’ve probably known it for a while; if you’re an evolutionist, you may be just finding out: the human appendix does have a function.
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Hard to Digest
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The function of the human appendix—long derided as a useless leftover of evolution—has “finally” been uncovered.
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Appendix: Where the Good Bacteria Live
| Answers in Genesis
Surgeons and immunologists at Duke University Medical School suggest that the appendix produces and protects beneficial germs for use in the intestines.
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Vestigial Structures
| Answers in Genesis
Almost every secular biology textbook today includes a section on vestigial structures—structures that are supposed remnants from ancestors that have lost their original function or capacity.
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Cutting Out a Useless Vestigial Argument
| Answers in Genesis
Many have abandoned faith in the Bible influenced by such arguments—arguments which are themselves ‘vestigial’, the vestiges of supposed truths that, when used today, are useful only to mislead.
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The Plantaris and the Question of Vestigial Muscles in Man
| Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists continue to propose a few of our smaller and least understood muscles as being vestiges of once useful organs left over from putative evolutionary ancestors.
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Do Any Vestigial Organs Exist in Humans?
| Answers in Genesis
The standard definition of ‘vestigial’ is an organ that once was useful in an animal’s evolutionary past, but that now is useless or very close to useless.
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Are Wisdom Teeth (Third Molars) Vestiges of Human Evolution?
| Answers in Genesis
Research now indicates that the reasons for most third molar problems today are not due to evolutionary changes but other reasons.
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Brain
| Answers in Genesis
The human brain is so complex that scientists have barely tapped its intricacy. The quiet workings of the brain point toward its Designer.
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The Human Brain—Fill in the Blanks
| Answers in Genesis
Do your pets ever talk to you? Maybe you’ve seen one of those internet videos where a dog says, “Hello.” We know dogs don’t really speak, despite what we think we hear. So what gives? God designed your brain to fill in missing details on the fly . . . with some interesting consequences.
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God’s Gift of Sleep
| Answers in Genesis
When you’re drifting off to dreamland, God unwraps one of his greatest presents.
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Brain Convolutions in Mice and Men
| Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists trying to explain what causes convolutions to form in a human fetus suggest how the human brain evolved from apelike ancestors.
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Recalling Creation
| Answers in Genesis
Mr. Williams' amazing mind gives us a glimpse into how God may have originally created the human brain.
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Pituitary—A Miniscule Master
| Answers in Genesis
Your body is run by a tiny gland the size of a pea. How is this possible?
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Wired for Awe
| Answers in Genesis
That feeling of “veneration” in the face of the “sacred” has sent atheists scurrying for generations, denying that awe even exists except among religious fanatics. But today everyone is forced to embrace its reality. Neuroscientists can detect its effects in the brain.
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Synapses Speak
| Answers in Genesis
Dramatic difference found between human and chimpanzee brains.
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Rise and Fall of Human Intelligence
| Answers in Genesis
A recent study indicates that human intelligence may be declining.
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Religion Is in Your Head
| Answers in Genesis
Religion? It’s all in your head: New Scientist takes an unmitigated swipe at theism.
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Baby Brains
| Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists claim that children become less "monkey-like" as they age. Once again, data is interpreted based on worldviews.
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The Gene that Folds the Brain
| Answers in Genesis
The gene LAMC-3 is essential to the formation of convolutions in the human brain, but how it “evolved to gain [these] novel functions” remains a mystery.
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Brain
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The brain's marvelous design makes it possible for us to grow and adapt to our changing environment.
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Dr. Purdom's Presentation on Wonder of the Cell
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Video Segment of Dr. Purdom's Presentation on the Wonder of the Cell from the recent Creation College.
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What Memories Are Made Of
| Answers in Genesis
“Where’d I park my
car?” Many people mistakenly believe that the brain
permanently stores all the information it encounters,
but we just can’t always access it. In fact, we
forget many things, which appear to be gone forever.
And that’s a good thing!
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Evolutionary Psychology Threatens Accountability
| Answers in Genesis
A Christian response to an article regarding evolutionary psychology.
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Is a Bigger Brain Better?
| Answers in Genesis
When it comes to intelligence, the size of your noggin isn’t a factor.
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How Much Brain Do We Need to Be Human?
| Answers in Genesis
The design and plasticity of the human brain shows God’s goodness.
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Marriage Decreases Likelihood of Dementia
| Answers in Genesis
Recently, a new study was published in which 19,579 men and women aged 52 and older from the US and who exhibited no signs of dementia were interviewed (beginning in 2000). The purpose of the study was to determine if there was any correlation between the risk of dementia and marital status.
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Biblical Counseling—Common Cause with Creation
| Answers in Genesis
The so-called “culture wars” have spilled into every field of study, not just origins.
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The Brain’s Adaptability: A Testimony of the Creator
| Answers in Genesis
Real-life examples are increasingly showing the brain (particularly the infant brain) to be much more complex than this simplistic understanding.
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Are Conflicting Beliefs Tied to the Brain?
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Researchers using neuroimaging technology claim to have found the cause for the conflict between science and religion (evolution and creationism) in the brain.
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Experiment: The Brain—Your Nimble Noggin
| Answers in Genesis
Would you rather have a computer or a brain in an emergency? Knock a robot off its legs, and you decide!
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Mindboggling
| Answers in Genesis
U.S. President Barack Obama last year announced the BRAIN Initiative—an ambitious research effort to better understand the human brain.
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Answers Magazine Preview: Vol. 8 No. 3
| Answers in Genesis
Learn about the matchless miracles of the mind in Answers magazine.
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What Makes the Human Brain Function?
| Answers in Genesis
Does a designer DNA duplicate or a lucky genetic goof make the human brain do what it does do so well?
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Are Brains Shrinking to Make Us Smarter?
| Answers in Genesis
Human brains are getting smaller, yet we’re supposedly smarter than our ancestors.
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Patients in Vegetative States and Communicating
| Answers in Genesis
Can patients in vegetative states communicate with the outside world?
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Do Humans Possess Inate Numerical Skills?
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists at the University College London (UCL) and the University of Melbourne (Australia) may not have counted on such a discovery, but their research suggests humans possess innate numerical skills.
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Brain Scans Raise Questions About Altruism
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A neuroscience team from North Carolina’s Duke University is reporting results of a brain study on altruistic behavior.
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Eyes
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The Lord claims to be the Creator of the “seeing eye.” (Proverbs 20:12) The sophisticated and elaborate design of the eye certainly points to His design.
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Experiment: Stereoscopic Vision—Seeing Double
| Answers in Genesis
Two eyes are better than one. There’s more truth to that saying than you might realize.
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The Seeing Eye
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“The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has made them both” (Proverbs 20:12).
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Eyelids—Intermittent Wipers
| Answers in Genesis
Robert Kearns was inspired by the superb design of our eyelids.
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Does the Diversity of Eyes in Nature Support Evolution?
| Answers in Genesis
The National Geographic article treats every aspect of our world of vision as evidence for evolution: eye diversity and the fact that eyes share common designs.
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In Living Color Experiment
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Your eye’s complex ability to
see color and motion points to
the Creator. Even its limitations
reveal His purposeful design.
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Seeing the Master Designer Through a Microbe’s Eye
| Answers in Genesis
The ocelloid—a camera-like “eye” inside single-celled marine plankton—is an amazing design, but it does not represent an evolutionary triumph.
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Can Evolution Produce an Eye? Not a Chance!
| Answers in Genesis
The light sensitive retina of the eye (which is really part of the brain) contains over 10 million photoreceptor cells.
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Experiment: Retinal Blood Vessels—Hiding in Plain Sight
| Answers in Genesis
The retinas of your eyes are made of living cells, which must be nourished by blood vessels. But with all this blood covering your eyes, how can you see?
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Is Our “Inverted” Retina Really “Bad Design?”
| Answers in Genesis
This article reviews reasons for our having the inverted retina and why the the verted retina would be liable to fail in creatures who have inverted retinas.
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Visual Perception: More Than Meets the Eye
| Answers in Genesis
Our vision of the world merely begins at our eyes. Take a deeper look at the wonders our brain performs every second to help us see.
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Experiment: What You See Isn’t Always What You Get
| Answers in Genesis
We rely on our sight more than any other sense to help us interpret the world.
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The Eye—It Easily Evolved (If You Don’t Look Closely)
| Answers in Genesis
“All eyes, despite their wonderous variety across lifeforms, come from a history of shared genes.” This statement comes from an article published recently.
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Darwin’s Challenge: The Origins of the Eye
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Darwin predicted an evolutionary sequence of eyes from simple to complex, but modern knowledge about the design of the eye in various living things defies evolutionary explanation.
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Our Eye Movements and Their Control: Part 2
| Answers in Genesis
The purpose of this second paper is to give an outline of the physiology of the brain’s control of eye movements as an outstanding example of a biological computerised control system.
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Our Eye Movements and their Control: Part 1
| Answers in Genesis
This is the first of two papers whose aim is to review briefly how our eyes move and how eye movements are controlled, as another example of awe-inspiring precision engineering by the Almighty.
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What a Yawn!
| Answers in Genesis
From fish and birds to reptiles and mammals, nearly all vertebrates yawn. But why do we yawn?
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Life’s Hidden Marvel
| Answers in Genesis
Developmental biology is one of the most awesome biological disciplines to display the glory of God and the immeasurable value of human life.
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The Hearing Ear
| Answers in Genesis
It is fitting that one of the most marvelous organs in the body should be used to hear the Word of God.
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The Unknown Harvest: Organ Donation and the Definition of Death
| Answers in Genesis
With life-and-death issues at stake, Christians must be aware of current medical practices to draw biblical boundaries.
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When God’s People Play
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How does play fit into God’s plan for his people?
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A Time for Everything—Your Body’s Internal Clock
| Answers in Genesis
Have you ever woken up just before your alarm went off? It’s as if your body is wired with an internal clock. Actually, scientists have discovered trillions of them!
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Is There Anything Good About Pain?
| Answers in Genesis
Ouch! Your daughter snatches her finger back at the first prick of a rose. Eek! Your son jumps back the instant his bare feet touch your sunbaked deck. Our reflex response is a blessing, prompting us to withdraw at the first sign of trouble and preventing worse harm.
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Playing by Different Rules
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Kids don’t just play differently from adults, they think differently too—by God’s design.
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Nerve Distribution—A Sensitive Topic
| Answers in Genesis
Different parts of
your skin sport wildly different sensitivities
to the world around you. If our skin were
sensitive all over,
we would be
in big trouble. Why are certain spots more
ticklish than others? The existence of tickle spots highlights
a design feature of skin—not all
areas are the same.
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New Studies Show Why Rest Is So Important
| Answers in Genesis
Several recent studies have shown that being well-rested makes a person more altruistic.
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Time to Eat
| Answers in Genesis
Though embarrassing, a growling stomach reminds us that the Creator designed our bodies to uniquely sound the alarm when it’s time for our next meal.
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The Good Side of Fat
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As much as we complain about it, our bodies are made to store fat. And that’s a good thing.
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God’s Design: Strategic Routing of the RLN
| Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists cite the recurrent laryngeal nerve as evidence of “poor design.” But the nerve serves an important designed function.
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You Have Good Taste!
| Answers in Genesis
Look at those luscious pancakes!
Can’t you just taste them?
You can—because of God’s
intricate design for your senses.
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The Ultimate Electric Machine
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The human body is the oldest, most complex electric machine and comes complete with electronic senses and limbs designed by a master engineer: God.
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The Gender of Bones
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists admit that biological gender is visible in
basic human anatomy and in the genetic makeup
of chromosomes.
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Footwear Impressions
| Answers in Genesis
God made all people different
in the way they walk, in their
stride, and in their steps.
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Counterfeit Care
| Answers in Genesis
In a culture that promotes putting yourself first, how should Christians approach self-care?
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Immunity and Creation Science
| Answers in Genesis
The human immune system in a pre-fall world would still have had functions. Regulating the microbiome, reducing the bacterial population, and keeping microbes from straying from their assigned places would all have been part of the immune system’s pre-fall function.
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Can Your Muscles Make It?
| Answers in Genesis
God created our bodies with
three types of muscle: smooth,
cardiac, and skeletal.
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Nanobots Show Promise with Artificial Muscle
| Answers in Genesis
Doctors dream of the day when they can send micro-machines up our bloodstream to attack cancers and deliver medicines.
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Human Ribs: Amazing & Regenerating
| Answers in Genesis
Many people think of the skeletal structure as static, but as our ribs show, they are some of the most dynamic structures in our bodies.
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Why Do We Hiccup?
| Answers in Genesis
Our bodies can do some pretty embarrassing things, and we can’t always stop them.
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Human Vision: Uniqueness of Human Eyesight
| Answers in Genesis
Human vision is incredible. The human eye and brain are adept at recognizing objects, often even when they are not fully visible or oriented at different angles than usual. Although we often think of our eyes as what we see with, we really “see” with our brains.
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The Wonder of Creation
| Answers in Genesis
Professor Stuart Burgess will be giving two talks at the AIG Mega Conference in the West Midlands, UK, on October 24–26, 2019: “The Wonder of Creation” and “Refusing to be Silent on Biblical Creation.” We invite you to join us for this unique conference.
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Self-Healing Concrete
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What if we could design a material for roads that would only get small cracks that resealed with chemical bonds as good as new?
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The Wonder of the Human Voice
| Answers in Genesis
The way the human voice works is a marvel of acoustic engineering. Each voice reflects how the original sound is produced at the vocal cords, then in the way the sound waves are channelled through the throat, and finally in the way the sound is released from the mouth where many harmonics are added.
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Spilling the Beans on Digestion: World Digestive Health Day
| Answers in Genesis
May 29 is World Digestive Health Day. One of the most intricate and involved systems in the body, the digestive system takes up the most space in the torso, involves ten organs over nine meters of space, and contains over 20 specialized cell types.
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Human Cell Regeneration—A Whole New You
| Answers in Genesis
You’re not the same person you
were yesterday. You may look and
feel the same, but your body has been
busy creating a new you.
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Should We Try to Live Forever?
| Answers in Genesis
The media bombards us daily with messages
about becoming younger and cheating death.
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Humans’ Poor Sense of Smell Is an Evolutionary Myth
| Answers in Genesis
We’ve all heard that, compared to mammalian animals like dogs, humans have a poor sense of smell. Did you know that this notion is a 19th century myth?
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Uniqueness of Man
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Genesis 1 states that God specially created the first male and female in His own image.
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Facial Expressions—The Universal Language
| Answers in Genesis
Every human being has the ability to communicate with a range of expressions no other creature can match.
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Combatting a Constant Threat
| Answers in Genesis
Every second, our bodies must monitor a melange of threats that seek to invade and destroy.
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The Barefoot Professor
| Answers in Genesis
Barefoot college professors? Only something very unusual could explain these strange goings on—the wonders of foot design.
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The Mysterious Spleen
| Answers in Genesis
This amazing organ quietly serves several invaluable roles in our blood system, keeping our bodies healthy.
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Our Index Finger—Pointing to the Creator
| Answers in Genesis
The index finger is capable of assuming at least 10 billion different positions with complete control.
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Melanin—Umbrellas of Our Skin
| Answers in Genesis
God provided our skin with millions of miniature umbrellas, filled with melanin, to guard our bodies from the sun’s most deadly ultraviolet rays.
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Bones
| Answers in Genesis
The bones in our bodies aren't just strong and flexible, they're constantly building and repairing themselves.
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The Placenta
| Answers in Genesis
Most people give little thought to the placenta, and few appreciate the marvelous complexity and profound importance of this organ.
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Human Faces Vary Thanks to Evolution, Study Claims
| Answers in Genesis
Human faces evolved to vary as much as Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head, evolutionists say.
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Round-the-Clock Detox
| Answers in Genesis
Your body produces toxic
chemicals all day every day.
Not to worry. Your liver’s
got it covered.
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Our Impressive Immune System: More Than a Defense
| Answers in Genesis
There were no pathogens, parasites, or disease prior the Fall and subsequent Curse, so the immune system may have functioned differently in that world.
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From Dust to Dust
| Answers in Genesis
Both secular science and the Scriptures state that man was formed from dust. What is the difference, and why is it important?
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Methuselah and Grandpa’s Ax: the Problem of Aging and Death
| Answers in Genesis
Let’s take a look at the whole matter of aging and death from the perspective of both the Bible and science.
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Hidden Powers in Action
| Answers in Genesis
Every time a little leaguer steps up to bat, hidden powers come into play.
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Getting Close to Gross
| Answers in Genesis
“Yuck!” Even in the grosser things on our body, we can see clear reminders of God’s wise providence.
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Experiment: Selective Hearing
| Answers in Genesis
Your ears are delicate instruments, fine-tuned to hear a wide range of noises. What keeps them from being ripped apart by violent waves of loud vibrations?
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All Systems Go
| Answers in Genesis
A healthy body requires more than working parts. Somehow they must work together for optimum performance.
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Running With or Without Shoes?
| Answers in Genesis
Running shoes probably seem like prudent athletic footwear for most of us. But as some African runners have shown, God’s original design is superior.
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Can We Reverse Aging in Humans?
| Answers in Genesis
According to a recent article, some researchers now believe that aging is a reversible process (in mice it is, at least; human studies have not yet been done).
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Skin
| Answers in Genesis
Skin's multilayered design provides us with the perfect combination of strength, flexibility, and durability.
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The Miracle of Tears
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists have found God’s greatness even in one of the most minute phenomena—human tears.
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Critical Characteristics and the Irreducible Knee Joint
| Answers in Genesis
Opponents of Neo-Darwinian evolution have argued that it is impossible, because many biological systems require an irreducible number of parts for the system to have any useful function.
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Your Legs Are on Backwards
| Answers in Genesis
You might be surprised to discover that your legs are on backwards compared to your arms.
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The Human Body—Wired for Extremes
| Answers in Genesis
God has equipped every human with backup systems that are programmed to respond to all sorts of emergencies.
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One Leg Up On Architects
| Answers in Genesis
The basic design of the Eiffel Tower was borrowed from the work of an ancient designer, the Creator, who engineered the human femur.
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The Amazing Human Hair
| Answers in Genesis
Hair is mentioned over 100 times in the Bible, often in the context of God’s loving care and protection for His people.
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Joint Effort
| Answers in Genesis
When God created animals and humans, He gave them
the best design for mobility.
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Feedback: Hermaphroditism
| Answers in Genesis
How should Christians deal with the topic of hermaphroditism?
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Body of Evidence!
| Answers in Genesis
Our body is truly a “body of evidence” for the all-knowing and all-powerful Creator. It inspires us to give credit to our Creator and Savior, and reminds us of our accountability to Him.
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Study: Tongues Can “Taste” Tasteless Water
| Answers in Genesis
Our tongues can sense five basic tastes with specialized nerve cells for each. A new study suggests our tongues can detect another “taste”—tasteless water.
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Wonders of the Human Body
| Answers in Genesis
These and many other amazing facts spill off the 96 pages of the October–December 2009 issue of Answers magazine.
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Is the Human Body a Bad Design?
| Answers in Genesis
A recent article highlights the supposed “flaws” in the design of the human body. But are these really “flaws”?
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Did Clothing Help Determine Our Shade of Skin?
| Answers in Genesis
Why do people in northern climates tend to have lighter skin while those in southern climates have darker skin?
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What If No One Had an Appendix?
| Answers in Genesis
The appendix, a safe house for good bacteria, is not a useless evolutionary leftover, but shows God’s careful design in humans.
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Have You Ever Wondered?
| Answers in Genesis
Have you ever considered how marvelous the human body is?
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Rehab for Your Feet
| Answers in Genesis
Can the damage done to our feet by shoes be undone by going barefoot?
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Your Hearing: A Powerful Pointer to God's Creation
| Answers in Genesis
Contemplation of the size of things that have been created can be a very effective tool in comprehending the greatness of God. Consider the Creator’s technical ability in a study of human hearing.
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Shame on Time!
| Answers in Genesis
Time magazine’s most recent cover story—‘Inside the Womb’—offers ‘an amazing look at how we all begin.’
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Does a molar pregnancy have anything to do with a tooth?
| Answers in Genesis
Why is a molar pregnancy called that? Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell, AiG–U.S., responds, explaining the interesting connection.
- feedback-a-pro-life-doctors-view-on-molar-pregnancies/1 page
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Feedback: A Pro-life Doctor’s View on Molar Pregnancies
| Answers in Genesis
Is a molar pregnancy really a baby? Does it have a gender? Does aborting it end a life? Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell, AiG–U.S., explains.
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Mathematics
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The characteristics of math reflect characteristics of God, its Creator.
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I Unity
| Answers in Genesis
If mathematics is already thought out and constructed by someone, it is logical that there would be no contradictions.
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Is Improbability the Best Argument Against Evolution?
| Answers in Genesis
Improbability doesn’t convince die-hard evolutionists to abandon their view. As a Christian, I prefer deductions (as in geometry proofs) to counter evolution.
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Without God, Math Doesn’t Make Sense
| Answers in Genesis
If we treat math merely as a tool, we miss an incredible opportunity to honor the Creator.
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The Golden Ratio: Curious Connections in Creation
| Answers in Genesis
You can spot the golden ratio in the swirl of a galaxy, the
arch of an ocean wave, the tail of a seahorse, and innumerable
other places in nature.
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When a Knot Is Not a Knot
| Answers in Genesis
Even mathematicians—studying the rules that underlie reality—are tied up in knots over the surprising twists of “knot theory.”
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The Purpose of Mathematics
| Answers in Genesis
Why is it so important for the Christian to behold the glory of God reflected in mathematics or anywhere else?
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IV The Nature of Mathematics
| Answers in Genesis
If there is “something there” in mathematics, the Christian cannot escape the consequences of the universal quantifiers which saturate Colossians 1:15–20.
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The Universal Language
| Answers in Genesis
There are two directions of mathematical inquiry: it can either penetrate into the other sciences, or it can mind its own business.
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Mathematics and the Natural Sciences
| Answers in Genesis
Christians believe the Mind partially revealed behind mathematics to be God’s.
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Celebrate Einstein’s Birthday with Pi on 3.14.15
| Answers in Genesis
Physics, mathematics, and constants like pi are only possible because we live in a rational universe upheld by a constant, unchanging, and consistent God.
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Is Math Just a Tool?
| Answers in Genesis
Surely there’s one thing Christians and atheists can agree on—math.
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Does Math Prove Evolution?
| Answers in Genesis
A new mathematical model “has offered even more evidence of the correctness of evolutionary theory.” So how does math “prove” evolution?
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Fractals
| Answers in Genesis
Did you know that amazing, beautiful shapes have been built into numbers? Believe it or not, numbers contain a “secret code”—a hidden beauty embedded in them.
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Physics
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The laws of physics are fine-tuned for life—exactly what we would expect if the universe were intelligently designed.
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Physics’ Unsolved Energy Crisis
| Answers in Genesis
Two fundamental laws
of physics clash if we try to
explain the universe’s
origin without a Creator.
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Why Is the Universe Dominated by Matter?
| Answers in Genesis
The asymmetry between matter and antimatter is not a problem if God created the universe as Genesis 1 says that He did.
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Spacetime
| Answers in Genesis
Space, time, and matter are all examples of “three-in-ones” in nature. Perhaps God created them in this fashion to declare His own triune nature.
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Weird Physics
| Answers in Genesis
Physics is a relatively “clean” science because it deals mostly with the world as it exists. Yet it has struggled to explain some weird experimental results.
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Higgs Boson (God Particle)
| Answers in Genesis
The Higgs boson, nicknamed the “God particle,” reveals nothing about the origin of the universe—but it does divulge secrets about how the universe operates.
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The God Particle and the God of Particles
| Answers in Genesis
The so-called “God Particle” may not be relevant to many practical aspects of our daily lives but it brings up an opportunity to consider the meaning of the way the universe is made.
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Beams Collide Today in Expensive Hadron Collider
| Answers in Genesis
In the news this morning, it was announced that scientists have succeeded in colliding beams of protons using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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Higgs Boson Not God Particle, Still Incredible
| Answers in Genesis
It’s “The Higgs boson” or “a Higgs boson” but not the “God particle.”
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A Miniature Big Bang or More Hot Air?
| Answers in Genesis
European scientists have hit the switch to activate the nearly $9 billion Large Hadron Collider. But what will it produce—a mini big bang or more hot air?
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Big Bang Blow Up
| Answers in Genesis
When Lyn Evans fired up the world’s most powerful particle accelerator last September, he hoped to unlock the mysteries of the so-called big bang.
- are-we-one-of-many-or-did-god-design-the-universe-with-physics-that-actually-works/1 page
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Did God Design the Universe with Physics That Actually Works?
| Answers in Genesis
Our world, and our universe, seem remarkably fine-tuned. But in fact, they are too fine-tuned, many physicists now think.
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A Massive Discovery
| Answers in Genesis
Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland claim to have found the Higgs boson.
- the-matter-of-massmaking-sense-of-the-god-particle/1 page
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The Matter of Mass—Making Sense of the “God Particle”
| Answers in Genesis
Are you scratching your head about the so-called “God particle,” “Higgs boson,” the several-billion-dollar collider under the Alps?
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Neutrinos Break Light-Speed Limit
| Answers in Genesis
Is the neutrino guilty of breaking the cosmic speed limit?
- elusive-god-particle-teases-physicists-tantalizes-theistic-evolutionists/1 page
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The Elusive God-Particle Teases Physicists
| Answers in Genesis
The elusive god-particle teases physicists but tantalizes theistic evolutionists.
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Big Bang Machine Shutting Down Again
| Answers in Genesis
The once controversial, multi-billion-dollar “big bang machine” beneath Switzerland will be shutting down yet again.
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Searching For the Higgs-Boson Particle
| Answers in Genesis
An article on one of the most important physics projects of the new millennium asks, “Will it change our views of the universe and our place in it?”
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General Relativity and Creation
| Answers in Genesis
With its many successful tests over more than a century, general relativity stands as one of the most thoroughly verified theories in all of science.
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Mulling Over the Multiverse
| Answers in Genesis
The multiverse is the stuff of superhero stories. But some scientists think this comic-book cosmos could explain the origin of our universe. Can Christians be sure the multiverse is no more than science fiction?
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What Are the Laws of Thermodynamics, and How Do They Confirm Biblical Creation?
| Answers in Genesis
Many believe that scientific laws confirm ideas like evolution, but we don’t ask why these laws exist, where they came from, and how can we even understand them?
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Is This Science?
| Answers in Genesis
When modern evolutionary physicists
begin to connect the dots with abstract
ideas that can’t be tested, even they are alarmed.
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Is Gravity a Force?
| Answers in Genesis
Flat-earth proponents aim to demote gravity as a force, but they fail to account for time-honored conventions in physics informed by relativity.
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Experiment: Water’s Life-Saving Secret
| Answers in Genesis
Water conceals little-known, life-saving secrets. One of them is its ability to resist burning!
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Quantum Mechanics and Creation: A Brief Overview
| Answers in Genesis
A brief history of quantum mechanics from Newton to the “Theory of Everything” and what it means to Christians.
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Quantum Weirdness
| Answers in Genesis
There are many sub-categories of physics, each dealing with a particular aspect of the universe. The branch of physics dealing with how the universe operates at very small scales – interactions involving particles smaller than atoms – is called quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is weird.
- the-first-and-second-laws-of-thermodynamics-and-the-origin-of-the-universe/1 page
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The First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics and the Origin of the Universe
| Answers in Genesis
Consideration of the first and second laws of thermodynamics in the past leads to the conclusion that the universe’s origin is a metaphysical or spiritual question, not a physical one. Therefore, using science, we can conclude the origin of the universe is not a question that science is equipped to answer on its own.
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Snowflakes—The Patron’s Gift
| Answers in Genesis
How can one type of crystal adopt so many beautiful forms? Some of the world’s greatest scientific minds have puzzled over this question.
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Experiment: Cool Cotton
| Answers in Genesis
God clearly had people in mind when He designed this lowly plant with so many desirable qualities.
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Does the Second Law of Thermodynamics Favor Evolution?
| Answers in Genesis
The second law imposes a direction to time, so some physicists and philosophers refer to the second law of thermodynamics as time’s arrow.
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Experiment: How to Make Water Climb a Tree
| Answers in Genesis
How do you make water flow upward? It’s not a problem if you’re the Creator of the universe.
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Kitty Physics
| Answers in Genesis
Even a cat lapping milk displays the elegance of the Creator’s design!
- the-missing-cornerstone-of-physics/1 page
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Finding “The Missing Cornerstone of Physics”
| Answers in Genesis
Physicists applaud around the world as CERN scientists announce finding “the missing cornerstone of physics.”
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Einstein Wins Again
| Answers in Genesis
In September 2011, researchers in Italy caused consternation among physicists worldwide when they claimed to detect neutrinos traveling faster than light.
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More Egg Experiments
| Answers in Genesis
Learn more about the strength of eggshells by conducting some experments.
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Laws of Physics, Jim
| Answers in Genesis
The laws of physics are fine-tuned for life, exactly what we would expect if the universe were intelligently designed. So what’s the latest atheistic rebuttal?
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Do Creationists Believe in “Weird” Physics?
| Answers in Genesis
History shows that scientific “truth” changes over time. The uncertainty is the reason why continued testing of our ideas is so important in science.
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Beech Leaf Folding Project
| Answers in Genesis
Try a complex fold based on the beech leaf that is used for maps.
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Appendix 3: Energy
| Answers in Genesis
The concept of energy plays such a central role in all of physics.
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Just Add Energy?
| Answers in Genesis
We received this critical email concerning the article “Just add energy …”, authored by Dr. Andy McIntosh.
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Gravity
| Answers in Genesis
It would seem that this everyday gravity force should be one of the best understood concepts in science. However, just the opposite is true.
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What Does the Detection of Gravity Waves Mean for the Creation Mo
| Answers in Genesis
This first direct confirmation of gravitational waves is another example of how far out and cool God’s creation can be.
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Technology
| Answers in Genesis
Humanity has utilized God-given intelligence and an orderly universe to create some breathtaking and astonishing inventions and technologies.
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Should We Update God’s Design?
| Answers in Genesis
Modern technology can
help
people in great need. But
what if technology
can be repurposed to
enhance healthy people
beyond their natural limits?
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Biomimicry
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God invented it first! Scientists often look to impressive designs in nature to develop their technology.
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God Invented It First
| Answers in Genesis
The marvelous designs in the biological world have inspired a new field of science, called biomimicry.
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Searching for a Sticky Solution
| Answers in Genesis
Some creatures produce tenaciously sticky
substances and researchers hope to mimic these
materials to create safer surgical procedures.
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Quieter Than a Speeding Bullet
| Answers in Genesis
God’s creation has inspired many of man’s greatest designs.
- engineers-try-to-emulate-sticky-gecko-feet/1 page
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Engineers Try to Emulate Sticky Gecko Feet
| Answers in Genesis
Hours of research continue to be spent investigating—and trying to emulate—the incredible “sticky” gecko foot, one of God’s most crafty creations.
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Scientists Abuzz over More Efficient Web Servers
| Answers in Genesis
In another example of technology inspired by nature, a honeybee dance has helped scientists design a new model for Internet server technology.
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Gecko Feet—Best Foot Forward
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists have long tried to understand how geckos can walk on walls and ceilings, even on smooth glass.
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A Sailor’s Best Friend
| Answers in Genesis
It’s easy to see why dogs are a hunter’s best friend. But sailors? Go topside to examine a swabbie’s shoe, and you’ll find your answer.
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Robotic Insects Mimic God’s Own Design
| Answers in Genesis
Energizer bug’s backpack is a battery of God’s own design.
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Greatest Form of Flattery
| Answers in Genesis
The design of pterodactyls has inspired the design of an unmanned spy drone.
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Diatoms—Living in Glass Houses
| Answers in Genesis
Mankind was not the first to invent glass. Since creation, untold trillions of little creatures, called diatoms, have made their homes out of glass.
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Diatom Slideshow
| Answers in Genesis
Watch a slideshow showcasing the variety of diatoms.
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Replicating the Bombardier Beetle
| Answers in Genesis
The Bombardier beetle is a favorite of intelligent design advocates, who ask how the insect’s self-defense mechanism could have arisen in stepwise fashion.
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Bug Bots
| Answers in Genesis
What if we could build light-weight flying machines that flap their wings and maneuver silently, without conventional airplane engines?
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Cockroaches Inspire Robots
| Answers in Genesis
Robot designers are taking a cue from lizards and cockroaches!
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Biomimicry: Researchers Copy God’s Design in Silkworm Moths
| Answers in Genesis
Human designers are inspired by the ultimate Designer, and this results in some neat technological innovations—including a new technology using the antennae of silkworm moths.
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Bats Inspire High-Tech New Flying Robots
| Answers in Genesis
Researchers have been working on Bat Bot (or B2), a robotic lightweight flier designed to mimic the incredible aerial ability of a bat.
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Space-Age Leaves
| Answers in Genesis
The intricate folding of the beech leaf is an ingenious design. Scientists are using patterns found in nature.
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The Day Superman Crashed
| Answers in Genesis
As long as there have been humans, men and women have looked at what God has made and tried to copy it.
- scientists-creation-inspiration/1 page
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Scientists Turning to Creation for Inspiration
| Answers in Genesis
Once again, scientists are turning to God’s creations for inspiration.
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Marine Animal Robots
| Answers in Genesis
Are a series of robots made in nature’s image, or were they inspired by God’s designs? Or could it be both?
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The Original Super Glue
| Answers in Genesis
Researchers are studying the Sandcastle worm, which produces a glue.
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New Nautical Device Takes Design Cues From Clams
| Answers in Genesis
An incredible new nautical device takes design cues from the humble Ensis directus clam.
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Engineers Take Cues From Fish In New Energy Turbine Design
| Answers in Genesis
Energy-generating turbines could take a cue from fish, according to a new study.
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Superglue From A Sea Worm May Mend Bones
| Answers in Genesis
Fracture a bone? Let us put it back together with our worm glue.
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Nature Inspires Technology To Replicate Spider Silk
| Answers in Genesis
Another of God’s creative designs has inspired human technology—a device that attempts to replicate a spider’s production of silk.
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Technology for Good and Evil
| Answers in Genesis
The Lord has allowed mankind to accumulate knowledge to develop the incredible technology we see today. That technology can be used for both good and evil purposes.
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Evolving Robots
| Answers in Genesis
Robot designers are taking a cue from Charles Darwin!
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The Effects of Artificial Intelligence
| Answers in Genesis
The rise of artificial intelligence unlocks an altered world of possibilities that are already transforming how humans work, learn, heal, grieve, relate, and worship.
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AI Lets You “Talk” with Dead Loved Ones
| Answers in Genesis
There are companies willing to take your money in exchange for a “large language model” trained to communicate with you just like your loved one did in life.
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The World in Our Pockets
| Answers in Genesis
Even your phone is a reminder that “to the Lord your God belong . . . the earth with all that is in it” (Deuteronomy 10:14).
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7 Genesis Truths for Thinking About Any New Technology
| Answers in Genesis
How the doctrine of creation influences our interaction with new technologies.
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Will AI Become Our New Gods?
| Answers in Genesis
Answering the claims that AI could correct the Bible
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AI Answers: What Is Behemoth?
| Answers in Genesis
Careful questioning can overcome programmed materialism
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Will AI Replace Writers and Artists?
| Answers in Genesis
Computer programs only have the creativity humans program into them.
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Remembering a Remarkable Lifesaver
| Answers in Genesis
Dr. Raymond Damadian’s lifesaving MRI invention continues to benefit millions of people each year.
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Is AI Really a Threat?
| Answers in Genesis
Widespread fear that
artificial intelligence
could overtake
humans is based
on a false assumption.
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Space Sails
| Answers in Genesis
A novel satellite is scheduled to investigate the feasibility of using “solar wind” as a source of propulsion for spacecraft and satellites by using solar sails. If successful, solar sails may eventually prove suitable for propelling long, unmanned space exploration and possibly manned, interplanetary operations.
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My Bionic Ear
| Answers in Genesis
Truth or science fiction? It’s possible to bypass your ears and send electrical signals directly to the brain. True.
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Bird-Saving Spider Webs
| Answers in Genesis
The orb weaver has a unique “stay away” warning system that has inspired new technology to save birds’ lives.
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There’s an App for That
| Answers in Genesis
Software developer Brett Golson knows that passively reading God’s Word isn’t enough.
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Digital Evolution?
| Answers in Genesis
On July 9, the internationally respected Sunday Times (of London) published an article by Richard Woods on the digital revolution.
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Evolution Computer?
| Answers in Genesis
Many programs allegedly simulating evolution are in use today, some even being used to make works of art.1 Many people have been misled by such demonstrations of 'life evolving on the screen'.
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ChatGPT Generates “Bible” Verse “Describing How Jesus Feels About Trans People”
| Answers in Genesis
A trans-identifying individual recently turned to AI for encouragement by asking ChatGPT to write a “fake Bible passage about Jesus accepting trans people.”
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Google Co-founder Wants to Build AI as a “Digital God”
| Answers in Genesis
According to entrepreneur Elon Musk, for some, such as Google’s Larry Page, the ultimate goal of the race to build artificial intelligence is to create a “digital god.”
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The Chatbot and the Great Commission
| Answers in Genesis
Teams at Answers in Genesis discovered how artificial intelligence could help with real apologetics.
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Worldview
| Answers in Genesis
Your worldview is the basic set of beliefs that color how you view and interpret the world. It shapes your perspective of everything from fossils to human life.
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Reframing the Sacred
| Answers in Genesis
How does art shape our understanding of Scripture?
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The Creator Conflict
| Answers in Genesis
We were made from dust in the image of our Creator. But in rebellion, our culture tells us that we are the creators now.
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Disarming Skeptics
| Answers in Genesis
“Homophobic.”
“Misogynist.”
How do Christians
address the criticism
that they’re
hate-filled bigots?
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Famous Evolutionist Leaves Atheist Group Because “The Foundation Has Abandoned Science”
| Answers in Genesis
Famous evolutionary biologist Dr. Jerry Coyne has separated from the atheistic Freedom From Religion Foundation due to their religious beliefs no longer matching.
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Ken Ham—The Man Everyone Loves to Hate
| Answers in Genesis
Todd Friel, host of Wretched TV and Radio, interviews Ken
Ham on the 25th Anniversary of Answers in Genesis.
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Deep Depravity and a Biblical Worldview of Life
| Answers in Genesis
God calls his children to value all human life as being made in the image of the Creator.
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Are We Living in Days Like Noah’s?
| Answers in Genesis
The moral revolution and hostility toward Christianity make it seem that the world today is as bad as Noah’s day. But is it really?
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Do You Really Understand “Worldview”?
| Answers in Genesis
There are ultimately only two religions in the world — you either start with God’s Word or man’s word.
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Breaking Down Deconstruction
| Answers in Genesis
People who claim to be “deconstructing” are systematically dismantling their faith, some to rebuild stronger and some to leave the faith altogether. How can we help them reconstruct on the sure foundation of God’s Word?
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War of the Worldviews
| Answers in Genesis
How are we to know if we have an accurate worldview? Is there any reason to think that our most basic assumptions about reality are correct?
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Only Two Worldviews
| Answers in Genesis
Fundamentally, there are only two worldviews: God’s way and man’s way—and every variation of man’s way holds to three basic themes.
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Are Human Rights Ever Wrong?
| Answers in Genesis
As God’s image bearers, humans are entitled to certain rights—but the Creator, not culture, makes the rules.
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Stephen Hawking 1942–2018
| Answers in Genesis
Famed British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking died today. Interestingly, Albert Einstein was born on the same date in 1879. Furthermore, both men died shortly after their 76th birthdays. These facts wouldn’t be remarkable if their work and writings were not so intimately related.
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Origins, Ethics, & Tetherball
| Answers in Genesis
Our definitions and our ethics depend on our starting point—God’s Word or man’s word.
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Only Two
| Answers in Genesis
Biblical teachings reflect the fact that, in an ultimate sense, there are only two religious views in the world—beliefs built on man’s fallible word (darkness/sand) and the one that’s built on the infallible Word of God beginning in Genesis (light/rock).
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Building a Biblical Worldview
| Answers in Genesis
There is an urgent need
for Americans to return to God’s Word
as the authority in all things.
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Called To Create
| Answers in Genesis
As God’s masterpieces, we reflect the creativity of our God.
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Let There Be Truth
| Answers in Genesis
What happens when we base our interpretation of the Bible on man’s ideas?
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A Biblical Prescription: A Worldview Checkup
| Answers in Genesis
The Bible provides the clearest lens for viewing the world. How biblical is your worldview?
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Work—A Gift or a Curse?
| Answers in Genesis
Fair wages, decent office conditions, work-life balance—work is a contentious topic. As sin takes a toll on what God has designed to be good, how do we keep up the good work?
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Who Programmed Your Glasses?
| Answers in Genesis
Most people don’t think about the fact that we see the world we live in differently, depending on which glasses we are wearing and how they were programmed. These glasses are really what we call our worldview.
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Only 3% of Children Have the “Cornerstone Beliefs” That Make a Biblical Worldview
| Answers in Genesis
The Cultural Research Center’s survey found that just 3% of children embraced all seven of the cornerstones of a biblical worldview.
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The Growing Pressure of LGBTQ+ Worldview on Christians
| Answers in Genesis
The pressure placed on companies to force acceptance of LGBTQ+ ideals on their workforce is one thing, but sadly, this pressure has also impacted much of the church and many Christian institutions.
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Two Things Presidential Voting Is Not
| Answers in Genesis
In a few short weeks, Americans will head to the polls to elect a president for the next four years. Other positions are also up for grabs, including 470 seats in Congress, 35 seats in the US Senate, and many other offices. However, the US presidential election is capturing most of the nation’s attention
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: “We are Literally Stardust,” And That’s What Makes Us Special
| Answers in Genesis
A secular worldview struggles to answer identity questions, as evidenced by the answer Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson recently gave to why humans are special.
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Why Aren’t People Convinced by Facts?
| Answers in Genesis
An article recently appeared on Scientific American titled “How To Convince Someone When Facts Fail: Why Worldview Threats Undermine Evidence.”
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How to Treat our Enemies
| Answers in Genesis
Who really are our enemies? Should we treat them
differently from our friends and family?
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How Should Christians Vote?
| Answers in Genesis
It’s not even close
to election time.
How can our
vote count every
day of the year?
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Can Public Libraries Carry Creation Resources?
| Answers in Genesis
The majority of the science-related resources you will find in your public library will be from an evolutionary perspective. Many libraries even carry anti-creation books and materials. But you can help get creation resources into public or school libraries!
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Could “Equiterra” Ever Be Reality?
| Answers in Genesis
Fictional “Equiterra” envisions a progressive utopia, with gender equality and no “toxic masculity”—but does not present Jesus as Lord and the source of human freedom.
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Christianity
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Christianity is the religion that worships Jesus as God and trusts in him for salvation from our sins. Christians trust the Bible as the authoritative Word of God.
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Andy Stanley Says We Need to “Unhitch” the Old Testament from Our Faith
| Answers in Genesis
Andy Stanley, the pastor of North Point Community Church, recently claimed Christians need to “unhitch” the Old Testament from their understanding of the faith. By this he means to instruct people to ignore the Old Testament and focus solely on the resurrection of Jesus Christ, especially in evangelism.
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Christian Life
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How should a follower of Christ live, work, and witness in a sin-filled culture that rejects God and His Word?
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What Is the Kingdom of Heaven Like?
| Answers in Genesis
Jesus’ Parables of the Mustard Seed, Leaven, Lost Treasures, and Pearls.
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Learning from the Parables of the Persistent Friend and Widow
| Answers in Genesis
The Parables of the Persistent Friend and the Persistent Widow show the generous provision of God compared to the reluctant characters in the parables.
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Why Does God Allow Evil to Flourish?
| Answers in Genesis
One of the biggest questions people have is why God tolerates all sorts of sin and rebellion.
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Is God Unfair Toward Us?
| Answers in Genesis
The Parables of the Older Brother and the Jealous Workers
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What Can We Learn from the Good Samaritan Parable?
| Answers in Genesis
How modern “Good Samaritans” can remind us about loving our neighbors.
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Jesus Never Visited Brazil
| Answers in Genesis
There’s a whole world full of beautiful places to explore. But what does Jesus’ earthly ministry teach us about truly seeing the world?
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Genesis and Biblical Womanhood
| Answers in Genesis
Knowing how to balance our responsibilities is never easy, but God has not left us in the dark.
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What to Tell a Friend Who Believes in Evolution
| Answers in Genesis
Chances are you have friends who believe in Evolution. Here are some suggestions for talking with them.
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Our Daughters and Wives in Combat?
| Answers in Genesis
This question is no longer theoretical. But we must ask, “What does God’s Word say?”
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The Misplaced Identity of Gay Christianity
| Answers in Genesis
The hopeless gospel of gay Christianity is a deceptive faith we must guard against.
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The Armor of God
| Answers in Genesis
How God equips us to engage in spiritual battles
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Opportunities to Shine
| Answers in Genesis
Because of the Curse, we have a ready-made platform to shine as lights in a dark world.
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How Does “Biblical Authority” Affect Your Everyday Life?
| Answers in Genesis
It is one thing to talk about the authority of Scripture, but far more important to obey what God says.
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Biblical Authority Study Questions
| Answers in Genesis
How does biblical authority affect your everyday life?
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Handling Stress
| Answers in Genesis
Our primary goal in handling life's pressures is to learn how to depend upon God and please Him, not simply get rid of stresses.
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Perfectionism
| Answers in Genesis
What is the danger of striving to be perfect in our fallen world?
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Why Mentorship Matters
| Answers in Genesis
Mentorship simply means opening the door to the mentee God brings to you.
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Fear: Good or Bad?
| Answers in Genesis
The sound of the dentist’s drill, a weird noise in the dark, an odd-looking shadow, a precipitous ledge: Most people will experience terror or a phobia of such things at some point in their life. Most people would consider fear a bad or an unpleasant thing. They’re right. Why is there fear and where does it come from?
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Here’s What “One-anothering” Looks Like
| Answers in Genesis
Addictions, trauma, depression . . . people who come to Christ often face tough problems. Whose job is it to reach out to them? The Bible must be our guide.
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Cancer—Does Taking Chemotherapy Display a Lack of Faith?
| Answers in Genesis
Ever since Adam sinned, man has had to deal with death and disease. Seek the guidance of the Great Physician, and make a wise decision with your family and doctor.
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Top 5 New Year’s Resolutions
| Answers in Genesis
Have you ever made a New Year’s resolution? Here are some possible resolutions for you to consider as you begin the New Year.
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7 Reasons to Be a Biblical Creationist
| Answers in Genesis
Anyone who doesn’t think that creation really matters should take the time to seriously consider these seven reasons.
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“When I Grow Up . . .”
| Answers in Genesis
We all dream of doing something
worthwhile with life. According
to God’s Word, it’s possible.
We just need the right priorities.
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Afraid to Speak
| Answers in Genesis
When we defend God’s Word against skeptics, it is easy to become intimidated.
- battle-for-the-heart/1 page
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Publisher’s Pen: Battle for the Heart
| Answers in Genesis
The most important battles in today’s culture wars are being fought on your watch, at your house.
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Planning to Give with a Charitable Remainder Trust
| Answers in Genesis
A CRT permits you to make a gift of your appreciated property and receive payments for a life, two lives, or a term of years. By establishing a CRT, you can bypass capital gains tax.
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Response to Persecution
| Answers in Genesis
Pastor Don Landis helps us understand that the world's persecution against Christians flows from a rejection of God and the truth of His Word.
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Daughters, Wives, and Mothers in the Military?
| Answers in Genesis
War is a constant threat. This world situation prompts these oft-raised questions, “Should daughters and wives be in combat?” and “should daughters, wives, and mothers even serve in the military?”
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Tips for Serving a Spiritual “Feast” for Women
| Answers in Genesis
When you put together a Ladies’ Tea at your church, what do you spend the most time on?
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What Would Jesus Eat?
| Answers in Genesis
Is There a Biblical Basis for Being Vegetarian?
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Definition of Fasting
| Answers in Genesis
The original idea of the fast was to eat no food; drink liquids only.
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Learn to Discern
| Answers in Genesis
What good is education without the discernment to use it?
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Today’s Financial Crisis
| Answers in Genesis
In the midst of financial uncertainty, the Bible still provides the answers.
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Hearing Aids for the Whole Family
| Answers in Genesis
Let’s face it—sometimes your family doesn’t get much out of the Sunday sermon.
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MRI Prayer
| Answers in Genesis
Praying is just like ordinary conversation—but is that really evidence against Christianity?
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Honoring a partner in “creation evangelism”
| Answers in Genesis
Why would the funeral of a former dance intructor and door-to-door “salesman”1 attract a “who’s who” of Christian leaders, 3,000 people, plus a special assistant to the US president to his funeral?
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The “Rest of the Story”!
| Answers in Genesis
When God is about to do something amazing, be on guard. Something is sure to happen that will try to divert your focus and energy. This is what happened on our way to Las Vegas to do ministry.
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“Can-Do” Attitude Accompanies Church Work Group!
| Answers in Genesis
Some jobs done by AiG volunteers traveling from Tri-County Bible Church in Rensselair, Indiana.
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Christian Values
| Answers in Genesis
What are some of the values Christians should draw from the Bible and steadfastly hold to?
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How Do Christians Respond to Superstitions like Groundhog Day?
| Answers in Genesis
Superstitions abound regarding certain days, numbers, or objects. Most of these have murky, ancient origins and have been passed down from generation to generation. How should Christians respond?
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Delivering Both Help and Hope
| Answers in Genesis
Many Christians may have missed the mark when it comes to the gospel’s natural outflow—helping people in need.
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Making a Statement of Faith
| Answers in Genesis
Individuals and families benefit from thinking deeply about what they believe—and whether those beliefs line up with Scripture.
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Are Bad Words Inherently Evil?
| Answers in Genesis
In each culture and language, there are certain words that many people believe we should avoid. Is this because they are inherently bad words?
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Awakening America’s Courts
| Answers in Genesis
For more than a hundred years, every Supreme Court
justice has signed his or her name in a Bible that is maintained
by the Court’s curator.
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Flag Day and Biblical Banners
| Answers in Genesis
With so many flags and logos surrounding us, Christians rarely stop to consider what God’s Word says about how His people ought to regard these symbols.
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Modesty: What Does the Bible Teach?
| Answers in Genesis
Teaching on modesty is often ridiculed by the modern culture. It is also sometimes accused of contributing to the oppression of women. However, as Christians we believe true freedom is found in Christ and in joyful obedience to the entirety of Scripture.
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A Challenge: Statement of Faith
| Answers in Genesis
How compromise at Union College and faithfulness at other colleges reflect two ways to approach God’s Word—and how Answers in Genesis supports biblical truth
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Your Body—A Gift from God—Your Most Precious Gift to Your Spouse
| Answers in Genesis
Since your body ultimately belongs to your Creator (and your spouse), what right do you have to give it to someone else?
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Gambling—Don’t Bet on Chance
| Answers in Genesis
If you think that gambling is a potential way to wealth and prosperity, think again.
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Be An “Aunt Lois”
| Answers in Genesis
Do you have a relative who stands out for her generositiy and Christlike character?
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NASA Worker Sues to Share Beliefs
| Answers in Genesis
For an employee of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in the Los Angeles area, sharing his views on the origins issue in the workplace was allegedly grounds for a demotion.
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Purity ... A Priceless Commitment
| Answers in Genesis
Purity is much more than saving sex for marriage. It’s a way of life. In 1 Timothy 4:12–16, Paul instructed Timothy to strive for purity in all areas of life.
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Teen Sex
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From this day forward, the choice is yours. You can be a Daniel, purposing in your life to try to make choices that honor God and benefit you every time.
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“Perillous” Days for British Christians
| Answers in Genesis
Have we seen the start of a trend that will lead ultimately to British Christians once again paying with their lives for their faith?
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Self-esteem—Hope or Hopelessness?
| Answers in Genesis
We live in a complicated and sad world-a world where sin has affected
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Fidelity to God
| Answers in Genesis
The final virtue I shall mention is fidelity to God and dedication to His cause in the world as one’s chief end
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Reclaiming the Nation
| Answers in Genesis
It may seem difficult to correct a nation, or even to turn a city to God. But Jonah succeeded when he preached to Nineveh, because God was in it.
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54% of Christians Admit to Viewing Pornography—Over Half Are Okay with It
| Answers in Genesis
A new study from Barna found a shocking 54% of “practicing Christians” admit to viewing pornography—that’s a mere 14% difference from non-Christians (68%).
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Andy Stanley: “You Only Have to Believe Two Miracles to Be a Christian”
| Answers in Genesis
Andy Stanley began a new series with the question, “Do you have to believe in miracles to be a Christian?” His answer? Yes, but only two foundational miracles.
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Can Virtual Churches Have Real Fellowship?
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This in-depth paper applies biblical theology to answer whether virtual church participation is an adequate substitute for in-person fellowship among believers who can physically attend.
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Recent Study Shows Public Opinion of Christians Is Waning
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According to statistics from a recent Lifeway Research study, the public opinion of Christians is waning.
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When They Persecute You
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Throughout history, believers in God and his Word have faced persecution.
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The Scandal of Biblical Illiteracy
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Ignorance of the Bible
isn’t just a problem in our
culture. It’s a problem in the
church, and it’s scandalous.
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Healthy, Wealthy and Lies
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Despite its promises
of health, wealth,
and happiness, the
prosperity gospel sells
a bankrupt gospel.
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Think on These Things
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Positive thinking isn’t enough—we must think God’s thoughts.
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How Do I Glorify God?
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Until you follow Christ and
use your heart, mind, and soul for your
God-designed purpose, you’ll never
operate to your maximum capacity and
know true fulfillment.
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Evangelical Popes: Scholars Steal The Bible
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Evangelicals typically balk at human authorities who ignore God’s Word. Now some Old Testament scholars are effectively denying the clarity of Scripture.
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Christianity’s Decline Continues?
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No matter what beliefs fluctuate in our culture, the gospel
remains unchanged.
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Is Faith the Absence of Reason/Evidence?
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Atheists often accuse Christians of believing or having “faith” without evidence and like to remind them of the old adage: “Faith is believing what you know is not true.” In the eyes of many atheists, “faith” is a buzzword for putting your intellect out of gear and believing something without any reason or evidence.
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Professor Inciting Violence
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Is this professor, at a taxpayer-supported university, inciting people to violence? Yes.
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Worth Fighting For
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In some ways the religions of the world seem similar. All seem to advocate various ways to reach “god” or some form of greater “truth.”
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A Daily Dose of Truth
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How can a busy Christian cut through secular
bias to learn the biblical view of current
events?
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Rising Tides in Latin America
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Biblical Christianity is on the rise in Latin America, and so is atheism.
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The Continuing Appeal to Peale, Twenty Years Later
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On the anniversary of his death twenty years ago today, it is appropriate to examine Norman Vincent Peale’s legacy and to summarize the influence he has had on the church.
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Feedback: Can Christians Promote Heresy?
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Troy Lacey shows that Christians can and do speak error, and that we must be willing to receive correction from Scripture.
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Is Christianity a “Virus”?
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Are Christians “infected” by a disease that they are passing on to their children?
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Will the New Pope Recognize the Full Authority of God’s Word?
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Pope Benedict XVI’s announcement on Monday indicated he will become the first pope in six centuries to resign.
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Are You Ready for the End of the World?
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History abounds with unfulfilled predictions from both Christian and non-Christians about the end of the world or the return of Christ.
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The Rise of Apologetics Fiction
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Keith A. Robinson had no plans to be an author. But the love of reading finally caught up with this music teacher from Wisconsin.
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Popular Blogger and Cover Story of Newsweek
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Popular blogger says of Jesus: “The cross itself was not the point.”
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Creative Destruction
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The decision to follow Christ requires heroic dedication: a daily willingness to submit our most dearly held viewpoints and behaviors to the “creative destruction” of God’s Word.
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One Power of Prayer
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Jesus taught us to pray, “forgive us . . . [a]s we forgive” (Matthew 6:12), and instructed us to “bless those who curse you [and] pray for those who mistreat you” (Luke 6:28). And now, scientists are learning more about the power behind prayer.
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Why is the Christian worldview collapsing in America?
| Answers in Genesis
Right here in America, the Christian worldview is collapsing before our very eyes.
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Lack of Knowledge of Church History and Other Faiths
| Answers in Genesis
A new survey, released this week by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, finds that, although 86% of Americans believe in God or a higher power, they don’t know much about church history or other faiths.
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The Exodus of Youth from Church and “Wannabe Cool” Christianity
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The exodus of youth from the church continues, but one evangelical casts doubt on the stopgap strategy of “wannabe cool” Christianity.
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Building Blocks for Truth
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Harvest Bible Chapel builds a scale model of Noah's Ark with Legos!
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The Worldview of Today’s Youth
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The relativistic evolutionary thinking of our culture is affecting the worldview, lifestyle, and behavior of our Christian youth.
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Our Future World?
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The world is changing. How can we know what will happen next?
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Mollie Hemingway Examines Christian Stereotype
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Mollie Ziegler Hemingway takes a look at stereotype made popular by the media: Christians are irrational, superstitious people, through and through. But does the evidence back that up?
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Dawkins, the Cultural Christian?
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Atheist partisan Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion and numerous books on evolution, still considers himself a “cultural Christian” despite rejecting the claims of Christ.
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Christianity Is Under Attack
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There is a war in society — Christianity versus humanism. Too few Christians realize that the essence of the conflict lies firmly at the foundational level — creation versus evolution.
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Oklahoma OK
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In Tulsa, Oklahoma, Dan Hicks and numerous other citizens complained to the Tulsa Parks Board (who oversee the zoo) that Christianity was discriminated against at the zoo.
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Credit Were Credit Is Not Due
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Some IMAX movie theaters in the US are apparently choosing not to carry films that promote evolutionary ideas.
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To Be a Pilgrim
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Pilgrim’s Progress tells the allegorical story of Christian, a pilgrim who journeys through life on his way to the Celestial City.
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The Continuing De-Christianization of the UK
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Stories like these are the latest in a series of insults to the Christian faith in the UK.
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The Root of the Problem
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A woman writes to Answers in Genesis, being concerned that Christianity is the root of the moral problems today, rather than the solution. Is this true?
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The Trouble with TV
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What do the TV shows The Simpsons, Family Guy, and The Sopranos all have in common?
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Adopted Into God’s Family
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Every once in a while, I am asked, “What’s it like to be adopted?” I was two days old when my parents chose me to be their son. Being adopted is an amazing thing.
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Cultural Christianity Replaced by “Nothing in Particular”
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“In US, Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace,” is the headline of a recent Pew Research Center report. They confirm what our research and other sources have been saying for years—across the West, Christianity is on the decline, and secularism is on the rise. How should we understand this troubling report?
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Ending Religion—It’s a Bad Idea … Says Richard Dawkins?
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The claim that ending religion might be a bad thing is not a statement you’d expect to hear from the world’s leading atheist, Richard Dawkins. But he recently made those comments in response to research that shows that people are more likely to behave with honesty when they feel they are being watched.
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Family
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The family is under attack today like never before. The Bible provides solid answers and God’s design for family, parenting, and marriage.
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Gender
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What does the Bible have to say about gender roles? Does Scripture teach sexism and female inferiority? What about male headship?
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Transgender Identity—Wishing Away God’s Design
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Genesis 1:27 says God made them “male and female.” People can’t wish away this fundamental physical reality—and that’s a good thing.
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The Biology of Gender
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With 112 gender options, our culture is in desperate need of a basic biology lesson.
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Gender in our Culture—Cutting Through the Chaos
| Answers in Genesis
What should believers do when we disagree with our neighbors about the very nature of humanity?
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Responding to National Geographic’s “Gender Revolution”
| Answers in Genesis
Turning to God’s Word, see how believers should understand and respond to the articles in the special gender issue of National Geographic.
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Transgender Regret on the Rise
| Answers in Genesis
Walt Heyer, a former transgender, has written an eye-opening book Trans Life Survivors.
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Women: Image Bearers of God
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Women and men are equally in need of salvation and are equal recipients of the gospel
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Answers from Google or God’s Word?
| Answers in Genesis
Many are looking to man’s opinion when they should be looking to God’s Word, the true authority on gender and sexuality.
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Does Genesis 1:27 Mean That God Originally Created Adam with Both Genders?
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Some LGBT activists state that God originally made Adam as both male and female, the female half (or nature) being removed to then create Eve.
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The Influence of Postmodernism, Part 5: Feminism
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Evangelical feminism teaches an egalitarian view of marriage and roles in the church, to the point where passages that clearly teach male headship are reinterpreted, explained away, or ignored.
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The Influence of Postmodernism, Part 6: Queer Theory
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The phrase “queer theory,” coined by Teresa de Lauretis, describes a school of thought that examines sexual identity, human sexuality, and gender.
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The Influence of Postmodernism, Part 7: Gender Studies
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As the culture continues to encourage gender alternatives outside of Scripture, believers are certain to encounter tough situations.
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Is Male Headship a “Curse”?
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Do women try to take over man’s authority? Is male headship a “curse”? Steve Golden, AiG–U.S., replies to a reader’s questions about his earlier article.
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Gender-related Moral Implications of Doctor-Patient Relations
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Is it appropriate for Christians to visit doctors of the opposite gender? Dr. Tommy Mitchell and Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell, AiG–U.S., provide a biblical perspective.
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Inferior or Equal
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Modern extreme feminism places women in authority over men, while traditional Darwinian evolution places women far below men. And since the Bible directs that a wife be in submission to her husband, even Christians may wonder, “Is the woman inferior or equal?”
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The Problem with Pronouns
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Transgender pronouns are more than just labels. Should Christians use them to keep the peace?
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Transgender—Bringing Clarity to a Confused World
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You know them well: a child who was born a boy has “transitioned” to a girl (or vice versa). The transgender movement has shattered the culture’s understanding of God’s design. How can Christians respond with biblical love and integrity?
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Good News: SCOTUS Rules Against Trans Activists
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In a much-anticipated decision, SCOTUS decided 6–3 to “uphold Tennessee’s law protecting minors from undergoing so-called ‘gender transitions.’”
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Men and Women’s Different Biology Supports Their Different Roles
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God created males and females equal—but different. That’s not to say we don’t have some sameness, but we are also different!
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Discovering the Beauty of Womanhood
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God’s good design for womanhood remains even when culture tries to erase it.
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When Is a Woman a Woman?
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Our definition of womanhood must come from God’s Word.
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Can a “Tomboy” Be a Biblical Woman?
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The Bible’s teaching about womanhood transcends stereotypes.
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The Blessing of Daughters
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How parents can encourage their girls in a culture of gender confusion
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God’s Beautiful Design of Womanhood
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God’s Word teaches that women are distinct, valuable image bearers with a unique function in creation.
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Rare “Seahorse Dad” or Just a Woman Who Is Pregnant?
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A current headline reads, “Trans man who had mastectomy discovered to be 5 months pregnant, making rare ‘seahorse dad.’” What does such a headline mean?
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Transgenderism and the Attack on the Image of God
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People who hate God can’t attack him directly, so they do the closest thing they can—they attack the image of God in humans.
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What Is a Woman?
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God created humankind as male and female, both in his image. So, it’s not surprising that people who hate God want to attack how he created us and attempt to subvert and demean the most fundamental categories of humanity.
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Confused about Gender Confusion
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In a rising new trend, more teenage
girls than boys claim they aren’t sure
about their gender identity. Why?
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Another Study Confirms God’s Design Is Best
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A recent study found that “sex-change” surgery doesn’t fix the identity crisis! It only makes things worse!
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Bruce or Caitlyn . . . What’s in a Name?
| Answers in Genesis
The media’s rush last spring to
make Caitlyn Jenner a transgender
hero underscored the radical moral
shift in Western culture.
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A Purpose Better than Feminism
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Few things get people more up in arms than when we talk about gender and God’s design for women. Even those within the Christian community bring a lot of baggage to how we view manhood and womanhood according to the Bible’s creation account.
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Is TikTok Enticing Kids to Identify as Transgender?
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Hashtag #trans has been viewed over 26 billion times on TikTok encouraging millions of teens toward irreversible bodily harm—and rebellion against God’s design.
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Barbie Takes on a New Gender
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The days of Barbie and
Ken getting married and
moving into their bright
pink mansion are now
a thing of the past.
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Sex or Gender Identity—Which Is a Better Predictor of Sports Performance?
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A recent study found that there’s a “sex gap in race times” and that “sex could be a better predictor of sports performance than gender identity.”
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What Is Happening? Ken Ham and Richard Dawkins Agree on Something!
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A recent news headline stated, “Richard Dawkins declares there are only two sexes as matter of science: ‘That's all there is to it.’” I agree with the prominent atheist!
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Biological Male Named “Sportswoman of the Year”
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Laurel Hubbard, a 43-year old biological male, given a “sportswoman” award indicates our culture continues to slide toward gender (and moral) anarchy.
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Sad Consequences of Gender Revolution Laws
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Yet another report has hit the news of a child, in this case a 10-year-old girl, being sexually assaulted in a restroom by a biological male who self-identifies as a woman. For his offense, the perpetrator was banned from having any further contact with children and was given community services and electronic tagging.
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Psychology Today Chides People for Not Dating Trans People
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Who is in your potential dating pool? That was the question asked in a recent study. The choices included a variety of gender “identities,” including cisgender woman, transgender man, and someone who is non-binary. Unsurprisingly, 87.5% of individuals only chose either a cisgender man or a cisgender woman.
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Delaware Students May Soon Self-Identify Gender and “Race”
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According to an opinion piece in National Post, students in Delaware public schools may soon be able to self-identify their own gender or “race.” The state is expected to adopt a resolution, approved by both the governor and Delaware State Education Association, that allows for this.
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Women’s College: Don’t Call Students “Women”
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Professors at a women’s college in Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College, have been instructed not to refer to their students as “women.” Instead they are to use the gender-neutral term “students.” Reportedly, they have also been asked not to refer to “the two genders,” male and female.
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Homosexuality
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What does the Bible have to say about homosexual “marriage”? How should Christians respond to the ever increasing acceptance of this behavior?
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Who Owns the Rainbow—God or Man?
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Today, the LGBTQ rights movement has claimed the rainbow as its own, but God already owns the rights to that symbol.
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David and Jonathan: Were They Just Friends?
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Does the Bible teach David and Jonathan were in a homosexual relationship?
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Are Some People Born Gay?
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Recent scientific studies claim that some people are born gay. Could this be?
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Falling for Your Feelings
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Shouldn’t
we value
the sincere
feelings
of others
rather than
condemn
them?
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How Should a Christian Respond to “Gay Marriage”?
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Who has the right to determine what is good or bad, or what is morally right or wrong? Who determines whether marriage as an institution should be adhered to?
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Pro-Gay Theology: Does the Bible Approve of Homosexuality?
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What exactly does the Bible say about homosexuality? And how do pro-gay Bible scholars try to work around those passages?
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Penguin Homosexuality
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After previous reports of homosexual penguins, the birds seem to be an icon of aberrant sexual practice. But headlines aside, new research shows there’s relatively little to the idea of penguin homosexuality.
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Penguin Partners Promote LGBTQ?
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Sydney Aquarium has used an exhibit to justify same-sex attraction as “natural.” As animals are not moral creatures, we should not look to them to determine morality.
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“Gay Penguin” Dies in Australian Zoo
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Last week, newspapers around the world carried a story from Sydney, Australia, about a “gay penguin” named Sphen that died.
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Was Paul Against Loving, Consensual Homosexual Relationships?
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Did Paul teach against all homosexual relationships or only abusive and idolatrous ones?
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“Sharp Rise” in Transgender Young People
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Given recent reports, I wasn’t surprised by this sad headline, “Report Reveals Sharp Rise in Transgender Young People in the US.”
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Gay Christians: Now Becoming the Norm?
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Can a person be a faithful follower of Christ and a practicing homosexual? How would we know?
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A Journey from a Homosexual Lifestyle to Christ
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Confronted by the gospel, a national LGBT activist saw Christ transform
everything about her life—including her identity
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Not to Legitimize “Gay Marriage” But to Destroy Marriage
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Startling admissions by gay activist and network commentator highlight the attack on the family.
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An Interview with Rosaria Butterfield—A Friend of Sinners
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Even unbelievers know that the Bible’s a dangerous text because its internal purpose is to redeem—to change the very nature of humanity.
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More Than a Revolution
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How should Christians respond to the issue of homosexuality?
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Gay Marriage as a Civil Right—Are Wrongs Rights?
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The homosexual rights movement has adopted the language of “civil rights” as its own. Do these claims have any legitimacy?
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Are There Really “Gay Christians”?
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Ultimately, the answer to Vines’s problem is clear to discerning believers: he needs repentance, not justification for his actions.
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Naturally Wrong
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Homosexuality is natural and thus normal, claims a Norwegian museum.
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Trading Truth for Tolerance?
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The cultural divide in America concerning the family is growing. Hollywood films and other media have launched an aggressive campaign to normalize same-sex relationships.
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Same-Sex “Wedding” Invite: What Should I Do?
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How Christians can navigate a complicated situation with biblical truth and love.
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Chick-Fil-A Expansion into Canada Sparks LGBT Outrage
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The American chicken sandwich chain Chick-Fil-A recently announced it was expanding into Canada, but the news quickly sparked outrage from some of the Canadian LGBT community because the CEO believes in biblical marriage.
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Does Ancient Art from Pompeii Prove the Bible Supports Gay “Marriage”?
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Steve Chalke argued that ancient erotic art from Pompeii shows New Testament verses used to label same-sex activity as sinful were not doing so.
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Is It Time to Kiss Disney Goodbye?
| Answers in Genesis
The emphasis on homosexuality in our culture has been growing over the last few years. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Disney added it to a movie.
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Gay Rights Activists Bully Authors of LGBT Study
| Answers in Genesis
What happens when scientific findings clash with popular opinions? Academic bullying. That's what happened to scientists whose study contradicted HRC beliefs.
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Audacious Love
| Answers in Genesis
How can we share the truth about homosexuality
without appearing to be unloving—or worse, actually
acting in unloving ways?
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Ireland and Gay “Marriage”
| Answers in Genesis
It’s headline news around the world: “Ireland poised to legalize gay marriage as votes tallied.”
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Is Same-Sex Attraction Sin?
| Answers in Genesis
The gospel offers more than just sin management; it offers present transformation.
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Troops Moving Out
| Answers in Genesis
As expected, the decision by the Boy Scouts of America to open membership to homosexual youth is leading to an exodus of churches as troop sponsors.
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Counterculture Evangelicals
| Answers in Genesis
Approval of homosexuality has increased across the board in America, with one exception.
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Feedback: When Did You Choose to Be Straight?
| Answers in Genesis
Roger Patterson responds to help people answer one of the many attempts of skeptics to discredit the authority of God’s Word over every aspect of life.
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“The Riddle”: The United Nations and Homosexuality
| Answers in Genesis
The message of “The Riddle” preaches tolerance and equality for behaviors that are offensive not just to Christianity but also to other world religions.
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BSA and Gay: Phase One
| Answers in Genesis
For years the Boy Scouts of America debated whether or not it should permit homosexual leaders and members.
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Will the Boy Scouts Move Their Tents Toward Sodom?
| Answers in Genesis
The Boy Scouts of America has been debating the possibility of ending its ban on gay membership in the organization.
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Homosexual Behavior Remains a Sinful Choice
| Answers in Genesis
Despite mathematical manipulation of assumptions, homosexual behavior remains a sinful choice, not an inherited mandate.
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Homosexual Marriage—Golden Rule for Marriage?
| Answers in Genesis
According to President Obama, his view of marriage has “evolved” since his election.
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Protests About Chick-Fil-A
| Answers in Genesis
Protests over Chick-fil-A president’s non-hateful but biblical stand polarizing the public.
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God’s Not Clear on Homosexual Behavior?
| Answers in Genesis
God does not allow us to pick and choose which verses to follow or reject. But those who say the Bible doesn’t condemn homosexual behavior do just that. Tim Chaffey, AiG–U.S., explains.
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Homosexuality and the Authority of Scripture
| Answers in Genesis
"Whilst I agree there must be some debate on this matter, I do find your argument flawed in the face of evolutionary evidence..."
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1 in 6 Young Americans Identify as LGBT
| Answers in Genesis
A shocking 15.9% of Gen Z Americans now identify as LGBT amid sexual identity indoctrination and a loss of Christian foundation in culture.
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Creationism and the Problem of Homosexual Behaviour
| Answers in Genesis
The evolutionist view of the origin of homosexuality in contrast to the creationist explanation is reviewed.
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What Do Christians Say about Homosexual Behavior?
| Answers in Genesis
How can a Christian discuss this difficult topic with others in a Godly way? Or should we even be discussing it at all?
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Homosexual Behaviour vs. the Bible
| Answers in Genesis
The issue of homosexual behaviour has had a lot of publicity of late.
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“The Debate is Over”
| Answers in Genesis
June 26, 2015, was a dark day for Christianity
in the United States.
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Christian Leader: Don’t Use Bible to Argue Gay Marriage Issue!
| Answers in Genesis
For those who believe in biblical authority right from the very first verse, they might be surprised at what a prominent Christian leader said recently.
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Naturally Gay?
| Answers in Genesis
A new exhibit in a Norwegian museum is pushing the idea that homosexuality is natural.
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Ungodly Regulations
| Answers in Genesis
In the UK last February, the Equality Act became law. There is a little-noticed section of the Act that gives the Government the right to introduce “Regulations” on sexual orientation discrimination.
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Gays Were Not Created that Way
| Answers in Genesis
Homosexuality is not an alternative to heterosexuality. God made no alternative.
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Exit SARS . . . Enter Same-Sex “Marriages”!
| Answers in Genesis
After the recent SARS crisis, Canada is now in a health crisis of a different sort—the health of the God-ordained institution of marriage in the second largest country (by landmass) on earth.
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Marriage
| Answers in Genesis
Marriage was instituted by God in Genesis. Therefore God alone has the right to declare what marriage is—and what it is not.
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A Match Made in Heaven
| Answers in Genesis
Many women have the impression that the Genesis account of Adam and Eve imposed a humiliating, subservient role on women. Is this really the case?
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The Supreme Court’s Decision—What Could Be Next?
| Answers in Genesis
Nine jurists of the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments concerning the legalization of same-sex “marriage” in the USA.
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2.4 The Origin of Marriage (OB4)
| Answers in Genesis
Marriage is a gift of God. When God brought to Adam the woman who was specially created for him, he cried out joyfully: “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.”
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But from the Beginning of . . . the Institution of Marriage?
| Answers in Genesis
Respected Christian apologists Dr. John Ankerberg and Dr. Norman Geisler have launched another attack on young-earth creationism.
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What’s Behind Today’s Attacks on Marriage?
| Answers in Genesis
Without question the biblical concept of marriage—one man for one woman for life—is under severe assault today. Today’s explosive attacks on marriage are driven by a sinister plot.
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What About Polygamy in the Bible?
| Answers in Genesis
Roger Patterson, AiG–U.S., refutes the notion that Scripture condones polygamy.
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Contradictions: Marriage—Good or Bad?
| Answers in Genesis
God said it was not good for man to be alone, so why did Paul say it is good to remain single?
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Genesis, Wifely Submission, and Modern Wives
| Answers in Genesis
Why is Answers in Genesis talking about the issue of wifely submission? Just like all other New Testament doctrines, the issue of leadership in marriage has its foundation in Genesis.
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Defining Marriage—Supreme Court v. Sovereign God
| Answers in Genesis
In a pair of landmark decisions, the Supreme Court of the United States yesterday laid the groundwork for the creation of a new civil right to same-sex “marriage.”
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Paganism and the Transsexual Revolution
| Answers in Genesis
For much of the twentieth century, the western world lived under the umbrella of the Christian worldview. People generally built their presuppositions about the world on the Christian worldview. What is happening now in western culture is not just the influence of secularism but also the return of ancient paganism.
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Church Halts All Weddings Until Same-Sex Couples Can Marry
| Answers in Genesis
First United Methodist Church in Texas announced they will no longer perform weddings until their denomination allows them to “marry” same-sex couples.
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Sexuality and Marriage: Young People Fail to Grasp Definitions
| Answers in Genesis
If God is in charge, then His Word is clear—homosexuality is a sin and marriage is the union of one man and one woman. So why don’t young people believe that?
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Marriage Redefined
| Answers in Genesis
Sooner or later it is going to happen—you are going to be challenged to act
on your convictions about what marriage
is.
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Supreme Injustice
| Answers in Genesis
Though stopping just short of redefining marriage across America, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two historic rulings recently that support same-sex marriage.
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Interracial Marriage
| Answers in Genesis
When it comes to a marriage involving two different skin “colors”, there remains in Western culture a basic intolerance. Just how should a Christian approach the topic?
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Why Do More Christians Now Support Same-Sex “Marriage”?
| Answers in Genesis
According to a couple of 2023 Gallup polls, 71% of Americans think same-sex “marriage” should be legal, and 64% believe gay relationships are morally acceptable.
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God’s Design for Marriage Is Good
| Answers in Genesis
Returning to a biblical, creational view of marriage.
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Marriage After the Fall
| Answers in Genesis
Marriage is the foundation of the family and a picture of Christ and the church.
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Christianity Makes Weddings
| Answers in Genesis
The union of one man and one woman is more than just “a piece of paper” or a big party you get to throw for your friends and family. It’s about two people becoming one flesh.
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A Faithful Marriage
| Answers in Genesis
A couple married for over 50 years shares what has made their marriage last and what are their important responsibilities to other believers.
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Stale Marriage & Successful Parenting
| Answers in Genesis
Many parents run from conference to conference looking for the secret to successful parenting. Sometimes they forget another risk: stale marriage.
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Seven Principles from Genesis for Marriage and Family
| Answers in Genesis
But in a sea of changing opinion on sexual mores, going back to the beginning provides a foundation for biblical teaching concerning marriage and family.
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Dating Site Including Polyamory as Sexual Orientation Option
| Answers in Genesis
Dating site OkCupid’s new feature is the result of some users being willing to date someone who is already in a relationship.
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God Invented the Rainbow and Marriage—Not the President
| Answers in Genesis
We need to take back the rainbow and worship the One who invented the rainbow, and every time we see it be reminded of its true message.
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Supreme Court Affirms Gay “Marriage”
| Answers in Genesis
Sadly the Supreme Court has decided to affirm gay “marriage.” This decision will fundamentally change the culture of America.
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Marriage—Why Two? Why Not Three or More?
| Answers in Genesis
According to evolutionists, monogamy is not the rule in the animal kingdom. Then why was monogamy in our Western world accepted as the norm until recently?
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Supreme Court Weighing In on Gay Marriage
| Answers in Genesis
The US Supreme Court announced in January that it would settle the battle over same-sex marriage this year.
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Doomed DOMA?
| Answers in Genesis
The marriage issue reflects a deepening fracture in the bedrock of society.
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Supreme Court Defies God’s Word
| Answers in Genesis
Earlier today, the Supreme Court of the United States announced two historic but unfortunate decisions regarding same-sex “marriage” in our country.
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40 years of marriage!
| Answers in Genesis
Next month is a special month for my wife and me. We celebrate 40 years of marriage!
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Biblical Blueprints for the Marriage Covenant
| Answers in Genesis
Dr. Rainey is known for teaching biblical principles that lead to a godly marriage and to raising godly offspring.
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Study Finds God’s Design for Marriage Is Best
| Answers in Genesis
A recent study of marriages and divorces among 50,000 women revealed something shocking—God’s design for marriage and sexuality is best!
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Creation and Marriage
| Answers in Genesis
Why not? Marriage is a purely creation based relationship, and in Western Society, both nonChristians and Christians generally ‘think’ evolution, that’s why not!
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Inter-Racial Marriage: Is It Biblical?
| Answers in Genesis
What if a Chinese person were to marry a Polynesian, or an African with black skin were to marry a Japanese, or a person from India were to marry a person from America with white skin?
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“If You Choose Monogamy, That’s Fantastic…[But] There are Other Choices.”
| Answers in Genesis
If you can redefine marriage to be between two men or two women, why stop at just two? And that’s exactly what we’re seeing. Increasingly, something called “polyamory” is growing and becoming more acceptable in the eyes of the culture.
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Should You Limit Your Love?
| Answers in Genesis
Gay “marriage” and transgender are certainly not the extremes of this anti-biblical sexual revolution sweeping the West. We’re increasingly seeing news items relating to polyamory, the idea of someone having multiple supposedly committed relationships.
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Families Are God’s Idea, Beginning in Genesis
| Answers in Genesis
Families are close to God’s heart. In fact, they were His idea in the first place.
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News Flash Parenting Is Stressful!
| Answers in Genesis
While parenting has its fair share of stressors, we should consider it a privilege to raise children in the way of the Lord.
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Children for Sale
| Answers in Genesis
In June, the Massachusetts House unanimously passed a bill that would allow mothers to sell their babies through commercial surrogacy.
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Home Education: An Embarrassment of Riches
| Answers in Genesis
There is no more important or rewarding job than discipling your children.
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Honoring the Elderly
| Answers in Genesis
How a biblical worldview impacts how we view old age
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Motherhood Is a Joy
| Answers in Genesis
Mothers give advice for each season of raising children
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Ken Ham’s Challenge to Fathers
| Answers in Genesis
We need to make sure we understand what God has instructed for the roles of the man and woman in marriage and the methods and priorities for raising children.
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God’s Design for Parents and Children
| Answers in Genesis
God charges parents to disciple and protect their children during this formative period.
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Childhood: Learning to Walk with the Lord
| Answers in Genesis
How an early relationship with the Bible matured and led to saving faith in Christ
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Tie-Dye Heart
| Answers in Genesis
Life with adopted and foster siblings brought the author close to the brokenness of a fallen world—and to part of God’s plan to help redeem that brokenness.
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Intentional Grandparenting
| Answers in Genesis
How Scripture teaches grandparents to have a lasting influence on future generations
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It Only Takes One Generation
| Answers in Genesis
It’s well known that a culture, a family, or an organization (e.g., church, Christian college, etc.) can change dramatically in one generation.
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Child Abuse in a Fallen World
| Answers in Genesis
How can Christians fight child abuse and minister to survivors?
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Interview with Mally Ham
| Answers in Genesis
I asked Avery Foley, a writer and speaker with Answers in Genesis, to interview my wife, Mally, on her perspective of the history of the AiG ministry and the Ham family.
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Seeing Jesus in the Everyday
| Answers in Genesis
When we look, we can see Jesus even in the ordinary moments of our lives.
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Celebrating Children on Mother’s Day?
| Answers in Genesis
Children are precious, and there is a war waging against them right now.
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Is a Biblical Worldview Optional?
| Answers in Genesis
Our worldview affects every area of life.
So parents cannot afford to depend on others
to form their children’s worldview.
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Sexuality: Broken and Redeemed
| Answers in Genesis
When I first saw the erotic novel at the
garage sale as a 12-year-old girl, I had no
idea that it would lead me down a dark road
of addiction to erotica and self-pleasure.
But by age 15, I was caught in a pattern
of addiction and defeat.
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Losing Innocence
| Answers in Genesis
In a rapidly
changing culture
where innocence
is lost, our young
people need answers
about gender
and sexuality
more than ever.
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“The Talk”
| Answers in Genesis
“The Busy Mom” sits down with the publisher of Answers magazine to share
her advice for talking to kids about sex.
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Fathers Raise Your Children in the Lord
| Answers in Genesis
Today, it is not uncommon to see fathers in the church who are either passive or absent in raising their children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Raising your children in the Lord is about leading as a father who is himself constantly under the influence of the Holy Spirit (see Galatians 5:16–23).
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Family Times and Family Tears
| Answers in Genesis
For many of us or those we know, Anna’s situation is all too familiar. Holiday celebrations stir up wonderful memories that can sometimes bring emotional pain.
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Always Standing for the Truth
| Answers in Genesis
My father (and the ministry of AiG) understood that the idea of evolution and millions of years is not just a side issue or just about how people understand Genesis 1–11. What we believe about Genesis has consequences for how we read and understand the entire Bible—including the New Testament and especially the gospel!
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Does Father Know Best?
| Answers in Genesis
The attack on parental rights is gaining ground as the culture
ramps up its attack on the Creator’s role in our lives.
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Helping Our Children to Love the Church
| Answers in Genesis
Many young people are not part of a local church and see no reason to gather regularly with other Christians. How can concerned parents help their children love the church and carry the saving gospel to future generations? What can they do?
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Where Parenting Begins
| Answers in Genesis
Our children face a tough world, and every Christian parent yearns to direct them in the ways of the Lord. But effective parenting begins with a proper understanding of ourselves—as found in Genesis. We teach more from our actions and reactions than from our instructions.
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But Why?
| Answers in Genesis
The devil knows that if he can get one generation to doubt and disbelieve God’s Word starting in Genesis, he can destroy one of the main purposes of the family. How—and why—is the family coming under increasingly aggressive attacks in America? Here are just some of the ways—and reasons.
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Playing God
| Answers in Genesis
The Creator has granted us an amazing privilege. We do not “own” the children we have been blessed with. They are priceless gifts from God to be trained up in the way they should go—in God’s way—because they are not ours, but God’s. What does that mean?
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Is the Bible at Home in Your Family?
| Answers in Genesis
Who has the final say in your home? Who settles disputes? Who decides right and wrong in your family?
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Adopted: A Testimony of Family Expansion
| Answers in Genesis
My wife and I are convinced that both the father and mother in a family must discern God calling them both to adopt.
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Experience Creation
| Answers in Genesis
Creation, cursed though it may be, still reveals God’s glory and nature. In our fast-paced world, families tend to spend so much time indoors.
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Is It Wrong to Interfere with the Pain of Childbirth?
| Answers in Genesis
Is it wrong to interfere with the pain of childbirth? Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell answers this question from the perspective of her experience in light of God’s Word.
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Parenting—Hazardous to Your Health?
| Answers in Genesis
Is parenting the new smoking? According to the surgeon general, parental stress is an “urgent public health issue.”
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Moms May Be Allowed to Sell Babies for “Parentage Equality”
| Answers in Genesis
A new bill that unanimously passed the Massachusetts house highlights another layer of the brokenness that comes from leaving behind God’s design for marriage, gender, and sexuality.
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Why “Biblical Marriage,” Not “Traditional Marriage”?
| Answers in Genesis
Many in the culture are redefining “traditional marriage,” making it important for Christians to use the term “biblical marriage.”
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An Interview with Dennis Rainey—Families Built on Creation
| Answers in Genesis
Dr. Dennis Rainey recently chatted with us about the role of creation in his ministry to families.
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Italy Heading for “Demographic Crisis” Because Couples Aren’t Having Children
| Answers in Genesis
As birth rates across the West are declining largely because of secularism, the Italian government is now incentivizing families to have more children.
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President Biden: “There Is No Such Thing as Someone Else’s Child”
| Answers in Genesis
While we should be concerned about and care about children other than our own, we shouldn’t view other people’s children as our own because . . . they aren’t.
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3 Horrifying Examples of the War on the Family
| Answers in Genesis
The assault on marriage and family is because Satan wants to destroy all who bear the image of God and the best way to accomplish this is to undermine family.
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“Conscious Co-parenting”?
| Answers in Genesis
Does the makeup of a family really matter? Well, our culture says no, it doesn’t.
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Will Parents Someday Need a “License” to Raise Their Children?
| Answers in Genesis
Stella Morabito warns of an impending campaign for the government to “license” parents—an affront to parental authority under God.
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The New Generation
| Answers in Genesis
Today, many who have inherited the great ‘wealth’ left by godly generations aren’t aware of the wonderful heritage they have inherited.
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Family Foundations
| Answers in Genesis
You are to produce godly offspring, who will themselves produce more godly offspring, to affect the world increasingly for Jesus Christ, generation after generation.
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Holidays
| Answers in Genesis
How should Christians view or celebrate traditional holidays such as Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter?
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Happy Holidays
| Answers in Genesis
As Christians, we don’t know whether to be sad, angry, or indifferent. The frustrating reality is that, for most in our culture today, secularism has almost fully obscured the roots of many holidays.
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Thanksgiving Proclamation: A Traditional American Holiday
| Answers in Genesis
George Washingon: "It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will...and humbly implore His protection and favor.
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When the World Comes Knocking
| Answers in Genesis
Mini chocolate bars, gummy bears, and the gospel? Yes, they can go together, especially on October 31 when children in costumes knock on your door.
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Easter
| Answers in Genesis
Rarely do we set aside time with family to celebrate the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ together. Easter is the perfect time to do just that.
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Are the Symbols and Customs of Easter of Pagan Origin?
| Answers in Genesis
If Easter is supposed to be a celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus, how did all these symbols and customs get added to the original fasting and feasting?
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To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate Easter: That Wasn’t the Question
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We should remember to be grateful to the Lord every single day of the year for sending His Son to die on the Cross in our place.
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Is the Name “Easter” of Pagan Origin?
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The controversy over the name Easter, when used in association with the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus, is interesting, to say the least.
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Is the Date of Easter of Pagan Origin?
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Many claim that what we call Easter today was developed as Roman Catholicism co-opted pagan festivals celebrated in honor of various false gods and goddesses.
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Up from the Grave He Arose . . .
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This Sunday many Christians will commemorate the resurrection of their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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Fossils—a Reminder of Easter
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One of the problems we have in the church today is that by and large the Bible has been disconnected from the real world.
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Just Another Thanksgiving?
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This holiday comes every year, so at times, Thanksgiving Day can seem like just a tired tradition. After all, each time is usually about the same as the year before.
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Thanksgiving: A Christian Holiday
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Believers are exhorted to give thanks to God for all his blessings.
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It’s Valentine’s Day but Do We Know What Love Is?
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Valentine’s Day is when our culture celebrates love with roses, chocolate, jewelry, and cards. But how can we be sure that what we’re celebrating really is love?
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Give Gifts with a Purpose This Christmas Season!
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Answers in Genesis makes it easy to find unique, meaningful gifts that support good causes and share the good news of the gospel around the world.
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What Is Thanksgiving?
| Answers in Genesis
We are losing our focus on the original reason for Thanksgiving as the spiritual state of America continues to decline.
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Halloween and the Gospel of Life
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What can you do to advance the gospel of life and light through Jesus Christ if your neighbors stop by your house this Halloween?
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Honoring Sacrifice: Memorial Day and the Importance of Reminders
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Memorial Day is a time of family, fellowship, and sometimes camping or kicking off the start of summer. But above all, it is a time of remembrance.
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What Cinco de Mayo Can Teach Us About the Bible
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What is Cinco de Mayo, anyway? Our experiences can subtly legitimize what we already believe about this popular day.
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Giving Thanks in a Broken World?
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Some years it’s easy to reflect and see God’s hand of blessing. Other times, from a human perspective, it’s harder to see the year as a “blessing.” Why?
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To Whom Should We Be Grateful?
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The Bible clearly teaches gratitude, sometimes on an earthly level to others, but ultimately to God. However, World Gratitude Day cannot be separated from the spiritualistic and universalist ideas of its founder. Can someone be grateful to a god such as he taught?
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Labor Day: Why Do We Celebrate Work?
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Today families are relaxing and celebrating Labor Day (or Labour Day) together across North America with camping or beach trips, barbeques, parades, or (in my family at least) some good old-fashioned labor in the backyard as they mark the end of summer.
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Ascension Day
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Forty days after Jesus rose from the grave on Resurrection Sunday came a very important but often overlooked event—the ascension of Christ to heaven. The ascension is vital to Christianity and after the crucifixion and resurrection, it is the next aspect of Christ’s saving work on behalf of Christians.
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Christmas Characters
| Answers in Genesis
These devotionals provide one lesson per week for family or private devotions in the months leading up to Christmas.
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Who Was St. Patrick?
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On March 17 millions of people celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with parades, parties, and the color green. Who was the man who inspired these traditions?
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Hanukkah & Jesus
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The historical background of Hanukkah, how Jesus celebrated the “Feast of Dedication,” and how Christ revealed himself as the light of the world
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Thanksgiving in Times of Uncertainty
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Looking back at past Thanksgivings as we are thankful to God in 2020, a year of uncertainty.
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El Día de los Muertos
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A history and overview of El Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) - spiritual darkness in Mexico and Christ’s victory over death.
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Remembering Lincoln
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As we remember Abraham Lincoln, we consider his belief that “all men are created equal” and his fight against slavery.
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Independence Day
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Millions of Americans commemorate the signing of the Declaration of Independence with backyard barbecues and family gatherings, capping it off with fireworks.
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Why Did God Make Years, Months, and Days?
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Have you ever wondered why God made days, weeks, months, and years? Here are three biblical reasons that may change how you think about time.
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A Night When Evil Is Celebrated
| Answers in Genesis
Few festivals give Christians in the Western world more cause for debate than Halloween.
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Glorious Season
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Fall is a glorious season, especially for an Illinois boy like me!
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Thankful We're Not Alone in the Universe
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The atheistic outlook of an evolutionary worldview cannot account for gratitude, but Christians can and should be thankful this Thanksgiving.
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Logic
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In logic and reasoning eventually you have to appeal to an absolute authority. Which is your authority: the Bible or man’s word?
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Does Logic Supersede the Bible?
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What are the limits of logic and is logic more important than God’s Word?
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How Do I Stay Humble When I Know I’m Right?
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We are right only because God has taught us to know what is right. How quickly we can forget that.
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Is the Christian Worldview Logical?
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Many people have the impression that Christians live in two “worlds”—the world of faith and the world of reason.
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Imagine No Creator
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Dr. Jason Lisle, AiG–U.S., shows why a universe with stability and laws of logic requires the biblical God—even hypothetical ones.
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Logical Fallacies: Introduction
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Logic is a very valuable tool, particularly for the Christian who wants to defend his or her faith better.
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Logical Fallacies: Straw-Man Fallacy
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This occurs when a person misrepresents an opponent’s position and then proceeds to refute that misrepresentation rather than what the opponent actually claims.
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Logical Fallacies Series
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Logic can be a valuable tool for Christians to defend their faith. But mistakes in reasoning can derail even the best argument.
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How Do You Know the Sun Will Rise Tomorrow?
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Why the biblical worldview is the only answer to the problem of induction.
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Logical Fallacies: Formal Fallacies
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We will close out the logical fallacy series with two of the most common fallacies that occur in arguments about origins.
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Human Wisdom: Something to Suspect?
| Answers in Genesis
BioLogos writer critiques young earth creation with logical fallacies and fails to distinguish between historical and operational sciences
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Should Christians Trust Scientific Experts?
| Answers in Genesis
BioLogos has written a curriculum named Integrate and has been republishing articles on their website in support of and defense of it. The solution to helping Christians properly understand these issues (by the power of the Holy Spirit) is Scripture, biblical authority and strong apologetics.
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Answering the Lie, “Everybody Says It, So It Must Be True.”
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Addressing the ad populum logical fallacy (“everyone” believes it so it must be true) in the creation vs. evolution debate and why popular opinions are no sure guide to truth
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Celebrating God’s Gift of Grammar on National Grammar Day
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But hating grammar is hating an intrinsic aspect of one of God’s first gifts to Adam and Eve, an aspect of His very creation.
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Trust the Experts
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What does it really mean to be an expert, anyway? If we can’t rely 100% on anybody, how can we speak with confidence outside the Bible?
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Are the Laws of Logic Really Laws?
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Are the laws of logic really laws, or are they just descriptors? Darius and Karin Viet, AiG–U.S., explain.
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Logical Fallacies
| Answers in Genesis
Does Ken Ham’s reasoning represent examples of affirming the consequent and reification? Jeremy Ham, AiG–U.S., explains.
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Logic for Dummies
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If you think a course in logic sounds dry, abstract, and complicated— best left to intellectuals—the new book Discerning Truth will probably change your mind.
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Not Sound Logic?
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Do logic and truth really depend upon the Bible being true? Couldn’t atheists just invent a story to explain them? Dr. Jason Lisle, AiG–U.S., shows why this is impossible.
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Nothing Borrowed
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Great civilizations accomplished amazing things without believing in God, so why must He exist for logic to be true?
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Logical Fallacies: Faulty Appeal to Authority
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Essentially, the faulty appeal to authority is the argument that a claim is true simply because someone else believes it.
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Logical Fallacies: Ad Hominem
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The ad hominmen fallacy is so named because it directs an argument against the person making a claim rather than the claim itself.
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The Logic of Belief
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Is Christianity logical? As Dr. Jason Lisle, AiG–U.S., shows, not only is Christianity logical, it is foundational for all logic.
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Logical Fallacies: Bifurcation
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A person commits this fallacy when he or she claims that there are only two mutually exclusive possibilities—when, in fact, there is a third option.
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Logical Fallacies: The Complex Question
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The complex question is the interrogative form of begging the question—when the arguer attempts to persuade by asking a loaded question.
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Logical Fallacies: The Fallacy of the Question-Begging Epithet
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With the question-begging epithet, the arguer uses biased (often emotional) language to persuade people rather than using logic.
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Logical Fallacies: The Fallacy of Begging the Question
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This fallacy is committed when a person merely assumes what he is attempting to prove, or when the premise of an argument actually depends upon its conclusion.
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Logical Fallacies: The Fallacy of Equivocation
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Most words have more than one meaning, but only one of these meanings will properly fit the given context.
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Logical Fallacies: The Fallacy of Reification
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Reification is attributing a concrete characteristic to something that is abstract.
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Logic or Faith?
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Are the laws of logic truly universal? Must a person choose between logic or faith? Have we moved beyond superstition? Dr. Jason Lisle, AiG–U.S., responds to a critic’s challenge.
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Enormous Leaps of Logic?
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AiG has made the claim that science requires a biblical worldview. Is this logically defensible?
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Did God Create Logic?
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Did God create logic? Or is logic further evidence of God’s existence?
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Challenges Our Claim of a Logical, God-Created Universe
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The universe is full of change; almost everything in the physical universe is constantly changing. Yet, we all assume that the laws of nature do not.
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The Illogic of “Loaded Questions”
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The fast succession of irrelevant questions is a well-known logical fallacy known as a “loaded question.”
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Morality
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Does morality—right and wrong—depend upon what the majority decides? Or is morality founded upon the rock-solid foundation of God’s Word?
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Evolution and the Challenge of Morality
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Morality is a very difficult problem for the evolutionary worldview. The problem is that evolutionists have no logical reason to believe in right and wrong within their own worldview.
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What Basis, Morality?
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The April 2004 cover of Discover magazine poses the question, 'Are Right and Wrong Wired Into Our Brains?'
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2.9 Human Behavior (OB9)
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Human nature is by no means described by the Bible as good. A clear picture of God’s diagnosis of man’s condition emerges from only a few passages.
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Morality and the Irrationality of an Evolutionary Worldview
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Morality is a very difficult problem for the evolutionary worldview since they have no rational reason for the concept of right and wrong.
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The Source of Moral Absolutes
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Is morality based on God’s personal preferences? What is the source of moral absolutes? Darius and Karin Viet explain.
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Just Be Good for Goodness’ Sake: Is Being Good Good Enough?
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Why should we be good? Without God, is there any reason why anyone should be good? And who defines what is right or good, anyway?
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We Make the Rules Now?
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“We are responsible to nothing outside ourselves, for we are the kingdom, the power, and the glory for ever and ever.”
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If God Doesn’t Matter to Him, Do You?
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There are consequences to the unquestioned evolutionary belief of humans as mere products of survival of the fittest, rather than beings made in God’s image.
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Why Creation (Really) Matters for Thinking About Ethics
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What if in Scripture, the answers we need for ethically navigating the biotechnological revolution have been available all along?
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Is There a Secular Foundation for Morality?
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Major manmade ethical systems fail to provide a functional, self-sufficient foundation for morality, but God’s Word supplies a coherent basis for knowing, practicing, and upholding objective morals.
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Don’t Just Change the Tire
| Answers in Genesis
Our culture says, “Be kind.” But what does God’s Word say about true kindness? Holy Spirit.
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The Evolution of Morality
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Darwin’s failed attempt to explain the origin of morality ultimately led to millions of deaths in the 20th century as he rejected the true source for morality in God
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Is Morality Determined by Its Popularity?
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A new study revealed that “our view of what is morally right or wrong is shaped by how widespread a particular behavior is.”
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Exposing the Connection: How Evolution Impacts Morality
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Over the decades, evolutionists have often mocked me for tying evolution to morality. They claim that evolution has to do with “science,” not morality.
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Sexual Immorality Increasingly Acceptable—Unless It’s Adultery
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A recent Gallup poll, taken annually since 2001, asked Americans to “rate whether different practices are morally acceptable or morally wrong.”
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Study: Generational Gap in Determining Morality
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How do you determine right from wrong? A new study by Lifeway Research reports how Americans of varying ages determine morality.
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Prescription for Morality?
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We often take pills to feel healthier, to ease pain, or to relieve symptoms, but what if you could take a pill to become a more moral you?
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Do Secularists Have a Foundation for Morality?
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God, the Creator, has given us the Bible—His revealed Word, which clearly lays out what is morally acceptable and what is not.
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Which Came First: Knowledge of God or Morality? (Or Both?)
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Man’s sense of the supernatural and morality, coupled with the fact that there is organized religion, all point to something special about humankind.
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Study Asks, “Does Morality Decline Without Religion?”
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Morality in the secular worldview changes with each generation, but Christians have an unchanging standard and can consistently call actions right or wrong.
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How the Gospel, Not Evolution, Can Solve Society’s Problems
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Evolutionists are correct in one thing: understanding where people came from is essential to understanding morality and answering the problems in our society.
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Designed for Purity
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Teens need a fresh approach to sexual purity.
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Should We Legislate Morality?
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What is the best way to promote God’s role for government and other authority?
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Graffiti Alley and the Decay of the West
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Graffiti Alley provides a glimpse of what happens when we reject God’s clear, objective account of His creation—a creation that is ultimately composed and sustained by the word of God.
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Riotous Living
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Why would civilized people suddenly resort to the sort of violent anarchy that swept across England last summer?
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A Happy Medium?
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Can a person accept the “morals” of the Bible without accepting the Bible as authoritative? David Wright, AiG–U.S., explains why morality depends on the absolute truth of Scripture.
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One Nation Over God
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The Bible is the only source to properly understand our need for government and its real nature.
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An Agony to Read
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Biblical Christianity and Darwinian evolution are incompatible both scientifically and morally.
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Do We Want to “Eliminate” Other Beliefs?
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One disgruntled reader accuses Answers in Genesis of seeking to squelch other beliefs to force our morality on people, but as Mark Looy, AiG–U.S., shows, our goal is for others to find true freedom.
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Human Morality a Product of Evolution?
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Is human morality a product of evolution? It seems that priest-turned-evolutionary scientist Francisco Ayala presumes the answer is “yes.”
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Magnets Scramble Ability to Make Moral Judgements
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If a magnet can scramble one’s ability to make sound moral judgments, does that imply morality is all in our minds?
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New Advice Column is Based on Evolutionism
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If any newspaper was to take a lead in propagating the godless morality of naturalistic evolution, in all its fullness, it would have to be The Guardian.
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Why Would an Evolutionist Become a Doctor?
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Many evolutionists have claimed that no one can deny evolution and be a good doctor. Tommy Mitchell, MD, wonders why a consistent evolutionist would even want to practice medicine.
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A Foundation of Scripture
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To most of America’s founding fathers, the Bible was true from beginning to end, and it was the only source upon which to establish the new, independent nation.
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Fallible Research
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While scientists are fallible like anyone else, research would improve if it were built on biblical ethics and the truth of God's Word.
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Religion Evolved for Self-Control
| Answers in Genesis
How is one psychologist answering the loaded question “why did religion evolve?”
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How to Win a Debate on Ethics
| Answers in Genesis
When Christians get into debates with unbelievers, they sometimes tend to play by the same rules they see their opponents playing by.
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August 1999 Newsletter
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People are asking: “why?” Why do some teenagers have such a low view of human life that would lead them to shoot and kill their fellow students and attempt to kill and destroy them with bombs
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Will Morality Evolve in 100,000 Years?
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Where did morality come from? How you answer that question will depend on your worldview and on what foundation you base your thinking.
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Religion has Zero Effect on a Person's Integrity?
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"A more logical argument would be that a religious position, which by definition transcends logic, absolves the holder from ANY rational restriction on their actions..."
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People free to do whatever if they don’t hurt anybody?
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I heard someone say recently that people should be free to do whatever they want to do as long as they don’t hurt anybody.
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The Power of Ideas
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What does a math test tell us about the power of materialistic beliefs to impact behavior? Quite a bit, as it turns out.
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Focus on Morality
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"I wish you people would focus on the important matter of maintaining an independent moral authority..."
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Pornography: A Distortion of God’s Plan
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The tentacles of pornography have invaded almost every area of our lives.
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Erasing Images
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Unlike the computers we use every day, there’s no amount of deleting or reformatting that can remove the sensual images we’ve laid our eyes upon.
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Experimenting With Evil
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Apart from God’s answers in Genesis, cannot come up with a logikos reason for moral values and rules—yet “sheeple” continue to trust worldly authorities with blind, irrational faith.
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Are Things Getting Worse? (Or Is It Just Your Imagination?)
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Is a recent New York Times commentary right in saying there never were any “glory days” to return to?
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Goodness’ Sake
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Only God’s Word, the Bible, establishes the rock-solid basis for goodness.
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Moral Truth? “It’s Up to You,” Say 58% of Americans
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Over half of American adults deny objective moral truths—with many in evangelical churches agreeing pointing to increased secularization in the culture.
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HGTV Features First-Ever “Throuple” Seeking Dreamhouse
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The once family-friendly House Hunters introduced a “throuple” seeking a new home – another sign our culture has slipped further from its biblical moorings.
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Living in a Bubble
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Turn on Christian radio or TV or attend church in the Western world and you will no doubt hear pastors lamenting the decline of Christian morality in society.
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Presuppositions
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Presuppositions are simply beliefs that everyone has that affect how we think, view the world, interpret evidence, and read the Bible.
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Do Creationists Change?
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Some evolutionists and some creationists have a serious misunderstanding when it comes to dealing with the creation-evolution issue. If creationists are unwilling to change their basic beliefs, does that mean they’re not true scientists?
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Science—Worldview Neutral?
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Can science be studied neutrally, without committing to any worldview?
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What’s Your Worldview?
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What is a worldview? A worldview comprises one's collection of presuppositions, convictions and values from which a person tries to understand and make sense out of the world and life.
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Are Scientists Really Biased by their Presuppositions?
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Presuppositions are things you take for granted: like your own existence, the reliability of your memory, your continued personal identity, moral laws, laws of logic, induction, and many others.
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Is Science Enough?
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Is presuppositional apologetics as effective in witnessing as providing more scientific analysis? What is the proper balance?
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Dangers of the Hebrew Roots Movement
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The Hebrew Roots Movement has influenced hundreds of thousands of Christians in recent decades. This article describes the nature of the movement, examines some of its major beliefs in light of relevant biblical passages, and challenges those who have been influenced by its teachings.
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Pardon Me, Your Presuppositions Are Showing
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News to Know covered many topics in 2014, but, really, there’s nothing new under the sun when it comes to countering evolutionist claims.
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Same Facts, But Different Views
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We live in the same world and examine the same facts, but we have different views about the past. Why?
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Life’s Toughest Questions
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A number of Christians, along with their worldly counterparts, seem more than happy to live with cognitive dissonance.
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Ancient Enzymes
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Laboratory reconstruction of ancient enzymes has suggested that these enzymes are remarkably similar to enzymes in modern creatures and purportedly indicate what conditions were on the early earth.
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Science “So Called”
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We can easily be seduced by false ideas masquerading as truth.
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Is Any Scientific Research Free from Presuppositions?
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As evidence of the growing “popularity” of Answers Research Journal (ARJ), the June 2008 issue of The Journal of Young Investigators (JYI) featured an article on ARJ entitled “Science for Christians.”
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Making “Sense” of It
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The Bible gives us a reason to trust our senses, but don’t we need our senses to read the Bible? Dr. Jason Lisle, AiG–U.S., tackles this question and more in this week’s feedback.
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Call for Help
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When discussing creation/evolution on forums, do the “facts” speak for themselves? Or is there something else to keep in mind? Dr. Georgia Purdom, AiG–U.S., answers a call for help.
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Just Show the “Evidence”
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A visitor to the Creation Museum is disappointed that the Creation Museum presents a presuppositional approach. Dr. Lisle, AiG–U.S., explains the rationale.
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New Scientist Brings up Old Arguments
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In an attempt to discredit the Bible, New Scientist tells us that God’s Word is full of errors. The question is: how did the article pass editorial review?
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Is Free Will an Illusion?
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It appears free will is an illusion, report researchers this week in Nature Neuroscience.
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First Creature on Earth Significantly More Complex
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Might a new scientific find be so “shocking” to scientists because it goes against the predictions of evolutionary history?
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What Do We Mean by “Human Reasoning”?
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Do you guys honestly have an exhibit that puts the biblical, 6-day creation under the heading ‘God's Word,’ and a description of evolution under the heading ‘Human Reasoning?'
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Rallying for Reason?
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The efforts of protestors played a part in helping the Creation Museum’s opening be more publicized than we expected.
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Presuppositions?
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This week we respond to 2 negative feedbacks from A, and are responding to both of them in succession. As usual, each feedback is listed in its entirety, followed by a response.
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Flying "Squirrel" Disrupts Evolutionary Timeline
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Researchers discover a mammal, similar to a flying squirrel, that evolved "too soon."
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A Newspaper with No Purpose
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Monbiot’s article was filled with the usual ill-informed and insulting invective against Christian things that some of us have come to expect from the "Guardian" newspaper.
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Missing? or Misinterpreted?
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‘Facts’ by themselves are essentially meaningless—they all need to be interpreted within a particular philosophical framework.
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Running Out of Puff
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One of the ways scientists work is to build models, based upon their presuppositions concerning the past, to explain (interpret) the evidence of the present.
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The “Evidence” for a Biblical Worldview
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Most of us are familiar to some degree with Leonardo da Vinci the artist and his famous paintings such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
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Science Should not be Subservient to an Ideology
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AIG responds to a critic who who argues science shold be free from ideology.
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The Great Dinosaur Mystery Solved! Object Lesson 2
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In order to understand what really happened, we need to view these animals through “Biblical glasses.”
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The Parable of the Candle
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Chris and Lucy entered a building looking for Manuel.
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Pseudo-Science in Your Daily Paper
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Under the heading ‘Opinion’ in the London Daily Telegraph (DT), Dr H. Cronin voiced her admiration for Darwin while castigating young-earth creationism as a fringe fad.’
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It’s All in How You See Things—The Primates
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Most people committed to an idea often fail to see the difference between the observations and the interpretations they make of those observations.