Answers in Depth
2014 Volume 9
Answers in Depth (AiD) explores the biblical worldview in addressing modern scientific research, history, current events, popular media, theology, and much more. AiD provides Christians with powerful apologetic answers, careful critiques, and close examinations of the world around them.
Contents
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In-Depth ArticleDuck-billed Dinosaur's Cranial Crest Has Paleontologists CrowingJan. 2, 2014
The paleontologist who found the crested duck-billed dinosaur was correct that preservation of soft tissue demands special conditions: rapid burial.
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In-Depth ArticleSecrets of the Messel Pit, a Fossil GraveyardJan. 4, 2014
The Messel Pit preserves animals suddenly and catastrophically buried in the wake of the global Flood.
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In-Depth ArticleNeanderthal Toe Said to Suggest an Incestuous CultureJan. 6, 2014
Neanderthal toe and Denisovan finger trace humanity’s genetic footprint near and far.
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In-Depth ArticleEpigenetic Changes Let Mice Inherit Their Fathers’ FearsJan. 9, 2014
Are inherited fears mere fodder for novels, or is there some basis for them in science?
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In-Depth ArticleFossil Flowers in Amber Don't Solve Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”Jan. 11, 2014
Flowers deep in the fossil record are just as advanced as flowers today.
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In-Depth ArticleExtinct Carnivore Ancestor of Lions and Tigers and Bears? (Oh My!)Jan. 13, 2014
Teeth and tarsals build an arboreal Belgian beast said to be the ancestor of cats, canines, and bears.
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In-Depth ArticleOur Impressive Immune System: More Than a DefenseJan. 15, 2014
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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In-Depth ArticleDid Ardi Head Up Human Evolution Before Lucy?Jan. 16, 2014
Ardi’s diminutive skull said to have evolved some human features a million years before Lucy.
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In-Depth ArticleBuilding Nutcracker Man from the Ground UpJan. 18, 2014
New “Nutcracker Man” is a mosaic of evolutionary assumptions and reality.
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In-Depth ArticleNutcracker Man’s Diet Was Rich in Brain Food After AllJan. 21, 2014
Bright baboons know nutritional needs of “Nutcracker Man” were no problem.
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In-Depth ArticleDid Tiktaalik’s Pelvis Prepare Fish to Walk on Land?Jan. 23, 2014
Previously shrouded in mystery, Tiktaalik’s pelvis supposedly sheds new light on the evolution of ambulatory hindquarters.
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In-Depth ArticleFossil Hand Turns Back the Clock on Tools for Human EvolutionJan. 25, 2014
Hand fit for a human found surprisingly deep in the fossil record.
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Research PaperFish Fins Are Not Fingers That FailedJan. 28, 2014
Fish fingers were never on the evolutionary menu.
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In-Depth ArticleHoneybees Navigate with a Map of Polarized LightJan. 30, 2014
The uncanny ability of honeybees to remember and communicate the location of sweet nectar has been the subject of ongoing investigations.
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In-Depth ArticleDid Humans Evolve from a Fish out of Water?Feb. 1, 2014
Evolutionists proclaim discovery of the ancestral anatomy for air-breathing terrestrials in an African fish.
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In-Depth ArticleHow the Scorpion Got Its StingFeb. 3, 2014
A genetically engineered toxin is said to show how scorpions evolved.
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In-Depth ArticleWhy Do So Many Birds Fly in a V Formation?Feb. 7, 2014
Birds flying in V formation take aeronautical engineering to new heights.
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In-Depth ArticleGeneticists Duel Over Dates for “Y-Chromosomal Adam”Feb. 11, 2014
Setting the molecular clock to ring for “Adam” is creating controversy among geneticists.
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In-Depth ArticleWhy Do Arms and Legs Come in Pairs?Feb. 15, 2014
You only have two arms and two legs because your gut got in the way, evolutionists say.
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In-Depth ArticleHow Cavefish Went Blind, and Why It MattersFeb. 17, 2014
What makes cavefish go blind? Now we know (or at least we have evidence for a strong possibility). But it isn’t evolution!
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In-Depth ArticleAncient Footprints Place Humans in England Early in the Ice AgeFeb. 18, 2014
Did human feet in ancient time walk upon England’s river shore?
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In-Depth ArticleLizard Breath Fails to Support Kinship with BirdsFeb. 20, 2014
Do monitor lizards and crocodiles really breathe the same way birds do?
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In-Depth ArticleA Tale of Shale and Oxygen in the Explosion of LifeFeb. 22, 2014
Trace elements tell a tale of critically low oxygen that nearly turned out the lights on the evolution of complex life.
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In-Depth ArticleFish Brains Grew Till We Have Faces, Evolutionists SayFeb. 24, 2014
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, what’s the fishiest fable of them all? Evolutionists say they have filled in the gaps in the origin of the human face.
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Technical In-Depth ArticleRocks Around the Clock: Do Zircons Contain Reliable Time Stamps and Early Earth’s Secrets?Feb. 26, 2014
Despite debate about the accuracy of the uranium “clocks” they contain, scientists say they’ve found a zircon with a confirmed age of 4.4 billion years.
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In-Depth ArticleDo Tacked-on Chicken Tails Tell How T-rex Walked?Feb. 28, 2014
Scientists velcroed wood-‘n’-clay tails onto chickens to reverse-engineer dinosaur-to-bird evolution. Really.
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In-Depth ArticleCanada’s New Cambrian Explosion: Burgess Shale Chapter TwoMarch 1, 2014
Rich new fossil bed promises to revolutionize evolutionary understanding of the Cambrian explosion.
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In-Depth ArticleCan Spinning Crystals Show How Life Began?March 4, 2014
Self-assembling virtual crystals are said to show the path to life from lifelessness.
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In-Depth ArticleAncient Humans of Paracas Are Victims of a Twisted TaleMarch 6, 2014
Peru’s ancient Paracas people are being de-humanized by absurd assertions.
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In-Depth ArticleThirty Million Years Didn’t Really Change China’s Jurassic ParkMarch 8, 2014
China’s Jurassic fossils get a new name.
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In-Depth ArticleDoes Your Dog Understand You Because You Share an Ancestral Bond?March 10, 2014
Brain imaging suggests dogs and humans are wired to respond to sounds the same way.
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Technical In-Depth ArticleOf Creation in GeneralMarch 12, 2014
Baptist theologian Dr. John Gill had an essential grasp on how the creation account is extremely important to Christianity in the 1700s. It still is.
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In-Depth ArticleDid Huh? Arise in Every Language through Convergent Evolution?March 13, 2014
Previously thought of as something akin to a grunt, huh? qualifies as a bona fide word, linguists now say.
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In-Depth ArticleSea Sponges Challenge Traditional Evolutionary View of How Oceans Became OxygenatedMarch 15, 2014
The earliest animals, not plants, promoted oxygenation of the oceans, scientists say.
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In-Depth ArticleReverse Evolution Causes Darwin’s Finches to Go Missing?March 20, 2014
Evolutionary experts assert finches should be “protected” from surviving through hybridization if it leads to un-speciation.
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In-Depth ArticleWhale Skull Equipped for Sonar Shows Echolocation Appears Abruptly in the Fossil RecordMarch 22, 2014
Moby Dick’s ancient cousin was well-equipped with sonar for hunting and mapping the bottom of the sea.
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In-Depth ArticleSea Anemone’s Genome Said to Show Evolutionary Root of Plants and AnimalsMarch 27, 2014
“Flower of the sea” is said to contain an evolutionary link between plants and animals.
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In-Depth Article“Field-Evolved Resistance” Leaves Rootworms to Ravage Corn CropsMarch 31, 2014
Resistant rootworms can ravage corn if farmers put all their eggs in a genetically modified high-tech basket.
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In-Depth ArticleArctic Tyrannosaur Takes the Prize for Being PetiteApril 3, 2014
Dinosaur skull changes the face of tyrannosaurus expectations and leads to speculation about ancient Arctic animal populations.
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In-Depth ArticleGenetic Links Between Lion Lineages Traced to Common AncestorApril 5, 2014
Beautiful Barbary lion, now extinct, could be “re-built” and restored from its closest cousins.
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In-Depth ArticleTen Concerns with the Noah MovieApril 18, 2014
While offensive in many ways, the Noah movie's worst offense is its blatant misrepresentation of God.
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In-Depth ArticleSimulating the Age of the MoonMay 1, 2014
The mystery of the moon’s age is supposedly solved by computer simulations.
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In-Depth ArticleQuest for Goldilocks Planet Scores a Hit with Kepler-186fMay 3, 2014
Kepler Space Telescope pinpoints a potentially habitable earth-sized exoplanet.
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In-Depth ArticleWater World Theory of Life’s Origins Rises from the Lost CityMay 9, 2014
“Water world” is a “geological approach to life’s emergence.”
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In-Depth ArticleNew Letters for Life’s DNA Alphabet Build on God’s DesignMay 10, 2014
Can genetic engineers—by building a bacterium that speaks an unearthly tongue—reenact ancient evolution in the laboratory?
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In-Depth Article“Fossil Galaxy” Said to Show Conditions Soon After the Big BangMay 17, 2014
Are the chemical signatures in a faint galaxy the fossil remnants of our universe’s birth?
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In-Depth ArticleMolecular Basis of Aphid-Bacteria Nutritional Symbiosis RevealedMay 22, 2014
Sap-sucking insects get a nutritional leg up from bacterial symbionts.
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In-Depth ArticleGenetic Roots of Tooth Enamel Reveal Distinctive DesignMay 27, 2014
Do the genetic roots of primate tooth enamel track humanity’s evolutionary roots?
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In-Depth ArticleComb Jelly Genome Mystery Generates ConfusionMay 29, 2014
Jelly genome shakes the evolutionary tree of life to its roots.
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In-Depth ArticleStop-or-Go DNA Codes Reveal Rampant Rule-Breaking in the Language of LifeMay 31, 2014
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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In-Depth ArticleDid Humans Evolve Big Brains by Evolving Weak Muscles?June 5, 2014
Are weak muscles the price humans paid for evolving bigger better brains?
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In-Depth ArticleChromosome Tales and the Importance of a Biblical WorldviewJune 18, 2014
When evidence is interpreted in a particular worldview, it can sound very convincing that the evidence supports that worldview.
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In-Depth ArticleDinosaurs May Have Been Neither Warm- Nor Cold-BloodedJune 19, 2014
Dinosaur body temperatures, like Goldilocks’s preferred porridge, may have been neither hot nor cold but somewhere in the middle.
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In-Depth ArticleJaw-Dropping Discovery in the Burgess ShaleJune 21, 2014
Did this little fish lose a gill to build a jaw for its evolutionary descendants?
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In-Depth ArticleUK State-Funded Schools Ban All Teaching of Creation ScienceJune 24, 2014
UK mandates teaching that natural biological processes explain origins of life on earth.
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In-Depth ArticleMercuriceratops Delivers a Message from the PastJune 28, 2014
Does Mercuriceratops, like its mythological namesake messenger of the gods, bring us a mythological message from an evolutionary past?
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In-Depth ArticlePrayer and the TrinityJuly 2, 2014
Our view of the members of the Trinity shape our view of prayer. Dr. Mark Bird will discuss how the New Testament authors relate prayer to the Trinity.
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In-Depth ArticleDoes a Paleo-Diet Hold the Evolutionary Key for Good Nutrition?July 3, 2014
Do modern man’s diseases spring from a mismatch between today’s diet and prehistoric anatomy?
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In-Depth ArticlePiecing Together Neanderthals at Sima de los HuesosJuly 5, 2014
The “mosaic” of traits in these people who left their fossilized remains in Ice Age sediment is consistent with the history found in God’s Word.
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In-Depth ArticleDid Bugs Give Ancestral Primates a Bigger Brain?July 8, 2014
Looking for bugs in all the right places bumped human brains up the evolutionary ladder, researchers say.
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In-Depth ArticlePiecing Together Human History, One Adaptation at a TimeJuly 12, 2014
In a new comprehensive review of humanity’s story, evolutionary anthropologists tell their tale of how hominins progressed up the evolutionary ladder.
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In-Depth ArticleThe Wonderfully Made Design of the Skin and Its MicrobiomeJuly 16, 2014
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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In-Depth ArticleDenisovan Gene Gave Tibetans Their High-Altitude ToleranceJuly 19, 2014
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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In-Depth ArticleDo Duck-Billed Dinosaur Tracks Trace Hadrosaur Habits?July 26, 2014
A storybook version of hadrosaur history collapses, favoring an interpretation based in eyewitness history and the observable data.
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In-Depth ArticleCambrian Predator Wore Its Brain out in FrontJuly 30, 2014
This predatory beast of very little brain drove evolution of brighter brains, evolutionists say.
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In-Depth ArticleDid All Dinosaurs Have Feathers?Aug. 2, 2014
Get used to seeing feathers on all evolutionary depictions of dinosaurs, not just theropods!
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In-Depth ArticleRun For Your Life! Evolution’s SolutionAug. 8, 2014
Good designs last, evolutionists conclude, but where did they come from in the first place?
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In-Depth ArticlePlants for the “Prehistoric” PalateAug. 9, 2014
Purportedly prehistoric people chose their veggies wisely even before they took up farming, archaeologists say.
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In-Depth ArticleHijacking Good Science: Lenski’s Bacteria Support CreationAug. 13, 2014
Lenski's long-term evolution experiment does not distinguish between observable limited change and unobservable molecules-to-man evolution.
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In-Depth ArticleIs Homo floresiensis a Legitimate Human “Hobbit” Species?Aug. 19, 2014
Indonesia’s Flores Island was probably populated not by a Lilliputian human species but just ordinary people including a person with Down syndrome.
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In-Depth ArticleHuman Evolutionary Lineages Teeter on Neanderthal-Style Inner EarAug. 21, 2014
Neanderthal labyrinth in non-Neanderthal fossil hints at maze of post-Babel migrations.
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In-Depth ArticleWyoming Cave Traps Animals from the Ice Age until the Space AgeAug. 23, 2014
Natural Trap Cave preserves a treasure trove of animals from the Ice Age until the 1970s.
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In-Depth ArticleThe Wonderful World of Bacteria in Your BodyAug. 26, 2014
The “superorganism” that you are testifies to the superlative wisdom of our Creator God.
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In-Depth ArticleCosmos’ Tyson Says Creationists’ Beliefs Are CrazyAug. 30, 2014
Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey host wonders why Answers in Genesis critiqued his series and why anyone cares.
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In-Depth ArticleWormlike Evolutionary Misfit from the Burgess Shale Finds a HomeSept. 4, 2014
Crazy-looking fossil’s evolutionary descendants are crawling around in the tropics, evolutionists say.
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In-Depth ArticleAcademic Freedom Under Fire in ScotlandSept. 12, 2014
Nobel laureates petition Scottish government to prohibit teachers from presenting creation science as alternative to evolutionism.
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In-Depth ArticleFish out of Water Said to Rise, Lift up Their Heads, and WalkSept. 13, 2014
Will fish out of water evolve?
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In-Depth ArticleGenetic “Degeneracy” Goes the Way of “Junk” DNASept. 16, 2014
Surprising evolutionists but not biblical creationists, scientists have discovered an additional layer of information in DNA.
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In-Depth ArticleCaffeine: Convergently Evolved or Creatively ProvidedSept. 20, 2014
Did caffeine evolve again and again or did our Common Designer provide many plants with the genes to make it?
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In-Depth ArticleMuscles Appear Deep in the Fossil RecordSept. 23, 2014
Animals were flexing their muscles even “before” the Cambrian Explosion.
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In-Depth ArticleMouse Memory Enhanced By Humanized “Language Gene”Sept. 25, 2014
With mice and men, practice makes perfect, but a mouse with a man’s FOXp2 gene achieves perfection faster.
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In-Depth ArticleCreating Confusion in Genesis with Hugh RossSept. 27, 2014
Dr. Hugh Ross wrings “reasons to believe” out of God’s Word, not by simply reading what’s there, but by twisting and distorting it.
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In-Depth ArticleHuman Faces Vary Thanks to Evolution, Study ClaimsSept. 30, 2014
Human faces evolved to vary as much as Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head, evolutionists say.
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In-Depth ArticlePeacock Tail Feathers Don’t Drag Them DownOct. 2, 2014
Evolution explains neither the peacock’s beauty nor its aerodynamic efficiency.
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In-Depth ArticleNavigating Genesis without the MapOct. 4, 2014
Navigating Genesis is, sadly, a tool for steering the uninformed into a shipwreck of faith, not for removing stumbling blocks as Dr. Ross claims.
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In-Depth ArticleTale of the Taung Child CollapsesOct. 7, 2014
“Evolving room for the brain to grow” was a good story, but even for evolutionists it doesn’t hold water anymore.
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In-Depth ArticleExamining Hugh Ross’s Navigating GenesisOct. 8, 2014
Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell reviews Dr. Hugh Ross’s Navigating Genesis, which, sadly, steers the uninformed into a shipwreck of faith.
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Research PaperReview of the Lecture “Evolution & Creation: Conflicting or Compatible?”Oct. 22, 2014
Drs. Elizabeth Mitchell and Terry Mortenson discuss a recent local presentation that they attended.
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In-Depth ArticleMulticellular Life Evolving in Microfossils, Evolutionists SayOct. 23, 2014
Ancient microfossils have supposedly solved the evolutionary enigma of the Cambrian Explosion.
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In-Depth ArticleDid Mammals Evolve to Rule the Night?Oct. 25, 2014
Evolutionary researchers contend mammalian ancestors evolved night vision before the age of dinosaurs.
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In-Depth ArticleNo Hadean Hell on EarthOct. 30, 2014
Zircons may hint at a story about the early earth, but only with the help of God’s Word.
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In-Depth ArticleTriassic Fossil Said to be a Transitional IchthyosaurNov. 8, 2014
Did ancient ichthyosaurs march from land to sea in Triassic China?
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In-Depth ArticleWere New Testament Books Forged?Nov. 12, 2014
This review will provide a cursory review of Forged, critique Ehrman’s methodology, and expose his many exaggerated conclusions.
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In-Depth ArticleIs Rapid Lizard Adaptation a Template for Deep-Time Evolution?Nov. 15, 2014
Evolutionists declare stickier toes reveal the path up the evolutionary tree.
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In-Depth ArticleHow Domestic Cats Differ from Wildcats and Other CarnivoresNov. 20, 2014
Did your cat evolve to like you?
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In-Depth ArticleRodent-like Mammal Shakes the Evolutionary TreeNov. 29, 2014
Does this giant groundhog-like animal that shared the world with dinosaurs tell us anything about how we evolved?
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In-Depth ArticleBird X-Rays Shed Light on Dinosaur TracksDec. 12, 2014
Can walking birds trace tracks back through the sands of time and correct some false impressions of dinosaurs?
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In-Depth ArticleCan Neanderthal Noses Sniff Out the Secret Paths of Human Evolution?Dec. 17, 2014
Were Neanderthals our cousins, our ancestors, or just our fellow human travelers in the post-Babel world?
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In-Depth ArticleDid Humans Evolve to Drink Alcohol?Dec. 18, 2014
Is raising the glass in a New Year’s toast a millions-of-years-old tradition?
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