2020 Volume 15

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

• Technical In-Depth Article

  Uranium-Lead (U-Pb) Radioisotope Dating Method Problems

  

  Jan. 23, 2020

  Uranium-lead radioisotope dating is now the preferred absolute dating method among geochronologists. But there are several problems with this particular method.

• In-Depth Article

  Wise Blood: The Principle of Overcoming in Disease and Immunity (Part 1)

  

  Jan. 28, 2020

  How our immune system protects us from deadly pathogens and parasites through antibodies to demonstrate how we’re fearfully and wonderfully made.

• In-Depth Article

  Wise Blood: Antibodies, the Principle of Overcoming in Disease (Part 2)

  

  Feb. 5, 2020

  The immune system serves more than just to “defend” against disease – it was designed to interact with microbes and to cleanse the body.

• In-Depth Article

  Rethinking Dark Energy: A Fly in the Cosmic Ointment

  

  Feb. 7, 2020

  How Big Bang cosmology requires dark energy to work and how the reality of dark energy are now being called into question by mainstream scientists.

• In-Depth Article

  Carnivorous Plants

  

  Feb. 12, 2020

  An overview of carnivorous plants, differing mechanisms in plants, and whether carnivorous plants contradict the “very good” original creation in Genesis.

• Coronavirus Treatment: Quinine (and Hydroxychloroquine)?

  

  April 4, 2020

  What is quinine and hydroxychloroquine, and is it effective in treating COVID-19 (coronavirus) as some reports seem to suggest?

• Technical In-Depth Article

  Hemoglobin: An Exquisitely Designed, Multifunctional Protein

  

  May 13, 2020

  When we begin to examine life on the molecular level, we quickly begin to realize that hemoglobin is specially designed for multiple purposes.

• In-Depth Article

  Common Big Bang Cosmology Misconceptions

  

  May 15, 2020

  Unfortunately, several misconceptions about cosmology have crept into the thinking of biblical creationists.

• Directed Evolution

  

  May 16, 2020

  Are intelligently designed experiments using already present features in already-existing bacteria and viruses really examples of molecules-to-man evolution?

• Four Lessons from the Mount St. Helens Eruption

  

  May 18, 2020

  Forty years later, Mount St. Helens still teaches us lessons about the powerful forces the Creator uses to shape the earth.

• Adam or Noah: Who Is the "One Man" in Acts 17?

  

  May 30, 2020

  Biblical scholar John Walton asserts Noah is the “one man” that Paul refers to in his address to the Athenians in Acts 17:26. But is he correct?

• In-Depth Article

  Blind Mole-Rats: Evidence for Intelligent Design

  

  June 6, 2020

  A skeptical social media post is making the claim that the lesser mole-rat (one of several blind mole rats) is evidence against intelligent design.

• Technical In-Depth Article

  The Genesis of SARS-CoV-2 Virus and the Origin of the COVID-19 Pandemic

  

  June 17, 2020

  In this paper the origin and genesis of COVID-19 are postulated, and the epidemiological/ecological aspects of the disease and biblical perspective are shared.

• In-Depth Article

  Beyond Darwin's Tree: A Critical Look at Phylogenetics

  

  July 1, 2020

  Phylogenetics, the proposed evolutionary history of a species (or group of species), ultimately fails because of flawed scientific and philosophical assumptions.

• Whale Genetics and Evolution

  

  July 3, 2020

  Whale evolution is presented in most biology textbooks as absolute fact, often with inaccurate depictions of the supposed transitional forms.

• Book of Job: Fact or Fiction

  

  July 10, 2020

  Exploring the biblical and ancient Near Eastern historical evidence shows how the book of Job records actual events.

• In-Depth Article

  Gregor Mendel: No Darwinian

  

  July 22, 2020

  Gregor Mendel is perhaps one of the most well-known scientists in history.

• Drawing Out the Biblical Leviathan

  

  Aug. 8, 2020

  Job 41 certainly describes Leviathan as a real creature that only the God of creation could master.

• In-Depth Article

  Geocentrism: History and Background

  

  Aug. 29, 2020

  Like geocentrists of old, modern geocentrists are divided as to whether the earth rotates, but they are united in belief that the earth does not revolve.

• In-Depth Article

  Adam, Jesus, and the Canon of Scripture

  

  Sept. 2, 2020

  How would first-century Jewish people have viewed the ending of the Old Testament (Hebrew Scriptures)? Did they think it was a complete account?

• In-Depth Article

  The Rise of the Modern Geocentric Theory Movement

  

  Sept. 4, 2020

  Does the Bible teach or demand geocentrism? Hardly. Does good science indicate that the earth is motionless? Certainly not. Then why do some Christians believe otherwise?

• In-Depth Article

  Gopher Wood: The Mystery of the Ark’s Timber

  

  Oct. 7, 2020

  Explore the origin of pre-flood “gopher wood” and possible identities of the wood used to build Noah’s ark.

• In-Depth Article

  Humans with Dinosaurs Evidence

  

  Oct. 23, 2020

  Dragon legends are not the only evidence of mankind living with dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine reptiles.

• In-Depth Article

  Do Animals Go to Heaven When They Die?

  

  Oct. 30, 2020

  Will there be animals in heaven, do animals have souls, and how does the Bible address what happens to animals when they die?

• In-Depth Article

  10 New Testament Texts on Genesis 1–11

  

  Nov. 6, 2020

  The New Testament authors demonstrate their views about Genesis 1-11 and the historicity of events a few thousand years ago.

• False History of Creationism Is Full of Beans

  

  Dec. 22, 2020

  Phil Vischer apparently does not accept the history recorded in Genesis, and seems unaware of the science that confirms creation and the biblical timescale.