October – December 2010

Human life is sacred, from conception until the day we die. This issue focuses on a creation-based understanding of the sanctity of life and mankind’s violation of the Creator’s clear directives. Feature articles explain when life truly begins, the shocking reality of human trafficking even in the West, and end-of-life decisions, such as living wills. Don’t miss this informative, edifying, and challenging issue!

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Features

• Magazine Article

  Faith vs. Reason

  

  May 19, 2013, pp. 26–29

  Some Christians have the idea that faith and reason are in conflict, divided by some unbridgeable chasm.

• Magazine Article

  Diatoms—Living in Glass Houses

  

  May 26, 2013, pp. 30–31

  Mankind was not the first to invent glass. Since creation, untold trillions of little creatures, called diatoms, have made their homes out of glass.

• Magazine Article

  Closing the Gap

  

  June 2, 2013, pp. 32–34

  Two centuries ago in an effort to explain “prehistoric” fossils, Christian leaders introduced the idea that a gap of time is missing between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2.

• Magazine Article

  Providential Provider

  

  June 9, 2013, p. 35

  A special moth-flower relationship, discovered in arid regions of North America, has inspired the wonder of biologists worldwide.

• Magazine Article

  The Dragons of Peru

  

  July 14, 2013, pp. 36–37

  Like many other countries around the world, there is evidence that dragons had something to do with Peru’s past.

• Magazine Article

  One Nation Under . . . ?

  

  Nov. 21, 2014, pp. 38–40

  At one time in the past, the people of the United States generally knew who ruled over the affairs of men—the Creator God of the Bible. What happened?

• Magazine Article

  Rubber Chicken Leg

  

  July 21, 2013, pp. 41–42

  What makes bones so strong? If they were made out of minerals alone, they would be too brittle and break.

• Magazine Article

  Fighting Abortion—The Measure of a Just Society

  

  Jan. 15, 2017, pp. 44–48

  Should God’s Word or man’s feckless opinion rule in our lives and laws? Clearly, evil will rule if God’s people remain silent.

• Magazine Article

  Human Trafficking

  

  Feb. 5, 2018, pp. 50–53

  When the West rejected the Creator, it tossed out the one sure foundation for human dignity and purity. Without the light of God’s Word, the floodgates have opened to a new form of slavery in the West—trafficking in human lives to fulfill carnal lusts.

• Magazine Article

  Living Wills—On the Edge of Euthanasia?

  

  Aug. 4, 2013, pp. 54–57

  There can be a fine line between comfort measures and euthanasia. We must be careful not to allow a living will to cross that line.

• Magazine Article

  Fossilized Footprints—A Dinosaur Dilemma

  

  Oct. 1, 2010, pp. 64–67

  Dinosaur footprints create an apparent dilemma for creationists. How could they ever be made and fossilized during the Flood?

• Magazine Article

  Melanin

  

  Sept. 28, 2010, pp. 68–70

  God provided our skin with millions of miniature umbrellas, filled with melanin, to guard our bodies from the sun’s most deadly ultraviolet rays.

• Magazine Article

  Carbon-14 Dating

  

  March 30, 2011, pp. 72–75

  Many people assume that rocks are dated at “millions of years” based on radiocarbon (carbon-14) dating. But that’s not the case.

Departments

• Publisher’s Pen

  p. 6

• Readers Respond

  p. 7

• Perspective

  pp. 9–13

• Impact

  pp. 15–18

• Resource Preview

  p. 20

• Created Creature

  pp. 22–25

• Creation on Display

  p. 76

• Truth 4 Teens

  p. 77

• Parent’s Corner

  p. 78

• Biblical Authority

  pp. 80–81

• Last Word

  p. 82

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