2008 Volume 1

Cutting-edge creation research. Free. Answers Research Journal (ARJ) is a professional, peer-reviewed technical journal for the publication of interdisciplinary scientific and other relevant research from the perspective of the recent Creation and the global Flood within a biblical framework.

Contents

• Technical Research Paper

  Proceedings of the Microbe Forum, June 2007

  Jan. 9, 2008, pp. 1–6

  For many years the roles of microbes as part of God’s wonderful design have been neglected. Perhaps it is because many people associate microbes as the cause of death, disease, and suffering.

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• Technical Research Paper

  Microbes and the Days of Creation

  Jan. 16, 2008, pp. 7–10

  The world of germs and microbes has received much attention in recent years. But where do microbes fit into the creation account?

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• Technical Research Paper

  Catastrophic Granite Formation

  Feb. 6, 2008, pp. 11–26

  The timescale for the generation of granitic magmas and their subsequent intrusion, crystallization, and cooling as plutons is no longer incompatible with the biblical time frames.

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• Technical Research Paper

  An Apology and Unification Theory for the Reconciliation of Physical Matter and Metaphysical Cognizance

  Feb. 22, 2008, pp. 27–42

  Because one is tangible and the other intangible, the physical and metaphysical are generally treated separately. But this dichotomy is illogical.

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• Technical Research Paper

  Louis Pasteur’s Views on Creation, Evolution, and the Genesis of Germs

  Feb. 25, 2008, pp. 43–52

  Shortly after Darwin published On the Origin of Species, Pasteur began to challenge the idea of spontaneous generation.

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• Technical Research Paper

  Testing the Hydrothermal Fluid Transport Model for Polonium Radiohalo Formation: The Thunderhead Sandstone, Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee–North Carolina

  March 26, 2008, pp. 53–64

  The regional metamorphism, the hydrothermal fluid flows, the cooling of the regional metamorphic complex, and the formation of the Po radiohalos all had to have occurred within a few weeks.

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• Technical Research Paper

  Toward a Practical Theology of Peer Review

  April 9, 2008, pp. 65–75

  The irony of the conflict over peer review is that peer review is poorly understood and criticized even in conventional journals.

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• Technical Research Paper

  Karyotype Variability within the Cattle Monobaramin

  June 11, 2008, pp. 77–88

  Chromosomal rearrangements, particularly centric fusions, have played an important role in developing the chromosomal patterns that are seen in cattle today.

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• Technical Research Paper

  Mars, a Testament to Catastrophe

  July 23, 2008, pp. 89–94

  The unlikely geographic relationship between these gigantic features suggests a cause and effect relationship between them. This implies a global Martian catastrophe comparable to the Genesis Flood.

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• Technical Research Paper

  Green River Formation Very Likely Did Not Form in a Postdiluvial Lake

  Sept. 22, 2008, pp. 99–108

  The uniformitarians believe that the couplets in the Green River Formation are varves, but evidence militates against this interpretation

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• Technical Research Paper

  Genetics of Coat Color I

  Oct. 8, 2008, pp. 109–116

  Given the number of alleles within baramins, much of the diversity at this locus must have developed since the genetic bottleneck at the Flood where only a single breeding pair was preserved.

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• Technical Research Paper

  Bacterial Attenuation and its Link to Innate Oncolytic Potential

  Oct. 15, 2008, pp. 117–122

  Although bacteria have been mainly recognized as disease causing agents, there are abundant scientific evidences that bacterial pathogenicity is not the major biological function of bacteria.

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• Technical Research Paper

  Radiocarbon Ages for Fossil Ammonites and Wood in Cretaceous Strata near Redding, California

  Dec. 10, 2008, pp. 123–144

  Measurable radiocarbon has been detected in fossils from the earliest days of radiocarbon dating. When these data are put in perspective, their deadly significance to uniformitarianism is apparent.

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• Technical Research Paper

  The Origin of Oil—A Creationist Answer

  Dec. 17, 2008, pp. 145–168

  The dominant view of the origin of oil amongst western oil companies until 1969 was that it was due to the decay of living matter. Now other views are making themselves heard.

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• Technical Research Paper

  Hebrew Metaphysic

  Dec. 31, 2008, pp. 169–195

  Metaphysical development in Hebrew biblical texts is especially elucidated through a series of word studies with a shifting emphasis that each cross-pollinates the others.

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