2012 Volume 5

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

  An Evaluation of the Myth That “Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution”

  Feb. 8, 2012, pp. 1–12

  I reviewed both the textbooks used for life science classes at the college where I teach and those that I used in my past university course work.

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• Technical Research Paper

  Numerical Simulations of Hypercanes Charley and Fay in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico over a Warm Ocean

  Feb. 29, 2012, pp. 13–24

  Two tropical cyclones were simulated with the NCAR WRF model to determine if warm sea-surface temperatures would cause them to intensify into hypercanes and follow similar storm tracks as the origin

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• Technical Research Paper

  Can Theistic Evolutionism Explain the Origin of Morality?

  March 14, 2012, pp. 25–37

  Theistic evolutionism is not only inconsistent with Scripture but also philosophically incoherent.

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• Technical Research Paper

  Numerical Simulations of Three Nor’easters with a Warm Atlantic Ocean

  March 28, 2012, pp. 39–58

  Analyses and numerical simulations were conducted on three recent nor’easters which formed on the East Coast of the United States to explore the effects of warmer-than-normal sea-surface temperatures.

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• Technical Research Paper

  Understanding the Nature of Scripture, of Jesus, and the “Dis-Ease” of Theistic Evolutionists (BioLogos)

  May 9, 2012, pp. 59–71

  The apologetic suggests that BioLogos should consider that the ultimate source of their “dis-ease” is the nature and character of the Creator.

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• Technical Research Paper

  What Makes Us Human, and Why It Is Not the Brain: A Creationist Defense of the Soul: Discussion

  June 13, 2012, pp. 73–79

  Certainly there is more to humans than a complex brain architecture from which a mind would seem to emerge. However, this reader has two difficulties.

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• Technical Research Paper

  What Makes Us Human, and Why It Is Not the Brain: A Creationist Defense of the Soul: Reply

  June 13, 2012, pp. 81–87

  To depart from Scripture at any point is neither safe nor right. Thus Estabrook’s discussion of my paper (Joubert 2011) in which he expressed his difficulties with my defense of the soul is welcome.

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• Technical Research Paper

  Review of John Lennox’s Book Seven Days That Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis and Science

  June 27, 2012, pp. 89–97

  Lennox reasons that the church has been wrong in the past over its interpretation of Scripture in light of scientific discovery, and that those holding to a young earth are wrong again.

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• Technical Research Paper

  Theistic Evolution: An Incoherent and Inconsistent Worldview?

  July 11, 2012, pp. 99–114

  Christians are caught up in theistic evolutionism without realizing that the worldview of theistic evolutionism is incoherent and inconsistent with the teachings of Scripture.

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• Technical Research Paper

  Parallelism in Hebrew Poetry Demonstrates a Major Error in the Hermeneutic of Many Old-Earth Creationists

  July 25, 2012, pp. 115–123

  This article will provide a survey of the nature of Hebrew poetry and provide examples of the various forms of parallelism exhibited in the six poetic books of the Bible.

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• Technical Research Paper

  The Unbeliever at War with God: Michael Ruse and the Creation-Evolution Controversy

  Sept. 5, 2012, pp. 125–139

  The evidence to be considered will indicate that a fear of God and afterlife play a major role in the psychology of unbelief, and that points toward the realism of Scripture.

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• Technical Research Paper

  Abraham and the Chronology of Ancient Mesopotamia

  Oct. 3, 2012, pp. 141–150

  For many years, Abraham was believed to have lived at the same time as Hammurabi, king of Babylon. Later scholars would date Abraham to the period shortly before the reign of Hammurabi.

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• Technical Research Paper

  Mammalian Ark Kinds

  Oct. 31, 2012, pp. 151–204

  Information on the class Mammalia was evaluated in an attempt to get a realistic estimate of what mammalian kinds would have been represented on the Ark.

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• Technical Research Paper

  Is Young-Earth Creationism a Bad Choice?

  Nov. 14, 2012, pp. 205–216

  Any understanding of Scripture that excludes or indicts the divine Himself is necessarily flawed and false.

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• Technical Research Paper

  Creation Date of Adam from the Perspective of Young-Earth Creationism

  Nov. 28, 2012, pp. 217–230

  This article reveals how young-earth creationists have concluded the approximate age of Adam and to explain the reason for a 6,000 year range between both groups.

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• Technical Research Paper

  Evolutionary Psychology: Why It Fails as a Science and Is Dangerous

  Dec. 19, 2012, pp. 231–232

  Christians and the public at large cannot afford to accept what they are being told about themselves from the perspective of evolutionary psychology.

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