Biology

From Life: Enhanced edition

Biology Supports Creation

Biology makes little sense without the Bible. Why do we observe animals varying within their respective kinds and not changing into other kinds? Why do we observe life giving rise to life, not life from non-life, which molecules-to-man evolution requires?

More to Learn in Biology

Some people get frustrated when they realize that the “facts” taught in biology class today might turn out to not be true tomorrow. But it really reminds us of how much we have left to learn.

Common Design

Why should a person’s arm have the same kind of bone pattern as the leg of a dog and the wing of a bat? There are two basic ideas, descent from a common ancestor or creation according to a common plan.

Learning from Microbiology

What if we could design a super-small, versatile machine that could travel up blood vessels to deliver targeted medical aid? The fast-moving, single-celled organism, Giardia lamblia, has a unique combination of paired “whips” (flagella) that give it incredible maneuverability. Could miniaturized motorized vehicles be built to imitate this amazing design?

Biology Topics

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  Disease

  Disease, an enemy in a once-perfect creation, does not provide evidence of evolution but rather shows the destructive and often deadly effects of sin.

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  Fungi

  Mushrooms, molds, yeasts, and more—fungi are God-designed organisms that decompose and clean up organic waste.

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  Microbiology

  The fascinating study of microbiology reveals the unbelievable diversity of microscopic organisms—some that even dwell in toxic sea vents and the Dead Sea!

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  Plants

  Plants grow in nearly every environment and come in an amazing variety of shapes, sizes, colors, and types. These “solar machines” are marvels of design.

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  What Is Life?

  What mysterious quality makes a creature alive at one moment but is absent the instant the creature dies? The Bible answers the question, “What is life?”

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  Animals

  God created earth teeming with life: mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, fish, creepy crawlies and dinosaurs. These animals testify to their awesome Creator.

Articles About Biology

• Parasitic Wasps

  

  Oct. 18, 2024

  Did God design wasps to lay their eggs in living hosts?

• Magazine Department Article

  There’s a Map for That—Human Cell Atlas

  

  Oct. 13, 2024 from Answers Magazine

  Medical researchers have launched one of the most ambitious mapping projects ever—the human cell atlas.

• Phylogenetic Trees Are Not Evidence

  

  July 30, 2024

  Phylogenetic trees are often evolutionary fairy tales posing as science.

• In-Depth Article

  Did Two Life-Forms Merge to Create a New Organelle?

  

  May 18, 2024 from Answers in Depth

  The case of UCYN-A is an interesting one but does not represent what pop-sci articles claim.

• Semi-Technical Magazine Department Article

  Lymphocytes—Our Body’s Dynamic Defenders

  

  April 17, 2024 from Answers Magazine

  We’ve now unlocked some of our body’s incredible secrets for rapid response to the ever-changing threat from microbe invaders.

• In-Depth Article

  Where Do All the Species Come From?

  

  Feb. 6, 2024 from Answers in Depth

  What is speciation, and do creationists think it happens?

• Evolution Doesn’t Explain Cowbirds and Other Brood Parasites

  

  Jan. 12, 2024 from Answers in Depth

  Why do some creatures leave their young for others to raise?

• Magazine Article

  The Gift of Tongues

  

  Jan. 1, 2024 from Answers Magazine

  This magnificent muscle speaks of God’s creative genius—and refutes blind evolutionary chance.

• Semi-Technical Magazine Article

  Evolution’s Surprising New Critics

  

  Nov. 5, 2023 from Answers Magazine

  Prominent scientists are speaking out against Darwinian evolution, and they’re not even creationists.

• Magazine Department Article

  Clearly Designed

  

  Oct. 1, 2023 from Answers Magazine

  God ingeniously preprogrammed the genetic information essential for glass frogs to control their transparency.

• Designed Distinctions in a Single Strand of Hair

  

  Sept. 5, 2023

  A quick microscopic examination can determine if the hair is of human or animal origin and directly confirms the creation account described in Genesis 1.

• In-Depth Article

  Celebrating Leeuwenhoek’s Life 300 Years Later

  

  Aug. 26, 2023 from Answers in Depth

  The father of bacteriology was motivated by his faith in the Creator.

• Magazine Article

  Flowers—Not Just a Pretty Face

  

  July 2, 2023 from Answers Magazine

  Flowers aren’t just pretty trinkets we enjoy for a moment. They’re among the most remarkable structures in nature.

• Magazine Department Article

  Long Live the Men

  

  April 1, 2023 from Answers Magazine

  According to some evolutionists, sometime “between infinity and a few thousand years,” the Y chromosome will become extinct unless we can evolve a new sex gene.

• Magazine Department Article

  The Motors That Move Us

  

  April 1, 2023 from Answers Magazine

  From head to heels, your body teems with minuscule machines driving your everyday physical processes.

• Penguins: All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go

  

  Aug. 19, 2022

  Recent research looks to obtain a more robust understanding of what makes penguins unique both physically and genetically.

• The Directed Steps of Hans Christian Gram

  

  Jan. 19, 2022 from Answers in Depth

  How Christian Gram’s providential bacteria discovery in 1883 helped improve bacterial taxonomy and identify pathogens of infectious diseases.

• Magazine Department Article

  One Step Closer to Life?

  

  Nov. 7, 2021 from Answers Magazine

  If all the ingredients necessary for life can occur naturally, does that mean over time they can evolve into a living creature?

• Cell Diversity Explained by Creation

  

  Nov. 10, 2020

  The abundance of cellular diversity is better explained by biblical creation than evolutionary theory.

• Technical In-Depth Article

  Hemoglobin: An Exquisitely Designed, Multifunctional Protein

  

  May 13, 2020 from Answers in Depth

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

• Top Stories in Biology: Year in Review 2019

  

  Jan. 7, 2020

  Top stories of 2019 in biology: Plant communication, Human Y chromosome molecular clock, and remembering popular AiG speaker, Dr. Tommy Mitchell.

• Semi-Technical Magazine Article

  An Eye for Every Occasion

  

  Oct. 9, 2019 from Answers Magazine

  Don’t look now, but you’re being watched by an amazing variety of magnificent eyes.

• The Origin of Sexual and Asexual Reproduction

  

  April 18, 2019

  Life cycles are an interesting thing to study. Organisms are born and produce offspring in so many ways.

• Magazine Department Article

  A New Branch on the Tree of Life

  

  March 1, 2019 from Answers Magazine

  A Canadian graduate student has discovered a life form so different from everything else that it doesn’t fit into the plant, animal, or other known kingdoms.

• Top Biology News of 2018: Year in Review

  

  Jan. 2, 2019

  2018 was a busy year for biology. We covered many of these events on Answers News or our website to equip the church to answer the questions of our day.

• Giant Coral Reefs—Too Old for a Young Earth?

  

  Sept. 15, 2018

  How could large reef systems with many generations of coral have grown in the approximately 4,400 years since Noah’s Flood?

• Magazine Department Article

  A Trillion First Responders

  

  June 12, 2018 from Answers Magazine

  To keep us safe, our body coordinates with a vast network of foreign agents that have joined our side.

• Magazine Article

  Talking Trees—Secrets of Plant Communication

  

  April 27, 2018 from Answers Magazine

  Forests are nurseries of health and well-being. New discoveries are showing that this doesn’t happen by accident. The trees are working together.

• Book Chapter

  Is the Human Embryo Essentially a Fish Without Gills?

  

  July 22, 2017 from Essays on Origins: Creation vs. Evolution

  Almost from the beginning, evolutionists have attempted to equate the process of evolution with the progressive development of the embryo.

• Magazine Article

  The Motor of Life

  

  May 7, 2017 from Answers Magazine

  Bacteria depend on tail-like structures called flagella to get around. But they’re not alone.

• Magazine Article

  Taste & See

  

  Feb. 26, 2017 from Answers Magazine

  God created an infinite diversity of food for us to explore in infinite combinations.

• Why Bring Back Extinct Species?

  

  Nov. 21, 2016

  Researchers are attempting to take species closely related to extinct ones and, using DNA from preserved specimens, to recreate the extinct species.

• Magazine Article

  Yaks—Living the High Life

  

  July 17, 2016 from Answers Magazine

  God designed one mighty beast to thrive in extreme Tibetan conditions.

• Magazine Department Article

  The Zika Threat

  

  July 1, 2016 from Answers Magazine

  Zika, spread by mosquitoes, can severely damage unborn babies’ nervous systems and cause them to be born with tiny heads (microcephaly).

• In-Depth Article

  Winding Back Life’s Story: Evolution of Mitochondria

  April 7, 2016 from Answers in Depth

  Evolutionists claim to know when mitochondria evolved yet still cannot show how or that mitochondria are anything but one of God’s great designs.

• Book Chapter

  1.4 Comparative Similarities: Homology

  Feb. 13, 2016 from Creation: Facts of Life

  Why should a person’s arm have the same kind of bone pattern as the leg of a dog and the wing of a bat? There are two basic ideas.

• Evolutionists Must Know Something That Algae Don’t

  Nov. 13, 2015 from Countering the Culture

  A recent study on algae supposedly sheds light on how aquatic life became terrestrial.

• Magazine Article

  Hiding Their True Colors

  

  Oct. 11, 2015 from Answers Magazine

  The rich and vibrant greens of the forest canopy delight our eyes. But did you know that these leaves are hiding something they won’t reveal until fall?

• Magazine Department Article

  All Research Is Creation Research

  April 1, 2015 from Answers Magazine

  Interview with Biologist, Dr. Joe Francis

• In-Depth Article

  Does the Spotted Gar Harbor a Fish-Finger Connection?

  Jan. 10, 2015 from Answers in Depth

  Solution to the mystery of terrestrial toes said to reside in the spotted gar.

• In-Depth Article

  Did Eels Evolve Better By Biting?

  

  Dec. 4, 2014 from Answers in Depth

  Biting opened the way for biodiversity, evolutionists say.

• In-Depth Article

  Multicellular Life Evolving in Microfossils, Evolutionists Say

  Oct. 23, 2014 from Answers in Depth

  Ancient microfossils have supposedly solved the evolutionary enigma of the Cambrian Explosion.

• In-Depth Article

  Muscles Appear Deep in the Fossil Record

  Sept. 23, 2014 from Answers in Depth

  Animals were flexing their muscles even “before” the Cambrian Explosion.

• Semi-Technical In-Depth Article

  The Wonderful World of Bacteria in Your Body

  Aug. 26, 2014 from Answers in Depth

  The “superorganism” that you are testifies to the superlative wisdom of our Creator God.

• Semi-Technical In-Depth Article

  The Wonderfully Made Design of the Skin and Its Microbiome

  July 16, 2014 from Answers in Depth

  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.

• In-Depth Article

  Dinosaurs May Have Been Neither Warm- Nor Cold-Blooded

  June 19, 2014 from Answers in Depth

  Dinosaur body temperatures, like Goldilocks’s preferred porridge, may have been neither hot nor cold but somewhere in the middle.

• Cold-Blooded or Warm-Blooded?

  July 7, 2012 from News to Know

  Study proves growth rings in bone cannot be used to determine whether an animal is cold-blooded or warm-blooded.

• Semi-Technical In-Depth Article

  Are They Teaching the Truth in Biology Class?

  Nov. 17, 2010 from Answers in Depth

  Science has become somewhat of an idol in our culture. Some have promoted it as the ultimate method for finding truth.