Dr. Alan L. Gillen Articles

• Technical In-Depth Article

  Variation and Adaptation in Guppies and Gambusia

  

  July 2, 2024 from Answers in Depth

  Although small, these fish are known to play an important role in the fight against malaria as they prey on mosquito larvae.

• In-Depth Article

  How DNA Reveals God’s Design

  

  April 25, 2024 from Answers in Depth

  DNA: The transforming principle as a code and its discovery in the genesis of germs

• 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.

• In-Depth Article

  The Return of Malaria to the USA

  

  Aug. 25, 2023 from Answers in Depth

  Did God create parasites to make us sick?

• Research Paper

  A New Spin on the Bacterial Flagellum: Its Normal Niche and Displacement

  

  Aug. 3, 2022 from Answers in Depth

  The complexity and coordination of flagella attest to the work of a Master Engineer who designed and created them to function in a wonderfully intricate manner.

• In-Depth Article

  Why Are There So Many Mosquitoes?

  

  June 22, 2022

  While sometimes a nuisance and a carrier of unwanted disease, the mosquito has a role in the success of the environment that was implemented by the Creator.

• 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.

• In-Depth Article

  The Transformational Power of Yeasts: One-Celled Creatures That Burst with Life

  

  Nov. 16, 2021 from Answers in Depth

  Just as the baker uses yeasts to transform hard, flat dough into new bursting life in bread and beverages, the Creator makes new living creatures in Christ.

• In-Depth Article

  Alexander Fleming & God’s Signature in Microbiology

  

  Aug. 6, 2021 from Answers in Depth

  The molecular complexities of staphylococci mechanisms indicate the signature of a divine Designer who has placed his signature on his art piece, staphylococci.

• In-Depth Article

  The Origin of Ticks and the Genesis and Emergence of Lyme Disease

  

  Aug. 4, 2021 from Answers in Depth

  Tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease have plagued humans for millennia. Did God make them that way, and what do they teach us about a fallen creation?

• In-Depth Article

  Why New Diseases Keep Popping Up

  

  July 3, 2021 from Answers in Depth

  A creation perspective on why God allows emerging and reemerging diseases like COVID-19 and Lyme Disease that cause emotional, financial, and health problems.

• Technical In-Depth Article

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

  

  June 17, 2020 from Answers in Depth

  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

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

  

  Feb. 5, 2020 from Answers in Depth

  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

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

  

  Jan. 28, 2020 from Answers in Depth

  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

  Life Is in the Blood

  

  Aug. 2, 2019 from Answers in Depth

  Blood reveals much about the majesty of our Creator and Master Craftsman, irreducible complexity, and the health or disease state of the human body.

• In-Depth Article

  The Genesis of the “Brain-Eating” Amoeba

  

  June 19, 2019 from Answers in Depth

  The Creator made all creatures, including amoebas, with variation and plasticity in their genome for global differences of climate, terrain, and environment.

• In-Depth Article

  The Coliform Kind: E. coli and Its “Cousins”

  

  Oct. 3, 2018 from Answers in Depth

  Even though some intestinal bacteria strains are pathogenic and deadly, most coliforms strains still show evidence of being one of God’s “very good” creations.

• In-Depth Article

  Serratia marcescens, the “Flame” Strain: The Genesis of a New Variant

  

  June 19, 2018 from Answers in Depth

  This article explains the mysterious origin of a new strain of Serratia marcescens that produces prodigiosin up to 40°C without any enrichment to media.

• In-Depth Article

  The Design of Giardia and the Genesis of Giardiasis

  

  July 19, 2017 from Answers in Depth

  We read in Genesis 1:31 that God made everything “very good.” If everything that God made was good, where did Giardia come from?

• In-Depth Article

  Staph Bacteria from First Breath

  

  Jan. 25, 2017 from Answers in Depth

  The emphasis of this article is to explain some of the “very good” design and purpose of Staphylococci and other good, beneficial bacteria of the nose.

• In-Depth Article

  The Design of the Mosquito and Its Dangers

  Aug. 11, 2016 from Answers in Depth

  If everything that God made was good, where did disease-causing mosquitoes come from? What is the origin of mosquito-borne diseases?

• In-Depth Article

  Super Staph in the Community: Is It Evolving?

  Oct. 22, 2015 from Answers in Depth

  Is Community-associated (CA)-MRSA “evolution in action”? Microbiology research based on creation provides some answers to its emerging dominance in the USA.

• Book Chapter

  Is Antibiotic Resistance Proof of Evolution?

  July 3, 2015 from The Genesis of Germs

  Antibiotic resistance is one of the most important topics that a beginning biology student going into medicine should learn and understand.

• Book Chapter

  Microbes by Design, Example 2, Serratia marcescens

  June 26, 2015 from The Genesis of Germs

  Another example of design which can be seen in the microbial world is the production of a blood-red pigment made by Serratia marcescens.

No results found in .