Latest Articles by Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell

  • The Bunny King
    May 7, 2011 from News to Know

    Once upon a time a rabbit king was buried on Minorca . . .

  • NewScientist: “Cooperative Robots Obey Evolutionary Law”
    May 7, 2011 from News to Know

    Robots who “learned” how to share are “the first real confirmation of Hamilton’s rule, one of the most fundamental theories in modern biology.”

  • Dripping Canyon Crust
    May 7, 2011 from News to Know

    The Grand Canyon slices through the high Colorado Plateau, but how did the plateau come to be so high? New seismic data paints a picture of the plateau’s underbelly.

  • Persistent Protein
    May 7, 2011 from News to Know

    Preservation of collagen fibers in a marine reptile fossil is said to prove “biomolecular preservation over deep time.”

  • Skeletons in the Closet
    April 30, 2011 from News to Know

    The dark history of human genetics illustrates the dangers of science misunderstood and misused.

  • Pluto’s Expanding Atmosphere
    April 30, 2011 from News to Know

    Pluto’s atmosphere is expanding dramatically.

  • Rapid Evolution of Genome Size
    April 30, 2011 from News to Know

    Different genome size in two “related” species of cress (genus Arabidopsis) is called the result of a rapid evolutionary process.

  • The Eyes Have It
    April 30, 2011 from News to Know

    So with peacocks—the classic Darwinian example of sexual selection—do the eyes have it or not?

  • Not-So-Ancient Algae
    April 23, 2011 from News to Know

    Tiny fossils of algae found at the edge of Loch Torridon in Scotland have been hailed as evidence that life evolved in freshwater and on land a billion years ago.

  • The Mother Tongue?
    April 23, 2011 from News to Know

    Two separate linguistics studies provide findings consistent with a biblical worldview.

  • Humanist Bible
    April 16, 2011 from News to Know

    A. C. Grayling’s humanistic book presents the ideas most closely held by evolutionists in a flowery poetical way.

  • Tennessee Schools
    April 16, 2011 from News to Know

    Teachers in Tennessee’s public schools may join those in Louisiana in being allowed to teach critical thinking skills when examining topics such as evolution.

  • Ancient Enzymes
    April 16, 2011 from News to Know

    Laboratory reconstruction of ancient enzymes has suggested that these enzymes are remarkably similar to enzymes in modern creatures and purportedly indicate what conditions were on the early earth.

  • Fast Flower Evolution
    April 16, 2011 from News to Know

    Analysis of data from the Ancestral Angiosperm Genome Project presumably has solved the mystery of how such a variety of flowering plants could evolve in such a short evolutionary time-span.

  • Feedback Article
    Is It Wrong to Interfere with the Pain of Childbirth?
    Jan. 28, 2011 from Feedback

    Is it wrong to interfere with the pain of childbirth? Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell answers this question from the perspective of her experience in light of God’s Word.

  • Feedback Article
    Jurassic Spark?
    Dec. 17, 2010 from Feedback

    Do chickens really take on “dinosaurian traits” inside the egg as one paleontologist claims? There’s more fluff to this claim than fact.

  • In-Depth Article
    Semantics Don’t Change Truth: The social motivations behind new definitions
    Nov. 10, 2010 from Answers in Depth

    No matter how many times man redefines human life, God’s truth doesn’t change.

  • Life on Earth Seeded from Space?
    Feb. 20, 2010 from News to Know

    A meteorite said to be billions of years old contains molecules that include carbon atoms. Is it proof that life on earth could have been seeded from space?

  • Feedback: Hermaphroditism
    Dec. 4, 2009

    How should Christians deal with the topic of hermaphroditism?

  • April 1, 2008 from Answers Magazine

    What are historic details about the founding of Egypt?

  • Something Fishy About Gill Slits!
    March 14, 2007

    A National Geographic photo-essay showing the diversity of ocean-dwelling worms resurrected a piece of scientific misinformation that should have died long ago.

  • Casting Stones at the Pyramids
    Jan. 29, 2007

    New evidence regarding the advanced technology evident in the ancient Egyptian pyramids is consistent with the Bible’s account of history. The evolutionary model of the history of early man presents man as an ignorant primitive gradually acquiring intellectual skills and technology. However, the biblical description of mankind’s dispersal from the Tower of Babel is consistent with the findings of advanced technology among ancient people all over the world.

  • The Evolution of Childbirth?
    Nov. 15, 2006

    Sara Sklaroff’s “The Evolution of Childbirth—A Horror Story” reflects the secular worldview that says evolution “designed” the supposedly inferior process of human birth.

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