Well, data from the James Webb Space Telescope has done it again!

The JWST has allowed scientists to peer deeper into space than ever before. And what they find continues to overturn evolutionary and deep-time expectations. It’s happened yet again. In other words, here is your weekly installment of “Everything we thought we knew about evolution/the history of the universe is wrong”!

According to popular science reports, “JWST has revealed that galaxies were spreading carbon, oxygen, and other heavy elements through space just 500 million years after the Big Bang. The surprising discovery suggests the young universe became chemically enriched much earlier than expected. . . .”

According to the big bang model of the universe,

The earliest universe contained little besides hydrogen and helium, the two simplest elements at the top of the periodic table. As gravity gathered this material into dense clouds, stars began to form. Inside those stars, extreme heat and pressure enabled nuclear fusion and other reactions that created heavier elements such as carbon and oxygen.

When stars reached the ends of their lives, including some that exploded as supernovae, they released those elements into space. That material later became part of new generations of stars and planets and eventually contributed to the chemistry needed for life. The carbon in the human body and the oxygen people breathe were both produced inside earlier generations of stars.

Now, of course, this is nothing more than storytelling. No one has observed this supposed process of star formation. This is simply a model applied to the evidence. But it’s always had a big problem—where are these “pristine” early stars (called Population III stars) made only of hydrogen and helium? In this model, these Population III stars should exist, but they’ve never been observed. So where are they?

Well, this new study, which used JWST data to supposedly peer at “galaxies as they appeared more than 13 billion years ago”—that’s very close to the alleged big bang—claims that these stars are elusive because “early galaxies were already sending heavier elements such as carbon and oxygen into surrounding space much sooner than expected” and “if galaxies were already enriching nearby space only 500 million years after the Big Bang, truly pristine gas may have disappeared quickly. As a result, Population III stars may not have remained common for long enough to be easily observed.”

The article says,

Remarkably, the chemical signatures surrounding these infant galaxies looked similar to those found around far more mature galaxies billions of years later. The finding suggests that even at cosmic dawn, galaxies were already manufacturing heavy elements and spreading them into their surroundings.

But in reality, the finding does not suggest that “galaxies were already manufacturing heavy elements and spreading them” at cosmic dawn—the evidence is that galaxies look the same no matter how far away they are (remember, they are measuring distance, not time—the alleged time is also an interpretation based on assumptions). The idea that pressure in “early” stars created heavy elements and then supernovae spread those elements to be incorporated into newer stars and planets is an interpretation of the observational evidence. It’s storytelling!

And it’s storytelling that is constantly changing. It doesn’t matter what evidence arises, even when that evidence contradicts earlier expectations—the evolutionary models are so plastic, they just mold them to fit the new evidence.

The Bible gives us the true history of the universe, and it didn’t begin with a big bang and stars slowly forming.

There’s another explanation for why Population III stars have never been found and why the universe isn’t matching the expectations of those who start with the big bang: The big bang didn’t happen. The Bible gives us the true history of the universe, and it didn’t begin with a big bang and stars slowly forming. It began when God spoke and fashioned the earth, covered with water, and then He created light and darkness, and on day four of creation week, He created the stars fully functioning also.

The evidence from the JWST will continue to defy secular scientists’ predictions because they have the wrong worldview based on the wrong starting point. Instead of trusting the interpretations and storytelling of men and women who weren’t there, don’t know everything, and often make mistakes, we should believe the eyewitness account of history given to us by the God who was there, knows everything, and has never made a mistake.

The heavens are telling of the glory of God;
And the expanse is declaring the work of His hands. (Psalm 19:1)

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

I’m excited to share that next month I am traveling to America’s West Coast for Raising Godly Generations to Face the Secular Giants, a teaching tour with my good friend Heidi St. John, author, speaker, and podcast host of Faith That Speaks.

Together, we will be equipping you from God’s Word and challenging you to pass on a spiritual legacy to the next generation.

Together, we will be equipping you from God’s Word and challenging you to pass on a spiritual legacy to the next generation. We’ll share what that looks like, how we can effectively pass our faith on to our kids or grandkids, and how Christians should view public school, Christian school, and homeschool. It’s going to be a great time of equipping and encouraging.

This special tour is taking place November 15–21, 2026, and includes stops in

• Kennewick, WA
• Port Orchard, WA
• Salem, OR
• Auburn, CA
• Rialto, CA
• San Diego, CA

Each event is free, but we do ask that you register in advance.

A big thank-you to our sponsors, AdelFi Christian Banking, BJU Press Homeschool, and The Master’s University, for making this event possible.

I hope to see you there! Find all the details and register today on our events page.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

Has Noah’s Ark actually been found?

Well, according to recent headlines, it’s “100% confirmed” that the Durupinar formation in eastern Turkey is the remains of Noah’s Ark. Now, obviously, we would be thrilled here at AiG if someone discovered the Ark—it would be perhaps the greatest archaeological find of all time. But we also need to be careful not to fall for sensationalism or claims that aren’t grounded in careful observational science.

So what do we think of this site and the new claims? Well, over the years, we’ve published many articles on this particular supposed Ark site (for example, this one from last year with comments from Bible-believing geologist Dr. Andrew Snelling), but I also produced a video for my Ken Ham YouTube channel on the newest headlines. I encourage you to check it out below:

Our faith in God’s Word does not rest on finding the Ark (as exciting as that would be!)—it rests on the truth of Scripture.

So in short, no, we don’t believe Noah’s Ark has been found at the Durupinar site. But our faith in God’s Word does not rest on finding the Ark (as exciting as that would be!)—it rests on the truth of Scripture.

There’s already more than enough evidence that there was a global Flood as described in Genesis (billions of fossils, rapidly deposited rock layers, soft tissue in fossils, flood legends in cultures around the world, etc.). Those who ignore the truth “deliberately overlook” it (2 Peter 3:5–6 ESV).

Maybe someday someone will find the Ark—it is a possibility. But regardless, our faith rests in Scripture, which was breathed out by God, not in any archaeological find.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

Does culture make certain biblical truths obsolete?

Lifeway Research recently published a new study of American churchgoers (defined as those who attend church at least once a month), and the results were . . . puzzling. For example, 84% were either somewhat or very confident that if someone came to them expressing doubts about the truthfulness of Scripture, they could directly address those doubts. That seems like a great thing—over 8 in 10 Christians feel equipped to defend the faith!

But at the same time, 28% agreed (and 6% were unsure) that “as culture changes, some biblical truths become obsolete” and 34% said, “I accept some truths from the Bible, but others just don’t fit what I believe.” (The younger the churchgoer, the more likely they were to agree with these two statements.)

So a large percentage believe they can defend the truth of Scripture . . . but a significant number believe the truths of Scripture can become obsolete and that not everything in the Bible fits with what they believe! Now the study doesn’t go into much detail about what these churchgoers mean, so it’s difficult to know exactly which biblical truths they believe have become obsolete (for example, it is possible these people are confusing specific Levitical laws that no longer apply to believers with the unchanging truths of Scripture, or it’s also possible these answers show they do not have as high a view of Scripture as they should!).

God’s Word is not a spiritual buffet for us to put what we want on our plate and reject what we don’t want.

It’s worth noting that the study also found that 82% of churchgoers “believe the truth of God’s Word can mean different things to different people.” This makes me wonder what these churchgoers mean by being able to defend the truth of Scripture! Does that just mean creating a new, less offensive or less difficult meaning out of the passage? Does it mean just outright rejecting the truth because it’s not what we’d like to hear?

God’s Word is not a spiritual buffet for us to put what we want on our plate and reject what we don’t want. God’s Word—all of it—is the revelation of the one true God who has given us the key information we need to build the right worldview so we can understand God, His world, our sinful condition, and what He did to save us.

Often the Bible is taught as a book of moral or spiritual things—something you add to your thinking, like a guidebook to life. But that’s not what the Bible is. Consider how Scripture refers to itself:

Forever, O Yahweh,
Your word stands firm in heaven. (Psalm 119:89)

The grass withers, the flower fades,
But the word of our God stands forever. (Isaiah 40:8)

All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness. (2 Timothy 3:16)

For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12)

Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth. (John 17:17)

The Bible is eternal truth. It withstands the ever-changing whims of culture or personal opinion. God’s Word remains fixed forever, sufficient for every situation, culture, and time because it was written by the eternal God who sees the end from the beginning and has given us everything we need for life and godliness.

However, to be fair, some of the survey respondents may have had in mind specific passages from the law that teach about animal sacrifices or “clean” and “unclean” foods, for example, when they answered this question. In the context of the survey, they may have chosen “as culture changes, some biblical truths become obsolete” and even directly thought of this passage:

When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.” (Hebrews 8:13)

If that’s the case, they may indeed believe Scripture is eternally authoritative (though it’s worth noting that the Levitical law is no longer binding on Christians because of a change from the old covenant to the new covenant, not because of a change in culture!). Because of the word culture in the question though, I think the respondents could be referring to biblical teachings such as marriage and gender becoming obsolete as I’ve had people tell me that the Bible’s teachings on these things were only for the culture of biblical times!

We must raise up generations who start their thinking with the authority of Scripture, from the very first verse.

This study is a reminder of what I’ve been saying for five decades now—we must raise up generations who start their thinking with the authority of Scripture, from the very first verse. That is the foundation for all our thinking.

We—sinful, fallible human beings who don’t know everything, haven’t always been there, and frequently make mistakes—are not the authority over the infallible, inerrant, perfect Word of the God who knows everything, who has always been there, and who has never made a mistake. He must be the authority in all areas.

God’s Word is not obsolete. Although certain passages from the Levitical law may not be directly applicable to us today, the principles still apply and are instructive for us, especially regarding God’s holiness and man’s sinfulness. Every precious truth from Genesis to Revelation is as relevant now as it was when it was written because it’s the God-breathed Word of the Creator. Human pride and foolishness are saying we know better than God and can pick and choose what we want to believe or can decide our own meaning from the text. We need to allow God to be the authority and humbly submit ourselves to His perfect Word.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

Such a question would have been ridiculous even just a few years ago—no one would think to ask it because, of course, men are not designed to breastfeed infants. But because of the influence of the transgender movement, “breastfeeding” has been replaced in some contexts with “chestfeeding” and “breastfeeding mother” with “lactating parent,” as some people claim that, yes, men can nurse babies.

But can they?

I recently looked into the science behind inducing lactation in males and what is actually produced from the cocktail of chemicals given to the man—then I contrasted that with the incredible design in breast milk that God designed women to produce. You can watch that video here:

In short, no, men cannot breastfeed—if they take the right medications, they can induce a secretion that bears some surface resemblance to breast milk but is not breast milk. Breast milk is an incredibly complex food created as a mother and baby interact with each other, and men cannot replicate this—nor should they try!

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

Who were the Nephilim?

Genesis 6 opens with a description of the sons of God and daughters of men, then mentions the intriguingly named Nephilim:

Now it happened, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were good in appearance; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. Then Yahweh said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever because he indeed is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be 120 years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. (Genesis 6:1–4)

Who were the Nephilim? This has been debated throughout church history. Three primary views, and one less common, have arisen:

1. The fallen angel view: According to this interpretation, the sons of God are fallen angels who married human women and produced offspring, the Nephilim.
2. The Sethite or godly line view: According to this interpretation, “sons of God” refers to the godly line of Seth, while “daughters of men” refers to the ungodly line of Cain. The Nephilim in this case would be mighty, violent men who were born of these unions and ruled before the flood.
3. The royalty or tyrant view: According to this interpretation, the sons of God are human rulers, kings who saw themselves as divine, who took as many wives as they pleased, forming dynasties that produced violent, tyrant offspring.
4. The mixed or mighty men view: According to this view, “sons of God” refers to powerful men, possibly rulers, with the Nephilim simply being men of great size or reputation. This is the least common of these interpretations.

I explain each of these views in more detail in this video we recently released for my YouTube channel. I encourage you to check it out.

So who were the Nephilim? Well, as I shared in the video, we won’t know for sure until we get to heaven, because the Bible simply doesn’t provide enough detail, but the view one takes of the Nephilim doesn’t impact any core biblical doctrines, so it’s something interesting to think about and debate.

What we do know for sure is that the world at that time was so wicked that God judged it with a global Flood, but he offered mercy to Noah and his family on the Ark. And just like those before the Flood, we’re sinners in rebellion against God and we need an ark of salvation—and our ark is the Lord Jesus Christ, who saves us from our sins and offers eternal life.

Oh—and there were Nephilim living after the Flood. Watch the video to learn more.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

This week in Kentucky, the home state of Answers in Genesis, the Ark Encounter, and the Creation Museum, a State Trooper named Hayden Phillips was shot and killed in the line of duty during a routine traffic stop (after an extensive manhunt, the perpetrator was arrested and is being charged with murder). In honor of Trooper Phillips, we have lit up the full-size Noah’s Ark in blue through this weekend.

At our attractions, we have a world-class public safety team, many of whom are former law enforcement. Our chief of public safety sent this to me regarding the blue Ark:

Answers in Genesis, the Ark Encounter, and the Creation Museum would like to extend our prayers to the family of Trooper Hayden Phillips. We’ve lit up the Ark in law enforcement colors in honor of Trooper Phillips and all those who serve behind the badge.

Please be praying for Trooper Phillips’ family, especially his wife and three young children, after this horrible tragedy.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

What does it take to form a fossil of a footprint?

Fossils of footprints and trackways are called “trace fossils”—the preservation of a creature’s behaviors or activities rather than the creature itself. There have been an abundance of trace fossils discovered over the years.

For example: Last year, I wrote about a massive sauropod trackway uncovered in the UK; in that same year, I wrote about 66 footprints from 47 dinosaurs discovered in a boulder in an Australian high school foyer; and in 2024, I wrote about matching dinosaur footprints found on either side of the Atlantic Ocean.

Well, fossil footprints are in the news again, this time with the discovery of four footprints that appear to be from an adult T. rex. The tracks were discovered by a paleontologist, who is also a high school science teacher, while he was fossil hunting in the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota. It is the first adult T. rex trackway discovered, and researchers are hoping that further research will uncover at least one, if not more, additional footprints to add to the nearly 23-foot-long trackway.

Based on the tracks, researchers estimate the individual was walking at “about 1.6 meters per second, roughly equivalent to a person’s quick walking pace” (though they admit they can’t be sure due to the nature of trying to interpret trackways).

The article detailing the find explains how these footprints are thought to form:

The tracks stick up out of the ground because sediment filled in the originally muddy footprints, which then eroded away more slowly than the surrounding rock.

In this view, these footprints have been sitting in the ground for 66 million years (and have not been destroyed by weathering or other geological processes over all those eons of time) and only just now happen to have eroded enough for us to find them. What a coincidence!

And that’s not the only trace fossil find currently making headlines. A horseshoe crab trackway has also recently been discovered, this one left behind by “a previously unknown giant horseshoe crab species” in East China. (On display in our fossil hallway at the Creation Museum, we have a spectacular trackway left behind by a horseshoe crab—and at the end of the trackway, the crab itself! It’s an amazing fossil.)

The popular science article explains:

Fossilized tracks of a previously unknown giant horseshoe crab species dating back more than 240 million years have been discovered in East China, offering new evidence that marine ecosystems recovered much faster after Earth’s deadliest mass extinction than previously thought [another installment of “Everything we thought we knew about evolution is wrong”!]. . . .

Researchers identified nine complex track and trail imprints across two marlstone surfaces. . . .

“The new discovery pushes the emergence of giant horseshoe crabs back to the Early Triassic epoch” [i.e., the evolution of horseshoe crabs is rewritten. Evolution is always being rewritten!]. . . .

Though horseshoe crabs are known as “living fossils” with broadly stable body structures over hundreds of millions of years [in other words, no evolution has occurred over hundreds of millions of years], the study shows extinct lineages evolved extraordinary body sizes and distinct behavioral patterns [they observed minor variation within a kind].

There’s a better explanation for why we find so many well-preserved fossils of fragile footprints—the global Flood of Noah’s day!

So how do fossil footprints form? Well, the footprints have to be buried very quickly before they can wash away or be destroyed by bioturbation (the everyday process of animals and plants turning up and rearranging the soil). Evolutionists appeal to small, localized floods or storms or even the tide washing in new sediment for the formation of fossil footprints. But there’s a better explanation for why we find so many well-preserved fossils of fragile footprints—the global Flood of Noah’s day!

The Flood would’ve rapidly buried the trackways of animals fleeing the rising floodwaters, preserving them deeply and protecting them from erosion and bioturbation. Footprints and other trace fossils are a reminder that there really was a global Flood as described in Genesis.

Yes, the Bible’s history is true, and it explains what we observe around us.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

We receive a lot of positive feedback regarding our Answers VBS program. Churches love the depth of the content and the evangelistic emphasis. We recently received one such letter, and I wanted to share it with you to highlight the impact this aspect of the AiG ministry is having.

This letter is from a church where there are only 725 people in the community. But what an impact the VBS had! Praise the Lord for the impact of Answers VBS in this community.

This church in Wisconsin shared:

To Our Friends at AiG,

The Lord brought 81 children through our doors to participate in Emerald Crossing—please note that our community has a population of 725 so to have that many kids attend is amazing!

We gave out 53 trophies to kids who memorized all of Psalm 23—what a wonderful portion of God’s Word to have planted in the memories of these kids and it was a touching moment when the whole group recited the psalm together as their families watched and listened during our Closing Program.

Many of the children who came do not attend any church and it was so exciting to see how the Lord is working in these young lives. They had a sincere curiosity that came out in their questions and in the discussion time. Families that previously had no time for spiritual things now have children coming home with a different attitude, perspective, and desire to know more of God and His Word. It’s so encouraged us to hear of the changes parents are seeing in their kids after being a part of this VBS ministry and we thank YOU for providing such great material for us to use. Glory to God!!!

This is the 23rd year that we have offered VBS and it has also become a witness to our community—although we have a small church, we had 45 staff members enthusiastically serving each day and what a blessing it was to share in harmony as we served the children and grew closer together as His body. We are asked many times how we get so many folks to volunteer because that seems to be the reason that most churches don’t provide VBS anymore. We tell them that the staffers are so blessed that they commit to the following year even before the VBS week is over. Only God can do that!!

As you will read in the newspaper article, we LOVE missions and the kids are encouraged to earn the money themselves as they focus on other kids in very difficult situations. All praise goes to our wonderful Lord!

Thanks for providing these encouraging VBS programs—please know that we pray for all of you at AiG every Sunday during our Worship Service. The planning for Spy U has already begun and we look forward to providing another opportunity to share the good news of salvation in Jesus to the youth of our community and surrounding area. What a blessing and privilege it is to hear comments of changed hearts and lives from families who have entrusted their kids to us.

Now, I can’t reproduce the entire Waushara Argus newspaper article here for you, because of copyright laws, but I wanted to quote the portion mentioned in the letter because it’s truly remarkable:

Missions have always been an important part of VBS, and the kids were encouraged to do chores and earn the money themselves so they could bless other children around the world who are less fortunate. They set a goal of $1,360 for the Children’s Hunger Fund Ministry, where every 25 cents provides a meal for a needy child. The countries served this year were Ethiopia, El Salvador, Romania, the USA, and the Philippines, where some of the VBS staff were born. Their personal experience of growing up in poverty and need was shared with the children, making the mission’s goal even more meaningful. By the end of the week, donations raised by the kids totaled $2,528.52, and other contributions brought the total to $4,812.00, which will provide 19,248 meals!

Yes, this little church in a small community raised enough money to provide over 19,000 meals! Wow!

If you’d like to reach your community with the truth that Jesus is the Good Shepherd who will lead you from anxiety to peace, fear to faith, and uncertainty to the firm foundation of God’s Word, our Emerald Crossing VBS blowout sale is ending today. Enjoy 50–90% off our remaining stock. What a great opportunity to plan a weeknight Bible club, a special Sunday school series, or a program over a few Saturdays. Visit our website to shop all remaining items until the sale ends at midnight.

And if your church is planning a VBS program for 2027, I encourage you to check out next year’s Answers VBS, Spy U: Uncovering Counterfeits, Discovering the One True God. These programs really are unique and powerful, answering questions kids have, diving deep into God’s Word, and connecting the Bible to the world.

Learn more at AnswersVBS.com.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

It’s time to mark your calendar with the dates for Christmas at the Creation Museum and Christmas at the Ark Encounter, our annual Christmas events. Each attraction offers a different experience, so you’ll want to make sure to visit both!

Our Christmas events are taking place Thursday–Saturday, November 27, 2026–January 2, 2027—with a few exceptions: We’re closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Eve; however, the event open dates are expanded the weeks of Christmas and New Year to also include Tuesday–Wednesday (December 22, 23, 29, and 30) so you still have plenty of opportunity to visit during those weeks. See calendar below:

If you’ve never been to the Ark or Creation Museum at Christmas, I encourage you to make plans to attend—it’s a totally different experience. Many guests plan to visit the attractions throughout the day and then stay for a delicious dinner before experiencing Christmas in the evenings.

So what can you expect? Well, for only the cost of parking, come to the Creation Museum to enjoy:

• A live nativity
• Spectacular beautiful garden of lights
• TrueSong concerts
• Lit-up dinosaurs throughout the grounds
• The Plants of the Bible Conservatory
• Indoor drama videos
• Encounter the Wonder in our 4D theater
• Creation Zoo
• Our playground
• And access to holiday shopping, festive foods, and more!

And, for only the cost of parking, visit the Ark Encounter to experience:

• Light in the Darkness, a spectacular laser show on the side of the life-size Ark
• Live animal shows
• A sea of lights throughout the grounds
• Ararat Ridge Zoo
• Our custom indoor carousel
• Our playground
• And, of course, access to unique holiday shopping, festive foods, and more

We hope to see you there!

Need a Christmas Play?

And, with Christmas coming quickly, if your church, homeschool co-op, or Christian school is looking for a unique, gospel-centered Christmas play to perform, I encourage you to check out the Christmas play scripts we offer, written by the staff at our Christian school, Answers Academy.

They are very different from a lot of plays used at Christmas. Each play focuses on a different character from the Christmas account, connects the Old Testament with the New Testament, teaches apologetics, and powerfully connects Christ’s birth as the babe in the manger to His death and resurrection.

This year’s new play is The Zealot’s Fight: Christmas Through the Eyes of a Rebel. This play answers the question, “Why did the Messiah really come?”

Step back into the world of first-century Judea, where Roman oppression looms heavy, and one young Zealot struggles with anger, vengeance, and the longing for freedom. The Zealot’s Fight is a powerful original drama that celebrates the babe in the manger whose mission was not to claim a throne of power, but to conquer and free us from the bondage of sin, giving us new life in Christ!

You can find all of Answers Academy’s plays—along with unique Christmas gifts—at AnswersBookstore.com.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

Was the mighty T. rex a warm-blooded reptile?

That’s the claim of a new study, published in Science Advances. This study analyzed three fossil T. rex teeth from the Hell Creek Formation in Montana, comparing the results against an analysis of crocodile teeth from the same formation. A popular science article claims the results of the study “settles the debate” on the question of T. rex’s internal temperature, placing it at 97 degrees Fahrenheit.

The article states:

This places T. rex’s internal temperature ahead of today’s cold-blooded reptiles and even sloths, but short of their avian descendents [birds], which range between 104 and 109 degrees Fahrenheit.

(Notice right away the assumption of dinosaur-to-bird evolution!) But how does a tooth reveal a creature’s internal temperature? Well, the article explains:

About 10 years ago, paleontologists developed a way to learn an extinct species’ blood temperature by examining certain rare carbon–oxygen bonds that form in fossilized bone. As [study coauthor] Eagle explained, tooth enamel offers the best medium for samples because its large crystalline composition remains extremely resilient to deterioration for millions of years. . . .

Using a dental drill, Eagle and his team extracted fossilized enamel that they then dissolved in phosphoric acid. This released carbon dioxide gas filled with the coveted isotopic bonds. From there, they employed a mass spectrometer to determine the chemical ratios after pressurizing the CO2. Subsequent analysis led them to conclude the T. rex’s blood temperature was about 97 degrees Fahrenheit.

So does this really “settle the debate”? Was T. rex definitively a warm-blooded creature?

Well, that kind of language is definitely overstating the case. The study authors write in the abstract, “Measurements of three T. rex teeth from the Late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation yield a temperature of 36.3 ± 2.5°C.” In other words, the study authors indirectly measured the body temperature, not the metabolic rate.

I asked AiG’s Joel Leineweber, a paleoartist and lifetime “dinosaur nerd,” his thoughts on this new study, and he shared with me these four problems with it:

1. You can’t directly measure metabolism in something that’s dead. So everything else is guesswork.
2. They claim multiple lines of evidence in the paper, but so far all lines of evidence for warm-blooded dinosaurs that I’ve seen rely on at least one of these two assumptions: a. environmental conditions (remember: the global Flood changes those) or b. phylogeny (in this case, assuming that dinosaurs evolved into warm-blooded birds). Both of these are totally different in a creation science model.
3. The study itself is pretty cool, measuring the temperature of tooth formation in T. rex and fossil crocodiles and comparing the results (that part seems like good observational science). But there are some problems:
• small sample size (two T. rex individuals and only three teeth)
• crocodiles are semiaquatic so not a great comparison
• one crocodile had tooth formation warmer than the tyrannosaurs
• the researchers admit you can’t determine metabolism from body temperature alone
4. A preflood climate was likely warmer than today, and larger-bodied ectotherms tend to preserve heat better than smaller ones, so none of this seems very conclusive. Large dinosaurs may have approached something called mesothermy because of their size (leatherback sea turtles accomplish something like this), but it’s all very inconclusive.

Your assumptions about the past drive your interpretations of the evidence in the present.

In other words, your assumptions about the past drive your interpretations of the evidence in the present. So, no, it hasn’t been proven that T. rex was an endotherm (warm-blooded). Evolutionists assume slow processes over millions of years; therefore, their conclusions about the climate of the supposed Late Cretaceous are going to be different than how a creationist, starting with the history in God’s Word, is going to view past climate conditions or a particular rock layer. We believe, based on the fossil record, the world before the Flood was quite different and was much warmer, with only one continent. This impacts how a creature like T. rex would function and what we find in the fossil record.

After all that, what can we conclude?

How you answer that question depends largely upon your beliefs about the past.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

Our Emerald Crossing VBS blowout sale is in its final week—don’t miss out!

Emerald Crossing was our 2026 Answers VBS, and we’re clearing out the final stock with 50–90% off everything, including Super Starter and Starter Kits. It’s a great time to plan a midweek kids’ Bible club or a special Sunday school series on Psalm 23 and the life of David.

All the fun VBS extras are also on sale, including:

• T-shirts
• Hats
• Tote bags
• Patches and buttons
• Bandanas
• Scene setters
• Decorations
• And more!

These “extras” make fun Sunday school prizes, shoebox items, fall festival giveaways, and more. I encourage you to shop the sale before it goes away for good at the end of the month.

And be sure to check out next year’s VBS program, Spy U: Uncovering Counterfeits, Discovering the One True God. This international spy-themed program will have kids solving the clues to discover that God alone is the one true God—all others are just counterfeits. Children need to understand who the true God is as we navigate within a culture where people now speak about many gods.

Answers VBS programs are rich with Scripture, apologetics, theology, and biblical worldview, along with being very evangelistic (and, of course, very fun!). If you’ve never tried Answers VBS, I encourage you to make the switch for 2027 and discover the Answers difference.

Visit AnswersVBS.com.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

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One of the greatest opportunities churches and Christian schools have each year is presenting a Christmas program. But there’s a problem.

Many of today’s Christmas productions are long on entertainment but short on biblical truth. They’re filled with cute moments and holiday sentiment yet often contain very little solid teaching from God’s Word.

While there’s certainly nothing wrong with making a program enjoyable and memorable, we don’t believe that should come at the expense of the life-changing message of the gospel.

That’s why Answers Academy—the discipleship school of Answers in Genesis—began creating its own Christmas dramas.

Every year, our staff writes and produces a brand-new program that combines engaging drama, memorable music, historical research, biblical teaching, and a clear presentation of the gospel. These productions don’t simply retell the Christmas story—they help audiences understand it. They answer important questions, provide rich historical context, and reveal how every part of the Christmas account points to God’s plan of redemption through Jesus Christ.

The response has been tremendous.

Parents, students, and audiences have told us how these dramas have deepened their understanding of Scripture while providing an unforgettable Christmas experience. So we decided not to keep them to ourselves. Now churches, Christian schools, and homeschool groups everywhere can use these professionally written productions in their own Christmas outreach.

With generous performance rights and freely reproducible actor scripts, we’ve done the hard work. Our desire is to see these dramas used around the world to proclaim the true meaning of Christmas and clearly present the saving gospel.

Five Unique Christmas Dramas

The Zealot’s Fight follows Miciah, a passionate Jewish Zealot longing for the Messiah to overthrow Rome. But he discovers that humanity’s greatest enemy isn’t political oppression—it’s sin. This powerful drama reveals why Jesus came, not to lead a political revolution but to rescue sinners through His death and resurrection.

Behold the King tells the Christmas story from the court of King Herod. Through the eyes of one of Herod’s servants, audiences witness the striking contrast between an earthly ruler obsessed with power and the true King of kings, whose kingdom will never end.

Keeping Watch begins with the shepherds on the hills outside Bethlehem after 400 years of prophetic silence. It beautifully connects the shepherds, the sacrificial lambs, and Jesus Christ—the spotless Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

A Pondering Heart explores the Christmas account through Mary’s eyes as she comes to understand the child God entrusted to her care. The drama highlights the biblical connection between Christ’s birth and God’s unfolding plan of redemption through the Passover Lamb.

Long Foretold tackles questions people often ask: Who were the wise men? How did they know to follow the star? Were there really three? Did they arrive at the stable? Tracing the magi back to Daniel’s time in Babylon, this fascinating production separates biblical truth from tradition while showcasing God’s sovereign plan throughout history.

Each drama offers a fresh perspective on the Christmas account while remaining firmly grounded in Scripture. They are educational, engaging, entertaining, and unapologetically gospel centered.

Each drama offers a fresh perspective on the Christmas account while remaining firmly grounded in Scripture.

If you’re looking for a Christmas program that will captivate your audience while faithfully proclaiming God’s Word, these dramas are an outstanding resource for your church or school.

Let’s use this Christmas season not merely to entertain people but to help them understand why the Son of God entered history. The baby in the manger came to be the Savior of the world.

To purchase these Christmas dramas, along with performance rights and all the resources you need to present them, see AnswersInGenesis.org/store/christmas-programs/.

It’s the most complex project our design team has ever tackled—and that’s saying something since previous projects have included a life-size Ark filled with exhibits!—and I’ve got an update for you.

It’s the first-century Jerusalem model (1:100 scale), coming to the Ark Encounter hopefully sometime in 2028. This project has taken several years and is now moving into the final phases (and we’re hiring for those). Our design and fabrication teams can’t wait to share it with you.

It’s going to be phenomenally detailed, incredibly impactful, and a wonderful addition to the Ark.

It’s going to be phenomenally detailed, incredibly impactful, and a wonderful addition to the Ark. Just as the Ark Encounter brought the biblical account of Noah’s Ark and the Flood to life for millions of guests, the Jerusalem model will bring to life the city where Jesus performed miracles, died for our sins, was buried, and rose from the dead. It will be the most accurate reconstruction of first-century Jerusalem anywhere. For example, the artists have reconstructed many different kinds of rocks to faithfully represent the actual geology of the city as well as the various types of stone masonry used in construction—yes, that’s the level of detail! I think families will need to plan an extra day just to take in everything that this model will offer!

The Jerusalem model will be housed in the model showroom, which is already constructed, and the artists and fabricators are working on the beautiful, themed interior. It will be located in the same plaza as the Welcome Center and our Answers Center.

Like the Welcome Center, it will be an immersive and themed space, and the centerpiece will be a 1:100 scale model of Jerusalem at the time of Jesus. You’ll notice in the rendering below that the model starts almost on the floor and then rises to about 5–6 feet, mimicking the increase in elevation throughout the city. At 53 feet long, the whole model represents just over a mile of the city, and it is divided into three islands so guests can walk amidst the city and get a closer look at the incredible details.

This short video shows just some of the 3D design process that creates the city elements, which are then resin 3D printed:

Throughout the model will be touchscreens that guests can engage with to learn about biblical and other historical events from each part of the city, archaeological discoveries from that area, the culture, and much more. You can meet characters across the city and ask them questions, and you can watch 360-degree videos to see what the modern city looks like in select areas—it’s a really unique and interactive element.

It’s a wonderful way to experience all the detail this model has to offer—and for guests to want to come back again.

And it gets even more interactive. The model will have an accompanying app that guests can download for “quests” throughout the city (there will be different levels for kids and teens/adults). As guests help the characters solve problems, they are pushed to look deeply into the model to find the necessary clues and information. It’s a wonderful way to experience all the detail this model has to offer—and for guests to want to come back again.

And there’s still more! Our team has designed two characters who will be sprinkled throughout our kids’ activities. Kids are going to love these fun characters, and it will help them interact with the model in a memorable way.

Eventually, we will also be displaying artifacts in a separate room that is attached to the model showroom, but that’s further down the road.

Yes, this is such an exciting project and will be an amazing addition to the Ark Encounter. As I said, guests are going to need an extra day just to explore this incredibly detailed model. It will be a wonderful testimony to the truth of Scripture, particularly the accuracy of the Gospels, as we show how archaeology confirms the Bible.

Stay tuned for more updates as we get closer to an opening date. And please pray for our teams as they work hard on this massive project. It’s a huge undertaking, but it will be an incredible apologetics tool once it is finished. We can’t wait!

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

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Could Jonah have survived three days and three nights inside the belly of a great fish?

Well, I think more people will be asking that question next month after a new survival thriller movie, Whalefall, hits the box office. This movie is based off a 2023 novel of the same name by author Daniel Kraus, and the premise is basically this: A young man diving in the Pacific Ocean is accidentally swallowed by a hunting sperm whale. He only has one hour’s worth of oxygen left and must find a way to escape the belly of the beast.

Of course, such a story immediately reminds viewers of the biblical account of Jonah—and the author apparently intended that. In an interview he said,

The impetus for the book was that I wanted to treat the Biblical Jonah story with scientific and biological accuracy. I talked with whale experts as I developed the plot, and they would listen to my ideas and say, “You know, that is theoretically possible.” So, that’s why it’s believable: We got the science right.

Now, we don’t know exactly what sea creature swallowed Jonah. It could have been a whale or another “great fish,” but a sperm whale is certainly a possibility because of the sheer size and the width of its esophagus (other whales of similar size are generally baleen whales, which have a much narrower esophagus because they are filter feeders). A great white shark is another possibility that’s been suggested.

But the protagonist in Krauss’ novel only has one hour to escape before he suffocates, so how could Jonah have survived three days and nights before the great fish/whale spit him out? Well, from a naturalistic perspective, it’s difficult to explain. But ultimately that doesn’t matter because we’re not talking about naturalistic circumstances.

Here’s how the book of Jonah describes the events that landed Jonah in the belly of the whale (emphasis added):

But Yahweh hurled a great wind on the sea, and there was a great storm on the sea so that the ship gave thought to breaking apart. (Jonah 1:4)

And Yahweh appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights. (Jonah 1:17)

The account of Jonah continues,

Then Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land. (Jonah 2:10)

So Yahweh God appointed a plant, and it came up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to deliver him from his miserable evil. (Jonah 4:6)

But God appointed a worm at the breaking of dawn the next day, and it struck the plant, and it dried up. Then it happened that as the sun rose up, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun struck down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint. . . . (Jonah 4:7–8)

And why could He appoint all these to do what He wanted? Because He created them all—He is the omnipotent Creator God.

The entire book of Jonah shows God sovereignly guiding the events.

The entire book of Jonah shows God sovereignly guiding the events. God hurled the storm; God appointed the fish; God spoke to the fish; God appointed a plant, a worm, and a scorching east wind. The God who divided the Red Sea and the Jordan River; saved Daniel from the lions; walked on water; calmed the storm; directed fish into a net; healed the blind, lame, and mute; raised the dead; and was Himself raised from the dead can have no trouble appointing nature to do His bidding and accomplish His purposes. Jonah is just one of many examples from Scripture that highlight God’s omnipotence and sovereign control over nature.

Yes, Jonah was a real person who really was swallowed by a great sea creature—and survived the ordeal by God’s supernatural intervention for His divine purposes. But Jonah’s life was bigger than just going to Nineveh to preach repentance. His time in the sea creature was a picture of Christ:

For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. (Matthew 12:40)

Just as there is no fully naturalistic explanation for how Jonah could have survived such an ordeal, there’s no naturalistic explanation for how Jesus could be crucified, die, be buried in a tomb, and then three days later walk out of that tomb alive. It was a miraculous event that was only possible because God is omnipotent and nothing is impossible for Him.

Let the account of Jonah remind you of the truth of Christ’s resurrection and what it means for us today: that anyone who turns from their sin and puts their faith in Christ is forgiven and given new and eternal life so that, even though someday we will physically die, we will still live.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die—ever. Do you believe this?” (John 11:25–26)

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

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Did you know that over 300 different sign languages are used around the world?

Today is International Day of Sign Languages, part of International Week of the Deaf. Over 70 million Deaf people live around the world, with 80% living in developing countries. Deaf communities are incredibly unreached when it comes to the gospel—they make up one of the most unreached people groups in the world. Sadly, access to the gospel is limited for the hearing population, let alone for the Deaf population. There is certainly a need for missionaries to reach these people with the message of Christ.

We’re doing what we can to welcome and serve Deaf Americans at the Ark Encounter and Creation Museum.

And we’re doing what we can to welcome and serve Deaf Americans (and others from other countries) at the Ark Encounter and Creation Museum. Each year, we host our Deaf Days event, two unforgettable days designed to welcome and serve the Deaf community with full American Sign Language (ASL) access.

This March 5–6, 2027, every daily program, presentation, and guest service location across both attractions will be ASL interpreted. And yes, there will even be ASL-interpreted zip line tours! There will also be a Deaf-led worship service on Saturday morning. Accommodation is also offered (upon request during registration) for Deaf-Blind guests during keynote presentations. If you are Deaf, or know someone who is, make plans to join us (registration is coming soon).

And that’s not all!

We also offer ASL interpretation during many of our major events. For example, this winter, Logos Theatre is bringing the live stage drama Prince Caspian, based on the fourth book in The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis, to the Ark Encounter, and on Saturday, January 9, 2027, the show will be ASL interpreted.

We also offer ASL interpretation upon request for our major conferences and offer tactile experiences for those who have low vision, are blind, or are on the autism spectrum (also upon request). And Answers TV, our streaming platform, has hundreds of captioned options to help everyone build a more biblical worldview.

We’re thankful for our staff who are dedicated to ensuring we reach as many people as we possibly can with the gospel, including through using their unique skills in areas such as ASL to do that. Please help us spread the word to anyone you know who might benefit from these events and accommodations.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

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Want to win a grand prize of $3,000?

On November 4, 2026 (the day before our Creation College Expo event), we’re hosting our 2026 STEM Challenge at the Ark Encounter in Williamstown, KY. This is a friendly competition between teams (each composed of two to four teens and one adult leader) that puts critical thinking, STEM skills, and creative design to the test. This year’s challenge is to build a balsa tower (prior to the competition day) that will be tested under simulated earthquake conditions and judged by a panel of experts.

Participating teams will also explore real-world applications and learn from experts in the field related to the challenge. It’s going to be a great day.

Participating teams will also explore real-world applications and learn from experts in the field related to the challenge.

The winning team takes home $3,000, thanks to our sponsor Cedarville University. Second place wins $2,000, provided by our sponsor Grace College, and third place takes home $1,000, thanks to our final sponsor, The Cornwall Alliance (their founder, Dr. Cal Beisner, will also be speaking at the Creation College Expo, along with astronaut Captain Barry Wilmore, myself, and AiG’s Avery Foley and Bryan Osborne).

I encourage you to get a team together and register today. Registration includes Ark admission, box lunches, and parking for your group. And make plans to stay for our free Creation College Expo. It’s the best way to find a college that stands on the authority of Scripture as Answers in Genesis does.

We hope to see you there!

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

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This is what happens when adult desires are placed ahead of the rights and well-being of children.

Consider a recent news story out of the UK. The BBC headline reads, “We spent £23,000 on fertility treatment - now our embryos will be destroyed.”

The article tells the story of a lesbian couple who, obviously unable to have children on their own, turned to fertility treatments and a sperm donor. After some difficulty, they created six embryos, one of whom was implanted in one of the women’s wombs and was born last year. The other five embryos were frozen until “the couple were ready to grow their family.”

But those babies will not get an opportunity for life on earth because all five embryos will soon be destroyed. That means five human beings will be deliberately killed. The article says that the father, the sperm donor, “has withdrawn his consent for further use.” Apparently,

In the UK, a sperm or egg donor can withdraw consent up until the embryo is transferred into the womb.

The article then shares the story of another lesbian couple that experienced the same thing: “[They] were told last month that their sperm donor had withdrawn consent and their 10 remaining embryos will be destroyed next year.” Ten more human beings sentenced to death.

It’s a very chilling article—15 unborn lives, made in the image of God, will be lost if these embryos are discarded. Now, before we go on, it’s worth noting that the men who changed their minds are the ones who have decided all of the embryos will die next year. But it’s very unlikely that either lesbian couple planned on implanting all of those embryos; in all likelihood, one or two more might have been implanted, the others would have remained frozen indefinitely or been discarded eventually.

Indeed, even if the women wanted to carry all of the babies they helped create, the women are in their late 30s and early 40s; there realistically isn’t time for them to carry that many babies before their reproductive years are over, unless they had children very close together and with some twins or triplets (and that’s a very unlikely scenario). So regardless of what the sperm donors decided to do with their consent, it’s highly unlikely all of these babies would have even received a chance at continuing their lives. That’s important to keep in mind.

The article focuses on the devastating impact this news has had on the women:

“This is probably our only shot at being parents. I don’t know how we could afford to go through it again financially, emotionally, physically.”

For both couples, fertility treatment has had an emotional and financial impact.

. . .

The [UK fertility regulator] has said it is important that clinics warn patients of the possibility of donors withdrawing consent “because it is really upsetting and distressing when this happens”.

The UK government said it also sympathises with “anyone facing difficult and distressing circumstances during fertility treatment.”

Notice what is absent throughout the article, as evidenced by the quotes I shared above: any sympathy for the fate of the embryos (children).

Yes, the women involved are probably quite devastated—they say as much. Yes, the women lost a good deal of money, and they had sacrificed to be able to afford the expensive procedures. Yes, such procedures are physically quite difficult. But the babies will pay the ultimate price: They will lose their lives.

But that’s not addressed in the article. Instead, it keeps the focus on the adults, not on the children. And that’s because our culture values adult desires far more than the rights of children.

Consider how many times the rights of these children were violated in this story:

• The children were donor conceived, meaning they are missing half of the genetic story of who they are.
• These children were intentionally created fatherless for lesbian parents; they were purposefully created to be deprived of a father.
• These children were treated as commodities, created to be implanted or not at the whim of the women or, apparently, the sperm donor.
• These children were created only to later be destroyed.

This tragic story is the natural consequence of the increasing commodification of children and putting adult desire over the rights of children.

This tragic story is the natural consequence of the increasing commodification of children and putting adult desire over the rights of children. We see it with abortion, where a woman’s supposed “right to choose” trumps the right to life of her unborn child. We see it with traditional IVF and other reproductive technologies (which are very hard to do in a pro-life way), where babies are routinely discarded because they don’t “make the grade,” they have a genetic abnormality, they are the “wrong” sex, or the family is simply done having children. And we see it with the creation of LGBTQ families, where children are created to be purposefully deprived of either their mother or their father.

God created the family. He defines it. And He created marriage to be one man and one woman for life—providing a father and a mother for children. Now, we live in a fallen world, and sometimes because of death, abandonment, abuse, etc., this is not possible. And those situations are tragic (and sometimes the Lord redeems such broken situations through the beauty of adoption), but they are not the same thing as purposefully creating brokenness from the beginning as we see in stories like this one from the BBC.

We must return to God’s design for the family unit—and that means we have to start with Genesis:

And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.” (Genesis 1:27–28)

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. (Genesis 2:24)

As Christians, we need to be the ones who will speak up for the voiceless and defend the God-given rights of children.

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless;
maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. (Psalm 82:3 ESV)

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

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You will not want to miss this!

We love Logos Theatre. Their productions are Broadway quality, but they are reclaiming the arts for Christ. And one of the ways they’re doing that is through phenomenal stage productions of beloved stories—and we love hosting them at the Ark Encounter on our Answers Center stage. In the past, we’ve hosted:

• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
• The Horse and His Boy
• The Pilgrim’s Progress

Those who attended these productions were amazed at the quality. I consider them equal to or better than stage productions the world puts on. And of course, they have a Christian message.

Now we’re thrilled to be bringing the world of Narnia back to the stage with another world-class dramatized production, this time of Prince Caspian, the fourth book (in the Narnia timeline, following The Horse and His Boy) in The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis.

Their shows really are Broadway-level, with intricate costumes, life-size creatures, and a script that’s faithful to the original books.

Logos Theatre does a tremendous job—their shows really are Broadway-level, with intricate costumes, life-size creatures, and a script that’s faithful to the original books. If you’re a fan of Narnia, you will love Logos’ productions. Prince Caspian is coming to the Ark Encounter on select days from December 28, 2026–January 16, 2027.

You will want to bring the whole family (and friends!) to see Prince Caspian live at the Ark Encounter this winter. Those who attended the previous stage productions by Logos Theatre gave absolutely rave reviews about them, and each production will end with a gospel presentation. Don’t miss this next opportunity to experience a Logos Theatre Narnia production.

Visit ArkEncounter.com/narnia to reserve your tickets today. (Please note, an ASL interpreted showing is available on January 9.) Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

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I’m thrilled to be able to announce to you that the Megiddo mosaic—the archaeological “find of the century”—is soon leaving the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., to come to the Ark Encounter in Williamstown, KY.

Right now, our teams are hard at work converting part of our Answers Center lobby into an exhibit hall where this phenomenal find will be displayed while on temporary loan from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). It will be carefully disassembled in D.C., shipped by the IAA to the Ark Encounter, then reassembled by an IAA team for display. It’s going to be quite the process just to get it here! We anticipate the mosaic going on display sometime this winter.

Here’s some background I shared last year on this incredible archaeological find:

In AD 230, Christianity was technically an illegal religion in the Roman Empire. Severus Alexander sat on the throne as emperor, rising to power at age 13 after his grandmother had her older grandson, Emperor Elagabalus, assassinated. Despite this bloody takeover, Severus was favorable toward Christians, and persecution during his reign was light compared to previous centuries.

Sometime during his reign, a room hosting a communion table to be used by officers of the Roman Legio VI Ferrata was built south of Tel Megiddo in northern Israel. The floor of that room was constructed as a beautiful mosaic, featuring several inscriptions—one of which read, “Akeptous, the friend of God, has offered the table to God Jesus Christ (for) remembrance.”

Within decades, the building was abandoned and dismantled, but an unknown someone took time to cover the mosaic with pottery shards and wall plaster, preserving it until now.

This floor mosaic, featuring the earliest known extra-biblical reference (outside of manuscripts) to Jesus as God, has been called “one of the most important discoveries made in Israel this century.”

We are so excited to be able to display this incredible piece of history.

We are so excited to be able to display this incredible piece of history. We will also be adding to the exhibit as our teams are designing mannequins dressed in accurate period clothing to represent the four people named on the mosaic. Yes, we’re helping to bring this ancient church back to life for a modern audience to experience.

This display—and the renovations in the Answers Center necessary to create the display space—was made possible because of our supporters’ generous donations to our end-of-year campaign last year. Thank you to everyone who gave!

We’re thrilled to be able to display this incredible piece of history and point people toward the truth written on those millennia-old stones: Jesus is God. And this special space for the exhibit will be used for other special temporary exhibits after the Megiddo mosaic is returned.

If you’d like to check out our end-of-year fundraiser for this year (all gifts are matched again, dollar for dollar up to $12 million), visit our Donate page. Your generosity allows this ministry to reach millions of people each year and to complete amazing projects like this one.

If you’d like to check out our end-of-year fundraiser for this year (all gifts are matched again, dollar for dollar up to $12 million), visit our Donate page. Your generosity allows this ministry to reach millions of people each year and to complete amazing projects like this one.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

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The world’s most accurate and archaeologically up-to-date—not to mention visually stunning—scale model of first-century Jerusalem (1/100 scale) is currently taking shape in our design studios. We can’t wait to install this incredible new exhibit (really, an attraction all on its own) at the Ark Encounter, but first we have thousands of scale models to 3D print—and we’re hiring model makers and other staff (e.g., to run the 3D printers)!

We’re very excited that much of the backend research and design work (which has taken years) has already been done and that it’s now time to start printing pieces, painting them, and assembling the model. This, of course, will be a challenge all on its own, but our team is very excited for this next step and ready to watch the model they’ve digitally created take physical shape. (I’ll be providing an update on this model soon, so stay tuned for that—you’ll be blown away by some of the features our teams have included.)

But we need your help. We’re hiring for a tech design and fabrication position, as well as several model maker and 3D printer technician positions, to help finish this project.

If you’d like to use your artistic giftings to serve the Lord through the production of this incredible model, I encourage you to apply today at AnswersInGenesis.org/jobs. And if that’s not you, help us spread the word and be praying the Lord brings just the right people along for this unique and Christ-honoring project.

Stay tuned for more updates!

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

Did ancient humans do basically nothing for an astonishing 100,000 years?

Think about how long 100,000 years would be. It’s really an incomprehensible amount of time. Think of how many generations would come and go. Consider how many humans would be observing, exploring, experimenting, learning, and modifying their environment in that amount of time. It’s easy to show how our current world population of eight billion is easily attainable starting with six people (Noah’s sons and their wives) just 4,300 years ago—population growth is exponential. So imagine how many more people there would be on earth, and how much they would have accomplished, if given 100,000 years instead. A time period of 4,300 years is short compared to a supposed 100,000!!!

Consider that in 1903 the Wright brothers accomplished the first powered flight. A mere 66 years later, astronauts walked on the moon. Even if we rounded to 100 years (for easy math) from the first powered flight to a man on the moon, that amount of time would have passed 1,000 times over in a supposed 100,000 years.

Okay, why do I bring this up?

Well, I recently saw this headline: “Enigmatic Denisovans lived by cave in what is now China for 100,000 years, rare fossils and handcrafted tools reveal.” According to the article, a new study of a Chinese cave has uncovered the first-ever radius (one of the paired bones in the arm) of a Denisovan, a supposed human cousin (in the biblical worldview, of course, Denisovans were full-fledged human beings, descendants of Adam who lived after the global Flood).

It’s worth noting that this arm bone combined Neanderthal and modern human features. That’s no surprise—Denisovans, Neanderthals, and modern humans are all human beings! The piece of human bone was found in a cave, as were “thousands of prehistoric animal bones and stone tools.”

According to the popular science article, “[The cave] was used by Denisovans for more than 100,000 years.” So for 100,000 years, these “early humans” simply lived in a cave, hunting and gathering with simple stone tools. For 100,000 years. They didn’t invent farming; they didn’t significantly increase their technology. They didn’t go and explore and settle new areas. They just lived in this cave, eating the same things and using the same tools, for millennia after millennia after millennia. Have you ever stopped and thought about what a ridiculous claim that is?

In the evolutionary worldview, agriculture was not invented until about 12,000 years ago. After that, technology began to rapidly improve, and in just a short few thousand years, we went from working with metals to building complex structures aligned with the heavens to putting a man on the moon. But for tens of thousands of years, early humans couldn’t even discover that planting a seed in the ground would make more seeds that could then be eaten or planted for even more seeds?

Mankind was created intelligent.

Evolution is just a fairy tale. The biblical worldview makes much better sense of the evidence. Mankind was created intelligent. Within just one generation, Adam and Eve’s children were planting crops and raising flocks (Genesis 4:2) and even building cities (Genesis 4:17). A few generations later, people were working with metals and making musical instruments (Genesis 4:21–22).

Then there was a global Flood that reduced the population to just eight people. The Flood was followed by an Ice Age, making much of the world very inhospitable and limiting resources, especially in northern areas. During this time, people in the harder hit areas often lived in caves and had fairly simple technology. As the population expanded and the Ice Age ended (roughly 2000-1800 BC), there was an increase in human technology that has continued to this day.

The Bible makes sense of what we observe!

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

Well, this is a statistic you might not be expecting: A Gallup poll I saw recently found that 37% of Americans believe “God created humans in their present form within the past 10,000 years.” Another 34% said humans evolved but God guided the process. That means 7 in 10 Americans affirm at least involvement from God in creating human beings.

Now, of course, starting with the Bible, we do not agree that God used evolution to create mankind (or anything else), but that statistic is still very intriguing and significant—no other Western nation has such a high percentage of creationists. So what makes America so unique?

Well, I have a hypothesis—and I share it in the 10-minute video below. I encourage you to check it out.

Yes, I do believe the modern creation movement has had a big impact on this nation (and other nations too!). We praise God for the work He’s done through the proclamation of His Word.

When a college teaches students to start with God’s Word as the authority and equips them to answer the skeptical questions of our day, it makes a huge difference.

The minority—and, sadly, it is a minority—of Christian colleges that stand on the authority of Scripture from the very first verse have also had an impact on this nation. When a college teaches students to start with God’s Word as the authority and equips them to answer the skeptical questions of our day, it makes a huge difference. And one such school is Appalachian Bible College, one of our longtime college partners (I’ve spoken there many times over the years).

ABC emphasizes the sufficiency of the Word of God in all areas of life—a value that’s reflected in the classroom, where the Bible is the foundation of every course taught. And to further their mission of equipping men and women to serve the Lord, they even provide a scholarship that covers 100% of tuition for qualifying first-time, full-time residential students.

You can learn more about this great school, located in West Virginia, at their website or by visiting their booth at our upcoming, free (for registered students), and popular Creation College Expo at the Ark Encounter, November 5–7, 2026.

This event allows you to meet one-on-one with school representatives to learn about prospective colleges—all of whom have been vetted by Answers in Genesis (though, of course, you must do your due diligence as well). Your student will also hear teaching from myself, astronaut Captain Barry Wilmore, Dr. Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, and AiG’s Avery Foley and Bryan Osborne—along with live concerts, a drama presentation of The Pilgrim’s Progress from our friends at Logos Theatre, and the live drama Never Forsaken by Bob Jones University’s drama team.

This event, generously sponsored by AdelFi Christian Banking, is free for registered 7th–12th grade students—and includes Ark admission for them, plus a 20% admission discount for their immediate families or chaperones—so be sure to register today.

Learn more about our partner school, Appalachian Bible College, on their website.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

“Is the ministry what you envisioned when you started it all those years ago?”

When people see the size of Answers in Genesis—an organization that now encompasses a wide range of ministries and initiatives—I’m often asked in interviews, both by secular and Christian media, if this is what I imagined all those decades ago when we started AiG.

Well, my answer, with a touch of irony, usually goes something like this:

“Oh yes, this is exactly what we planned 50 years ago when we stepped out in faith to begin a creation apologetics ministry. The Creation Museum, the Ark Encounter, Answers Academy, book and curriculum publishing, a speaking and conference ministry, translation ministry, social media outreach, a streaming platform, and all the other facets of the ministry—yes, we planned it precisely this way.”

And then I laugh.

People get the point. We had absolutely no idea this is where the ministry would be today. But it’s a reminder that:

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” declares Yahweh. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:8–9)

As my wife, Mally, has said to me, “It’s just as well God didn’t reveal all He had in store for us, or we probably would have been like Jonah and run away.”

It is also vital that we not neglect the “engines” that run the ministry—the behind-the-scenes work that powers everything else.

I thought about that recently, as this is normally the time of year when we launch our end-of-year fundraising campaign. In recent years, we have focused on new exhibits and upgrades for the Ark Encounter and Creation Museum. And those are certainly important.

But it is also vital that we not neglect the “engines” that run the ministry—the behind-the-scenes work that powers everything else.

Most people, including many of our supporters, don’t realize the extent of what goes on behind the scenes to feed and support all the various departments and outreaches.

I often think of Answers in Genesis as somewhat like two power-generation stations:

1. The power generator for all the ministry outreaches: A vital component of this is the content we research, write, and provide.
2. The power generator for the operations and the organizational structure that enables the ministry to function effectively.

By God’s grace, approximately 80% of our operating budget is generated through revenue from the attractions, curricula, educational resources, and other streams, and the remaining 20% comes from donations. That is a much healthier position than when we first started Answers in Genesis over 30 years ago, when we were almost entirely dependent on the faithful giving of supporters.

Even so, many vital aspects of the ministry—including much of the research, content development, and the behind-the-scenes infrastructure that powers all our outreaches—cannot sustain themselves through earned revenue alone. They continue to rely on the generosity of those who share our vision.

I’ve told the story before about a missionary couple in Ethiopia whom my parents supported many years ago. They sent an urgent request for funds to purchase a motorcycle so they could travel to remote villages to teach God’s Word and proclaim the gospel. They also requested support for a refrigerator to keep their food from spoiling.

Well, they received twice as much money as they needed for the motorcycle—and not a single donation for the refrigerator! Fortunately, the excess funds for the motorcycle were enough to cover the refrigerator as well

People understandably get excited about helping missionaries take the gospel to remote villages. They’re often not quite as excited about helping keep their food from spoiling!

The point is that most people don’t see all that goes on behind the scenes at Answers in Genesis. They experience the finished product—the world-class attractions, exhibits, teaching, animals, gardens, programs, conferences, and resources. Praise the Lord for that! But behind all of it are what I have been calling the “engines” of the ministry.

Hours and hours of work go into researching and producing content for new exhibits, updating existing exhibits, developing scripts and videos, preparing signage, creating curricula, and producing resources. Sometimes substantial funding is required up front before a project can ever begin generating revenue.

For the past few years, a family foundation has generously provided a matching gift for our end-of-year campaign. Because you, our supporters, have responded each year and matched those funds, this foundation has continued to stand with us and has even increased its dollar-for-dollar matching gift commitment (more on that later).

This year, we approached them about something a little different. We asked if they would consider providing a matching fund to help strengthen the “engines” that drive all the departments and outreaches of Answers in Genesis.

They immediately understood how important this is. The “machinery” behind the scenes must continue to function effectively if the outward ministry is going to continue growing and impacting people.

So what are some of these behind-the-scenes needs?

There is curriculum development. We recognize the urgent need to reach younger generations and equip them to stand boldly in this morally degenerating culture. We want to produce more church, Christian school, and homeschool curricula that are truly grounded in a biblical worldview.

There is research. So much research is needed to ensure we are fully informed as we produce videos, write exhibit scripts and articles, develop curricula, respond to current issues, and equip Christians with answers.

There is the planetarium. It has been a tremendous teaching tool, but technology wears out and needs to be replaced. Programs also need to be updated and new ones produced so we can continue teaching astronomy from a biblical worldview.

There is training and continuing education for our staff so our team remains equipped with the latest technology, information, and skills needed for the ministry’s many outreaches.

There are educational programs and labs for students at the Creation Museum, the Ark Encounter, and Answers Academy. There are camps and day camps designed to help parents train their children. None of these just happen. They require preparation, equipment, staffing, and planning.

There are conferences at the Ark and Creation Museum and speaking at conferences across the nation. Yes, we charge fees to help cover basic costs. But if we charged what these conferences actually cost when you include teaching staff, support staff, preparation, production, and all the other details, many people simply could not attend. So these are subsidized to a degree.

There are the zoo animals, habitats, and programs. We have zoos at both attractions because our signage and live animal programs present information from a biblical worldview. Most zoos are ardently evolutionary. Admission helps with day-to-day upkeep, but animals need to be replaced, habitats upgraded, and programs developed. Our zoo presenters spend countless hours training animals and preparing programs that equip people.

There are the gardens, our horticulture operations, and the Creation Museum conservatory. Our gardens display the handiwork of God in creation, and we want our grounds to reflect the glory of God. Plants need replacing, grounds need maintaining, and we want to add many more plants described in the Bible to the conservatory. All of this takes funding, staffing, planning, and ongoing care.

There is technology—VR headsets and other A/V equipment that wears out, breaks down, and needs to be replaced or upgraded. There is grounds and maintenance equipment, such as mowers that are used constantly and eventually must be replaced. And of course, there are recurring expenses such as various utilities that keep everything functioning day after day.

There are exhibits in progress at our design and fabrication center. Many people don’t realize it can take months of totally subsidized work to research, plan, design, and prepare an exhibit before we can even present it publicly and raise funds for it to be built and installed.

There is our Department of Public Safety. In today’s fallen world, this is absolutely necessary. Our team uses K9 units, special detectors, medical equipment, trained personnel, and other resources to help ensure the safety of our guests and staff. Our K9 units are also made available free of charge to outside law enforcement agencies in various situations, opening wonderful doors in the community. Our security team conducts training for law enforcement officers from across the United States and other parts of the world, with optional Bible study opportunities. What an outreach!

And then there is our staff—our greatest asset. Many have families, some with large families, and we want to care for them in a way that honors the Lord. Scripture tells us that a workman is worthy of his hire. Staffing is one of the largest costs of the ministry, but it is also one of the most necessary. Many of our staff go far beyond what is expected because they believe in this ministry.

There is also our translation ministry. We have an obligation to disseminate the information God has entrusted to us to the rest of the world. That is part of the great commission. But translation work has to be highly subsidized, particularly in countries where people simply cannot afford what people can in the United States or where the Christian population is very small. The internet and AI are helping us greatly, but this still requires technology, staff involvement, services in other countries, and ongoing funding.

There is social media. Even 10 years ago, would we have imagined it would become one of the major ways of communicating information to the world? Today, people expect quality video content through YouTube and other platforms. We continue to build our social media team and invest in studio equipment so we can produce engaging biblical worldview content that reaches people where they are.

We have to be very careful and restrict the advertising that accompanies social media because many ads are not consistent with our moral and biblical convictions. And that revenue only covers a portion of the budget, which means this outreach must be subsidized. But what an outreach it is! We now have over one million YouTube subscribers, and our videos have been viewed millions upon millions of times. Every day, people around the world are being exposed to the truth of God’s Word.

There is Answers TV, our streaming platform containing more than 7,000 programs. It allows us to preserve decades of teaching and resources while providing new programming for all ages.

Yes, we charge a subscription fee, but we are competing in a world of low-cost streaming services backed by millions of subscribers. We simply do not have the subscriber base of companies such as Netflix. So Answers TV continues to require significant subsidy. Nevertheless, we believe it is a strategic ministry investment—a place where families can access trustworthy biblical content without being inundated by the world’s messaging.

And then there is Answers Academy.

We started a Christian academy to use the expertise the Lord has given this ministry to build a model Christian school—one that would help us produce truly biblical worldview curricula. Frankly, there is not much available today that we would testify consistently teaches from a truly biblical worldview.

We want to produce curricula for Christian schools that can also be used by homeschools and churches, while developing online curriculum. Many people have asked if we could take Answers Academy “to the world.” We believe the Lord may be opening doors for that.

Investment in Answers Academy helps provide STEM learning tools; library and literacy resources; athletics and physical education equipment; fine arts, drama, and performance materials; Bible curriculum development; and professional development for teachers and administrators.

As I often say to people, we don’t lack vision!

And God has always provided for our needs, although I admit that at times we have struggled. It has often seemed to me that conservative Christian ministries that truly stand on God’s Word and teach the truth are often the ones that struggle financially. We have had foundations that support what they would call relatively conservative Christian ministries turn us down because of our stand on six literal days and a young earth. That has happened on a number of occasions.

Behind the Ark Encounter, the Creation Museum, the conferences, books, videos, school, curriculum, translations, gardens, animals, security, research, and all the other outreaches, there are “engines” that must keep running.

Much of this work is not glamorous. Much of it is not seen. Much of it does not pay for itself directly.

But it is essential.

And praise the Lord for a foundation that understands this and continues to stand with Answers in Genesis. Once again, this foundation is providing a very generous matching gift, and they agreed on the importance of strengthening the internal “engines” that drive the rest of the ministry.

In a way, I see this as God preparing the ministry for even bigger things in the future.

The foundation has graciously offered to match all gifts, dollar-for-dollar, to AiG’s core ministry—the “engine”—from now through December 31, 2026, up to $12 million, for a total end-of-year campaign of $24 million!

As I alluded to earlier, the foundation has graciously offered to match all gifts, dollar-for-dollar, to AiG’s core ministry—the “engine”—from now through December 31, 2026, up to $12 million, for a total end-of-year campaign of $24 million!

This foundation has been so encouraged by the tremendous impact of Answers in Genesis—and by the incredible way our faithful supporters have risen to meet their challenge year after year—that they have offered the largest matching gift in AiG’s history! Wow! What an extraordinary blessing this could be, providing a tremendous boost to help advance the entire ministry and proclaim the truth of God’s Word and the gospel to even more.

Would you prayerfully consider making a generous gift today to help us take full advantage of this matching opportunity? Your gift will be doubled through the match, and it will help strengthen the very engines that power so many outreaches, reaching millions of people with the truth of God’s Word and the gospel.

Thank you for standing with us. We are so grateful for your prayers, encouragement, and faithful support.

In Christ,
Ken