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Discordant Potassium-Argon Model and Isochron “Ages” for Cardenas Basalt (Middle Proterozoic) and Associated Diabase of Eastern Grand Canyon, Arizona

Feb. 3, 2010 from Answers in Depth

For more than twenty years it has been known that the Rb-Sr and K-Ar systems give discordant ‘ages’ for Cardenas Basalt and associated Proterozoic diabase sills and dikes of Grand Canyon.

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Mirror Images and Amino Acids

Jan. 27, 2010 from Answers in Depth

The complexity of life continues to astound even the most skeptical scientist. Dr. Georgia Purdom looks at recent discoveries that reveal God’s handiwork.

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Were Plants Designed to Communicate?

Jan. 20, 2010 from Answers in Depth

While some people may talk to their plants, we don’t hear the plants talking back.

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The Relevance of Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd, and Pb-Pb Isotope Systematics to Elucidation of the Genesis and History of Recent Andesite Flows at Mt. Ngauruhoe, New Zealand, and Implications for Radioisotopic Dating

Jan. 6, 2010 from Answers in Depth

Mt. Ngauruhoe in the Taupo Volcanic Zone of New Zealand erupted andesite lava flows in 1949 and 1954, and avalanche deposits in 1975.

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The Cause of Anomalous Potassium-Argon “Ages” for Recent Andesite Flows at Mt. Ngauruhoe, New Zealand, and the Implications for Potassium-Argon “Dating”

Dec. 30, 2009 from Answers in Depth

Mt. Ngauruhoe is an andesite stratovolcano, rising above the Tongariro volcanic massif within the Tongariro Volcanic Center of the Taupo Volcanic Zone.

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U-Th-Pb “Dating”: An Example of False “Isochrons”

Dec. 9, 2009 from Answers in Depth

As with other isochron methods, the U-Pb isochron method has been questioned in the open literature.

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Evaluating the Gait Analysis of Ardi

Nov. 25, 2009 from Answers in Depth

Computer animations on the Discovery Channel were quite misleading about how Ardi (Ardipethicus ramidus) walked. Dr. Mark Blais, a podiatrist, explains.

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Soft Tissue Fossilization

Nov. 4, 2009 from Answers in Depth

Fossilization occurs rapidly when the conditions are right. The conditions necessary for lithification of soft tissue give clues to unlock the history of a fossil deposit.

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The End of Irreducible Complexity?

Oct. 6, 2009 from Answers in Depth

Is one of the main examples of intelligent design bogus—or is this another “just so” story from evolutionists?

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The Genesis of “Rat-Eating” Plants

Sept. 29, 2009 from Answers in Depth

As improbable as it sounds, there are plants that can digest rats and other small vertebrates.

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Microbiota

Sept. 22, 2009 from Answers in Depth

Through complex biochemical interactions, there is actual communication between the gut lining and the microbiota to establish a healthy equilibrium. Communication that reflects the Creator.

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Hairy New Findings in Dog Variation

Sept. 16, 2009 from Answers in Depth

There is astounding variation that exists within dogs. There are different sizes, shapes, and colors. What causes this variety?

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Radiohalos and Diamonds

Sept. 9, 2009 from Answers in Depth

We offer an explanation for the radiohalos and for the “tubes” in these diamonds in terms of a hydrothermal fluid transport model for Po radiohalo formation.

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Radiohalos in the Cooma Metamorphic Complex, New South Wales, Australia

Sept. 2, 2009 from Answers in Depth

The Cooma granodiorite was generated as a consequence of the regional metamorphism that resulted from the catastrophic large-scale emplacement during the catastrophic plate tectonics of the Flood.

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Radiohalos in the Shap Granite, Lake District, England

Aug. 26, 2009 from Answers in Depth

The Po radiohalos and other evidence associated with this granite thus remove objections to Flood geology and any need to place the Flood/post-Flood boundary in the lower Carboniferous.

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Radiohalos—A Tale of Three Granitic Plutons

Aug. 19, 2009 from Answers in Depth

The origin and significance of radiohalos have been debated for almost a century, perhaps largely because their geological distribution has been poorly understood.

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The Cooling of Thick Igneous Bodies on a Young Earth

Aug. 5, 2009 from Answers in Depth

One of the scientific objections to a young earth is the apparent evidence that large plutons of granitic and other igneous intrusive rocks necessarily required millions of years to cool from magmas.

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From the Depths of Space

July 15, 2009 from Answers in Depth

The discovery of the farthest known space object points out some of the problems with the big bang—and why we can trust Genesis.

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Interpreting an Unusual Arctic Bear within a Creation Model of Origins

July 8, 2009 from Answers in Depth

In 2006, on the south end of Banks Island, that a 65-year-old hunter shot and killed the first documented grizzly/polar hybrid (grolar bear) in the wild.

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The Genesis of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

July 1, 2009 from Answers in Depth

Methicillin-resistant Staph bacteria cause more deaths than AIDS and resist most antibiotics. How do “superbugs” fit within a creation framework?

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Literary Forms and Biblical Interpretation

June 24, 2009 from Answers in Depth

The key to unlock the Bible is within the reach of everyone and not just a special group of people with expert training.

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Analysis of Barry Hall’s Research of the E. coli ebg Operon

June 3, 2009 from Answers in Depth

Much research has been done on the ebg operon of the bacterium Escherichia coli over the last 30 years. specific mutations within this operon enable the bacterium to metabolize lactose.

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A Creationist Perspective of Beneficial Mutations in Bacteria

May 27, 2009 from Answers in Depth

Creationists have tended to offer an inconsistent or incomplete perspective of “beneficial mutations” within a creation framework.

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The Organosubstrate of Life

May 20, 2009 from Answers in Depth

Microbes and viruses were created as a link between macro-organisms and a chemically rich but inert physical environment.

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