The World: Born in 4004 BC?
| Answers in Genesis In today’s culture, the thought of creation occurring about 6,000 years ago is frequently mocked by non-Christians—and also by many Christians.
Geology
| Answers in Genesis While many think rock formations and rock layers are evidence of an old earth, the Bible’s history and the rocks themselves teach a different story.
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Carbon-14
| Answers in Genesis Carbon, which dissipates in just tens of thousands of years, is present in diamonds and fossils! Carbon-14 calls the whole old-earth paradigm into question.
Radiocarbon in Diamonds Confirmed
| Answers in Genesis During the RATE (Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth) research project, some of the research effort was focused on investigating radiocarbon (carbon-14) dating.
Geological Conflict
| Answers in Genesis Many do not realise that index fossils are still crucial to the millions-of-years geological dating, in spite of the advent of radioactive 'dating' techniques.
Dating in Conflict
| Answers in Genesis Mainstream geologists would never think of trying to get a radiocarbon (14C) date for the coalified wood in this Mägenwil sandstone, because anything that old should not be datable by this method.
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Brushwork Beats Boffins!
| Answers in Genesis ‘However, publicity of the find attracted the attention of Mrs Joan Ahrens, a Capetown resident, who recognised the paintings as being produced by her at art classes and later stolen from her garden…’
How Reliable Are Dates for Human Fossils?
| Answers in Genesis How much do we really know about all those human and ape fossils displayed in museums and textbooks? Glossy charts declare their dates and stories with journalistic certainty, but the dating methods aren’t as rock-solid as most people assume.
Uranium-Lead Radioisotope Dating Problems
| Answers in Genesis Uranium-lead radioisotope dating is now the preferred absolute dating method among geochronologists. Consequently, the scientific community and the general public around the world appear convinced of the earth’s claimed great antiquity. But there are several problems with this particular radiometric dating method.
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The Dating Game
| Answers in Genesis Selected data and unprovable assumptions are a problem with all methods for determining the age of the earth, as well as for dating its fossils and rocks.
More and More Wrong Dates
| Answers in Genesis Is this dating failure from Mount St Helens an isolated case of radioisotope dating giving wrong results for rocks of known age? Certainly not!
Radio-Dating in Rubble
| Answers in Genesis Radioisotope dating conveys an aura of reliability both to the general public and professional scientists. But is the method all it’s cracked up to be?
Radiohalos New South Wales, Australia
| Answers in Genesis 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.
Radiohalos and Diamonds
| Answers in Genesis 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.
Time and Time Again
| Answers in Genesis The chemical data used in the radiometric dating method requires interpretation, which is sure to be wrong if Biblical data is ignored.
Countering the Critics
| Answers in Genesis Understandably, Dr Austin’s devastating research into radioisotopic dating has been criticized by those who believe in millions of years.
The age of Australian Uranium
| Answers in Genesis The objective of this study is to examine the published U/Pb dating results obtained from mineral samples from the Koongarra uranium deposit, Northern Territory.
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Rating Radiodating
| Answers in Genesis A group of young-Earth researchers called RATE (Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth) are investigating radioactive dating methods and developing alternative young-Earth explanations.
Rock Layers
| Answers in Genesis Do rock layers prove the earth is billions of years old? How does what we see in the world match what we read in God’s Word?
“Sedimentary Layers Show Millions of Years of Geological Activity.”
| Answers in Genesis Riding the rapids between the mile-high walls of the Grand Canyon, a rafter supposedly peers up at millions of years of earth history. How do scientists arrive at such an old age? And is the worldwide geologic column really a clincher for the long ages required for evolution?
Mudrocks in Minutes
| Answers in Genesis Evolutionists scoff at biblical creationists who say that many mudrock layers were deposited all at once in the yearlong, global Genesis flood. Conventional wisdom assumes the mud in earth’s mudrocks took millions of years to settle. What do new experiments suggest?
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Clues from Creation Week
| Answers in Genesis Did you know that even today you can still see and touch rocks that date back to God’s original creation during the creation week? Well, you can! The Hamersley area in Australia’s northwest is part of two-thirds of the continent’s surface not covered today by flood rocks.
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Bent Rock Layers
| Answers in Genesis In many mountainous areas, rock layers thousands of feet thick have been bent and folded without fracturing. How can that happen if they were laid down separately over hundreds of millions of years?
Folded Rock Layers
| Answers in Genesis How could a series of sedimentary layers fold without fracturing? The only way is for all the sedimentary layers to be laid down in rapid succession and then be folded while still soft and pliable.
Water from Rock
| Answers in Genesis People often refer to rock layers as though the earth is made of solid rock, impervious to water. Thankfully, this isn’t true.
Granite and the Rock of God’s Word
| Answers in Genesis As far as this ‘granite problem’ is concerned, there would now seem to be a glimpse of an answer developing, on the basis of experimental work done by non-creationist geologists.
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Chalking Up Another One For Flood Geology
| Answers in Genesis The famous White Cliffs of Dover, immortalized in song and print, are made of a type of limestone called chalk. If you look at this rock closely, it is made up largely of microscopic shells.
Geologic Time Scale
| Answers in Genesis How should we interpret the geologic time scale, traditionally associated with millions of years, in light of the Bible’s history?
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Geologic Column
| Answers in Genesis Modern examples of canyon formation and erosion provide models to explain how many geological formations can be described by the Flood and its aftereffects.
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Rapid Rocks
| Answers in Genesis The timescale and conditions for the formation and cooling of granites are totally consistent with a 6,000–7,000 year-old earth and a global cataclysmic flood 4,500–5,000 years ago.
Are We Living in a New Geologic Age?
| Answers in Genesis Are we living in a new geologic age? Recently, geologists announced a name for the geologic age we live in: the Meghalayan Age. This new age is supposed to have begun 4,250 years ago. This further divides up earth’s supposed 4.5 billion year history into various lengths of time.
Earlier Start for Animal Evolution
| Answers in Genesis It could almost be the plot of an evolutionary Indiana Jones adventure: deep beneath the sands of Arabia, lost and hidden for millennia, lay a secret molecule that transcends what we think we know.
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Mexican Markings and Chronological Chaos
| Answers in Genesis Dr. Sylvia Gonzales of John Moores University in Liverpool, England reported in 2005 about the discovery of 269 footprints preserved in volcanic ash in the Valsequillo region of central Mexico.
Oil in Less Than a Century?
| Answers in Genesis How long does it take oil to form? Centuries? Thousands of years? Millions of years? Architect Hans Timmers, of Maleny, a town in Queensland, Australia, told us of the following experience.
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Natural Features
| Answers in Genesis The world of geology is filled with beautiful and awe-inspiring natural formations. How did these formations get there?
Hoodoos of Bryce Canyon
| Answers in Genesis The visitor overlooks at Bryce Canyon, Utah, provide a breathtaking spectacle of row upon row of towering columns painted pink, red, white, and orange. Together, these columns were formed in a series of horseshoe-shaped amphitheaters, cut into the surrounding cliffs.
Arches of Utah
| Answers in Genesis Located just outside Moab, Utah, is a wonderland of more than 2,000 natural arches.Everywhere you turn are spectacular arches of various shapes and sizes, such as Double Arch, Skyline Arch, and Tower Arch. Why are there so many natural arches in this one area?
Cotton Castle
| Answers in Genesis Every year “Cotton Castle” in Turkey attracts a million visitors eager to see its spectacular stepped terraces and “frozen” waterfalls or to find refreshment in its oyster-shaped mineral pools. In New Testament times it was part of the city of Hierapolis, famed for the healing qualities of its hot mineral springs.
A Canyon in Six Days!
| Answers in Genesis The idea that canyons invariably take vast ages to form is unfortunately very firmly cemented in the public mind. Even today, most school students are still taught the older, long-age model.
Giant’s Causeway of Northern Ireland
| Answers in Genesis Some geologists claim that the Causeway was formed over 60 million years ago. But other geologists, who approach Giant’s Causeway with a biblical understanding of the past, have another explanation.
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Durham’s Grand Canyon
| Answers in Genesis A quickly formed canyon in England provides clues to how the Grand Canyon and other geological features formed recently—and not over millions of years.
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Volcanoes—Windows Into Earth’s Past
| Answers in Genesis God has given us a window into the earth’s past. Starting with God’s Word and studying modern volcanoes and the huge deposits of past volcanoes, we can piece together a dramatic picture of unique catastrophes during the Flood.
Devils Tower in Wyoming
| Answers in Genesis Devils Tower, an impressive formation amid a relatively flat region, raises natural questions among many viewers as to how it formed.
Nightmare Forest
| Answers in Genesis Imagine walking across a field of razor blades. That’s what it is like to climb the hills in a remote part of Madagascar.
White Cliffs of Dover
| Answers in Genesis These towering escarpments, stretching 10 miles (16 km) along the coast, not only guard England from its enemies but, more importantly, give tribute to the global Flood.
Niagara Falls and the Bible
| Answers in Genesis Aside from the beauty and grandeur of the Falls, very few visitors realise they are looking at one of the major excuses for abandoning biblical chronology.
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Canyon Creation
| Answers in Genesis Many people believe canyons take a long time to form. In North America, though, there is a canyon that simply wasn't there 150 years ago.
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Plane Flies in the Face of Glaciology
| Answers in Genesis The P-38’s 1942 flight to the U.K. ended when bad weather forced the pilot to land the plane on one of Greenland’s glaciers. Although the pilot—along with the 24 other airmen from seven other planes forced down—were rescued shortly thereafter, the planes were left and summarily buried under 250 ft (91 m) of ice.
Creation Road Trip: More Destinations
| Answers in Genesis If you’re planning an outing to one of these locations, be sure to read the following biblical explanations of how catastrophic processes formed these amazing sights during Noah’s Flood.
Warped Earth
| Answers in Genesis Geologic formations commonly show clear evidence that the rocks could not have been hard and brittle before they were folded.
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The Origin of Oil
| Answers in Genesis For more than 100 years oil has been the “black gold” that has fueled transport vehicles and powered global economic growth and prosperity. So how does oil form, and what is its origin?
Catastrophism
| Answers in Genesis Are current, slow geologic processes the key to understanding earth’s past, or was history marked by a global, earth-shaping catastrophe?
Yellowstone
| Answers in Genesis Beneath the surface of Yellowstone’s beauty lie fearful clues to the past—and a possible future.
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How Fast Can Oil Form?
| Answers in Genesis Many people today, including scientists, have the idea that oil and natural gas must take a long time to form, even millions of years. Such is the strong mental bias that has been generated.
Having It Both Ways?
| Answers in Genesis If the present isn’t the key to the past, a critic wants to know why AiG uses present events to explore what happened in the global Flood. Dr. Andrew Snelling, AiG–U.S., explains.
Coal Beds and Noah’s Flood
| Answers in Genesis Coal beds formed from plant debris catastrophically buried by Noah’s Flood about 4,500 years ago? Evolutionists believe that the material in coal beds accumulated over millions of years.
Green River Blues
| Answers in Genesis The Green River Formation of Wyoming, USA, is familiar to geologists not only for its well-preserved fossils but also because it has come to the forefront of debate on the age of the earth.
F.A.S.T. and Furious
| Answers in Genesis Creation geologists have undertaken a major new research project to better understand how the Flood deposited sediments across continents while tectonic forces within the crust reshaped the earth.
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Post-Flood World
| Answers in Genesis After the Flood, the world was a warm, wet and stormy world. The warm oceans and cooler temperatures caused snow and ice to accumulate, creating the Ice Age.
The Story That Won’t Be Told
| Answers in Genesis Secular geologists believe that it a marked trail commemorating the Missoula flood’s path and explaining its significance needs to be set up from western Montana into northwest Oregon.
How Did Britain Become an Island?
| Answers in Genesis It’s not just young-earth creationists who lean on catastrophic geological processes in explaining earth history. Increasingly, old-earthers are also seeing the work of catastrophes in shaping the planet.
Catastrophe at Work
| Answers in Genesis It’s not only creationists who point to the role of catastrophic events in shaping earth’s geologic history. A new study sheds light on how Britain was separated from the rest of Europe by a “super-river.”
Common Ground
| Answers in Genesis Tourists have another reason to find common ground with biblical creationists when it comes to the formation of canyons.
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British Isles
| Answers in Genesis Britain’s secular newspaper The Daily Telegraph, in its September 25, 2006 publication, has unwittingly given support to the reality of Noah’s Flood.
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Thundering Burial
| Answers in Genesis This fossil graveyard on the Lake Huron coastline of Michigan is thus just another example of the devastation resulting from that catastrophic global Flood.
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Flood Cuts off Europe
| Answers in Genesis It is said that a British newspaper headline once announced “Fog Over Channel—Continent Isolated.” The headline aptly and amusingly sums up Britain’s ambivalent relationship with its neighbors.
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World's Longest Mud Slide
| Answers in Genesis A team of researchers reporting in the journal Nature recently has described a catastrophic landslide that dumped 225 billion metric tons of sediment into the ocean in just a few days or less.
The Lessons of Surtsey
| Answers in Genesis By way of a specific example of rapid geomorphological development, we may refer to the volcanic island of Surtsey, off Iceland.
New Theory Impacts Crater Site
| Answers in Genesis The Silverpit structure, an impact crater in the North Sea, is, according to University of Edinburgh geologist John Underhill, not the vestige of a prehistoric meteorite, but rather “probably the movement of salt rocks at depth.”
Sandy Surprise
| Answers in Genesis Scientifically, it has never been a problem to explain that hard rock can form quickly, given the right conditions.
Fascinating Fossil Fence-Wire
| Answers in Genesis The rock is a hard, dense, calcareous sandstone. The wire is ordinary 'Number 8' fencing wire of the type used at nearby Wallal Downs station between 1920 and 1970.
Folded Ferns
| Answers in Genesis Fossil fern fronds fly in the face of beliefs held by the majority of the most highly educated people in the world.
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Tarawera’s Night of Terror
| Answers in Genesis Mt Tarawera is yet another testimony to the rapidity with which fossilization can occur, and that the evolutionary concept of fossils as being ‘prehistoric’ does not conform with the evidence.
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'Fossil' Hat
| Answers in Genesis This miner's hat is rock hard. It was found in a mine in Tasmania where it had been covered with water for more than 50 years.
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Keys to Rapid Rock Formation
| Answers in Genesis If you know anyone who thinks rocks and fossils must take thousands or millions of years to form, here's an example to show them they may need to revise their ideas.
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Deluge!
| Answers in Genesis The fact of the biblical Deluge is the keystone with which the whole of the biblical history of life, man and the universe comes into line with the evidence of the real world.
Rocks and Minerals
| Answers in Genesis The hidden beauty of rocks and minerals, such as diamonds, rubies, and gold, praises the creativity of the Designer and reminds us of His Flood judgment.
Growing Opals—Australian Style
| Answers in Genesis In a dusty old wooden shed on a side street in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia, a bush scientist trying to discover the origin of opal has been able to ‘grow’ opal.
Shape-Shifting Silicon
| Answers in Genesis Minerals display not only God’s incredible creativity and His care for our needs, but also His unbounded love of variety and beauty.
Do Diamonds Take Millions of Years to Form?
| Answers in Genesis If you search for “how long it takes a natural diamond to form” using Google, the preferred answer pops up as “between 1 billion and 3.3 billion years, which is approximately 25% to 75% of our earth’s [supposed] age.” Is that true?
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Buried Treasure
| Answers in Genesis Down in the Cave of Crystals under Mexico’s Naica silver mine, you’ll find crystals measuring up to 36 feet (11 m) long.
Woman's Best Friend Disrupts Man's Plans
| Answers in Genesis The Jack Hills region of Western Australia is home to diamonds “nearly as old as the Earth itself and considered the oldest terrestrial diamonds ever discovered,” according to a new study.
Creating Opals
| Answers in Genesis Today we admire and enjoy the beauty opals and opalized bones. But when we realize their formation resulted from catastrophic judgment, we worship God for His salvation in Christ at the cross.
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Sedimentation
| Answers in Genesis Under what circumstances do sand, mud, silt and clay deposits turn into rock? Could the Bible’s history shed light on this process?
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Thirty Miles of Dirt in a Day
| Answers in Genesis When God lifted up the dry land on the third day of creation, thirty miles of dirt fell into the sea. The remnants of this event are still visible today.
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Dredged Up Again
| Answers in Genesis Bible-believers don’t need Ballard to confirm the Flood. Ballard does not accept its global extent and considers the biblical account to be a myth.
Can Flood Geology Explain Thick Chalk Beds?
| Answers in Genesis By working from what is known to occur today, even if rare and catastrophic by today’s standards, we can realistically calculate production of thick chalk beds within the conditions of the Flood.
Slow Deposition vs. Rapid Flow
| Answers in Genesis A longstanding understanding of how the “sedimentary geological record” was formed is apparently in error, according to research by geologists at Indiana University–Bloomington and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Globe-Trotting Sands
| Answers in Genesis Geologists have confirmed even more examples of sands that were carried by waters flowing across the entire U.S. continent.
Experiments on Lamination of Sediments
| Answers in Genesis Experiments on lamination of sediments, resulting from a periodic graded-bedding subsequent to deposition—a contribution to the explanation of lamination of various sediments and sedimentary rocks.
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Caves
| Answers in Genesis The eerie darkness of caves hosts strange growths called stalagmites and stalactites. Caves, and their features, take millions of years to form—don’t they?
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Caves—Underground and Upside Down
| Answers in Genesis All our lives we’ve heard that caves formed slowly, over tens of thousands of years, as surface water seeps into the earth. But recent discoveries are turning old assumptions upside down and the real story may be much more dramatic.
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A Mammoth Cave of Wonders
| Answers in Genesis From daring hideouts to buried treasure coves, caves show up in history and literature with the promise of adventure, secrets, and riches.
The Florida Sinkhole Tragedy
| Answers in Genesis On Thursday, February 28, at about 11:00 PM (Eastern Time) a Florida man was in bed sleeping when a huge hole opened under his house, swallowing part of the inside of his house and him with it.
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Crystal Rate of Growth Debated
| Answers in Genesis The extreme clarity and uniformity of the beautiful crystals in Naica, Mexico, indicate that the conditions under which they formed remained quite stable.
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Cave Formations
| Answers in Genesis Two of the world’s most spectacular caves are Mammoth Caves in central Kentucky and Carlsbad Caverns in southeastern New Mexico. Find out how they formed.
Bottle Stalagmite
| Answers in Genesis The ‘bottle stalagmite’ became a public testimony to the fact that stalactites and stalagmites don’t take tens of thousands of years or more to form.
Grand Canyon Facts
| Answers in Genesis Was the Grand Canyon formed with a little bit of water over a long period of time or a lot of water over a little bit of time? What are the facts?
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Grand Canyon—Nine Days Below the Rim
| Answers in Genesis Who hasn’t heard this? You can see the photos, hear the stories, and read all about the Eiffel Tower, the Lincoln Memorial, the Taj Mahal, and Niagara Falls. But nothing compares to being there. We wanted to experience the Grand Canyon’s beauty and see evidences of the flood that few ever get to see.
Climbing the “Ladder of Life” in the Grand Canyon
| Answers in Genesis I visited the Canyon on three different occasions and twice hiked its trails from river to rim. I discovered that not only are the evolutionist’s “missing links” truly missing—their whole “ladder of life” is missing!
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Surprised by God’s Majesty
| Answers in Genesis Founded in 1997,
the nonprofit Canyon Ministries has a vision
to inspire awe in God’s handiwork, as
the Lord intends for this natural wonder.
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The Grand Canyon
| Answers in Genesis The best place to see, test, and put together all these ideas about stacks of fossil-bearing rock is the Grand Canyon.
Geologists in an Uproar
| Answers in Genesis What provoked the presidents of seven geological societies to write a letter of protest to the superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park?
Grand Canyon Rafting
| Answers in Genesis Of the approximately 22,000 people who have the privilege of rafting the Colorado River each year, only about one percent will hear a biblical interpretation of how the canyon was formed.
Dripping Canyon Crust
| Answers in Genesis The Grand Canyon slices through the high Colorado Plateau, but how did the plateau come to be so high? New seismic data paints a picture of the plateau’s underbelly.
Backdrop of a Grand Canyon Raft Trip
| Answers in Genesis What should the Christian believe about the age of the earth and the origin of life? WORLD magazine editor-in-chief Marvin Olasky explores the issue against the backdrop of a Grand Canyon raft trip.*
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Along for the Ride
| Answers in Genesis Ever dreamed of visiting the most famous natural wonders of the world? Now you can take along an audio tour by leading creation geologist Andrew Snelling.
Deluged with Pro-Flood Email!
| Answers in Genesis Grand Canyon: A Different View has been available at Grand Canyon bookstores since August, but was in jeopardy of being removed after pressure by prominent evolutionists.
Remove God from the Grand Canyon?
| Answers in Genesis For over thirty years, three bronze plaques at Grand Canyon have displayed brief quotes from the Psalms. However, last week US Park Service officials decided that the plaques had to go.
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Carving the Grand Canyon: Eons or Years?
| Answers in Genesis If you thought six million years was too old an age for the Grand Canyon, think again—or at least, that’s what a group of scientists from the University of New Mexico argues in a recent Science paper.
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The question: to ban or not to ban?
| Answers in Genesis The effort to ban creationist Tom Vail’s beautifully photographed picture book Grand Canyon: A Different View once again is promising to become an international controversy.
Mount St. Helens
| Answers in Genesis Mount St. Helens violently erupted on May 18, 1980, rapidly dispelling many false long-age notions about the formation of canyons, rock layers, and coal.
Mount St. Helens in Washington State
| Answers in Genesis The explosion loosened the already unstable northern side of the volcano, and not only changed the visage of that portion of the Cascades, but deeply shook the foundation of the geological timescale.
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Mount St. Helens—Evidence for Genesis!
| Answers in Genesis As I stood staring at the incredible geologic features that resulted from the eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington State, I was reminded afresh of how small and vulnerable we are as humans.
Nature Spot
| Answers in Genesis Unsuspected ‘insect rain’ is just one of the many mechanisms which could have contributed to the rapid biological recovery of the post-Flood earth.
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Mt. St. Helens
| Answers in Genesis That hellish symphony finished over 3 years ago, but its results have now provided further pointers to the possible rapid and catastrophic origin of coal.
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Plate Tectonics
| Answers in Genesis How do plate tectonics and continental drift fit with the Bible’s history? Can plate tectonics help explain the global Flood?
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Plate Tectonics
| Answers in Genesis The motion of the earth’s crust is accepted by uniformitarian and creationist scientists alike. The difference lies in the time frame over which the movement has happened.
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Making More of the Mountains
| Answers in Genesis The Smoky Mountains offer much more than breathtaking vistas and vacation getaways. The hills resound with a symphony from the rocks, testifying to God’s creation of the world and the global Flood.
A Catastrophic Breakup
| Answers in Genesis When you look at a globe, have you ever thought that the earth looks cracked? Or, maybe the continents have reminded you of a giant jigsaw puzzle.
When Is the Big One Coming?
| Answers in Genesis In 1906, a massive earthquake shook San Francisco. Some people fear the next big one is due. What do seismologists predict, and what does Scripture say?
Ancient Supercontinent
| Answers in Genesis Every student in US public schools will likely
come across illustrations claiming the earth’s tectonic plates have been
moving slowly for millions of years.
A Constructive Quest for Truth
| Answers in Genesis When one examines Michael Oard’s own alternative explanations for the tectonic features of the Earth, it should be plain he is not concerned with serious alternatives to the paradigm he is attacking.
Dealing Carefully with the Data
| Answers in Genesis Michael Oard’s first contribution in this forum lays out a valid criticism of uniformitarian plate tectonics—namely the quantity and character of the sediments in the deep ocean trenches.
'Nucha' and Plate Tectonics
| Answers in Genesis This bias against the plate tectonics paradigm has developed after examining the paradigm for 25 years. I find many serious problems with it that I have recently catalogued.
Crimson Cascade
| Answers in Genesis This crimson cascade offers a majestic reminder of God’s global flood of judgment—but also of the blood of Christ who died to one day redeem our fallen world.
Raising the Rocky Mountains
| Answers in Genesis Creation geologists use God’s Word, which details the Creator’s eyewitness account of creation and the flood, thus providing a clearer account of the Rockies’ formation.
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In the Garden
| Answers in Genesis The grandeur of this rocky garden reveals the righteousness of the one true God who judged the world with a global flood, changing earth’s landscapes forever.
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God’s Provision for Pottery
| Answers in Genesis Unlike soil and dirt, which crumble when you pick them up, God created clay with plasticity, the ability to be molded. And when this clay is fired, it transforms chemically into ceramic—a durable substance that can’t be turned back into clay.
Uniformity or Catastrophe?
| Answers in Genesis Most creation scientists agree that the continents were probably once together, for the most part, in a super-continent based on Genesis 1:9.
Beauty Beneath the Desert
| Answers in Genesis Slot canyons, like this one in Arizona’s world-famous
Antelope Canyon, are hidden just below
the desert surface, waiting to delight our eyes.
Fine Gems—Grown in Minutes?
| Answers in Genesis Rice University researchers discover some fine gems can be grown in minutes and hours, not hundreds of thousands of years according to standard, secular timescales.
Days of Creation
| Answers in Genesis Did God really create everything in six literal, 24-hour days? A study of the Hebrew text and biblical teaching as a whole reveals that He did!
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Six Literal Days
| Answers in Genesis Did God create the whole universe, including the original plants, animals, and first two people (Adam and Eve) in six literal 24-hour days?
Days Without a Sun?
| Answers in Genesis In Genesis 1:3–5, we are greeted with light. According to most commentators, the light was either created or manifested by God himself. One of the most frequently asked questions we receive at Answers in Genesis is about this passage and specifically the question, “What was the light source on days one through three if not the sun?”
Why Is a Week Seven Days?
| Answers in Genesis A biblical overview for why our week is only seven days, how the secular world explains it, and the benefits we enjoy from God’s ordained work-rest weekly pattern
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Is the Seventh Day 24-Hours Long?
| Answers in Genesis There are many objections to the days in Genesis 1 being 24 hours. Many old-earth creationists believe their “silver bullet” argument concerns the seventh day. Does the fact that day seven lacks “evening and morning” mean it is not an ordinary, 24-hour day, and can we give an adequate account for its absence?
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Feedback: Why Wasn’t Day Two Declared “Good”?
| Answers in Genesis The account of what God created on day two of creation week is found in Genesis 1:6–8. Unlike the other five days of creation week, God does not look over what he has made and see that it was “good.” Some people have wondered why God doesn’t specifically say that this day was good.
In The Space of Six Days?
| Answers in Genesis The words in the space of six days came from John Calvin’s comments on Genesis. But was Calvin unclear about the length of the days of creation?
I Dare You to Publish This
| Answers in Genesis In this week’s feedback article Tim Chaffey, AiG–U.S. responds to someone who dared us to publish his comments about too many events allegedly happening on Day Six.
Days of Revelation or Creation?
| Answers in Genesis This article is a discussion of a new theory concerning the 6 days of creation and how they could be where God revealed facts about his creation but did not necessarily create.
Why Did God Take Six Days?
| Answers in Genesis When people accept at face value what Genesis is teaching and accept the days as ordinary days, they will have no problem understanding what the rest of Genesis is all about.
Sizing the Day
| Answers in Genesis This volume is the most recent in a spate of publications presenting multiple views on Genesis and creation. This one focuses on what the Bible says about the length of the creation days.
When Did Time Begin?
| Answers in Genesis Did time begin on Day Four when God created the sun, moon, and stars? After all, the Bible doesn’t give an exact date for creation. Tim Chaffey, AiG–U.S., addresses this misconception.
Our Rallying Cry
| Answers in Genesis Our Culture sees many in the church compromising Scripture with millions of years, the big bang, etc. The result: the authority of the Bible in the culture has been undermined.
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“Hocus Pocus”
| Answers in Genesis AiG received a number of letters and e-mails from people dismayed and shocked by Pat Robertson‘s recent comments on a couple of TV programs about those who believe in the six literal days of Creation.
Professors: A Day Means a Day!
| Answers in Genesis Charles Darwin observed coral atolls in the south seas which were more than 1,000 metres (3,000 feet) thick. He believed that this proved that millions of years must have elapsed.
Death Before Sin?
| Answers in Genesis Genesis 1 reveals that God’s original creation was “very good.” Death and suffering are the result of Adam’s sin—we can’t blame God for it.
Animal Death Before the Fall?
| Answers in Genesis Did animals die before the fall? The short answer is “no,” but let’s unpack that answer. There are several reasons we believe animals did not die before the fall.
2.5 The Origin of Death (OB5)
| Answers in Genesis The tragic effect that evolution and its view of death has on evolutionists becomes quite clear. The danger of eternal death is eclipsed, and many people miss the offer of salvation.
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Spiritual Death
| Answers in Genesis While agreeing with most of what Kulikovsky says, I was surprised to find that he had difficulty accepting the concept of spiritual death since this is clearly stated in Scripture.
Six Days or Billions of Years...
| Answers in Genesis As a Christian, do you clearly understand why young-earth creationists believe that a billions-of-years-old earth is incompatible with the Bible? Most Christians do not.
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Fossils
| Answers in Genesis Is the fossil record millions of years old, or is it powerful evidence for the global Flood of Genesis? And where are the transitional fossils and missing links?
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How Are Fossils Formed?
| Answers in Genesis Do fossils really require millions of years to form? The evidence shouts no! A lot of water and a little bit of time rapidly laid down the fossil record.
Petrified Animals Died Quickly
| Answers in Genesis A team examining a fossil deposit in the Canadian Rockies has determined that the fossil “bonanza” was buried by a rapid, muddy “miracle of preservation.”
Ken Ham Solves Great Paleontological Mystery
| Answers in Genesis Tucked away in the corner of a museum in Japan is a slab of limey shale. This rock features something incredible—259 fish, with scales, eyes, and fins—frozen as if in mid-swim. It appears these fish were preserved in the position they were in the instant they died. But how on earth is this possible?
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Fossils in Just 24 Hours?
| Answers in Genesis When you hear about fossils, it’s generally within the context of hundreds of thousands or millions of years. Indeed, a recent news article on lab-made fossils began with “fossils are certainly fascinating, but [they] do take rather a long time to form.” But what did the lab-made fossils demonstrate?
Unusual Fossilized Creatures
| Answers in Genesis Once again, scientists have discovered the “remarkably well preserved” fossilized remains of creatures that, it would seem, shouldn’t have fossilized in the first place.
Soft Tissue Fossilization
| Answers in Genesis 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.
Exploding Fish
| Answers in Genesis Because so many beautiful specimens have been harvested from the Green River Formation, few realize that many of the fish remains are far from perfect.
The Amazing Stone Bears of Yorkshire
| Answers in Genesis When Vet author James Herriot wrote about life in Yorkshire last centrury, he probably had no idea that this area of England held a fascinating key to unlocking one of the myths of evolution's long-ag
Rapid Fossils
| Answers in Genesis This is a sketch of the fossilized skull of a reptilian predator (Hypopnous squaliceps) with remains of its prey still lodged in its mouth! This remarkable preservation was found in the Permian beds.
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Petrified Waterwheel
| Answers in Genesis Tourists who visit Cape Leeuwin in Western Australia are astonished at the sight of this waterwheel which has become entombed in solid rock in less than 65 years.
Living Fossils Topic
| Answers in Genesis Living fossils, organisms previously known only through the fossil record and having no close living relatives, pose a grim threat to the evolutionary paradigm.
What About Living Fossils?
| Answers in Genesis “Living fossils” are organisms that can be found both living in the world today and also found preserved in the rock record as fossils, with the living animals showing little if any difference from their fossil counterparts.
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An Eel Emerges as the Next "Living Fossil"
| Answers in Genesis Dubbed Protoanguilla palau—meaning “first eel”—this little eel is prompting a redrawing of his family tree. Discovered in western Pacific caves 35 meters deep, the eel seems like a patchwork from the eel time machine.
Living Fossils
| Answers in Genesis There are literally thousands of different types of animals and plants which are alive and essentially unchanged from the way they appear as fossils. The polistes wasp is one example.
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Living Proof
| Answers in Genesis A giant salamander has been discovered in rock layers that evolutionists date at 30 million years. Yet it is virtually identical to giant salamanders living today.
A Tree of Today?
| Answers in Genesis A study published in this week’s issue of the science journal Nature describes two recent discoveries of the world’s oldest (allegedly) tree fossils.
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Rodent Resurrected?
| Answers in Genesis When an animal or plant has gone “extinct”, and then is found living today, unchanged from what is found in the fossil record, this shocking discovery is called a “living fossil”
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‘Dinosaur Tree’ Behind Bars
| Answers in Genesis The botanic gardens in Australia’s national capital, Canberra, has on show a tree which is presently so rare that it is grown in a special cage (pictured, left).
Living Fossils: Acer Monspessulanum
| Answers in Genesis The fossil maple leaf (Acer monspessulanum), found in Tertiary rock in southern France, is supposedly millions of years old. Yet the same species of maple lives today around the Mediterranean and has been photographed in climatically favoured south-west Germany where it has a northern outlier.
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Living Fossils: Pleurotomarias
| Answers in Genesis The fossil Pleurotomaria shell, shown in the right photo here, was found in England in Jurassic deposits (supposedly 135-205 million years old on the evolutionists' time-scale). Yet the modern-day version from Japan, shown in the photo on the left, is virtually identical.
Living Fossils: Ferns and Crabs
| Answers in Genesis There are literally hundreds of different types of animals and plants which are alive and well and which are essentially unchanged from the way they appear as fossils.
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Living Fossils: Busycon Contrarium
| Answers in Genesis The fossil Busycon contrarium in the right picture comes from Pliocene rock (alleged evolutionary age of 5.3-1.6 million years ago) at Sarasota, Florida, in the United States. Yet a modern Busycon contrarium, also found in Florida, shows that absolutely no evolution has taken place.
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Living Fossils: Anthedons
| Answers in Genesis The fossil crinoid Anthedon (a feathery-looking marine invertebrate) was found in the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone of western Germany. It is supposedly around 150 million years old. Yet the modern-day living Anthedon is virtually identical—showing no evolution has taken place.
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Living Fossils: Antrimpos and Penaeus
| Answers in Genesis It could hardly be more obvious that this shrimp is essentially the same as this fossil shrimp. Yet according to evolutionary theory, they are separated by an alleged 150 million years.
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Living Fossils: Flowers and Fish
| Answers in Genesis Most of the public are unaware that there are literally hundreds of different types of animals and plants which are alive and which are essentially unchanged from the way they appear as fossils.
Types of Fossils
| Answers in Genesis The fossil record shows more biodiversity than our current ecosystems. This incredible diversity clearly demonstrates the handiwork of the Creator!
Fossil Flies with Human-Like Eyes?
| Answers in Genesis Convergent evolution—it’s the term used to describe similar features that have supposedly arisen in organisms separated by vast evolutionary distances due to environments or stressors. And the newest example of so-called “convergent evolution” is the eyes of crane flies and humans, as revealed by the fossil record.
What Kinds?
| Answers in Genesis According to evolution, the boundaries between kinds should blur as we look further and further back into their fossil history.
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Fossil Plants
| Answers in Genesis Did you ever wonder what kind of plants the dinosaurs tromped around on? The answer may surprise you.
Trilobites Fossilized “While Playing ‘Follow the Leader’”
| Answers in Genesis Scientists studying fossil deposits in Morocco recently announced a stunning new find—a series of trilobites (believed to be extinct sea creatures), fossilized in a single-file line. That’s the observational evidence. That’s the observational evidence. But how to understand these fossils is a matter of interpretation.
Surprise: “Oldest” Fossil Lily Looks Just Like a Lily
| Answers in Genesis SEO Description: Creationists were shocked to read a news article about the evolution of lilies—astonishingly, a fossilized lily, the supposed oldest ever discovered, looked just like . . a lily. The evolution is incredible! So that was very tongue-in-cheek, of course—we weren’t surprised to see that lilies have always been . . well . . lilies!
Fossil Record
| Answers in Genesis The fossil record, billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth, is dramatic evidence of the historicity of Noah’s Flood.
Where Are All the Pre-flood Human Fossils?
| Answers in Genesis If there really was a global flood as described in Genesis, what would we expect to see today? Billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth. And that is exactly what we do see. But where are all the fossils of pre-flood humans?
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The Fossil Record
| Answers in Genesis Extensive fossil graveyards and coal deposits are more consistent with a global catastrophe than with slow and steady processes over millions of years.
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Disharmonious Fossils
| Answers in Genesis Though evolutionists point to the fossil record, fossils are often found where they are not expected which frequently cause revisions to their timelines.
What Do the Fossils Say?
| Answers in Genesis What does the fossil evidence say, and does it really support the evolutionary view of origins—or is it perhaps more consistent with Creation?
God of the Gaps
| Answers in Genesis If minor variations in species have produced all the differences we see today, where's the evidence in the fossil record?
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Not-So-Ancient Algae
| Answers in Genesis Tiny fossils of algae found at the edge of Loch Torridon in Scotland have been hailed as evidence that life evolved in freshwater and on land a billion years ago.
Microraptor Discovered with Lizard in Its Belly
| Answers in Genesis Recently, scientists announced the discovery of a new species of lizard inside the stomach of a microraptor, what they call a type of supposedly “gliding dinosaur.” The researchers believe these fossils were buried during a series of volcanic explosions some 130 million years ago. But there’s a better explanation!
Fossil Bird Uncovered with Unlaid Egg Inside
| Answers in Genesis After examining a fossil left in a box in storage for ten years, scientists made a surprising discovery—this fossilized bird was preserved with her unlaid egg still inside her. There was also evidence of medullary bone, “a calcium-bearing tissue that aids in eggshell formation.”
Mystery of Flowering Plants Solved?
| Answers in Genesis Evolutionists take another stab at answering what Charles Darwin called an “abominable mystery”: the abrupt appearance and ubiquity of flowering plants in the fossil record and on earth.
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Sophisticated Sea Scorpions
| Answers in Genesis Who were the first tool users: Humans? Apes? Crows? No, say evolutionists; it may have been “scorpion-like sea beasts” (and no, they’re not kidding)!
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Transitional Fossils
| Answers in Genesis Evolution predicts a fossil record bursting with transitional fossils. Curiously, there are only a handful of highly-disputed fossils that are claimed as such.
Feet of Imagination
| Answers in Genesis “Little Foot” is an australopithecine (southern ape), the most complete specimen yet discovered, and some say the oldest.
Digging up Dirt on Ida?
| Answers in Genesis Did AiG nefariously trade on the authority of “real” scientists with our Ida coverage and imply that those scientists agreed with us on more than just the fossil?
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Did Fingers and Toes Originate From Fins?
| Answers in Genesis Evolutionary scientists have discovered the origin of fingers and toes: fishlike creatures that swam the seas hundreds of millions of years ago. So what exactly was the science behind the discovery, which was reported in Nature?
Glee Club
| Answers in Genesis A chorus of secular media outlets were gloating a few weeks ago in the discovery of a supposed “missing link” between fish and land-dwelling creatures.
Those Fossils Are a Problem
| Answers in Genesis Dr David Pilbeam came to the attention of the scientific community as being an objective scientist when he wrote an article for Human Nature magazine, entitled, ‘Rearranging Our Family Tree’.
Parts of the World
| Answers in Genesis Paleontologists have dusted off 45 new dinosaur species every year since 2003, and many of these discoveries unearthed dinosaurs with especially unique features.
Santana Fossils
| Answers in Genesis The fine details preserved in fossils mystify evolutionists
but not paleontologists who believe in the Genesis flood.
Dinosaur Tissue
| Answers in Genesis Despite a large body of evidence for the authenticity of the dinosaur tissue, there remains a pattern of denial within the evolutionist community.
An Example of Circular Reasoning
| Answers in Genesis The fossil record is more like a record of the effects of sin when the Flood demolished the vast majority of life on earth, creating massive fossil graveyards.
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Buried Birth
| Answers in Genesis There is an exquisitely preserved fossil of an extinct marine reptile called an ichthyosaur. The mother ichthyosaur is shown having almost completed giving birth to a live infant.
Dead Whales: Telling Tales?
| Answers in Genesis “We knew it was a great find,” said paleontologist Leonard Brand about the fossil whales he saw in Peru in 1999, 350 km (200 miles) south of Lima, the capital.
What Rotting Fish and Worms Tell Us About Fossilization
| Answers in Genesis A recent news item carried the story of a team of scientists at the University of Leicester in England who are recording the results of a really smelly study that involves watching fish and worms rot. This team of paleontologists are “rethinking the way fossils form” with their experiments and observations.
When Did the Fossils ‘Die’?
| Answers in Genesis We can’t prove, from a strictly scientific perspective, the Flood of Noah. But the nature of the fossil records is just what we would expect to see from the record of the Bible.
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Fossil Fuss
| Answers in Genesis How could “the greatest
promoter of creationism in Alberta,”
Edgar Nernberg, be the discoverer of
some of the most significant fish fossils
in recent history?
Is the Bible True?
| Answers in Genesis The Bible claims to be written by God—through human authors—but can we trust it as error-free and authoritative on everything it touches?
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Truth + Fable = Lies
| Answers in Genesis God claims to be the source of truth. The idea of absolute truth and morality is offensive to many people today, but we must be proclaimers of truth!
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How Do We Know that the Bible Is True?
| Answers in Genesis A number of Christians have tried to answer this question. Unfortunately, not all of those answers have been as cogent as we might hope. Some answers make very little sense at all.
10 Theses We Cannot Support
| Answers in Genesis Todd Wilson proposes ten points of what he calls “Mere Creation.” These are points that he claims most evangelical Christians, “at most times, have believed and should believe about creation.” We will consider several of his points.
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One Indivisible Word
| Answers in Genesis A seismic shift rocked Christianity in the eighteenth century. The idea grew that the Bible speaks authoritatively about morality and religion, but not history and science. Is that viable, based on Scripture?
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Fighting for Truth
| Answers in Genesis Who would have thought that people claiming to be Christians—even pastors—would attack the very notion of truth? But they are. But they are. Emerging church members claim to believe in the God of the Bible, yet still they say they are comfortably uncertain about what is true.
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Inerrancy and the Test of Truth
| Answers in Genesis The doctrine of the inerrancy of Scripture is one of Christianity’s most important doctrines to be defended. Let’s define the foundational concept of truth, review the case for the truthfulness (inerrancy) of Scripture, and then discuss how the Bible passes the “test of truth” even down to the details of its claims.
Embarrassed by the Bible
| Answers in Genesis When people ask why we believe what we do, many are hesitant to quote the Bible.
After all, few people believe the Bible, and many parts are hard to explain.
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Why Won’t They Listen?
| Answers in Genesis Because of technology, students have a great respect for what is called science. But to them the Bible is just an outdated religious book.
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Not What You’d Expect
| Answers in Genesis On the surface they appear to be very similar. As we studied the research findings further, we soon found we were dealing with two different types of individuals who were no longer attending church.
Isn’t the Bible Full of Errors?
| Answers in Genesis The claim that the Bible has errors is frequently just an excuse for not believing. Few who make the claim have read the Bible and actually analyzed any alleged contradictions.
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4. Fulfilled Prophecy
| Answers in Genesis Among the many amazing evidences that confirm the Bible’s divine origin, surely the wealth of fulfilled prophecies is near the top.
Is the Old Testament Reliable?
| Answers in Genesis Must we have blind, unreasonable faith to believe the Bible to be true? Or are there sound reasons that the Bible, and specifically the Old Testament, can be accepted as reliable in every part?
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5. Scientific Accuracy
| Answers in Genesis Every claim the Bible makes about science is not only true but crucial for filling in the blanks about the origin of the universe.
7. Life-Changing Power
| Answers in Genesis Even if you don’t yet know any other compelling evidences that the Bible is true, you should know the experience of your own life.
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Ready to Give an Answer
| Answers in Genesis Truth is at the heart of what has become warfare in the marketplace of worldviews. Which ideas will get your attention and gain prominence in your mind?
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Not Just a Container of Truth
| Answers in Genesis “The Bible contains truth,” we often hear. But what do such words really mean? Behind them is a flawed view of biblical authority, with deadly consequences.
A Low View of Scripture
| Answers in Genesis One of the major problems in the church today is that Christian leaders (and Christians in general) have been conditioned to treat God’s Holy Word as a fallible human work.
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A Worrisome Trend
| Answers in Genesis There’s no doubt that our once-Christianized Western nations are not only becoming more secularized, but that an anti-Christian element is growing with increasing fervor.
“Here I Stand . . .”
| Answers in Genesis My favorite recent film was Luther, a professionally dramatized account of the life of Martin Luther, the great reformer; and one of my favorite Bible teachers is Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones.
Looking Into the Vatican's Views On Science
| Answers in Genesis In an eye-opening article concerning the Vatican’s views on science, a reporter takes a look into the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Sadly, the fruits of an old-age mentality are on display.
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All to the Glory of God
| Answers in Genesis Even though a major AiG emphasis is the evolution/creation issue, the real goal is to see the confidence of believers grow in the accuracy and truthfulness of all of the Bible.
Does the Bible Contain False Statements?
| Answers in Genesis As we read Job, we need to keep in mind that not all statements—with the exception of God’s own words in chapters 38–42)—necessarily express divine truth, but all are correctly recorded.
A Devilish Ploy!
| Answers in Genesis At a secular radio station in Florida earlier this year, the talk show host informed me that his “favorite atheist” was on the phone waiting to confront me about my belief in creation.
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Theory of Evolution
| Answers in Genesis Biological evolution: is it a scientific fact, a theory, or just a hypothesis? How does this model of origins hold up under careful scientific scrutiny?
Millions of Years—Are Souls at Stake?
| Answers in Genesis When creationists take a strong stand that God created the earth six thousand years ago, they’re often accused of making this a salvation issue. Well, it isn’t a salvation issue—but it is!
Suspicious of “Majority”
| Answers in Genesis Over the years, I’ve had many Christians use much of the argument that we need to trust the majority when it comes to evolution and millions of years.
The “Disease” of Millions of Years
| Answers in Genesis The idea of millions of years is like a disease, and biological evolution is like the symptom. Many Christians are willing to deal with the “symptom,” but not the “disease.”
Would Planes Sink into Ice?
| Answers in Genesis Recalling the common school experiment in which a wire tensioned with weights ‘sinks’ through a block of ice, some wondered whether the planes could have sunk to that depth.
Molecular Clock
| Answers in Genesis Do studies that use mutation rates to calibrate a “molecular clock” confirm or deny the evolutionary model? Are the assumptions in such calibrations correct?
SIV in Present Form
| Answers in Genesis A new study of the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV), a virus infecting “almost all African monkeys” but not sickening them, has led to speculation about how long the virus has been around in its present form.
Feedback: Observed Evolution
| Answers in Genesis A recent tweet directed at Ken Ham made a frequent evolutionary assertion: “Evolution has been directly observed both in the lab and in the field. If you had done any research whatsoever, you would know this.” The commenter then linked to a couple of studies, which he claimed proved his point.
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Evidence of Evolution
| Answers in Genesis Evolution is often presented as a fact proven by science. If this is true, there should be mountains of evidence supporting evolution—but is there?
“Common Design Means Common Ancestry”
| Answers in Genesis The argument “common design means common ancestry” falsely claims to prove an untenable assumption about the past (i.e., all life forms from a common ancestor) by pointing out similar body plans in organisms today. Evolutionists claim common design as evidence of evolution.
Dawkins' Crusade
| Answers in Genesis Although we frequently decline to comment when individuals inveigh against creationists (especially because such comments are often redundant and misinformed), we can hardly help but respond to vocal atheist (and anti-creationist) Richard Dawkins.
Mission Minded
| Answers in Genesis Recently well known paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey predicted that as more evidence for evolution is uncovered, doubters will ultimately accept it.
Missing the Obvious
| Answers in Genesis Should the creation/evolution debate cease because the answer is “clear”? Join David Wright, AiG–U.S., in examining some common logical fallacies used to support an atheistic worldview.
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Evolutionary Faith
| Answers in Genesis Theoretical biophysicists have built a mathematical model showing how “protocells” could have originated from simple chemical interactions.
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Wanting Proof
| Answers in Genesis Perhaps it’s a fault, but we can hardly pass up on responding to any study that, it’s claimed, “proves Darwin right.” But it’s no surprise that we find this “proof” wanting as well.
ABC News: Evolution Overwhelming and Compelling
| Answers in Genesis On Thursday night on American television, ABC News included a segment in its nightly news broadcast (World News Tonight with Charles Gibson) covering the National Academy of Sciences’ newly released book, Science, Evolution and Creationism, described as “a strongly-worded answer to the Creationist movement and the doubts about Darwin that many people express in polls and elsewhere.”
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Which is Better: Two Legs or Four?
| Answers in Genesis To test the theory that “human ancestors began walking upright because it used less energy than quadrupedal walking,” scientists hooked five chimpanzees and four humans up to facemasks and placed them on a treadmill to measure their “energy expenditure and biomechanics.”
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Museum Mania
| Answers in Genesis Science museums in some of America’s largest cities have recently been staging major pro-evolution exhibits, each purporting to show how the fossil record supports molecules-to-man evolution.
Lizards Touted as Proving Evolution
| Answers in Genesis Scientists in the Bahamas have been carefully observing the leg lengths of brown anole lizards after scientists released predatory curly-tailed lizards onto the islands.
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Evolution of a Phantom
| Answers in Genesis A whole age of scientific endeavour was wasted searching for a phantom. It is time we stopped and looked at the facts. Natural sciences failed to supply any evidence for evolution.
Evolution in Schools
| Answers in Genesis Instead of being an open platform where students can critically discuss the merits and flaws of a scientific model, education is overcome by evolutionary dogma.
Evolution as Philosophy
| Answers in Genesis Why in our sophisticated and technically advanced culture should a significant group of secularly educated Christians be in rebellion against the teaching of evolution?
Presuppositions in the Classroom
| Answers in Genesis The point that should concern Christian parents and teachers is that only one worldview—a secular evolutionary worldview—is taught as if it were established fact.
School: A Battleground?
| Answers in Genesis Public school is a battleground, warring for the hearts and minds of our children. How should Christian parents equip their children for this fierce battle?
Are YOU Evolutionized?
| Answers in Genesis Evolution can become so ingrained in our thinking that we don’t even notice it. Our government schools and universities are entrenched in evolution.
The Genesis Nemesis
| Answers in Genesis The National Center for Science Education sounds as if the organization is serving the noble purpose of promoting science education. But the group’s ostensibly positive name (and that it is “for” something) obscures the fact that the very mission of the NCSE is actually a highly negative one: to aggressively counter the creationist and intelligent design movements.
Stuck on Pause in Georgia
| Answers in Genesis Academic freedom ganed a tenative victory yesterday as a federal court sent back a lower court's order regarding the case involving Cobb County, Georgia, schools.
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Time for Evolution Wars
| Answers in Genesis This week's coverage includes a Time magazine cover story, "The Evolution Wars," and an evolution documentary on "ape-men" that appeared Sunday evening (August 7) on The History Channel.
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Textbook Tyranny
| Answers in Genesis Although naturalistic evolution is now accepted as ‘fact’ both by many scientists and non-scientists, most of them have not carefully considered the other side.
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Evolution in Kindergarten
| Answers in Genesis According to news reports, a new project will “research how children acquire the concepts of biological evolution and look at new ways to engage children in exploring the topic.”
Belief in evolution—required for college admission?
| Answers in Genesis Secular humanists have, by and large, won the culture war in America’s public schools. But not just satisfied with victories there, they are now aiming at Christian schools and homeschools. Yes, Christian institutions are becoming more and more marginalized in the US.
Sliding Down the Polls
| Answers in Genesis Gallup polls dating back to 1982 have consistently shown that at least 44% of Americans agree to the statement: “God created humans pretty much in their present form either exactly as the Bible descri
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Conventional Thinking
| Answers in Genesis The American Association for the Advancement of Science featured several sessions on the teaching of origins in America's public schools.
Continuing the Momentum to Impact Society
| Answers in Genesis The Times and the UK’s Guardian recently featured lengthy stories about an increasing number of public school students are challenging their instructors when evolution is taught as fact.
Time to Get More Transparent
| Answers in Genesis Comments on the Time article article about efforts across the US to expose public school students to the grave scientific problems with molecules-to-man evolution.
Education Week Needs Educating!
| Answers in Genesis An article in Education Week offers the bizarre observation that the results of various political races in America this year will be decided on a candidate’s belief or non-belief in evolution.
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Quotable Quote: Ronald Reagan
| Answers in Genesis I can’t help but wonder, are we now seeing the fruit of education that predominantly throughout our country has stopped performing any teaching on the basis of moral principles...
Evolution Quotes
| Answers in Genesis Evolutionists have made some pretty incredible admissions about the nature of evolution, science, and evidence that actually supports the biblical account.
Fascinating Quotes
| Answers in Genesis 'Thus evolution, for example, may prove as powerful a principle to co-ordinate men's beliefs and hopes as God was in the past.'
Media Bias on Origins
| Answers in Genesis “Anyone who questions man’s reasoning, particularly on the origin of the physical world, faces an arrogance almost beyond comprehension.”
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Telling It Straight
| Answers in Genesis I myself have little doubt that in England it was [uniformitarian, long-ages] geology and the theory of evolution that changed us from a Christian to a pagan nation.
Classrooms: Temples of Humanism?
| Answers in Genesis I am convinced that the battle for humankind's future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith.
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Science and Bias
| Answers in Genesis The fact is that scientists are not really as objective and dispassionate in their work as they would like you to think.
Cosmology
| Answers in Genesis ‘… much of contemporary cosmology deals with things like inflation and the big bang that have not been directly observed, and probably never will be.’
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Missing the Point
| Answers in Genesis Unless people are looking for evidence that nothing is millions of years old, they will overlook the obvious under their noses.
‘A Disgrace to Biology’
| Answers in Genesis When Professor-Dr P.W.J. van Oordt retired from his position at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands), in his farewell address he made some memorable remarks.
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Big-Bang Certainty ...
| Answers in Genesis At the beginning of his book The God Particle, Nobel physicist Leon Ledermann [referring to cosmological speculations like the big bang in science books and articles] writes:
Quotable Quote
| Answers in Genesis Artist John Gurche on the role of evolutionary preconceptions in the artist’s human-like depiction of Australopithecus afarensis...
Lack of Fossils
| Answers in Genesis Palaeoanthropologists seem to make up for a lack of fossils with an excess of fury, and this must now be the only science in which it is still possible to become famous just by having an opinion.
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Atomic Clocks Reset?
| Answers in Genesis There has been in recent years the horrible realization that radiodecay rates are not as constant as previously thought, nor are they immune to environmental influences.
Quotable Quote: Lejeune
| Answers in Genesis ‘We have no acceptable theory of evolution at the present time. There is none; and I cannot accept the theory that I teach to my students each year.'
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Who Said It: Contradictory Knowledge
| Answers in Genesis ‘Scientists are accustomed to lack of knowledge. It is their aim to steadily reduce that lack. To suppose that because we don’t know we must assume a “Creator” is to give up the game....'
Misdirected Marvellings
| Answers in Genesis Very often one finds at the beginning of a scientific article, or at the end, a little word of praise for the wonders that are seen in nature.
Evolution Timeline
| Answers in Genesis The timeline of evolution, far from being set in stone, is constantly adjusting to new fossils found millions of years before their evolutionary time.
Evolution 'Ahead of Schedule'
| Answers in Genesis Fossil specimens discovered in Russia 15 years ago have finally landed in the news—for reasons including the fact that they were millions of years “ahead of schedule.”
Treewalking Orangutans
| Answers in Genesis Primatologist Robin Crompton and graduate student Susannah Thrope are rekindling a “30-year-old hypothesis that upright walking first evolved in the trees.”
Misguided God of the Gaps
| Answers in Genesis Curricula like Integrate accuse biblical creationists of appealing to a “God of the gaps”—yet this charge often forgets humanity’s smallness and the universe’s complexity.
Are Birds Evolving in Just Decades?
| Answers in Genesis We constantly see headlines proclaiming the “rapid evolution” of one species or another. The latest one announced the so-called “rapid evolution” of bird species in the tropical island paradise of Hawaii. It’s happening so fast, they describe it as “a blistering pace” of evolution.
How Should Christians View Biological Classification?
| Answers in Genesis Modern classification is largely dependent on a technique known as cladistics. Cladistics examines character traits, assigns values to them and attempts to build a family tree for a given set of organisms based on statistical similarity.
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Taking the BBC's Evolution Test
| Answers in Genesis The BBC put a “Quiz: Test your knowledge of evolution” on their website. The reason for it is that the BBC believes there are still many misconceptions about it amongst people. The quiz involved seven questions that had to be answered true or false. So, let’s take the quiz and test the BBC’s understanding of evolution.
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“It’s Here, so It Must Have Evolved.”
| Answers in Genesis A conclusion does not prove the premises are true. That is, if the answer is “four,” we could arrive at that any number of ways: 2 + 2, 5 - 1, etc. In the same way, evolutionists often assume that since certain species or traits exist, this is proof of evolution because that’s how it must have happened.
“Doubting Evolution Is like Doubting Gravity.”
| Answers in Genesis Only the biblical worldview can support the uniformity of nature, without which the practice of science would be impossible. The fundamental laws of nature operate consistently through time and space because the omnipotent, immutable Creator ordained them and is upholding the cosmos by his power.
“Evolution Is a Fact.”
| Answers in Genesis Evolution is a framework built on assumptions about the past—assumptions that will never have direct, first-hand, observational proof.
12 Arguments Evolutionists Should Avoid
| Answers in Genesis For years, we’ve maintained a list of arguments creationists should avoid. Now we want to address a similar topic: arguments evolutionists should avoid. These worn-out tropes have not only passed their expiration date, but they never should have been made to begin with.
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The Origin of Life
| Answers in Genesis Perhaps the reason so many people continue to reject the notion of evolution is that it seems contrary to ordinary experience.
Hard to Swallow
| Answers in Genesis Except perhaps for food and cooking, it seems the word most commonly uttered by the “world’s greatest chef” is probably evolution.
The Theory of the Moment
| Answers in Genesis What makes evolution so persistent, ironically, is the malleability of the outcomes involved in the belief in non-teleological origins.
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Evolution: the Game
| Answers in Genesis An article from Germany’s Der Spiegel reviews this latest evolutionism-based form of entertainment, called Spore, and authored by the “inventor” (as the article describes him) of such well-known games as SimCity and The Sims.
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Mozart—Made in a Rat’s Image?
| Answers in Genesis It’s amazing how many assumptions lie behind evolutionists’ efforts to reconstruct the past based on skimpy evidence that exists only in the present.
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Evolution is Bankrupt
| Answers in Genesis Just writing in to say that AIG has been wonderful in helping me witness to my family. They had absolutely no idea that there was an alternative to evolution in terms of real science.