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The Big Bang
| Answers in Genesis How did this universe come into existence? Did God use “natural” methods to create the universe, or did He create everything supernaturally?
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Scientists Found Nothing, Delighted
| Answers in Genesis News flash: nothing has been found in the universe, reports a University of Minnesota team of astronomers—or, at least, that they have found an “enormous void” in space with nothing in it.
A Not-So-Nobel Effort
| Answers in Genesis Scientists George Smoot and John Mather were acknowledged for “work that helped cement the big-bang theory of the universe and deepen understanding of the origin of galaxies and stars.”
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Inflating?
| Answers in Genesis As the press extensively reported last spring, evidence for inflation in the universe has been found, supposedly providing a firmer foundation for the big bang theory
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A Nobel Notion?
| Answers in Genesis The big bang model still does not answer the fundamental questions of where the original matter came from or what caused it to begin expanding.
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A "New" Big Bang (Theory)
| Answers in Genesis A few scientists, most prominently Cambridge’s Neil Turok and Princeton’s Paul Steinhardt, have proposed a “revolutionary model of how the universe began,” which is angering traditional advocates of big bang model.
What About the Big Bang?
| Answers in Genesis Stephen W. Hawking, identifies the ultimate question behind everything. 'Today we still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from.'
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‘One Issue’
| Answers in Genesis One person writes to AiG with concerns about the scientific credentials of creationists and the importance of the age of the earth in Christianity.
Charles Darwin
| Answers in Genesis Charles Darwin, famed author of Origin of Species, is remembered as the man who popularized evolution. Have the last 200 years of research proved his ideas?
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Shipping Wars
| Answers in Genesis A new ship will soon be plying the turbulent waters of the evolution/creation debate: a replica of Darwin’s HMS Beagle, being built in Chile.
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Darwinism
| Answers in Genesis Is Darwinism science, with its inherent naturalistic and atheistic ideas, or is it a faith-based religion?
Jewish Scientists Who Oppose Darwinism
| Answers in Genesis The claim that all, or most all, Darwin-doubters are fundamentalist Christians is commonly found in both in the popular and professional scholarly literature. But is this claim misleading?
Darwin on the Road
| Answers in Genesis A team of evolutionary scientists accepted the Great Commission for their Cause by going on the road to preach to the “yokels and morons” in America’s heartland.
Darwin, Design, and the Brain
| Answers in Genesis Darwin claimed that a brain that evolved could not adequately detect design. But he did not consider his own presuppositional beliefs or the implications of such an argument.
More Peeks at Darwin’s Beaks
| Answers in Genesis When Darwin went to the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador, he noticed that island finches had developed a variety of beak sizes, and he speculated on how that happened.
The Continual Evolutionary Hype
| Answers in Genesis I am very impressed with the quality of your presentation, with the media savvy with which you present your case, and the quality and clarity of your responses to evolutionary questions.
Darwinism—A Cult?
| Answers in Genesis Sometimes logic and reason against the tide of evolutionary indoctrination come to the fore in surprising places.
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Presidents and Evolution
| Answers in Genesis Apathy about Genesis and origins by the Church has meant that the world-view of society’s leaders and opinion-makers is thoroughly evolutionized.
Antidote to Superstition
| Answers in Genesis One of the dominant themes of our time is the heroic struggle of the forces of science and reason against the backwardness of ignorance and superstition.
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Darwinian Fundamentalists …
| Answers in Genesis In recent months several commentators outside mainstream creationist circles have referred to zealous evolutionary scientists as ‘fundamentalists’. The label is more appropriate than it may seem.
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Alice in Evolution Land
| Answers in Genesis To those who still dogmatically advocate that all this new reality is the result of pure chance one can only reply, like Alice, incredulous in the face of the contradictory logic of the Red Queen…
Evolution and English Literature
| Answers in Genesis We cannot fail to notice the extent to which contemporary ideas, be they political, scientific, or sociological, color the sorts of subjects and themes of the contemporary writers.
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Charles Darwin Biography
| Answers in Genesis Darwin was not an objective scientist concerned only with the data. His anti-God bias clearly paved the way for the development of Darwinian evolution.
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The Ghost of Darwin
| Answers in Genesis On February 12, 1809, in the modest town of Shrewsbury, England, Susannah Darwin gave birth to her now-famous son Charles in their family home called The Mount.
200 Lost Years
| Answers in Genesis Was Charles Darwin a devout Christian reluctantly persuaded by the scientific evidence or a product of a nationally declining belief in God’s Word?
The Faith of Darwin
| Answers in Genesis Charles Darwin was convinced that life’s origin didn’t involve a creator, even though there was no (and still is no) scientific explanation of how life could have begun without one.
‘The Child Is Father of the Man’
| Answers in Genesis Childhood is the most vital element in a person’s development. With this principle in mind, it may be illuminating to read of the attitudes of Charles Darwin in childhood.
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Did You Know?
| Answers in Genesis Darwin's later years were characterized by behaviors that may have been due to an illness of some kind.
Darwin Racism
| Answers in Genesis Charles Darwin’s evolutionary philosophy was fertile soil in which the atrocity of racism quickly took root and grew.
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Chapter 4: The Human Kind
| Answers in Genesis How Darwinian evolution is inherently racist demonstrated by crimes against Australian Aborigines and others, while the Bible summarizes a more hopeful, truthful picture of human equality
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Darwin’s Garden
| Answers in Genesis Chapter 1 of One Race One Blood: How Darwinian evolution inspired new forms of racism in Western civilization, resulting in untold human suffering and destruction
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The True Origin of the Species
| Answers in Genesis Chapter 3 of One Race One Blood: Now that we understand more about genetics, we know that the process of natural selection can never form new kinds of animals and plants: this revelation uproots the weeds of racism
Ota Benga
| Answers in Genesis One of the most fascinating stories about the effects of evolution on human relations is the story of Ota Benga, a pygmy who was put on display in a zoo.
Darwin’s Sacred Cause?
| Answers in Genesis A recent book claims that Darwin’s hatred of slavery was foundational to his pursuit of his concepts of evolution. But what do Darwin’s words actually show?
Dark Side of Darwin
| Answers in Genesis Are creationists the only ones pointing out the “dark side” (the perturbing implications) of Darwin’s view on life’s origins?
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Whitewashing
| Answers in Genesis In a strange twist on history, Charles Darwin is now credited with developing his evolutionary views to help fight racism and slavery.
Lawmakers Miss the Boat!
| Answers in Genesis The recent passage of a resolution in the State of Louisiana (US) House of Representatives earned more notoriety for what it left out than for what it actually said.
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The Darwinian Foundation of Communism
| Answers in Genesis A review of the writings of the founders of communism shows that the theory of evolution, especially as taught by Darwin, was critically important in the development of modern communism.
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Savages and Ancestors
| Answers in Genesis Many think that the idea of the evolution of man is a consequence of Darwin’s theories about the evolution of animals. However, the historical order actually runs the other way.
Hitler and Evolution
| Answers in Genesis Sir Arthur Keith was a British anthropologist, an atheistic evolutionist and an anti-Nazi, but he drew this chilling conclusion about Hitler.
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Darwin Day Topic
| Answers in Genesis On Darwin’s birthday each year, thousands celebrate “Darwin Day.” How should Christians respond to the unabashed worship of the father of evolution?
D-Day-February 12!
| Answers in Genesis In recent years, secular humanists have been increasingly celebrating ‘Darwin Day,’ commemorated annually on or near the birth date of evolution popularizer, Charles Darwin*–February 12.
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How Long Till Darwinmas?
| Answers in Genesis It seems Darwin is celebrated more widely with each passing year, with popular annual events including Evolution Sunday and Darwin Day. The New York Times examines how a celebration of the latter went off in a few fragments of small-town America.
The Year of Darwin
| Answers in Genesis A disturbing trend throughout the past 50 years has been the growing stridency and unabashed dogmatism of evolutionists.
Countering the Year of Darwin
| Answers in Genesis In 2009, Darwin’s sycophants will be hyping their hero, even in churches. But AiG has a host of conferences planned that will deflate the evolutionary zeal. It’s time that you prepare yourself to better defend and share the Word of God next year with a lost and dying world.
Should We “Cancel” Charles Darwin?
| Answers in Genesis Most people are familiar with the “group shaming” concept of “cancel culture.” It’s defined as “the popular practice of withdrawing support for (i.e., canceling) public figures and companies after they have done or said something considered objectionable or offensive.
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1,000 Scientists Sign Up to Dissent from Darwin
| Answers in Genesis Evolution is a bankrupt ideology that can’t explain biological origins. And scientists—many of whom are not creationists—are recognizing this. An online document called Dissent from Darwin has been signed by over 1,000 scientists, including many from highly respected institutions.
Deplatform Darwin
| Answers in Genesis Given the rush to “cancel” people, why do so many ignore one of the most influential racists from the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin?
Was Darwin a Christian?
| Answers in Genesis Much has been written about the religious views of Charles Darwin. What exactly did he believe and when? Did he “reject” Christianity? While it is true that Darwin’s ideas have caused great harm to the Church and have led many people to openly question the authority of the Bible, was Darwin a Christian?
“One year of Replacing Darwin: What have we learned?”
| Answers in Genesis In October of 2017, Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson published Replacing Darwin, a book that answered decades-old criticism of creation science and held the potential to transform the origins debate. This October marks the one-year anniversary of this event. Have the beginnings of a revolution been realized?
Darwin’s Deathbed Confession—a Myth?
| Answers in Genesis Mark Looy, AiG–U.S., responds to a reader wanting more substantial information about the legitimacy of the story that Darwin renounced his evolutionary beliefs on his deathbed.
Darwin’s Propagation of Evolution
| Answers in Genesis Creationists have occasionally pointed out that Charles Darwin wasn’t uniquely responsible for inventing the theory of evolution—not to belittle the British scientist, but rather to encourage a better understanding of the history of the idea.
Charles Darwin Wrong?
| Answers in Genesis Was Charles Darwin wrong? A few headlines this week have made the claim, but the news isn’t anything that will thrill creationists.
Darwin’s Sad Legacy
| Answers in Genesis What is not so commonly known is that there have been adverse parts of Darwin’s legacy that many of his followers have either denied or kept from public knowledge.
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Darwin and Lincoln
| Answers in Genesis Exactly 200 years ago today, two very famous people were born. Both men greatly impacted the world, but their legacies were quite different.
Church of England Offers Posthumous Apology to Darwin
| Answers in Genesis As part of the celebration of the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth, the Church of England is issuing an apology of sorts to Darwin for its previous “anti-evolutionary fervour.” The response from Darwin’s descendants? Thanks, but no thanks.
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Darwin Taught Male Superiority
| Answers in Genesis According to Darwinian theory, women were less evolved than men, and because of their smaller brains, they were “eternally primitive,” childlike, and more.
Was Darwin Wrong?
| Answers in Genesis Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington State, USA, has awakened, and lava is oozing out. The volcano’s renewed activity is being keenly watched by creationist geologists.
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Exposing the Presuppositions of Darwin
| Answers in Genesis I was brought up without religion and accepted the teachings of Darwin.... I could not accept the Bible as true when the Genesis account of our origins was the antithesis of the ‘facts’ of evolution.
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Deifying Darwin?
| Answers in Genesis The British nation today is sliding into moral and spiritual chaos as God’s Word is brought down while Darwin’s Origin of Species is exalted.
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The Darwin/Trotsky connection
| Answers in Genesis Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) was the organizer, propagandist, and military leader of the communist seizure of power in Russia following the revolution of 1917.
Charles Darwin and the Golden Rule
| Answers in Genesis How strange that the man who could make such a rational and obvious statement on the source of morality could also be the prime mover of the theory which has led to such a widespread disbelief in God.
A Tale of Two Graves
| Answers in Genesis Having read about the great revivals of generations ago in Britain, I was shocked the first time I visited that country to realize there was hardly a vestige of biblical Christianity in public life.
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Evolutionary Rebel Attacks Darwin
| Answers in Genesis The reviewer of the book writes, ‘Evolutionary biology is currently beset by an almost bewildering array of diverse opinions.’ This contrasts with the impression gained by the general public.
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Darwin, the City
| Answers in Genesis Even the Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao knew about this city located on the hot, isolated northern coastline of the Australian continent.
Probability of Evolution
| Answers in Genesis Mathematical and probability calculations powerfully demonstrate the impossibility of biological evolution to produce the diversity and complexity of life.
Applying Probabilities to Evolution
| Answers in Genesis This article will mathematically model one simple aspect of cell formation and, using mathematical statistics, compute the expected waiting time for this structure to occur.
Compelling Convergence
| Answers in Genesis A computer analysis comparing the bone strength of pelicans and whales is said to provide “compelling evidence” for convergent evolution. Because both pelicans and rorqual whales stretch their jaws wide to engulf large amounts of water along with their next meal, both need very strong jaws.
Evolution ‘Probably’ Happened?
| Answers in Genesis “I was reading several articles that you have on the possiblity of single self-replicating cell forming and I almost laughed at how one sided and stupid it was.”
A Look at Some Figures
| Answers in Genesis Evolutionists generally believe that although the spontaneous generation of life from non-living matter was a highly improbable event, the amount of time available is long enough to overcome this problem.
A Second Bombshell for Replacing Darwin?
| Answers in Genesis Consistent with the young-earth creation explanation for the origin of species, the scientific community recently observed the formation of a new bird species in real time. But how did this new species form? In a manner consistent with evolution? Or with YEC?
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A Bombshell for Replacing Darwin?
| Answers in Genesis The progress of science over the last 150 years has not only rebutted Darwin’s central arguments for evolution; it has also replaced them with an entirely different scientific explanation for the origin of species. Recent research on Darwin’s finches has confirmed this bold pronouncement.
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Evolution? Impossible!
| Answers in Genesis Evolution is often upheld as proven fact. This is far from the truth! Two simple arguments from observational science demonstrate that evolution is impossible.
Textbook Evolutionary Story Was . . . Wrong?
| Answers in Genesis Which evolved first—moth ears or bat echolocation? The “textbook” evolutionary story is that bats evolved the ability to make ultrasonic calls to hunt for moths Then moths evolved the ability to hear these calls and better evade the hunting mammals. Well, a new study says this whole story is backwards!
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Billions of People in Thousands of Years?
| Answers in Genesis Creationists are often asked, “How is it possible for the earth’s population to reach billions of people if the world is only about 6,000 years old and if there were just two humans in the beginning?”
“Doubting Evolution Is like Believing the Earth Is Flat.”
| Answers in Genesis The fact that some people in history believed the earth to be flat highlights the fallibility of man’s reasoning. Throughout history, scientists’ confident assertions have later been disproven. To misrepresent and discredit creationists by comparing their position to a belief in a flat earth is a straw-man fallacy.
Ironing Out the Problems
| Answers in Genesis Several years ago scientists made a startling discovery that seemed to undermine the claim that dinosaurs lived over 65 million years ago.
Biological Evolution
| Answers in Genesis The evolution of life on earth from simple matter is accepted as a fact by secular science. The Bible—and the evidence—show a much different picture.
Taming of the Shrew['s Tree]
| Answers in Genesis Opposing the date of 140–80 million years old that some scientists ascribe to our (supposed) oldest mammalian ancestors, Wible, et al., conclude, based on an analysis of a shrewlike fossil, that mammals evolved “only” 65 million years ago.
An Examination of Error
| Answers in Genesis What should one call it if pupils are taught something which is factually incorrect? Whose fault is it if pupils pick up factually incorrect information?
“A New Beginning”
| Answers in Genesis The good news this month is the appearance of Michael Behe’s book, Darwin’s Black Box, published by the Free Press.
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A “165 Million Year” Surprise
| Answers in Genesis A “mysterious network” of mud springs on the edge of the ‘market town’ of Wootton Bassett, near Swindon, Wiltshire, England, has yielded a remarkable surprise.
Reflections on the Emperor’s New Clothes
| Answers in Genesis People who have great confidence in their own enlightenment and the inherent ability of man to solve the problems of humanity without divine aid are also vulnerable to pride and self-deception.
The Strange Case of the Yum Yum Dog
| Answers in Genesis he fabrication of a dog ancestor of the whales with a pre-recorded 'growl, growl, yum, yum, yum' voice, all from a supposed single tooth, was more than I could swallow.
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People Were Always People!
| Answers in Genesis According to evolutionists, Homo erectus was a separate species which evolved into Homo sapiens—even though the theory has been embarrassed by the finding of erectus and sapiens fossils.
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Mega Problems for Bat Evolution
| Answers in Genesis Say ‘bats’ and most people think of what are known as microbats—the echo-locating, usually insect-eating types. But there are also larger megabats, such as the fruit bats.
Horse Non-Sense
| Answers in Genesis In their attempts to prove evolution by the horse series, evolutionists grossly over-simplifiy and ignore some facts.
Horse find defies evolution
| Answers in Genesis Most evolutionists believe that millions of years ago three-toed horses evolved into one-toed horses. Finding them together like this is in reality an embarrassment to the idea of evolution.
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To Make a Snake
| Answers in Genesis No one has ever seen a mutated lizard or snake which would give a clue as to how it could have evolved to become so legless, and yet so perfectly adapted to being a snake.
Mammals Present Some Milky Problems
| Answers in Genesis If the mammary glands, or breasts of animals that nurse their young, evolved slowly over millions of years, how did the young survive until these complex organs were perfected?
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Can Water Flow Uphill?
| Answers in Genesis Rivers flow downhill. Heat flows from a hot area to a cooler area. Clothes and shoes wear out, and buildings crumble if not maintained. But can water flow uphill?
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Human Evolution
| Answers in Genesis Are humans simply the by-product of evolution from an ape-like ancestor or were they lovingly fashioned by God in His own image?
Cavemen
| Answers in Genesis Was early man truly a stone-age, lumbering brute grunting his way toward primitive language? The evidence says the opposite—early man was intelligent!
Sharp Survivorman
| Answers in Genesis Stone blades from more than 500,000 years ago: the work of an alleged human ancestor or someone playing Survivorman?
Cave Dwellers—Are They Ancient?
| Answers in Genesis In spite of all that archaeologists and anthropologists contend about these early Stone Age cultures and their supposed long ages, it simply cannot be true.
The Making of a Caveman
| Answers in Genesis The face of Neanderthal on the cover of this issue of Answers was sculpted and designed over a plaster cast of an actual Neanderthal skull.
On the Skeleton's Orientation
| Answers in Genesis In portraying cavemen as dimwits, popular stereotypes often show them as unkempt—and recklessly heterosexual—brutes: claiming brides by clubbing cavewomen over the head and dragging them away. But less frequently portrayed are “homosexual cavemen,” like the one supposedly unearthed in a Prague suburb.
Kinver Caveman
| Answers in Genesis What comes into your mind when you hear the word “cavemen”? We have been so evolutionised that I suspect the majority of people immediately think of hairy, brutish men usually dressed in animal skins.
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Bone Ice Skates Invented for Travel
| Answers in Genesis Human travelers from five millennia ago raced across icy lakes on skates made from animal bones, reports National Geographic News on research appearing in this month’s Linnean Society of London Biological Journal.
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Speak Like a Caveman
| Answers in Genesis Despite frequent caricatures of Neanderthals as mentally deficient, grunting cavemen, scientists continue to find evidence that Neanderthals were intelligent beings quite a lot like us.
The Amazing Cave People of Malta
| Answers in Genesis ‘Do you believe in cavemen?’ Sceptics think ‘gotcha!’ when they ask this question. They might know the Bible says that Adam’s descendants built great cities, but their ‘evidence’ shows otherwise.
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Walking with Cavemen—Fact or Fiction?
| Answers in Genesis Building on the popularity of walking with Dinosaurs (1999) and Walking with Beasts (2001), BBC and Discovery Channel have co-produced yet another evolutionary propaganda piece—Walking with Cavemen.
What Makes Us Human?
| Answers in Genesis Evolutionists say that man is just an animal, descended from an ape-like ancestor. However, humans show features that clearly separate us from animals.
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What Does It Mean to Be Human?
| Answers in Genesis Is being human just a matter of accumulating qualities that humans have, even if evolutionists could find a way that ape-like creatures could have done so?
How Did We Get So Smart?
| Answers in Genesis Noticing the intellectual reputation of Neanderthals, it’s worth recalling how a person’s worldview colors his interpretation of data about human origins.
Simian Sign Language
| Answers in Genesis Simian use of gestures is the latest evidence of evolution—at least, that’s the impression given by a BBC NEWS article describing research into how bonobos and chimpanzees communicate.
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Talking Monkeys
| Answers in Genesis An eccentric German, named Von Osten, set out to show that animals were as clever as men. He spent two years educating a horse which became known as Clever Hans.
Tools of Evolution
| Answers in Genesis Wooden tools used by African chimpanzees have some evolutionists excited. Researchers have observed chimps in Senegal making spears out of tree branches and then using them.
Human Cooperation—the Result of a Belief in Angry Gods?
| Answers in Genesis How did humans start cooperating with one another? This question is an evolutionary puzzle, and the supposed evolution of religion is often considered an answer for how humans began working together. A recent study suggests the belief in “punitive gods” who caused our evolutionary ancestors to begin cooperating.
Evolutionary Anthropologists Finding Answers
| Answers in Genesis Two perennial questions for evolutionary anthropologists are how humans began walking upright and how humans began to make and use stone tools. For one team of scientists, the answers are intertwined.
Social Tests Flounder Apes
| Answers in Genesis A Congolese study headed by doctoral student Esther Herrmann and her advisor, Michael Tomasello, both of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, is the latest research to highlight humans’ intellectual distinction from apes.
Ape-Man
| Answers in Genesis Can man’s ancestry be traced back to an ape-like ancestor? How much do we really have in common with primates? Have fossil ape-men been found?
Making Monkeys out of Man
| Answers in Genesis The evolutionist’s notion that man evolved by chance from ape-like creatures is largely based upon certain anatomical similarities between apes and men.
Ape vs. Man
| Answers in Genesis An exhibit to be installed this summer at the Creation Museum near Cincinnati tackles one of the icons of evolutionary thinking: homology.
Ape or Human?
| Answers in Genesis This week, American public broadcasting began a three-part series on human evolution titled Becoming Human.
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Is Their Model Upright?
| Answers in Genesis “This model should cause everyone to re-evaluate what they’ve said before”—the words of a Duke University professor whose research turns the origins of bipedal walking on its head.
Apes on the Run
| Answers in Genesis Most people believe the fossil record does support evolution because they are told this by others who confuse wishful thinking with facts.
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Australopithecus sediba
| Answers in Genesis Australopithecus sediba is not an ancestor of man. The evidence properly interpreted shows that such fossils are either human or ape, not an in-between species.
Sediba Saga
| Answers in Genesis The latest questions about human evolution illustrate how the evolutionary worldview blinds its believers to what should be obvious.
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The Sad Case of Sediba
| Answers in Genesis A collection of a few fossils called Australopithecus sediba is being paraded as the oldest-known direct ancestor of Homo erectus.
Hominids
| Answers in Genesis The news often eagerly reports the discovery of another link in the supposed chain of hominid evolution. What do these finds really show?
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New Find . . . Same Question
| Answers in Genesis The Naledi skeletons in South Africa, whose
discovery was announced last September, represent
the latest species declared to be a likely human
relative.
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Denisovan Fossil Found in Tibet
| Answers in Genesis The first Denisovan fossil outside Siberia has been found. While anthropologists are excited at the find, the location of the fossil in Tibet raises some puzzling questions for the evolutionary view. What are Christians to think of this mysterious people group?
Gibbon the Opportunity . . .
| Answers in Genesis A recently discovered fossil of a gibbon-like creature is being hailed as a missing chapter in the history of apes, which evolutionists believe split into different lines before humans evolved. But is Pliobates cataloniae, found near Barcelona, really a long-lost cousin of ours?
Hominid Fever
| Answers in Genesis It seems these days that there are precious few ordinary human or ape fossils unearthed, rather they all have to be a missing link between the two.
A Tough Nut to Crack
| Answers in Genesis Since its discovery in 1959, Nutcracker Man has usually been depicted as walking upright (though only a skull had been discovered).
“X-Woman” to be Added to Human Lineage
| Answers in Genesis Neanderthals, move over: there may have been another “human lineage” walking on earth in recent history, known only from an individual called “X-woman” (elsewhere reported as “Woman X”)
Monkey Not Our Uncle
| Answers in Genesis Remember “Ida,” the missing link that wasn’t? In a Nature letter, scientists attack the lofty claims that surrounded the announcement of the fossil primate.
Meet “Ardi”
| Answers in Genesis Evolutionists aren’t yet sure if they should call it a human ancestor, but one thing they do know is that “Ardi” does away with the idea of a “missing link.”
Hominid Hopes Dashed
| Answers in Genesis For several years, evolutionists have hailed the find nicknamed Toumai as the missing link between humans and an ape-like ancestor.
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Missed the Memo; Forgot to Leave Africa
| Answers in Genesis A new fossil found in Kenya’s Rift Valley is shaking up the latest hypotheses about alleged ancient apes and their postulated connection to modern humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas.
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Review of New Fossils Found in Georgia
| Answers in Genesis A team reporting this week in the journal Nature announces the discovery of the remains of four individuals found at the site of a medieval castle at Dmanisi in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
Skull Scratching
| Answers in Genesis In the evolutionary worldview, people have been slowly evolving—and improving—over millions of years. According to biblical anthropology, however, humans were created on the sixth day of creation.
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Kenyan Controversy
| Answers in Genesis Some well-intentioned but misguided Christians in Kenya have raised opposition to a new evolution display in their
country’s National Museum.
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Skull Exhibits Confusing Characteristics
| Answers in Genesis A skull discovered in Romania is causing some head-scratching among evolutionists because it includes “traits normally associated with more ancient species” even though it is “undeniably a Homo sapiens specimen.”
New Hominin Skull from Kenya
| Answers in Genesis A new fossil discovery that is ‘dated’ as contemporaneous with Australopithecus afarensis in the middle Pliocene has caused paleoanthropologists to re-evaluate their interpretations.
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New Hominid Skull from Kenya
| Answers in Genesis The new fossil skull is quite distinct from A. afarensis, and has been given a new genus and species assignment--Kenyanthropus platyops, “flat-faced human from Kenya.”
The Non-Transitions in ‘Human Evolution’—on Evolutionists’ Terms
| Answers in Genesis Commonly, apologists for evolution put up a bold front and try to deny that the tree of evolution is full of holes (or, more accurately, is mostly holes with just twigs at the end). It is therefore instructive whenever an article appears that is written by evolutionists who candidly acknowledged the major discontinuities in (alleged) evolutionary sequences.
Homo floresiensis
| Answers in Genesis The Homo floresiensis of Indonesia, three-foot-tall people affectionately called hobbits, were fully human descendants of Adam and Eve.
“Hobbits” Were Real!
| Answers in Genesis Mystifying human fossils were found on the island of Flores, Indonesia, by a team led by Peter Brown and M. J. Morwood, and reported in Nature.
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The Return of the Hobbits
| Answers in Genesis The debate over “hobbit” remains found in an Indonesian island cave shows no signs of slowing. Creating news this time is a new theory published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Hobbit Fully Human?
| Answers in Genesis The hobbit of Indonesia is back in the news again, and this time, the spotlight is again on scientists who think the hobbit was fully human.
Dental Anomalies Found in Hobbit Teeth
| Answers in Genesis One of the Indonesian “hobbit” fossils said to be a unique species of human from 18,000 years ago may have dropped by the dentist for a filling last century, reports ScienceNOW’s Elizabeth Culotta.
“Hobbits” Were True Humans!
| Answers in Genesis The island of Flores, Indonesia, was the discovery site of fossil adult humans just three feet tall with a cranial capacity of about 380 cubic centimeters. Their scientific name is Homo floresiensis. However, they have been nicknamed “hobbits,” after the stars of the Lord of the Rings saga by Tolkien.
Human Origins
| Answers in Genesis Humans have always been interested in our origins: where did we come from, and how did we get here? The Bible soundly answers the question of human origins.
2.3 The Origin of the Sexes (OB3)
| Answers in Genesis How is it then possible that such different and complex organs, which fit one another in every morphological and physiological detail, could have evolved suddenly?
A Footprint in Chile—Earliest Evidence of Humans in the Americas?
| Answers in Genesis Researchers in the South American nation of Chile have announced the discovery of a human footprint they’ve dated at 15,600 years. This makes it the oldest evidence of humans in the Americas by over 3,000 years, according to the evolutionary timeline. How should Christians understand finds such as these?
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Were Ancient “Human Cousins” Jewelers?
| Answers in Genesis The Bible clearly teaches all humans descended from Adam and Eve (Genesis 1:27, Genesis 3:20, Acts 17:26), and therefore we’re all related: all one race, the human race. And a new discovery confirms what the Bible taught all along!
Evolutionists Attempt to Explain Human Generosity
| Answers in Genesis Evolutionists have long struggled to explain human generosity. Evolutionary dogma dictates that behavior patterns which “unnecessarily give up resources without return” should die out in favor of behaviors that “retain those resources” for self or family.
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Out of Israel?
| Answers in Genesis Teeth from a supposed 400,000-year-old human found in Israel have presented two major problems for the evolution belief system.
Have a Laugh
| Answers in Genesis Apes have been laughing for 10 million years, showing that laughter originated in a common ancestor of apes and humans. Ha!
Where Man Comes From
| Answers in Genesis In order to determine the region of mankind's origin, a group of researchers, led by Andrea Manica of the University of Cambridge, examined genetic data and took skull measurements from “105 populations around the world.
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Kinds of Man
| Answers in Genesis Researchers have announced in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the discovery of “34 bone fragments belonging to a single” thought-to-be early modern human in China.
Wilhelm Schmidt and the Origin of Religion
| Answers in Genesis When studying and comparing religions, numerous modern authors have given explanations as to how the faiths arose. Many have been educated in universities that have accepted evolution as fact.
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New Observations on North American Origins
| Answers in Genesis A book America B.C. published in 1975 by Barry Fell, a Harvard marine biologist, is shattering previously held views and presuppositions about North American anthropology and cultural origins.
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Lucy
| Answers in Genesis Was the australopithecine Lucy—most famous of all the supposed human ancestors—really a precursor to modern man, or was she simply an ape?
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A Look at Lucy’s Legacy
| Answers in Genesis Perhaps more than any other fossil, Lucy is presented as “exhibit A” for evolutionists in their attempt to show that humans evolved from an ape-like ancestor.
Lucy: Did She Walk Like Us?
| Answers in Genesis Lucy is hailed as a missing link in our evolutionary lineage from ape-like ancestors. Did Lucy walk like us or does the evidence show her as a tree-dweller?
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Bringing Lucy to Life
| Answers in Genesis Lucy is the poster girl of human evolution, a member of the same family from which modern humans arose. At least, that’s how secular artists present her.
Lucy on the Ground With High Heels
| Answers in Genesis “Lucy,” the name given to partial australopithecine remains found in Ethiopia in 1974, may seem like old news. But new research suggests that “if Lucy were alive today, she could fit in high heels or march for miles without breaking her feet”—evidence, researchers claim, that Lucy was an experienced upright walker.
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Did Lucy Walk Upright?
| Answers in Genesis For over 20 years, Lucy or Australopithecus afarensis has been considered one of our first ‘ancestors’, mainly because it supposedly walked upright.
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Farewell to “Lucy”
| Answers in Genesis The field of paleoanthropology and the evolution of man is more fraught with controversy than probably any other field of evolutionary studies.
They Love Lucy
| Answers in Genesis Ethiopia “loans” secular U.S. museums its famous native “daughter”—a supposedly 3.2 million-year-old hominid named Lucy.
Interactive Lucy Image
| Answers in Genesis View an interactive 360° image of the Creation Museum’s model of Lucy, based on the fossil evidence of Australopithecus afarensis.
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Lucy Exposed
| Answers in Genesis On its fifth anniversary weekend, the Creation Museum opened a new high-tech exhibit on human origins.
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A Giant Leap for Lucy
| Answers in Genesis The discovery of a new foot bone for Lucy teaches us a valuable lesson—the less evidence available, the more interpretation is needed to make any conclusions.
Lucy-Worship in Houston
| Answers in Genesis Lucy, the “holy grail” of evolution according to some pundits, has arrived and is now on display at the Houston Museum of Natural Science in Texas.
Neanderthal
| Answers in Genesis Neanderthals are often treated as subhuman despite having all the hallmarks of full humanity. Except a few skeletal variances, they were very similar to us.
The Neandertals: Our Worthy Ancestors, Part II
| Answers in Genesis Today, the majority of paleoanthropologists believe that the Neandertals were a species separate from modern humans. But most paleoanthropologists also believe that there was at least some degree of cross-fertilization between Neandertals and modern humans. These two beliefs seem to represent a contradiction in the species concept in human evolution that requires clarification.
Making Monkeys out of Men
| Answers in Genesis In an effort to fill the gap between apes and men, certain fossil men have been declared to be “apelike” and, thus, ancestral to at least “modern” man.
Neanderthals: the New Red-Heads
| Answers in Genesis It’s a common caricature in textbooks, movies, and—more true than ever today—TV shows: a brow-ridged, (often) club-carrying Neanderthal, covered in thick, messy red hair.
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Neanderthals: Our Worthy Ancestors
| Answers in Genesis Three lines of evidence demonstrate that the Neanderthals were fully human ancestors of modern humans: the nuclear DNA evidence, fossil evidence that Neanderthals lived in close association and integration with modern humans, and the cultural evidence demonstrates that Neanderthal behavior and thought was fully human.
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Neandertal Children’s Fossils
| Answers in Genesis In reconstructing fragmented bones of Neandertal children, evolutionists assume that rates of development were equal to or faster than modern children.
Radiocarbon Dating: Neanderthals Not as Smart as We Thought
| Answers in Genesis Radiocarbon dating of an archaeological site in France has some researchers claiming that Neanderthals weren’t as smart as we thought. But the evidence can more easily be interpreted as both confirming Neanderthal intelligence and casting doubt on radiocarbon dating methods.
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Neanderthal Niftiness
| Answers in Genesis Neanderthals were no novices when it came to wielding fire, new evidence suggests—evidence that adds to our understanding of Neaderthals as intelligent, modern humans.
Incorrect Neanderthal Stereotype
| Answers in Genesis The stereotype of Neanderthals is that they were hulking, hairy troglodytes quite different from “refined” modern humans. Now there’s even more evidence of how incorrect that stereotype is.
Neandertools
| Answers in Genesis Researchers were surprised to discover recently that the Neanderthals of Europe were probably using sophisticated bone tools before other humans moved into the region.
Outsmarting Ourselves
| Answers in Genesis Human brains are getting smaller, yet we’re apparently getting smarter. Does that mean dinosaurs with walnut-sized brains could have actually been geniuses?
The First European?
| Answers in Genesis The mock-up represents the “earliest known modern European,” supposedly 35,000 years old—yet he looks just like what creationists would suggest.
Scientists Determining Vocal Qualities of Neanderthals
| Answers in Genesis You’re wandering the ominous halls of a secular natural science museum after hours one night. Walking through the “prehistoric” man displays, the model of a 30,000-year-old Neanderthal behind you opens his mouth and ekes out a ghastly sentence: “Evolution . . . is . . . true!”
Neanderthals: One of Us
| Answers in Genesis Anthropologist Erik Trinkaus comments that the specimens considered to be the “earliest modern humans” in Europe “have shown obvious Neandertal ancestry.”
Neandertal Man—the Changing Picture
| Answers in Genesis Despite all the prejudice against including the Neandertals into Homo sapiens, even many evolutionists have become impressed with the evidence for Neandertal’s humanity.
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Thumbs up for Neandertals
| Answers in Genesis Old myths about “ape-men” die slowly. Even Neandertals, who for decades have been recognized by even many evolutionists to be fully human, still struggle to shed their image as hairy less-than-human brutes.
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Lagar Velho 1 Child Skeleton
| Answers in Genesis When the parents of that four year old boy buried him many years ago, they could not have known how important his remains would be to their descendants.
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The Caring Neandertal
| Answers in Genesis The more we learn about the Neandertals, the more we are forced to conclude that although they may have looked brutish, they were very caring people.
Armoured Neanderthal
| Answers in Genesis Mr K. Stolyhwo described the discovery of a human skull with classic Neanderthal features. The entire skeleton was in a tomb which also contained iron arrowheads and a suit of chain-mail armour.
Neanderthals: Human Cousins or Descendants?
| Answers in Genesis Since this unexpected (in their view) discovery, researchers have been digging to see what marks Neanderthals left in our DNA. And they’ve found that those marks influence (in some people of certain descent) skin shade, immunity, susceptibility to depression, and even whether someone is a night owl or a morning person.
Neanderthals Used Advanced Hunting Techniques
| Answers in Genesis A new study demonstrates that Neanderthals (once considered to be dull-witted, brutish, ape-like creatures) used “advanced hunting techniques to stalk and kill their prey,” including group ambush, which allowed them to get close to their prey and ensure a kill for the family or village to eat.
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Piltdown Man
| Answers in Genesis Piltdown man, and other paleoanthropological hoaxes and forgeries, call attention to the academic dishonesty that is sometimes pedaled as evolutionary evidence.
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Recapitulation Theory
| Answers in Genesis Countless people have been convinced by the wonders of the developing embryo—falsely portrayed—that evolution must be true. Why is this falsified idea still accepted by many teachers and scientists?
The Piltdown Man Fraud
| Answers in Genesis “Britain’s Greatest Hoax” is the title of the Timewatch investigation of the Piltdown Man fraud, shown on BBC2 television recently.
Big Science Hoaxes
| Answers in Genesis To mark April Fools’ Day, National Geographic News summarized some historic—and noteworthy, from our perspective—scientific hoaxes.
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Graphic Fraud
| Answers in Genesis The February 2007 issue of National Geographic recapitulated Ernest Haeckel’s mistaken belief that human embryos retrace their evolutionary ancestry.
Upper Paleolithic Blues
| Answers in Genesis The evolutionary history of modern humans could be in for a bumpy ride following revelations that a German anthropologist, Professor Reiner Protsch von Zieten, falsified dates of human remains.
‘Nebraska Man’ Revisited
| Answers in Genesis More about ‘Nebraska man’—that now-discarded pig’s tooth that was reconstructed by some to look as though it came from a primitive evolutionary ‘ape-man’.
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News on the Piltdown Hoax
| Answers in Genesis An article in Nature magazine titled “New Light on the Piltdown Hoax?” claims to have fresh circumstantial evidences as to the perpetrator of the fraud.
Close, But Not Close Enough—Fingerprints
| Answers in Genesis Evolutionists claim that this similarity, or homology, between humans and primates is evidence of
common ancestry. But closer study verifies fundamental differences that point to a common Designer.
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Evidence of Intelligence
| Answers in Genesis Archaeologists regularly uncover evidence of early man’s brilliance, confirming that cavemen were smart enough to build fires, design intricate structures, and cook complex cuisine.
Dragon Man, the Newest Human “Cousin”?
| Answers in Genesis Dragon Man is a post-Babel human, perhaps of the Denisovan people group, or perhaps a result of intermarriage between post-Babel Denisovans and Neanderthals. We know that he was human, was created in God’s image (Genesis 1:28), and is not some evolutionary sidebar to modern humans.
Cavemen . . . Really?
| Answers in Genesis When we cut away the laugh track and the bumbling ways, we’re left with something of an enigmatic figure—a being without a settled place in our understanding of history. Perhaps, in fact, it’s our discomfort with not knowing what to do with cavemen that makes us laugh. So just who were they?
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Ape-Men, Adam, and the Gospel
| Answers in Genesis How many times have you seen pictures showing a sequence of monkey-to-ape-to-man evolution? Although creationists and evolutionists look at the very same fossil evidence and genetic evidence, they interpret that evidence very differently because of different starting assumptions.
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The Evolutionary Problem with Grandmothers
| Answers in Genesis In an evolutionary worldview, human grandmothers are a bit of a puzzle. Why would evolution favor human grandmothers? Our lifespan should have evolved to be shorter, especially for women since, unlike men, there is a defined ending to their ability to reproduce. That is the evolutionary problem with grandmothers.
Human Ingenuity: Outsmarting Evolutionary Misconceptions
| Answers in Genesis When we start with God’s Word, however, we know that humans are not necessarily getting smarter as time goes on. Adam and Eve were created in God’s image (Genesis 1:27), and originally we had perfect brains and intelligence (Genesis 1:31; Deuteronomy 32:4).
How Did We Get Our Teeth?
| Answers in Genesis Evolutionists say scales and teeth share evolutionary history but wonder, “Which evolved first?” However, God created scales and teeth at the same time.
Kin Confusion
| Answers in Genesis For all the years of proclaiming chimpanzees as our closest living evolutionary cousins, some evolutionists think we may actually be more closely related to orangutans.
The Evolution of Childbirth?
| Answers in Genesis Sara Sklaroff’s “The Evolution of Childbirth—A Horror Story” reflects the secular worldview that says evolution “designed” the supposedly inferior process of human birth.
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The Human Fossils Still Speak!
| Answers in Genesis The human fossil record is completely compatible with special creation. In contrast, the human fossil evidence is so contrary to evolution that it effectively falsifies the idea that humans evolved.
Were Ancient Girl’s Parents from Two Different Species?
| Answers in Genesis The scientific community has been buzzing with the recent news that a small bone fragment recovered from a cave in Siberia is the remains of a 13-year-old girl whose parents belonged to what they call two different human species, Neanderthals and Denisovans.
New Human Species Discovered in the Philippines?
| Answers in Genesis Headlines trumpeted the news last week, “New species of early human found in the Philippines.” This “new species,” based on a collection of fossils found in on the island of Luzon, has been named Homo luzonensis and has been dated to about 67,000–50,000 years. How should we as biblical creationists understand this find?
Missing Link? Scientists Claim Newly Discovered Fossil Ape Was Bipedal
| Answers in Genesis A recent study trumpeted the discovery of a supposedly 11.6-million-year-old ape from what is now Germany. Danuvius guggenmosi supposedly had “long arms suited to hanging in trees, [and] features of its legs and spine suggest it might also have been able to move around on its hind feet.” Did they find a missing link?
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Unbecoming of Humans
| Answers in Genesis PBS TV in America is proclaiming that due to “an explosion of recent discoveries [that shed] light on . . . our hominid relatives,” it’s time to broadcast another documentary on human evolution.
Instantaneous Evolution
| Answers in Genesis Early humans weren’t very good at swinging from trees. But if you think that has evolutionists doubting human evolution, think again.
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Cranial Capacity and Endocranial Casts
| Answers in Genesis Man has always prided himself on his intellectual capabilities and has often pondered to explain the reason why he alone is able, unlike the rest of the animal kingdom, to contemplate and communicate.
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Stooping Low for Evolution
| Answers in Genesis It was all over the world's media, including a BBC-TV documentary-family members in Turkey who walk hunched over, using their hands as well as their feet.
Did We “Inherit Our Dark Evil Side” from Chimps?
| Answers in Genesis An article appeared recently in the Mirror, a UK news site, featuring an interview with Jane Goodall, the famous evolutionary primatologist who studied chimpanzees in Tanzania. She shares that she originally thought chimps were nice, only to later learn they can “rip your face off.”
Missing Links
| Answers in Genesis Do transitional forms really exist between microbe and microbiologist, or are they missing links? In the biblical worldview, they never existed at all!
Bye-Bye, Missing Link
| Answers in Genesis Although first discovered in the early 1990s, the bones of Ardipithecus ramidus are only now being nominated for evolutionists’ fossil hall of fame.
Middle Ear Missing Links?
| Answers in Genesis The fossilized mammal Liaoconodon hui, found in China, is being hailed as the missing link in middle ear evolution from reptiles to mammals.
"Missing Link" Cut Short
| Answers in Genesis Many readers have probably forgotten “Ida,” the fossil primate whose fifteen minutes of media-frenzied fame as a “missing link” was cut short.
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HIV Missing Link?
| Answers in Genesis Hot news about chimps, “missing links,” and evolution—but the story has nothing to do with human origins or anthropology. What could it be?
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Hype and Science Don't Mix
| Answers in Genesis The news media has been awash this week in hype over an alleged missing link fossil nicknamed Ida. As it turns out, the fossil wasn’t fraudulent, but the hype definitely was.
The Weakest Link
| Answers in Genesis Although not yet officially unveiled, a new missing link is the focus of a forthcoming BBC documentary hosted by Sir David Attenborough.
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It's a 'Whale'
| Answers in Genesis Does the fossil discovery of an early “whale” offer evidence for evolution or does it merely reinforce presuppositions?
For the Birds?
| Answers in Genesis Paleontologists say they have found a 100-million-year-old missing link, named Gansus, in the evolution of birds.
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River-Slosher—Missing Link?
| Answers in Genesis A team of paleontologists has “identified” a fossil as the missing link connecting land mammals to supposed evolutionary kin of whales, dolphins, and porpoises.
“Missing Link” Claim in Ethiopia
| Answers in Genesis Researchers working in Ethiopia declared over the weekend that they have discovered “the skull of a small human ancestor that could be a missing link between the extinct Homo erectus and modern man”
Another “Missing Link” Takes Flight
| Answers in Genesis In a case that smacks of the Piltdown Man forgery early last century, National Geographic magazine has admitted to having egg on its face due to an item it published in November 1999.
The Taung Skull: ‘Missing Link’?
| Answers in Genesis Dart’s discovery of a skull in lime works at Taung did not legitimize the evolution theory, but rather caused great debate among scientists of the day, raising questions which have yet to be answered.
Natural Selection Topic
| Answers in Genesis Is natural selection, which uses existing information leading to varations in organisms, proof of information-adding, molecules-to-man evolution?
Speciation
| Answers in Genesis Speciation, the formation of new species, is not evolution in action. Rather, it demonstrates the incredible variety God put within each created kind.
Is Speciation Evidence for Creation or Evolution?
| Answers in Genesis We still see God’s creativity
unfolding before our very eyes in a different way in the birth of each child. As they relate to the genetic potential God created in our first parents, we may not
yet have seen the fastest runner or the greatest mathematical or musical genius.
Does Ken Ham Embrace Evolution?
| Answers in Genesis Kenneth Keathley distinguishes our view from universal common ancestry, but putting “Ken Ham Embraces Evolution” as the title of his post is highly misleading.
Origin of (a) Species
| Answers in Genesis Scientists have watched as a new species is “born”—or is that “evolved”?—on one of the Galapagos Islands, home of Darwin’s famous finches.
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What They Didn't Find
| Answers in Genesis The scene is reminiscent of a movie: intrepid explorers pierce the wilderness and stumble upon a trove of amazing species rarely—if ever—seen before.
Study: 90% of Species Have a Recent Origin
| Answers in Genesis Nine out of ten species alive today have arisen in the last 200,000 years, according to a new genetic study. This study looked at select portions of DNA from 100,000 different species, and “researchers found a telltale sign showing that almost all the animals emerged about the same time as humans.”
No Speciation?
| Answers in Genesis Rapid speciation (multiple species descending from a single population) is often cited as confirmation of the creation worldview. Can we say the same when no speciation occurs?
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Antibiotic Resistance
| Answers in Genesis Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is often touted as proof of evolution, but is it really? After all, the bacterium remains a bacterium!
Darwin at the Drugstore?
| Answers in Genesis The issue of antibiotic resistance in bacteria is growing. But creation research could help reveal new ways to deal with this problem—and challenge Darwinism in the process.
Slowing Down Evolution
| Answers in Genesis Pathogenic resistance to antibiotics is a textbook example of “direct evidence for evolution”—literally. What does recent work on the topic suggest?
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Resisting a Myth
| Answers in Genesis Microbial resistance to antibiotics is one of the most commonly claimed evidences for evolution. So will the new “clue” to its workings be evidence for evolution as well?
Just Add Bacteria
| Answers in Genesis As with virtually every observation of “evolution” reported, this study does nothing to support or advance the Darwinian view of common ancestry—that from a single, simple life-form, all the complex and diversified life-forms arose.
Did I Just Cause Evolution?
| Answers in Genesis Recent experiments on E. coli in a laboratory have made one university student wonder if evolution happened in front of him. Dr. Georgia Purdom, AiG–U.S., helps him examine more closely.
Infectious Protein Particles Evolving?
| Answers in Genesis Can non-life evolve? Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute have discovered that infectious protein particles called prions can adapt to new environments and compete with one another.
The "Arms Race" of Bacteria
| Answers in Genesis Researchers at Cornell University’s Boyce Thompson Institute have been studying how the bacterium Pseudomonas syringae “infects tomatoes by injecting a special protein into the plant’s cells and undermines the plant’s defense system.”
Virus “Evolution” Benefits Mankind?
| Answers in Genesis Scientists have supposedly forced the evolution of an adeno-associated virus (AAV) commonly used in gene therapy. However, a belief in evolution/millions of years is not needed to initiate this resear
The “Bird Flu” and Evolution
| Answers in Genesis At the time of writing (February 2004), a deadly respiratory “flu” is racing with unprecedented speed through fowl populations in Asia and other parts of the world.
Evolution Under (or Wool Over?) Our Eyes
| Answers in Genesis Dr John R. Howitt, a personal friend of mine ... wrote to appropriate professors in nine leading universities, asking, “Do you consider that the Hebrew word yom (day), as used in Genesis 1...
Demystifying “Genetic Drift”
| Answers in Genesis One of the keys to the origin of species is a concept that few have heard of—genetic drift—the simple application of statistics to basic genetics. Yet this process is playing a critical role in upending the mainstream scientific explanation for the origin of species—and the creation/evolution debate.
Adaptation Topic
| Answers in Genesis Living things, like plants, finches and lizards, have been observed to adapt to their environment—isn’t that evolution?
“Evolution” of Finch Beaks—Again
| Answers in Genesis According to an ABC News article reporting on the July 14th issue of Science magazine, the beaks of Darwin’s finches in the Galapagos Islands have “evolved” yet again.
Peppered moths—back on the agenda?
| Answers in Genesis Britain’s newspaper, The Independent ran a story on 25th August 2007 that Kettlewell’s famed peppered moth experiments had been vindicated as evidence of evolution occurring in nature.
Evolution or Adaptation?
| Answers in Genesis A researcher suggests that a single mutation in mouse DNA is a major contributor to the light coat color seen in beach mice leading to better survival in a sandy environment. The news article states that this “provides evidence that evolution can occur in big leaps.”
Island Evolves Lizards
| Answers in Genesis Rapid evolution—“evolving in ways that would normally take millions of years to play out,” says National Geographic News. How does it confirm the Bible?
The Cat in the Crate
| Answers in Genesis Travelling can be tiring. Even a short catnap is welcome if you’re going a long way. But if you’re confined to a small space for a long time, as Mercedes the cat was, there’s not much else to do.
Catch 22—Toxotes Chatareus
| Answers in Genesis Evolution often presents us with a Catch 22, the belief that the physical characteristics essential for the survival of animals arose by mutation and were fine-tuned by natural selection.
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Survival of the Fittest
| Answers in Genesis Survival of the fittest is not evolution. It is a fact of life in a world that has been tainted with death and bloodshed since Adam rebelled against his Maker.
“Natural Selection Is Evolution.”
| Answers in Genesis If we take a loose definition of evolution, meaning “change,” then yes, natural selection is evolution/change. But what is typically meant in this argument is that natural selection is molecules-to-man evolution. Is this scientifically possible, or is it a just-so story?
Survival of the Kindest?
| Answers in Genesis Move over, Charles Darwin: researchers at Oregon State University and the University of California–Berkeley want to supplant “survival of the fittest” with “survival of the kindest.”
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Tragedy in a Godless Universe
| Answers in Genesis If we take the idea of “survival of the fittest” to its logical conclusion, it seems almost absurd for anyone who accepts the story of evolution to think of death as being the enemy.
Whitefish: Latest Example of Evolution
| Answers in Genesis If the Canadian Press is to be believed, whitefish provide the latest example of “evolution” in action. But as with previous examples, the evolutionary significance is overstated.
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Be Yourself: Survive!
| Answers in Genesis Research conducted by doctoral student Mark Fitzpatrick of the University of Toronto at Mississauga is uncovering how more unique individuals of a species enjoy a survival advantage.
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Winter Harshness and Sheep Survival
| Answers in Genesis A multi-decade study of Scottish sheep indicates that weather patterns have an effect on “body shape and population size,” according to the BBC, who reports on this ovine study led by Imperial College London professor Tim Coulson and colleagues.
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Evolution, the Foundation For Our Economy?
| Answers in Genesis A discussion of an opinion piece from The Denver Post which is hardly worth mentioning, except for its service as a recitation of some common arguments for evolution-in particular, that teaching evolution is the foundation for our economy.
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Evolution or Adaptation?
| Answers in Genesis An article in the July 24, 2006 Washington Post refers to a March 2006 PLoS Biology article that suggests that humans are currently undergoing evolution.
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End of Story?
| Answers in Genesis This letter is from Shelley Moore, USA. It is an example of the prevalent confusion about the meaning of evolution.
The Evolution of Pretty Girls
| Answers in Genesis Well, I doubt that many young couples in love think much about the survival of the species. But such is the nature of evolution that it has become an explanation for everything.
Is Natural Selection at Odds with Creation?
| Answers in Genesis The claim that biblical creationists reject natural
selection is based on an outdated notion. The young-earth creationist
view has been so maligned in
popular culture that many people think
creationists deny basic facts of life.
The Evolution of . . . Chocolate?
| Answers in Genesis Secular researchers look at the cocoa plant in light of an evolutionary worldview and, based on their evolutionary beliefs, have now adjusted their ancient date of the cocoa plant to be even older in their story. They believe ancient diversification of the cocoa plant resulted in delicious varieties within the species.
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Bitter Butterfly
| Answers in Genesis The viceroy is a colorful butterfly native to the United States that is known to mimic other species. However, the viceroy is not just a tasty option that looks like the unpalatable models it mimics. A recent study attempted to demonstrate mimicry and how it evolved in the viceroy butterfly.
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“Lousy” Pigeon Professors
| Answers in Genesis A recent study looked at the colors of lice on the feathers of numerous varieties of pigeons. According to the authors, the study was proof of evolution. However, despite their protestations to the contrary, this study does not demonstrate macroevolution or even any evolution at all.
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Understanding Natural Selection
| Answers in Genesis Some biblical creationists have fallen into the evolutionists’ trap and tried to refute evolution by throwing out the concept of natural selection entirely. While well intended, such attempts end up being logically unsound, scientifically erroneous, and theologically deficient.
Change, Yes; Evolution, No
| Answers in Genesis There are obviously all kinds of “change through time” that are not evolution, so evolution must be only a particular kind of change through time.
Natural Selection Not at Work
| Answers in Genesis Natural selection, the force driving so-called “survival of the fittest,” is at the heart of both evolutionist and creationist explanations for life’s diversity. But in one strange case, natural selection is not at work on an animal.
Molucules Don't Make the Man
| Answers in Genesis Scientists have built a molecular system that “evolves” in the lab. But like other such systems that have gone before it, this doesn’t prove Darwin.
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Cod Evolution No-Go
| Answers in Genesis Another example of “evolution in action”—need we even bother examining the reality to confirm this isn’t what Darwin predicted?
The “Eyes” Have It
| Answers in Genesis Darwin suggested that if a graded series of organisms, each with some sort of eye, can be found then this would mean that the eyes could have been produced by natural selection.
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When Hunters Fuel 'Evolution'
| Answers in Genesis Losing or gaining anatomical features, changing colors, growing bigger or smaller—it doesn’t matter how a biological population is changing, it’s evolution!
Dung Beetle Used in Argument For Natural Selection
| Answers in Genesis Britain’s leading newsmagazine weighs in on “one of the lies regularly promulgated by creationist ideologues.” Uncalled-for, ugly allegations aside, we have to, ironically, wonder about the “truth” of that statement.
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Much Ado About Moths
| Answers in Genesis This is the fascinating story about how, due to a combination of environmental changes and selective predation, a moth turned into, well, a moth.
Small Change
| Answers in Genesis The beaks of the Galapagos finches, made famous by Darwin, have changed over time. The change cannot be used to support the idea that finches evolved from dinosaurs.
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The Nature of Myth
| Answers in Genesis A college professor lambastes AiG for “perpetuating a myth” but, in turn, perpetuates a myth about natrual selection.
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The Guppies and the Nematode...
| Answers in Genesis New 'proofs' such as the guppies and the nematode are regularly voiced by evolutionists and just as regularly forgotten without the public ever hearing that they support creation.
Natural Selection
| Answers in Genesis Evolution is the proposed process by which living things gain entirely new characteristics that were never before present in their genetic make-up, not even in a latent or ‘hidden’ form.
Origin of Life
| Answers in Genesis Big bangs and stardust, primordial soup, meteorites with amino acids, or maybe aliens seeded life on earth? A Creator God is a much more logical choice.
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The Origin of Life
| Answers in Genesis One of the most fundamental axioms of biology is that all life comes from preexisting life. This idea of the spontaneous generation of life from nonlife was so deeply ingrained in biological thought that it took nearly 200 years of experimental evidence to completely disprove it.
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Origin of Life Problems for Naturalists
| Answers in Genesis The origin of life is a complicated biological problem for those who deny God’s existence. In fact, it is so much an issue that many naturalists refuse even to discuss it. Two recent studies attacked the origin of life problem from different angles and ended up at cross-purposes with one another.
Alleged Alien Life in Meteorite
| Answers in Genesis Headlines over the weekend boldly proclaimed that we are not alone in the universe. This assertion relies upon reports that a NASA scientist has discovered tiny fossils of alien life in a meteorite.
Life Created In Outer Space
| Answers in Genesis “The odds are improving that life exists beyond Earth,” begins a ScienceNOW article, crediting the change to a study of a “billions-of-years-old” meteorite.
Space Life?
| Answers in Genesis Last year, researchers reported evidence of microbes in the upper stratosphere, and recent tests have apparently confirmed their discovery. Exciting news—the discovery of life in space—but one questio
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Life Discovered in Space
| Answers in Genesis Last year, researchers reported evidence of microbes in the upper stratosphere, and recent tests have apparently confirmed their discovery.
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Primordial Soup
| Answers in Genesis In a quiet pond somewhere on early earth, the many complex chemicals necessary for life came together to produce the first living cell—or did they?
The Primitive Atmosphere
| Answers in Genesis Popular views on evolution include the concept that life originally arose from non-living chemicals through the interaction of matter and energy.
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Freshwater Evolution?
| Answers in Genesis The first animals didn’t evolve in the ocean, claims a controversial new study. Instead, the study suggests the earliest animals called a saltwater lake home.
Toxin Lovers
| Answers in Genesis Carboxydotrophs—microbes that derive their energy from carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide—are said to be a clue to the earth’s early atmosphere.
Semi-Homemade Life
| Answers in Genesis Synthetic biologists are convinced their methods will eventually allow them to create life from non-life, but Darwinian evolution cannot bridge the gap.
Get a Life
| Answers in Genesis That headline—and similar ones—appeared in sensationalist media accounts about the synthesis of a reproducing cell in a research lab.
Origin of hype
| Answers in Genesis For more than 50 years we have been told by scientists that they have been on the verge of creating life in a laboratory.
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What Is Life?
| Answers in Genesis What mysterious quality makes a creature alive at one moment but is absent the instant the creature dies? The Bible answers the question, “What is life?”
How Simple Can Life Be?
| Answers in Genesis This article describes the theory of abiogenesis and provides statistics about the likelihood of the most simple concievable organism developing from chance.
Abiogenesis: Can Life Come from Non-Living Chemicals?
| Answers in Genesis This naturalistic world we live in has things completely backward, with people concluding that abiogenesis is true and Genesis is myth. But it is evident from both Scripture and observational science that abiogenesis is a myth, Genesis is real history, and God is the true life.
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Origins of Multicellular Organisms
| Answers in Genesis One of the problems inherent in the evolutionary dogma is going from a single-celled organism, once such a thing exists, to a multi-celled organism. Because evolutionists’ worldview requires this evolution to occur, they are continuing to search for a mechanism to go from single-celled, to multi-celled.
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Folding Molecules Give Insight to Origin of Life
| Answers in Genesis Work published by a chemistry group in The Netherlands discusses the synthesis of a large molecule which folded into a ring pattern with a five-fold symmetry (pentagon shape) and compared it to the folding of proteins. A recent article states, the study “is interesting for origin-of-life research.”
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Is the Origin of Life a Scientific Question?
| Answers in Genesis The origin of life has been debated for a long time. What if the best data, the best science, lead to that conclusion that there might be a Creator? Only extreme atheistic bias would preclude God’s existence.
Where to Begin?
| Answers in Genesis Reluctant and surprised, I finally concluded that what we read in God’s Word is the surest guide to understanding what we see in God’s world.
The World’s Oldest Water?
| Answers in Genesis Researchers believe water trapped in tiny fractures within sulphide deposits has had no contact with water exposed for 1.5 to 2.64 billion years.
Old Views, New News
| Answers in Genesis Believe it or not, the famous Miller–Urey experiment of the 1950s is still making headlines in the creation–evolution controversy.
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Slime Molds and Life
| Answers in Genesis The cellular slime mold might seem to be a lowly form of life—maybe just the sort that could conceivably have evolved from inanimate matter.
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Latest Evolutionist Theory on life
| Answers in Genesis Whether it’s mica sheets or meteorites (or both), evolutionists have come up with theory after theory—most untestable, all unproven—about how life on earth got started. Here’s the latest.
Problems for "Accidental" Origin of Life
| Answers in Genesis The “chirality problem” isn’t exactly one of the most prominent topics of debate when it comes to origins. But that doesn’t mean evolutionists have forgotten the problem it poses for an “accidental” origin of life.
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Prebiotic Nonsense
| Answers in Genesis Astrobiologists may be a step closer to identifying prebiotic compounds in space. Now all they have to do is find the compounds!
The Elusive Origin of Life
| Answers in Genesis An article in Scientific American in 1991 was headed with the inappropriate title, 'In the beginning.' It should've been titled 'The Elusive Origin of Life.'
Bacterial Life in Ancient Salt
| Answers in Genesis Living bacteria and dormant stages of bacteria known as spores, have been found in many sediments with reported ages of up to hundreds of million years.
The Fish in the Bathtub
| Answers in Genesis The claim that, with time, anything is possible, including the creation and perpetuation of life, is not based on any scientific principle. Rather, the opposite is true.
The Origin of Life
| Answers in Genesis One of the most fundamental axioms of biology is that all life comes from pre-existing life. Still, until the later part of the 19th century, life was believed to arise by spontaneous generation.