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.
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?
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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.
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.
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.
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?
“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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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.
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?
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?
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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.
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.
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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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.
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.
Sailing the Mediterranean? So Easy Even a Caveman Can Do It!
| Answers in Genesis When this human variety (now considered by evolutionists to be a cousin to modern man) was first discovered, they were considered primitive and brutish, hence the insult of calling someone a “Neanderthal.” But nothing could be further from the truth.
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?
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.
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.
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!”
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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?
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.
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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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?
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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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.”
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.
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.”
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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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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.
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.
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.
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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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.”
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Pondering a Great Profile
| Answers in Genesis The early post-Flood descendants of Noah exhibited a great degree of genetic and environmental variation in skull and facial features, as seen in the differences between Cro-Magnons and Neandertals,
Who Was ‘Nutcracker Man’?
| Answers in Genesis ‘Nutcracker man’ was the popular name given to a skull found by Louis Leakey, father of well-known fossil-anthropologist Richard Leakey, in East Africa in 1959.
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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.
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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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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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.
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.
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).
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?
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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Humans Aren’t Going to Evolve Again
| Answers in Genesis The website The Conversation—which boasts supposed “academic rigor”—recently hosted an article, in a series designed for children, to answer a reader-submitted question, “Are humans going to evolve again?” But this article showed anything but “academic rigor.”
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?
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Did a “Taste for Fat” Make Us Human?
| Answers in Genesis It’s long been an evolutionary puzzle as to how early humans got the bigger brains they needed to evolve into modern humans? Well, a new study proposes maybe it was a taste for fat that did it—and that’s why we still crave fat today.
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Could the Inca People Write?
| Answers in Genesis It’s long been believed the great Inca civilization never left behind any written records. But what if that’s just because we couldn’t recognize their writing? A fascinating new study reveals the Incas did leave a written history behind—we just didn’t recognize it.
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Did Neanderthals Live Violent Lives?
| Answers in Genesis Neanderthals have long been considered our evolutionary cousins and are usually portrayed as brutish and uncivilized as shown in some kids’ TV programs. But this view has consistently been shown to be wrong. We now know Neanderthals wore jewelry and makeup, made instruments and tools, and more.
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.
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The Evolution of the Eyebrow?
| Answers in Genesis The fossil record shows a great deal of diversity among post-Flood humans (scientists haven’t found any pre-Flood humans as of yet). Some of this diversity is shown in skull shape. Many ancient humans had much thicker brow ridges than we do today.
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.
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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.
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.
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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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Human Jawbone Found: Doesn’t Fit Evolutionary Steps
| Answers in Genesis Experts in the ever-changing topic of human evolution thought they had most of it figured out—when our ancestors left Africa, the major evolutionary steps since then, etc. But a human jawbone discovered in China just doesn’t fit.
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.”
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.
Chimps as Smart as Preschoolers?
| Answers in Genesis The Associated Press (AP) reported on January 6 that a chimpanzee “performed about as well as an average (Japanese) preschool child" on similar numerical tests.
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?
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.
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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“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”
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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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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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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?
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
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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...
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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.”
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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“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.
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.
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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!
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 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?
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Scopes Trial
| Answers in Genesis Trial of the century! Bryan cannot defend Scripture due to old-earth compromises. Evolution in schools loses the court battle but wins the classrooms.
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“The Scopes Trial Settled the Question of Evolution”
| Answers in Genesis The Scopes Trial is often used to portray creation as blind myth and evolution as scientific fact. But, if we peel away some of the misconceptions about the trial and chew on the big questions that the it raised, we may arrive at the verdict that rejecting the Creator has led to our culture’s moral collapse.
John Scopes, Creationist?
| Answers in Genesis The Scopes “monkey trial” of Dayton, Tennessee, over eighty years ago, plays a unique role in the modern creation–evolution controversy. From the original media circus to the trial’s misrepresentation in the film Inherit the Wind, evolutionists have pointed to the trial as an example of creationist inanity. So should creationists be blamed for trying to advance our interpretation of the trial?
The Scopes Retrial
| Answers in Genesis A new movie on the 1925 Scopes trial, reveals how the major media delivered a distorted view of the trial in an attempt to attack biblical Christianity.
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Monkeying with the Media
| Answers in Genesis Even though that now-infamous event occurred over 80 years ago, distorted details continue to warp society’s thinking concerning creation and evolution.
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A Trial to Watch
| Answers in Genesis A revival of the anti-Christian play Inherit the Wind is newsworthy enough. But there is something bigger to consider ...
Scopes & the Ten Commandments
| Answers in Genesis Removing the Ten Commandments from schools (and from a judicial building in Alabama) was headline news across America in 2003. But did you know the connection between these events & the Scopes Trial?
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The Big Picture
| Answers in Genesis Being wrong about the six days of creation does not automatically mean someone is not a Christian. But if you think that makes it unimportant, stand back and look at the big picture....
Theistic Evolution
| Answers in Genesis Theistic evolution, the idea that God used evolution to create life, poses great danger to the gospel, the Bible’s authority, and the character of the Creator.
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10 Dangers of Theistic Evolution
| Answers in Genesis In this system God is not the omnipotent Lord of all things, whose Word has to be taken seriously by all men, but He is integrated into the evolutionary philosophy.
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God and Evolution
| Answers in Genesis Does belief in biological evolution, a process characterized by death and bloodshed, question the holy and good character of the God of the Bible?
Response to Brett Younger
| Answers in Genesis Brett Younger begins his opinion piece with an enjoyable anecdote from his high school chemistry class, but then launches into a problematic examination of science and religion and uses the “usual” arguments against young-earth creationism.
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Collins is “Faithful to God, Science?”
| Answers in Genesis This article is a response to another article about evolutionist Christian Dr. Francis Collins (director of the [US] National Human Genome Research Institute), which is riddled with inaccuracies and misleading statements.
God’s Rest in Hebrews 4:1–11
| Answers in Genesis Hebrews 4:1–11 has been used by a number of ‘progressive’ creationists as ‘evidence’ that the Bible can be reconciled with the billions of years postulated by evolutionists/uniformitarians.
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'A Child May See the Folly of it'
| Answers in Genesis The idea that God used evolution, and therefore that the book of Genesis needs to be reinterpreted to accommodate so-called millions of years, and to reject the worldwide Flood, is not a modern idea.
After Evolution What?
| Answers in Genesis We often see vigorous attempts in the media and in the church to persuade people to accept evolution. The irony of this is that the attempt appears to be succeeding just as contraty signs emerge.
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What About Theistic Evolution?
| Answers in Genesis There’s been an explosion in the intensity of the conversation regarding the creation/evolution debate in the last few years—but not where one might expect.
Exposing a Fundamental Compromise
| Answers in Genesis For thousands of years Christians have faced the danger of being deceived by Satan. Sometimes in the process of defending the Christian faith, respected Christian leaders have unknowingly compromised with error. Surprising examples include founders of modern fundamentalism.
Theistic Evolution
| Answers in Genesis Is there an ever-widening canyon between scientific intellectualism and the Christian faith? Is theistic evolution a legitimate way to bridge that gap? Tim Chaffey, AiG–U.S., explains.
The Burden of Standing for God’s Word
| Answers in Genesis As we have documented with research published in books like Already Gone and Ready To Return, compromise on Genesis (particularly with Christians who add millions of years into the Bible) has had a devastating impact on how this generation views the Bible.
Is BioLogos Promoting Heresy?
| Answers in Genesis The thrust of BioLogos is not in accord with the biblical doctrines of Christianity; thus it is in reality from the spirit of anti-Christ. Church, be warned!
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The Bible and BioLogos
| Answers in Genesis BioLogos is using millions of dollars of grant money from the John Templeton Foundation to present an evolutionary understanding of God’s creation.
Why I Rejected Theistic Evolution
| Answers in Genesis Theistic evolution is a significant threat to the Christian church. It undermines the very foundation of the Christian faith and causes people to doubt the truth of Scripture.
Design-Denier Wins Religious Reward
| Answers in Genesis The prestigious Templeton Prize, which honors progress in our understanding of “spiritual realities,” was recently given to a Catholic priest who denies intelligent design.
Ken Miller and Culture War
| Answers in Genesis It seems one of evolutionary theory’s biggest defenders, biologist Ken Miller, has come around to AiG’s point of view. At least, that’s one way to look at his recent comments!
A Date With Ken Miller
| Answers in Genesis On October 26, Brown University biology professor Dr. Kenneth Miller, the Catholic, evolutionist author of the compromising book Finding Darwin’s God, visited Cincinnati, Ohio.
Spong Is Wrong
| Answers in Genesis Bishop John Shelby Spong is well known for attacking almost every Christian doctrine he swore in his ordination vows to uphold, e.g. God as sovereign Creator, the Incarnation, Virginal Conception and
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“Alpha”–A Misnomer!
| Answers in Genesis Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. It is used in the Bible to denote ‘beginning,’ as it is in Revelation 1:8: ‘I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord….’
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The Horse and the Tractor
| Answers in Genesis The only distinction between 'Theistic' and naturalistic evolution is the empty theological language attached in the former case-making no more difference than an invisible horse to a tractor.
A Theistic Evolutionist’s Comments
| Answers in Genesis I am a young Christian and biologist, currently studying zoology and microbiology, who has been closely watching the Creation\Evolution debate with ever widening eyes for the last few years now
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From (Theistic) Evolution to Creation
| Answers in Genesis When you walk into the university department of the Royal Children’s Hospital in Brisbane, Australia, the portrait on the wall is that of a figure well-known in creation science circles...
Were Creative Acts Sudden?
| Answers in Genesis Three different Hebrews words are used in the Genesis account of creation—bara, to create; asah, to make; and yatsar, to form (as a potter). The one used in 2:19 is yatsar.
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Young-Earth Evolution
| Answers in Genesis Subtle ideas that don’t comport with Scripture or are unnecessarily accommodating of evolutionary ideas are causing problems within the church.
Christianity Is Objectively True
| Answers in Genesis A professing young-earth creationist should be the last person to call into question the historical, objective nature of Christianity. However, Todd Wood does this in his book, The Quest.
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Angels and Demons
| Answers in Genesis Mystery, superstition, and intrigue surround the topic of angels and demons. The Bible, however, dispels these shadows and myths with clear truth.
Satan
| Answers in Genesis Who is Satan? When were he and the demons created, and when did they fall? What about the origin of evil? Was it Satan who tempted mankind?
Who Was the Serpent?
| Answers in Genesis Although Genesis does not mention the name “Satan” as controlling the serpent in the Garden of Eden, we can ascertain who this serpent was.
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Lucifer and Sin
| Answers in Genesis Do verses in Ezekiel and Isaiah referring to earthly kings or Satan’s fall? Troy Lacey revisits his argument on the first sin.
Is God Real?
| Answers in Genesis The Bible says, “In the beginning God.” Does this God really exist? Or is He just the creation of the pre-scientific imagination?
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How Do We Know There Is a God?
| Answers in Genesis The skeptic’s condemning cry often comes as, “Prove to me there is a God.” Usually the agnostic or atheist expects physical or scientific evidence for the existence of God, but when the Bible believer cannot point to a living being and say, “There is God,” the skeptic thinks he has won.
Is There Really a God?
| Answers in Genesis When Christians claim that the God of the Bible created all the basic entities of life and the universe, some will ask what seems to be a logical question: “Who created God?”
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God & Natural Law
| Answers in Genesis The universe obeys certain rules—laws to which all things must adhere. These laws are precise, and many of them are mathematical in nature.
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“Does God Exist?”
| Answers in Genesis Whether by email, regular mail, phone call, or speaking engagement, there are several questions Answers in Genesis can predict will be asked at some point.
I Believe in God
| Answers in Genesis I believe in God … And what else? The Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth? If you’re an Anglican or Roman Catholic, you’re likely to say you believe you have a Creator.
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Sin
| Answers in Genesis How should Christians understand the origin of sin? Why did God create man if He knew we would sin? What else does the Bible teach about sin?
God and Sin = Gibberish?
| Answers in Genesis Our culture no longer understands “God” or “sin” the same way that the Bible does. Before we attempt to communicate the gospel, we must define our terms.
Original Sin Topic
| Answers in Genesis Does the doctrine of original sin stand or fall on the historicty of Genesis, Adam and Eve, the perfect creation, and the Fall of mankind?
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Two Histories of Death
| Answers in Genesis When Charles Darwin wrote his famous book On the Origin of Species, he was in essence writing a history concerning death. God’s Word presents a different view.
Is Male Headship a Curse?
| Answers in Genesis Because sin has entered the relationship, the spheres of
responsibility for a husband and wife,
as well as their marriage relationship,
now face conflict.
Evolution and Original Sin
| Answers in Genesis Belief in evolution does more than just undermine the foundation for the doctrine of salvation found in Genesis. It also distorts our eschatological hope.
Original Sin at the BBC
| Answers in Genesis The article is written as a statement of fact, but it contains a number of factual errors, and much in the way of personal opinion, dressed up as fact.
The Experience Trap—Healing
| Answers in Genesis As I returned to my room after visiting the nursing home, my youngest brother Stephen gave me an audio tape of one of Robert's sermons, entitled "The Experience Trap—Healing,"
Cheating—Shaped by Environment or Behavior?
| Answers in Genesis A recent study examined the question of whether cheating was influenced by scarcity and/or abundance and also delved into the question of in-group versus outside group factors (an “us versus them” scenario). The study was conducted by Dr. Marco Palma and Dr. Billur Aksoy.
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Is Lying Justified?
| Answers in Genesis Is lying justified? Old heresies come back in new clothes but that does not alter the fact that they are still heresies. For those for whom the Bible is their final authority, there is no question that lying is never justified.
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Is Pride Worth Celebrating?
| Answers in Genesis Throughout the month various activities, including Pride Parades, will be taking place in celebration and honor of the LGBT community and sexual diversity. But this celebration of LGBT Pride points to something the Bible warns against time and time again—and it is not just sexual immorality.
9/11 and the Real “Enemy”
| Answers in Genesis Two years ago, an enemy “from without” attacked the US by destroying the towers of the World Trade Center in New York, and also heavily damaging the Pentagon in Washington, DC, killing almost 3,000.
Suffering & Death
| Answers in Genesis If God is so good, why is this world filled with suffering and death? The answer is plainly described in Genesis 1–3. God created a “very good” world, but Adam’s rebellion brought a curse and death. The disease and death in the fossil record reflect this curse.
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Where was God?
| Answers in Genesis What does all the death and suffering in the world tell us about God? Is He simply a distant, disinterested being, or the loving Creator of a now-broken world?
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Genesis at Ground Zero
| Answers in Genesis Ken Ham interviews Ralph DiCosimo, a New York police officer with first-hand experience of the aftermath of the horrific happenings of 11 September 2001.
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Why Do We Age?
| Answers in Genesis Aging is a
result of
Adam’s fall.
But can we
do anything
to ease the
effects of
aging or
extend our
life span?
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Natural Disasters
| Answers in Genesis How should we understand the horrible devastation and human suffering caused by natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and floods?
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Japan Tsunami Reminder
| Answers in Genesis Japan is still suffering from the effects of a devastating earthquake and tsunami that have taken more than 6,000 lives with over ten thousand more missing.
Remembering Katrina
| Answers in Genesis For weeks now, the news channels have been busy reliving the horrors of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The one-year anniversary of its landfall is upon us and television is full of coverage.
A Blessing Amidst Tragedy
| Answers in Genesis Even though devastating Hurricane Katrina occurred along the Gulf Coast many weeks ago, it has provided a unique window of opportunity for Christians who want to support the Lord’s work.
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“Coals of Fire”
| Answers in Genesis AiG initiated a special relief effort to help thousands of public school students in Ocean Springs, Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina
Katrina Outreach Update
| Answers in Genesis An outpouring of generosity for those impacted by Hurricane Katrina has come into Answers in Genesis–USA as a work team prepares this week to take nearly 3,000 backpacks to Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
Death, the Enemy: Child & a Dead Possum
| Answers in Genesis Thankfully, the Bible tells us we can have the hope of a day when the rotting opossum shall be no more. Through the conquering death and resurrection of Jesus Christ on the Cross, death has been defeated (2 Timothy 1:10). I’m thankful for my son’s moral intuition concerning animal death and the witness it bears.
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Did God Give Stephen Hawking ALS?
| Answers in Genesis Ken Ham’s Twitter post and the accompanying post on Facebook pertaining to Dr. Stephen Hawking’s death quickly garnered dozens of responses. Many were from skeptics, some accusing God of giving Dr. Hawking ALS, the motor neuron disease he suffered with nearly his whole life. Did God give him ALS?
Why Is the World Broken?
| Answers in Genesis This world is broken and can’t seem to find its way. Where is the all-knowing, loving Creator God in the midst of all this pain and suffering?
Why Us?
| Answers in Genesis Numerous books have been written to try to explain what seems to be an irreconcilable problem—Christianity’s claim of a God of love in the face of the evil, death, suffering in this world.
The Intensive Care Unit
| Answers in Genesis When times are great, we should praise God and thank Him for His goodness. When times are tough, we should do the same and lean completely on Him.
School Tragedy in Connecticut
| Answers in Genesis The tragic school shooting in Connecticut is another vivid reminder that we live in a fallen and sin-cursed world. Our hearts go out to those affected by this tragedy.
Death and Steve Jobs
| Answers in Genesis Our mission is to equip people to stand on the authority of the Word of God and to understand the Bible’s answers to the problems that perplex individuals and plague our world.
Ten Years Later—Remembering 9/11
| Answers in Genesis It’s one of the most sobering anniversaries that Americans (especially those over the age of 18) will ever commemorate—recalling the horrible terrorist acts that struck America 10 years ago today.
Is It Really a Beautiful World?
| Answers in Genesis Sometimes Christians give the wrong impression that the existence of a “loving and wise Designer” is obvious simply because we see so much “beauty” in creation.
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A Young Earth—It’s Extremely Relevant
| Answers in Genesis Many Christians have been led to believe that the debate over the age of the earth is unimportant because it is “just a side issue.” In reality, however, this thinking is erroneous.
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Now, But Not Yet
| Answers in Genesis When we understand the beauty and perfection of Eden, and how sin changed everything, we are forced to be consistent when we talk about good and bad, and right and wrong.
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Bowing the Knee
| Answers in Genesis When “the fog” becomes so thick that we can’t see any of God's promises, we have no choice but to return to His living Word to give us the full, big picture.
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Beauty from Ashes
| Answers in Genesis For some reason, many Christians have picked up the notion that everything should work out the way they want now that they have given their lives to Christ.
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Beyond the Grave
| Answers in Genesis Sometimes facing reality can be discouraging. It’s disillusioning when we see that life is not what we thought it would be.
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A Voice from the Past
| Answers in Genesis Facing a serious illness and the certainty of death is a humbling experience and wakes us up by shattering the illusion of security and health that surrounds us
And It Was Good
| Answers in Genesis The words of Genesis chapters 1 and 2 present to us the incredible chronicle of the first six days of existence.
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Foreword
| Answers in Genesis Humanity is always looking for someone else to blame, and it seems that it may as well be God. Do you notice, though, that the blame is always laid before a “loving God.”
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It Started in Eden
| Answers in Genesis The ongoing spate of violence in America’s public schools saw tragic manifestations last year, including the murder of five Amish girls.
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September 11, 2001—Five Years On
| Answers in Genesis The events of September 11, 2001 are etched on my mind. I know precisely what I was doing on that day, when the airplanes were crashed into the Twin Towers. I was planning my father’s funeral.
“Crocodile Hunter” Dies
| Answers in Genesis I woke up on the Labor Day holiday in the USA (September 4) to hear the news that the famed “Crocodile hunter,” Steve Irwin, died in Queensland Australia.
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Tragic Truth
| Answers in Genesis What do you say to help survivors of a horrific tragedy? Pastor Gino has recently faced this tough question, not once but twice.
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What Does God Want from Me?
| Answers in Genesis How can people be made right with God? And how can Christians please God in both the seemingly mundane decisions and in the serious choices of life?
Lost
| Answers in Genesis We are facing a major culture shift, and the losses are mounting. It's never too late to begin implementing biblical solutions.
“I Know Nothing!”
| Answers in Genesis The book of Job is a revelation of God and His creation, including extensive treatment of behemoth and leviathan!
The Trinity
| Answers in Genesis Three Persons yet one essence—the doctrine of the Trinity may be difficult to understand, but it is an essential, non-negotiable doctrine.
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The Trinity
| Answers in Genesis The Bible clearly affirms the existence of three distinct Persons that are all identified as the one God of the universe.
God, the Holy Spirit
| Answers in Genesis The Holy Spirit is not an impersonal force. The Bible teaches that he is active in our lives, a distinct person, and fully God.
Refuting Unitarian Errors Regarding the Deity of Jesus
| Answers in Genesis Unitarians reject the triune nature of God and argue that the Bible teaches Jesus was not a divine Person but is simply the one Lord Messiah (a human being). This issue is important, because if we deny the deity of Jesus then we do not know the Father and, therefore, we do not have eternal life.
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Prayer and the Trinity
| Answers in Genesis Our view of the members of the Trinity shape our view of prayer. Dr. Mark Bird will discuss how the New Testament authors relate prayer to the Trinity.
God Is Good
| Answers in Genesis Skeptics often claim that the God of the Bible is a cruel, vindictive God, but the Bible paints a different picture—God is a good and loving God.
God’s Biggest “Problem”
| Answers in Genesis AIDS, genocide, slavery, earthquakes, hurricanes, terrorism—where did these evils come from, and how could a loving God allow people to endure such horrors?
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Did God Create Williams Syndrome?
| Answers in Genesis As Christians who embrace a life-affirming worldview, we often discuss how beautifully designed the human body is—a masterpiece of God’s creation. We know that we are “fearfully and wonderfully” made. So how does a child with a genetic disorder (or any “problem”) fit into this worldview?
Death: A Curse and a Blessing
| Answers in Genesis There is an easy to understand reason why death and suffering exist in a world created by a God of love. Evolution (death over millions of years) destroys the foundation of the message of the cross.
How Could a Loving God ... ?
| Answers in Genesis When we accept Genesis as it was meant to be taken—as literal history—then we understand that death, disease, and violence are intrusions into this world.
God and the Australian Floods
| Answers in Genesis Tragedies beyond description have hit Queensland. The question often comes up at this point: Where is God in the midst of all this loss of life and property?
The God Problem?
| Answers in Genesis Apparently, the author of God’s Problem never took seriously Genesis’s account of the origin of death and suffering.
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How Could a Loving God: Introduction
| Answers in Genesis Underneath these questions was a deeper question still, and it was a question that demanded an answer: Why would a loving God allow, or even cause, such pain, decay, and death?
When God’s Plan Hurts
| Answers in Genesis Through Barbara Edwards’ painful struggle with rheumatoid arthritis, she and her husband Brian developed a deep relationship with, and an everlasting hope in, their God and Savior.
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News Anchor Searches for God
| Answers in Genesis John Humphrys is a household name in the UK. He is one of the principal anchors of BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, which broadcasts every morning of the week except Sunday.
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How Could a Loving God Allow It?
| Answers in Genesis The tremendous loss of life and property caused by the December 26, 2004 tsunami prompted many people to re-ask the question: how could a loving God allow it?