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Chemistry
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Chemistry, the study of the elements that make up matter, powerfully demonstrates the complexity of life and the inability of chemicals to produce life.
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Water Doesn’t Always Mix
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We’ve always heard that oil and water don’t mix, but
sometimes water and water don’t mix.
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A Flood of Arsenic
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Arsenic contaminates water around the world. How’d it get here?
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Composite Creations
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Wherever you are, you’re probably surrounded by
some common manmade composites
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God’s Gift of Metals: Crafted for Life
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A study of the roles that metals (both transition metals and alkali and alkaline earth metals) play in life shows that each has been uniquely designed by a wise Creator to carry out specific and complex functions essential for life.
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Proportionally Perfect for Life: O2, CO2, N2
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Nitrogen constitutes the major component (approximately 78%) of our atmosphere, with oxygen following at about 21%, and carbon dioxide at 0.04%. Though carbon dioxide constitutes a minor part of the atmosphere, life, as we know it, could not exist without it.
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Carbon: God’s Building Blocks for Life
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Whereas carbon may be viewed as a LEGO® piece, carbon-based compounds are the whole LEGO® set as the same pieces are used to construct the multitude of life forms from plants to insects to humans each with very different structures and purposes.
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Formed to Be Inhabited
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When we see Scripture refer to “invisible things” as being evidence for our Creator, do we often think of chemistry?
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Graphene: Seeing God’s Handiwork and Care in Chemistry
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Have you ever stopped to consider how even chemistry showcases God’s handiwork, creativity, and care for his creation?
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Life in the Lab
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Every student in US public schools will likely come across pictures
of the famous Miller-Urey experiment of 1953.
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Rubber Chicken Leg
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What makes bones so strong? If they were made out of minerals alone, they would be too brittle and break.
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Chemical Candidate to Carry Genetic Information in Earliest Life
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Evolutionary scientists suggest a simple chemical candidate to carry genetic information in the earliest life forms.
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Brain Chemistry in Rats Altered by Parasite
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Bizarre bravery in rats explained . . . with serious implications for the human brain.
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Alien Amino Acids
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Organic chemistry lab in a meteorite sparks speculation about the origin of life.
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Mirror Images and Amino Acids
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The complexity of life continues to astound even the most skeptical scientist. Dr. Georgia Purdom looks at recent discoveries that reveal God’s handiwork.
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Space Rock Acid
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A meteorite that landed in Canada supposedly holds a clue to the origin of life: record levels of formic acid, a substance rich in carbon.
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The Molecular Sledgehammer
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The amazing story of how scientists struggled for years to duplicate an important bit of chemistry.
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Proof of Life Evolving in the Universe?
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Newspapers across the United States carried headlines similar to that of The Cincinnati Post: “Key Ingredients for Life Found in Universe,” with the byline “Chemistry Happens Around Distant Stars.”
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Environmental Science
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How should we view climate change, global warming, environmental conservation, and biblical stewardship? Where does the Ice Age fit into biblical history?
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Climate Change
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Both the media and popular culture are saturated in the hype of global warming and climate change. How should Christians understand this sensitive issue?
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I’m a Climate Change Alarmist
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Christians should be alarmed about the coming climate change and its destruction.
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Alabama’s Underwater Forest
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Remnants of a cypress forest were recently discovered off Alabama’s coast. What climate changes could explain such a massive rise in ocean level?
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Australia’s Great Barrier Reef under Threat from Climate Change
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The rate at which the corals grow in the Great Barrier Reef of Australia has declined recently. Is global warming to blame?
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Angry Spiders? Blame Climate Change
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Have you run into any angry spiders lately? Well, you may encounter them in the future thanks to, you guessed it, the villain in many news stories—climate change. And, of course, evolution, as well! Researchers discovered that “angry” spiders in storm-prone areas survived better and reproduced more offspring than tamer spiders.
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Global Warming in Perspective
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Global warming's top five claims: fact or fiction?
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Disagreements on Climate Change
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Scientifically literate people can disagree about the causes and cures of climate change, study finds.
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Climate Emergency or Hot Air?
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In reality, only a small sampling of climate scientists believes we are facing imminent doom. So why all the insistence on anxiety and panic?
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Global Warming
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Many articles and books have been written in recent years on the subject of global warming—much of the information confusing.
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The End of Global Warming?
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A century ago, scientists feared global cooling. Now they fear global warming. What do the numbers really show us? What does this century-old debate have to do with us today? Revisiting these still-unresolved questions may prevent modern politicians from making one of the greatest mistakes in our times.
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Global Warming and Earth’s Design
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Recent scandals, such as “climategate” and questionable practices of the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University, have raised new doubts about the conclusions of climate scientists.
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Human-Caused Global Warming Slight So Far
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Reasons why Christians should be cautious about the controversial topic of global warming are listed.
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How Much Global Warming Is Natural?
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The concern over global warming seems to be escalating. But what do the data show?
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Is Climate Change or Climate Science the Real Threat?
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Is climate change really the biggest, most imminent threat to everything that lives on earth? Or is it climate science that’s the real threat to our future?
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Was President Trump Right to Tell the UN That Climate Change Is a “Scam”?
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The climate is changing. We can observe that. But we know from historical records that the climate has always changed.
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The Globe Is Warming, But It’s Not Your Fault!
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The globe is warming, and many blame humans for causing it, but today’s temperature is not unprecedented. How should Christians respond to climate change?
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Get the Facts: Hurricanes and Global Warming
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Hurricanes, like Harvey and Irma, are not evidence of global warming, but their effects are exaggerated by alarmists.
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Global Climate Models Are Improving, But Are Not Yet Useful
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Almost all of the climate models predict a significant increase in the global temperature in the future and include the possibility of a dramatic increase.
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Are We Globally Warming Our World to Death?
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The United Nations has spoken, declaring that it’s our fault. Global warming, that is.
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Climate Change Facts
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Are temperature changes a serious threat to our way of life?
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Environmentalism: A Biblical Perspective
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Fear of environmental catastrophe grows out of the lack of the fear of God. That is the real root of the environmental scares that have plagued the modern world.
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What Scientists Ignore About Climate Change
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We cannot
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Climate Change Predictions Prove Miscalculated
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Climate change predictions in the news have been proven to be inaccurate.
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Science Confirms Climate Change!
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Climate change is real—but what should we do about it? Trusting in man’s word or God’s Word will determine how we interpret the evidence and fix our response.
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Global Warming: Fact or Fiction?
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The media is constantly abuzz with dire news about global warming and climate change. What does biblical history add to the discussion?
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Burned by Global Warming
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The editor of the scientific journal Remote Sensing recently stepped down. His crime? Publishing a paper that raises questions about anthropogenic global warming.
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Eugenie Scott Focuses on Climate
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Eugenie Scott offers her services to squelch even more academic freedom.
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Global Warming—Normal in an Abnormal World
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The Bible is the foundation for understanding every challenge facing us. Global warming is no exception.
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Global Warming’s Solar Connection
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Based on typical news reports, you would assume that the cause of global warming is obvious—coal and burning gasoline. But we should look closer at a more obvious source of fluctuation.
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Did Bill Nye Lie About Creationists and Climate Change?
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Bill Nye claims that we want to “raise a generation of kids in denial of climate change,” but we say the opposite.
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Editor Fired for Publishing Scientific Paper Skeptical of Climate Change
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American Journal of Economics and Sociology published a special issue on diverse climate change views, which reportedly led to the editor’s firing.
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Will Penguin Guano Save the Planet?
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A recent study of Adélie penguins found that their guano releases ammonia that “may help form clouds that insulate the Earth and prevent sea ice from melting.”
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Sounding the Alarm on Climate Alarmists
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How should Christians respond to climate change alarmists who claim the earth is on the brink of disaster?
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Climate Change and the Bible
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Four reasons Scripture gives us not to be afraid of climate change—and how to deal with climate alarmist fear.
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Church Without God—Does It Work?
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The Atlantic recently published a lengthy article titled, “They Tried to Start a Church Without God. For a While It Worked.” It describes the initial popularity of so-called secular churches, which is supposed to be a replacement for the community found in churches. But does it work?
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Danger at the Drive-Through
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Temperatures are rising on the global warming issue, and it’s more than just hot air.
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Jail the Skeptics
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But why are some scientists certain that
climate change is so dangerous?
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Global Cooling?
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Some proponents of catastrophic global warming are finally admitting that the actual global temperature is not rising as fast as their models predict.
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Climate Change: the Watershed Issue for Two Davids
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A few years back BBC television viewers could enjoy both David Attenborough and David Bellamy bringing wildlife and plants into their homes.
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Global Warming—When Politics and Science Collide
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The global warming debate would not be so heated if it were simply a question of science. It’s no surprise that science gets drowned out by politics.
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Adios, Alaska
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Should we bid “bye-bye” to Alaska?
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AP Article On Global Warming Labeled "Hysteria"
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A group of scientists skeptical of the connection between humans and climate change has taken aim at a recent AP article.
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Climate Change Hysteria—Is It Justified?
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The topic of climate change is always in the news but has been dominating lately because of the protests from young people around the world. Some people are even signing a pledge that they won’t have children until the government does something about the environment! Is this climate change hysteria justified?
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New Study Finds Our Climate Is More Complex Than Previously Thought
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A new study quantifying sulfur emissions from plankton found these emissions contribute to climate change much more than previously thought.
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Great Barrier Reef Sees “Record Coral Comeback”
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Environmental activists have been saying for decades that the Great Barrier Reef is on the edge of collapse, but the reef just had a record growth year.
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Should We Block the Sun to Cool the Climate?
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Even though it sounds like fake news, the idea of blocking the sun is reportedly being considered by the Biden administration as a way of fighting climate change.
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What or Who Is Causing Climate Change?
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Worldview affects everything, including how people understand the cause of climate change when they ignore the global flood in the Bible.
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The Magic School Bus and Human Evolution
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Authors have a new book planned for release next summer, The Magic School Bus Explores Human Evolution. Well, when it comes to this particular book—“magic” is a good word to use because they’re trying to trick (indoctrinate) kids to see something that didn’t happen and isn’t happening!
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Is Having a Baby “Pure Environmental Vandalism”?
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Vogue magazine suggests new parents are guilty of “environmental vandalism” for having children and doesn't acknowledge that climate alarmism is rejected by some left-leaning pols.
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New Zealand to Tax Cow Burps to Fight Climate Change
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New Zealand has proposed a new tax directed at the “greenhouse gases” that farm animals produce, such as methane gas and nitrous oxide from their urine.
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Ice Age
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How should the Ice Age, glaciers, and wooly mammoths be understood within the framework of the Bible’s history?
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When Was the Ice Age in Biblical History?
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The Bible doesn’t say, “And then there was an Ice Age.” Yet it does help us narrow down when the ice built up and then melted away.
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What Started the Ice Age?
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Geophysicists have a love-hate relationship with “the Ice Age.”
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The Unsolved Puzzle of Past Ice Ages
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Secular scientists struggle to explain
what caused the cyclical ice ages that
many believe happened in the past.
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Chapter 12: Do Ice Cores Show Many Tens of Thousands of Years?
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From the top of the Greenland ice sheet, glaciologists further claim that they can count the annual layers downward. They arrive at 110,000 years for the top 90 percent. Is their claim justified?
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Rapid Changes in Oxygen Isotope Content of Ice Cores
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Oxygen isotopes in ice cores extracted from polar regions exhibit a decreasing trend in the ratio of the heavy to light isotopes from the beginning of the Ice Age to its end.
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The Ice Age
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When we start our reasoning from the truth of Scripture, we can develop a model to help us understand the one and only Ice Age.
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Where Does the Ice Age Fit?
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The ice age is a popular topic that is often discussed. Sadly, most people hear the secular/uniformitarian view and don’t look at this subject from a biblical perspective.
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Catastrophic Melting
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Accelerated melting would mark the end of the Ice Age.
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Special Feature—Mysteries of Our Frozen Past
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Few people dispute that an Ice Age once struck the planet, leaving telltale marks. But many mysteries remain.
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Setting the Stage for an Ice Age
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The Flood of Noah’s day was the greatest catastrophe in earth history, and it involved much more than rain.
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Only One Ice Age
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We often hear glacial geologists speak of numerous ice ages, as if it is certain. They hypothesize up to 30 different ones, each separated by interglacials, during the past 2.5 million years.
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Do Greenland Ice Cores Show One Hundred Thousand Years?
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It is the Greenland Ice Sheet that exhibits annual cycles of one or more of the variables down an ice core.
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Ice Cores vs the Flood
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Show that ice core dating methods are not independent and open to significant reinterpretation. The root of the problem is the uncritical acceptance of the uniformitarian paradigm.
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Still Trying to Make Ice Cores Old
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Dr. Hugh Ross’s Reasons to Believe website featured a new result from the Dome C ice core.
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Was Mammoth Extinction Caused by Rapid Global Warming?
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Both the Ice Age and the many millions of woolly mammoths buried in Siberian permafrost have been major mysteries for about years despite numerous theories.
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Possible Explanations for Disharmonious Associations
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There are four possible explanations for the unique mix of cold- and heat-loving animals that were common during the Ice Age.
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The Mystery of the Ice Age
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Although it is evident there was an Ice Age, scientists run into a blank wall when they try to provide the cause. They run into mystery after mystery.
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The Multiplication of Ice Age Theories
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Researchers have generated a lot of theories to explain the mysteries surrounding the mammoths, but questions about the cause of the Ice Age have also spawned a multitude of ideas.
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The Genesis Flood Caused the Ice Age
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The two ingredients required for an Ice Age, cool temperatures and tons of snow, were dramatically fulfilled immediately after the Genesis flood.
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The Snowblitz
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The Genesis flood provides the two ingredients necessary for an ice age. From this point on we can use basic meteorology to estimate the storm patterns and where ice sheets would develop.
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The Peak of the Ice Age
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After the Flood drained off the land, the world’s ocean and land temperatures were constantly changing as they strove toward the relative equilibrium we experience today.
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Migrant Native Americans
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A new genetic study conducted at the University of Michigan “bolsters claims that Native Americans are descended from one migrant group that crossed a lost land link from modern Siberia to Alaska,” reports Agence France-Presse.
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Ice Age Feedback
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Secular scientists are finally showing by their research that they recognize a problem creationists have been pointing out for decades.
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After the Rainbow
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Have you ever wondered what it was like when Noah first stepped off the Ark? Imagine the changes!
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Who Killed the Iceman?
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PBS recently aired an intriguing documentary covering an investigation into the death of earth’s oldest cold case. How and why was Ötzi killed?
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A Snail’s Tale of the Past
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Protein degradation purported to peer into the past.
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Frozen Mountains Measured
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A mountain range the size of the European Alps—larger than anyone expected—has finally been measured.
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A Problem for the Supposed Origin of Multicellular Animals
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For creationists, the rocks and their associated ‘glacial diagnostic features’ can be explained very easily. They are the result of gigantic submarine landslides in a warm ocean in the Genesis Flood.
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Wild Ice-Core Interpretations by Uniformitarian Scientists
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Uniformitarian scientists derive many more ‘annual layers’ in the Greenland ice cores than creationists because of their assumed old age time scale.
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Lots of Ice, Too Much Age
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Twentieth Century Fox has turned the period of Earth history known as the Ice Age into an animated movie for children called Ice Age.
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More on the Ice Age
| Answers in Genesis
This article discusses the weather after the global flood and the conditions needed to create an ice age.
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Was There an Ice Age?
| Answers in Genesis
This article discusses the possiblity of there having been a global ice age following the global flood.
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Hotting Up For an Ice Age
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Ask just about anyone, ‘Was the Ice Age caused by things getting colder or warmer?’ They will almost certainly say, ‘That’s obvious. Colder, of course!’
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The Ice Age
| Answers in Genesis
What do you know about the Ice Age? How does it fit into world history?
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A Collision of Species
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When invasive species clash with native ecosystems, biologists face tangled questions about biblical dominion.
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Earth Day—A Christian Perspective
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April 22 marks the 31st celebration of Earth Day—an effort initiated to increase awareness about environmental issues.
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Stewardship
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God has commanded man to be a good steward of the earth that He entrusted to us. In a time of almost cultish concern for the earth, how do Christians respond?
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Caring About Creation for the Right Reasons
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Some people believe creation is something we should worship. Others believe its purpose is to serve mankind’s greater good. Which view is right?
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How “Evolution” Might Save Coral Reefs
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What can we do to help corals survive and why should we want to?
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Stewarding American Black Bears with Trust
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What mechanisms have caused bears to diversify since the Flood? What is their role in Creation?
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Clarifications Regarding Stewarding American Black Bears
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In response to some feedback regarding a recent Answer in Depth article, Tom Hennigan takes the occasion to clarify some points.
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Should We Take Care of the Earth?
| Answers in Genesis
As Christians we must reject the view that nature should be revered above the well-being of mankind. Fearful of being associated with worshipping the earth and depreciating the value of mankind, many Christians shy away from anything environmentally friendly. What should be our proper response to caring for the earth?
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Why We Work
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A biblical perspective on work, the dominion mandate, how the fall affected work, and the way we expand God’s glory (and our good) through work.
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Is Stewardship the Same as Going Green?
| Answers in Genesis
What should be the Christian response to the environmental concerns of the Green Movement? What is our responsibility to the earth and to its inhabitants?
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Earth Day and Creation
| Answers in Genesis
Earth Day: what is the creation perspective?
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Creation and Conservation
| Answers in Genesis
People today are becoming more and more concerned with the environment and what humans are doing to it. For many, including many Christians, this issue has become very emotional.
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Should Christians Save the Rhinos?
| Answers in Genesis
We ought to care about creation, for God himself made it and cares about it. We know that not one sparrow falls without God’s noticing (Matthew 10:29). The rhino is a magnificent creature who exhibits our Creator’s handiwork. Here are some fascinating facts to know on Save the Rhino Day.
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Earth Day—A Creationist Perspective
| Answers in Genesis
There is more behind what has been designated today as Earth Day than planting trees, reducing pollution, and conserving natural resources.
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Fortieth Anniversary of Earth Day
| Answers in Genesis
This week marked the fortieth anniversary of Earth Day, an occasion to celebrate—or even worship—“Mother Earth.”
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Arctic Insurance
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists hope to deposit samples of 4.5 million varieties of seeds in a vault.
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The Root of our Ecological Crisis
| Answers in Genesis
Presents land conservation and stewardship from a Biblical worldview and challenges Christians to apply the Biblical principles of Christian stewardship to the use of God’s Creation.
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Ice Cores—The Secret to Understanding Earth’s Climate?
| Answers in Genesis
How polar ice sheets developed after the global flood and why ice cores don’t tell us how to address climate change.
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Did Rainforests Once Grow in a Frozen Wasteland?
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists discover Antarctica was once home to a swampy, temperate rainforest likely before catastrophic plate tectonic activity during the global flood.
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What Would Earth Look Like Without Water?
| Answers in Genesis
See how the post-flood ice age and land bridges are being confirmed by secular scientists—something creation apologists have been saying for years.
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Sanctuary in the Snow
| Answers in Genesis
When a fresh snowfall blankets the world, we retreat indoors to the warm shelter of our homes. But where do wild animals take shelter from the cold?
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Practical Creation Care: Gardening for Butterflies
| Answers in Genesis
By adding host plants to your landscape, you can help care for butterflies and moths, a wonderful part of God’s creation.
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Winter’s Lively Microbiome
| Answers in Genesis
Even snow harbors its own microscopic garden of life that we have only just unearthed within the last decade.
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Charged
| Answers in Genesis
Electric cars are parked at the center of a charged debate. How can you know when and whether to buy in?
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Climate Alarmism
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Five reasons not to believe climate alarmism claims when they ignore major relevant data in favor of economy-crippling regulations.
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Earth Day—The History of Two Trees
| Answers in Genesis
God made everything perfect, but our sin corrupted it, and Earth Day began as an ethical ideal, but now exists as a secular holiday.
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Environmental Clean-Up Crew
| Answers in Genesis
Did the Creator foresee the biological resources we would need to help correct our mistakes, as we fulfill His command to “subdue the earth”?
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Wildfires: Cause for Alarm?
| Answers in Genesis
As stewards of creation, sometimes we must work with fire, not against it.
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A Deeper Shade of Green
| Answers in Genesis
The green movement is dominated
by secular environmentalists.
But when it comes to creation care,
Christians have a deeper calling.
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Welcome to Harmony Hillside
| Answers in Genesis
As modern homesteaders,
Erik and Patty Lutz have a firsthand
understanding of biblical dominion.
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Plastics in Paradise
| Answers in Genesis
Plastic pollution has invaded
even the most remote places.
Should Christians be concerned?
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Should We Abandon Some Species to Extinction?
| Answers in Genesis
As God’s creatures disappear,
Christians have the opportunity
to model the Creator’s spirit
of wise conservation.
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The Climate Connection
| Answers in Genesis
When people reject
the Bible, they will
misinterpret why the
world is changing—including the climate.
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Fossil Record Evolution: Any Transitional Forms?
| Answers in Genesis
Transitional forms in the fossil record are rarely, if ever, observed. This lack of evidence is very damaging to macroevolutionary theory.
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Cloudy with a Chance of Confusion
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Weather
forecasting
is a good
reminder
of the limits
of science. It is
a useful tool,
but it is bound
by human
finiteness
and fallibility.
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Go (Truly) Green—by Starting with Genesis
| Answers in Genesis
Many evolutionists are celebrating Earth Day by telling the world to stop climate change by “going green.” The great irony is that only the Bible gives a foundation for taking care of the earth. When God created the first humans, He gave them charge over the Garden of Eden to care for the animals and plants.
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Arbor Day: Celebrating God’s Design for Trees
| Answers in Genesis
Whether you realize it or not, trees are quietly providing mankind with many benefits besides their aesthetic appeal.
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Cloudy with a Chance of Awesome
| Answers in Genesis
A thunderstorm is awe inspiring, but an even more awesome display of God’s power is the supercell.
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The Everlasting Storm
| Answers in Genesis
If lightning never strikes the same place twice, it’s running out of options on the Catatumbo River in Venezuela, South America.
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Pollution Evolution
| Answers in Genesis
Another prominently reported example of “evolution” illustrates just the opposite—and supports the creationist critique of Darwinian evolution.
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Conservation Clashes
| Answers in Genesis
Last issue's environment article got the most response. We list the main objections here, followed by comment in brackets.
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Tropical Rainforests—a Created Treasure Trove!
| Answers in Genesis
Amid the pessimism and gloom over the future of the rainforests of the earth, conservation funds are being obtained from the pharmaceutical industry.
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Environmentalist “Doom-and-Gloom” Predictions Haven’t Come True
| Answers in Genesis
As Christians, we have a reason to care for the earth—God has set us as stewards, and we need to care for the earth, just as he does. But that doesn’t mean we should buy into every alarmist and dire claim made by radical environmentalists. A recent article highlights one of the reasons why.
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Genetics
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DNA, the information stored within it, and the processes surrounding it are clear evidence of the need for an intelligent Creator God.
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CRISPR: A Clear-Cut Issue?
| Answers in Genesis
Does this popular
gene-editing tool combat the curse
or cut away at God’s design?
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Mutations
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Are mutations—copying errors in DNA—the driving force for biological evolution? Or do they represent the sad reality of a sin-cursed world?
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Testing the Limits
| Answers in Genesis
Evolution would require an enormous amount of change. Modern laboratory experiments have tested bacteria’s ability to change. Is this ability truly unlimited?
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Just How Random Are Mutations?
| Answers in Genesis
Changes to the sequence of nucleotides (e.g., mutations) can alter the genetic information of the organism, which, in turn can alter its physical features
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A Poke in the Eye?
| Answers in Genesis
Has E. coli “evolved” new complex traits in the lab? Or is this more evidence of evolutionists grasping at anything to promote their ideas?
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Evidence of New Genetic Information?
| Answers in Genesis
Can duplication and mutations cause new information to “arise” in the genome? Dr. Georgia Purdom accepts this challenge posted to creationists.
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The Effect of Mutations Down on the Farm
| Answers in Genesis
A closer look at how different mutations affect livestock can give a better understanding of the role mutations play in our world.
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Hijacking Good Science: Lenski’s Bacteria Support Creation
| Answers in Genesis
Lenski's long-term evolution experiment does not distinguish between observable limited change and unobservable molecules-to-man evolution.
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One Small Step for DNA, One Giant Leap for Man’s Brain
| Answers in Genesis
If we share a common ancestor with a chimpanzee, as evolutionists confidently maintain, then how did our brains leap so far ahead in size and capability?
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Are Some Mutations Directed?
| Answers in Genesis
Scientific American recently described the molecular basis for a number of traits as supporting evolution, but a closer looks reveals that there’s more to mutation than randomness.
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A Creationist Perspective of Beneficial Mutations in Bacteria
| Answers in Genesis
Creationists have tended to offer an inconsistent or incomplete perspective of “beneficial mutations” within a creation framework.
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Analysis of Barry Hall’s Research of E. coli ebg Operon
| Answers in Genesis
Much research has been done on the ebg operon of the bacterium Escherichia coli over the last 30 years. specific mutations within this operon enable the bacterium to metabolize lactose.
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Sickle Cell Anemia and Other Mutations
| Answers in Genesis
The survival of living species depends on its ability to pass on its genetic instructions, from generation to generation, without significant alteration.
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Mutations, Yes; Evolution, No
| Answers in Genesis
Contrary to popular opinion, drug resistance in bacteria does not demonstrate evolution.
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Mutation-Selection in Biblical Perspective
| Answers in Genesis
Mutations are no real help in explaining the origin of species, but they are great for explaining the origin of disease, disease organisms, and birth defects.
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“Mutations Drive Evolution.”
| Answers in Genesis
Neo-Darwinism offers this basic equation for evolution: mutations + natural selection + millions of years = particles-to-person evolution. In this view, evolution is like a white-haired tinkerer, fiddling around with components in his shop until a workable innovation is rolled out.
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Scientists Admit Genetic Data Timing Uncertain
| Answers in Genesis
“The inability to observe past mutation rates means that the timing of events from genetic data remains uncertain,” report Cambridge geneticists.
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Cryptic Mutations
| Answers in Genesis
Cryptic variation and preadaptation—fancy words for the obvious.
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Fruit Flies and Advantageous Mutations
| Answers in Genesis
A study of 600 generations of fruit flies, just reported in Nature, sought to unravel the mystery of how advantageous mutations could become fixed in the population.
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Molecular Time-Travel
| Answers in Genesis
“Molecular machine’s evolutionary trajectory” is an imaginary marvel.
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Mutated Sense of Taste
| Answers in Genesis
Many meat-eating mammals have mutated sweet sense.
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De-Regulation of an Existing Trait
| Answers in Genesis
Genome analysis confirms “a key evolutionary innovation” is only de-regulation of an existing trait.
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Duplicate to Make Something New?
| Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists claim to have demonstrated the evolution of a new function through gene duplication.
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Selective Switch Toggles Bacterial Traits
| Answers in Genesis
Gluttonous bacteria on the fast track compete with biofilm-makers boldly going where bacteria haven’t gone before.
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From Bacteria to Giraffes
| Answers in Genesis
What can pink shower scum tell us about the origin of the giraffe’s long neck?
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Are There Beneficial Mutations?
| Answers in Genesis
What are beneficial mutations? Does AiG need to change its stance regarding them? Dr. Georgia Purdom, AiG–U.S., clarifies this often-contentious area.
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Are You a Mutant?
| Answers in Genesis
A team of researchers has added to our knowledge of the genetic mutation rate in humans, as they report in Current Biology.
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A Feet of Imagination
| Answers in Genesis
No story related to human evolution has drawn as much press in recent times as the account of family members in Turkey who walk hunched over, using their hands as well as feet to ambulate.
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Evolution is Just Mistakes
| Answers in Genesis
A major fault line between creationists and evolutionists concerns the appearance of novel genetic information in nature. What does the latest research say about what’s supposed to be the driving force of evolution?
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Mutational Secrets of a Virus
| Answers in Genesis
Series of mutations said to evolve a “key innovation”
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Milk-Digestion Gene Disables, Evolution Proved?
| Answers in Genesis
“Recent instance of human evolution!” is the cry of evolutionists (that phrase coming from The New York Times), who are cheering an analysis of mutations that have led to lactose tolerance in various human populations.
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Fins to Limbs?
| Answers in Genesis
How zebrafish mutation guides species to extinction instead of theoretical improvement, despite evolutionary propaganda attempts
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Gene-Editing of Babies, Potential Consequences
| Answers in Genesis
In November 2018 a pair of twin girls born in China were the first gene-edited humans. He Jiankui used CRISPR technology to edit a gene to make the girls resistant to the HIV virus. A new study in the journal Nature Medicine revealed a nasty downside to the mutant gene variant of CCR55, which prevents HIV infection.
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Is Dark DNA Evolution’s Secret Weapon?
| Answers in Genesis
Since evolutionists view mutations as the genetic engine driving dramatic transformations, dark DNA could be a source of rapid and extensive evolutionary change. However, mutations have never been shown to accomplish the types of transformations required by universal common descent.
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The Werewolf’s Curse
| Answers in Genesis
Since ancient times history has recorded legends of people turning into animals, particularly dangerous wolves. Does some truth lurk behind the stories?
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The Ancient Mega-Clone
| Answers in Genesis
Models suggest massive Mediterranean meadows are millenary mega-clones.
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Leaping Mutants
| Answers in Genesis
Statistics suggest a way for eukaryotic mutants to leap over fitness valleys.
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"Directed Evolution" in MIT Laboratory
| Answers in Genesis
“Directed evolution” sounds like a page out of the theistic evolutionist’s playbook. So what’s it doing turning up in an MIT laboratory?
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Making the Evolution Pill Easier to Swallow, Part 2
| Answers in Genesis
According to one presenter at a recent Darwin and medicine conference, children with birth defects are “bumps” in the road on our way to becoming more evolved.
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Leaps of Developmental Logic
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Small biological changes that take generations—like some birds’ beaks growing longer or shorter in certain ecological niches—can be explained and understood by creationists and evolutionists. But when it comes to explaining developmental “leaps,” evolutionists must make a leap of logic.
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DNA Mutations Are More Counterproductive Than Helpful
| Answers in Genesis
From mid-November, a reminder that mutations are nearly always counterproductive.
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Scientists Raise the Dead and Kill the Living
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists have “reversed evolution”-converting a modern enzyme into its “theoretical distant ancestor” in one case, and reactivating a supposedly five-million-year-old retrovirus in the other.
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How We Got Red Hair (It Wasn’t By Evolution)
| Answers in Genesis
Recent research has shown that red hair in people often results from mutations in just one gene.
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Special Tools of Life
| Answers in Genesis
Did you know that living things make their own tools? For example, they use enzymes to break down large molecules for parts (building blocks) and some for energy.
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Protein Mutational Context Dependence 1
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Whenever amino acids can be changed at a residue position, it is generally assumed this mutation is compatible with all other tolerated residue substitutions. We show here that this cannot be assumed.
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Ancon Sheep: Just Another Loss Mutation
| Answers in Genesis
A major problem for Darwinists is that the Ancon mutation (a Mendelian recessive), as is true with most other mutations, is a loss mutation.
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Dawkins’ Weasel Revisited
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Zoology Professor Richard Dawkins claimed to show that random mutations could generate new structures such as organs or limbs by a computer programming exercise.
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Protein Families: Chance or Design?
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We demonstrate that new gene families must overcome prohibitive statistical barriers before Darwinian processes can be invoked.
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In Brief—D.N.A. Mutation and Design
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The living cell is a marvellous, complex piece of machinery. It contains energy converters (mitochondria), production factories (golgi bodies), and the ability to repair or duplicate itself.
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“Junk” DNA
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Using evolutionary assumptions about life’s history, geneticists have branded vast sums of DNA as junk, but research is showing this DNA is far from useless.
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Decoding the Debris
| Answers in Genesis
For decades, evolutionary scientists have ignored “junk” DNA that supposedly littered our genetic sequence.
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DNA Prevents Reproducing Between Two Species
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Has the U.S. government finally supported creationist research? Alas, no, but the results of a National Institutes of Health study fit squarely within the young-earth creation framework.
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Junk DNA and ENCODE Revisited
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The ENCODE project’s recent discoveries help make sense of the DNA referred to as “junk.”
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The Smell of Change in Our Understanding of Pseudogenes
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For years pseudogenes have been used by skeptics to promote evolution. But you can refute this every time you breathe in.
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“Junk” DNA—past, present, and future, part 1
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For many years this notion that non-coding DNA was not functional (“junk”) actually inhibited science.
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“Junk” DNA—Past, Present, and Future, Part 2
| Answers in Genesis
The ENCODE Project findings have made it clear that junk DNA is not junk and that most of it is functional in the form of RNA or protein.
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Junk Science
| Answers in Genesis
The evolutionary assumption that 98% of human DNA is "junk" actually inhibited our understanding of the human genome.
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Defining the “Junk” Genes That Separate Chimps and Humans
| Answers in Genesis
We have been hearing for years that chimp and human DNA is 98.5% identical, as if that proves our common ancestry.
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Human Endogenous Retroviruses (HERVs)—God’s Tools?
| Answers in Genesis
Contrary to being “junk” DNA, HERVs are thought to play at least three major roles.
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Junk DNA Evolutionary Discards God’s Tools
| Answers in Genesis
That functions are being found for junk DNAs fits in well with creation science. But evolutionary theory is being adjusted again to accommodate the data.
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Latest in DNA Research Destroys Evolutionary “Proof”
| Answers in Genesis
The latest in DNA research doesn’t confirm this decades-old “proof” of evolution!
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Humans May Have Fewer Genes Than Expected?
| Answers in Genesis
A recent study revealed some surprising results about the number of coding genes (those which produce proteins) in the human genome. In this study, led by the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, they found that around 20% of the genes which had been classified as coding genes were not coding.
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Unnecessary DNA
| Answers in Genesis
How can rats, mice, and humans share so many identical DNA sequences? Look inside!
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Neutral DNA
| Answers in Genesis
DNA elements sometimes confer neither benefits nor disadvantages.
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Brain Size and Evolution: Is There a Valid Correlation?
| Answers in Genesis
For many years a dogma within evolutionary biology has been that as organisms evolved from mouse to chimp to human their brain size increased (even relative to body weight). Is this valid?
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Vestigial Genes?
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Scientists have found supposedly worthless DNA. What are these pseudogenes and what do they mean?
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Evidence Against Pseudogene Shared Mistakes
| Answers in Genesis
Recent discoveries of function in certain pseudogenes have led to the recognition, by some evolutionists, of widespread function in pseudogenes.
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Pseudogene Function: More Evidence
| Answers in Genesis
According to standard evolutionary thinking, pseudogenes are simply disabled copies of genes.
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Pseudogene Function: Regulation of Gene Expression
| Answers in Genesis
The discovery of a functional nitric oxide synthase (NOS) pseudogene compels us to understand pseudogenes in a new light.
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Epigenetics
| Answers in Genesis
Our physical makeup is determined by our genes, not our environment—right? The science of epigenetics is forcing scientists to rethink their assumptions.
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Can Learned Behaviors be Inherited?
| Answers in Genesis
A recent article in the peer-reviewed journal Cell discussed the epigenetic inheritance of learned traits in roundworms. The article discusses the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans and its ability to transmit a learned trait from parent to offspring through four generations.
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Epigenetics—Inheriting More Than Genes
| Answers in Genesis
All our lives, we’ve heard that our physical makeup is determined by our genes, not environment. But the science of epigenetics is forcing scientists to rethink their assumptions.
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Beneficial Mutations
| Answers in Genesis
Epigenetics, a field of science, displays the providence of God to help organisms adapt and survive in a fallen world which helps explain beneficial mutations.
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Epigenetic On-Off Switches
| Answers in Genesis
Epigenetic inheritance allows rapid adaptation without loss—or gain—of information.
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Looking Between Genes Reveals Differences by Design, Not Evolutio
| Answers in Genesis
From almost the same genetic building blocks, DNA, very different results are achieved! But is that the result of evolution, or God’s design?
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Epigenetic Changes Mice Inherit Father Fears
| Answers in Genesis
Are inherited fears mere fodder for novels, or is there some basis for them in science?
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Secret of Epigenetic Inheritance Discovered
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Scientists have long known the process of passing parental characteristics to offspring reaches a level of complexity only partially understood.
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Epigenetic Code: the Hidden DNA
| Answers in Genesis
Epigenetic mutations can produce rapid variation and defy Mendelian genetics.
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A New Headline for The Guardian
| Answers in Genesis
Think evolution has anything to do with Charles Darwin? If so, you’re apparently wrong, if the Guardian’s provocative headline is taken literally.
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Animal Genetics
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Does our growing understanding of animal genetics support evolutionary principles or special creation by a caring, intelligent Designer as the Bible proclaims?
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Genetics Proves Absurdity of Whale Evolution
| Answers in Genesis
In recent years evolutionists have increasingly promoted the evolution of whales as one of the most convincing examples of macroevolution.
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Whale Genetics and Evolution
| Answers in Genesis
Whale evolution is presented in most biology textbooks as absolute fact, often with inaccurate depictions of the supposed transitional forms.
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Speedy Horses Can't Outrun Loss of Diversity
| Answers in Genesis
Researchers have dug into the genome of the horse and made some pretty startling discoveries. In an attempt to discover the lineage of horses, over one hundred researchers have recently examined the genomes of over two hundred fossil horses and compared it to the genomes of modern horses.
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Snakes Appear to Live a Cursed Life
| Answers in Genesis
A recent study was published purporting to explain how snakes lost their limbs, and it revealed some surprising findings. The aforementioned study not only probed the question of snake limbs but also sightless subterranean mammals.
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Does the Spotted Gar Harbor a Fish-Finger Connection?
| Answers in Genesis
Solution to the mystery of terrestrial toes said to reside in the spotted gar.
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Hairy New Findings in Dog Variation
| Answers in Genesis
There is astounding variation that exists within dogs. There are different sizes, shapes, and colors. What causes this variety?
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On the Origin of Man's Best Friend
| Answers in Genesis
If the idea behind item #1 (above) is correct, perhaps the domestic dog would be the biggest “winner” of all.
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Animal Polyploidy: A Mechanism for Evolution?
| Answers in Genesis
Polyploidy, though less common in animals than it is in plants, appears to have played a role in the speciation in animals. Since evolutionists need an increase in information in the genome to go from molecules to man, polyploidy is claimed to be a mechanism to increase genetic information available to a population.
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Jacob’s Odd “Breeding Program” of Genesis 30
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So many questions have been raised regarding Genesis 30–31: Does Jacob’s “peeled bark” practice have any bearing on how sheep and goats breed? Does it offer any health or reproductive value? Did God instruct Jacob in this practice?
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Salivary Protein: Evolution or Just Adaptation?
| Answers in Genesis
A recent study of the salivary mucin-7 gene (MUC7) demonstrated there was genetic variation of this gene among different primate species.
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Going to the Dogs
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists are comparing the DNA of dogs to determine where they originally came from.
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As I Always Said: “It’s a Mutant!”
| Answers in Genesis
She may look cute, but the science of genetics is confirming what I’ve always said about her: “She’s a degenerate mutant affected by sin and the Curse.”
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Examining the Platypus Genetic Code
| Answers in Genesis
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for: the mapping of the genome of the funny, furry duck-billed platypus.
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Did Speedy Horses Evolve Only Recently?
| Answers in Genesis
A new study looked at the genome of over 200 fossil horses, as well as domesticated horses and the Przewalski’s horse. The National Geographic headline declared, “Speedy horses evolved only recently, says landmark equine study.” But what they were really looking at was not evolution—it was artificial selection!
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Did God Create Poodles?
| Answers in Genesis
Now before the poodle lovers of the world unite, I do not hate poodles. They may be degenerate mutants, but they are cute ones!
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Is Your Dog Some Kind of Degenerate Mutant?
| Answers in Genesis
Next time you pat your dog on the head, look a bit closer. Is it a mutt or mutant?
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Mouse Genome Project
| Answers in Genesis
Making mice more useful with the Mouse Genome Project
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Hundreds of Thousands of Species in a Few Thousand Years?
| Answers in Genesis
A recent review paper proposed a controversial claim—that the vast majority
of animal species arose contemporary with modern humans. Not surprisingly, this claim was met with backlash from the evolutionary community. On what basis did the authors make this wide-reaching claim? Is their assertion true?
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How Manatees Lost Their Legs?
| Answers in Genesis
A ScienceDaily article reported that research published in a recent PNAS article gives new evidence as to how manatees may have lost their hindlimbs.
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Eyeless Fish in Caves
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‘We read about fish that live in caves. They can’t see, and they have scars where most fish have eyes. Were they created like this?’
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More Mutant Pets!
| Answers in Genesis
For some pet lovers, the extensive wrinkling of one breed of dog that makes it so adorable.
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Pigeon’s Crest Genome Mutation Biodiversity
| Answers in Genesis
Genomic secret of the pigeon’s crest shows the power of a single mutation to produce an explosion of biodiversity.
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How Did Tigers Get Stripes and Leopards Get Spots?
| Answers in Genesis
Creationists often discuss how the species we see today descended from the original “created kinds.” But how did tigers end up with stripes while leopards got spots?
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First Lizard Genome Sequenced
| Answers in Genesis
Lizard’s genomic agility unravels the mystery of modern life.
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The Naked-Neck Gene
| Answers in Genesis
Creationists emphasize that genetic mutations have never been shown to generate new, beneficial information in organisms (and often have deleterious effects), which undermines Darwinists’ case. And mutations in the naked-neck chicken are no exception.
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Resurrected Mammoth Hemoglobin Protein
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists have resurrected a mammoth—a mammoth hemoglobin protein, that is.
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Dog Fur Evolution
| Answers in Genesis
The many differences in dog fur are reducible to just a few genetic factors, a team reports in Science.
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Meet Chickenosaurus
| Answers in Genesis
It sounds like an April Fools’ Day joke that came months too late: a Canadian scientist declares he will “flip some levers” and develop a dinosaur out of a chicken embryo.
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Tame this Gene
| Answers in Genesis
What makes an animal wild or tame—is it only human intervention? On the contrary, a decades-long study seeks to identify a genetic basis for animals’ attitudes toward humankind.
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Super Rats “Evolving” in Britain
| Answers in Genesis
The Daily Telegraph has reported that rats in many parts of the UK have become resistant to rat poison. The development is being pronounced by the media as an example of evolution in action.
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Opossum: Genome Sequenced
| Answers in Genesis
A team of scientists led by Tarjei Mikkelsen and Kerstin Lindblad-Toh of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University announced this week in Nature the completed sequencing of the opossum genome.
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Totally Naked Rooster
| Answers in Genesis
We’d like you to meet TNR—a chicken with no feathers. His feathers were not pulled out by someone anxious to have him for a meal—feathers simply don’t grow on him!
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Genetic Engineering: Are We Playing God?
| Answers in Genesis
A recent Pew Research poll asked several interesting and introspective questions about potential or real genetic engineering experiments on animals. The results were mostly what would be expected, with a few surprises along the way.
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A Fresh Look at Human-Chimp DNA Similarity
| Answers in Genesis
Creationist scientists Drs. Tomkins and Bergman came up with an overall DNA similarity between humans and chimps of around 81%—quite a difference!
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New Genetic Information Proposals Fail
| Answers in Genesis
Getting new genetic information is required for evolution—but every proposed (and imaginative) method for obtaining it fizzles one way or another
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Directed Evolution
| Answers in Genesis
Are intelligently designed experiments, done in state-of-the-art facilities, using already present features in already-existing bacteria and viruses really examples of molecules-to-man evolution?
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Long Live the Men
| Answers in Genesis
According to some evolutionists, sometime “between infinity and a few thousand years,” the Y chromosome will become extinct unless we can evolve a new sex gene.
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DNA Similarities
| Answers in Genesis
Do similarities in DNA between organisms suggest a common ancestor or a common Designer? Are chimps and humans actually 98% similar?
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DNA—The Language of Life
| Answers in Genesis
DNA resembles a language in many uncanny ways.
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The Untold Story Behind DNA Similarity
| Answers in Genesis
When you hear stories about the astonishing
similarity between human and chimp DNA, there’s
something they’re not telling you . . .
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Chromosome Tales and the Importance of a Biblical Worldview
| Answers in Genesis
When evidence is interpreted in a particular worldview, it can sound very convincing that the evidence supports that worldview.
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Apes Are Our Brothers—Just Ask the Post Office
| Answers in Genesis
'Do you realise our DNA is 98.5% identical?’ These are the words in an advertisement for the first-class stamp in a new series called ‘The secret of life,’ released by Royal Mail (UK).
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A Tale of Two Chromosomes
| Answers in Genesis
There are many anatomical similarities between humans and apes. Our chromosomes are similar as well. But do human chromosomes hint of chimp ancestry?
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A Simple Answer
| Answers in Genesis
Can a simple “yes or no” answer be adequate for a question about Adam and Eve’s genetic code and today’s human traits?
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Seventy Percent of Human Genes Traced Back to Acorn Worm?
| Answers in Genesis
Some think acorn worms, virtually unchanged since the Cambrian explosion, represent an evolutionary link between invertebrates and humans.
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Differences Between Chimp and Human DNA Recalculated
| Answers in Genesis
Some assert that humans and chimpanzees are only 1 to 2% different, but careful re-tallying suggests there is a gigantic genetic gap between the two species.
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Chimp-Human DNA Similarity: What Does It Really Mean?
| Answers in Genesis
The Human Genome Project, supposedly disproved the possibility of all humans being descended from one man and woman. But what does the science really show?
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Denisovan Human Genome Sequenced
| Answers in Genesis
Revolutionary DNA sequencing technique said to be “a powerful new tool to fish for genes that have recently evolved.”
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Trace Your Family History through DNA Testing
| Answers in Genesis
According to American Demographics, 113 million Americans have begun to trace their roots.
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If human and chimp DNA are so similar, why differences?
| Answers in Genesis
It seems that if a protein performs a certain function in one organism, then that same protein should perform the same function in a variety of organisms.
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Easy-Going Ape Joins Genome Club
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists recently analyzed the bonobo ape's genome.
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Chimp Genome Sequence Very Different from Man
| Answers in Genesis
Last week, in a special issue of Nature devoted to chimpanzees, researchers report the initial sequence of the chimpanzee genome.
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The Differences Make the Difference
| Answers in Genesis
While there is much similarity in DNA sequences and gene expression among them, there are also important differences. In the case examined, as in other cases, the differences make the difference.
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Greater Than 98% Chimp/Human DNA Similarity? Not Any More.
| Answers in Genesis
A new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the common value of >98% similarity of DNA between chimp and humans is incorrect.
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Turtles Still Baffle Evolutionists
| Answers in Genesis
Turtles in search of their long lost ancestor discover genes trump holes in the head.
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Finding Adam in the Genome: A BioLogos cover-up?
| Answers in Genesis
Venema took Tomkins’ claims to task on the BioLogos website regarding the supposed remnants of an egg-laying gene (vitellogenin) in human DNA.
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Finding Adam in the Genome: Does BioLogos Have Even More Egg on Its Face?
| Answers in Genesis
BioLogos has engaged in systematic scientific error on one of their “evidences” for evolution, and they have misrepresented the arguments for several years.
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Human/Chimp DNA Similarity Continues to Decrease: Counting Indels
| Answers in Genesis
It is conventionally held that humans and chimps differ only very slightly in their DNA. However, new evidence suggests that the difference might be much more drastic.
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Are Pseudogenes ‘Shared Mistakes’ Between Primate Genomes?
| Answers in Genesis
The claim that pseudogenes and their respective variations are shared between primates in a nested hierarchy, and can only be explained through common evolutionary descent, is found wanting.
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Sponge Synapses
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Sponge nerve system genes correlate with human nervous system genes by 25%.
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The Question of Y
| Answers in Genesis
We’ve all heard that humans and chimps share up to 98% of their DNA. But new studies are accentuating the differences between humans and chimps.
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DNA We're Missing Makes Us Human
| Answers in Genesis
No one, not even evolutionists, disputes that humans have crossed a threshold that sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom—even chimpanzees, our “close evolutionary relatives.” But according to new research, it’s actually the genes we don’t have that sets us apart.
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Odd Non-Man Out
| Answers in Genesis
When considered alongside humans and chimps, the orangutan is the genomic “odd man out.” Is that because it hasn’t evolved as quickly?
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Study Finds Chimp DNA Is Not “99% Identical” to Ours
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A “shocking” new study has confirmed what we’d expect—chimpanzee DNA is not 98–99% identical to human DNA.
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Genetic Connections with Chimpanzees
| Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists often emphasize our genetic similarity to chimpanzees, but our genetic connections don’t end there.
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Time Keeps on Slipping
| Answers in Genesis
Twice in the past five years, our alleged ancestry with apes has made the cover of Time magazine.
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More Different Than We Thought
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists publishing in the journal Genetics last week have showed that “[m]any more genes separate humans from chimpanzees than scientists believed.”
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The Parade of Chimps
| Answers in Genesis
The chimp and human genome have more differences than previously thought.
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Group Think
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All humans today can be traced back to the same small group of people.
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Chimp Filing for Person-hood
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His name notwithstanding, the current legal case for the personhood of Mr. Matthew Hiasl Pan (a chimp) is in jeopardy, reports the Associated Press from Vienna, Austria.
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Not Only How Much, But Also How Fast: Gene Sequences
| Answers in Genesis
The inadequacy of similar “genetic potential” in explaining organisms’ similarity is perhaps most notable in comparisons of chimps and humans.
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All About the Differences
| Answers in Genesis
A sensational headline ran across the science media this week: “Chimps More Evolved than Humans.”
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The Trouble with Sequencing
| Answers in Genesis
The news has been buzzing lately about two recent papers that are reporting the sequencing of up to one million bases of the Neanderthal genome.
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Visiting the Family?
| Answers in Genesis
I have a soft spot for Twycross Zoo. It is a favourite with my children and me, since it is only a 30-minute drive from our house in the west of Leicestershire.
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Evolution: Fact or Fiction?
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In the current controversies about teaching about the origin of life in public schools, there is a general misunderstanding of the differences between “origin science” and “operation science."
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Hox Hype
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From the hype of the press release, it would seem that evolution was finally proven once and for all and the creationists should just give up and go home.
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How Low Can You Go?
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An article published in Nature indicates previous studies may have underestimated the size of the minimal bacterial genome by as much as 50%. Yet, evolutionary significance seems to be lacking.
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DNA Structure
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The iconic, complex double-helix structure of DNA displays the masterful design and creativity of the all-wise Creator.
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Limited Genetic Code Proof God Not Required?
| Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists frequently cite the genetic code’s universality as proof of evolution from a common ancestor.
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New Letters for DNA Alphabet God’s Design
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Can genetic engineers—by building a bacterium that speaks an unearthly tongue—reenact ancient evolution in the laboratory?
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It’s Elementary, My Dear Watson
| Answers in Genesis
Two ardent atheists are being honored this year on the 50th anniversary of their discovery of the double helix structure of the molecule of heredity, DNA.
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Breaking the Code
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Breaking the code was only the beginning.
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DNA in the Kitchen
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In case you thought DNA was a subject only for science classes and high-tech laboratories, think again! You can isolate a lump of DNA in your own kitchen.
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DNA “First Responders”?
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God gave DNA a proofreading system to catch mistakes and “dedicated DNA repair machinery that routinely fixes mistakes.” But how do they work?
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Common Code . . . Common Designer?
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In a world of random chance, what are the odds that almost all lifeforms would use the same basic genetic code?
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DNA—What Does It Prove?
| Answers in Genesis
Conferences worldwide are celebrating a landmark in 20th century science—the 50th anniversary of Watson and Crick’s discovery of DNA’s structure.
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Computers Without Chips
| Answers in Genesis
Like any other computer software, the DNA helix is packed with information, a complete set of instructions for the complex working of the cell.
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Human Genome
| Answers in Genesis
The exhaustive project of mapping the human genome has provided further evidence of biblical truths as presented in Genesis.
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Are We Really That Different?
| Answers in Genesis
The latest craze is to
learn what DNA tests
reveal about family
heritage. When an
adoptive Christian
family decided to look
beneath the surface,
however, they discovered
a more amazing truth, providing powerful evidence that we are all one
race, or “one blood,” just as the Bible
teaches.
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Human Evolution—Faster than a Speeding Bullet
| Answers in Genesis
A recent study claims that the rate of mutation has sharply increased over the last 10,000 years. But what is the reason for this change?
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ABO Blood and Human Origins
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The ABO blood group is the most significant blood factor in clinical applications involving blood transfusions. With our recent ability to rapidly sequence genes, the ABO blood group is also proving to be a valuable asset for determining human migration patterns and origins.
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Synthesizing Human DNA: Scientific and Ethical Boundaries
| Answers in Genesis
Designer humans? Changed sex chromosomes? Suffering alleviated for those with Turner’s syndrome? Let’s discuss what science could be capable of and what biblical principles apply.
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The highly efficient genome
| Answers in Genesis
A number of genes are now known to be polycistronic, that is, they produce more than one protein.
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South Carolina Man’s DNA Tells Ancient Story
| Answers in Genesis
A DNA sample submitted to the National Geographic Genographic Project created quite a stir in the world’s genomic databases.
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Denisovan DNA’s Secrets
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Denisovan DNA’s secrets—unveiled and interpreted
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What Makes Us Human?
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Has “EnhancerFinder” unraveled the secret of human origins?
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Finding Adam in the Genome: A Response to Chapter 1 of Adam and the Genome
| Answers in Genesis
In this post, we begin exploring Venema’s evidences in chapter two of Adam and the Genome, titled “Genomes as Language, Genomes as Books.”
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Recovery of Neandertal mtDNA: An Evaluation
| Answers in Genesis
The recovery of mitochondrial DNA from the right arm bone of the original Neandertal fossil discovered in a cave in the Neander Valley has been hailed as a stunning feat of modern biochemistry.
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Do Genetic Differences Disprove Neandertals and Humans Interbred?
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New research results comparing the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have shown substantial divergence between Neandertals and modern humans.
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Three Genetic Groupings
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A new genetic study of 53 human populations shows that each falls into one of three genetic groups—yet that the three groups aren’t as different as was thought. The legacy of Shem, Ham, and Japheth (Noah’s three sons), perhaps?
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More Than Meets the Eye: The Human Genome
| Answers in Genesis
“A close-up view of the human genome has revealed its innermost workings to be far more complex than first thought,” reports a BBC NEWS article on a recent Encyclopaedia of DNA Elements (Encode) study.
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Two Decades of DNA Discovery
| Answers in Genesis
Twenty years ago, US President Bill
Clinton declared the human genome
project “the most wondrous map ever
created by humankind.”
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The Creator’s Human Genome Project
| Answers in Genesis
EnhancerFinder, a supercomputer program, is supposedly revealing genetic enhancements that once upon a deep time put an apelike ancestor on the fast track to becoming human.
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Predisposition to Religion?
| Answers in Genesis
Watch as one researcher tries desperately to implicate population biology and genetics in the spread of religion.
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Racing to a Conclusion
| Answers in Genesis
Africa may be the most genetically diverse place on earth. Is that evidence of evolutionary origins?
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Human Genome Project Complete ... Again
| Answers in Genesis
The Human Genome Project has officially finished its task of sequencing the human genome, according to a press conference on Monday, 14 April 2003.
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The Living Database
| Answers in Genesis
When a new human being is conceived, he or she consists of only one tiny microscopic cell. How does that single cell grow into a complete body?
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Information Theory
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Information only comes from other information. DNA is a complex information system, so it must have come from an information source—the mind of the Creator God!
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5.2 What Is Information? The Biblical View (OB18)
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The aspects of information that we studied earlier are also found in the Bible.
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5.4 What Is Life? The Informational View (OB19)
| Answers in Genesis
Matter and energy are necessary aspects of living forms, but they do not fundamentally distinguish between living and inanimate systems.
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5.5 What Is Life? The Biblical View (OB20)
| Answers in Genesis
Up to this point, we emphasized that information is an essential characteristic of life.
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Information: Evidence for a Creator?
| Answers in Genesis
What if it could be shown through empirical science that the universe consists of more than just mass and energy?
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Information in Living Organisms
| Answers in Genesis
There is an extreme multiplicity of life-forms around us, and even a simple unicellular organism is much more complex and purposefully designed than anything that human inventiveness can produce.
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The Three Forms in which Information Appears
| Answers in Genesis
Information accosts us from all sides and presents itself over a wide range of manifestations.
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The Five Levels of the Information Concept
| Answers in Genesis
The question is whether these pictures represent information or not.
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The Quality and Usefulness of Biblical Information
| Answers in Genesis
According to biblical assertions all information given out by humans is evaluated by God.
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Quantities Used for Evaluating Information Application to Bible
| Answers in Genesis
Let us now examine how the Bible addresses the six measures for quantitatively evaluating information (especially its semantics) .
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Principles of Laws of Nature
| Answers in Genesis
Through the natural sciences, the world around us is observed for the purpose of discovering the rules governing it.
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Information Is a Fundamental Entity
| Answers in Genesis
Many scientists therefore justly regard information as the third fundamental entity alongside matter and energy.
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Delineation of the Information Concept
| Answers in Genesis
Information always plays a substitutionary role. The encoding of reality is a mental process.
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Three Kinds of Transmitted Information
| Answers in Genesis
If someone presents a model for explaining the origin of life, but he cannot say where the creative information characteristic of all life-forms came from, the crucial question remains unanswered.
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The Quality and Usefulness of Information
| Answers in Genesis
To rise above Shannon’s information theory, it is necessary to define measures for semantic information which must be generally valid.
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Some Quantitative Evaluations of Semantics
| Answers in Genesis
We can now begin to evaluate semantic information quantitatively, after having considered the essentials at the semantics level in the preceding chapters.
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Questions Often Asked about the Information Concept
| Answers in Genesis
A small selection of the frequently asked questions about information theory are now listed and answered briefly.
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Life Requires a Source of Information
| Answers in Genesis
The common factor present in all living organisms, from bacteria to man, is the information contained in all their cells.
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A Biblical Analogy of the Four Fundamental Entities
| Answers in Genesis
The question about the origin of matter and the energies we observe in action is already answered in the first verse of the Bible.
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The Statistical View of Information
| Answers in Genesis
Shannon’s definition of information entails only one minor aspect of the nature of information, as we will discuss at length.
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Language: Creating, Communicating, and Storing Information
| Answers in Genesis
Man’s natural language is the most comprehensive as well as the most differentiated means of expression.
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Creation’s Amazing Computer
| Answers in Genesis
‘Where’, questions the creationist, ‘would the information come from to effect such a transformation?
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Magic, Information, and Faith
| Answers in Genesis
A recent post on the Daily Telegraph accuses creationists of believing in “magic,” but it fails to see the faith needed to believe in evolution.
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Hope that secular publishers may provide creation information
| Answers in Genesis
The cracks are beginning to show in the monopoly that evolutionist have had on academic publications.
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Two Heads Are Better Than One?
| Answers in Genesis
It’s often said that ‘two heads are better than one’. But, in the case of Sam and Ella, two heads aren’t so good.
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Evolution: Bad Economics
| Answers in Genesis
A riddle illustrating the idea of molecules-to-man evolution.
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Copy Challenge
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists at the University of California in Berkeley have embarked on a research project to create an artificial ‘housefly’ that can fly around in dangerous or small spaces, such as collapsed buildi
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Billionaire on Biological Information
| Answers in Genesis
The most famous of all computer software gurus has recently acknowledged the brilliance of the programming in our bodies (without any hint of acknowledging the Programmer, so far).
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That Depends on Your Definition of ‘Information’
| Answers in Genesis
The ‘information’ argument is used by many creationists to show that particles-to-people evolution is impossible. Following is an attempt by a critic to discredit this argument, and our response.
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Information, Science and Biology
| Answers in Genesis
A rigorous analysis of the characteristics of information demonstrates that living things intrinsically reflect both the mind and will of their Creator.
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Think Spot: Where’s the Intelligence?
| Answers in Genesis
Most would acknowledge that as complexity of information and design increases, there has to be an increase in the intelligence and ability of the one who produces it.
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Mitochondrial DNA
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Mitochondrial DNA research confirms that all humans alive today share common ancestors just a few thousand years ago as the Bible teaches.
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Origin of Mitochondrial DNA Differences
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While Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson has published previously on the topic of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), this article brings a study of African mtDNA differences and how it supports the young earth creation model. This article will summarize Dr. Jeanson’s research.
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Mitochondrial Eve
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When evolutionary scientists speak of “mitochondrial Eve,” they may be referencing the biblical Eve, but the woman they have in mind isn’t quite the same.
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“Out of Africa”? A brief response . . .
| Answers in Genesis
Striving to understand the world apart from the true history found in the Bible, evolutionists have devised varying ideas about where and when ‘modern’ humans originated.
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Modern European Family Tree Has Stone Age Roots
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Family tree of much of modern European population has Stone Age roots.
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Humans Considered to have Evolved Separately for 100,000 Years
| Answers in Genesis
New research published in the American Journal of Human Genetics purports to describe how humankind diverged, then nearly went extinct, and then finally reunited more than 50,000 years ago—at least, that’s the hypothesis. Associated Press and BBC News articles also take a look at different aspects of the epic chapter of human history supposedly uncovered by the study.
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Feces Give Clues to Confirm the origins of Native Americans
| Answers in Genesis
Coprolites found in a cave in Oregon may confirm that all the original inhabitants of the Americas came from East Asia.
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Native American DNA Linked by Six Women
| Answers in Genesis
Nearly all Native Americans—including those in North, Central, and South America—have descended (in part) from just six women, says a new DNA study published this week in PLoS One.
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One People
| Answers in Genesis
Research confirms it: all humans alive today can be traced back to the same small group of people.
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New Discoveries About the Aztecs, Mayans, and Olmecs
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Answers in Genesis geneticist Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson recently revealed some of his findings on Mesoamerican peoples.
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Why Did Scientists Create Severely Deformed Mouse Embryo with Six Legs?
| Answers in Genesis
A recent news article detailed an experiment by developmental biologist Moisés Mallo and his colleagues who were studying Tgfbr1.
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Human Skin “Color” More Complicated Than Previously Thought
| Answers in Genesis
A new study has shown that the genetics involved in skin “color” is far more complicated than we thought!
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The Lost History of the Aztecs
| Answers in Genesis
Ancient Mexican city Tenochtitlan’s history is being rewritten by new genetic evidence.
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Breaking News: Lost American History Discovered in DNA
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New research published today pulls back the curtain on a long-standing mystery: the history of the Americas before Europeans arrived.
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An Unexpectedly Strong Argument for a Young Earth
| Answers in Genesis
The story of how this creation scientist made discoveries showing that DNA confirms the Bible
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I Wasn’t Supposed to Be There
| Answers in Genesis
When research biologist Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson uncovered groundbreaking genetic discoveries, a new door opened for him.
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Rediscovering Pre-Colombian America
| Answers in Genesis
How creation science is giving Native Americans back their history
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“Spatial Grammar” in DNA Speaks to God’s Gift of Language
| Answers in Genesis
All DNA is important, even when acting simply as a spacer—just as the spaces between words in written English help readers make sense of the words themselves.
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Memories May be Genetic Mementos
| Answers in Genesis
The finding shows how our biology and life experiences are more deeply connected than scientists previously thought possible.
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How DNA Reveals God’s Design
| Answers in Genesis
DNA: The transforming principle as a code and its discovery in the genesis of germs
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Biblical Boundaries for Human Gene Editing
| Answers in Genesis
Christians need to be able to make biblical decisions about gene editing.
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Does New Mouse Experiment Explain How Humans Lost Their Tails?
| Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists claim a new mouse experiment explains how humans lost their tails. Does it?
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How Grandma’s Recipes Can Remind Us of God’s Recipes for Life–Genomes
| Answers in Genesis
How a humble recipe box compares with what we are learning about how living things are formed.
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They’re My Genes, and I’ll Edit Them If I Want To
| Answers in Genesis
After years of predictions, gene editing is finally becoming a reality. The issues are complex, pitting human freedom against the risk of corrupting the DNA of future generations. Who should make these choices and oversee them?
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Tracing the Lost History of the New World
| Answers in Genesis
What happened to the early Americans? New research is turning evolutionary narratives upside down—and creation scientists like geneticist Nathaniel Jeanson are leading the way.
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Parasitic DNA?
| Answers in Genesis
Non-coding DNA, far from being “junk,” has multiple functions that are a problem for evolutionists and point to the Creator.
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Can Genetic Mutations Be Purged from Genome?
| Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists must theorize a way for deleterious mutations to be eliminated from the genomes of living things. There have been several proposed mechanisms to do this for different contexts, but here we will focus on just one: purging by purifying selection.
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The Best-Kept Secrets of DNA
| Answers in Genesis
Creation science is quietly making groundbreaking discoveries.
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Unraveling the Chromosome 2 Connection
| Answers in Genesis
Upon closer examination, this popular evolutionary argument quickly comes undone.
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What Color Was Adam?
| Answers in Genesis
The diversity of eye, hair, and skin pigmentations across the globe actually demonstrates a genetic relationship with our first parents, Adam and Eve.
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The Shocking and Glorious New Science of Human “Race” & Ethnicity
| Answers in Genesis
How biblical timelines and modern genetics unveil a new understanding of people group identity and migration.
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CRISPR and the Creator
| Answers in Genesis
The powerful new gene-editing
tool CRISPR will soon
be used in the US for the first
time in human trials.
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The Secondary Language That Leaves Evolutionists Speechless
| Answers in Genesis
Researchers continue to unveil incredible
complexities in a secondary DNA language, complicating
efforts to explain life by evolution.
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Gene-Edited Babies Cause Uproar
| Answers in Genesis
In November 2018 global headlines
announced the stunning birth of the
first gene-edited humans.
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DNA Paramedics
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A new study discovered the complexity
of a cell’s DNA repair system. It
seems the cell repairs damaged strands
of DNA.
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Do Humans Have Genes for Laying Eggs?
| Answers in Genesis
In this article, we explore Venema’s claims in Adam and the Genome about genetic sequences that he thinks have lost their function.
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Finding Adam in the Genome: A Response to Chapter 2 of Adam and the Genome
| Answers in Genesis
Venema claims that the published, comprehensive genetic comparisons between humans and chimpanzees reveal a genetic identity of 95–98%.
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Finding Adam in the Genome: A Response to Chapter 1 of Adam and the Genome
| Answers in Genesis
In our series, we’ve discovered ample support that evolutionists fit facts to conclusions. In this article, we’ll continue to explore whether it is true.
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Gene Editing and Designer Babies—Why the Future Desperately Needs
| Answers in Genesis
The discovery of an easy way to “edit” genes may someday make it possible to manufacture “designer babies.”
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How Are New Genes Made?
| Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists conclude “the birth of new genes is an important motor of evolutionary innovation,” but how are new genes made?
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Denisovan Gene Gave Tibetans Their High-Altitude Tolerance
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Tibetan natives ability to tolerate high-altitude conditions is a genetic inheritance obtained from mixing with the long-extinct Denisovan people.
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DNA Codes Reveal Rule-Breaking in Language
| Answers in Genesis
When does “stop” mean “go”? Surprisingly often! The DNA code common to all living things is not quite as uniform as previously thought.
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Genetics and God’s Natural Selection
| Answers in Genesis
What particularly fascinated Gregor Mendel was the way in which the plants handed on their characteristics to the next generation.
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The RNA-Way From Molecules-to-Man Remains Muddled
| Answers in Genesis
The RNA-way from molecules-to-man remains mired by its complete lack of information.
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Gene Duplication
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Gene duplications followed by subsequent mutation of the duplicated genes are often cited by evolutionists as a mechanism for adding new information to the genome.
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Did We All Come from Adam and Eve?
| Answers in Genesis
Have genetic discoveries broken the tie that binds us to Adam?
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Why Do Arms and Legs Come in Pairs?
| Answers in Genesis
You only have two arms and two legs because your gut got in the way, evolutionists say.
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Field-Evolved Resistance Rootworms Corn
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Resistant rootworms can ravage corn if farmers put all their eggs in a genetically modified high-tech basket.
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Genetic Links Lion Lineages Common Ancestor
| Answers in Genesis
Beautiful Barbary lion, now extinct, could be “re-built” and restored from its closest cousins.
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Fungal RNA Splicing Mechanism
| Answers in Genesis
A recent study claimed to offer proof of the RNA-world hypothesis or the origin of life. The evidence, however, is greatly lacking.
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Ancient Protein “Resurrected”?
| Answers in Genesis
As Science Daily reports, “state-of-the-art computational and molecular techniques [were used] to re-create the ancient progenitors of an important human protein.”
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Persistent Protein
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Preservation of collagen fibers in a marine reptile fossil is said to prove “biomolecular preservation over deep time.”
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Are Genetic Mechanisms For Speciation Multiple Choice?
| Answers in Genesis
Speciation’s secrets are multiple-choice. What do phlox flowers, stickleback fish, monkeyflowers, and Bogota fruit flies have in common? They all suggest genetic mechanisms for speciation.
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Ultrafast Parasite Evolution
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Bird parasite said to “evolve” rapidly while losing information.
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Professor of Genetics Says 'No!' to Evolution
| Answers in Genesis
I often contribute chapters on genetics. I know of no biological data relevant to tree genetics that would require evolutionary explanations.
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Genetics: No Friend of Evolution
| Answers in Genesis
Genetics and evolution have been enemies from the beginning of both concepts.
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Cousin Fly
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Hox gene researchers sniff at a common ancestor.
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Copying Confusion
| Answers in Genesis
Molecules-to-man evolution requires the production of large amounts of new genetic information.
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Genetics and Biblical Demographic Events
| Answers in Genesis
With the relatively recent mapping of the human genome, new questions can be raised concerning potential genetic evidence for Biblical events such as Creation and the global Flood.
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DNA Day: What Are We Celebrating?
| Answers in Genesis
We’ve recently seen something of a bombardment of declared holidays and observances. In the midst of all these pseudo-holidays is one that has a particular relevance today: National DNA Day.
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The Language of Inconsistency
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In his new book The Language of God, a famous scientist and evangelical has written the following about the human genome and science in general
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Making the Evolution Pill Easier to Swallow, Part 1
| Answers in Genesis
Dr. Georgia Purdom attended a series of lectures titled “Your Genes and You: Health, Disease, and Medicine.” The title might better have been “Sleight of Hand.”
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Many Prenatal Genetic Tests Are Wrong 85% of the Time
| Answers in Genesis
The New York Times reports that many supposedly “reliable” and “highly accurate” prenatal tests report inaccurate results, influencing abortion decisions.
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DNA—An “Energy Code”?
| Answers in Genesis
Some geneticists have postulated how DNA could have evolved complete with a “story” based on low free energy and high free energy codons.
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“The Days of ‘Junk DNA’ Are Over”
| Answers in Genesis
The evolutionary concept of “junk DNA” held research back but would have never been believed had scientists accepted biblical creation.
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14-Year-Old Lands Article in Science Journal
| Answers in Genesis
Who ever said that science journals are just for highly trained Ph.D. scientists? That’s certainly not the case with TJ—the in-depth Journal of Creation.
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Human Body
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The human body is an absolute marvel of design. The intricate combination of muscles, bones, organs and tissues is a symphony that cries out for a Creator.
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Wise Blood: Antibodies, The Principle of Overcoming in Disease (Part 2)
| Answers in Genesis
The immune system serves more than just to “defend” against disease – it was designed to interact with microbes and to cleanse the body.
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Wise Blood: The Principle of Overcoming in Disease and Immunity (Part 1)
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How our immune system protects us from deadly pathogens and parasites through antibodies to demonstrate how we’re fearfully and wonderfully made.
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There’s a Map for That—Human Cell Atlas
| Answers in Genesis
Medical researchers have launched one of the most ambitious mapping projects ever—the human cell atlas.
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Lymphocytes—Our Body’s Dynamic Defenders
| Answers in Genesis
What we know today confirms what God taught the Israelites nearly 4,000 years ago. We’ve now unlocked some of our body’s incredible secrets for rapid response to the ever-changing threat from microbe invaders.White blood cells defend us from constant intrusion.
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The Motors That Move Us
| Answers in Genesis
From head to heels, your body teems with minuscule machines driving your everyday physical processes.
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A Trillion First Responders
| Answers in Genesis
To keep us safe, our body coordinates with a vast network of foreign agents that have joined our side. It’s the largest security force in the world. A teeming network of first responders that live on nearly every surface of your body, inside and out.
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The Wonderful World of Bacteria in Your Body
| Answers in Genesis
The “superorganism” that you are testifies to the superlative wisdom of our Creator God.
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The Wonderfully Made Design of the Skin and Its Microbiome
| Answers in Genesis
Microbes live in a mutualistic relationship with the human body, make up the human microbiome, and play a role in our health by modulating the immune system.
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Body of Evidence
| Answers in Genesis
In this new 16-part video series, Dr. David Menton, former anatomy teacher and professor of the year, gives you an insider’s look at the wonders of the human body.
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Heart
| Answers in Genesis
The same God who designed our hearts to sustain physical life designed a miraculous way for us to obtain a new spiritual “heart” that will beat for eternity.
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Experiment—Iron: Toxin on the Table
| Answers in Genesis
Rusty old iron is toxic to our bodies. Yet God designed all living things to depend on a steady supply of iron to continue living.
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“Vestigial” Organs
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Several organs have been labeled “vestigial” evolutionary relics with little or no function. These organs are now proving purposeful. It’s the label, not the organs, that is vestigial.
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Setting the Record Straight on Vestigial Organs
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In a recent article, New Scientist discusses five supposed vestigial organs in the human body, but as Dr. David DeWitt shows, there’s more to the story than evolutionists will admit.
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Appendix
| Answers in Genesis
The appendix has gotten a bad rap over the years. It’s often tossed out as a useless evolutionary leftover.
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The Human Vermiform Appendix
| Answers in Genesis
The appendix is commonly referred to as a classic example of a vestigial organ.
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Vestigial Organs—Evidence for Evolution?
| Answers in Genesis
Vestigial organs have long been one of the classic arguments used as evidence for evolution.
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Are “Vestigial Organs” Really “Proof of Evolution . . . on Your B
| Answers in Genesis
Can YouTube video “Proof of Evolution That You Can Find on Your Body” prop up the human evolutionary story through our presumably useless body parts?
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Vestigial hiccups, folding fish-eyes, and other fables
| Answers in Genesis
Time-lapse photos of a human embryonic face taking shape—unlike Haeckel’s fraudulent woodcuts—are authentic. But not even those assembled photos can peer back through time to prove evolution.
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The Human Tail and Other Tales of Evolution
| Answers in Genesis
The “human tail” is just one example of what evolutionists call a “vestigial organ.”
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The Appendix: Useless Vestige or Evolutionary Innovation?
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The appendix has long been maligned as an obsolete vestigial remnant of digestive evolution. Is it really as worthless as people say?
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Vestigial Organs: A Vanishing Argument
| Answers in Genesis
Vestigial organs are supposedly useless leftovers from our evolutionary past. However, this claim requires preconceived belief and an ignorance of the evidence.
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Why Do Men Have Nipples?
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If there were an all-knowing Creator, why would He design men with a structure for which they have no use? Dr. Tommy Mitchell, AiG-U.S., explains why males have nipples.
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Vestigial Salmon Organ Actually Useful
| Answers in Genesis
Marine biologists have long thought the “adipose fin” on the back of some fish was vestigial. But a recent study finds a function for this fin.
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Was a Baby Born with a Human Tail?
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Baby recently born in Brazil with “human tail with a ball at the end of it” though it is far from evidence of human evolution or a vestigial organ.
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Are Wisdom Teeth Evidence for Evolution?
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Wisdom teeth are still thought of and touted today as vestigial structures and as evidence for evolution. But is this actually the case? Why do we humans have so many problems with wisdom teeth? And does this imply a poor design by the Creator?
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Vestigial Structures—Leftover News
| Answers in Genesis
Charles Darwin once claimed the human body contains evolutionary leftovers, and Fox news ran with the story—150 years later.
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Losing Any Remaining Vestige
| Answers in Genesis
Students still see the appendix mentioned as vestigial.
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Appendix Isn’t Useless
| Answers in Genesis
“Creationists will have a field day with this one,” writes one blogger on the news. Bingo.
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Vestigial Ideas
| Answers in Genesis
Another study reminds us that the idea of “vestigial organs” is, itself, vestigial!
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Appendix May Harbor Useful Bacteria
| Answers in Genesis
If you’re a creationist, you’ve probably known it for a while; if you’re an evolutionist, you may be just finding out: the human appendix does have a function.
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Hard to Digest
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The function of the human appendix—long derided as a useless leftover of evolution—has “finally” been uncovered.
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Appendix: Where the Good Bacteria Live
| Answers in Genesis
Surgeons and immunologists at Duke University Medical School suggest that the appendix produces and protects beneficial germs for use in the intestines.
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Vestigial Structures
| Answers in Genesis
Almost every secular biology textbook today includes a section on vestigial structures—structures that are supposed remnants from ancestors that have lost their original function or capacity.
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Cutting Out a Useless Vestigial Argument
| Answers in Genesis
Many have abandoned faith in the Bible influenced by such arguments—arguments which are themselves ‘vestigial’, the vestiges of supposed truths that, when used today, are useful only to mislead.
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The Plantaris and the Question of Vestigial Muscles in Man
| Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists continue to propose a few of our smaller and least understood muscles as being vestiges of once useful organs left over from putative evolutionary ancestors.
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Do Any Vestigial Organs Exist in Humans?
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The standard definition of ‘vestigial’ is an organ that once was useful in an animal’s evolutionary past, but that now is useless or very close to useless.
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Are Wisdom Teeth (Third Molars) Vestiges of Human Evolution?
| Answers in Genesis
Research now indicates that the reasons for most third molar problems today are not due to evolutionary changes but other reasons.
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Brain
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The human brain is so complex that scientists have barely tapped its intricacy. The quiet workings of the brain point toward its Designer.
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The Human Brain—Fill in the Blanks
| Answers in Genesis
Do your pets ever talk to you? Maybe you’ve seen one of those internet videos where a dog says, “Hello.” We know dogs don’t really speak, despite what we think we hear. So what gives? God designed your brain to fill in missing details on the fly . . . with some interesting consequences.
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God’s Gift of Sleep
| Answers in Genesis
When you’re drifting off to dreamland, God unwraps one of his greatest presents.
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Brain Convolutions in Mice and Men
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Evolutionists trying to explain what causes convolutions to form in a human fetus suggest how the human brain evolved from apelike ancestors.
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Rise and Fall of Human Intelligence
| Answers in Genesis
A recent study indicates that human intelligence may be declining.
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Recalling Creation
| Answers in Genesis
Mr. Williams' amazing mind gives us a glimpse into how God may have originally created the human brain.
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Pituitary—A Miniscule Master
| Answers in Genesis
Your body is run by a tiny gland the size of a pea. How is this possible?
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Wired for Awe
| Answers in Genesis
That feeling of “veneration” in the face of the “sacred” has sent atheists scurrying for generations, denying that awe even exists except among religious fanatics. But today everyone is forced to embrace its reality. Neuroscientists can detect its effects in the brain.
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Religion Is in Your Head
| Answers in Genesis
Religion? It’s all in your head: New Scientist takes an unmitigated swipe at theism.
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Baby Brains
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Evolutionists claim that children become less "monkey-like" as they age. Once again, data is interpreted based on worldviews.
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Brain
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The brain's marvelous design makes it possible for us to grow and adapt to our changing environment.
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Dr. Purdom's Presentation on Wonder of the Cell
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Video Segment of Dr. Purdom's Presentation on the Wonder of the Cell from the recent Creation College.
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What Memories Are Made Of
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“Where’d I park my
car?” Many people mistakenly believe that the brain
permanently stores all the information it encounters,
but we just can’t always access it. In fact, we
forget many things, which appear to be gone forever.
And that’s a good thing!
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Evolutionary Psychology Threatens Accountability
| Answers in Genesis
A Christian response to an article regarding evolutionary psychology.
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Is a Bigger Brain Better?
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When it comes to intelligence, the size of your noggin isn’t a factor.
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How Much Brain Do We Need to Be Human?
| Answers in Genesis
The design and plasticity of the human brain shows God’s goodness.
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Marriage Decreases Likelihood of Dementia
| Answers in Genesis
Recently, a new study was published in which 19,579 men and women aged 52 and older from the US and who exhibited no signs of dementia were interviewed (beginning in 2000). The purpose of the study was to determine if there was any correlation between the risk of dementia and marital status.
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Biblical Counseling—Common Cause with Creation
| Answers in Genesis
The so-called “culture wars” have spilled into every field of study, not just origins.
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The Brain’s Adaptability: A Testimony of the Creator
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Real-life examples are increasingly showing the brain (particularly the infant brain) to be much more complex than this simplistic understanding.
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Are Conflicting Beliefs Tied to the Brain?
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Researchers using neuroimaging technology claim to have found the cause for the conflict between science and religion (evolution and creationism) in the brain.
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Experiment: The Brain—Your Nimble Noggin
| Answers in Genesis
Would you rather have a computer or a brain in an emergency? Knock a robot off its legs, and you decide!
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Mindboggling
| Answers in Genesis
U.S. President Barack Obama last year announced the BRAIN Initiative—an ambitious research effort to better understand the human brain.
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Answers Magazine Preview: Vol. 8 No. 3
| Answers in Genesis
Learn about the matchless miracles of the mind in Answers magazine.
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What Makes the Human Brain Function?
| Answers in Genesis
Does a designer DNA duplicate or a lucky genetic goof make the human brain do what it does do so well?
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Synapses Speak
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Dramatic difference found between human and chimpanzee brains.
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Are Brains Shrinking to Make Us Smarter?
| Answers in Genesis
Human brains are getting smaller, yet we’re supposedly smarter than our ancestors.
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The Gene that Folds the Brain
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The gene LAMC-3 is essential to the formation of convolutions in the human brain, but how it “evolved to gain [these] novel functions” remains a mystery.
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Patients in Vegetative States and Communicating
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Can patients in vegetative states communicate with the outside world?
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Do Humans Possess Inate Numerical Skills?
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Scientists at the University College London (UCL) and the University of Melbourne (Australia) may not have counted on such a discovery, but their research suggests humans possess innate numerical skills.
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Brain Scans Raise Questions About Altruism
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A neuroscience team from North Carolina’s Duke University is reporting results of a brain study on altruistic behavior.
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Eyes
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The Lord claims to be the Creator of the “seeing eye.” (Proverbs 20:12) The sophisticated and elaborate design of the eye certainly points to His design.
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Experiment: Stereoscopic Vision—Seeing Double
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Two eyes are better than one. There’s more truth to that saying than you might realize.
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The Seeing Eye
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“The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has made them both” (Proverbs 20:12).
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Eyelids—Intermittent Wipers
| Answers in Genesis
Robert Kearns was inspired by the superb design of our eyelids.
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Does the Diversity of Eyes in Nature Support Evolution?
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The National Geographic article treats every aspect of our world of vision as evidence for evolution: eye diversity and the fact that eyes share common designs.
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Seeing the Master Designer Through a Microbe’s Eye
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The ocelloid—a camera-like “eye” inside single-celled marine plankton—is an amazing design, but it does not represent an evolutionary triumph.
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Can Evolution Produce an Eye? Not a Chance!
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The light sensitive retina of the eye (which is really part of the brain) contains over 10 million photoreceptor cells.
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Experiment: Retinal Blood Vessels—Hiding in Plain Sight
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The retinas of your eyes are made of living cells, which must be nourished by blood vessels. But with all this blood covering your eyes, how can you see?
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In Living Color Experiment
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Your eye’s complex ability to
see color and motion points to
the Creator. Even its limitations
reveal His purposeful design.
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Is Our “Inverted” Retina Really “Bad Design?”
| Answers in Genesis
This article reviews reasons for our having the inverted retina and why the the verted retina would be liable to fail in creatures who have inverted retinas.
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Visual Perception: More Than Meets the Eye
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Our vision of the world merely begins at our eyes. Take a deeper look at the wonders our brain performs every second to help us see.
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Experiment: What You See Isn’t Always What You Get
| Answers in Genesis
We rely on our sight more than any other sense to help us interpret the world.
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The Eye—It Easily Evolved (If You Don’t Look Closely)
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“All eyes, despite their wonderous variety across lifeforms, come from a history of shared genes.” This statement comes from an article published recently.
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Darwin’s Challenge: The Origins of the Eye
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Darwin predicted an evolutionary sequence of eyes from simple to complex, but modern knowledge about the design of the eye in various living things defies evolutionary explanation.
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Our Eye Movements and Their Control: Part 2
| Answers in Genesis
The purpose of this second paper is to give an outline of the physiology of the brain’s control of eye movements as an outstanding example of a biological computerised control system.
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Our Eye Movements and their Control: Part 1
| Answers in Genesis
This is the first of two papers whose aim is to review briefly how our eyes move and how eye movements are controlled, as another example of awe-inspiring precision engineering by the Almighty.
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Can We Reverse Aging in Humans?
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According to a recent article, some researchers now believe that aging is a reversible process (in mice it is, at least; human studies have not yet been done).
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Early Human Development—the Result of a High Meat Diet?
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According to evolutionists, early human ancestor Homo erectus ate more meat. But now, new research suggests this isn’t true–something Genesis already told us.
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What If No One Had an Appendix?
| Answers in Genesis
The appendix, a safe house for good bacteria, is not a useless evolutionary leftover, but shows God’s careful design in humans.
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What’s That Smell?
| Answers in Genesis
Your ability to smell freshly baked cookies or the dog poo on your shoe starts in your brain. But recent studies show how deftly our brains detect scents.
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What a Yawn!
| Answers in Genesis
From fish and birds to reptiles and mammals, nearly all vertebrates yawn. But why do we yawn?
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Life’s Hidden Marvel
| Answers in Genesis
Developmental biology is one of the most awesome biological disciplines to display the glory of God and the immeasurable value of human life.
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The Hearing Ear
| Answers in Genesis
It is fitting that one of the most marvelous organs in the body should be used to hear the Word of God.
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The Unknown Harvest: Organ Donation and the Definition of Death
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With life-and-death issues at stake, Christians must be aware of current medical practices to draw biblical boundaries.
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A Time for Everything—Your Body’s Internal Clock
| Answers in Genesis
Have you ever woken up just before your alarm went off? It’s as if your body is wired with an internal clock. Actually, scientists have discovered trillions of them!
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When God’s People Play
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How does play fit into God’s plan for his people?
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Is There Anything Good About Pain?
| Answers in Genesis
Ouch! Your daughter snatches her finger back at the first prick of a rose. Eek! Your son jumps back the instant his bare feet touch your sunbaked deck. Our reflex response is a blessing, prompting us to withdraw at the first sign of trouble and preventing worse harm.
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Playing by Different Rules
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Kids don’t just play differently from adults, they think differently too—by God’s design.
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Nerve Distribution—A Sensitive Topic
| Answers in Genesis
Different parts of
your skin sport wildly different sensitivities
to the world around you. If our skin were
sensitive all over,
we would be
in big trouble. Why are certain spots more
ticklish than others? The existence of tickle spots highlights
a design feature of skin—not all
areas are the same.
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Time to Eat
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Though embarrassing, a growling stomach reminds us that the Creator designed our bodies to uniquely sound the alarm when it’s time for our next meal.
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New Studies Show Why Rest Is So Important
| Answers in Genesis
Several recent studies have shown that being well-rested makes a person more altruistic.
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The Good Side of Fat
| Answers in Genesis
As much as we complain about it, our bodies are made to store fat. And that’s a good thing.
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God’s Design: Strategic Routing of the RLN
| Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists cite the recurrent laryngeal nerve as evidence of “poor design.” But the nerve serves an important designed function.
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You Have Good Taste!
| Answers in Genesis
Look at those luscious pancakes!
Can’t you just taste them?
You can—because of God’s
intricate design for your senses.
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The Ultimate Electric Machine
| Answers in Genesis
The human body is the oldest, most complex electric machine and comes complete with electronic senses and limbs designed by a master engineer: God.
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Footwear Impressions
| Answers in Genesis
God made all people different
in the way they walk, in their
stride, and in their steps.
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Counterfeit Care
| Answers in Genesis
In a culture that promotes putting yourself first, how should Christians approach self-care?
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The Gender of Bones
| Answers in Genesis
Scientists admit that biological gender is visible in
basic human anatomy and in the genetic makeup
of chromosomes.
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Immunity and Creation Science
| Answers in Genesis
The human immune system in a pre-fall world would still have had functions. Regulating the microbiome, reducing the bacterial population, and keeping microbes from straying from their assigned places would all have been part of the immune system’s pre-fall function.
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Can Your Muscles Make It?
| Answers in Genesis
God created our bodies with
three types of muscle: smooth,
cardiac, and skeletal.
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Nanobots Show Promise with Artificial Muscle
| Answers in Genesis
Doctors dream of the day when they can send micro-machines up our bloodstream to attack cancers and deliver medicines.
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Human Ribs: Amazing & Regenerating
| Answers in Genesis
Many people think of the skeletal structure as static, but as our ribs show, they are some of the most dynamic structures in our bodies.
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Why Do We Hiccup?
| Answers in Genesis
Our bodies can do some pretty embarrassing things, and we can’t always stop them.
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Human Vision: Uniqueness of Human Eyesight
| Answers in Genesis
Human vision is incredible. The human eye and brain are adept at recognizing objects, often even when they are not fully visible or oriented at different angles than usual. Although we often think of our eyes as what we see with, we really “see” with our brains.
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The Wonder of Creation
| Answers in Genesis
Professor Stuart Burgess will be giving two talks at the AIG Mega Conference in the West Midlands, UK, on October 24–26, 2019: “The Wonder of Creation” and “Refusing to be Silent on Biblical Creation.” We invite you to join us for this unique conference.
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Self-Healing Concrete
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What if we could design a material for roads that would only get small cracks that resealed with chemical bonds as good as new?
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The Wonder of the Human Voice
| Answers in Genesis
The way the human voice works is a marvel of acoustic engineering. Each voice reflects how the original sound is produced at the vocal cords, then in the way the sound waves are channelled through the throat, and finally in the way the sound is released from the mouth where many harmonics are added.
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Spilling the Beans on Digestion: World Digestive Health Day
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May 29 is World Digestive Health Day. One of the most intricate and involved systems in the body, the digestive system takes up the most space in the torso, involves ten organs over nine meters of space, and contains over 20 specialized cell types.
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Human Cell Regeneration—A Whole New You
| Answers in Genesis
You’re not the same person you
were yesterday. You may look and
feel the same, but your body has been
busy creating a new you.
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Should We Try to Live Forever?
| Answers in Genesis
The media bombards us daily with messages
about becoming younger and cheating death.
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Left-Handed Complement
| Answers in Genesis
Left-handedness is just another physical trait that is still shared by millions of people, like red hair, green eyes, or a cleft chin (as opposed to the more common black hair, brown eyes, and non-dimpled chin). In reality, none of these traits make us substantially different from one another genetically.
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Round-the-Clock Detox
| Answers in Genesis
Your body produces toxic
chemicals all day every day.
Not to worry. Your liver’s
got it covered.
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Methuselah and Grandpa’s Ax: the Problem of Aging and Death
| Answers in Genesis
Let’s take a look at the whole matter of aging and death from the perspective of both the Bible and science.
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Study: Tongues Can “Taste” Tasteless Water
| Answers in Genesis
Our tongues can sense five basic tastes with specialized nerve cells for each. A new study suggests our tongues can detect another “taste”—tasteless water.
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Humans’ Poor Sense of Smell Is an Evolutionary Myth
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We’ve all heard that, compared to mammalian animals like dogs, humans have a poor sense of smell. Did you know that this notion is a 19th century myth?
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Uniqueness of Man
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Genesis 1 states that God specially created the first male and female in His own image.
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Facial Expressions—The Universal Language
| Answers in Genesis
Every human being has the ability to communicate with a range of expressions no other creature can match.
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Combatting a Constant Threat
| Answers in Genesis
Every second, our bodies must monitor a melange of threats that seek to invade and destroy.
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The Barefoot Professor
| Answers in Genesis
Barefoot college professors? Only something very unusual could explain these strange goings on—the wonders of foot design.
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The Mysterious Spleen
| Answers in Genesis
This amazing organ quietly serves several invaluable roles in our blood system, keeping our bodies healthy.
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Our Index Finger—Pointing to the Creator
| Answers in Genesis
The index finger is capable of assuming at least 10 billion different positions with complete control.
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Melanin—Umbrellas of Our Skin
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God provided our skin with millions of miniature umbrellas, filled with melanin, to guard our bodies from the sun’s most deadly ultraviolet rays.
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Bones
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The bones in our bodies aren't just strong and flexible, they're constantly building and repairing themselves.
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The Placenta
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Most people give little thought to the placenta, and few appreciate the marvelous complexity and profound importance of this organ.
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Feedback: Hermaphroditism
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How should Christians deal with the topic of hermaphroditism?
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Your Legs Are on Backwards
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You might be surprised to discover that your legs are on backwards compared to your arms.
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Human Faces Vary Thanks to Evolution, Study Claims
| Answers in Genesis
Human faces evolved to vary as much as Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head, evolutionists say.
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Wonders of the Human Body
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These and many other amazing facts spill off the 96 pages of the October–December 2009 issue of Answers magazine.
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Our Impressive Immune System: More Than a Defense
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There were no pathogens, parasites, or disease prior the Fall and subsequent Curse, so the immune system may have functioned differently in that world.
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From Dust to Dust
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Both secular science and the Scriptures state that man was formed from dust. What is the difference, and why is it important?
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Hidden Powers in Action
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Every time a little leaguer steps up to bat, hidden powers come into play.
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Getting Close to Gross
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“Yuck!” Even in the grosser things on our body, we can see clear reminders of God’s wise providence.
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Experiment: Selective Hearing
| Answers in Genesis
Your ears are delicate instruments, fine-tuned to hear a wide range of noises. What keeps them from being ripped apart by violent waves of loud vibrations?
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All Systems Go
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A healthy body requires more than working parts. Somehow they must work together for optimum performance.
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Hands and Feet—Uniquely Human Right From the Start
| Answers in Genesis
What about our hands and feet? Do they show any evidence of a more ‘monkey-like’ condition in the womb?
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Skin
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Skin's multilayered design provides us with the perfect combination of strength, flexibility, and durability.
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The Miracle of Tears
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Scientists have found God’s greatness even in one of the most minute phenomena—human tears.
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Critical Characteristics and the Irreducible Knee Joint
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Opponents of Neo-Darwinian evolution have argued that it is impossible, because many biological systems require an irreducible number of parts for the system to have any useful function.
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The Breath of Life
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References to breath or breathing are frequent in the Bible, with many allusions to God as the giver of breath (and life) to man and animals.
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The Human Body—Wired for Extremes
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God has equipped every human with backup systems that are programmed to respond to all sorts of emergencies.
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One Leg Up On Architects
| Answers in Genesis
The basic design of the Eiffel Tower was borrowed from the work of an ancient designer, the Creator, who engineered the human femur.
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The Amazing Human Hair
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Hair is mentioned over 100 times in the Bible, often in the context of God’s loving care and protection for His people.
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Joint Effort
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When God created animals and humans, He gave them
the best design for mobility.
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Visual Forming of a Baby's Face
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Face to philtrum: the ballet behind your beautiful smile
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Solid Sponge
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Your bones are full of holes like a sponge.
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Running With or Without Shoes?
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Running shoes probably seem like prudent athletic footwear for most of us. But as some African runners have shown, God’s original design is superior.
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Your Hearing: A Powerful Pointer to God's Creation
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Contemplation of the size of things that have been created can be a very effective tool in comprehending the greatness of God. Consider the Creator’s technical ability in a study of human hearing.
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Body of Evidence!
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Our body is truly a “body of evidence” for the all-knowing and all-powerful Creator. It inspires us to give credit to our Creator and Savior, and reminds us of our accountability to Him.
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Is the Human Body a Bad Design?
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A recent article highlights the supposed “flaws” in the design of the human body. But are these really “flaws”?
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Have You Ever Wondered?
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Have you ever considered how marvelous the human body is?
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Rehab for Your Feet
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Can the damage done to our feet by shoes be undone by going barefoot?
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Did Clothing Help Determine Our Shade of Skin?
| Answers in Genesis
Why do people in northern climates tend to have lighter skin while those in southern climates have darker skin?
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Modern Medicine?
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Many basic principles of modern medicine and hygiene were revealed in the Bible thousands of years before they were discovered by modern science.
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Shame on Time!
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Time magazine’s most recent cover story—‘Inside the Womb’—offers ‘an amazing look at how we all begin.’
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Does a molar pregnancy have anything to do with a tooth?
| Answers in Genesis
Why is a molar pregnancy called that? Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell, AiG–U.S., responds, explaining the interesting connection.
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Feedback: A Pro-life Doctor’s View on Molar Pregnancies
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Is a molar pregnancy really a baby? Does it have a gender? Does aborting it end a life? Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell, AiG–U.S., explains.
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Mathematics
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The characteristics of math reflect characteristics of God, its Creator.
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I Unity
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If mathematics is already thought out and constructed by someone, it is logical that there would be no contradictions.
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Is Improbability the Best Argument Against Evolution?
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Improbability doesn’t convince die-hard evolutionists to abandon their view. As a Christian, I prefer deductions (as in geometry proofs) to counter evolution.
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Without God, Math Doesn’t Make Sense
| Answers in Genesis
If we treat math merely as a tool, we miss an incredible opportunity to honor the Creator.
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The Golden Ratio: Curious Connections in Creation
| Answers in Genesis
You can spot the golden ratio in the swirl of a galaxy, the
arch of an ocean wave, the tail of a seahorse, and innumerable
other places in nature.
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When a Knot Is Not a Knot
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Even mathematicians—studying the rules that underlie reality—are tied up in knots over the surprising twists of “knot theory.”
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The Purpose of Mathematics
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Why is it so important for the Christian to behold the glory of God reflected in mathematics or anywhere else?
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IV The Nature of Mathematics
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If there is “something there” in mathematics, the Christian cannot escape the consequences of the universal quantifiers which saturate Colossians 1:15–20.
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The Universal Language
| Answers in Genesis
There are two directions of mathematical inquiry: it can either penetrate into the other sciences, or it can mind its own business.
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Mathematics and the Natural Sciences
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Christians believe the Mind partially revealed behind mathematics to be God’s.
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Celebrate Einstein’s Birthday with Pi on 3.14.15
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Physics, mathematics, and constants like pi are only possible because we live in a rational universe upheld by a constant, unchanging, and consistent God.
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Is Math Just a Tool?
| Answers in Genesis
Surely there’s one thing Christians and atheists can agree on—math.
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Does Math Prove Evolution?
| Answers in Genesis
A new mathematical model “has offered even more evidence of the correctness of evolutionary theory.” So how does math “prove” evolution?
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Fractals
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Did you know that amazing, beautiful shapes have been built into numbers? Believe it or not, numbers contain a “secret code”—a hidden beauty embedded in them.
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Physics
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The laws of physics are fine-tuned for life—exactly what we would expect if the universe were intelligently designed.
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Physics’ Unsolved Energy Crisis
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Two fundamental laws
of physics clash if we try to
explain the universe’s
origin without a Creator.
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Why Is the Universe Dominated by Matter?
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The asymmetry between matter and antimatter is not a problem if God created the universe as Genesis 1 says that He did.
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Spacetime
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Space, time, and matter are all examples of “three-in-ones” in nature. Perhaps God created them in this fashion to declare His own triune nature.
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Weird Physics
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Physics is a relatively “clean” science because it deals mostly with the world as it exists. Yet it has struggled to explain some weird experimental results.
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Higgs Boson (God Particle)
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The Higgs boson, nicknamed the “God particle,” reveals nothing about the origin of the universe—but it does divulge secrets about how the universe operates.
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The God Particle and the God of Particles
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The so-called “God Particle” may not be relevant to many practical aspects of our daily lives but it brings up an opportunity to consider the meaning of the way the universe is made.
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Higgs Boson Not God Particle, Still Incredible
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It’s “The Higgs boson” or “a Higgs boson” but not the “God particle.”
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Beams Collide Today in Expensive Hadron Collider
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In the news this morning, it was announced that scientists have succeeded in colliding beams of protons using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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A Miniature Big Bang or More Hot Air?
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European scientists have hit the switch to activate the nearly $9 billion Large Hadron Collider. But what will it produce—a mini big bang or more hot air?
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Big Bang Blow Up
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When Lyn Evans fired up the world’s most powerful particle accelerator last September, he hoped to unlock the mysteries of the so-called big bang.
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Did God Design the Universe with Physics That Actually Works?
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Our world, and our universe, seem remarkably fine-tuned. But in fact, they are too fine-tuned, many physicists now think.
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A Massive Discovery
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Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland claim to have found the Higgs boson.
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The Matter of Mass—Making Sense of the “God Particle”
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Are you scratching your head about the so-called “God particle,” “Higgs boson,” the several-billion-dollar collider under the Alps?
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Neutrinos Break Light-Speed Limit
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Is the neutrino guilty of breaking the cosmic speed limit?
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The Elusive God-Particle Teases Physicists
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The elusive god-particle teases physicists but tantalizes theistic evolutionists.
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Big Bang Machine Shutting Down Again
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The once controversial, multi-billion-dollar “big bang machine” beneath Switzerland will be shutting down yet again.
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Searching For the Higgs-Boson Particle
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An article on one of the most important physics projects of the new millennium asks, “Will it change our views of the universe and our place in it?”
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General Relativity and Creation
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With its many successful tests over more than a century, general relativity stands as one of the most thoroughly verified theories in all of science.
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Mulling Over the Multiverse
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The multiverse is the stuff of superhero stories. But some scientists think this comic-book cosmos could explain the origin of our universe. Can Christians be sure the multiverse is no more than science fiction?
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What Are the Laws of Thermodynamics, and How Do They Confirm Biblical Creation?
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Many believe that scientific laws confirm ideas like evolution, but we don’t ask why these laws exist, where they came from, and how can we even understand them?
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Is This Science?
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When modern evolutionary physicists
begin to connect the dots with abstract
ideas that can’t be tested, even they are alarmed.
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Is Gravity a Force?
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Flat-earth proponents aim to demote gravity as a force, but they fail to account for time-honored conventions in physics informed by relativity.
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Experiment: Water’s Life-Saving Secret
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Water conceals little-known, life-saving secrets. One of them is its ability to resist burning!
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Quantum Mechanics and Creation: A Brief Overview
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A brief history of quantum mechanics from Newton to the “Theory of Everything” and what it means to Christians.
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Quantum Weirdness
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There are many sub-categories of physics, each dealing with a particular aspect of the universe. The branch of physics dealing with how the universe operates at very small scales – interactions involving particles smaller than atoms – is called quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is weird.
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The First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics and the Origin of the Universe
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Consideration of the first and second laws of thermodynamics in the past leads to the conclusion that the universe’s origin is a metaphysical or spiritual question, not a physical one. Therefore, using science, we can conclude the origin of the universe is not a question that science is equipped to answer on its own.
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Snowflakes—The Patron’s Gift
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How can one type of crystal adopt so many beautiful forms? Some of the world’s greatest scientific minds have puzzled over this question.
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Experiment: Cool Cotton
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God clearly had people in mind when He designed this lowly plant with so many desirable qualities.
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Does the Second Law of Thermodynamics Favor Evolution?
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The second law imposes a direction to time, so some physicists and philosophers refer to the second law of thermodynamics as time’s arrow.
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Experiment: How to Make Water Climb a Tree
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How do you make water flow upward? It’s not a problem if you’re the Creator of the universe.
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Kitty Physics
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Even a cat lapping milk displays the elegance of the Creator’s design!
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Finding “The Missing Cornerstone of Physics”
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Physicists applaud around the world as CERN scientists announce finding “the missing cornerstone of physics.”
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Einstein Wins Again
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In September 2011, researchers in Italy caused consternation among physicists worldwide when they claimed to detect neutrinos traveling faster than light.
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More Egg Experiments
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Learn more about the strength of eggshells by conducting some experments.
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Laws of Physics, Jim
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The laws of physics are fine-tuned for life, exactly what we would expect if the universe were intelligently designed. So what’s the latest atheistic rebuttal?
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Do Creationists Believe in “Weird” Physics?
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History shows that scientific “truth” changes over time. The uncertainty is the reason why continued testing of our ideas is so important in science.
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Beech Leaf Folding Project
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Try a complex fold based on the beech leaf that is used for maps.
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Appendix 3: Energy
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The concept of energy plays such a central role in all of physics.
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Just Add Energy?
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We received this critical email concerning the article “Just add energy …”, authored by Dr. Andy McIntosh.
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Gravity
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It would seem that this everyday gravity force should be one of the best understood concepts in science. However, just the opposite is true.
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What Does the Detection of Gravity Waves Mean for the Creation Mo
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This first direct confirmation of gravitational waves is another example of how far out and cool God’s creation can be.
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Technology
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Humanity has utilized God-given intelligence and an orderly universe to create some breathtaking and astonishing inventions and technologies.
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The Chatbot and the Great Commission
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Teams at Answers in Genesis discovered how artificial intelligence could help with real apologetics.
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Should We Update God’s Design?
| Answers in Genesis
Modern technology can
help
people in great need. But
what if technology
can be repurposed to
enhance healthy people
beyond their natural limits?
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Biomimicry
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God invented it first! Scientists often look to impressive designs in nature to develop their technology.
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God Invented It First
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The marvelous designs in the biological world have inspired a new field of science, called biomimicry.
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Searching for a Sticky Solution
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Some creatures produce tenaciously sticky
substances and researchers hope to mimic these
materials to create safer surgical procedures.
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Quieter Than a Speeding Bullet
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God’s creation has inspired many of man’s greatest designs.
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Engineers Try to Emulate Sticky Gecko Feet
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Hours of research continue to be spent investigating—and trying to emulate—the incredible “sticky” gecko foot, one of God’s most crafty creations.
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Scientists Abuzz over More Efficient Web Servers
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In another example of technology inspired by nature, a honeybee dance has helped scientists design a new model for Internet server technology.
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Gecko Feet—Best Foot Forward
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Scientists have long tried to understand how geckos can walk on walls and ceilings, even on smooth glass.
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A Sailor’s Best Friend
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It’s easy to see why dogs are a hunter’s best friend. But sailors? Go topside to examine a swabbie’s shoe, and you’ll find your answer.
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Robotic Insects Mimic God’s Own Design
| Answers in Genesis
Energizer bug’s backpack is a battery of God’s own design.
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Marine Animal Robots
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Are a series of robots made in nature’s image, or were they inspired by God’s designs? Or could it be both?
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Greatest Form of Flattery
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The design of pterodactyls has inspired the design of an unmanned spy drone.
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Diatoms—Living in Glass Houses
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Mankind was not the first to invent glass. Since creation, untold trillions of little creatures, called diatoms, have made their homes out of glass.
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Diatom Slideshow
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Watch a slideshow showcasing the variety of diatoms.
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Replicating the Bombardier Beetle
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The Bombardier beetle is a favorite of intelligent design advocates, who ask how the insect’s self-defense mechanism could have arisen in stepwise fashion.
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Bug Bots
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What if we could build light-weight flying machines that flap their wings and maneuver silently, without conventional airplane engines?
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Cockroaches Inspire Robots
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Robot designers are taking a cue from lizards and cockroaches!
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Biomimicry: Researchers Copy God’s Design in Silkworm Moths
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Human designers are inspired by the ultimate Designer, and this results in some neat technological innovations—including a new technology using the antennae of silkworm moths.
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Bats Inspire High-Tech New Flying Robots
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Researchers have been working on Bat Bot (or B2), a robotic lightweight flier designed to mimic the incredible aerial ability of a bat.
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Space-Age Leaves
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The intricate folding of the beech leaf is an ingenious design. Scientists are using patterns found in nature.
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The Day Superman Crashed
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As long as there have been humans, men and women have looked at what God has made and tried to copy it.
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Scientists Turning to Creation for Inspiration
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Once again, scientists are turning to God’s creations for inspiration.
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The Original Super Glue
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Researchers are studying the Sandcastle worm, which produces a glue.
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New Nautical Device Takes Design Cues From Clams
| Answers in Genesis
An incredible new nautical device takes design cues from the humble Ensis directus clam.
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Engineers Take Cues From Fish In New Energy Turbine Design
| Answers in Genesis
Energy-generating turbines could take a cue from fish, according to a new study.
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Superglue From A Sea Worm May Mend Bones
| Answers in Genesis
Fracture a bone? Let us put it back together with our worm glue.
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Nature Inspires Technology To Replicate Spider Silk
| Answers in Genesis
Another of God’s creative designs has inspired human technology—a device that attempts to replicate a spider’s production of silk.
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Technology for Good and Evil
| Answers in Genesis
The Lord has allowed mankind to accumulate knowledge to develop the incredible technology we see today. That technology can be used for both good and evil purposes.
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Evolving Robots
| Answers in Genesis
Robot designers are taking a cue from Charles Darwin!
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ChatGPT Generates “Bible” Verse “Describing How Jesus Feels About Trans People”
| Answers in Genesis
A trans-identifying individual recently turned to AI for encouragement by asking ChatGPT to write a “fake Bible passage about Jesus accepting trans people.”
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Google Co-founder Wants to Build AI as a “Digital God”
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According to entrepreneur Elon Musk, for some, such as Google’s Larry Page, the ultimate goal of the race to build artificial intelligence is to create a “digital god.”
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Five Reasons AI Is Not like a Calculator
| Answers in Genesis
Arguments that equate AI to other tools such as calculators simply don’t compute.
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The Effects of Artificial Intelligence
| Answers in Genesis
The rise of artificial intelligence unlocks an altered world of possibilities that are already transforming how humans work, learn, heal, grieve, relate, and worship.
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AI Lets You “Talk” with Dead Loved Ones
| Answers in Genesis
There are companies willing to take your money in exchange for a “large language model” trained to communicate with you just like your loved one did in life.
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The World in Our Pockets
| Answers in Genesis
Even your phone is a reminder that “to the Lord your God belong . . . the earth with all that is in it” (Deuteronomy 10:14).
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7 Genesis Truths for Thinking About Any New Technology
| Answers in Genesis
How the doctrine of creation influences our interaction with new technologies.
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Will AI Become Our New Gods?
| Answers in Genesis
Answering the claims that AI could correct the Bible
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AI Answers: What Is Behemoth?
| Answers in Genesis
Careful questioning can overcome programmed materialism
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Will AI Replace Writers and Artists?
| Answers in Genesis
Computer programs only have the creativity humans program into them.
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Remembering a Remarkable Lifesaver
| Answers in Genesis
Dr. Raymond Damadian’s lifesaving MRI invention continues to benefit millions of people each year.
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Is AI Really a Threat?
| Answers in Genesis
Widespread fear that
artificial intelligence
could overtake
humans is based
on a false assumption.
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Space Sails
| Answers in Genesis
A novel satellite is scheduled to investigate the feasibility of using “solar wind” as a source of propulsion for spacecraft and satellites by using solar sails. If successful, solar sails may eventually prove suitable for propelling long, unmanned space exploration and possibly manned, interplanetary operations.
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My Bionic Ear
| Answers in Genesis
Truth or science fiction? It’s possible to bypass your ears and send electrical signals directly to the brain. True.
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Bird-Saving Spider Webs
| Answers in Genesis
The orb weaver has a unique “stay away” warning system that has inspired new technology to save birds’ lives.
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There’s an App for That
| Answers in Genesis
Software developer Brett Golson knows that passively reading God’s Word isn’t enough.
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Digital Evolution?
| Answers in Genesis
On July 9, the internationally respected Sunday Times (of London) published an article by Richard Woods on the digital revolution.
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Evolution Computer?
| Answers in Genesis
Many programs allegedly simulating evolution are in use today, some even being used to make works of art.1 Many people have been misled by such demonstrations of 'life evolving on the screen'.
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Worldview
| Answers in Genesis
Your worldview is the basic set of beliefs that color how you view and interpret the world. It shapes your perspective of everything from fossils to human life.
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Reframing the Sacred
| Answers in Genesis
How does art shape our understanding of Scripture?
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The Creator Conflict
| Answers in Genesis
We were made from dust in the image of our Creator. But in rebellion, our culture tells us that we are the creators now.
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What Are You Reading to Your Children?
| Answers in Genesis
Many parents are unaware of the progressive content sneaking into books marketed as Christian children’s literature.
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Famous Evolutionist Leaves Atheist Group Because “The Foundation Has Abandoned Science”
| Answers in Genesis
Famous evolutionary biologist Dr. Jerry Coyne has separated from the atheistic Freedom From Religion Foundation due to their religious beliefs no longer matching.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: “We are Literally Stardust,” And That’s What Makes Us Special
| Answers in Genesis
A secular worldview struggles to answer identity questions, as evidenced by the answer Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson recently gave to why humans are special.
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Is This “Burning, Drowning World” No Place for More Kids?
| Answers in Genesis
The “anti-natalist” movement is becoming increasingly popular in the West as people are urged not to have children for the sake of the planet (among other reasons).
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Ken Ham—The Man Everyone Loves to Hate
| Answers in Genesis
Todd Friel, host of Wretched TV and Radio, interviews Ken
Ham on the 25th Anniversary of Answers in Genesis.
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Deep Depravity and a Biblical Worldview of Life
| Answers in Genesis
God calls his children to value all human life as being made in the image of the Creator.
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Disarming Skeptics
| Answers in Genesis
“Homophobic.”
“Misogynist.”
How do Christians
address the criticism
that they’re
hate-filled bigots?
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Are We Living in Days Like Noah’s?
| Answers in Genesis
The moral revolution and hostility toward Christianity make it seem that the world today is as bad as Noah’s day. But is it really?
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Only Two
| Answers in Genesis
Biblical teachings reflect the fact that, in an ultimate sense, there are only two religious views in the world—beliefs built on man’s fallible word (darkness/sand) and the one that’s built on the infallible Word of God beginning in Genesis (light/rock).
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Do You Really Understand “Worldview”?
| Answers in Genesis
There are ultimately only two religions in the world — you either start with God’s Word or man’s word.
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Breaking Down Deconstruction
| Answers in Genesis
People who claim to be “deconstructing” are systematically dismantling their faith, some to rebuild stronger and some to leave the faith altogether. How can we help them reconstruct on the sure foundation of God’s Word?
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War of the Worldviews
| Answers in Genesis
How are we to know if we have an accurate worldview? Is there any reason to think that our most basic assumptions about reality are correct?
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Only Two Worldviews
| Answers in Genesis
Fundamentally, there are only two worldviews: God’s way and man’s way—and every variation of man’s way holds to three basic themes.
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Are Human Rights Ever Wrong?
| Answers in Genesis
As God’s image bearers, humans are entitled to certain rights—but the Creator, not culture, makes the rules.
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Stephen Hawking 1942–2018
| Answers in Genesis
Famed British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking died today. Interestingly, Albert Einstein was born on the same date in 1879. Furthermore, both men died shortly after their 76th birthdays. These facts wouldn’t be remarkable if their work and writings were not so intimately related.
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Origins, Ethics, & Tetherball
| Answers in Genesis
Our definitions and our ethics depend on our starting point—God’s Word or man’s word.
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Building a Biblical Worldview
| Answers in Genesis
There is an urgent need
for Americans to return to God’s Word
as the authority in all things.
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Called To Create
| Answers in Genesis
As God’s masterpieces, we reflect the creativity of our God.
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Let There Be Truth
| Answers in Genesis
What happens when we base our interpretation of the Bible on man’s ideas?
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Should Christians Judge?
| Answers in Genesis
In a culture that promotes tolerance, Christians must discover what the Bible really says about judging others.
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A Biblical Prescription: A Worldview Checkup
| Answers in Genesis
The Bible provides the clearest lens for viewing the world. How biblical is your worldview?
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Work—A Gift or a Curse?
| Answers in Genesis
Fair wages, decent office conditions, work-life balance—work is a contentious topic. As sin takes a toll on what God has designed to be good, how do we keep up the good work?
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Who Programmed Your Glasses?
| Answers in Genesis
Most people don’t think about the fact that we see the world we live in differently, depending on which glasses we are wearing and how they were programmed. These glasses are really what we call our worldview.
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Only 3% of Children Have the “Cornerstone Beliefs” That Make a Biblical Worldview
| Answers in Genesis
The Cultural Research Center’s survey found that just 3% of children embraced all seven of the cornerstones of a biblical worldview.
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Two Things Presidential Voting Is Not
| Answers in Genesis
In a few short weeks, Americans will head to the polls to elect a president for the next four years. Other positions are also up for grabs, including 470 seats in Congress, 35 seats in the US Senate, and many other offices. However, the US presidential election is capturing most of the nation’s attention
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The Growing Pressure of LGBTQ+ Worldview on Christians
| Answers in Genesis
The pressure placed on companies to force acceptance of LGBTQ+ ideals on their workforce is one thing, but sadly, this pressure has also impacted much of the church and many Christian institutions.
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Why Aren’t People Convinced by Facts?
| Answers in Genesis
An article recently appeared on Scientific American titled “How To Convince Someone When Facts Fail: Why Worldview Threats Undermine Evidence.”
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How to Treat our Enemies
| Answers in Genesis
Who really are our enemies? Should we treat them
differently from our friends and family?
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How Should Christians Vote?
| Answers in Genesis
It’s not even close
to election time.
How can our
vote count every
day of the year?
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Could “Equiterra” Ever Be Reality?
| Answers in Genesis
Fictional “Equiterra” envisions a progressive utopia, with gender equality and no “toxic masculity”—but does not present Jesus as Lord and the source of human freedom.
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Can Public Libraries Carry Creation Resources?
| Answers in Genesis
The majority of the science-related resources you will find in your public library will be from an evolutionary perspective. Many libraries even carry anti-creation books and materials. But you can help get creation resources into public or school libraries!
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Christianity
| Answers in Genesis
Christianity is the religion that worships Jesus as God and trusts in him for salvation from our sins. Christians trust the Bible as the authoritative Word of God.
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The Scandal of Biblical Illiteracy
| Answers in Genesis
Ignorance of the Bible
isn’t just a problem in our
culture. It’s a problem in the
church, and it’s scandalous.
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Christian Life
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How should a follower of Christ live, work, and witness in a sin-filled culture that rejects God and His Word?
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Genesis and Biblical Womanhood
| Answers in Genesis
Knowing how to balance our responsibilities is never easy, but God has not left us in the dark.
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The Misplaced Identity of Gay Christianity
| Answers in Genesis
The hopeless gospel of gay Christianity is a deceptive faith we must guard against.
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What Is the Kingdom of Heaven Like?
| Answers in Genesis
Jesus’ Parables of the Mustard Seed, Leaven, Lost Treasures, and Pearls.
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Learning from the Parables of the Persistent Friend and Widow
| Answers in Genesis
The Parables of the Persistent Friend and the Persistent Widow show the generous provision of God compared to the reluctant characters in the parables.
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Why Does God Allow Evil to Flourish?
| Answers in Genesis
One of the biggest questions people have is why God tolerates all sorts of sin and rebellion.
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Is God Unfair Toward Us?
| Answers in Genesis
The Parables of the Older Brother and the Jealous Workers
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What Can We Learn from the Good Samaritan Parable?
| Answers in Genesis
How modern “Good Samaritans” can remind us about loving our neighbors.
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Jesus Never Visited Brazil
| Answers in Genesis
There’s a whole world full of beautiful places to explore. But what does Jesus’ earthly ministry teach us about truly seeing the world?
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Fear: Good or Bad?
| Answers in Genesis
The sound of the dentist’s drill, a weird noise in the dark, an odd-looking shadow, a precipitous ledge: Most people will experience terror or a phobia of such things at some point in their life. Most people would consider fear a bad or an unpleasant thing. They’re right. Why is there fear and where does it come from?
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Handling Stress
| Answers in Genesis
Our primary goal in handling life's pressures is to learn how to depend upon God and please Him, not simply get rid of stresses.
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Why Mentorship Matters
| Answers in Genesis
Mentorship simply means opening the door to the mentee God brings to you.
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Our Daughters and Wives in Combat?
| Answers in Genesis
This question is no longer theoretical. But we must ask, “What does God’s Word say?”
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What to Tell a Friend Who Believes in Evolution
| Answers in Genesis
Chances are you have friends who believe in Evolution. Here are some suggestions for talking with them.
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The Armor of God
| Answers in Genesis
How God equips us to engage in spiritual battles
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What Would Jesus Eat?
| Answers in Genesis
Is There a Biblical Basis for Being Vegetarian?
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Opportunities to Shine
| Answers in Genesis
Because of the Curse, we have a ready-made platform to shine as lights in a dark world.
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How Does “Biblical Authority” Affect Your Everyday Life?
| Answers in Genesis
It is one thing to talk about the authority of Scripture, but far more important to obey what God says.
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Biblical Authority Study Questions
| Answers in Genesis
How does biblical authority affect your everyday life?
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Perfectionism
| Answers in Genesis
What is the danger of striving to be perfect in our fallen world?
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Here’s What “One-anothering” Looks Like
| Answers in Genesis
Addictions, trauma, depression . . . people who come to Christ often face tough problems. Whose job is it to reach out to them? The Bible must be our guide.
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Cancer—Does Taking Chemotherapy Display a Lack of Faith?
| Answers in Genesis
Ever since Adam sinned, man has had to deal with death and disease. Seek the guidance of the Great Physician, and make a wise decision with your family and doctor.
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Top 5 New Year’s Resolutions
| Answers in Genesis
Have you ever made a New Year’s resolution? Here are some possible resolutions for you to consider as you begin the New Year.
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7 Reasons to Be a Biblical Creationist
| Answers in Genesis
Anyone who doesn’t think that creation really matters should take the time to seriously consider these seven reasons.
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“When I Grow Up . . .”
| Answers in Genesis
We all dream of doing something
worthwhile with life. According
to God’s Word, it’s possible.
We just need the right priorities.
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Afraid to Speak
| Answers in Genesis
When we defend God’s Word against skeptics, it is easy to become intimidated.
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Publisher’s Pen: Battle for the Heart
| Answers in Genesis
The most important battles in today’s culture wars are being fought on your watch, at your house.
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Planning to Give with a Charitable Remainder Trust
| Answers in Genesis
A CRT permits you to make a gift of your appreciated property and receive payments for a life, two lives, or a term of years. By establishing a CRT, you can bypass capital gains tax.
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Response to Persecution
| Answers in Genesis
Pastor Don Landis helps us understand that the world's persecution against Christians flows from a rejection of God and the truth of His Word.
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Daughters, Wives, and Mothers in the Military?
| Answers in Genesis
War is a constant threat. This world situation prompts these oft-raised questions, “Should daughters and wives be in combat?” and “should daughters, wives, and mothers even serve in the military?”
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Tips for Serving a Spiritual “Feast” for Women
| Answers in Genesis
When you put together a Ladies’ Tea at your church, what do you spend the most time on?
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Definition of Fasting
| Answers in Genesis
The original idea of the fast was to eat no food; drink liquids only.
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Learn to Discern
| Answers in Genesis
What good is education without the discernment to use it?
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Today’s Financial Crisis
| Answers in Genesis
In the midst of financial uncertainty, the Bible still provides the answers.
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Hearing Aids for the Whole Family
| Answers in Genesis
Let’s face it—sometimes your family doesn’t get much out of the Sunday sermon.
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MRI Prayer
| Answers in Genesis
Praying is just like ordinary conversation—but is that really evidence against Christianity?
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Honoring a partner in “creation evangelism”
| Answers in Genesis
Why would the funeral of a former dance intructor and door-to-door “salesman”1 attract a “who’s who” of Christian leaders, 3,000 people, plus a special assistant to the US president to his funeral?
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The “Rest of the Story”!
| Answers in Genesis
When God is about to do something amazing, be on guard. Something is sure to happen that will try to divert your focus and energy. This is what happened on our way to Las Vegas to do ministry.
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“Can-Do” Attitude Accompanies Church Work Group!
| Answers in Genesis
Some jobs done by AiG volunteers traveling from Tri-County Bible Church in Rensselair, Indiana.
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Christian Values
| Answers in Genesis
What are some of the values Christians should draw from the Bible and steadfastly hold to?
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How Do Christians Respond to Superstitions like Groundhog Day?
| Answers in Genesis
Superstitions abound regarding certain days, numbers, or objects. Most of these have murky, ancient origins and have been passed down from generation to generation. How should Christians respond?
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Delivering Both Help and Hope
| Answers in Genesis
Many Christians may have missed the mark when it comes to the gospel’s natural outflow—helping people in need.
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Making a Statement of Faith
| Answers in Genesis
Individuals and families benefit from thinking deeply about what they believe—and whether those beliefs line up with Scripture.
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Gambling—Don’t Bet on Chance
| Answers in Genesis
If you think that gambling is a potential way to wealth and prosperity, think again.
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Awakening America’s Courts
| Answers in Genesis
For more than a hundred years, every Supreme Court
justice has signed his or her name in a Bible that is maintained
by the Court’s curator.
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Your Body—A Gift from God—Your Most Precious Gift to Your Spouse
| Answers in Genesis
Since your body ultimately belongs to your Creator (and your spouse), what right do you have to give it to someone else?
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Are Bad Words Inherently Evil?
| Answers in Genesis
In each culture and language, there are certain words that many people believe we should avoid. Is this because they are inherently bad words?
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Flag Day and Biblical Banners
| Answers in Genesis
With so many flags and logos surrounding us, Christians rarely stop to consider what God’s Word says about how His people ought to regard these symbols.
- modesty-what-does-bible-teach/1 page
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Modesty: What Does the Bible Teach?
| Answers in Genesis
Teaching on modesty is often ridiculed by the modern culture. It is also sometimes accused of contributing to the oppression of women. However, as Christians we believe true freedom is found in Christ and in joyful obedience to the entirety of Scripture.
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A Challenge: Statement of Faith
| Answers in Genesis
How compromise at Union College and faithfulness at other colleges reflect two ways to approach God’s Word—and how Answers in Genesis supports biblical truth
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Be An “Aunt Lois”
| Answers in Genesis
Do you have a relative who stands out for her generositiy and Christlike character?
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NASA Worker Sues to Share Beliefs
| Answers in Genesis
For an employee of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in the Los Angeles area, sharing his views on the origins issue in the workplace was allegedly grounds for a demotion.
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Purity ... A Priceless Commitment
| Answers in Genesis
Purity is much more than saving sex for marriage. It’s a way of life. In 1 Timothy 4:12–16, Paul instructed Timothy to strive for purity in all areas of life.
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Teen Sex
| Answers in Genesis
From this day forward, the choice is yours. You can be a Daniel, purposing in your life to try to make choices that honor God and benefit you every time.
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“Perillous” Days for British Christians
| Answers in Genesis
Have we seen the start of a trend that will lead ultimately to British Christians once again paying with their lives for their faith?
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Self-esteem—Hope or Hopelessness?
| Answers in Genesis
We live in a complicated and sad world-a world where sin has affected
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Fidelity to God
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The final virtue I shall mention is fidelity to God and dedication to His cause in the world as one’s chief end
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Reclaiming the Nation
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It may seem difficult to correct a nation, or even to turn a city to God. But Jonah succeeded when he preached to Nineveh, because God was in it.
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Pray for Persecuted Christians in Nigeria
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Thousands of Christians are being murdered in the African nation of Nigeria, massacred by Islamic terrorist groups like Boko Haram.
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54% of US Adults Think Religion Should Not Influence Political Decisions
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Over half (54%) of US adults agreed with this statement: “Christians should not allow their religious beliefs to influence their political decisions.”
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54% of Christians Admit to Viewing Pornography—Over Half Are Okay with It
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A new study from Barna found a shocking 54% of “practicing Christians” admit to viewing pornography—that’s a mere 14% difference from non-Christians (68%).
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Can Virtual Churches Have Real Fellowship?
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This in-depth paper applies biblical theology to answer whether virtual church participation is an adequate substitute for in-person fellowship among believers who can physically attend.
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Recent Study Shows Public Opinion of Christians Is Waning
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According to statistics from a recent Lifeway Research study, the public opinion of Christians is waning.
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When They Persecute You
| Answers in Genesis
Throughout history, believers in God and his Word have faced persecution.
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Healthy, Wealthy and Lies
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Despite its promises
of health, wealth,
and happiness, the
prosperity gospel sells
a bankrupt gospel.
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How Do I Glorify God?
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Until you follow Christ and
use your heart, mind, and soul for your
God-designed purpose, you’ll never
operate to your maximum capacity and
know true fulfillment.
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Think on These Things
| Answers in Genesis
Positive thinking isn’t enough—we must think God’s thoughts.
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Evangelical Popes: Scholars Steal The Bible
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Evangelicals typically balk at human authorities who ignore God’s Word. Now some Old Testament scholars are effectively denying the clarity of Scripture.
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Christianity’s Decline Continues?
| Answers in Genesis
No matter what beliefs fluctuate in our culture, the gospel
remains unchanged.
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Is Faith the Absence of Reason/Evidence?
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Atheists often accuse Christians of believing or having “faith” without evidence and like to remind them of the old adage: “Faith is believing what you know is not true.” In the eyes of many atheists, “faith” is a buzzword for putting your intellect out of gear and believing something without any reason or evidence.
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Professor Inciting Violence
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Is this professor, at a taxpayer-supported university, inciting people to violence? Yes.
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Worth Fighting For
| Answers in Genesis
In some ways the religions of the world seem similar. All seem to advocate various ways to reach “god” or some form of greater “truth.”
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A Daily Dose of Truth
| Answers in Genesis
How can a busy Christian cut through secular
bias to learn the biblical view of current
events?
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Rising Tides in Latin America
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Biblical Christianity is on the rise in Latin America, and so is atheism.
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The Continuing Appeal to Peale, Twenty Years Later
| Answers in Genesis
On the anniversary of his death twenty years ago today, it is appropriate to examine Norman Vincent Peale’s legacy and to summarize the influence he has had on the church.
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Feedback: Can Christians Promote Heresy?
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Troy Lacey shows that Christians can and do speak error, and that we must be willing to receive correction from Scripture.
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Is Christianity a “Virus”?
| Answers in Genesis
Are Christians “infected” by a disease that they are passing on to their children?
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Will the New Pope Recognize the Full Authority of God’s Word?
| Answers in Genesis
Pope Benedict XVI’s announcement on Monday indicated he will become the first pope in six centuries to resign.
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Are You Ready for the End of the World?
| Answers in Genesis
History abounds with unfulfilled predictions from both Christian and non-Christians about the end of the world or the return of Christ.
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The Rise of Apologetics Fiction
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Keith A. Robinson had no plans to be an author. But the love of reading finally caught up with this music teacher from Wisconsin.
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Popular Blogger and Cover Story of Newsweek
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Popular blogger says of Jesus: “The cross itself was not the point.”
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Creative Destruction
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The decision to follow Christ requires heroic dedication: a daily willingness to submit our most dearly held viewpoints and behaviors to the “creative destruction” of God’s Word.
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One Power of Prayer
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Jesus taught us to pray, “forgive us . . . [a]s we forgive” (Matthew 6:12), and instructed us to “bless those who curse you [and] pray for those who mistreat you” (Luke 6:28). And now, scientists are learning more about the power behind prayer.
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Why is the Christian worldview collapsing in America?
| Answers in Genesis
Right here in America, the Christian worldview is collapsing before our very eyes.
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Lack of Knowledge of Church History and Other Faiths
| Answers in Genesis
A new survey, released this week by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, finds that, although 86% of Americans believe in God or a higher power, they don’t know much about church history or other faiths.
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The Exodus of Youth from Church and “Wannabe Cool” Christianity
| Answers in Genesis
The exodus of youth from the church continues, but one evangelical casts doubt on the stopgap strategy of “wannabe cool” Christianity.
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Building Blocks for Truth
| Answers in Genesis
Harvest Bible Chapel builds a scale model of Noah's Ark with Legos!
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The Worldview of Today’s Youth
| Answers in Genesis
The relativistic evolutionary thinking of our culture is affecting the worldview, lifestyle, and behavior of our Christian youth.
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Our Future World?
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The world is changing. How can we know what will happen next?
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Mollie Hemingway Examines Christian Stereotype
| Answers in Genesis
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway takes a look at stereotype made popular by the media: Christians are irrational, superstitious people, through and through. But does the evidence back that up?
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Dawkins, the Cultural Christian?
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Atheist partisan Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion and numerous books on evolution, still considers himself a “cultural Christian” despite rejecting the claims of Christ.
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To Be a Pilgrim
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Pilgrim’s Progress tells the allegorical story of Christian, a pilgrim who journeys through life on his way to the Celestial City.
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The Trouble with TV
| Answers in Genesis
What do the TV shows The Simpsons, Family Guy, and The Sopranos all have in common?
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Adopted Into God’s Family
| Answers in Genesis
Every once in a while, I am asked, “What’s it like to be adopted?” I was two days old when my parents chose me to be their son. Being adopted is an amazing thing.
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The Continuing De-Christianization of the UK
| Answers in Genesis
Stories like these are the latest in a series of insults to the Christian faith in the UK.
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Oklahoma OK
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In Tulsa, Oklahoma, Dan Hicks and numerous other citizens complained to the Tulsa Parks Board (who oversee the zoo) that Christianity was discriminated against at the zoo.
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What Is Your Worldview?
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Within the past few years, “worldview” has become a mainstream topic for discussion and application inside the evangelical Christian movement in the United States.
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Credit Were Credit Is Not Due
| Answers in Genesis
Some IMAX movie theaters in the US are apparently choosing not to carry films that promote evolutionary ideas.
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“The Question of God”
| Answers in Genesis
Whether we realize it or not, all of us possess a worldview.
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Keeping at Arm’s Length
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It shocks most Christians when they learn that creation organizations are kept at arm’s length by many pastors and ministries.
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Christianity Is Under Attack
| Answers in Genesis
There is a war in society — Christianity versus humanism. Too few Christians realize that the essence of the conflict lies firmly at the foundational level — creation versus evolution.
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Andy Stanley Says We Need to “Unhitch” the Old Testament from Our Faith
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Andy Stanley, the pastor of North Point Community Church, recently claimed Christians need to “unhitch” the Old Testament from their understanding of the faith. By this he means to instruct people to ignore the Old Testament and focus solely on the resurrection of Jesus Christ, especially in evangelism.
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Cultural Christianity Replaced by “Nothing in Particular”
| Answers in Genesis
“In US, Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace,” is the headline of a recent Pew Research Center report. They confirm what our research and other sources have been saying for years—across the West, Christianity is on the decline, and secularism is on the rise. How should we understand this troubling report?
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Ending Religion—It’s a Bad Idea … Says Richard Dawkins?
| Answers in Genesis
The claim that ending religion might be a bad thing is not a statement you’d expect to hear from the world’s leading atheist, Richard Dawkins. But he recently made those comments in response to research that shows that people are more likely to behave with honesty when they feel they are being watched.
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The Root of the Problem
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A woman writes to Answers in Genesis, being concerned that Christianity is the root of the moral problems today, rather than the solution. Is this true?
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Holidays
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How should Christians view or celebrate traditional holidays such as Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter?
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Hanukkah & Jesus
| Answers in Genesis
The historical background of Hanukkah, how Jesus celebrated the Feast of Dedication, and how Christ revealed himself as the light of the world
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Thanksgiving with a Heavy Heart?
| Answers in Genesis
The Bible tells us how to give thanks while remembering those who have passed.
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Halloween: A Remembrance of the Global Flood?
| Answers in Genesis
The history of Samhain, Halloween, and a possible link to Noah’s Flood.
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Happy Holidays
| Answers in Genesis
As Christians, we don’t know whether to be sad, angry, or indifferent. The frustrating reality is that, for most in our culture today, secularism has almost fully obscured the roots of many holidays.
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Thanksgiving Proclamation: A Traditional American Holiday
| Answers in Genesis
George Washingon: "It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will...and humbly implore His protection and favor.
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When the World Comes Knocking
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Mini chocolate bars, gummy bears, and the gospel? Yes, they can go together, especially on October 31 when children in costumes knock on your door.
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Easter
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Rarely do we set aside time with family to celebrate the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ together. Easter is the perfect time to do just that.
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Are the Symbols and Customs of Easter of Pagan Origin?
| Answers in Genesis
If Easter is supposed to be a celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus, how did all these symbols and customs get added to the original fasting and feasting?
- to-celebrate-or-not-to-celebrate-easter-that-wasnt-the-question/1 page
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To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate Easter: That Wasn’t the Question
| Answers in Genesis
We should remember to be grateful to the Lord every single day of the year for sending His Son to die on the Cross in our place.
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Up from the Grave He Arose . . .
| Answers in Genesis
This Sunday many Christians will commemorate the resurrection of their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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Is the Name “Easter” of Pagan Origin?
| Answers in Genesis
The controversy over the name Easter, when used in association with the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus, is interesting, to say the least.
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Is the Date of Easter of Pagan Origin?
| Answers in Genesis
Many claim that what we call Easter today was developed as Roman Catholicism co-opted pagan festivals celebrated in honor of various false gods and goddesses.
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Fossils—a Reminder of Easter
| Answers in Genesis
One of the problems we have in the church today is that by and large the Bible has been disconnected from the real world.
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Thankful We're Not Alone in the Universe
| Answers in Genesis
The atheistic outlook of an evolutionary worldview cannot account for gratitude, but Christians can and should be thankful this Thanksgiving.
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Should Christians Celebrate Halloween?
| Answers in Genesis
Is there a way for Christians to glorify God even on Halloween?
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Just Another Thanksgiving?
| Answers in Genesis
This holiday comes every year, so at times, Thanksgiving Day can seem like just a tired tradition. After all, each time is usually about the same as the year before.
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Thanksgiving: A Christian Holiday
| Answers in Genesis
Believers are exhorted to give thanks to God for all his blessings.
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It’s Valentine’s Day but Do We Know What Love Is?
| Answers in Genesis
Valentine’s Day is when our culture celebrates love with roses, chocolate, jewelry, and cards. But how can we be sure that what we’re celebrating really is love?
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Give Gifts with a Purpose This Christmas Season!
| Answers in Genesis
Answers in Genesis makes it easy to find unique, meaningful gifts that support good causes and share the good news of the gospel around the world.
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What Is Thanksgiving?
| Answers in Genesis
We are losing our focus on the original reason for Thanksgiving as the spiritual state of America continues to decline.
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Halloween and the Gospel of Life
| Answers in Genesis
What can you do to advance the gospel of life and light through Jesus Christ if your neighbors stop by your house this Halloween?
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Honoring Sacrifice: Memorial Day and the Importance of Reminders
| Answers in Genesis
Memorial Day is a time of family, fellowship, and sometimes camping or kicking off the start of summer. But above all, it is a time of remembrance.
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What Cinco de Mayo Can Teach Us About the Bible
| Answers in Genesis
What is Cinco de Mayo, anyway? Our experiences can subtly legitimize what we already believe about this popular day.
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Giving Thanks in a Broken World?
| Answers in Genesis
Some years it’s easy to reflect and see God’s hand of blessing. Other times, from a human perspective, it’s harder to see the year as a “blessing.” Why?
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To Whom Should We Be Grateful?
| Answers in Genesis
The Bible clearly teaches gratitude, sometimes on an earthly level to others, but ultimately to God. However, World Gratitude Day cannot be separated from the spiritualistic and universalist ideas of its founder. Can someone be grateful to a god such as he taught?
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Labor Day: Why Do We Celebrate Work?
| Answers in Genesis
Today families are relaxing and celebrating Labor Day (or Labour Day) together across North America with camping or beach trips, barbeques, parades, or (in my family at least) some good old-fashioned labor in the backyard as they mark the end of summer.
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Ascension Day
| Answers in Genesis
Forty days after Jesus rose from the grave on Resurrection Sunday came a very important but often overlooked event—the ascension of Christ to heaven. The ascension is vital to Christianity and after the crucifixion and resurrection, it is the next aspect of Christ’s saving work on behalf of Christians.
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Christmas Characters
| Answers in Genesis
These devotionals provide one lesson per week for family or private devotions in the months leading up to Christmas.
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Who Was St. Patrick?
| Answers in Genesis
On March 17 millions of people celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with parades, parties, and the color green. Who was the man who inspired these traditions?
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Thanksgiving in Times of Uncertainty
| Answers in Genesis
Looking back at past Thanksgivings as we are thankful to God in 2020, a year of uncertainty.
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El Día de los Muertos
| Answers in Genesis
A history and overview of El Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) - spiritual darkness in Mexico and Christ’s victory over death.
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Remembering Lincoln
| Answers in Genesis
As we remember Abraham Lincoln, we consider his belief that “all men are created equal” and his fight against slavery.
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Independence Day
| Answers in Genesis
Millions of Americans commemorate the signing of the Declaration of Independence with backyard barbecues and family gatherings, capping it off with fireworks.
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Why Did God Make Years, Months, and Days?
| Answers in Genesis
Have you ever wondered why God made days, weeks, months, and years? Here are three biblical reasons that may change how you think about time.
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A Night When Evil Is Celebrated
| Answers in Genesis
Few festivals give Christians in the Western world more cause for debate than Halloween.
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Glorious Season
| Answers in Genesis
Fall is a glorious season, especially for an Illinois boy like me!
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Logic
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In logic and reasoning eventually you have to appeal to an absolute authority. Which is your authority: the Bible or man’s word?
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Does Logic Supersede the Bible?
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What are the limits of logic and is logic more important than God’s Word?
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How Do I Stay Humble When I Know I’m Right?
| Answers in Genesis
We are right only because God has taught us to know what is right. How quickly we can forget that.
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Is the Christian Worldview Logical?
| Answers in Genesis
Many people have the impression that Christians live in two “worlds”—the world of faith and the world of reason.
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Imagine No Creator
| Answers in Genesis
Dr. Jason Lisle, AiG–U.S., shows why a universe with stability and laws of logic requires the biblical God—even hypothetical ones.
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Logical Fallacies: Introduction
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Logic is a very valuable tool, particularly for the Christian who wants to defend his or her faith better.
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Logical Fallacies: Straw-Man Fallacy
| Answers in Genesis
This occurs when a person misrepresents an opponent’s position and then proceeds to refute that misrepresentation rather than what the opponent actually claims.
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Logical Fallacies Series
| Answers in Genesis
Logic can be a valuable tool for Christians to defend their faith. But mistakes in reasoning can derail even the best argument.
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Can We Know That We’re Not Living in a Simulator?
| Answers in Genesis
Could reality be a simulation, and could virtual reality be as genuine as physical reality?
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What Is Epistemology, and How Does It Point to God?
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Why a biblical worldview—but not naturalism—can provide a foundation for logic, knowledge, and morality.
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How Do You Know the Sun Will Rise Tomorrow?
| Answers in Genesis
Why the biblical worldview is the only answer to the problem of induction.
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Logical Fallacies: Formal Fallacies
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We will close out the logical fallacy series with two of the most common fallacies that occur in arguments about origins.
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Human Wisdom: Something to Suspect?
| Answers in Genesis
BioLogos writer critiques young earth creation with logical fallacies and fails to distinguish between historical and operational sciences
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Should Christians Trust Scientific Experts?
| Answers in Genesis
BioLogos has written a curriculum named Integrate and has been republishing articles on their website in support of and defense of it. The solution to helping Christians properly understand these issues (by the power of the Holy Spirit) is Scripture, biblical authority and strong apologetics.
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Answering the Lie, “Everybody Says It, So It Must Be True.”
| Answers in Genesis
Addressing the ad populum logical fallacy (“everyone” believes it so it must be true) in the creation vs. evolution debate and why popular opinions are no sure guide to truth
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Celebrating God’s Gift of Grammar on National Grammar Day
| Answers in Genesis
But hating grammar is hating an intrinsic aspect of one of God’s first gifts to Adam and Eve, an aspect of His very creation.
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Trust the Experts
| Answers in Genesis
What does it really mean to be an expert, anyway? If we can’t rely 100% on anybody, how can we speak with confidence outside the Bible?
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Are the Laws of Logic Really Laws?
| Answers in Genesis
Are the laws of logic really laws, or are they just descriptors? Darius and Karin Viet, AiG–U.S., explain.
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Logical Fallacies
| Answers in Genesis
Does Ken Ham’s reasoning represent examples of affirming the consequent and reification? Jeremy Ham, AiG–U.S., explains.
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Logic for Dummies
| Answers in Genesis
If you think a course in logic sounds dry, abstract, and complicated— best left to intellectuals—the new book Discerning Truth will probably change your mind.
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Not Sound Logic?
| Answers in Genesis
Do logic and truth really depend upon the Bible being true? Couldn’t atheists just invent a story to explain them? Dr. Jason Lisle, AiG–U.S., shows why this is impossible.
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Nothing Borrowed
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Great civilizations accomplished amazing things without believing in God, so why must He exist for logic to be true?
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Logical Fallacies: Faulty Appeal to Authority
| Answers in Genesis
Essentially, the faulty appeal to authority is the argument that a claim is true simply because someone else believes it.
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Logical Fallacies: Ad Hominem
| Answers in Genesis
The ad hominmen fallacy is so named because it directs an argument against the person making a claim rather than the claim itself.
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The Logic of Belief
| Answers in Genesis
Is Christianity logical? As Dr. Jason Lisle, AiG–U.S., shows, not only is Christianity logical, it is foundational for all logic.
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Logical Fallacies: Bifurcation
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A person commits this fallacy when he or she claims that there are only two mutually exclusive possibilities—when, in fact, there is a third option.
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Logical Fallacies: The Complex Question
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The complex question is the interrogative form of begging the question—when the arguer attempts to persuade by asking a loaded question.
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Logical Fallacies: The Fallacy of the Question-Begging Epithet
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With the question-begging epithet, the arguer uses biased (often emotional) language to persuade people rather than using logic.
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Logical Fallacies: The Fallacy of Begging the Question
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This fallacy is committed when a person merely assumes what he is attempting to prove, or when the premise of an argument actually depends upon its conclusion.
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Logical Fallacies: The Fallacy of Equivocation
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Most words have more than one meaning, but only one of these meanings will properly fit the given context.
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Logical Fallacies: The Fallacy of Reification
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Reification is attributing a concrete characteristic to something that is abstract.
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Logic or Faith?
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Are the laws of logic truly universal? Must a person choose between logic or faith? Have we moved beyond superstition? Dr. Jason Lisle, AiG–U.S., responds to a critic’s challenge.
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Enormous Leaps of Logic?
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AiG has made the claim that science requires a biblical worldview. Is this logically defensible?
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Did God Create Logic?
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Did God create logic? Or is logic further evidence of God’s existence?
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Challenges Our Claim of a Logical, God-Created Universe
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The universe is full of change; almost everything in the physical universe is constantly changing. Yet, we all assume that the laws of nature do not.
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The Illogic of “Loaded Questions”
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The fast succession of irrelevant questions is a well-known logical fallacy known as a “loaded question.”
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Morality
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Does morality—right and wrong—depend upon what the majority decides? Or is morality founded upon the rock-solid foundation of God’s Word?
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Evolution and the Challenge of Morality
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Morality is a very difficult problem for the evolutionary worldview. The problem is that evolutionists have no logical reason to believe in right and wrong within their own worldview.
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What Basis, Morality?
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The April 2004 cover of Discover magazine poses the question, 'Are Right and Wrong Wired Into Our Brains?'
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2.9 Human Behavior (OB9)
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Human nature is by no means described by the Bible as good. A clear picture of God’s diagnosis of man’s condition emerges from only a few passages.
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Morality and the Irrationality of an Evolutionary Worldview
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Morality is a very difficult problem for the evolutionary worldview since they have no rational reason for the concept of right and wrong.
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The Source of Moral Absolutes
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Is morality based on God’s personal preferences? What is the source of moral absolutes? Darius and Karin Viet explain.
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Most “Traditional Sins” No Longer Considered Wrong by Americans
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According to a new study from George Barna’s Cultural Research Center, “Americans are changing their understanding and definition of ‘sin.’”
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Do We Need a More “Subtle” View on Cannibalism?
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We live in a time like the judges, when “everyone did what was right in his own eyes” (Judges 21:25), because there is no recognized ultimate authority.
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Are Things Getting Worse? (Or Is It Just Your Imagination?)
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Is a recent New York Times commentary right in saying there never were any “glory days” to return to?
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If God Doesn’t Matter to Him, Do You?
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There are consequences to the unquestioned evolutionary belief of humans as mere products of survival of the fittest, rather than beings made in God’s image.
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Blustery Morality
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Do your morals shift with the changing seasons?
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Why Creation (Really) Matters for Thinking About Ethics
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What if in Scripture, the answers we need for ethically navigating the biotechnological revolution have been available all along?
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Is There a Secular Foundation for Morality?
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Major manmade ethical systems fail to provide a functional, self-sufficient foundation for morality, but God’s Word supplies a coherent basis for knowing, practicing, and upholding objective morals.
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Don’t Just Change the Tire
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Our culture says, “Be kind.” But what does God’s Word say about true kindness? Holy Spirit.
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The Evolution of Morality
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Darwin’s failed attempt to explain the origin of morality ultimately led to millions of deaths in the 20th century as he rejected the true source for morality in God
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Is Morality Determined by Its Popularity?
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A new study revealed that “our view of what is morally right or wrong is shaped by how widespread a particular behavior is.”
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Exposing the Connection: How Evolution Impacts Morality
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Over the decades, evolutionists have often mocked me for tying evolution to morality. They claim that evolution has to do with “science,” not morality.
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Sexual Immorality Increasingly Acceptable—Unless It’s Adultery
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A recent Gallup poll, taken annually since 2001, asked Americans to “rate whether different practices are morally acceptable or morally wrong.”