Most people would be surprised to know that, until recently, the human genome was not entirely sequenced where all the DNA letters it contains are deciphered. With the use of new DNA sequencing technologies, a complete version of the human genome has now been produced (except for the Y chromosome).1 The startling discovery surrounding this novel achievement is that the previously unsequenced regions were once thought to be mostly evolu… More… …read more Source: icr.org
By Ken Ham The more scientists dive into the details of what God has made, the more they discover how complex, intricate, and amazing creation really is (even if they refuse to recognize the One who made it all!). I was reminded of this recently by a news item reporting on surprising findings regarding DNA “first responders.” God gave DNA a proofreading system to catch mistakes and “dedicated DNA repair machinery that routinely fixes mistakes.” But how do they work? DNA is a complex language system, built off four bases, that provides the information to build each living thing. Mind-boggling
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Charles Darwin got one thing right, but it wasn’t evolution. …read more Source: creation.com
The world is alive with beetles! A 2022 study by 17 biologists states, “Beetles constitute the most biodiverse animal order with over 380 000 described species and possibly several million more yet unnamed.”1 Why are there so many types of beetles? They form a large part of the world’s biodiversity critical for decomposition (e.g. forests) and feed on problem insects such as caterpillars a… More… …read more Source: icr.org
What can the response of arthropods to the 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens tell us about post-Flood ecological recovery? …read more Source: creation.com
By Harry F. Sanders, III Non-coding DNA, far from being “junk,” has multiple functions that are a problem for evolutionists and point to the Creator. …read more Source: AIG Daily
A unified genealogy of modern and ancient humans incorrectly points to northeast African as the ancestral homeland. The results are entirely based on the evolutionary assumptions behind the model. …read more Source: creation.com
By Ken Ham Should we be concerned about “complex genetic tests” being offered to parents ahead of in vitro fertilization (IVF, a popular fertility treatment that involves implanting embryos—read: babies—in a womb). And if so, why? Well, that depends on your worldview. An editorial recently appeared in Nature.com titled, “The alarming rise of complex genetic testing in human embryo selection.” In this article, the author raises the alarm regarding The emergence of companies that offer prospective parents complex genetic tests on embryos . . . The companies claim to be able to predict the risk of many common diseases —
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Two-headed turtles are obviously defects, but are they caused by DNA mutation? …read more Source: creation.com
By Karina Altman Meet some cool creatures with weird and wild defenses. …read more Source: AIG Daily
Although we see much beauty in God’s creation, we cannot help but see Earth as a perfect world gone wrong. Conditions such as cancer, COVID, and carnivores reminds us this world has been cursed due to the sin of our first parents. Cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat… More… …read more Source: icr.org
A wide array of fish, amphibians, and arthropods have successfully colonized cave environments. In their cave adaptation, these creatures display complex systems of morphological, physiological, and behavioral traits that allow them to thrive in light-deficient and resource-scarce environments. One of the best-studied of these creatures is the Mexican tetra blind cavefish which is now revealing surprising and ingenious adaptive engineering that e… More… …read more Source: icr.org
By Dr. Nathaniel T. Jeanson Creationists are replacing Darwin’s ideas with better explanations for the origin of species. In fact, creationist ideas perform even better than expected. …read more Source: AIG Daily
Does evolution give a sound explanation for the arrival of acoustics? They say the earth was mostly quiet for billions of years, but is that an argument from silence? …read more Source: <a href=https://creation.com/a/15769 target=_blank title="Sounding off on evolution” >creation.com
Researchers recently scanned a region of the smallest human chromosome and found three previously undiscovered families of genes that are uniquely human and completely absent from apes.1 This new discovery continues to highlight previous research, showing that the human genome contains many human-specific genes not found in apes—utterly confounding the rapidly crumbling paradigm of human-ape evolution. Scientists h… More… …read more Source: icr.org
By Ken Ham Will “Jurassic Park” someday be a reality? Well, scientists are working on trying to bring back a variety of extinct species, such as the woolly mammoth, passenger pigeon, and Tasmanian tiger (thylacine). Will they be successful? A new study says . . . maybe, sort of. This idea of bringing back extinct species is called “de-extinction” and involves studying preserved DNA from an extinct species and editing the DNA of a closely related species (both are part of the same kind, such as the woolly mammoth and African or Asian elephants) to match, as closely as possible,
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Scientists described the first evidence of a possible respiratory illness in a fossil. The common soil fungus Aspergillis can infect birds and reptiles today. The resulting disease, also called aspergillosis, causes the trachea’s soft tissues to attach to nearby bones. This causes odd bone bumps—the subject of discovery in a dino nicknamed Dolly. But the human sympathy that these scientists expressed over Dolly’s presumed diseas… More… …read more Source: icr.org
Can creation-based conservation provide a better solutions than evolution-based attempts? …read more Source: creation.com
By Ken Ham Are you ready to be blown away by brand-new research that rewrites history as we think we know it? Well, when researchers start with God’s Word, rather than human reasoning, they’re able to make these kinds of discoveries because they have the proper starting point: the history recorded in the infallible Word of God. Harvard-trained Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson, who serves at AiG on our research team, starts with God’s Word, not the evolutionary timeline. Because of that stance, he’s able to study DNA in a completely different way from evolutionists. And what he’s found stamped in our
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Graduate student Shiuan-Tze Wu led a study of some ingenious organization into the odor-sensing cells of fruit flies. He and his collaborators at the La Jolla campus of UC San Diego found that the odor-detector cells in the insects’ antennae talk to one another in a way that saves brainpower. It’s all so impressive that the senior author of the report called it “simple yet elegant,” according to the UC San Diego News Cente… More… …read more Source: icr.org
By Ken Ham Are humans “messing with evolution”? According to a new study, we are! This study looked at so-called “rapid evolution”—which the authors argue is “not so exceptional . . . it’s actually occurring all the time”—and how humans are the driving force behind much of the current change we’re seeing in nature. What Kind of Change? So, what kind of change is the study referring to? Well, they give a variety of different examples of changes within populations of organisms—for example, a trend toward smaller individuals within certain populations. This impacts the population, and therefore the ecosystem, as
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A group of scientists—including archaeologists from Newcastle University, UK, and geneticists from the University of the Basque Country, University of Vienna, and Harvard University1,2—unearthed a millennia-old family genealogy. They isolated and sequenced DNAs from postcranial, petrous, and teeth bones of 35 individuals buried in the stone cairn at Hazleton North (Gloucestershire, UK). This opens a new door to the hidden p… More… …read more Source: icr.org
The standard evolutionary story of dinosaurs, but full of holes. …read more Source: creation.com
It seems not a week goes by that zoologists find yet another function of the designed microbiome. Although it is difficult to define, the total collection of microscopic flora on the individual and in the gut (GI tract) is called the microbiome.1 Microbiota inhabit a variety of niches in the human body, with the gut being the primary location. This microbial colonization supports the digestion of complex nutriti… More… …read more Source: icr.org
Yet another layer of complexity has been added to the lowly bacterial cell. It has been discovered they can undergo genetic silencing to guard themselves from mutations. A researcher stated this finding is “an extremely important system that had not been appreciated until now.”1 Prior to this discovery, it was thought all parts of the circular chromosome of the bacteria were fully expressed. In other words, t… More… …read more Source: icr.org
Thousands of years ago, humans had bigger brains. That conclusion was reached after researchers showed that ancient human skulls from Europe, the Middle East and Asia had an average brain capacity of 1500 cubic centimetres, compared to today’s 1359 cc.1,2 Read More: Our shrinking brains – creation.com
Recent discoveries about heme pose problems for evolutionary theory …read more Source: creation.com