If you were able to choose the planet you lived on, which one would it be? Well, I would definitely choose earth, because it is so well suited for life. Whether you’re considering the Earth’s distance from the sun, or its gravity, axial tilt or magnetic field, one conclusion is inescapable. Earth is finely tuned for life. Many see this as evidence for a designer but others don’t. If earth wasn’t finely tuned, they say, we wouldn’t even exist so it doesn’t indicate a designer. But is that a satisfactory answer? Imagined you were dragged before a trained firing squad
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Question 7 in CMI’s ’15 Questions for Evolutionists’ flyer reveals yet another problem area for the story of evolution: How did cells adapted to individual survival ‘learn’ to cooperate and specialize (including undergoing programmed cell death) to create complex plants and animals? Richard Fangrad and Calvin Smith summarize some of the data. See the links below for details. Related content • List of the 15 questions with supporting information (http://creation.com/15-questions) • Evolution of muticellularity: what is required? (http://creation.com/multicellularity) • Apoptosis — more evidence for creation (http://creation.com/apoptosis)
Dr Lawrence Krauss compares teaching creationism to children as child abuse. He also compares teaching creation to teaching that Santa Claus or Hell is real. He suggests that evidence against his beliefs about atheism and evolution should be censored. Meanwhile creationists believe that scientific evidence should be taught to children, even if it contradicts evolution. People should be taught truth. To learn more about the science supporting creation see the following articles. Related Articles: Yes, living things change, but not in a way that supports evolution (http://creation.com/train) More articles on natural selection (http://creation.com/selection) Yes, speciation happens, but this doesn’t support
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Question 9 in CMI’s ’15 Questions for Evolutionists’ flyer has plagued evolutionists since the time of Darwin. Where are the transitional fossils? Evolutionary paleontologists have stated that the “missing links” are still missing and some, such as the late Stephen J. Gould, have suggested new ways of interpreting the fossil record due to the lack of transitional fossils. Related content • Dr Colin Patterson’s famous statement about missing links (http://creation.com/pattquote) • Famous Living Fossil ‘Link’ Idea Fizzles Further (http://creation.com/fizzles) • Question 10 — Living Fossils (http://creation.com/gu-qe10) • Who really opposed Darwin? (http://creation.com/holy-war) • The links are missing (http://creation.com/refutingch3) • Fossilized
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For more details visit: http://creation.com/creation-magazine-live-episode-40 Since God describes His completed creation as “very good” (Gen 1:31) how did things like venomous snakes develop? Richard and Calvin discuss the origin of “bad things” after Adam sinned. Main article: From Creation magazine 31(4) Snakes: Designed to kill? http://creation.com/snake-carnivory-origin Related articles • Did a snake really speak to Eve? http://creation.com/who-was-the-serpent • What about the Snake in the Garden of Eden? http://creation.com/what-about-the-snake-in-the-garden-of-eden • How did bad things come about? http://creation.com/images/pdfs/cabook/chapter6.pdf • The problem of evil: pre-Fall animal death? http://creation.com/pre-fall-animal-death • Understanding poisons from a creationist perspective http://creation.com/understanding-poisons-from-a-creationist-perspective For more information on the creation/evolution issue
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Question 11 in CMI’s ’15 Questions for Evolutionists’ flyer focuses on the origin of meaning and morality. Without a moral law giver how do we get our moral laws? Evolutionists are at a loss to explain how good and evil originated via an evolutionary process. Related content • G. K Chesterton: Darwinism is ‘An attack upon thought itself (http://creation.com/chesterton) • Evolutionist: it’s OK to deceive students to believe evolution (http://creation.com/deceive) • Abortion ‘after birth’? Medical ‘ethicists’ promote infanticide (http://creation.com/abortion-after-birth) • The Biblical foundation for morality (http://creation.com/ethics) • List of the 15 questions with supporting information (http://creation.com/15-questions)
If Adam and Eve had Cain, Abel and Seth then where did we all come from? Are there people living today who are not descended from Adam and Eve? Related content • Who was Cain’s wife? (http://creation.com/images/pdfs/cabook/chapter8.pdf) • Cain’s wife and brother-sister intermarriage (http://creation.com/cains-wife-brother-sister-intermarriage) • Creation for Kids—Creation 31(1): Cain’s wife—who was she? (http://downloads.creation.com/cfk/creation31-1_crossword.pdf)
When the BBC produced the series “Walking with the Dinosaurs” a few years ago they had to search the globe for appropriate filming locations but whenever they discovered an otherwise suitable site the ground was inevitably covered in grass and back in the year 1999 that was an evolutionary impossibility. You see, until recently, most evolutionary scientists believed that grasses first evolved 55 million years ago long after the supposed extinction of the dinosaurs but since then studies of fossilized dinosaur dung showed that not only did dinosaurs and grass live at the same time but that dinosaurs actually ate
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Unless you’ve been living underground for the last few years, I’m sure you’ve heard of feathered dinosaurs. It seems we’re constantly hearing that birds evolved from dinosaurs, some have even suggested that KFC could change its name to KFD, Kentucky fried dinosaur. But not all evolutionary scientists accept the dino to bird dogma. A prominent one is renowned ornithologist Alan Feduccia of the University of North Carolina. He recently stated, “The theory that birds are the equivalent of living dinosaurs and that dinosaurs were feathered is so full of holes that the creationists have jumped all over it.” He further
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At a forum on depression a young man said, “I think some people may have an inability to cope and maybe, this might sound a bit extreme, that might be Darwinian theory, the Darwin theory of survival of the fittest. Maybe some of us aren’t meant to survive, maybe some of us are meant to kill ourselves.” Now why did this young man think human life has such little value? Perhaps he’d heard people like Oxford Professor Dr Peter Atkins who said, “We are just a bit of slime on the planet.” Likewise, psychologist Susan Blackmore said, “If you really
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Most people don’t like to be told they have a big head, but some scientists might actually consider that a compliment. Humans have much large skulls than apes and since humans are much more intelligent there’s been a long-standing belief that skull size indicates level of intelligence. That’s why evolutionists tend to interpret larger ape skulls as advanced apes and smaller human skulls as sub human. But this evolutionary story has multiple problems. Neandertals were supposedly primitive, often portrayed as sub-human, but their skulls are actually bigger than ours. Also the winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for literature had
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Were the events in Genesis actually historical? Where can we look for clues on how to interpret Genesis? The Creation Magazine LIVE! TV program is a ministry of Creation Ministries International. With offices in seven countries and more PhD scientists than any Christian organization this program features cutting edge science that supports the Bible delivered in a non-technical, visually-rich, discussion-based format. Related Articles: Genesis Verse-by-Verse Bible Study Tool (http://creation.com/vbv) Creation compromises Q+A page (http://creation.com/creation-compromises) Related Products: Refuting Compromise (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-2-575) Genesis and the Gospel Connection DVD (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=30-9-556) Should Christians Embrace Evolution? (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-2-563) Creation magazine (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=90-3-001)
Calling someone a “flat-earthier” defiantly isn’t a compliment but many people believe that, in the past, the church taught that the earth is flat. Historian Jeffrey Burton Russell put this myth to rest in his definitive book “Inventing the Flat Earth.” He could only find five obscure writers in the first fifteen hundred years of the Christian era, who denied the earth was a globe. What’s more, science historian John Heilbron documented in his book, “The Sun in the Church,” that the church actually supported astronomers by letting them use cathedrals as solar observatories. The Bible itself makes some intriguing
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A meteorite supposedly hit Mexico, 65 million years ago, causing the extinction of dinosaurs but someone forgot to tell the duck-billed Hadrosaur. According to research published by the Geological society of America was discovered near the impact site in strata some evolutionists claim are 64 million years old. That’s one million years after the meteorite hit. The idea that dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago has lots of problems but entrenched ideas are hard to dislodge. Dinosaur researcher Dr Mary Schweitzer recently found soft looking blood vessels and red blood cells in bones of T-Rex. She said, “This is
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In recent years, NASA probes have sent back images of our nearest planet Mars. These images have prompted some scientists to suggest that a global flood once carved the Martian landscape, even though no liquid water has yet been found. The Bible records and event that certainly sounds like a global flood on Earth. Genesis records that, “All the mountains under the heavens were covered.” Jesus himself, referring to those not on Noah’s Ark, said, “The flood came and took them all away.” Unlike the illusive water on Mars, water covers 70% of the earth’s surface and water deposited sedimentary
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Why do evolutionary hoaxes and fakery continue to be taught? Some of the worst examples of this are explored on this week’s episode. The Creation Magazine LIVE! TV program is a ministry of Creation Ministries International. With offices in seven countries and more PhD scientists than any Christian organization this program features cutting edge science that supports the Bible delivered in a non-technical, visually-rich, discussion-based format. Related Articles: Embryo similarity (http://creation.com/fraud-rediscovered) Countering revisionism—part 1: Ernst Haeckel, fraud is proven (http://creation.com/haeckel-fraud-proven) Goodbye, peppered moths — A classic evolutionary story comes unstuck (http://creation.com/goodbye-peppered-moths) More about moths — A recent attempt to restore
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How did the peacock get such a spectacular tail? Bothered by this question, Charles Darwin wrote: ‘The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!’ Some time later, though, Darwin proposed his ‘theory of sexual selection’ which basically says that the peacock evolved its exotic tail to attract a mate, thus helping it produce more offspring and thus increasing the numbers with attractive tails. But a recent critical review, published in the prestigious journal Science, has pointed out that the theory has ‘fatal problems’ and ‘needs to be replaced’. However, other evolutionary
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For more details visit: http://creation.com/creation-magazine-live-episode-53 What happens when the physical evidence doesn’t match evolutionary theory? Richard Fangrad and Calvin Smith discuss the sorts of mental gymnastics evolutionists are willing to go through to preserve their theory, which highlights the fact that there is actually no tension between the Bible and scientific facts—only between certain interpretations of the facts in relation to the past. Main article: From Creation magazine 27(4) Kamikaze Ichthyosaur (http://creation.com/kamikaze-ichthyosaur) Related articles • Whale explodes fossil theory (http://creation.com/whale-explodes-fossil-theory) • Toy car rocks million-year belief (http://creation.com/toy-car-rocks-million-year-belief) • Keys to rapid rock formation (http://creation.com/keys-to-rapid-rock-formation) • The clock in the rock
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Question 13 in CMI’s ’15 Questions for Evolutionists’ flyer asks for the advances in science that come from evolution. Not only does evolution theory not produce scientific breakthroughs, it is actually a hindrance to science and irrelevant to scientific progress. Related content • Is evolution relevant or helpful to real science? (http://creation.com/helpful) • Genetic algorithms—do they show that evolution works? (http://creation.com/algorithm) • Understanding the difference between micro and macro evolution (http://creation.com/gu-qe4) • What! …no potatoes? (http://creation.com/potatoes) • “A Parade of Mutants”—Pedigree Dogs and Artificial Selection (http://creation.com/pedigree) • List of the 15 questions with supporting information (http://creation.com/15-questions)
What is the nature of the relationship between faith and science? Can the apparent separation between science and faith ever be eliminated? Many scientists are convinced that evolution happened, does that mean it did? Join the discussion. The Creation Magazine LIVE! TV program is a ministry of Creation Ministries International. With offices in seven countries and more PhD scientists than any Christian organization this program features cutting edge science that supports the Bible delivered in a non-technical, visually-rich, discussion-based format. Related Articles: It’s not science (http://creation.com/its-not-science) Argument: Evolution is true science, not ‘just a theory’ (http://creation.com/refuting-evolution-2-chapter-3-argument-evolution-is-true-science-not-just-a-theory) Does science need evolution?
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For more information visit: http://creation.com/creation-magazine-live-episode-6 Evolution says the earth is billions of years old. The Bible says it is about 6000 years old. What does science say? Discover the answer as Richard and Calvin discuss several scientific dating methods that refute the evolutionary timescale. Related articles – 101 evidences for a young age of the earth and the universe (http://creation.com/age-of-the-earth) – The earth: how old does it look? (http://creation.com/the-earth-how-old-does-it-look) – How old is the earth? (from Refuting Evolution) (http://creation.com/how-old-is-the-earth) Feedback – Immeasurable Age (http://creation.com/immeasurable-age) Also see – ‘Young’ age of the Earth & Universe Q&A page (http://creation.com/young-age-of-the-earth-universe-qa)
For details visit: http://creation.com/creation-magazine-live-episode-15 If the rock layers found all over the earth are a result of a global flood then they cannot also be evidence for slow deposition over millions of years. An understanding of what the Flood was like and what it could accomplish (geologically) is a key to understanding the age of the Earth. The Catastrophic Plate Tectonics (CPT) model is discussed as a mechanism operating during the Flood to explain many large scale geologic features observed today. This discussion continues in part 2, Episode #16. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDTsfMvuXdM) Related articles – Was the Flood global? (Chapter 10 from
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Many Christians today have a diminished view of the Bible because they can’t answer questions like, “Is there really a God?”, “What about evolution”? Are there facts to back up the Bible or is it all just faith? Creation Ministries expert speakers visit churches all over the world to help pastors and leaders equip their congregations to understand that the whole Bible, even Genesis, is accurate. We help to ‘demolish arguments’ that the world uses to try to convince people that the Bible isn’t true. For more information on getting a CMI speaker to visit your church, contact the CMI
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Is the big bang the only possible explanation for what we see in the heavens? How observations in astronomy fit with the Bible — this week on Creation Magazine LIVE! The Creation Magazine LIVE! TV program is a ministry of Creation Ministries International. With offices in seven countries and more PhD scientists than any Christian organization this program features cutting edge science that supports the Bible delivered in a non-technical, visually-rich, discussion-based format. Related Articles: Bye-bye, big bang? (http://creation.com/bye-bye-big-bang) Secular scientists blast the big bang (http://creation.com/secular-scientists-blast-the-big-bang) Our galaxy is the centre of the universe, ‘quantized’ redshifts show (http://creation.com/our-galaxy-is-the-centre-of-the-universe-quantized-redshifts-show) High-redshift quasars
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For more details visit: http://creation.com/creation-magazine-live-episode-44 Grasses supposedly evolved after the dinosaurs died out but scientists examining fossilized dino dung (coprolite) recently revealed that dinosaurs ate grass. Richard and Calvin discuss this ‘time travel’ problem for evolution. Main article: From Creation magazine 29(2) Grass-eating dinos (http://creation.com/grass-eating-dinos) Related articles • Dinosaur Q&A page (http://creation.com/dinosaur-questions-and-answers) • Dinosaurs, humans and the fossil record (http://creation.com/dinosaurs-humans-and-the-fossil-record) • Did dinosaurs really rule the earth? http://creation.com/did-dinosaurs-really-rule-the-earth For more information on the creation/evolution issue visit http://creation.com
For more details visit: http://creation.com/creation-magazine-live-episode-64 Even renowned (evolutionary) ornithologist Dr Alan Feduccia agrees that dinosaur to bird evolution is ‘full of holes’. Richard Fangrad and Calvin Smith discuss some of the details on this topic from the article in Creation magazine. Main article: From Creation magazine 29(2) Dinosaur feather folly (http://creation.com/dinosaur-feather-folly) Related articles – What happened to the dinosaurs? (http://creation.com/images/pdfs/cabook/chapter19.pdf) – Sensational dinosaur blood report! Have T. rex blood cells been found? (http://creation.com/sensational-dinosaur-blood-report) – Archaeoraptor—Phony ‘feathered’ fossil (http://creation.com/Archaeoraptor-phony-feathered-fossil) – Chinese feathered dinosaurs, where are the skeptics? (http://creation.com/chinese-feathered-dinosaurs-where-are-the-skeptics) For more information on the creation/evolution issue visit http://creation.com
Calling someone a mutant is an insult because mutations, which are copying mistakes in DNA, are almost always bad. In fact, we know many mutations by the diseases they cause and, to make matters worse, more mutations are added to the genome every year. In his recent book Genetic Entropy and the Mystery of the Genome former Cornell University professor Dr John Sanford points out the seriousness of this problem. He shows that mutations are rapidly decaying the information within the human genome. However, this is surprising because, according to evolutionary theory, mutations coupled with natural selection is the means
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