What was the pitch that covered the Ark? Many have wondered what this could have been. Was it oil or some type of tree resin? A newly discovered Roman shipwreck has revived this debate. But this time, maybe it offers a resolution.
Numerous critics of young earth creationists argue that the pitch used to cover the Ark was a crude oil product. Evolutionary geologist David Montgomery goes so far as to claim oil and sedimentary rocks... More...
A small and interesting plant-eating reptile called Lystrosaurus is in the news recently because it was found to have laid eggs (as reptiles do). So what’s interesting about that? Well, conventional scientists claim Lystrosaurus is a 250-million-year-old mammal ancestor called a synapsid.1 They see this discovery as an exciting evolutionary development in the process of reptiles evolving into mammals. But a cl... More...
New species are often presented as proof that life is evolving. But they instead show how life was designed to diversify from the start. A recent deep-sea study reports 24 new amphipod species and even proposes a new “superfamily.”1 Conventional scientists say this discovery adds a new branch to the tree of life. Yet the real issue with this is not naming new groups—it is explaining the species’ origin. Th... More...