When conventional scientists call a fossil an early step in animal evolution, the claim may rest more on a reading of the fossil than on the fossil itself. In a new study, sharper images revealed that what had been identified as animal trails were actually fossilized microbes.1
The study reexamined tiny fossils from Brazil’s Tamengo Formation. Earlier work had treated some marks on the fossils as burrows made by ... More...
Conventional scientists have been baffled for many years by the small arms of Tyrannosaurus rex. To many, they just seem disproportionately small compared to other theropod dinosaur arms. The question is often asked: What use could these tiny arms be for such a large predator? A recent study claims to have solved this enduring enigma.1 And yet, a simple visit to a playground teeter-totter would have likely saved them a lot... More...
Every Fourth of July, Americans celebrate freedom with flags, fireworks, and familiar words, such as this line from the Declaration of Independence, “All men . . . are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” This foundational American document thus begins with a truth about humanity: all people should enjoy freedom because of their God-given rights and worth in their Creator’s eyes.
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On Tuesday, June 30, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold the rights of West Virginia and Idaho to ban transgender women, who are biological males, from competing in women’s sports. In a ruling that covered both West Virginia v. B. P. J. and Little v. Hecox, the Court decided six to three that neither Title IX nor the Equal Protection Clause are violated by states that do not allow transgender-identifying student athletes t... More...
A butterfly wing may look like painted glass, but beneath its beauty is a living control system. A recent study on South American butterflies and a day-flying moth found a striking theme. Two genes, ivory and optix, help make similar colors in insects that conventional scientists place far apart on the family tree.1 The study presents this as evidence that evolution has repeated itself. Yet the finding points to a s... More...
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Even the smallest living cells face a big design problem. How do they keep the right shape while many parts inside them are moving? A recent study in Science considered this question in regards to a blue-green bacterium called Anabaena.1 The researchers studied a protein system that helps the cell keep its shape. Conventional scientists call this an example of evolution “repurposing” DNA-moving machinery... More...
The United States of America is officially 250 years old! Most Americans celebrate and thank God for reaching such a milestone. After all, the history of the world’s nations shows that the United States is a relative newcomer. Take England, for example. When the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776 in Philadelphia, England had already been a country for over 800 years.
The preamble of the Declaration of Independen... More...
Cactus flowers have a striking range in size—they can be smaller than a grain of rice or longer than a school ruler. Such variation points to how God designed living things with room to adapt while also placing limits on what they can become.
A recent Biology Letters study reports that cactus groups with faster-changing flowers tend to form new species faster.1 Jamie Thompson and Chris Venditti studied flo... More...
Can a freezer make life? A recent paper in Chemical Science suggests that freezing and thawing may have helped early “protocells” grow, merge, and trap DNA.1 But the key issue is not whether ice can move molecules around—it’s whether blind physical cycles can build the coded, regulated systems life requires. The evidence shows that ice can sort preexisting parts, but it cannot engineer life.
Two of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, Io and Ganymede, were recently featured in science news stories—stories that remind us that these moons are problematic for those who believe the solar system is billions of years old.1,2
The four largest of Jupiter’s more than 100 moons are called the Galilean moons, in honor of their discovery by Galileo Galilei. In order of increasing distance from Jupiter, the... More...
A new species of what appears to be a fossil centipede was found in sediments that conventional scientists believe were deposited offshore.1 The problem for them is that the creature had legs for walking on dry land, leaving them to wonder why these animals evolved terrestrial-style “legs while still living underwater.”2
The new fossil, Waukartus muscularis, was found in Wisconsin’s ... More...
Saturn is famous for its beautiful rings, which are composed mostly of water ice particles. A team of scientists recently proposed that the rings were formed from the breakup of a hypothetical moon about 100 million years ago, a moon they have dubbed Chrysalis.1
Because the force of gravity between two objects rapidly increases as the objects move closer together, a planet’s gravity pulls on the near side of a mo... More...
What if so-called rapid evolution is not a process of building something new, but it simply reveals what was already there? A recent peer-reviewed study in Science reports that certain DNA segments, called supergenes, may help cichlid fish adapt quickly through large chromosomal inversions that preserve sets of traits.1 Conventional scientists say this shows evolution can move faster than expected. A related report from <i... More...</i...
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According to the fossil record, arthropods—in all their complexity—have always been arthropods.1,2 They belong to the phylum Arthropoda, the largest phylum in the animal kingdom.
The creation model states that if there was a worldwide flood, one would expect bottom-dwelling creatures like arthropods in the ocean to be catastrophically buried first.3 This is indeed the case with aquatic creatures ... More...
What if new species could appear in just a few thousand years? A recent study reports that many new plankton species showed up quickly after the supposed Chicxulub impact—a large asteroid event believed to have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. Some of the plankton appeared in less than 2,000 years.1 The study claims this shows fast evolution. But the evidence fits better with rapid change within created kinds, not th... More...
Based on a new fossil discovery and reevaluation of previously known fossil material, paleontologists have described two species of giant Cretaceous fossil octopuses, Nanaimoteuthis jeletzkyi and Nanaimoteuthis haggarti.1–3 These fossil octopuses belong to the suborder Cirrata, or Cirrina. Cirrate octopuses have cilia-like strands on their arm suckers and fins on their mantles (large, umbrellalike organs t... More...
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...
Amazing tiny chloroplasts found within equally incredible plant cells continue to reveal the detailed workmanship of the Creator who created plants on Day 4 of creation.1–3 But evolutionary theory removes God: “Every plant cell is the product of a biological merger billions of years ago.”4
Conventional scientists claim that chloroplasts, “key structures in [plant cells] and algae that... More...
Recently, an update on the Whopper Sand in the Gulf of America (Mexico) was published in the oil field trade magazine, AAPG Explorer.1 New oil drilling has found it to be thicker and more extensive than first thought.2–4
ICR described the initial discovery of this massive sand in 2001:
The Whopper Sand was first discovered about 200 miles off the coast in ... More...
A small fossil reptile with strange and intricate skin outgrowths has been discovered that is forcing evolutionists to once again reexamine their understanding of reptile-to-bird, scale-to-feather evolution.1 Allegedly 247 million years old, Mirasaura grauvogeli isn’t a dinosaur but a diapsid—an amniote (mammal, bird, or reptile) in which the skull has two pairs of temporal openings. It was discovered in 2019 i... More...
It is generally assumed by the vast majority of conventional scientists that an asteroid caused the extinction of 75% of all species on Earth, including the dinosaurs, at the K-Pg (Cretaceous-Paleogene) Boundary.1 These extinctions even extended into the marine realm, killing off the ammonites, an animal similar to today’s chambered nautilus. However, new research by an international team of conventional paleontologists, le... More...