Proof The Bible Is True

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...

A paper was recently published in Science that suggested a lake may have helped carve Grand Canyon.¹ This hypothesis has been scattered throughout conventional literature since 1934 but hasn’t become largely accepted.^2,3 Those that propose a lake’s involvement, or that of a series of lakes, recognize the need for more water than what the Colorado River alone could provide to remove over 1,000 cubic... More...

A new dinosaur fossil from Patagonia (the southern tip of South America) is making headlines. Conventional scientists say it shows how a group of strange dinosaurs evolved.¹ The fossil belongs to the species Alnashetri cerropoliciensis, a small dinosaur about the size of a crow that lived about 90 million years ago according to conventional dating methods.^1,2 Researchers suggest this fossil illustrates th... More...

In the beginning, God created plants and animals to multiply and fill the earth (Genesis 1:11–13, 20–25). So, when areas are devastated, living things are engineered with the innate ability to rebound and recolonize. This was seen in the rapid recovery of life at Mount St. Helens after the cataclysmic volcanic eruption of May 18, 1980.¹ But conventional scientists seem t... More...

Some of the oldest living trees on Earth are in the temperate rainforests of the Chilean Coast Range. Second only to the bristlecone pine in age, these endangered, slow-growing alerce trees (Fitzroya cupressoides) shelter an impressive assortment of hidden fungal life underground.¹ In fact, a recent study investigates how these trees and fungi support one another.²

Mycorrhizal fungal communities are f... More...

What if a simple sea sponge could spark a debate about the origin of animal life? A recent study suggests that some of Earth’s earliest animals were sponge-like creatures due to chemical traces found in ancient rocks.¹ Researchers discovered unusual sterane molecules in marine sediments. Steranes are chemical traces that form when sterols—lipid molecules that help strengthen cell membranes—break down over time. ... More...