A recent study published in Scientific Reports found strange globs of tree resin (amber) mixed within claimed ancient (Cretaceous) deep-water sediments on Hokkaido Island in northern Japan.1 This is the first reported instance of amber in what’s interpreted as a deep ocean setting.
The research team, led by Aya Kubota from the Research Institute for Geo-Resources and Environment and on faculty at Chuo Univ... More...
A recent popular science article begins with the words, “A new study published in July 2025 tackles one of science’s most profound mysteries – how did life first emerge from non-living matter on early Earth?”1 As is so typical in such articles, the author simply assumes that life did naturally arise from nonliving chemicals. It is almost as if he is attempting to frame the debate by excluding from t... More...
A recent study published in Geology found that sedimentary rock can form in as little as 35 years.1,2 Before this, conventional geologists thought these types of rocks took vast amounts of time to erode, consolidate, and lithify. What they discovered along the coast of Scotland caused them to quickly change their minds.
Senior author Amanda Owen of the University of Glasgow said,
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Drs. Michael Boyle, Tim Clarey, Randy Guliuzza, Frank Sherwin (Hon.), Brian Thomas, Jeff Tomkins, and I represented ICR at the 2025 Creation Research Society (CRS) meeting in July. One hundred ninety people attended the meeting at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis. With the exception of the Creation Science Fellowship in the UK, the CRS, founded in 1963, is the world’s oldest creationist organization.
Preconference a... More...
“For we are laborers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.” (1 Corinthians 3:9)
Labor Day was established as a national holiday in this country in 1894 in order to celebrate the important part played by workers in the development of the nation. The first labor laws were passed only in 1802 and the first labor unions fo... More...
Who: Johannes (or Johann) Kepler
What: Father of Physical Astronomy
When: December 27, 1571 - November 15, 1630
Where: Born in Weil der Stadt, Württemburg, Holy Roman Empire, of German nationality
Johannes Kepler developed a love for astronomy at an early age. He observed the Great Comet of 1577 when he was six and the 1580 Lunar Eclipse, events that no doubt fueled his curiosity and enthusia... More...
Who: Isaac Newton
What: Father of Universal Gravitation
When: January 4, 1643 - March 31, 1727
Where: Woolsthorpe, a hamlet of Lincolnshire, England
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.1
Sir Isaac Newton, perhaps the most influential scientist of all time, came from very humble beginnings. The Jul... More...
Who: Michael Faraday
What: Father of Electromagnetism
When: September 22, 1791 - August 25, 1867
Where: South London, England
Michael Faraday was arguably the best experimentalist in the history of science. Apprenticed at age 14 to a local bookbinder and seller, he educated himself and developed an interest in science. He finished his apprenticeship in 1812 and attended lectures by renowned English chemist... More...
Astronomers have discovered an earth-sized exoplanet, designated TOI-2431 b, that is so close to its host star that it completes a full orbit in just 5 hours and 22 minutes.1,2 Or, to put it another way, this planet’s year is less than six hours long! Astronomers designate exoplanets having orbital periods less than one Earth day long as ultra-short period (USP) exoplanets. Out of the approximately 6,000 known exoplanets, a... More...
Biofluorescence is a phenomenon in which creatures—plant or animal—absorb light at a certain wavelength and release or emit it at a different wavelength. The light from the animal becomes a different color from the light that was absorbed.
In 2020, ICR’s Dr. Jeff Tomkins discussed biofluorescence in the platypus, of all animals.
Biofluorescence is a glow-in-the-dark phenomen... More...
Recently, University of Kansas paleontologists discovered a fossil of what they think is a “near-marsupial.”1 It is called Swaindelphys and was found in Big Bend National Park, Texas. Conventional scientists interpret Swaindelphys as a large extinct possum.
The two researchers involved in this discovery stated in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology,
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An allegedly vital piece of animal evolution was first discovered in 1984 in Scotland. Conventional scientists suggested the fossil of Westlothiana lizziae, a lizard-like reptile, is an example of an early stem tetrapod.
However, due to the fragmentary nature of the W. lizziae fossil, some evolutionists are unsure of Westlothiana’s phylogenetic (evolutionary) position. Regardless, a SciTechDaily a... More...
Apparently, evolution (and natural selection) can do almost anything:
If new forms appear, the credit goes to creative natural selection; if old forms fail to change, the conservative force is called stabilizing selection; and if some species survived mass extinctions while others perished, it is because the survivors were more resistant to extinction.1
So for those who believe it,... More...
Two separate research reports arrived at a similar conclusion.1,2 Both found an episode of mysterious erosion had occurred near the end of the Tejas Megasequence. This event likely correlates to the final phase of water draining off the continents during the Flood. It also confirms a late Cenozoic end of the Flood boundary, called the N-Q (Neogene-Quaternary).3,4
An earthworm news story was recently posted that openly questions Darwin’s gradual and slow evolutionary progress in the living world.1 The first paragraph of the EurekAlert! article defines the problem of the Darwinian gradualist approach that has been touted by non-evolutionists for well over a century: the missing links are missing.2–4 In fact, Darwin stated that the lack of fossil evidence was “pe... More...
Dr. James S. Johnson, chief academic officer and associate professor of apologetics for ICR’s School of Biblical Apologetics (SOBA), joined his Lord in heaven on the night of July 19, 2025. A long-time member of the ICR family, he will be greatly missed.
Dr. Johnson was educated and experienced in many fields. He earned a J.D. ... More...
When the New Horizons space probe captured images of Pluto and its large moon Charon as it flew by in 2015, conventional scientists were surprised by the small number of craters in Charon’s southern hemisphere.1 This suggested a relatively young surface, despite Charon’s presumed age of over four billion years. How could they account for this?
Theorists proposed that a subsurface ocean developed on... More...
Faithful ICR supporter and pastor Dr. John MacArthur went home to be with the Lord on Monday, July 14, 2025, completing his 86-year pilgrimage.1 Dr. MacArthur pastored Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, for 56 years. He was also president of The Master’s University from 1985–2019, transitioning to the role of chancellor in 2019.2
Dr. MacArthur has been widely respected for both his... More...
In the 1990s, Australian paleontologists discovered fossil frog bones during a dig in Murgon, Queensland.1 This new species of frog—Litoria tylerantiqua—was subjectively dated to be 55 million years old.
Previously, evolutionists had dated the earliest Australian tree frogs from the Oligocene and the Early Miocene, at half that age. But “the discovery of Litoria tylerantiqua suggests tha... More...
Soaring birds are a majestic sight to behold, especially when they undergo such climbing and endless spiraling so effortlessly. Not surprisingly, evolutionists see this elegant soaring ability as having originated via deep time and evolution.
Now, an international team of researchers led by University of Florida evolutionary biologist Emma Schachner, Ph.D., has reported for the first time that soaring b... More...
One of the mysteries of evolution (there are so many) is the origin of teeth.
The past few years have witnessed a remarkable flurry of research on the origin or origins of vertebrate teeth. While this work is progressing, the details of when, where, why, and how teeth first appeared still elude consensus. Indeed, there is not even agreement on the fundamentals, such as how we define a tooth.1... More...
Recently, a team of scientists released data collected from 800,000 galaxies at different distances from Earth, all lying within the same narrow slice of the sky. Conventional scientists believe the data from this COSMOS-Web survey, obtained by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), will enable them to see how galaxies evolved over time. Yet these data from the COSMOS-Web survey are “challenging” to naturalistic theorie... More...
Experts and educators have long assumed Archaeopteryx represents a transition from theropod dinosaurs to modern birds. All of this speculation depends on the fossils having been deposited many millions of years ago. But a newly described Chicago specimen—the fourteenth known Archaeopteryx—seems to have preserved original body tissues that would deflate its assumed old age and thus the evolutionary tales that re... More...
Paleontologists in Alberta, Canada, have recently unearthed “a mass grave on a monumental scale.”1 The BBC story speaks of
Thousands of dinosaurs [that] were buried here, killed in an instant on a day of utter devastation.
Now, a group of palaeontologists have come to Pipestone Creek - appropriately nicknamed the “River of Death” -... More...
Earth’s oceans contain 321 million cubic miles (1.335 billion cubic kilometers) of water. The moon causes ebb and flow of tides twice in a 24-hour period, while the wind, density variations, and tides contribute to the massive ocean currents. These currents prevent oceanic stagnation and help circulate vital moisture and heat around the globe. But where did all this water come from?
Because some scientists reject the biblic... More...