Science Update from ICR https://www.icr.org/articles/type/9/ Copyright 2026, Institute for Creation Research Fri, 6 Mar 2026 10:30:01 CST Fri, 6 Mar 2026 10:30:01 CST en <![CDATA[The Lipstick Vine: Evidence of Designed Adaption]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15811/ Thu, 5 Mar 2026 00:00:00 PST
In their desire to validate the questionable case for evolution, conventional biologists will appeal to local adaptation, variation, and ecological speciation as supporting evidence. This is exactly what happened with recent research regarding lipstick vine (Aeschynanthus) speciation.1



There are 160 species of Aeschynanthus that display a typical bird pollination condition. The flowers are designed with e... More...]]> <![CDATA[Biblical Giants in the News]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15789/ Mon, 2 Mar 2026 00:00:00 PST
Recent claims that an Egyptian papyrus scroll may affirm the past existence of giants have gone viral,1,2 and news outlets still reported the claim over a week later.3 Of course, the Bible repeatedly refers to giants in the land of Canaan (Numbers 13:33, Deuteronomy 2:10–11, 2:20–21, 3:11–13, 9:2; More...]]> <![CDATA[March 2026 ICR Wallpaper]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15788/ Mon, 2 Mar 2026 00:00:00 PST
"Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert." (Isaiah 43:19, NKJV)


ICR's March 2026 w... More...]]> <![CDATA[Creation Research Debunking Chromosome 2 Fusion Confirmed by Evolutionary Scientists]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15790/ Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 PST
Recent conventional genetic research published in Cell Genomics undeniably confirms findings that were previously reported by the Institute for Creation Research back in 2013.1 Once again, current conventional research has vindicated the prior creation exposure of evolutionarily inconvenient data present (but disregarded) in conventional databases.



One of the most popular arguments used to support the supposed... More...]]> <![CDATA[Same Data, Different Conclusions: Why Assumptions Matter in Science]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15781/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 PST
Two scientists can examine the same data and reach very different conclusions. Is that proof that science is broken or simply evidence that assumptions matter? A recent paper in Science Advances claims that a researcher’s personal views can shape scientific results.1 The authors suggest this reveals a serious weakness in science itself. However, their study does not indicate that science is broken. Instead, it show... More...]]> <![CDATA[Fossil Crocodile Shows Clever Design]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15773/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 PST
Some discoveries stand out, not because they change the story of evolution, but because they show clear design from the start. That is what happened when scientists found a new crocodile-like fossil in Egypt’s Western Desert called Wadisuchus kassabi. At first it may look like another ancient reptile, but a closer look shows something more exciting—a creature built from the start for life in the water, not a half-formed s... More...]]> <![CDATA[Complex Calls Confirm Creation]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15770/ Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 PST
Bird calls are something we often take for granted. After all, when we listen to them, we hear squawks, warbles, and chirps. Could there actually be information, something complex, that they’re transmitting? Scientists now say “yes” after studying a fun-sounding bird from New Zealand—the pukeko.1



Bird sounds are classified into calls and songs. Calls are simple and short, such as an alarm call. ... More...]]> <![CDATA[Honoring Our Leaders]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15769/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 PST
"Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you" (Hebrews 13:17).



The text above was written primarily in respect to religious leaders in the churches, but the same exhortation could be applied to politic... More...]]> <![CDATA[Dismissals and Fiction: A Review of Hugh Ross’ Book Noah’s Flood Revisited]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15768/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 PST
Hugh Ross’ latest book, Noah’s Flood Revisited: New Depths of Insight from Science and Scripture, is both dismissive of young earth creation (YEC) research and full of fabricated tales.1 Nonetheless, he begins his book by sounding fairly reasonable for the most part. In the first three chapters, he reminds readers of the literal and historical account of Noah in Genesis: it was a real event and not merely poetr... More...]]> <![CDATA[Secrets of Pre-Flood Ecosystems and Atmosphere Revealed]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15766/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 PST
What was the pre-Flood world like thousands of years ago?1,2 With the advent of unearthing soft tissues in fossils,3 creation scientists continue to construct a picture of the world before the Flood.



Metabolomics is the study of chemical processes involving small molecules that were part of fats, proteins, amino acids, and nucleic acids. It is a field in biological research that has only occasionally been ap... More...]]> <![CDATA[Confirmed New Record for Most Distant Galaxy]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15763/ Mon, 9 Feb 2026 00:00:00 PST
A galaxy with the designation MoM-z14 has recently been confirmed as the most distant galaxy ever detected.1,2 By Big Bang reckoning, we are seeing this galaxy as it was just 280 million years after the supposed Big Bang. This shocked conventional scientists, because slow, gradual, evolutionary processes should not have been able to form such a “remarkably luminous”2 galaxy in such a short time.



... More...]]> <![CDATA[Insect Eyes Reflect Creation]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15761/ Thu, 5 Feb 2026 00:00:00 PST
Research into insect eyes continues to reveal amazing structure and function. For example, although fruit flies’ eyes are attached firmly to their heads, it was discovered that their retinas can move internally to smoothly track visual motion.1



Scientists from the University of Konstanz, Germany, recently discovered how light is processed by the brain of the hummingbird hawk-moth. They uncovered the incredible ma... More...]]> <![CDATA[February 2026 ICR Wallpaper]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15759/ Tue, 3 Feb 2026 00:00:00 PST
"Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the LORD you God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you." (Deuteronomy 31:6, NKJV)


ICR'... More...]]> <![CDATA[Microgravity's Effect on Bacteriophages Is Not Evolution]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15758/ Mon, 2 Feb 2026 00:00:00 PST
The word evolution is often used imprecisely, leading the public to believe that any biological change is evolution, and, therefore, it’s a fact.1 But phenotypic variation within the same species has nothing to do with evolution.



Recently, biological research has been conducted aboard the International Space Station (ISS) by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.2 Scientists wanted to see how conditions ... More...]]> <![CDATA[Engineered for Extremes: The Hidden Precision of a Salt Lake Survivor]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15757/ Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 PST
Water that is nearly five times saltier than the ocean is deadly to most animals. But in Utah’s Great Salt Lake, scientists have found a tiny roundworm living in these harsh waters. The organism, called Diplolaimelloides woaabi, was recently described in the Journal of Nematology.1 Its discovery gives a clear example of how life can function at the edge of what is possible. More than adding a new species name,... More...]]> <![CDATA[Bound by Design: How a Universal Temperature Law Reveals Life’s Divine Engineering]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15739/ Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 PST
What if every living creature—from coral reefs and cold-water fish to mountain flowers and desert reptiles—followed the same hidden temperature rule? Scientists at Trinity College Dublin recently reported that all life seems to follow a single pattern called the universal thermal performance curve. This curve shows how living things react as temperatures rise and fall.1 The study, published in Proceedings of the Na... More...]]> <![CDATA[The Flood Explains 18,000 Dinosaur Tracks in Bolivia]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15722/ Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 PST
A new discovery of 18,000 individual dinosaur tracks in the Bolivian El Molino Formation contains the highest number of theropod dinosaur tracks in the world.1 The tracks were spread over nine sites in an area encompassing nearly 1.5 football fields. Remarkably, the site also contains the highest number of dinosaur swim tracks ever reported.1



Publishing in PLoS One, the joint science team from the Uni... More...]]> <![CDATA[Prolonged 40-Year Growth in T. Rex: Evidence for Pre-Flood Longevity?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15723/ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 PST
An open access 2026 PeerJ research paper claims that T. rex took 40 years to reach its full adult body size, in contrast to a much shorter previous estimate of 25 years.1–3 This study is arguably the most rigorous dinosaur growth study ever performed, and it was based on more data than any earlier T. rex analyses. Longevity studies in living animals consistently show that animals that take longer ... More...]]> <![CDATA[Recent Discovery of a Strange Microbe Gives No Clues to Evolution]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15721/ Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 PST
Research into God’s living creation is dynamic and always surprising. This is true whether one peers into the deepest reaches of space or dives into the unexpected in laboratory research. Indeed, the vast field of microbiology (bacteria, fungi, and archaea) has barely been touched when it comes to discovering and describing new species of organisms.



In 2011, scientists found a strange and fascinating single-celled microorga... More...]]> <![CDATA[Built to Adapt: What Microbial Flexibility Reveals about Biological Design]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15718/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 PST
Imagine a machine that keeps working even when its parts change slightly or its surroundings shift. Most human-made machines would fail under that kind of stress. Living cells, however, manage this every day. Life is not weak or accidental. It shows flexibility, responding to change while keeping its basic function. A recent study in Nature Ecology & Evolution highlights this ability, showing biological systems that seem prepared... More...]]> <![CDATA[#1 Origins News Story of 2025: ICR Dr. Jeff Tomkins' Chimp Genome Research Confirmed and Vindicated]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15719/ Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 PST
Research by ICR geneticist Dr. Jeff Tomkins was at the center of origins news in what has been called the “No. 1 Story for 2025.”1 The prestigious journal Nature confirmed (albeit grudgingly and belatedly) that the true genome-wide DNA similarity between humans and chimpanzees is no more than 85%,2 rather than the 98%–99% similarity that has long been touted in both the technical and popular sc... More...]]> <![CDATA[Pterosaur Herbivory]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15717/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 PST
The fascinating flying reptiles called pterosaurs are in the news again.1 In a not-so-surprising development, paleontologists have discovered a pterosaur fossil that was found to have small stones (used in the gizzard to grind food) and plant microfossils at the stomach mass.2 This indicates the pterosaur ate vegetation, lending credibility to the creation model. According to evolutionist Eric Ralls, “The researc... More...]]> <![CDATA[January 2026 ICR Wallpaper]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15716/ Fri, 9 Jan 2026 00:00:00 PST
"But those who wait on the More...]]> <![CDATA[Infrared Radiation and Pollination Reflects Recent Creation]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15715/ Thu, 8 Jan 2026 00:00:00 PST
by Jeffrey P. Tomkins, Ph.D., and Frank Sherwin, D.Sc. (Hon.)*



The fascinating pollination of plants has been complex from the beginning of creation. A recent article in Science magazine reported how cycads—large, palm-like seed plants—use infrared radiation as a pollination signal to beetles.1,2



The evolution-defying cycad is finely tuned to emi... More...]]> <![CDATA[Did Scientists Find "6 Million-Year-Old Ice" in Antarctica?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15697/ Mon, 5 Jan 2026 00:00:00 PST
by Jake Hebert, Ph.D., and Frank Sherwin, D.Sc. (Hon.)*



A small portion of surface ice in Antarctica is called blue-ice areas (BIAs), and for good reason. Air bubbles were squeezed out of the ice, giving it a clear, bluish tinge. The ice is beautiful, but is it as old as evolutionists claim?



In 2025, scientists discovered supposed “6-million-year-old ice” in blue ... More...]]> <![CDATA[A New Year's Resolution]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15695/ Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 PST
“For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.” (1 Corinthians 2:2)



When Paul first entered the Greek city of Corinth, he had just come from nearby Athens and his encounter with its humanistic philosophers at Mars’ Hill (Acts 17:18–18:1). Corinth, ... More...]]> <![CDATA[The Lord Jesus: The Gift of Christmas]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15694/ Wed, 24 Dec 2025 00:00:00 PST
“Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Philippians 2:9 –11)



At Christmas time, Ch... More...]]> <![CDATA[Garments for the King]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15675/ Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 PST
“All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.” (Psalm 45:8)



One of the most beautiful of the Christmas hymns (though rarely sung at Christmas) is “Out of the Ivory Palaces,” telling how the King of heaven left His heavenly home and laid aside His perfumed, royal clothing to enter &l... More...]]> <![CDATA[Bold Claim, Hidden Design: What Salterella Reveals About Early Life]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15663/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 PST
What if a fossil no bigger than a grain of rice showed engineering so precise that it still puzzles scientists? That is the intrigue surrounding Salterella, a tiny cone-shaped creature recently studied by Virginia Tech researchers. Their work highlights a surprising feature—a shell made from two different minerals. They describe it as an evolutionary “experimentation” from the start of animal life.1 Yet t... More...]]> <![CDATA[Where Did Most of Earth's Species Come From?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15660/ Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 PST
Evolutionary naturalism is locked into seeing the entire living world as having evolved from a single common ancestor many millions of years ago.1 If true, the fossil record should document this slow and gradual change with untold transitional forms that smoothly bridge one kind of creature to another as depicted by Darwin’s tree of life. But



Darwin’s tree illustrated a long macro... More...]]> <![CDATA[A Molecular Snowmobile]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15659/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 PST
People following—or actively involved in—creation science are no doubt aware of the incredible molecular motor called the flagellum,1,2 an ultra-tiny, whip-like appendage on bacteria that enables them to move in an aqueous environment. Recently, research involving bacteria that use sugar-fueled currents and molecular gearboxes has addressed a fascinating dual-function motor that is not associated with the flagellum.More...]]> <![CDATA[Rhino Fossil Requires the "Impossible" from Conventional Science]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15654/ Sun, 7 Dec 2025 00:00:00 PST
A recent study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution claims that the “impossible” actually happened—not just once, but three different times.1



Impossible Ocean Barriers



The impossibilities began with the discovery of a new fossil rhinoceros species on Devon Island in the Canadian High Arctic. This smaller and thinner version of today’s African rhino was... More...]]> <![CDATA[December 2025 ICR Wallpaper]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15652/ Thu, 4 Dec 2025 00:00:00 PST
"Come now, and let us reason together," Says the LORD, "Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool." (Isaiah 1:18 NKJV)


ICR's December 2025 wallpaper is now available for mobile, tablet, and desktop! Download this month's image for f... More...]]> <![CDATA[The Bipedal Two-Step of Human Evolution]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15645/ Thu, 4 Dec 2025 00:00:00 PST
The supposed evolution of bipedalism continues to be a major obstacle in the narrative that humans evolved from apelike ancestors.1,2



For example, in 2024, researchers from New York University reported, “While scientists have long been intrigued by the question of how humans’ bipedal stance and movement evolved from a quadrupedal ancestor, neither past studies nor fossil records have permitted the reconstru... More...]]> <![CDATA[Announcing the Acts & Facts Kids Edition for 2025!]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15644/ Mon, 1 Dec 2025 00:00:00 PST


Have you ever stopped to think about just how wonderful and amazing our world really is? Everywhere you look, from the tiniest bug to the biggest mountain, you can see signs of God’s creativity and care. In this special kids’ edition of Acts & Facts, we’re going on an exciting adventure to discover some of the incredible things God has made.



You’ll meet interesting animals—... More...]]> <![CDATA[Thanksgiving in Heaven]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15643/ Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 PST
"And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, Saying, We give thee thanks, O LORD GOD Almighty, which are, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned." (Revelation 11:16-17)



This is the final reference in the Bible to the giving of thanks. It... More...]]> <![CDATA[Thanksgiving]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15641/ Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 PST
“Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God” (II Corinthians 9:11).



The themes of praise and thanksgiving are very prominent throughout Scripture. The word “praise” and its derivatives occur over 330 times, and “thanks,” with its derivatives, over ... More...]]> <![CDATA[Giving Thanks]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15608/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 PST
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.” (Proverbs 4:7)



During this season of thanksgiving, let us reflect on one of our Heavenly Father’s greatest gifts—wisdom. Wisdom is the ability to apply knowledge correctly. The Holy Bible is the ultimate source of wisdom, teaching u... More...]]> <![CDATA[Holding Fast Through Time: A Fossil Fly's Testimony to Design]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15609/ Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 PST
A remarkable fossil find in Australia has scientists buzzing—literally. In the Talbragar Fish Beds of New South Wales, researchers discovered a beautifully preserved midge fossil, Telmatomyia talbragarica. The study, published in Gondwana Research, identifies it as the oldest known freshwater midge in the Southern Hemisphere.1 With its delicate wings and unusual anchoring disc, this fossil offers a fascina... More...]]> <![CDATA[The Evolutionary Status of Bioluminescence]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15596/ Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 PST
There is nothing so beautiful (and sometimes breathtaking) than observing creatures designed with the ability to undergo fluorescence, the biological emission of light (also called bioluminescence).1 Five scientists defined bioluminescence as “the chemical reaction between a substrate (luciferin) and an enzyme (luciferase) resulting in light emission in a living organism.”2 What was the origin of such an am... More...]]> <![CDATA[Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15595/ Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 PST “They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.” (Jeremiah 6:14)



This indictment by the prophet Jeremiah of the false prophets of his day could easily find a parallel today. The charge was repeated (8:11), so Jeremiah evidently considered it important. The prophet Ezekiel later leveled almost th... More...]]> <![CDATA[November 2025 ICR Wallpaper]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15594/ Thu, 6 Nov 2025 00:00:00 PST
"Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever." (Psalms 107:1 NKJV)


ICR's November 2025 wallpaper is now available for mobile, tablet, and desktop! Download this month's image for free by clicking the format option links below and saving the files to your device.



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... More...]]> <![CDATA[Dinosaur Blood Vessels]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15593/ Thu, 6 Nov 2025 00:00:00 PST
by Brian Thomas, Ph.D., and Frank Sherwin D.Sc,(Hon)*



Recently, the prestigious Royal Society published a fascinating paper regarding partial haemoglobin preservation in dinosaur fossils. The study’s authors are from North Carolina State University—a world leader in this area. They wrote,



Still soft, hollow, flexible structures mo... More...]]> <![CDATA[Discover the Evidence that Exists for the Bible!]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15591/ Mon, 3 Nov 2025 00:00:00 PST
For generations, the Bible has faced skepticism and challenges to its credibility. Critics have questioned whether it is merely a collection of stories or a true account of history. Yet time and again, archaeological discoveries have affirmed the Bible's accuracy - revealing evidence that supports the events, people, and places recorded in Scripture.



On November 8, 2025 the ICR Discovery Center invites you to... More...]]> <![CDATA[Silurian Horseshoe Crab]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15589/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:00:00 PST
Supposedly, throughout the past hypothetical millions of years, sub-human primates became man, dinosaurs evolved into birds, and a group of mammals even returned to the oceans to become whales. But also according to evolution theory, the amazing horseshoe crab (order Xiphosura) “goes back practically unchanged to the Triassic period.”1 Natural selection2 and random mutations have not affected these chelicer... More...]]> <![CDATA[Stunning Enigmatic Dinosaur Discovered]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15588/ Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:00:00 PST
New species that are 100% dinosaur continue to be discovered by paleontologists with increasing frequency. One such recent discovery, described as “both the oldest and most complete skeleton of [the pachycephalosaur] group found to date,”1 has generated interest within the scientific community.



The specimen, named Zavacephale rinpoche, was found in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert and is dated to approxi... More...]]> <![CDATA[The Coelacanth: A Living Window into God's Design]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15561/ Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 PST
Imagine a fish designed with such precision that it has thrived in deep, dark ocean waters for generations unchanged, resilient, and wonderfully suited to its world. That’s the coelacanth, a mysterious creature first known from fossils in ancient rock layers. For decades, textbooks claimed it had gone extinct 65 million years ago. But in 1938, the “extinct” fish stunned the scientific community when one was caught alive of... More...]]> <![CDATA[Ant Super Smell: A Masterclass in God's Genetic Engineering]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15553/ Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 PST
To an ant, the world is written in scent—and they read it with uncanny precision. A single colony can recognize thousands of chemical cues that guide foraging, mark trails, and maintain order. Each ant relies on odor receptors in its antennae to decode this chemical language, with every nerve cell specializing in just one receptor type. But since the genome contains hundreds of receptor genes packed closely together, scientists have l... More...]]> <![CDATA[Subsurface Oceans on Two Uranian Moons?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15552/ Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 PST
A team of researchers led by University of North Dakota planetary scientist Dr. Caleb Strom concluded that the two Uranian moons Ariel and Miranda (directly left and right of pale blue Uranus in the above image, respectively) once had water oceans within their interiors.1,2 They obtained their conclusions, published in the journals Icarus and The Planetary Science Journal, by studying cracks, or stress fractures, on... More...]]> <![CDATA[Slowing Plates Support High Flood Boundary]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15551/ Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 PST
Flood geologists have predicted that plate motion slowed at the end of the Flood year, and now conventional scientists are finding it to be true. A recent study by Colleen Dalton and her colleagues from Brown University in Providence, RI, found that ocean crust production slowed by 35% from 15–6 million years ago, or late in the Tertiary.1 Although we dispute these great ages, the data still indicate a slowdown in plate mov... More...]]> <![CDATA[Microscopic Ingenuity: Stentor and the Case for Intelligent Design]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15548/ Thu, 9 Oct 2025 00:00:00 PST
What if the smallest creatures held the biggest clues to life’s design? A 2025 study in Nature Physics investigates the remarkable behaviors of Stentor coeruleus, a trumpet-shaped unicellular protist. Though it has only one cell, Stentor shows traits that match the complexity of multicellular life. These findings support the biblical view of intentional design and reveal the Creator’s wisdom at the tiniest s... More...]]> <![CDATA[Early Fish Evolution?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15529/ Mon, 6 Oct 2025 00:00:00 PST
The discovery of a new species of a plant or animal would probably not spark much excitement to the non-scientist. But in this case, the conditions surrounding the discovery of two new species of little-known fish should cause Christians who are interested in origins to take notice.



Locations in Dorset, England, and Ettling, Germany, revealed two new species of the genus Thrissops: Thrissops ettlingensis sp. nov. an... More...]]> <![CDATA[Make Plans to Attend Our Estate Planning Workshop at the Discovery Center!]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15541/ Thu, 2 Oct 2025 00:00:00 PST


Enjoy a complimentary breakfast while Mr. Don Totusek, Mr. Dan Farell, and Mrs. Regina Krieg share practical insight to help you create a plan that protects your family and lega... More...]]> <![CDATA[Fossil Confusion in Ethiopia: Are Evolutionary Trees Built on Toothpicks?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15528/ Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 PST
A new study published in Nature describes the discovery of 13 fossilized teeth from the Ledi-Geraru site in Ethiopia. They have been dated to between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago and are attributed to two distinct hominin species: early Homo and a newly identified Australopithecus relative.1 The researchers argue that this find supports a “bushy tree” model of human evolution, where multiple spec... More...]]> <![CDATA[The Only Mesozoic Dragonfly in Canada—Is a Dragonfly]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15509/ Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:00:00 PST
In 2023, an undergraduate student from McGill University discovered a new dragonfly species in Alberta, Canada. In fact, “This is the first ever dinosaur-aged dragonfly found in Canada,” said paleontologist Andre Mueller of McGill University.1 Paleontologists are claiming it’s a missing link.



Sci.News reported this find, stating it supposedly fills a huge gap in dragonfly evolution: “Name... More...]]> <![CDATA[Oldest Evidence of Butterflies]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15499/ Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 PST
Insects such as the ubiquitous butterfly belong to the huge phylum Arthropoda (creatures having paired, jointed appendages and a chitinous exoskeleton). There is no indication this phylum evolved from some other group. Indeed, arthropods “have a rich fossil record extending to the very late Precambrian period” as arthropods.1



The fossil record confirms this, showing that butterflies (Lepidoptera) have alway... More...]]> <![CDATA[Another Big Mistake in Evolution]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15498/ Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 PST
The strange and wonderful coelacanth1 has long been a challenge to evolutionists.



The coelacanth has long been hailed as an ancestor to amphibians and other tetrapods as their lineage goes back a supposed 300 million years. However, the exact origin of coelacanths has never been established by evolutionary scientists, the fish just seem to appear in the rocks “suddenly” like most ... More...]]> <![CDATA[Show Your Love for the ICR Discovery Center on North Texas Giving Day 2025!]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15510/ Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:00:00 PST
Thursday, September 18, is North Texas Giving Day! We invite you to join others in supporting ICR’s unique ministry as well as our creation museum and planetarium in Dallas, Texas—the ICR Discovery Center. On the same day you can also enjoy $1 tickets for a special Dollar Day at the Discovery Center. Bring your family and friends for special activities and exciting giveaways!


 


Since ope... More...]]> <![CDATA[Living Gyroscope in Flies]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15496/ Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 PST
The lowly fruit fly (Drosophila) is the research biologist’s friend in fields such as biomedical science, genetics, and developmental biology. The insect takes up little space, is easily fed, has just four pairs of chromosomes, and reproduces rapidly.



Recently, zoologists have been investigating “how a structure essential for [fruit] fly flight, the haltere [balancer], is formed. This small organ, located behin... More...]]> <![CDATA[Turning Point Founder Charlie Kirk Is Now with the Lord]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15503/ Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:00:00 PST
Courageous Christian and creation supporter Charlie Kirk was murdered on September 10, 2025, while speaking at a Turning Point USA event held at Utah Valley University.1 Mr. Kirk was famous for engaging with college students, even those who disagreed with him, by presenting them with facts and logic. He unashamedly stood up for Christian ethics and the sanctity of human life, and he opposed the transgender ideology that has becom... More...]]> <![CDATA[Deliverance from Fear]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15478/ Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:00:00 PST “I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.” (Psalm 34:4)



There are many things in such a world as ours that can bring fear into human hearts—fear of want, fear of war, fear of rejection, fear of the dark, and a multitude of others. Some fears are rational, some are foolish, but all are very serious to those who experience them.More...]]> <![CDATA[Project Artifact: The Spear]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15500/ Tue, 9 Sep 2025 00:00:00 PST
DALLAS, TX, September 9, 2025 — It’s finally here! Today marks the official launch of the Institute for Creation Research’s highly anticipated, first-ever graphic novel Project Artifact: The Spear. From visionary author Trey Bowling and illustrator Lori Fausak, its breathtaking artwork, suspenseful dialogue, and wo... More...]]> <![CDATA[Flood Tsunamis Transported Trees and Amber]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15493/ Mon, 8 Sep 2025 00:00:00 PST
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...]]> <![CDATA[Secular Paper Admits ''Unreasonable Likelihood'' of Abiogenesis]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15477/ Thu, 4 Sep 2025 00:00:00 PST
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...]]> <![CDATA[September 2025 ICR Wallpaper]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15497/ Mon, 1 Sep 2025 00:00:00 PST
"Woe to him who strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ Or shall your handiwork say, ‘He has no hands’?" (Isaiah 45:9 NKJV)




ICR's September 2025 wallpaper is now available for mobile, tablet, and desktop!... More...]]> <![CDATA[Happy Labor Day 2025]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15455/ Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:00:00 PST
“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...]]> <![CDATA[ICR Research Showcased at 2025 CRS Meeting]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15476/ Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:00:00 PST
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...]]> <![CDATA[Sedimentary Rock Does Form Fast!]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15415/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:00:00 PST
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,


More...]]> <![CDATA[Man of Science, Man of God: Johannes Kepler]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15407/ Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 PST
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...]]> <![CDATA[Man of Science, Man of God: Isaac Newton]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15357/ Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:00:00 PST
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...]]> <![CDATA[Man of Science, Man of God: Michael Faraday]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15408/ Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:00:00 PST
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...]]> <![CDATA[A Big Texas Fossil Possum Is a Primate Ancestor?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15409/ Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:00:00 PST
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,


More...]]> <![CDATA[Earth-Sized Lava World ''Circling the Drain'']]> https://www.icr.org/article/15416/ Thu, 7 Aug 2025 00:00:00 PST
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...]]> <![CDATA[Origin of Biofluorescence in Fishes]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15405/ Mon, 4 Aug 2025 00:00:00 PST
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...]]> <![CDATA[August 2025 ICR Wallpaper]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15443/ Fri, 1 Aug 2025 00:00:00 PST
"And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart." (Galatians 6:9 NKJV)


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More...]]> <![CDATA[Quietly ''Devolving'' Tomatoes?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15404/ Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 PST
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...]]> <![CDATA[Yet Another Revised Age for the Land-Animal Ancestor]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15403/ Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:00:00 PST
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...]]> <![CDATA[Dr. James J. S. Johnson Goes Home to the Lord]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15406/ Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:00:00 PST
Dr. James J. 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.... More...]]> <![CDATA[Pluto’s Largest Moon Looks Young]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15389/ Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:00:00 PST
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...]]> <![CDATA[55-Million-Year-Old Tree Frog…Is Still a Tree Frog]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15391/ Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 PST
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...]]> <![CDATA[Pastor and Longtime ICR Supporter Dr. John MacArthur Now with the Lord]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15401/ Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:00:00 PST
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...]]> <![CDATA[Did Earthworms Rewrite Their DNA to Survive on Land?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15367/ Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:00:00 PST
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...]]> <![CDATA[Mysterious Erosion Confirms High Flood Boundary]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15362/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 PST
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



More...]]> <![CDATA[A Uniquely Designed Air-Filled Sac Within Birds’ Lungs]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15363/ Mon, 7 Jul 2025 00:00:00 PST
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...]]> <![CDATA[Liberty and the Word of God]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15365/ Thu, 3 Jul 2025 00:00:00 PST Psalm 119:45).



July 4th is called Independence Day here in our country because on that date 249 years ago our Declaration of Independence was signed, and the message went out to “proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof” (Leviti... More...]]> <![CDATA[July 2025 ICR Wallpaper]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15366/ Tue, 1 Jul 2025 00:00:00 PST
"These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." (John 16:33 NKJV)




ICR's July 2025 wallpaper is now available for mobile, tablet, and desktop! Download this month's image for free by clicking the format option links below an... More...]]> <![CDATA[Valued Longtime ICR Employee Mary Smith Retires]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15364/ Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 PST
Mary Morris Smith, an employee of the Institute for Creation Research for many years, has retired. The second daughter of ICR founder Dr. Henry M. Morris and his wife, Mary Louise, she was a child when The Genesis Flood was published in 1961. Coauthored by her father and Dr. John Whitcomb, this groundbreaking book launched the modern creation movement, and Mary had a front-row seat as it took off.1


More...]]> <![CDATA[Man of Science, Man of God: George Washington Carver]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15356/ Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 PST
Who:  George Washington Carver

What: Father of Modern Agriculture

When: 1864 or 1865 – January 5, 1943

Where: Diamond Grove, Missouri



Probably no other scientist has had to face as many social barriers as George Washington C... More...]]> <![CDATA[Distant Galaxies Continue to Challenge the Big Bang]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15360/ Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:00:00 PST
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...]]> <![CDATA[Did Teeth First Evolve as Sensory Tissue?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15361/ Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 PST
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...]]> <![CDATA[''The Flood of Death'': A Mass Dino Grave in Canada]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15358/ Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:00:00 PST
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...]]> <![CDATA[Bone, Skin, Claw Lasted…150 Million Years?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15314/ Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 PST
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...]]> <![CDATA[How Did Earth Get Its Water?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15304/ Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 PST
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...]]> <![CDATA[New Fossil Discovery Upends Animal Evolution...Again]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15315/ Mon, 9 Jun 2025 00:00:00 PST
Reptiles belong to a group of animals called amniotes that also include birds and mammals. A new Australian fossil discovery of a clawed amniote demonstrates these animals appeared much earlier than predicted by evolution theory. The introductory paragraph from the evolutionary website Earth.com says it all: “The origin of reptiles on Earth has been pushed back by an astonishing 40 million years. Fossilized tracks unearthed in Austral... More...]]> <![CDATA[100% Cicada Fossil]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15316/ Thu, 5 Jun 2025 00:00:00 PST
Cicadas are an unusual-looking insect belonging to the order Hemiptera (the true bugs, including bed bugs and aphids). If you live in the eastern United States or in the Midwest, you have undoubtedly heard their long raucous calls on summer days. They produce their characteristic sound via unique structures called tymbals.



Large numbers of these insects that have spent most of their lives as underground nymphs emerge every 13 or ... More...]]> <![CDATA[June 2025 ICR Wallpaper]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15337/ Sun, 1 Jun 2025 00:00:00 PST
"He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end." (Ecclesiastes 3:11 NKJV)




ICR's June 2025 wallpaper is now available for mobile, tablet, and desktop! Download this month's image for free by clicking the format ... More...]]> <![CDATA[Chimp Genome Markedly Different from Human]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15318/ Thu, 29 May 2025 00:00:00 PST
An oft-repeated claim of evolutionary propaganda is that chimpanzee and human DNA are 98.5% identical. This high level of DNA similarity, which has been cherry picked from protein coding regions common to all mammals, has been used to bolster the hypothesis that humans and chimps share a common ancestor that lived about six million years ago. Based on theoretical models of human evolution and known mutation rates in both humans and chimps, ... More...]]> <![CDATA[''73-Million-Year-Old'' Alaskan Salmon]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15306/ Thu, 29 May 2025 00:00:00 PST
Fish evolution remains an enigma. Evolutionists can only say fish first “appeared” over a half-billion years ago.1 Creationists recognize fish have always been fish since their creation just thousands of years ago. Indeed, when fish are found entombed in sedimentary rock they are always fish, not their alleged evolutionary relatives.



Fossil-hunters have recently unearthed 100% fish in Alaskan sediments. Acc... More...]]> <![CDATA[God's Memorial Day]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15310/ Mon, 26 May 2025 00:00:00 PST “And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.” (Exodus 3:15)



It is surely a good thing that Americans have designated an annual Memorial Day in ... More...]]> <![CDATA[The Origin of Eukaryotes]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15302/ Thu, 22 May 2025 00:00:00 PST
Eukaryotes are multicellular organisms that contain diverse differentiated cell types. Within almost every cell there are subcellular compartments called organelles that manage specific functions. The most important organelles include the nucleus, mitochondrion, and chloroplast, which are each enclosed within a distinct phospholipid bilayer (double membrane). These membrane-bound organelles are highly complex and provide distinct resources ... More...]]> <![CDATA[Fossil Fish Finally Filmed]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15275/ Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 PST
The bizarre lobe-finned coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) “that flourished some 350 million years ago”1 continues to be a thorn in the evolutionists’ side. Paleontologists can only say these amazing fish evolved from a vague, unidentified “Sarcopterygian ancestor.”2 Creationists say they have always been coelacanths since their creation thousands of years ago.



Recently, ... More...]]> <![CDATA[The Mosasaur: A Giant Sea Dragon]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15274/ Thu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 PST
Mosasaurs (order Squamata) were massive marine lizards that were common in the pre-Flood oceans. Therefore, it is not surprising that their fossils have been found on every continent.



According to evolutionary theory, mosasaurs came from an unknown group of lizards that ventured into the sea about 100 million years ago. Additionally, evolution expects they were clumsy swimmers. But there is no evidence that these formidable creat... More...]]> <![CDATA[Was Life Detected on a Distant Planet?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15270/ Mon, 12 May 2025 00:00:00 PST
There was celebration, albeit briefly, for the discovery of potential life on a planet called K2-18b, which is 124 lightyears away from Earth.



The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) picked up light from a small red sun as it passed through the atmosphere of this planet. BBC reported an analysis of the findings at Cambridge University’s Institute of Astronomy.



The Cambridge group has foun... More...]]> <![CDATA[Ichthyosaur Graveyard Explained by the Flood]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15269/ Thu, 8 May 2025 00:00:00 PST
Ichthyosaurs are marine reptiles that occur globally in the same rock layers as dinosaurs. Specimens with babies support the idea that they gave live birth, unlike most of today’s reptiles.



A pregnant ichthyosaur fossil named Fiona offers new information about the lifestyles of these marine predators.1 Originally discovered in 2009 and excavated in 2022 near the Tyndall Glacier in Torres Del Paine National Park, ... More...]]> <![CDATA[Freshwater Fish Fossil in Australia]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15262/ Mon, 5 May 2025 00:00:00 PST
Yet another fish fossil has been discovered. This one was found in the Australian desert and was dated by evolutionists to be “15 million years old.”1 Like finding a 100% dinosaur fossil, this is a 100% fish fossil belonging to the smelt family (Osmeridae).



It’s also significant that this fossil, named Ferruaspis brocksi, was found in Lagerstatte—sedimentary rock containing unique, extr... More...]]> <![CDATA[May 2025 ICR Wallpaper]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15261/ Thu, 1 May 2025 00:00:00 PST
"Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit." (Romans 15:13 NKJV)


ICR's May 2025 wallpaper is now available for mobile, tablet, and desktop! Download this month's image for free by clicking the format option links below and saving the files to... More...]]> <![CDATA[Acoustic Communication in Animals]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15258/ Thu, 1 May 2025 00:00:00 PST
We are all familiar with vocalizations in the animal world. For example, dogs bark, birds sing, frogs croak, and whales send forth their own distinct sounds.1 Recently, a detailed investigation has been conducted to determine sounds made by animals previously thought to be mute.



A group of zoologists led by the University of Zurich declare that, “Their study includes evidence for 53 species of four major clades o... More...]]> <![CDATA[Giant ''Meg'' Shark: Longer and Leaner?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15260/ Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 PST
Fossil remains of the giant shark Otodus megalodon have been found in Miocene1 and Pliocene2 rock layers, which ICR scientists interpret as having been formed during the Genesis Flood.3 Paleontologists recently revised the estimated adult body length for megalodon upward from 15.9 meters (52 feet) to 24.3 meters (80 feet). Based on considerations of swimming efficiency, they concluded the megalodon&... More...]]> <![CDATA[Marine Mammals: Designed for Deep Diving]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15255/ Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:00:00 PST
While you’re reading this, hold your breath. What is now happening is your blood is delivering the last of oxygenated blood cells to your tissues while carbon dioxide is rapidly building up (hypercapnia). At the same time, there is a steady decrease of blood oxygen (hypoxia). The pH of your blood is getting slightly lower (acidic), and your heart starts to beat faster. God designed your brain to sense the increased carbon dioxi... More...]]> <![CDATA[''Inside-Out'' Fossil is Amazingly Preserved]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15254/ Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 PST
It is widely known that vast numbers of fossils—vertebrate and invertebrate—have been discovered incredibly well-preserved.1,2 Such preservation points clearly to a sudden, catastrophic event that overwhelmed and buried creatures in multiple tons of sedimentary rock—like a massive flood perhaps.



The late Dr. John Morris of ICR described some of the Genesis Flood activity.


More...]]> <![CDATA[The Resurrection and the Origin of Life]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15253/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:00:00 PST
At Easter time we focus on the cardinal Christian doctrine of the Resurrection. Without the Resurrection, Christianity is a sham. The truth that Jesus Christ rose from the dead sets Christianity apart from all religious systems.



Many of the world’s religions look back to the martyrdom of their leader/founder. None but Christianity look back to an empty tomb which once contained His body. Only in Christianity has the slain m... More...]]> <![CDATA[Is an Ancient Extinct Tree-Dweller Our Relative?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15219/ Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 PST
Human evolution has always been hazy with seemingly as many attempted explanations for how we evolved from animals as there are paleoanthropologists.



Evolutionists make refreshing admissions about the tenuous nature of this field rather frequently, causing one to wonder why it’s treated as factual, “The origin of the hominine lineage—encompassing modern humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and their ancestors—is... More...]]> <![CDATA[The Return of the Dire Wolf?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15251/ Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 PST
There’s been much recent excitement about the birth of three dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus) puppies by a Dallas-based biotech company: Colossal Bioscience. This is because evolutionists state the dire wolf went extinct about 10,000 years ago.



Colossal CEO Ben Lamm stated, “Our team took DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies [named Romulus and Remus].&rdquo... More...]]> <![CDATA[Fish Fossil Vomit]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15224/ Mon, 7 Apr 2025 00:00:00 PST
A rather unsavory news story recently appeared regarding fossilized vomit. Although it’s hardly dinner table conversation, it nonetheless supports the Flood narrative.



A piece of fossilized vomit was discovered south of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was dated by evolutionists to be “around” 66 million years old and contained “at least two different species of sea lily.”1



Sea lilies (a... More...]]> <![CDATA[Dino Footprints Down Under]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15210/ Thu, 3 Apr 2025 00:00:00 PST
Dinosaur trackways1 are once again making the news. Australia is the setting of a remarkable series of dinosaur tracks attributed to ornithischian dinosaurs (one of two orders of dinosaurs).



Four scientists reported in Historical Biology, “One surface contains a single print, a second a trackway with two tracks, and the third features at least 13 trackways and numerous isolated prints representing one of... More...]]> <![CDATA[April 2025 ICR Wallpaper]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15212/ Tue, 1 Apr 2025 00:00:00 PST
"But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you." (John 14:26 NKJV)


ICR's April 2025 wallpaper is now available for mobile, tablet, and desktop! Download this month's image for free by clicking the format option links ... More...]]> <![CDATA[Human Evolution and the Inner Ear]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15203/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:00:00 PST
The vain attempt by evolutionists to make an evolutionary connection between people and ape-like ancestors continues. This time, it is in regard to the inner ear of a supposedly six-million-year-old ape fossil called Lufengpithecus.



To begin, scientists from New York University made a refreshingly blunt admission: "While scientists have long been intrigued by the question of how humans’ bipedal stance and moveme... More...]]> <![CDATA[Aerobic and Anaerobic Hot Spring Bacteria]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15207/ Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 PST
God designed a domain of prokaryotes called Archaea that thrive in harsh and extreme environments. In 1969, two microbiologists, Thomas Brock and Hudson Freeze, discovered a heat-resistant bacterium in a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park. This thermophile was named Thermus aquaticus. From this bacterium, biochemist Alice Chien and others isolated a DNA polymerase called Taq polymerase (Taq) that was later used in polymer... More...]]> <![CDATA[Humpback Whale Calls Echo Creation]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15204/ Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 PST
There is nothing simple about the system of communication called language, whether animal or human.1 Human language is a very sophisticated arrangement of words and grammar created in the beginning by God.2,3 In fact, “there is no clear picture of when and how human language evolved.”4 In 2014, evolutionists stated,



Understanding the evolution of language req... More...]]> <![CDATA[Mary Parker, Creation Ministry Partner of Dr. Gary Parker, Is Home with the Lord]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15205/ Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:00:00 PST
Mary Parker, the wife and co-laborer of Dr. Gary Parker, went home to be with her Lord on March 20, 2025.



Dr. Parker was a popular and effective speaker with ICR for many years, and Mary was instrumental in the development of ICR’s first Creation Museum in Santee, California. For decades, she faithfully worked alongside her husband. Together, Gary and Mary Parker established their nonprofit ministry Creation Adventures Muse... More...]]> <![CDATA[Plants Rely on Quantum Mechanics]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15186/ Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 PST
Scientists will probably never fully understand photosynthesis as additional research uncovers even more fascinating mysteries.1,2 ICR’s Dr. Jeffery Tomkins gives an overview of this incredible biochemical procedure:



Photosynthesis is a highly complex process in plants that produces carbohydrates from water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight using a light-to-electron energy conversion proces... More...]]> <![CDATA[Martian Polar Ice Cap ''Surprisingly Young''?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15201/ Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:00:00 PST
A team of German planetary scientists has concluded that a three-kilometer-thick northern polar ice cap on Mars has a “surprisingly young” age of between 2 and 12 million years.1,2 This age is much younger than uniformitarian age estimates for any other large feature on the red planet1 and is consistent with other clues suggesting that Mars is relatively young, not billions of years old.



As an ic... More...]]> <![CDATA[''Blood Worm Moon'' Total Lunar Eclipse 2025]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15202/ Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:00:00 PST
Barring cloud cover, about 75% of the country saw the total lunar eclipse, aka the “Blood Worm Moon.” Texas had good weather conditions for last night’s display, as did the lower Great Lakes, Ohio Valley, and a portion of the Central Plains.



In a lunar eclipse, the shadow of Earth blocks most of the light that illuminates the surface of our moon. This eclipse began at 11:26 p.m. (PST) on Thursday, March 13,... More...]]> <![CDATA[Jupiter: The Mighty Guardian of Earth]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15163/ Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:00:00 PST
NASA’s Juno spacecraft recently unveiled breathtaking images of Jupiter during its 66th flyby of the colossal planet. Juno has been exploring Jupiter and its surroundings, including its rings and numerous moons, to uncover the planet’s secrets. According to a NASA statement, understanding Jupiter could provide valuable insights into understanding the entire solar system.1



Did you know... More...]]> <![CDATA[Arachnid Origin—WGD (What God Did)]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15172/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 PST
Where did spiders (arachnids) come from? What was their origin? Clearly, the fossil record shows spiders have always been spiders1,2 along with other chelicerates (a subphylum of the arthropods).



The alleged evolution of the chelicerates (i.e., Arachnida) has recently become complex and problematic. According to Sharma and Gavish-Regev writing in the Annual Review of Entomology, the “longstanding hypothese... More...]]> <![CDATA[Seastar Skeletal Evolution?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15171/ Thu, 6 Mar 2025 00:00:00 PST
The beautiful sea stars (“starfish”), classified as echinoderms, are one of the most easily identifiable marine invertebrates, with their characteristic radiating arms and stony skin of calcium carbonate. The sea star’s water vascular system is one of the more amazing and complex arrangements in the animal world. The brittle stars and basket stars comprise the largest class of living echinoderms.



Recently, scien... More...]]> <![CDATA[Nitrogen Networks Negate Naturalism]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15161/ Mon, 3 Mar 2025 00:00:00 PST
The element nitrogen is critical in the living world. It is a basic building block of structural and regulatory proteins, nucleic acids, and chlorophyll in plants. God created the nitrogen metabolic networks found in people and various living organisms.



There is a large group of versatile nitrogen-containing enzymes called aminotransferases (ATs) or transaminases. They are designed to move amino groups (the building blocks of pro... More...]]> <![CDATA[March 2025 ICR Wallpaper]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15164/ Sat, 1 Mar 2025 00:00:00 PST
"Keep your heart with all diligence,

For out of it spring the issues of life." (Proverbs 4:23 NKJV)


ICR's March 2025 wallpaper is now available for mobile, tablet, and desktop! Download this month's image for free by clicking the format option links below and saving the files to your device.



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... More...]]> <![CDATA[The Flood Explains Cold Slabs Deep in the Mantle]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15159/ Thu, 27 Feb 2025 00:00:00 PST
Two recent studies by different groups have concluded essentially the same thing: there are mysterious cold rock slabs at the bottom of Earth’s mantle that cannot be explained by conventional theories.1,2 Geophysicists typically color these colder rocks blue, as shown in the image.



For decades, the mantle was thought to be fairly homogenous, or well-mixed. Most geology students are taught that the mantle, which c... More...]]> <![CDATA[Huge Volcanic Event on Jupiter's Moon Io]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15158/ Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:00 PST
Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active body in our solar system, and NASA’s Juno spacecraft recently detected the largest volcanic event ever observed on that body.1 During a flyby on December 27, 2024, Juno detected the infrared radiation from a gargantuan volcanic hot spot larger than Lake Superior near Io’s south pole (see figure). The volcanism caused a subtle but noticeable change in the appearan... More...]]> <![CDATA[ICR Scientist Publishes Dino Protein in Mainstream Journal]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15147/ Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 PST
Conventional thinking relegates creationists—folks who believe that God created the world only thousands of years ago—to quack science. After all, are they not brimming with irrational bias? If that’s true, then how did I, a creationist, help get another journal article through the strict peer review process? I did science.



My area of expertise is fossil proteins. It fascinates me because of how strongly it conf... More...]]> <![CDATA[Why Aren't There Any Flightless Bats?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15129/ Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:00:00 PST
Animals designed to fly are classified into four groups: the extinct flying reptiles (pterosaurs), insects, mammals (bats), and birds. According to the creation model, bats and birds were created on Day 5 as bats and birds.



Recently, a science news article addressed the wings of the two groups in an article entitled, “A Comparison of Bat and Bird Wings Reveals Their Evolutionary Paths Are Vastly Different.”1More...]]> <![CDATA[Rocky Exoplanets Are Literally Being Vaporized]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15122/ Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 PST
Astronomers have discovered a disintegrating rocky planet in another solar system.1,2 This extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, has been given the designation BD+05 4868 Ab. It orbits so close to its host star that the intense heat is literally vaporizing its solid, rocky material! The astronomers making the discovery explained,



Small, rocky planets orbiting their host stars too closely can vapor... More...]]> <![CDATA[Mammals ''Shrank'' After Post-Flood Ice Age]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15115/ Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 PST
By examining fossils from 19 archaeological sites in Jordan’s Azraq Basin, researchers have concluded that gazelles, hares, and foxes shrank in size at the end of the Ice Age.1 This news, published in an open-access journal article,2 should be of interest to creationists for two reasons.



First, the paper mentions in passing that fossils in the Azraq Basin show a “typical steppic faunal spectrum.&... More...]]> <![CDATA[Breaking News: Ancient Mollusks Were Complex]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15121/ Thu, 6 Feb 2025 00:00:00 PST
Mollusks consist of a wide range of invertebrates that include the intelligent octopus, pulmonated snails (gastropods), and bivalves (clams). They appear suddenly in the early Cambrian about 514 million years ago according to evolution theory. In 2020, evolutionists said there is “no good record of molluscs before they had shells, and there can be some doubt that certain early fossil shells are really remains of molluscs.”1... More...]]> <![CDATA[Dino Trackway Leads Straight to a Young Earth]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15113/ Mon, 3 Feb 2025 00:00:00 PST
Uncovering animal tracks and trackways in sedimentary rocks is a testament to the Genesis Flood.1–4 Fascinating discoveries continue to be made with the latest trackway (200 footprints) being unearthed in Oxfordshire, England.5 The longest trackway is estimated to be 492 ft (150 m) in length and is probably longer. And therein lies the problem.



Many who are involved with uncovering these incredibly old... More...]]> <![CDATA[February 2025 ICR Wallpaper]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15114/ Sat, 1 Feb 2025 00:00:00 PST
"But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8 NKJV)


ICR's February 2025 wallpaper is now available for mobile, tablet, and desktop! Download this month's image for free by clicking the format option links below and saving the files to your device.

More...]]> <![CDATA[New Antarctic Ice Core: Good News for Creationists]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15111/ Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:00:00 PST
Scientists have successfully drilled a fourth long ice core in East Antarctica.1 This new core, which reached to bedrock, has bottom ice that is believed to be, by uniformitarian reckoning, at least 1.2 million years old. This is a huge technical achievement that required years of work in bitterly frigid temperatures. But it is also great news for creation science, since this new ice core could greatly strengthen already strong a... More...]]> <![CDATA[Oldest Dinosaurs in North America Explained by the Flood]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15109/ Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:00:00 PST
A team of conventional paleontologists claims to have found the oldest dinosaur in North America, rivaling the oldest dinosaur remains found anywhere.1 Discovered in Fremont County, Wyoming, about 50 miles from Yellowstone National Park, the dinosaur was named Ahvaytum bahndooiveche, or “long ago dinosaur” in the native Shoshone language.1



“It was basically the size of a chicken bu... More...]]> <![CDATA[Leaf and Stick Insect Variation]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15108/ Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:00:00 PST
The phylum Arthropoda suddenly appears in the fossil record in a most un-Darwinian way.1 The largest group within the arthropods is the class Insecta—the insects. There is no fossil evidence depicting how insects supposedly came from non-insects. Entomologists can only suggest or estimate they originated many millions of years ago.2 ICR’s Dr. Jeff Tomkins addresses this evolutionary problem known as the hex... More...]]> <![CDATA[Snowflakes: A Symphony of Intricacy and Beauty]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15077/ Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00:00 PST
Snowflakes are among the most exquisite forms that nature has to offer, and no two flakes are alike. Several evolutionists have attempted to use the order of crystal formation, a result of atomic structures based solely on natural laws, as evidence for the purely natural development of order out of disorder in the evolution of life forms by arguing that to some extent the two processes are comparable. However, a more thorough examination of... More...]]> <![CDATA[Molecular Machines Twist Evolution]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15076/ Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00:00 PST
We read in the first chapter of Romans that God loves us so much that He has given us a general revelation of what He has created. Verse 19 states, “what may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has shown it to them.” This is certainly true in the field of biological systems.



ICR’s Randy Guliuzza stated,



God did not leave humanity clueless or needing an additi... More...]]> <![CDATA[Binary Star Pair Detected Near Supermassive Black Hole]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15075/ Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 PST
Astronomers have detected a likely binary star pair, designated as D9, orbiting the supermassive black hole Sag A* at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.1,2 As the name implies, a binary consists of two stars bound by gravity orbiting around their common center of mass. Based on uniformitarian assumptions and the presence of gas and dust around the binary pair, astronomers concluded the binary has an age of “just” 2.7... More...]]> <![CDATA[The Jaw Drops an Evolutionary Explanation]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15074/ Thu, 9 Jan 2025 00:00:00 PST
The lepidosaurs are a large and diverse group of land vertebrates that include the snakes and lizards. There are almost 12,000 species of these animals. But evolutionists still do not know where they came from. Vertebrate paleontologist Michael Benton stated, “The early history of squamates [snakes, lizards] is patchy,” and the debate of snake origin “is far from resolved.”1



Five years later, fi... More...]]> <![CDATA[''Super-Puff'' Exoplanets: Evidence of Youth?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15072/ Mon, 6 Jan 2025 00:00:00 PST
Astronomers have inferred the presence of a fourth exoplanet in the Kepler-51 star system.1,2 They made the discovery when the third exoplanet in the system passed in front of its host star two hours sooner than their models predicted. The astronomers were able to account for this error by the existence of a fourth, previously unknown exoplanet. However, the most interesting aspect of this story for biblical creationists is that ... More...]]> <![CDATA[A Fresh Start]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15070/ Thu, 2 Jan 2025 00:00:00 PST
"That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness." (Ephesians 4:22-24)



Everyone deserves a fresh start. As we start the New Year with resolutions and lofty i... More...]]> <![CDATA[January 2025 ICR Wallpaper]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15073/ Wed, 1 Jan 2025 00:00:00 PST
"For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former shall not be remembered or come to mind." (Isaiah 65:17 NKJV)


ICR's January 2025 wallpaper is now available for mobile, tablet, and desktop! Download this month's image for free by clicking the format option links below and saving the files to your device.More...]]> <![CDATA[All Things New]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15069/ Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:00:00 PST
"And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful." (Revelation 21:5)



The coming of a new year is a good time to consider that glorious time to come when Christ will make everything new again. In the present age, all things "shall wax old as doth a garment" (More...]]> <![CDATA[Joy to the World]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15068/ Thu, 26 Dec 2024 00:00:00 PST
Then the angel said to them, ‘Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people.’” (Luke 2:10)



When God became man and Jesus was born, true joy entered a world of sin and sadness. The Magi, who had long anticipated the Savior’s coming, “rejoiced with exceedingly great joy” when they saw the star s... More...]]> <![CDATA[Butterfly Learning and Memory]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15071/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:00:00 PST
Insects, such as the winged insects in the order Lepidoptera, continue to reveal incredible abilities with some facets that zoologists thought were reserved only for vertebrates.



Recently, entomologists were investigating “a species of tropical butterfly [Heliconius] with unusually expanded brain structures [that] displays a fascinating mosaic pattern of neural expansion linked to a cognitive innovation.”1... More...]]> <![CDATA[Hong Kong Dinosaurs Explained by the Flood]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15062/ Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:00:00 PST
The recent discovery of the first dinosaur fossils in Hong Kong came as a surprise to evolutionary paleontologists. It was totally unexpected since most of the rocks in Hong Kong are volcanic in origin.1 And volcanic rocks usually destroy bones, not preserve them.



“It’s shocking, because I never thought there would be dinosaur fossils in Hong Kong,” said Chong Got while looking at the new dinosaur bon... More...]]> <![CDATA[''Ancient'' Skin Impressions]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15060/ Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 PST
Cornified skin is the top layer of skin (epidermis) and is composed of dead skin cells that are tightly packed together and thickened. This is the Creator’s way of protecting people and animals against sharp objects and solar radiation.



In 2020, scientists discovered multiple foot and belly prints made by unidentified creatures in rock allegedly hundreds of millions of years old (Permian). These include three different diad... More...]]> <![CDATA[Heart Cockle Shells: Another Amazing Case for Creation]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15058/ Mon, 9 Dec 2024 00:00:00 PST
There has been an incredible discovery concerning a bivalve mollusk called the heart cockle (Corculum cardissa). These bivalves have symbiotic partnerships with photosynthetic dinoflagellates called Symbiodinium corculorum. S. corculorum requires sunlight (UV radiation) for photosynthesis, and the heart cockles in turn can use the photosynthetic products the dinoflagellate produces. Such a relationship is called mutualism.

... More...]]> <![CDATA[Bird Brain Evolution?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15019/ Thu, 5 Dec 2024 00:00:00 PST
Recently, a fascinating bird skull dated by evolutionists to be over “80 million years old” was discovered at a Brazilian quarry.1



Paleontologists are calling it Navaornis hestiae, believing it belongs to the extinct enantiornithines (birds). They think it might be a missing link in regard to avian brain evolution. For example, paleontologist Dr. Guillermo Navalón from Cambridge’s... More...]]> <![CDATA[December 2024 ICR Wallpaper]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15029/ Mon, 2 Dec 2024 00:00:00 PST
"Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel." (Isaiah 7:14 NKJV)


ICR's December 2024 wallpaper is now available for mobile, tablet, and desktop! Download this month's image for free by clicking the format option links below and saving th... More...]]> <![CDATA[Happy Thanksgiving!]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15016/ Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:00:00 PST
All of God’s children must overcome the temptation to allow God’s sovereign provision of our needs to be overshadowed by the pleasure of our bounty and blessings—especially during this very American celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday. Here are some of the original thoughts.



George Washington’s 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation



Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowled... More...]]> <![CDATA[Where Paleontology Fails, Paleo-Robots Avail]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15017/ Mon, 25 Nov 2024 00:00:00 PST
A Phys.org science article begins with what could be read as a religious story that occurred a long, long time ago.



Life on Earth started in the oceans. Beginning around 390 million years ago, however, the ancestors of modern land animals rose out of the waters, trading their fins for limbs and gills for lungs. This was a crucial transition in the evolution of all creatures—including humans—... More...]]> <![CDATA[Puzzling Fossils at an Unlikely Time]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15014/ Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:00:00 PST
Wherever and whenever life is found, it is incredibly complex. This certainly applies to cyanobacterial photosynthetic life that supposedly were some of the simplest and very first organic life forms to evolve from inorganic nonlife.1



Cardiff University recently reported, “Until now, scientists broadly accepted animals first emerged on Earth 635 million years ago.”2 However, evolutionists have un... More...]]> <![CDATA[Seeing the Case for Creation in Fruit Flies]]> https://www.icr.org/article/15012/ Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00:00 PST
Our brain is designed to smoothly and constantly process what we see via the incredibly sensitive photoreceptors (cones and rods) of our eyes.1 But throughout a typical day, our eyes may be subject to rapid changes of shadows and light many times in a fraction of a second. Regardless, we are able to see almost seamlessly. How is this visual stability maintained?



Recently, a group of zoologists writing in Nature Comm... More...]]> <![CDATA[Amazing Defense Systems]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14921/ Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:00:00 PST
Bacteria (prokaryotes) are ubiquitous. A fraction cause disease in people, animals, and plants, but the majority are the foundation for the global food web, the nitrogen cycle, soil formation, and are part of the critical microbiome (the collection of microorganisms living in or on people and animals).1



The innate or nonspecific immune system is our body’s first line of defense against disease-causing entities (p... More...]]> <![CDATA[Octopus and Fish Plan a Complex Coordinated Hunt]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14966/ Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:00:00 PST
The octopus—an invertebrate—never fails to surprise researchers with its incredible abilities.1,2



The octopus was designed by the Lord Jesus with amazing powers of perception, understanding, and reasoning. It has been discovered that some octopuses (molluscs) actually work together with different species (e.g., fish) to hunt.3 When hungry, it can interact with fish and actually share complex deci... More...]]> <![CDATA[A ''40 million year old'' 100% European Gnat]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14939/ Thu, 7 Nov 2024 00:00:00 PST
Finding well-preserved creatures in amber1 is a landfall for creation scientists, much like the numerous discoveries of soft dinosaur tissue in fossils.2 Another find has been reported by the University of Copenhagen: a fungus gnat has been found entombed in amber.3 Has this in any way supported evolutionary theory? The closest the scientists could get to addressing real evolution of this fly was to sta... More...]]> <![CDATA[Paintbrush of the Creator]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14931/ Mon, 4 Nov 2024 00:00:00 PST
Who doesn’t enjoy the amazing color patterns of butterflies?1,2 Such beautiful designs and construction do not reflect blind naturalistic forces3 but the Creator’s hand.4,5



It has been known that “the genetic code contained within the cells of developing butterfly wings dictates the specific arrangement of the color on the wing’s scales -- the microscopic tiles that form wi... More...]]> <![CDATA[November 2024 ICR Wallpaper]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14972/ Fri, 1 Nov 2024 00:00:00 PST
"Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you." (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 NKJV)


ICR's November 2024 wallpaper is now available for mobile, tablet, and desktop! Download this month's image for free by clicking the format option links below and s... More...]]> <![CDATA[Reformation Day, October 31]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14965/ Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 PST
Five hundred years ago in Wittenberg, Germany, an unusual scholar changed the course of human history using pen and hammer. Dr. Martin Luther protested unbiblical church teachings and practices—especially selling indulgences—sparking the Protestant Reformation.1 Unsurprisingly, a review of Luther’s treatment of Genesis shows how taking Scripture seriously logically leads to taking creation seriously. In fact, Lu... More...]]> <![CDATA[Creation's Bullseye]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14922/ Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 PST
The first sentence in a recent evolutionary news story set the stage for the rest of the article: “Flowers like hibiscus use an invisible blueprint established very early in petal formation that dictates the size of their bullseyes—a crucial pre-pattern that can significantly impact their ability to attract pollinating bees [emphasis added].”1 Such a statement could easily have come from a creation... More...]]> <![CDATA[Is a Spiny Slug the Mollusc's Ancestor?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14878/ Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:00:00 PST
The phylum Mollusca (molluscs) is an amazing1 and diverse assemblage of invertebrates. It includes squids, clams, tusk shells, octopuses, snails, and chitons.



What was the origin of this large and amazing group? According to evolutionism, “The first molluscs probably arose during Precambrian times because fossils attributed to Mollusca appear in geological strata as old as the early Cambrian period [emphas... More...]]> <![CDATA[Central Greenland Recently Ice-Free, But Why?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14867/ Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:00:00 PST
Microfossil willow wood, fungi, insect body parts, and a poppy seed have been recovered from sediments at the bottom of central Greenland’s two-mile-long GISP2 ice core.1,2 This find is similar to an earlier discovery of such fossils found in basal sediments from the Camp Century ice core near Greenland’s northwest coast.3 These microfossils suggest that Greenland once had a tundra-like environment, with gr... More...]]> <![CDATA[Alleged Protocells]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14919/ Thu, 17 Oct 2024 00:00:00 PST
In a February 1, 1871, letter to his best friend, botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker, Charles Darwin suggested a warm little pond was the site where primitive life first arose.1 But the place, time, and conditions of such a pond remain unknown.



Recently, another strange idea has surfaced in evolution’s fruitless search to explain how organic life randomly sprung from inorganic nonlife.



According to evolutio... More...]]> <![CDATA[Evolution vs. a Family That Walks on All Fours]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14917/ Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:00:00 PST
In 2006 a story broke that a Kurdish family in southern Turkey had a number of their members that walked on their palms. This caused excitement among some in the evolutionary community because they thought this was a throwback to our primate ancestors.1



Now the Turkish family is back in the news with evolutionists stating that their walking “on all fours have ‘undone the last three million years of evolutio... More...]]> <![CDATA[''Surprisingly Recent'' Lunar Volcanism?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14915/ Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:00 PST
Tiny volcanic glass beads suggest “surprisingly recent” lava flows on the moon that are “difficult to reconcile with the accepted history of lunar volcanism.”1,2 These tiny glass beads were retrieved by the Chinese Chang’e 5 spacecraft, a replica of which is shown in the above photo. The spacecraft returned to Earth in 2020. Subsequent chemical analysis of the beads suggested they were volcani... More...]]> <![CDATA[Methuselah-Like Longevity in Pre-Flood Mammals]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14914/ Mon, 7 Oct 2024 00:00:00 PST
Genesis claims that people in the pre-Flood world routinely attained 900-year lifespans. The best-known example is Methuselah, who had the longest recorded lifespan of 969 years (Genesis 5:27). Skeptics dismiss these great ages as fanciful legends, but recent fossil data are providing unexpected, albeit indirect, corroboration of the Bible’s testimony. Science Advances reports tha... More...]]> <![CDATA[Was an Insect Ancestor Discovered?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14871/ Thu, 3 Oct 2024 00:00:00 PST
There is nothing simple about an animal group called the euarthropods (phylum Euarthropoda), which includes insects, crustaceans, and extinct trilobites.



Evolutionists stated in a recent issue of Nature how complex these alleged early creatures were: “Sophisticated brains and specialized feeding appendages, which are elaborations of serially repeated organ systems and jointed appendages, underpin the dominance of Eua... More...]]> <![CDATA[October 2024 ICR Wallpaper]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14920/ Tue, 1 Oct 2024 00:00:00 PST
"The people who walked in darkness


Have seen a great light;


Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death,

Upon them a light has shined."

(Isaiah 9:2 NKJV)


ICR's October 2024 wallpaper is now available for mobile, tablet, and desktop! Download this month&... More...]]> <![CDATA[Collapsed Utah Arch Prompts Questions about Arch Formation]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14887/ Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 PST
We lost a natural wonder to gravity and erosion on Thursday, August 8, 2024.1 Those who visited Double Arch, also called “Hole in the Roof Arch,” in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah, can count themselves privileged. Their future descendants won’t get to see it. This news got folks asking about other, even more iconic natural arches like those at Arches National Park, also in Utah. Will each arch inevit... More...]]> <![CDATA[Another Arch Collapse at a National Park]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14868/ Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:00:00 PST
Erosion and other natural forces upon sedimentary formations such as exposed cliffs and arches belie the millions of years during which they allegedly existed.1,2



Recently,



A popular natural rock feature that stood for millions of years has come crashing down into Lake Powell in Utah’s Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Known as the Double Arch, the stunning geological att... More...]]> <![CDATA[Does Pauli Exclusion Rescue Dino Protein?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14913/ Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:00:00 PST
Perhaps no other fossil discoveries have rocked the world of paleontology more than original organics like proteins in old bones. ICR helps curate a list of mainstream science publications that describe what’s inside these fossils: hemoglobin, chromosomes, whole cells, tissue scraps, and bone collagen. The number exceeds 120, making the presence of proteins and similar finds an increasingly common occurrence.1 So what&rsquo... More...]]> <![CDATA[Support the ICR Discovery Center on North Texas Giving Day 2024!]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14910/ Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 PST
It's North Texas Giving Day! We invite you to support our unique creation museum and planetarium in Dallas, TX—the ICR Discovery Center. Your gifts on this special day will help us continue to inspire families, students, and guests of all ages with the wonders of God’s creation and the truth of His Word.


 


Since opening five years ago, the ICR Discovery Center has become an exciting desti... More...]]> <![CDATA[Evolution's Hypothetical Last Universal Common Ancestor]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14865/ Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 PST
Evolutionists utilize a theoretical tree of life that takes people, plants, and animals back into deep evolutionary time to an unobserved, unknown, hypothetical last universal common ancestor (LUCA). Whatever this organism was, they maintain, it was the ancestor of all life and evolved in turn from nonliving chemicals.



More...]]> <![CDATA[More Woolly Mammoth DNA]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14864/ Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:00:00 PST
Woolly mammoths of the Ice Age1 were once found in huge numbers in Siberia, northern Europe, and North America.



Organic remains from “prehistoric” animals such as dinosaurs are incredibly significant finds, and so it is with woolly mammoths.2 For example, scientists found a huge mammoth skull (Mammuthus primigenius) sticking out of the water of a Siberian lake on the Yamal peninsula. Wool,... More...]]> <![CDATA[Reflecting on Five Years of the ICR Discovery Center]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14879/ Mon, 9 Sep 2024 00:00:00 PST
Since its grand opening on September 2, 2019, the ICR Discovery Center has encouraged thousands of visitors from all over the world with science that proclaims Scripture. Thursday, September 5, the Institute for Creation Research and the Irving-Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce hosted a special event to both welcome the Discovery Center into the chamber and celebrate its five-year anniversary in the North Texas community.



Chamber a... More...]]> <![CDATA[The Magnificence of a Colorful Autumn: Beauty and Complexity Unveiled]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14476/ Thu, 5 Sep 2024 00:00:00 PST
Scientists have long endeavored to comprehend the transformations that take place in trees and plants throughout the autumn season. While lacking complete knowledge, they possess sufficient understanding to explain the fundamental aspects of these spectacular displays. Interestingly, the colorful leaves are not only aesthetically pleasing, they also serve a crucial role in the trees’ survival.



Trees with seasonal foliage ar... More...]]> <![CDATA[September 2024 ICR Wallpaper]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14872/ Sun, 1 Sep 2024 00:00:00 PST


"God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things." (Acts 17:24-25 NKJV)




ICR's September 2024 wallpaper is now available for mo... More...]]> <![CDATA[Long Ages and the Bible—What’s the Problem?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14817/ Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:00:00 PST
The problem with mixing long ages and the Bible stems from how someone interprets Genesis 1 and 2. If these chapters are read as symbolic and/or poetic (not as a literal, historical account of how God created the universe), the question then becomes: How should the rest of Genesis—and the Bible—be interpreted? The answer is a subjective determination. As it turns out, exegeting—... More...]]> <![CDATA[More Mixed Land and Marine Fossils in Wales]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14829/ Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:00:00 PST
Flood geologists expect to find marine fossils mixed in the same layers as land animal and land plant fossils. We see it all over the world.1,2 Scientists can directly observe the results of massive waves, created by tectonic activity, that crashed across the continents.1 The global Flood caused many animals and plants to be transported both onto the land and offshore, too.



A recent discovery in Wales brings... More...]]> <![CDATA[Salamander-Like Tetrapod Didn’t Live in the Cold]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14834/ Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:00:00 PST
A recent discovery of a crocodile-size tetrapod (four-legged animal) in high latitudes has some conventional scientists baffled.1 How could cold-blooded animals survive in cold-temperature regions? And, according to the evolutionary story, these salamander-like animals lived in the waning moments of an Ice Age, making the cold even more extreme. Previously, animals like this were found only in warm climates.1 What chan... More...]]> <![CDATA[Chimp Chat Study Confirms Language Is Human]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14835/ Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 PST
Animals communicate but not with language. Where did language come from and why do we humans all use it? Evolution-based answers are restricted to options that leave out a Creator, even when evidence points right to Him. Conventional researchers have long grasped at any skinny straw that might bolster the belief that language evolved. The latest such straw seems skinnier than ever, and it comes with an inadvertent admission of a creation-fr... More...]]> <![CDATA[Do Tiny Mammal Fossils Corroborate Pre-Flood Longevity?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14833/ Thu, 15 Aug 2024 00:00:00 PST
Tooth growth patterns in fossils of the mouse-like Jurassic mammal Krusatodon show that it grew slowly and had a “surprisingly long” lifespan compared to mammals of similar size today.1 A paper in Nature describes two “exceptionally complete” Krusatodon specimens, one an adult and the other a juvenile, that were found on Scotland’s Isle of Skye.2 The fossils are dated ... More...]]> <![CDATA[Sneak Preview of "Proclaiming Christ in Paradise"]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14623/ Mon, 12 Aug 2024 00:00:00 PST


Students at Dudley High School react to a humorous moment during a creation science assembly.


Image credit: Search for the Truth Ministries. Used with permission.



For more than 50 years, the Institute for Creation Research has inve... More...]]> <![CDATA[Butterfly Variation and AI-Powered Research]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14814/ Thu, 8 Aug 2024 00:00:00 PST
Entomologists have long been involved in the rewarding field of butterfly research. Recent Lepidopteran discoveries have been incredible and have nothing to do with real, vertical evolution.1–3



Now, artificial intelligence (machine learning or ML) is being utilized to determine visual differences between sexes of birdwing butterflies of Australasia and Southeast Asia.4


More...]]> <![CDATA[Recent Green River Bat Fossils]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14813/ Mon, 5 Aug 2024 00:00:00 PST
There’s nothing more fascinating in the evening sky than the erratic flight of what looks like a bird but is actually a ravenous, feeding bat. Using their amazing sonar,1 they effortlessly capture their fill of insects in the dark.



The evolutionary explanation for bat origins is nonexistent. The fossil record contains no fossils documenting a non-bat ancestor becoming a bat. Paleontologists find only complete and... More...]]> <![CDATA[Humans Butchered Giant “Armadillos”]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14815/ Fri, 2 Aug 2024 00:00:00 PST
Analysis of cut marks on Ice Age bones of a large armadillo-like glyptodont from Argentina suggests that humans killed and used these creatures for food.1,2 The cut marks belonged to fossil remains of a glyptodont in the genus Neosclerocalyptus that was discovered on the banks of the Reconquista River in eastern Argentina. By old-age reckoning, these bones are more than 20,000 years old. The cut marks were consistent with ... More...]]> <![CDATA[August 2024 ICR Wallpaper]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14819/ Thu, 1 Aug 2024 00:00:00 PST


"Only fear the Lord, and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you." (1 Samuel 12:24 NKJV)




ICR's August 2024 wallpaper is now available for mobile, tablet, and desktop! Download this month's image for free by clicking the format option links below and sa... More...]]> <![CDATA[New Ankylosaur Discovery]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14812/ Thu, 1 Aug 2024 00:00:00 PST
Ankylosaurs are herbivorous dinosaurs found in flood rocks. They are classified in the reptilian order of Ornithischia or “bird-hipped” (having a hip design with ischium and pubis bones lying parallel and next to each other).



Their design is unique, with large and small bony shields (bony osteoderms) embedded in their skin and covering their sides and back. The small skulls have fused bony shields attached to the unde... More...]]> <![CDATA[Flood Mixed Nevada Crocodile Fossil in Ocean Sediments]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14811/ Mon, 29 Jul 2024 00:00:00 PST
The effects of the Genesis Flood are seen worldwide with deposits of terrestrial animals, such as dinosaurs and many other kinds of animals, often mixed together with marine animals.1–3



Recently, an evolutionary story was published about ancient life along the coasts during the alleged “Age of Dinosaurs.” It included a new crocodilian animal unearthed from sediments in Nevada.4



N... More...]]> <![CDATA[Trilobite Troubles in '24]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14790/ Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:00:00 PST
The phylum Arthropoda is the largest animal phylum on the planet. These animals are designed with paired, jointed appendages and a chitinous exoskeleton. ICR’s Dr. Tim Clarey stated,



Arthropods represent a major part of the great evolutionary mystery called the Cambrian Explosion. In fact, they are one of the most common fossils in Cambrian system strata. They appear in the rock layers fully forme... More...]]> <![CDATA[A Billion-Year Evolutionary Tale]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14789/ Mon, 22 Jul 2024 00:00:00 PST
All cells come from previous cells. In order to produce a new cell, the Lord Jesus designed a process called the cell cycle. This is a highly ordered sequence of four events or phases within the cell nucleus, with one phase blending imperceptibly into the next. All of these stages or phases can be seen by looking under the microscope at a section of, for example, Allium (onion) cells.



The cell cycle includes a process most... More...]]> <![CDATA[A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14788/ Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:00:00 PST
Inspired by God’s creation mandate in Genesis 1:28, humans across the centuries have sought ways to optimize processes, solve problems, and ultimately “subdue” the world for our benefit. The quest to observe and record the laws of nature has taught us many helpful concepts in a variety of fields, particularly in topics related to science and technology.



One example... More...]]> <![CDATA[Did the Human Heart Evolve from Apes?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14768/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 00:00:00 PST
The amazingly designed pump we call the heart has made evolutionary news recently.



Ffion White of Swansea University in Wales recently stated in an article on heart architecture that, “Despite humans and non-human great apes having a common ancestor, the former has evolved larger brains and the ability to walk or run upright on two feet to travel long distances, likely to hunt.”1 What was not said is that t... More...]]> <![CDATA[Recent Paleontological Discoveries Are Just What Creationists Predict]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14769/ Thu, 11 Jul 2024 00:00:00 PST
Current news from the field of paleontology is what creationists expected and even predicted. Whether recent fossil discoveries are invertebrates or vertebrates, they will not document gradual evolutionary progression from one kind into another kind.



Some of the latest examples include a new species of extinct shark named Parvodus ominechonensis that was discovered in Japan.1 Scientists determined it belongs to ... More...]]> <![CDATA[New Evidence for Catastrophic Plate Tectonics (CPT)?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14771/ Mon, 8 Jul 2024 00:00:00 PST
Geophysicist Samantha Hansen and colleagues may have just strengthened evidence for catastrophic plate tectonics (CPT), the leading theoretical model for explaining the Genesis Flood.1 Almost 40 years ago, creation scientist and geophysicist Dr. John Baumgardner suggested that the entire pre-Flood ocean floor logically must have been rapidly subducted into the earth’s mantle during the Flood cataclysm:2,3


More...]]> <![CDATA[The Price of Freedom]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14770/ Wed, 3 Jul 2024 00:00:00 PST
"And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born" (Acts 22:28).



The privilege of being a freeborn Roman citizen was indeed a life-saving circumstance to Paul in his defense before the Jewish mob trying to kill him there in Jerusalem (Acts 22:30) when he returne... More...]]> <![CDATA[July 2024 ICR Wallpaper]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14773/ Mon, 1 Jul 2024 00:00:00 PST


"For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve on another." (Galatians 5:13 NKJV)




ICR's July 2024 wallpaper is now available for mobile, tablet, and desktop! Download this month's image for free by clicking the format option link... More...]]> <![CDATA[Intelligently Designed Flapping Frequencies]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14767/ Mon, 1 Jul 2024 00:00:00 PST
Physicists at Roskilde University in Denmark have shown that a single equation correctly describes the frequency of wing and fin strokes for a wide array of flying and swimming creatures, including birds, insects, bats, and whales.1,2 They used a technique called dimensional analysis to show that if one divides the square root of an animal’s mass by the surface area of the wing or fin, the result is equal to a constant mult... More...]]> <![CDATA[Lamprey Lunacy]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14763/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 PST
Lampreys are a group of strange-looking jawless fish of the order Petromyzontiformes. Since evolutionists reject the biblical origins model, they must embrace these creatures as our ancient ancestors.1 But looking to the fossil record, evolutionists see lampreys going back unchanged for many millions of years. In other words, living fossils argue against the hypothetical evolutionary timeline.



... More...]]> <![CDATA[Stasis and More Stasis in Living Fossils]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14755/ Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:00:00 PST
Living fossils have been a challenge to evolutionists ever since Darwin coined the phrase in 1859.1,2 They are members of a living species of creatures that are virtually identical to those known from the fossil record. Andean tapirs, coelacanths, and horseshoe crabs3 are examples.



The gar (Lepisosteidae) is a freshwater fish with long jaws, many teeth, and a cigar-shaped body. They are found only in North A... More...]]> <![CDATA[Scaly Skin on a Feathered Dinosaur?]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14756/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 PST
Fossil experts from University College Cork in Ireland took stunning images of Psittacosaurus skin. The dinosaurs’ belly shows patches of skin that glow orange under UV light. However, the top of this dinosaur’s tail has long fibers that many assume were feather-like bristles. So, these study authors suggest that since this dinosaur had two types of skin, perhaps the evolutionary ancestors of today’s birds did, too.... More...]]> <![CDATA[Florida Fossil Shows Porcupines Have Always Been Porcupines]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14761/ Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 PST
The porcupine is an animal (rodent) that one does not soon forget. It is armed with formidable quills that deter even the hungriest predators. What was their origin? Evolutionists do not know.



Barbiere and Marivaux stated in their 2015 paper that, “The phylogenetic origin and evolutionary history of the Hystricidae [Old World porcupines] is still a matter of debate.”1 Vertebrate paleontologist Benton stated... More...]]> <![CDATA[Webb Telescope Discovers Another Record-Breaking Galaxy]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14757/ Thu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 PST
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have recently confirmed that two galaxies are extremely distant, with one becoming the new record holder as the most distant galaxy from Earth.1,2 The new record-holding galaxy is designated as JADES-GS-z14-0 and is shown in the inset in the above image. By uniformitarian reckoning, this galaxy existed just 290 million years after the supposed Big Bang, yet it looks too mature for ... More...]]> <![CDATA[New Titanosaur Species Discovered in Uruguay and Argentina]]> https://www.icr.org/article/14673/ Mon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 PST
The pre-Flood world had some truly massive dinosaurs, and the largest of them were in the group Sauropodomorpha.1 Within this group were titanosaurs, which include the gigantic Argentinosaurus that is estimated to have weighed over 100 tons. Not only were the titanosaurs the largest dinosaurs, but they also had a unique design showing “a characteristic ‘wide-gauge’ limb posture, in which the forelimbs and... More...]]>