Creation magazine

Creation Ministries International (CMI) exists to support the effective proclamation of the Gospel by providing credible answers that affirm the reliability of the Bible, in particular its Genesis history.

© magr80 | stock.adobe.com From time to time, digging down into rocks during major civil engineering projects leads directly to new scientific discoveries. Beginning in 2020, with road construction in Hunan Province (central China), workers soon uncovered a treasure trove of exquisite fossils in the shale rocks. Under the auspices of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), an expert scientific team from several universities has worked hard to catalogue the findings.

Evolutionists such as Richard Dawkins have long claimed that our eyes are wired ‘backwardly’, allegedly something which no intelligent designer would do. That is, the light receptor cells are behind the nerves, which supposedly obstruct the light path.

Observers in the northeastern USA saw a “fireball streaking across the daytime sky” on 16 July 2024. It broke apart about 35 km (22 mi) above Earth. One fragment weighing about 1 kg (2 lb) crashed through the roof of a home in Hillsborough, New Jersey. Fortunately, no one was hurt.1 Credit: NASA/Marc Fries Meteorite track The careful homeowners quickly patched their roof. Wearing gloves, they collected the fragments and dust in clean glass jars before giving them to NASA scientists.

Glasswing butterflies1 (e.g. certain Pteronymia spp.) have large clear patches on their wings. Many would claim they ‘evolved’ transparent wings (to minimize their visibility to predators). Christians might retort that only a Creator could have made these beautiful see-through wings. Who’s right? Actually the ‘glass’ wing areas are missing a feature of coloured butterfly wings—scales.

There are numerous unresolved issues in biogeography for both uniformitarian and creation scientists.1 Biogeography is “The science that deals with the geographic distribution of all living organisms.”2 Probably the most challenging biogeographic issue, the one that initiated the science of biogeography, is how the marsupials made it to Australia. Skeels et al.

wikimedia commons Stanley Miller and Harold Urey. Abiogenesis is the theory that under the proper conditions life can arise spontaneously from non-living molecules. One of the most widely cited studies used to support this conclusion is the famous Miller–Urey experiment. Surveys of textbooks find that the Miller–Urey study is the major (or only) research cited to prove abiogenesis.

0:00 Introduction (teaser) 1:05 What’s the significance of the telescope? 7:00 What’s the significance of disc galaxies? 7:47 How far back in time? 9:34 Young versus mature galaxies 12:04 Composition of galaxies billions of light years away 14:22 What’s the Big Bang model problem? 17:07 Worldviews drive scientists’ conclusions 18:15 What young earth creationists expect 19:56 Can we assume scientists will figure it out? 20:58 Why does it matter how old galaxies are?

Scientists have claimed that a cloned network of quaking aspen trees (Populus tremuloides) in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest, is the oldest organism on earth. It is also one of the biggest.1 Called the Pando (Latin for “I spread”) clone, this one plant exists as 47,000 cloned individual trunks, all with the same DNA, that have a single root system underground. The root network covers an area of 43 hectares (106 acres).

Tyranny appears on the earth Within a few generations after the Flood, tyrants began to appear on earth—first in the person of Nimrod, the grandson of Ham. Some commentators suggest that the name ‘Nimrod’ comes from the Hebrew root for the word ‘revolt’ or ‘rebellion’.1 Even if not, as we will consider, his name signifies rebellion.