Creation Article Podcast

In an encouraging turn of events, a secular peer-reviewed paper published in eLIFE, written by a team from the NMBU Centre for Applied Philosophy of Science at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, backs up this understanding of the importance of worldviews. In their article, the authors make some very salient observations that few other secularists seem to like to openly discuss.

In today’s episode I’m going to read not one but two articles about butterflies.

We had a discussion with Tim Barnett from Stand to Reason, who was giving multiple presentations at the Great Homeschool Conference in Greenville, South Carolina. It turned out that Tim believes in an old Earth, implying that death, disease, suffering and pain all came before Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. We wanted to know more, so that’s why I attended his presentation titled “If God, Why E...

Those who believe life evolved on the earth usually see it as virtual ‘fact’ that life has evolved on countless other planets. Many Christians think, ‘God must have created life elsewhere, otherwise this enormous universe would be an awful waste of space.’ The Bible’s ‘big picture’ seems to preclude intelligent life elsewhere in God’s universe. But what if we just found bacteria on other planets?...

The myth of the ‘kindly slow-witted naturalist stumbling across evolution’ was fostered by an autobiography Darwin wrote as a deliberately self-effacing moral homily for his children, not intending it to be published. Darwin was fully aware that his idea was a frontal assault on the very notion of an intelligent Designer behind the world. In fact, he might very well have formulated it precisely fo...

Nothing on today’s Earth matches the geographical clues provided in Genesis. Any proposed location for Eden must include four rivers originating from one source. Contrary to common opinion, the Tigris and Euphrates of Genesis 2 cannot be the modern rivers flowing through Syria and Iraq today, because they do not share the same source. The Flood caused massive changes to the landscape, to the point...

We continue our response to the 2019 BBC-TV series The Planets, presented by Professor Brian Cox. In this article, we are considering the fifth and final episode, Into the Darkness – Ice Worlds. God has provided a marvelous solar system for us humans to marvel at and explore—by instruments such as telescopes, unmanned spacecraft, and eventually perhaps even interplanetary travel. Contrary to athei...

After the Resurrection of Jesus and before the blessing of the Holy Spirit, the disciples commenced fishing again. Jesus appeared to them and they ate fish together. What was this fish that was so popular that they could make a business from catching? Those were probably tilapia, ‘St Peter’s fish’ (or mango tilapia, Sarotherodon galilaeus). And today, we see how a common fish that was eaten in Gal...

We continue our response to the 2019 BBC-TV series The Planets, narrated by Professor Brian Cox. In this article we are considering the fourth episode, titled Life beyond the sun, Saturn.

We continue our response to the 2019 BBC-TV series The Planets, presented by Professor Brian Cox. This time, are considering the third episode, The Godfather – Jupiter. Jupiter is the largest of the planets in our solar system, and the fifth out from the Sun. Prof. Cox tells the evolutionary story for the origin of this planet and what it does in the solar system. We present the biblical creation...

We continue our response to the BBC-TV series The Planets, narrated by Professor Brian Cox. In this article, we are considering the second episode, The Two Sisters: Earth and Mars.

In May and June 2019, the BBC TV showed British audiences a five-episode series about our solar system, narrated by Professor Brian Cox and titled The Planets. We shall discuss Cox’s claimed long ages and evolutionary origin of these planets vs recent creation for them as described in the Bible, and see which scenario fits the evidence the best. Cox offers no scientific evidence for his assertions...

I sometimes wonder how the Apostle Paul would have enjoyed (and used) the Internet had it been available to him in the 1st Century AD. God has His tools for each phase of His program, and now we are in the 21st Century with this truly astonishing means at our disposal. We get very excited at the potential to reach increasing numbers, in rich and poor nations alike, through the Internet with the ne...

The observable changes that evolutionists cite as evidence for their paradigm, such as in sticklebacks, bighorn sheep, Atlantic cod, pollution-resistant worms, and antibiotic and pesticide resistance, are all going the wrong way. They’re the direct opposite of what microbes-to-man evolution requires. The fact that we’re still here, with such a high rate of mutational degeneration, is powerful evid...

When the peacock vibrates his tail, it seems those ‘eyes’ can hypnotize the one he is trying to woo. But how can the eyespots stay relatively still when the whole tail is shaken vigorously? Scanning electron microscopy revealed that the eyespot feather structure is different. Such an unwieldy tail would be a huge handicap for the peacock’s escape from predators, and contradict neo-Darwinian evolut...

Dolphins generate their sound beam with ‘phonic lips’ below the blowhole, one low pitched and the other higher pitched, producing a beam with overlapping pulses. Dr Starkhammar attributes this to “millions of years of evolution”. A better explanation would incorporate the principle of analogy—to which Darwin himself appealed frequently… .

Noah’s Ark has never failed to be the target of skeptics and the butt of many jokes. ‘Everyone knows’, for instance, that you cannot build a boat as large as Noah did from wood, even using today’s advanced technology. Just because we cannot duplicate something that was done thousands of years ago, it does not mean the ancients could not do it either!

When facing difficult questions, do we respond by asking God or searching His Word? Or do we think we know best? Such self-idolatry reaches as far back as the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:6). Instead, we should seek to understand how God’s Word addresses our lives which help us to think correctly, resulting in lives that are honoring to Him.

Life looks like it was designed. Even Richard Dawkins admits it: “Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.” Skeptic Michael Shermer has developed specific terminology for this, such as ‘patternicity’ and ‘agenticity’. He says they are all just the product of an overactive agency detection device in our heads, regularly inferring pat...

The birds on the Galápagos Islands show an amazing adaptation to their environment, and provide excellent examples of the ability of animals to adapt to changing conditions. But are any of these variations examples of evolution? And how does the biblical creation model explain them?

To experimentally mimic the fossilization process, taphonomists have undertaken what they call maturation experiments. Three scientists decided on what they called a ‘novel’ approach. Current surface processes of erosion and deposition of sediments cannot explain the billions of fossils found globally. What was needed was a flood of unprecedented magnitude, capable of providing vast quantities of...

‘Our view is that Adam made a good decision’, a Mormon replied when I asked him about Adam and Eve partaking of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. My Mormon friend also told me that he believed that Adolf Hitler would be saved along with Mother Teresa. When interacting with Mormons, Christians would do well to focus on the Fall, since it is foundational to the Gospel.

“Archaeology team finds 9,000-year-old artifacts in NewBo [Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA] neighborhood” declares an article from a recent edition of The Gazette. According to the Bible, there was no death or bloodshed of nephesh chayyāh life before Adam and Eve sinned. But what of claims of civilizations that, according to the biblical timeline, would pre-date the Flood?

Adorning the walls of Krakow Castle, Poland, is a magnificent display of royal tapestries from the 16th century. Within the eight pieces telling the story of the Flood are two tapestries showing the animals going onto and coming off Noah’s Ark. Many of them are easily recognizable as good depictions of their living counterparts today: lions, camels, cows, and various types of birds. But there are...

It was the foundational account of the Creation (which New Testament writers attribute to Jesus (e.g. John 1:1–3; Colossians 1:16; Hebrews 1:2), the subsequent Fall of Adam, with the entrance of sin and death into the human race, which explains the reason for a substitutionary atonement for sin. Jesus explained why He had to die. Similarly, we, too, should explain to people today not just that all...