Today's Creation Moment

Climate Change Denier” is a derogatory term, used against those who are skeptical about changes in global climate having been caused by human industrial activity. The term is, however, used to imply that such skeptics deliberately deny obvious facts about changes in climate. This is not so. Image: Public Domain (NASA).

  How old is the world’s oldest fossil? The problem is that the term “oldest” implies a timescale, and we may not agree on the nature of that timescale. For example, deep-time evolutionists assume that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, whereas creationists show that the age of the Earth given in the Bible is about 6,000 years.  Image: Public Domain.  

An article in the Los Angeles Times about a recent fossil find began: "If it walks like a duck and swims like a duck, it might be a     dinosaur." The writer was referring to a fossil called Halszkaraptor escuilliei, which the paleontologists think shows traits of both therapod and aquatic bird – a sort of dinogoose. Image: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Imported.  

During a radio interview on the BBC, Richard Dawkins once said, “The view that all living organisms have a common ancestor, from which they have evolved, is the correct one.” Statements like these often intimidate the layman into thinking that certain ideas in science, such as evolution, must have been proven beyond all reasonable doubt.   Image: Public Domain.

Over 2,000 years ago, Aristotle wrote about red snow. Today, red, orange and even green snow has been found on every continent. It is typically found in deep mountain snows in the late spring.   Photo: Green algal cell (Chlamydomonas nivalis) responsible for red coloration of mountain snow packs. (PD)

During his visit to the Galapagos Islands Charles Darwin saw that each island was populated by finches. These birds were all very similar, yet from one island to another there were some differences in the size and shape of the beak. Darwin  concluded that in the past a pair of these birds had been blown 600 miles from the mainland and the off-springs "evolved" into all the other types he saw. Illu...

One of the early evidences for evolution, at one time found in almost every school textbook, was based upon the salt content of human blood plasma and the salt content of the sea.   Photo: A unit of fresh frozen blood plasma by DriverDave CC BY SA 3.0 Unported.

Like most social insects, termites don't tolerate strangers. However, the Trichopsenius frosti beetle likes to make its living within the nest of just one species of termite.   Photo: Trichopsenius. Copyright © 2012 Jeff Gruber & UW-Madison Dept. of Entomology. (Fair Use)      

All cats seem to consume a very high fat meat diet. Unlike other carnivores, cats cannot manufacture their own taurine, so their diet is almost perfectly carnivorous, with very little in the way of plant material. Image: Little Jerry, license Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International.

The word ichthyosaur means fish lizard. The animal looked like a fish but appeared to be reptilian in nature. Image: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Unported.

For many people studying the early chapters of Genesis, the account of Babel is a troubling interlude. Image: Bruegel’s Tower of Babel, Public Domain.

The Apostle Peter reminds us in 2 Peter 1:20 that “no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation.” Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.

Anthropology is the study of human beings and where they came from. As a scientific discipline, it has been led for decades by people with evolutionary presuppositions.   Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.  

It was Charles Darwin’s assumption that new species arose from previous ones by a process of natural selection. Darwin famously illustrated this point by reference to the various species of finch living on the Galapagos Islands. (Image: Female resident finch from Daphne Major, License:  Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Unported.)

Some frogs are regular little drug factories. Their skins produce a wide range of powerful alkaloids, are a large family of chemicals usually produced by plants. Familiar alkaloids include quinine, caffeine and morphine. Different alkaloids have different effects, usually on the nervous system.   Photo: Blue Poison Dart frog (PD)

Love is one of the necessities of life that is both physical and spiritual. While it doesn’t fit with a strictly materialistic view of life, love and touch, or lack of love and touch, can determine our health and sometimes even life and death. Photo: Parent and baby  - Pixabay.com

Researchers who examine the workings of the basal ganglia of our brain, have concluded that the deep structures of the brain that are supposed to be primitive are actually quite sophisticated.   Image: Basal Ganglia and Related Structures (PD )  

Most evolutionists believe that human beings evolved in East Africa – areas now covered by nations such as Tanzania and Kenya. However, cutting tools found in North Africa suggest to some that there had been early migration of hominids from East to North Africa, or that hominids had evolved separately in more than one region.   Image: Collection of stone tools, Public Domain.

There is a particular type of spider found in Singapore that are actually exceptional mothers who carefully looks after her babies.   Image: Toxues Magna, from French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported.

Whalebone was used for all sorts of ornaments and structural purposes as a gently bendable, yet firm material. Today it has been replaced by plastics. But it wasn't really bone. It came from the mouth of the whale.    Image: Whit Wells, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported.

What evidence could we provide that would prove to an evolutionist that evolution was false? Apparently, the late evolutionary biologist J.B.S. Haldane (1892–1964) addressed this question, and his answer was, famously, "Precambrian rabbits".   Image: Chalk layers in Cyprus, Public Domain.

If you look up an animal in an encyclopedia, whether that animal is extant or extinct, you will usually be presented with a cladogram, which looks like a sideways family tree, and it represents the supposed evolutionary descent of the creature.   Image: Kim Alaniz, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh, examining yet again the cave drawings at Lascaux, France, determined that these early people understood the precession of the Earth's orbit, and an ancient comet strike.   Image: Prof Saxx, Public Domain, Wikipedia: < https://commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/ File:Lascaux _painting.jpg >.

The red panda has to be one of the world's most attractive animals, with a cute white face and a ginger red body. As its name suggests, it was once thought to be closely related to the giant panda.

As far as we know, the blue whale is the largest animal that has ever existed. Every statistic that we find about these giants is overwhelming.   Image: Marine Life Hall, American Museum of Natural History, CC BY-SA 2.0.