The Polar Bear Test—An Identification Key of Christian Views of Origins
YEC, GT, AoA, OEC, ID, PC, EC, TE? These acronyms refer to theistic models of earth’s biological and physical history. Do you know which models each of these letter combinations refer to? If so, do you know which one best characterizes your view? If you don’t—or if you don’t know, or are not sure, into which category your beliefs fit —take the … [Read More...]
Recent Articles
A Walk on the Beach Preserved in Stone–How Fossilized Turtle Tracks Refute Young-Earth Fossil Dogma
Baby sea turtles emerge from their sandy nest and quickly make their way down the beach and into the sea. As they do so they leave tiny footprints in … [Continue reading...]
Young-Earth Creationism Leads the Short-Necked Okapi to Identify as a Giraffe
The Ark Encounter theme park in Kentucky is filled with signs and displays that promote young-earth interpretations of geology, astronomy, biology, … [Continue reading...]
A Challenge to Ken Ham: Send Your Employees to Professional Science Conferences
How do scientists communicate with each other? What are the latest research results? How can one learn about theories and how they are regarded by … [Continue reading...]
Ignoring the Plank: A Young-Earth Apologist Inadvertently Writes a Brilliant Critique of Young-Earth Creationism
How should a movement dedicated to science denial warn its adherents against the evils of science denial? Young-earth creationism finds itself faced … [Continue reading...]
Fossilized Rivers? The Exhumed Palaeochannels of Utah and Mars
Here is a puzzle: Where can you stand on dry ground and look up to see a river channel above you? Yes, New Orleans is a good answer. However, I'm … [Continue reading...]
The Appearance of Age and the Origin of the Hawaiian Islands
What is the origin of the Hawaiian Islands? The exploration of that question consumed my attention for several years. At that time—way back in the … [Continue reading...]
Young-Earth Evolutionists? Talking about Hyper-speciation and Theological Implications
I recently attended the annual meeting of the American Scientific Affiliation held at Wheaton College. About 300 professional scientists who are … [Continue reading...]
Consider the Lilies? Ken Ham’s Confusion over Biological Classification
Ken Ham and his staff have demonstrated their confusion about biological classification yet again and also shown they don’t read primary literature … [Continue reading...]
Stranger Things–Creationist’ Views of Speciation and Natural Selection in the 1980s
Today, young-earth creationists are actively promoting a new model of the origin of the diversity of life on Earth. This speculative view borrows a … [Continue reading...]
An Armadillo Test Case of YEC Post-flood Dispersal Speed
Just how quickly can animals expand their geographical range? Recently I expressed my skepticism about young-earth creationist' claims that animals … [Continue reading...]
Glyptodonts, Armadillos and Ken Ham’s Hyper-Speciation Model
Armadillos are curious little animals but were all of them as small as they are today? DNA extracted from a 12,000 year old bone of an extinct … [Continue reading...]
How to Identify Pseudoscience: Lessons from Velikovsky and Catastrophism
Phrenology, essential oils, homeopathy, reflexology, ESP, astrology, creation science, climate change denial, blood-type diet, vaccinations cause … [Continue reading...]
Faith in Flood Geology? Dogmatic Assertions of Expertise
Everyone is an expert in something but they can’t be an expert in everything. At some point we all have to rely on the expertise of others to guide … [Continue reading...]
Where is the Next Generation of Creation Scientists?
Where is the next generation of creation scientists? I don’t mean the next generation of believers in creation science but the next generation of … [Continue reading...]
Squeezing the Lost Grand Canyon of Egypt into the Young Earth Paradigm: An impossible* Task
In Egypt the Nile River Valley conceals a massive canyon that once was as deep and wide as the Grand Canyon in Arizona. We have explored the origins … [Continue reading...]
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An Ancient and Alien Forest Reconstructed: A Fossil Challenge for Young-earth Creationists
Fossils often provide us with only a fragmentary view of the distant past but sometimes collections of fossils record ancient and seemingly alien worlds in stunning clarity. In the past decade … .
On the Origin of Thorns: The Prelapsarian Acacia and the Good Creation
Thorns, prickles, spines and needles provide an effective means of protection for plants against many herbivores which would otherwise find them to be a source of nourishment. A common perception of … .
Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter to Usher in a Modern Day Reformation?
Ken Ham would have us believe that the modern reincarnation of the young-earth creationist movement, which he claims began only 55 years ago, is the real deal this time. Unlike previous attempts over … .
My Letter to the Host of a Local Creation Conference
For many pastors and their congregations, questions about the intersection of science and faith are difficult because of their unfamiliarity with the scientific evidence and the extensive theological … .
A 60,000 Year Varve Record from Japan Refutes the Young-Earth Interpretation of Earth’s History
Do places on Earth exist where annual records have been stored for tens of thousands of years and can be accessed today? Ice-cores and tree rings can preserve long records of yearly events but some … .
William Buckland: Minister and Geologist Grappling with Fossil Feces, Deep Time and the Age of Reptiles
The Reverend William Buckland (1784-1856) was one of the last in a line of influential natural theologians following in … [Read More...]
The Toba Super-Eruption: The Global Catastrophe that Creationists Ignore
Sudden catastrophic events are not unknown in Earth’s history. Large craters are evidence of past cosmic impacts. … [Read More...]
The YDB Event: The Most Recent Global Catastrophe in Human History?
In 2013 a 50-foot meteor streaked across the Russian sky exploding 14 miles above the surface of the earth creating a … [Read More...]
Juvenile Dinosaurs Found Huddling in a Nest: A Local or Global Catastrophe?
We live in a new golden age of fossil discoveries. It seems that every week a new and dramatic fossil find is … [Read More...]
Finding Mars on Earth: A Conversation about Martian Meteorites
Maybe you missed it last week with all the excitement of the pictures from Curiosity and its analysis of the rocks on … [Read More...]
Creationism and the Church
A Challenge to Ken Ham: Send Your Employees to Professional Science Conferences
How do scientists communicate with each other? What are the latest research results? How can one learn about theories … [Read More...]
Young-Earth Evolutionists? Talking about Hyper-speciation and Theological Implications
I recently attended the annual meeting of the American Scientific Affiliation held at Wheaton College. About 300 … [Read More...]
Stranger Things–Creationist’ Views of Speciation and Natural Selection in the 1980s
Today, young-earth creationists are actively promoting a new model of the origin of the diversity of life on Earth. … [Read More...]
Faith in Flood Geology? Dogmatic Assertions of Expertise
Everyone is an expert in something but they can’t be an expert in everything. At some point we all have to rely on the … [Read More...]
Where is the Next Generation of Creation Scientists?
Where is the next generation of creation scientists? I don’t mean the next generation of believers in creation science … [Read More...]
Committed to Conversation–Finding Fellowship in the Face of Conflict
A committed young-earth creationist, Dr. Todd Wood, and an equally committed evolutionary creationist, Dr. Darrel Falk, … [Read More...]
Book Review: “The Fool and The Heretic” by Todd Charles Wood and Darrel R. Falk
Have you ever wanted to get inside the head of a young-earth creationist or an evolutionary creationist and hear what … [Read More...]
Horses in the Bible Contradict Ken Ham’s Hyper-evolution Narrative
Thus far in this series about horses we have we have explored some of the interpretations of the fossil record of … [Read More...]
The Polar Bear Test—An Identification Key of Christian Views of Origins
YEC, GT, AoA, OEC, ID, PC, EC, TE? These acronyms refer to theistic models of earth’s biological and physical history. … [Read More...]
God’s Knitting Needles Revealed in the Creation of Mike Trout?
The satire site, The Babylon Bee, published a fiction piece earlier this year in which Ken Ham claimed that Mike Trout's … [Read More...]
