Have you ever wondered about the origin of mythological creatures like dragons and griffins? Many ancient cultures believed in the reality of such creatures and depicted them in their art and stories. But where did these beliefs, these myths find their origin? Did they come straight from the imagination of social influencers of the day?... Continue Reading →
Wall-E – Paradise Regained? Reflections on the Garden of Eden and Man’s Labor
Most people know about Pixar's beloved film, WALL-E. Released in 2008 and directed by Andrew Stanton, this film has captured the hearts of many with its charming protagonist WALL-E or Waste Allocation Load-Lifter: Earth-Class. A few years ago I taught a Sunday school class on the topic of man's labor in the context of our... Continue Reading →
Young Mars Creationism: What Happened to the Water on Mars?
Mars once had a thicker atmosphere and liquid water on its surface. Nearly every month data from satellites and multiple ground-based systems provide new evidence confirming what was once speculation about the watery past of Mars. But how much water and how long ago did this water exist? A large amount of water still exists on Mars... Continue Reading →
Untraced Lineages Reveal Rosetta Stone Flaws in Traced: Human DNA’s Big Surprise
The book “Traced: Human DNA's Big Surprise” by Dr. Jeanson of the Young-earth apologetics ministry, Answers in Genesis, claims to trace all human ancestry within the confines of a young-earth chronology. Ken Ham, founder of AiG and Dr. Jeanson's employer has claimed that "Dr. Jeanson has found the Rosetta Stone of human history" and extolled... Continue Reading →
Are Species Created with Hidden Information Pre-adapted for Future Environments?
How did the incredible species diversity today manifest itself from just a few individual animals preserved on Noah's Ark? How much speciation has happened? What are the mechanisms for young-earth speciation? Is there evidence that rapid speciation has occurred in just the past few thousand years? These are enduring questions that young-earth creationists have been... Continue Reading →
The Manifold Beauty of Genesis One: Reviews and Interviews
"The Manifold Beauty of Genesis One" By Drs. Gregg Davidson and Kenneth Turner is an important new book published late last year. I recommended the book on this blog and given away copies to numerous friends. Additional reviews have been published that have been similarly enthusiastic about the approach and importance of this contribution to... Continue Reading →
Young-Earth Creationism in 2022
Rather than a retrospective on 2021, let's look forward to this year. What is the state of young-earth creationism right now? What events will or could transpire in the coming year that will impact the future acceptance or rejection of young-earth creationism as an interpretative framework for understanding earth's geological and biology history? In this... Continue Reading →
Amazonian Forest Islands: Accidental Products of Ancient Human Occupation
The Amazon basin isn’t all a lush tropical forest. In large portions of western Amazonian wet seasonally flooded grasslands--not trees--are the norm. The upper branches of the Amazon River wind themselves across massive flood plains like snakes writhing across a sandy surface. One feature of these nearly featureless flat plains that has long puzzled... Continue Reading →
The Best Critique of Flood Geology Written by a Flood Geologist
Young-earth creationists have been wrangling for decades over how to identify where the Flood/post-Flood boundary is to be found. I described the most popular hypotheses put forward by YECs in a recent post, Where is Noah's Flood in the Geological Column? I have also recorded a YouTube video based on this article. https://www.youtube.com/embed/7gEwLe6c3Wg There is... Continue Reading →
Did Adam have a Tail? Ken Ham, Adam and Eve and a Tale of Tails
Ken Ham recently tweeted about a baby born with a "tail." I agree with his assessment that these are not cases of bony tails, homologous to tails in almost all vertebrate species, but then I wondered, can young-earth creationists be sure that Adam and Eve did not have true bony tails as adults? After all,... Continue Reading →
Review: The Manifold Beauty of Genesis One: A Multi-layered Approach
Who hasn’t read the book of Job more than once and each time come away with new questions and new insights? How many sermons have you heard on the topic? How many bible studies have discussed its contents? It is a multilayered piece of great literature, its composition inspired by God through His chosen human... Continue Reading →
Where is Noah’s Flood in the Geological Column?
Young-earth creationists have a geological column problem that 50 years of research has yet to solve: where is the boundary between Flood deposits and post-Flood deposits?
Multituberculates and the YEC Flood/post-Flood Boundary Problem
Yes, multituberculates have something to say about the ongoing division among YECs about where to locate the Flood/post-Flood boundary in the geological column. Is that boundary to be found in the Quaternary, at the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary or way down in the Pennsylvanian Period? These are the three primary models that YECs have proposed. The problem... Continue Reading →
Young-Earth Creationism in 2021- Part 4: Final Thoughts and New Creationism Resources
What is going on in young-earth creationism these days? In the previous three parts of this series on creationism in 2021 I hypothesized that there is an informal but growing movement within young-earth creationism I referred to as "The New Creationists." In part I of the series I identified some of the prominent members of... Continue Reading →
The Next Generation Products of Ken Ham’s Young-Earth Apologetic
Two individuals I have never heard of* but have a YouTube channel, Standing for Truth, went on a 3 hour 45-minute live rant about my views of YEC hyperspeciation last night. They went line-by-line, well sort of, through a talk I (and Gregg Davidson my coauthor) gave at the American Scientific Affiliation’s annual meeting a... Continue Reading →