Creation Revolution

Category: Biography

• Remembering Clifford A. (“Cliff”) Wilson, May 10, 1923–April 4, 2012

  by Bryant G. Wood PhD EXCERPT On April 4, 2012, long time ABR Associate and friend, Dr. Clifford Wilson, went home into glory with our Lord. Dr. Bryant Wood shares his thoughts about Dr. Wilson’s life and ministry. Australian Clifford Wilson was … Continue reading →

  

• Gregor Mendel

  The story of Gregor Mendel is aggravating.  It makes you wonder what might have been, had this Austrian monk encountered Charles Darwin, and had his discoveries become known to the disciples (and opponents) of Darwinism early on (see 10/14/2003 headline).  Though the … Continue reading →

  

• Wernher von Braun Remembered

  Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) would have turned 100 on March 23.  His name is almost synonymous with “rocket scientist” to many.  Father of the American space program, including the first American satellite, the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, the moon … Continue reading →

  

• What Will the Next Biological Breakthrough Be?

  Physicists have spent enormous amounts of time and billions of dollars building supercolliders to search for fundamental particles, including the European Large Hadron Collider, which is designed to find the elusive Higgs boson.1,2 A recent article in Nature asked what kinds of discoveries … Continue reading →

  

• Nicolas Copernicus

  Perhaps no revolution in science has been more far-reaching than the Copernican Revolution.  It led to the modern Copernican Principle, the idea that the earth occupies no preferred place in the cosmos (though the cosmos of Copernicus was very different … Continue reading →

  

• Dmitri Mendeleev

  Every science student is familiar with the Periodic Table of the Elements.  It is one of the great “patterns” in nature discovered by careful, painstaking work in chemistry by many scientists over many years.  The one who is most famous … Continue reading →

  

• Joseph Lister

  Imagine making a discovery so important that a whole branch of science dates its calendar by it.  That is what happened because of a Christian doctor.  Joseph Lister’s discovery of antisepsis has led some to divide the history of medicine … Continue reading →

  

• Walter Reed

  You’ve probably heard of the Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, DC.  Now, it’s time to learn something about the man behind the institution. Walter Reed was the son of a Methodist minister in Virginia.  Early in his education, he was … Continue reading →

  

• A. E. Wilder-Smith

  The Intelligent Design Movement is big news today, but did you know much of the scientific reasoning behind it came from a European organic chemist?  William Dembski, author of several key books in the ID movement, credits Dr. A. E. Wilder-Smith for … Continue reading →

  

• Mortimer Adler

  Mortimer Adler was one of the great intellectual giants of the 20th century.  Among his credits were Chairman of the Board of the Encyclopedia Britannica and compiler of the Great Books of the Western World.  This set of 54 volumes of intellectual … Continue reading →

  

• Raymond Dart and the ‘Missing Link’

  Anthropologist Raymond Dart (1893–1988) is best known for a skull found on the edge of the Kalahari Desert in 1924. He claimed it was part-human and part-ape, i.e. a ‘man-ape’1  and so the evolutionary ancestor of man. Raymond was the … Continue reading →

  

• The Bible Meets the Modern Age: A Conversation with Former President Jimmy Carter

  Today’s Thinking in Public program features my interview with former President Jimmy Carter. The conversation was remarkable, and I was honored to have this interview with the 39th President of the United States. The focus of the interview was on the Bible, … Continue reading →

  

• Israeli Library Digitizes Newton’s Theological Works

  Sir Isaac Newton is recognized by many as perhaps the greatest scientist who ever lived. But few know “that Newton was also a Christian and a Bible scholar.”1 In fact, he wrote more about Scripture than about science, and finally after … Continue reading →

  

• Of Barons, Bones, Birds and Dinosaurs

  In 1895, Franz Nopcsa, a teenage baron from Transylvania, was shown some interesting fossil bones brought to his sister Ilona by peasants on one of their properties in Hatzeg. Soon after, he filled 19 wagons with fossils and took them … Continue reading →

  

• Missing the Mark

  How a missionary family gave rise to the top name in ‘apeman’ research (Louis Leakey)! Most people have heard of anthropologist Louis Leakey, best known as the man who changed the way that evolutionists think about the place where mankind … Continue reading →