Creation Revolution

Category: Botany

• Evolution of multicellular yeast observed in the lab?

  Kori S. from the United States writes: I would like to start off by thanking the men and women at CMI for their hard work in defending the biblical account of creation. I have long been a reader of your … Continue reading →

  

• Talking Plants and Secret Networks

  By David Coppedge There was a time when talking plants was mythology.  Now, it’s science. Hidden Messages in Plain Sight Plants don’t speak English, obviously.  Somehow, though, they communicate through channels scientists are only beginning to understand.  No less than Science Magazine, … Continue reading →

  

• Gladiator—an ‘extinct’ insect is found alive

  by David Catchpoole Extraordinarily, insects earlier thought to have been extinct for millions of years have been found thriving on a stony mountain top in Namibia.1,2 Nicknamed ‘Gladiators’ because of their ‘fearsome’ appearance and the armour that covers them as nymphs, … Continue reading →

  

• Burning Plants Tell Seeds When to Germinate

  Forest fire ash is not all useless.  It contains signaling molecules that can switch on the next generation of plants. How is it that in the spring following a forest fire, the ground comes alive with a profusion of new … Continue reading →

  

• How Intricate Patterns Grow in Flowers, Feathers

  By David Coppedge How does a growing flower bud or feather follicle know where to put the intricate colors and patterns on a mature flower or feather?  Scientists are beginning to get partial answers. Flower art:  Imagine you’re a flower … Continue reading →

  

• Sensational Seeds—compact packages attest to God’s handiwork

  by David Catchpoole [This is an expanded version of an article originally published in The Old Schoolhouse magazine.] “A man scattered seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not … Continue reading →

  

• Secrets of Three Amazing Animals Unveiled

  By David Coppedge Here are accounts of three very different animals whose behaviors have baffled scientists till now.  Scientists are beginning to get at least partial answers for scientific mysteries by carefully observing and testing to see how things work. … Continue reading →

  

• Complex Bioengineering in Blooming Flowers

  by Jeffrey Tomkins, Ph.D. Have you ever wondered how a plant knows when it’s time to flower? How does it know it needs to bloom and reproduce to perpetuate itself for future generations? Unlike animals, plants cannot get up and … Continue reading →

  

• Plant Epigenome Research Negates Evolution

  by Jeffrey Tomkins, Ph.D. Plants make ideal systems for studying the underlying biological processes that confer their ability to adapt in different environments. Several new studies show how plants do this without changing their genetic code through a process known … Continue reading →

  

• Weekend Entertainment: Evolutionary Just-So Stories

  By David Coppedge When you see a science headline in the form “How the .… got its .…” prepare for a laugh.  Now, even some evolutionists are laughing. How the Daffodil Got Its Trumpet:  That’s the literal headline on Science Daily.  … Continue reading →

  

• Was God’s finished creation perfect?

  by Dr Jonathan D Sarfati People who want to fit millions of years into the Bible have to accept death before Adam’s sin. Some do this by arguing that animal death isn’t inconsistent with a perfect creation, and others argue that … Continue reading →

  

• Wood You Cellulose for Starch?

  Cellulose is the most abundant biomolecule, but how it’s made still baffles scientists.  Soon, though, you may be able to eat it. Two stories in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) talked about cellulose: one, about how it’s made, … Continue reading →

  

• Twice as wrong—and more

  Fossilized eukaryote cells and giant anomalocaridids force dramatic revisions of the evolutionary timeline The discovery of fossilized cells1 in north-west Scotland has forced a dramatic rewrite of the supposed evolutionary history of life on Earth.2 That’s because the fossil organisms were said … Continue reading →

  

• Galápagos with David Attenborough: Adaptation

  by Russell Grigg Galápagos with David Attenborough is the title of a 2013 three-part Sky 3D TV series that was shown in Australia with the revised title David Attenborough’s Galápagos. In this, the second episode,1 Sir David discusses the way animals have … Continue reading →

  

• Changes: Big and Small

  by A.P. Staff The word “evolution” can have many different meanings. Basically, the word means “to unroll, unfold, or change.” Anything can “evolve” or change over a period of time. For instance, the body style of the Corvette® certainly has … Continue reading →

  

• Galápagos with David Attenborough: Origin

  by Russell Grigg Galápagos with David Attenborough is the title of a three-part Sky 3D TV series that premiered in the UK in January 2013. The series was shown in Australia in March 2013 with the revised title, David Attenborough’s Galápagos. … Continue reading →

  

• The Ediacaran Era May Be a Flawed Concept

  By David Coppedge Before humans arrived, no strata came with “Ediacaran” stamped on them.  Does this human-invented name have any real meaning?  Does it tell time? The so-called Ediacaran era came just before the Cambrian, when all the animal phyla … Continue reading →

  

• Giant Camels Roamed the Arctic North

  By R. L. David Jolly Have you ever heard of Ellsmere Island?  It’s the tenth largest island in the world with about 75,767 square miles in size and is Canada’s northern most land mass.  The Inuit natives call the island … Continue reading →

  

• Pliable Plants

  by David Catchpoole Many plants have an amazing ability to tolerate some rather harsh treatment. For example, several species of tropical bats create tent-like shelters out of large living leaves. The bats bite the leaf in certain places to collapse the … Continue reading →

  

• America’s Famine

  by Dave Miller, Ph.D. Unlike many nations in human history, America has never really known want. Even the Great Depression of the 1930s does not begin to compare with the famines of antiquity that devastated entire civilizations and resulted in … Continue reading →