Creation Revolution

Category: Chemistry

• Flaw in creationist solution to the Pioneer anomaly?

  In 2008, Creationist physicist and cosmologist Dr Russ Humphreys published a solution to the Pioneer anomaly in Journal of Creation (see The ‘Pioneer anomaly’ for a general introduction). The Pioneer anomaly is a small but strange deceleration of four outgoing spacecraft: Galileo, Ulysses, and Pioneers 10 and 11. … Continue reading →

  

• Where Does All of the Oil Come From?

  By R. L. David Jolly Oil is a very important part of our lives.  We use oil to make gasoline and diesel fuels for our cars, trucks, trains, ships, planes and other forms of transportation.  Oil is also used to … 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 →

  

• And then there was life

  What is the difference between figure 1 and figure 2? Both are patterns of light and dark. Both are arrangements of the same 12 particular shapes in the same groupings. Both exhibit a complexity of arrangement. The probability of either … Continue reading →

  

• The Unpredictable Pattern of Bioluminescence

  by Brian Thomas, M.S. Three of my daughters took a night swim in a bioluminescent bay during a mission trip to Puerto Rico in 2012. They splashed water on their heads and watched their hair glow green from countless tiny … Continue reading →

  

• Biomimetics Roundup

  By David Coppedge Here’s a quick rundown of news on new technologies emerging from the study of plants, animals, and cells. Toxin sponges:  PhysOrg reported on “biomimetic nanospongers” made of absorbent material wrapped in red blood cell membranes that can drift in … Continue reading →

  

• Titan’s Methane Still Puzzles Scientists

  By David Coppedge The methane in Titan’s atmosphere should be long gone, and may be disappearing soon, planetologists say. A JPL press release states that the stability of Titan’s scattered polar lakes suggests that ethane, not methane, is the primary constituent.  If so, … Continue reading →

  

• Have They Found the Spark That Powered the Primordial Soup?

  By R. L. David Jolly Evolutionists have a number of theories of how life originated here on Earth.  Many believe that an ancient earth cooled from a hot cosmic blob of dust and gas and that as it cooled, a … 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 →

  

• Striking It Rich with ‘Instant Gold’

  by Timothy L. Clarey, Ph.D. The lure of gold has caused many to drop everything and rush off in search of the “mother lode.” But where exactly do these precious gold deposits come from? An explanation for the origin of … Continue reading →

  

• Yeast Survive as They ‘Fail to Optimize’

  by Brian Thomas, M.S. The word “fail” usually implies that something went wrong. To fail a school exam decreases the chances of passing the course, and failing a physical exam portends poor health. But when scientists studied yeast and bacteria … Continue reading →

  

• Evolution Is Not Just Change or Similarity

  By David Coppedge Many scientific findings get labeled with “evolution” even though neo-Darwinism has nothing to do with them. Reversible evolution:  A study on dust mites reported by Science Daily claims evolution can run backwards to previous states – a violation of … Continue reading →

  

• Life at the extremes

  Evolution struggles to explain the existence of extremophiles (e.g. the tardigrades) Could anything live in a boiling mudhole? Actually, in recent years, many new species have been discovered in many places which were thought to be far too inhospitable to … Continue reading →

  

• A magmatic model for the origin of large salt formations

  Stef Heerema from the Netherlands has posted a presentation on the origin of large salt deposits.   In 2009, he published some of these ideas in the Journal of Creation 23(3):116–118. His research shows that the salt pillars around the world are elegantly … Continue reading →

  

• The Resurrection of ‘Junk DNA’?

  by Nathaniel Jeanson, Ph.D., and Brian Thomas, M.S. Evolutionists are protesting. What has them so agitated? The results of the most in-depth human genome study to date, called the “ENCODE” project, revealed that 80 percent or more of the human genome appears … Continue reading →

  

• Gold, Earthquakes, and Time

  How long does it take to form veins of gold in the rock? (a) millions of years; (b) less than a second. If you guessed (b), you overestimated.  It might just be a few tenths of a second.  So reported … Continue reading →

  

• Our Genes are Like ‘Ruthless Chicago Gangsters’

  By Gary DeMar Atheists, materialists, and evolutionists are cranking out books trying to come up with ways that can account for morality. I have a shelf-full of them. Their first problem is that they assume there is such a “thing” … Continue reading →

  

• Washing Machines on Mars

  by Jason Lisle, Ph.D. Several news outlets yesterday heralded early reports from NASA that the Curiosity rover on Mars has found evidence that the red planet could have supported primitive life.1, 2, 3 But imagine reading the following in the … Continue reading →

  

• Evidence Doesn’t Fade from Colorful Fossils

  by Brian Thomas, M.S. Generations of onlookers have appreciated the long-lasting luster of “Egyptian blue,” an ancient dye still brilliant thousands of years after it was painted onto various murals and artifacts. But a new study found colors that apparently … Continue reading →

  

• Engineered Protein ‘Evolution’ Proves Biological Complexity

  by Jeffrey Tomkins, Ph.D. Researchers recently announced the first systematic laboratory-induced mutation of successive amino acids in a nearly complete simple bacterial protein.1 The results demonstrated how protein chemistry and structure, in even the most simple of life’s proteins, are irreducibly … Continue reading →