Creation Revolution

Category: Dating Methods

• Darwin’s Tree of Life is a Tangled Bramble Bush

  By David Coppedge Researchers at Vanderbilt University are tied up in knots trying to locate Darwin’s branching tree in contradictory data. A press release from Vanderbilt University summarizes a paper in Nature this week: These days, phylogeneticists – experts who painstakingly map the complex … Continue reading →

  

• Duane Gish: Celebrating a Creation Champion

  The creation science movement has lost a stalwart champion. Dr. Duane Gish, longtime defender of creation truth, went home to be with his Savior on March 6, 2013. A memorial service was held for Dr. Gish on April 6 at … Continue reading →

  

• Claimed ‘oldest-ever’ amber fossil—millions-of-years mighty mites?

  by Shane Cessna Amber1 (or fossilized tree resin) has been known to entomb many things including ants,2 ‘Gladiator’ insects,3 crustaceans, water beetles, barnacles, oysters, clams and water striders.4 Evolutionists sometimes express surprise at how amber can preserve its contents and remain intact for millions of … Continue reading →

  

• Scientist Stumped by Actual Dinosaur Skin

  by Brian Thomas, M.S. Being the first ever to examine a dinosaur fossil long buried in sedimentary rock is thrilling enough for a field researcher. But a team working in Canada found an exhilarating bonus on a hadrosaur fossil fragment—it … Continue reading →

  

• Moon Water and Magnetism Mystifies Astronomers

  By David Coppedge Two mysteries from the moon are forcing revisions to textbooks.  One concerns water in moon minerals.  The other concerns the moon’s magnetic field. Mare Basalts Surprisingly Magnetic “New research sets back date of moon’s dynamo 160 million years,” … Continue reading →

  

• “Ice-free Arctic” wrong conclusion based on flawed geological history

  By Tas Walker An alarming headline on Science News reads, “Ice-Free Arctic May Be in Our Future, International Researchers Say“. This report provides a classic example of how researchers’ flawed understanding of earth’s geological history leads them to to seriously wrong conclusions. … Continue reading →

  

• The Incredible, Edible ’190 Million-Year-Old Egg’

  by Brian Thomas, M.S. Yunnan Province, China holds some very special eggs, containing the tiny bones of unborn sauropod dinosaurs. Within the Lufeng Formation, a relatively thin bed of red sediment contains these fossil eggs, mixed and buried amidst other … Continue reading →

  

• Retreating Stage formation of gravel sheets in south-central Asia

  by Michael J. Oard Tall erosional remnants indicate rapid, continent-wide erosion, which is consistent with the Retreating Stage of the Flood. While the floodwaters were retreating and eroding the continents, resistant rocks were transported long distances, as has been documented for … Continue reading →

  

• Major Cosmic Questions Remain Unanswered

  By David Coppedge Some basic ideas about physics and astronomy remain so mysterious, and their explanations so flexible, they may lead some to question whether they should be called “hard sciences.” It’s about time:  Most of us take time for … Continue reading →

  

• Castle Hill much younger than James Cook University age reported in Townsville Bulletin

  By Tas Walker The Townsville Bulletin published on 2 March 2013 an item about the age of Castle Hill, the iconic landmark that overlooks the North Queensland city. Written by journalist Daniel Bateman, the article reported ages calculated by Dr Carl Spandler … Continue reading →

  

• Rethinking Carbon-14 Dating: What Does It Really Tell Us about the Age of the Earth?

  by Jake Hebert, Ph.D. Evolutionists have long used the carbon-14, or radiocarbon, dating technique as a “hammer” to bludgeon Bible-believing Christians. A straightforward reading of the Bible describes a 6,000-year-old universe, and because some carbon-14 (14C) age estimates are multiple … Continue reading →

  

• Intact Protein Remnants Found in Dinosaur Eggs

  By David Coppedge A new record for soft tissue in a dinosaur fossil was reported in Nature: collagen in dinosaur eggs from the early Jurassic. The Nature paper is all over the news, but not all the science reporters are mentioning the … 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 →

  

• ‘In my father’s day … ’

  To determine whether ‘day’ means a long period of time, the hours of daylight, or a 24-hour period, you need to look at the context One argument often raised by people1 doubting that God created in six ordinary earth-rotation days is … Continue reading →

  

• The Geologic Column: Is That A Fact?

  Written by: Paul Taylor It is a fact that the geologic column shows all the layers of rock, in the order that they were formed over millions of years, thus proving the Bible to be wrong. Isn’t it? No, it isn’t. … 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 →

  

• Intact Biomolecules Claimed to Be 350 Million Years Old

  By David Coppedge The oldest recovered biomolecules have been found in crinoid fossils – but are they really that old? A trio of Ohio State researchers, publishing in Geology, described intact biological molecules in crinoids they found in Carboniferous strata in … Continue reading →

  

• Were Prehistoric Animals Real?

  NO! Does my answer shock you? No, I’m not one of those Christians that claim that all of the fossil record was put there by Satan to confuse us. I believe in the fossil record as being a record of … Continue reading →

  

• California Whale Fossils: Transitional Forms?

  Several fossil whale parts found in a southern California canyon are being called transitional forms in whale evolution. The article on Science NOW doesn’t say “transitional” in the headline or first half of the story, but the RSS feed subtitle says, “Road project reveals transitional … Continue reading →

  

• Doesn’t Radioisotope Dating Prove Rocks Are Millions of Years Old?

  by Brian Thomas, M.S., and John Morris, Ph.D. Geologists do not directly measure the age of a rock. They choose rocks containing radioactive “parent” isotopes that emit particles and radiation to become a different “daughter” element and measure ratios of elements to … Continue reading →