Creation Revolution

Category: Health

• Is Mankind Getting Dumber?

  by Brian Thomas, M.S. Do today’s children have lower I.Q.’s than yesterday’s? Yes, according to measurements of intellectual and emotional strength gathered from different countries and contexts. The results show the same basic decline and resist the notion that public … Continue reading →

  

• Marketing Myostatin Inhibitors with Fake Science

  by Jeffrey Tomkins, Ph.D. Body builders and other athletes use nutritional supplements to increasingly exploit the muscular mass-building benefits of reducing the levels of a protein in the body called “myostatin.” While these products may be helpful and effective, the … Continue reading →

  

• Psychiatry Is Not (Yet) a Science

  By David Coppedge Complaints about a new diagnostic manual show that psychiatry has a long way to go before being considered a legitimate science.  That hope might never be fulfilled. The occasion for scientific scrutiny on psychiatry is the publication … Continue reading →

  

• Is the Unborn Child a Person?

  What do the experts think?   An article in Obstetrics and Gynecology in September 2011 entitled ‘Abortion Provision Among Practicing Obstetrician–Gynecologists’ reveals some interesting trends, and encouraging for people who are pro-life.1 The authors surveyed ob-gyns from across the United States to … Continue reading →

  

• Sneering at Parents, Hiding Behind “Science” — The Emergency Contraception Controversy

  By Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. Looking for evidence that our society is losing its mind? Just look at the controversy over so-called “emergency contraceptives” and a federal judge’s effort to make these drugs available, over the counter, to girls of … Continue reading →

  

• Abortion: The Evolution Connection

  by Jake Hebert, Ph.D., and Michael Stamp Within a consistent evolutionary worldview, there is no logical basis for moral absolutes. If mankind is truly a cosmic accident, then there is no Creator-God to whom we must give an account, and there is … Continue reading →

  

• How Can You Punish an Evolved Criminal?

  By David Coppedge Left-leaning scientists have never given up on the 19th century notion that criminals are born, not made.  Other evidence suggests “innate tendencies” can be overcome. PhysOrg says, “Evil gene would make punishment a tricky business.”  But is there … 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 →

  

• Beta-Globin Pseudogene Is Functional After All

  by Jeffrey Tomkins, Ph.D. One of the key arguments of human evolution has now suffered the same fate as many other debunked icons of the errant paradigm of “junk DNA.” In this case, it is new research related to the … Continue reading →

  

• Laughing Matters

  Why is it that scientists need to investigate “the evolutionary origins” of anything humans do? An article on PhysOrg, “The Origins of Laughter,” begins, We know the benefits of laughter on health. But why do we laugh?  What are the evolutionary origins of laughter … Continue reading →

  

• Fibre optics in eye demolish atheistic ‘bad design’ argument

  by Dr Jonathan D. Sarfati Backwardly wired retina? One of the tired old canards on which antitheists have dined out for years is the claim that our eye is stupidly wired back to front, something no decent designer would use. E.g. … Continue reading →

  

• Appendix shrieks ‘Creation’ (at least 18 times!)

  In the context of the creation/evolution controversy, what does the word ‘appendix’ mean to you? Perhaps you remember having been taught the idea, first mooted by Charles Darwin, that the appendix is evidence of our evolutionary past, a ‘vestigial organ’ … Continue reading →

  

• Scientific Organizations Promote Leftist Social Causes

  By David Coppedge What on earth does a science journal have to do with abortion or gay marriage?  Some editors and reporters are actively pushing for social revolution. In “A Pope for Today,” Nature’s editors hoped that newly-instated Pope Francis would … Continue reading →

  

• North Dakota First State to Pass Personhood Amendment

  Many people believe that the pro-life movement is just about abortion, but there is so much more to it than that.  If you believe that human life begins at conception, then there are other issues that you need to consider.  … 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 →

  

• More Reasons to Exercise and Plant a Garden

  By David Coppedge Three new studies show more benefits to exercise and home-grown food. The Endocrine Society has compared active and sedentary children in stressful situations.  The sedentary children had elevated levels of cortisol, a stress indicator, when put into the same … Continue reading →

  

• Complex Brain Wiring Unveiled in New Images

  By David Coppedge Surely one of the great mysteries of human life is how a single fertilized egg cell grows to an adult, with a brain sporting hundreds of billions of functional connections supporting abstract thought. New Scientist discussed how researchers … Continue reading →

  

• A Warped Worldview: Another Moral Effect of Pornography

  By Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. The moral effects of pornography are, by now, well attested. The scourge of pornography has brought ruin and harm into the lives of millions of our friends and neighbors, destroying marriages, distorting sexuality, and poisoning … Continue reading →

  

• The Pituitary Gland: Marvel of Creation – Victim of the Curse

  By R. L. David Jolly The human body is one of the most complicated things in the entire universe.  The complexity of all of the individual parts down to the molecular level is far more intricate than most sophisticated computers … Continue reading →

  

• Ungrateful Evolutionist Grouches About the Human Body

  By David Coppedge If an evolutionist can’t blame God for an alleged poor design, all he can blame is Darwin. PhysOrg and Live Science both broadcast the anti-ID rants of Bruce Latimer (anthropologist at Case Western Reserve University) and Alan Mann (Princeton) at … Continue reading →