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Natural selection should be part of any creation model. It is not proof of evolution. It is not even good support for evolution. Natural selection is not a threat to the Bible or to biblical history. It was a factor that would have been in play if struggle had not entered the world, but its importance only increased when it did.

Evidence for evolution from many fields has been thoroughly refuted but continues to be taught. We summarize key refutations from areas including: Vestigial organs, Junk DNA, Humans and chimp DNA 99% similar, Homology, Human embryos go through evolutionary stages, Transitional fossils, Pakicetus, Tiktaalik, Ape-men, Human evolution, Radiometric dating, Distant starlight.

In the search for a way out of this uncomfortable position, I have found that most atheists seem to gravitate to one particular explanation for consciousness: that it is an emergent property of matter which is ‘activated’ by the particular complex arrangement of our brains. The atheist wants to believe that this mysterious ‘emergent property’ of our brains is able to free us from the stark nature of matter that it behaves according to only rigidly predictable ways—according to the laws of physics and chemistry.

Dawkins professes to find himself highly disturbed that anyone at all accepts young earth or creationist views, and is even more despairing that despite years of evolutionary indoctrination in our schools, creationism just doesn’t seem to be going away. He would be well advised to remove the log cabin from his eyes prior to giving creationists advice on extracting the mote he thinks he sees in their eyes.

Altogether the waters were receding for more than seven months before the earth was dry and Noah could open the door of the Ark. The Wollomombi Gorge at the edge of the large plateau near Armidale, Australia, is a good example of the sort of geologic signatures that the receding waters of Noah’s Flood carved onto the earth.

Why are some people talking about ‘simulation theory’ (the idea that all of our universe is an illusion and we are living in a matrix)? Elon Musk said “there is a one in billions chance that this is base reality” as opposed to us living in a simulation. All of this simply presupposes evolutionary naturalism and extrapolates from that presupposition. A related assumption is that consciousness is just a product of matter (or algorithms), but the Bible and our experience indicate that humans are not reducible to our physical brains, let alone computer code.

Before we can hope to understand creation we need to be sure of the literary style of Genesis. Is Genesis poetry or does it record actual historical events? We compare the structure of biblical poetry with historical narrative and see which form of literature Genesis matches.

The standard source of the new information needed in evolutionary theory has long been mutations—inherited changes in the DNA which until recently have been assumed to be almost exclusively random, i.e. genetic copying mistakes. An obvious implication is that any purposeful adaptation system would have been intelligently designed to generate the variety needed for creatures to be able to survive and adapt in this fallen world.

Neither racism—nor the idea of evolution—started with Darwin. However, Darwin’s writings greatly fueled racism, providing a ‘scientific’ justification for it. The origin of the earth’s different ‘races’ has long caused unnecessary confusion among both Christians and non-Christians. The truth is surprisingly simple.

Living things change genetically, but those changes will not evolve a single cell into a human. Today we explain why.

Were the ten plagues of Egypt, as recorded in Exodus chapters 7–11, all overt miraculous acts of God? No, according to the natural-cause-and-effect theory of Greta Hort. Concerning the miraculous, a god who cannot work miracles is not a god worth following.

The Shroud of Turin is a controversial relic. Debate about it has raged for centuries. What do we need to know about it and how are we supposed to think about it? We will center this discussion on carbon dating, which clearly indicates a medieval origin.

The Bible draws a clear line between animals and humans, and gives us ethical guidelines. While it may be right under certain circumstances to clone animals to benefit people, it is absolutely wrong to try to clone humans.

How should Christians react to stories of strange lights in the sky and terrifying night time abductions? Aliens and UFOs and the Bible, on this week's episode.

The earliest Christians boldly proclaimed the Resurrection as the central tenet of the faith and ultimate proof of Jesus’ deity. The apostle Paul confirms the historicity of Genesis in 1 Corinthians 15:21–22 ‘For since by [a] man came death, by man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.’

Dinosaurs are typically discussed within a deep time/evolutionary framework. But, scientific and archeological discoveries present challenges to that understanding. Biblical history provides a superior framework for understanding dinosaur discoveries.