Recent Creation Articles

The following four articles lay the foundation as to why I believe the evidence for the Bible is very powerful. This is then followed by the most recent scientific articles related to this topic. (The outcome of this research is as follows - We need a new reformation. The first reformation returned the church to the importance of justification by faith not by works. This second reformation is a return to the understanding that we are created beings whose first obligation is obedience to our creator rather than self realisation or self gratification. The information contained in this website is an exploration of the intellectual justification for such a change and some tentative thoughts concerning the implications of such a change)

An introduction to three strong arguments for a recent creation and worldwide flood https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQnRpvYIBXEmX7q-PGUdoOdi3i7NfQRTuB6NllqkpbP-gGRzNgs8XNaXDYwnSPTGENVBeHamJR08BCC/pub

Biological arguments for a recent creation https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRQClitCwIlgCdTaig-ujvZQ0HyzU3zD4twfh7GIaMV0RycckaPllfPF8_N4yH05yj5ZjTAAZt3vg6N/pub

Geological arguments for a recent worldwide flood https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTeLUbyVNCEb1KiPpGWwzzzJu1tVr63Obn3FsV5j6UO6h93cYiQQC7sNIiyCs3EyqLwPdRBef0bVsxn/pub

Cosmological evidence for a recent creation and the earth have a preferred position in the Universe https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRoLxSUDXrvNblm6Y0kz8TsIy7TVZ6SATu3zchsiw4-HXUNby51hsZSJf2uU4-Wdjim-SBHJIMRJbge/pub

Philosophical arguments for believing the Bible is a revelation from God https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQwTKQOwr5ESZxo8rFIiHUNCQM06jj0QgkK040kBbQUmyk8nPUibgIwnBeNIX2-wY8J6Ff_CTBzKKHl/pub

Summary of arguments for a young earth https://creation.com/how-old-is-the-earth (Nov 2023)

(The science supporting a recent creation is rapidly expanding - for the most recent articles see the following articles)

Relevant recent articles (since 2019) from AIG, CMI and ICR

Geology/Topography

A simplified account of why it is reasonable to believe a worldwide flood created the rock layers we see. https://creation.com/multiple-layers-formed-quickly-cfk (January 2024)

Formation of a granite mountain - https://creation.com/stone-mountain

Ice ages? https://creation.com/glacial-like-striations-formed-quickly

Wave Rock, Australia - https://creation.com/wave-rock-western-australia

Folded Rock layers in the Grand Canyon https://answersingenesis.org/geology/rock-layers/rock-layers-folded-not-fractured/

Latest research published 2021 https://answersingenesis.org/about/press/2021/06/23/creation-research-grand-canyon-published/ (new 2021)

Chinese planation surfaces https://creation.com/flood-planation-chinese (new 2021)

Ice age research https://www.icr.org/article/icr-ice-core-research-update/ (new 2021)

Summary of creation thinking about the Grand Canyon https://creation.com/grand-canyon-flow (May 2023)

Latest thinking on ice sheets - which gives a realistic appreciation of the current strengths and weaknesses of the creationist thinking on this subject https://creation.com/state-of-creationist-ice-core-research?utm_source=creation.com&utm_medium=slider&utm_campaign=homepage_slider (February 2023)

Rapid formation of mudstone https://creation.com/mud-experiments-overturn-long-held-geological-beliefs (new 2021)

Latest detailed research on folded rocks in the Grand Canyon https://answersresearchjournal.org/petrology-bright-angel-tonto-group/ (new Sept 2021)

The Great unconformity https://www.icr.org/article/great-unconformity-solved-by-global-flood/ (new Oct 2021)

Green Sahara https://creation.com/green-sahara (new Oct 2021)

The following is a link to the 1840 book by George Fairholme on the Mosaic Flood. This was one of the last works by the scriptural geologists (1820-1840) that defended the concept that the geology of the earth was the product of a world wide flood rather than long ages involving uniform processes that was to dominate the study of geology from the 1830's onwards. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4349715&view=1up&seq=22 (The following is a brief summary of George Fairholme's main findings https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSa0lF710d893z8l5wk0xzPwWgy3LXZqzBsB2XMXgxSIcX0od-U9BXKhJgmygwUHkGvoK4by7UJJjC7/pub (September 2022) The following is a summary of Fairholme's work by Terry Mortenson https://creation.com/british-scriptural-geologists-in-the-first-half-of-the-nineteenth-century-part-8 (March 2023)

In Depth articles on ice cores - current scientific ideas and the response of creation scientists (In many cases the evidence for ancient ice cores can be seen as a product of circular thinking and references to layers in ice cores representing annual deposits is misleading as such layers do not really exist instead they are interpretations)

https://creation.com/ice-core-oscillations-1

https://creation.com/ice-core-oscillations-2 (new May 2022)

https://creation.com/ice-core-oscillations-3 (new Sept 2022)

An article explaining how Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets can be explained by flood geology

https://creation.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12722 (October 2022)

A paper I have produced in response to the book The Grand Canyon a monument to an ancient earth

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTup9eUFDNr8qnV5PVTgDbDrAktHnweGMWc-mvSCYPSt_JpzCDwTXXjwAB0J0tzi4MYnkN4l5sRsBNM/pub (new April 2022)

The evidence for the flood based on dry valleys in Dorset

https://creation.com/jurassic-coast-dry-valleys (new July 2022)

Major research by ICR using hundreds of rock samples from each of the following continents North America, South America, Africa, Europe and Asia confirm that the worldwide flood is the most reasonable explanation of the data produced by these samples.

https://www.icr.org/article/asia-data-confirm-prog-global-flood/ (August 2022)

A brief discussion of pre flood and creation week rocks

https://answersingenesis.org/geology/rock-layers/clues-creation-week/ (September 2022)

Passive margins better explained by flood runoff

https://creation.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16059 (October 2022)

A detailed attempt to consider the dynamics of the flood as a geological event. (One area the article would like to see explored further is the possibility that much of the mudstone and shale found in the flood deposits comes from the erosion of the huge quantities of mudstone and shale that existed in the pre-flood rocks.)

The following extract gives a flavour of the issues this paper is considering:

In the context of a reasoned defense of the Genesis Flood there are several major features of the earth’s continental surface that cry out for explanation. First is the sheer volume of fossil-bearing sedimentary rock present there today. The volume is sufficient to cover the continental surface to an average depth of about 1800 m or about 1.1 mi. What was the source of this massive volume of sediment during the Flood’s short time span? Second is the location of this huge volume of sediment. It occurs on top of the continents, whose surface mostly lies above sea level. This raises the question, what sort of water process might conceivably emplace so much sediment above sea level on top of the land surface? A third issue has to do with the internal depositional characteristics of the sediment. Generally speaking, most of the sediment occurs as a vertical succession of horizontal layers, often with vast lateral extent. Such an orderly layer-cake pattern of laterally extensive strata is readily observed, for example, for the sediments exposed in the walls of the Grand Canyon. What sort of transport and depositional process could conceivably generate such uniform layers over such vast horizontal distances?

https://answersresearchjournal.org/numerical-modeling-genesis-flood-2/ (October 2022)

Latest article on Mt St Helens and its significance to flood geology

https://answersingenesis.org/geology/four-lessons-mount-st-helens-eruption/ (October 2022)

A paper I have produced in response to the book The Grand Canyon a monument to an ancient earth published 2016 which is highly critical of flood geology

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTup9eUFDNr8qnV5PVTgDbDrAktHnweGMWc-mvSCYPSt_JpzCDwTXXjwAB0J0tzi4MYnkN4l5sRsBNM/pub (new April 2022)

A paper I have produced in response to the book Weird Earth published 2020 which is very critical of flood geology - written by Donald Prothero a trained geologist

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTC68fokwHO3TQTaRA63wfq7otgf14XQAzm38IC4I2-wlYtYpauluQXJbilWtFG_Q0qS-S7OKnv7KzF/pub (October 2022)

How log mats could explain geological features https://creation.com/log-mats (March 2023)

How Devil's Tower confirms a recent worldwide flood https://www.icr.org/article/devils-tower-mysterious-columns-engineered/ (March 2023)

Rapid cave formation https://creation.com/cave-openings-speleothems (March 2023)

Earth's Magnetic Field https://creation.com/the-earths-magnetic-field-evidence-that-the-earth-is-young (April 2023)

Rapid Plate movements during the Flood https://creation.com/probing-the-earths-deep-places (June 2023)

Recent findings on magnetic readings in Italian limestones better fit a recent flood than an old age scenario https://creation.com/did-the-earth-ever-wobble-twelve-degrees (June 2023)

An interesting discussion of the evidence for Cenozoic coal deposits being the product of the late stages of the flood https://creation.com/cenozoic-coals-and-the-post-flood-boundary (August 2023)

Biology

Evolutions 40 failed predictions https://creation.com/evolution-40-failed-predictions (November 2023)

The impossibility of the origin of life through purely naturalistic causes https://creation.com/origin-of-life (Febrauary 2024)

Genetic design - https://creation.com/human-genome-amazingly-complex

Y chromosomes research show Humans and Chimps could not be related by evolution https://www.icr.org/article/new-y-chromosome-dna-refutes-human-ape-evolution/ (January 2024)

Review of a book defending Intelligent Design - https://creation.com/leisola-bioengineer-dumps-darwin-declares-design

Non-random mutations - https://creation.com/designed-to-adapt

This article reviews the growing evidence for non-random mutations - which implies adaptations are not evidence for evolution but evidence for amazing design foresight https://www.icr.org/article/dethroning-dogma-mutations-occur-at/ (July 2023)

Review of Behe's new book on Irreducible Complexity https://creation.com/review-darwin-devolves (new 2021)

Human Genome 20 years on - https://www.icr.org/article/Human-Genome-20th-Anniversary/ (new 2021)

DNA (The footnotes give access to many detailed articles on how the latest DNA findings support a recent creation) https://answersingenesis.org/genetics/best-kept-secrets-dna/ (new 2021)

Review of the results achieved by John Sanford's Mendels Accountant in demonstrating the complete implausibility of evolution https://creation.com/mendels-accountant-review (new 2021)

An examination of the design issues involved in ecological symbiosis https://creation.com/ecological-symbiosis-as-interface-systems (Nov 2023)

Articles exploring how different species are generated https://creation.com/species-designed-to-change-part-1 https://creation.com/species-designed-to-change-part-2 (new 2021) https://creation.com/species-designed-to-change-part-3 (new 2021)

Ancient bacterial DNA https://answersingenesis.org/natural-selection/antibiotic-resistance/10-dna-in-ancient-bacteria/ (new Sept 2021)

Genetics - a lot messier than we thought! https://creation.com/breaching-the-weismann-barrier (new Sept 2021)

Mendel’s accountant - evidence for Genetic Entropy https://creation.com/mendels-accountant-review (new Oct 2021)

12 biological issues, which evolution cannot address, raised by the book ‘Stairway to Life’. https://creation.com/review-stairway-to-life-tan-stadler (new Oct 2021)

More examples of genetic complexity that shows the impossibility of evolution https://creation.com/trna-subsystem-1

https://creation.com/trna-subsystem-2 (new Dec 2021 - technical) https://creation.com/trna-subsystem-3 (new June - technical) https://creation.com/trna-subsystem-4 (new June - technical) https://creation.com/trna-subsystem-5 (new August 2022 - technical)

Lack of universal genes further evidence against evolution

https://answersresearchjournal.org/genetics/absence-protein-coding-genes/ (new April 2022 technical)

Summary of findings from Human Genome project that confound evolutionary expectations

https://www.icr.org/article/13452 (new April 2022)

Power of epigenetics https://www.icr.org/article/adaptive-genetic-and/ (new May 2022)

Genetic clocks evidence for a recent creation https://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j29_2/j29_2_3-5.pdf (new June 2022)

Further evidence of the complexity of cells and the problem this poses for evolution. https://creation.com/research-overturned-endosymbiosis (new July 2022)

Bacteria from the seafloor have been restored to life even though it is claimed to be 100 million years old.

https://creation.com/dino-age-seabed-bacteria-revived (August 2022)

The amazing design properties of the flagellum

https://answersingenesis.org/biology/microbiology/bacterial-flagellum-niche-and-displacement/ (August 2022)

An article from the Discovery Institute that highlights how recent discoveries in biology have strengthened the case against evolution.

https://evolutionnews.org/2022/11/twelve-shocking-discoveries-for-evolution/ (November 2022)

A review of Behe's latest book where he answers critics of 'irreducible complexity' - as far as Behe is concerned there has been no realistic attempt to show how Darwinian evolution could produce the complexity we see in the natural world

https://creation.com/review-a-mousetrap-for-darwin-michael-behe?utm_source=creation.com&utm_medium=slider&utm_campaign=homepage_slider (Dec 2022)

Another example of irreducible complexity found within a cell

https://creation.com/dna-detangling-motors-topoisomerase?utm_source=creation.com&utm_medium=slider&utm_campaign=homepage_slider (February 2023)

Another example of the complexity we find within cells https://www.icr.org/article/protein-pump/ (April 2023)

A discussion of one aspect of the complexity of animal brains as they map location at any point in time https://www.icr.org/article/cognitive-map-brain-complexity/ (June 2023)

Looks like many adaptations are built into the original design https://www.icr.org/article/epigenetic-mechanisms-adaptive-master/ (July 2023)

Reasons for believing neurons could not be generated by evolution https://creation.com/evolution-of-the-neuron (July 2023)

An introductory exploration of the problems faced by evolution with regard to 'tree thinking' (molecular phylogenetics) https://www.icr.org/article/myth-tree-thinking/ (Aug 2023)

A review of recent evolution conference which was exploring the reality that most adaptive mutations are not the product of random mutations but are the product of directed mutations (which by implication is a feature we expect to see in things that are designed) https://www.icr.org/article/dethroning-dogma-mutations-occur-at/ (Aug 2023)

An interesting discussion of the unscientific nature of evolution. https://www.icr.org/article/14209/ (September 2023)

Yet more evidence for complexity in cells https://www.icr.org/article/transposable-elements-genomic-parasites/ (September 2023)

A discussion of the implications of the latest research on Darwin's Finches in the Galapagos islands https://creation.com/galapagos-finches (Nov 2023)

More evidence that the mutations needed for evolution are highly improbable because there are built in genetic defences to prevent such mutations https://creation.com/life-designed-to-not-evolve (Feb 2024)

Fossils

Dinosaur soft tissue - https://creation.com/soft-tissue-ichthyosaur

Human Evolution - https://www.icr.org/article/does-recent-research-support-human-evolution/

Response to claims that soft tissue can last millions of years - https://www.icr.org/article/toast-model-explain-fossil-protein-persistence (new 2021)

Latest response to claims that soft tissue can last millions of years https://www.biblicalcreationtrust.org/pdf/e-origins_vol4_pp2-13_dinosaur%20soft%20tissue.pdf (April 2023)

More evidence that fossils are recent: radio-halos in fossilised wood - https://creation.com/the-collapse-of-geologic-time (new 2021)

Responses to soft tissue https://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j19_3/j19_3_54-59.pdf (new 2021)

Soft Tissue https://creation.com/triceratops-nerves-found (new 2021)

Fossils in the geological column support a recent creation and worldwide flood https://www.icr.org/article/the-fossils-still-say-no-cretaceous-conundrum/ (new Sept 2021)

Collagen remains in ancient fossils

https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3033541/1/Collagen%20Remnants%20in%20Ancient%20Bone.pdf (new Oct 2021)

2018 Phd Thesis on Soft Tissue and Carbon 14 in fossils including dinosaur fossils (very academic - 250 pages!)

https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3033541/1/Collagen%20Remnants%20in%20Ancient%20Bone.pdf (new Oct 2021)

The challenge of too much coal for the Flood to produce https://creation.com/too-much-coal-for-a-young-earth

Soft Tissue https://creation.com/media-center/youtube/struggling-with-soft-tissue-in-dinosaurs?utm_source=creation.com&utm_medium=slider&utm_campaign=homepage_slider (new Oct 2021)

Latest evidence from human like fossils https://creation.com/developments-in-paleoanthropology-2021?utm_source=creation.com&utm_medium=slider&utm_campaign=homepage_slider (new Jan 2023)

A brief review of the latest evidence on Dinosaur's and the Flood/Creation https://creation.com/dinosaur-reformation (May 2023)

This discussion of anti-bodies in Mammoths highlights the problems faced with carbon 14 dating. Dates beyond 2000 years old tend to give ages that are too old. So whilst carbon 14 in fossils allows us to reject these fossils as millions of years old it does not give us an accurate age - all it tells us is that these fossils cannot be very old. https://www.icr.org/article/worlds-oldest-antibody/ (Oct 2023)

Evidence of real skin found in fossils dated as over 200 million years old https://www.icr.org/article/14523/ (Feb 2024)

Cosmology

A general overview of the weaknesses of the Big Bang Theory https://answersingenesis.org/bible-questions/does-the-bible-say-anything-about-astronomy/

No Dark Matter - https://creation.com/dark-matter-search-comes-up-empty

Young Saturn - https://creation.com/saturns-system-still-young (new 2021)

As expected the James Webb telescope shows that the stars that are thought to be furthest away seem to be complex and fully formed. This is what we would expect from a created universe where all stars and galaxies are created on day 4 but this is not the expectation of the Big Bang theory.

https://answersingenesis.org/astronomy/james-webb-space-telescope-distant-galaxies/ (August 2022)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02056-5 (August 2022)

An interesting comment on the early results from the James Webb telescope by physicist Eric J Lerner (part of the following article Mind Matters News https://mindmatters.ai/2022/08/james-webb-space-telescope-shows-big-bang-didnt-happen-wait/ ). These comments by Eric Lerner indicate that the early data from the James Webb telescope is consistent with the stars and galaxies being created ex-nihilo rather than forming over millions of years.

To everyone who sees them, the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images of the cosmos are beautifully awe-inspiring. But to most professional astronomers and cosmologists, they are also extremely surprising—not at all what was predicted by theory. In the flood of technical astronomical papers published online since July 12, the authors report again and again that the images show surprisingly many galaxies, galaxies that are surprisingly smooth, surprisingly small and surprisingly old. Lots of surprises, and not necessarily pleasant ones. One paper’s title begins with the candid exclamation: “Panic!”

Why do the JWST’s images inspire panic among cosmologists? And what theory’s predictions are they contradicting? The papers don’t actually say. The truth that these papers don’t report is that the hypothesis that the JWST’s images are blatantly and repeatedly contradicting is the Big Bang Hypothesis that the universe began 14 billion years ago in an incredibly hot, dense state and has been expanding ever since. Since that hypothesis has been defended for decades as unquestionable truth by the vast majority of cosmological theorists, the new data is causing these theorists to panic. “Right now I find myself lying awake at three in the morning,” says Alison Kirkpatrick, an astronomer at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, “and wondering if everything I’ve done is wrong.” (August 2022)

Further evidence that the James Webb Space Telescope is providing results that challenge the Big Bang Theory https://www.icr.org/article/james-webb-new-images/ (September 2022) and https://phys.org/news/2023-01-astronomers-galaxies-early-universe-previously.html (January 2023 - this is a secular article) and https://www.icr.org/article/webb-telescope-continues/ (January 2023) Another update on the James Webb Telescope and how its findings confirm the creation model https://answersingenesis.org/astronomy/a-better-view/ (March 2024)

Barry Setterfield's thoughts on the results of the James Webb Telescope https://barrysetterfield.org/Webb_problems/Webb-Telescope.html (Aug 2023)

Some recent thoughts on the missing Population III stars (one of the evidences against the Big Bang Theory) https://answersingenesis.org/astronomy/stars/have-our-universes-first-stars-been-spotted/ (February 2023)

An interesting well balanced discussion of Jupiter's moons and how they are more consistent with a young solar system rather than an old solar system https://www.icr.org/article/jupiters-young-moons/ (June 2023)

A discussion of how latest evidence about the rotation of Globular Clusters indicates they cannot be billions of years old as currently assumed. https://creation.com/central-rotation-in-globular-clusters (September 2023)

A general discussion of issues surrounding the Big Bang Theory https://creation.com/big-bang (September 2023)

Alternative approach to geology and fossils

Barry Setterfield's ZPE (Zero Point Energy) approach to cosmology (see section in Creation videos) has interesting implications for radioactive decay which means the dates generated by radioactive decay can easily fit into a recent creation. He also explores an alternative approach to the earths geology that considers the flood as one of four recent worldwide catastrophes - the following article explains his position and I include it because I value keeping an open mind on issues where God has not spoken clearly on the matter. On balance I still prefer Michael Oard's analysis of the worlds topography as the by-product of the flood but I am intrigued by Barry Setterfield's arguments https://barrysetterfield.org/dinosaurs_and_humans/dinosaurs_and_humans.html (Aug 2023)

Other

Hebrew language in Egypt - https://creation.com/oldest-alphabet

Over 300 Flood legends from North and South America https://www.icr.org/article/12782/ (new 2021)

History of Science and the role of non-natural explanations in the development of science https://creation.com/review-science-without-god (new Dec 2021)

This article makes a strong case for reducing ancient Egyptian chronology by 250 years. Once that is done then the artefacts and archeology found in Jerusalem, Megiddo and Lachish fit well with what the Bible says about King Solomon. It is also consistent with the adjustment suggested by the authors of Centuries of Darkness, also it is consistent with David Rohl’s work and it is consistent with the contention of the DVD Patterns of Evidence which argues the exodus of the Israelites took place at the end of the 13th Dynasty.

https://www.centuries.co.uk/2011-kings-of-jerusalem-james.pdf (new April 2022)

The following article on the dating of the fall of Troy suggests a similar reduction in ancient Greek chronology of about 250 years

https://www.centuries.co.uk/2009-ancient%20chronography-kokkinos.pdf (new April 2022)

A review of a 2011 BICANE conference on Egyptian Chronology

https://www.academia.edu/40041219/Shishak_and_Shoshenq_A_Disambiguation?email_work_card=view-paper (August 2022)

The following article explores how Egyptian Chronology can be reconciled with the Biblical timetable - this approach is still very tentative

https://answersresearchjournal.org/ancient-egyptian-chronology-genesis/ (October 2022)

A follow on article about Egyptian Chronology.

https://answersresearchjournal.org/ancient-egypt/chronological-framework-ancient-history-1/ (November 2022)

Analysis of ancient myths suggests they share common themes that are best explained by a worldwide flood

https://answersresearchjournal.org/noahs-flood/solar-koine/ (October 2022)

Series of detailed articles on the Philosophy of Science