Today's Creation Moment

In 1814, Thomas Chalmers was a young Scottish clergyman with an interest in geology. He had grown up with the deep-time views of James Hutton, and the work of more contemporary geologists seems to have caused Chalmers difficulties in accepting these ideas along with the book of Genesis. So it was that in 1814, Chalmers wrote a review of Georges Cuvier’s book Theory of the Earth. Cuvier was a catastrophist. Image: Public Domain.

The ideas of deep-time geology are actually older than Darwin’s theory of evolution. In many ways, it was the deep-time ideas that gave birth to Darwinism, not the other way around. Image: portrait of Georges Cuvier, Public Domain.

The idea of plate tectonics is today such a deeply ingrained idea that many people assume the concept is completely proved and is the only obvious way to explain the Earth’s crust. Many creationists – and I include myself – would suggest that plate tectonics is indeed the best explanation, though we would not accept the evolutionary timescale, suggesting that tectonic movement must have been rapid and catastrophic in the early days of the Flood. Image: Public Domain (over 100 years after author’s death).

There is an upper layer to the Earth’s Mantle called the Asthenosphere. This comprises of semi-molten rock. Crustal rocks of the Earth’s tectonic plates seem to almost float on this. The heavier rocks of the ocean crust float lower than the less dense rocks of the continental crust. This suggests that the rocks of the ocean floor would be older than the rocks of the continent. However, this is not the case. Image: Subduction-en.svg, Wikimedia Commons, author: KDS4444, license: CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Westminster Confession of Faith and showed that the statement in chapter 4 it is very clear on the necessity of believing that God made the world in six literal 24-hour days. The same statement also appears at chapter 4 of the 1689 London Baptist Confession. Image: Claes Janszoon Visscher II (1587–1652), license: Public Domain (more than 100 years after artist’s death).

When scientific ideas seem to disagree with the Bible, Christians should hold firm. The Bible is God’s word, and oftentimes changes in those scientific ideas create renewed alignment with the Bible. Image: A natural arch produced by erosion of differentially weathered rock in Jebel Kharaz, license: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported.

The Bible teaches that until several centuries after the Flood all people on Earth spoke the same language. The fact that many supposedly unrelated languages have similar sounding words with the same or similar meanings supports this teaching. Some language researchers say that this is simply due to chance. Now some language researchers say that they have developed another line of research that supports the belief that all humans once spoke the same language. Photo: Baby – Pixabay.com

While most people know that several ancient cultures built pyramids, which culture built the most? Most people would answer "Egypt", but they would be wrong. However, they did inspire the culture that built the most pyramids. Photo: Aerial view of the Nubian pyramids at Meroe. CC By SA 1.0 .

Often the most productive science is done when scientists, as one founder of modern science put it, "Think God's thoughts after Him." For example, while antibiotics have saved millions of lives, they have proven to be only a temporary solution. In addition, there are some bacterial infections that move too fast for antibiotics to be effective. Photo: Micrograph of ''Vibrio vulnificus'' bacteria. (PD)

Let's go back to the very first moment that the supposed Big Bang took place. Evolutionists say that at that very first moment, everything was up to chance. The size and charge of electrons, protons, the structure of atoms or whether they would even exist could have been anything. Photo: Space-filling model of the oxygen molecule. (PD)

One of the most beautiful and famous passages in the Bible, concerning unborn children, is found in Psalm 139. Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.

The Bible does not directly refer to abortion. Of course, there are many other issues on which the Bible does not give a specific comment. However, in many cases, it is clear what the biblical position is. I believe the same is true with the subject of abortion. Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.

Four words refute all naturalistic explanations of the universe. They refute evolution because they make clear that there was a planning intelligence behind the universe rather than blind, random chance. Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.

Did the complexity of the photosynthesis process evolved by chance. Evolutionary scientists like to point to what they refer to as simple systems from which more complex systems might have evolved, and so a recent scientific article discusses the earliest known organisms that use photosynthesis. Evolutionists assume that more complex plants could have evolved from single-celled algae, many of which use photosynthesis. Image: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2.5 Generic.

Green plants are green, mostly because of a green pigment called chlorophyll. Many of us learned in high school that this green pigment is what causes photosynthesis. Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.

Climate Change Denier” is a derogatory term, used against those who are skeptical about changes in global climate having been caused by human industrial activity. The term is, however, used to imply that such skeptics deliberately deny obvious facts about changes in climate. This is not so. Image: Public Domain (NASA).

How old is the world’s oldest fossil? The problem is that the term “oldest” implies a timescale, and we may not agree on the nature of that timescale. For example, deep-time evolutionists assume that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, whereas creationists show that the age of the Earth given in the Bible is about 6,000 years. Image: Public Domain.

An article in the Los Angeles Times about a recent fossil find began: "If it walks like a duck and swims like a duck, it might be a dinosaur." The writer was referring to a fossil called Halszkaraptor escuilliei, which the paleontologists think shows traits of both therapod and aquatic bird – a sort of dinogoose. Image: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Imported.

During a radio interview on the BBC, Richard Dawkins once said, “The view that all living organisms have a common ancestor, from which they have evolved, is the correct one.” Statements like these often intimidate the layman into thinking that certain ideas in science, such as evolution, must have been proven beyond all reasonable doubt. Image: Public Domain.

Over 2,000 years ago, Aristotle wrote about red snow. Today, red, orange and even green snow has been found on every continent. It is typically found in deep mountain snows in the late spring. Photo: Green algal cell (Chlamydomonas nivalis) responsible for red coloration of mountain snow packs. (PD)

During his visit to the Galapagos Islands Charles Darwin saw that each island was populated by finches. These birds were all very similar, yet from one island to another there were some differences in the size and shape of the beak. Darwin concluded that in the past a pair of these birds had been blown 600 miles from the mainland and the off-springs "evolved" into all the other types he saw. Illustration: Darwin’s finches. (PD)

One of the early evidences for evolution, at one time found in almost every school textbook, was based upon the salt content of human blood plasma and the salt content of the sea. Photo: A unit of fresh frozen blood plasma by DriverDave CC BY SA 3.0 Unported.

Like most social insects, termites don't tolerate strangers. However, the Trichopsenius frosti beetle likes to make its living within the nest of just one species of termite. Photo: Trichopsenius. Copyright © 2012 Jeff Gruber & UW-Madison Dept. of Entomology. (Fair Use)

All cats seem to consume a very high fat meat diet. Unlike other carnivores, cats cannot manufacture their own taurine, so their diet is almost perfectly carnivorous, with very little in the way of plant material. Image: Little Jerry, license Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International.

The word ichthyosaur means fish lizard. The animal looked like a fish but appeared to be reptilian in nature. Image: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Unported.

For many people studying the early chapters of Genesis, the account of Babel is a troubling interlude. Image: Bruegel’s Tower of Babel, Public Domain.

The Apostle Peter reminds us in 2 Peter 1:20 that “no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation.” Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.

Anthropology is the study of human beings and where they came from. As a scientific discipline, it has been led for decades by people with evolutionary presuppositions. Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.

It was Charles Darwin’s assumption that new species arose from previous ones by a process of natural selection. Darwin famously illustrated this point by reference to the various species of finch living on the Galapagos Islands. (Image: Female resident finch from Daphne Major, License: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Unported.)

Some frogs are regular little drug factories. Their skins produce a wide range of powerful alkaloids, are a large family of chemicals usually produced by plants. Familiar alkaloids include quinine, caffeine and morphine. Different alkaloids have different effects, usually on the nervous system. Photo: Blue Poison Dart frog (PD)

Love is one of the necessities of life that is both physical and spiritual. While it doesn’t fit with a strictly materialistic view of life, love and touch, or lack of love and touch, can determine our health and sometimes even life and death. Photo: Parent and baby - Pixabay.com

Researchers who examine the workings of the basal ganglia of our brain, have concluded that the deep structures of the brain that are supposed to be primitive are actually quite sophisticated. Image: Basal Ganglia and Related Structures (PD)

Most evolutionists believe that human beings evolved in East Africa – areas now covered by nations such as Tanzania and Kenya. However, cutting tools found in North Africa suggest to some that there had been early migration of hominids from East to North Africa, or that hominids had evolved separately in more than one region. Image: Collection of stone tools, Public Domain.

There is a particular type of spider found in Singapore that are actually exceptional mothers who carefully looks after her babies. Image: Toxues Magna, from French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported.

Whalebone was used for all sorts of ornaments and structural purposes as a gently bendable, yet firm material. Today it has been replaced by plastics. But it wasn't really bone. It came from the mouth of the whale. Image: Whit Wells, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported.

What evidence could we provide that would prove to an evolutionist that evolution was false? Apparently, the late evolutionary biologist J.B.S. Haldane (1892–1964) addressed this question, and his answer was, famously, "Precambrian rabbits". Image: Chalk layers in Cyprus, Public Domain.

If you look up an animal in an encyclopedia, whether that animal is extant or extinct, you will usually be presented with a cladogram, which looks like a sideways family tree, and it represents the supposed evolutionary descent of the creature. Image: Kim Alaniz, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh, examining yet again the cave drawings at Lascaux, France, determined that these early people understood the precession of the Earth's orbit, and an ancient comet strike. Image: Prof Saxx, Public Domain, Wikipedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/ File:Lascaux _painting.jpg >.

The red panda has to be one of the world's most attractive animals, with a cute white face and a ginger red body. As its name suggests, it was once thought to be closely related to the giant panda.

As far as we know, the blue whale is the largest animal that has ever existed. Every statistic that we find about these giants is overwhelming. Image: Marine Life Hall, American Museum of Natural History, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Jesus talked about "the sign of Jonah" when He was being asked about signs. He said it was the only sign that would be given to that generation. He then proceeded to tell them what the sign meant. Image: Old drawing of Jonah and the whale, Adobe Stock Image, licensed to author., licensed to author.

Most people are familiar with the story of Jonah and the whale. However, by calling it a story, some people want to cast doubt upon the key event of the account. Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.

It is almost like a religious catechism to state that apes and humans share a common ancestor from which they have both evolved. Photo: Neanderthal Skeleton and Reconstruction, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported

The conventional understanding has always been that North America was populated by people who crossed from Asia to Alaska via the Bering Strait and then migrated down the West Coast. Photo: Clovis points from the Rummells-Maske Cache Site, Iowa. Courtesy of BillWhittaker. (CC BY-SA 3.0)

The Aye-Aye is one of the strangest little monkeys on earth. Its peculiar features bear witness that it was specially designed and created to fill a unique niche in nature, not a chance development of evolution. Photo: Wild Aye-Aye. Courtesy of nomis-simon. (CC BY 2.0)

Dinosaur fossil hunters and paleontologists have long debated whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded or cold-blooded. Photo: Reconstructed skeleton of a Thescelosaurus at the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, Illinois. Courtesy of Ben Jacobson. (CC BY 2.5)

"Survival of the fittest" is an essential principle of evolution. This principle has not only been applied to animals, but also to human beings, as a social theory. Scientists, however, are learning that cooperation among animals is more often the rule. Photo: Capuchin monkey-Pixabay.com

For generations cave guides have been telling cave visitors that the stalagmites and stalactites that they see around them grow at incredibly low rates. The figure that is usually given is one inch per century for stalactites (they are the ones that hang down). Now a group of scientists who believe in young Earth creationism has studied the chemistry of stalagmite and stalactite formation in actual cave conditions. They discovered that there are many variables in the growth of these formations.

Most mammals in Australia are marsupials. That is one of the things that makes Australia so special to those of us elsewhere in the world who may never have been there.Yet, there is one placental mammal that is associated with Australia, as a typical wild animal. That is the wild dog known as the dingo. mage: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic.

The significance of Newton’s historical writings is that he compared biblical timescales to those of other nations and peoples. He started with an important presupposition – that the biblical timescale is correct. Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.