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The Toba Super-Eruption: A Global Catastrophe that Young-Earth Creationists...

Sudden catastrophic events are not unknown in earth’s history.  Large craters are evidence of past cosmic impacts and widespread layers of volcanic ash are a testimony to massive volcanic eruptions....

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The Liturgy of Creation: Reading Genesis 1 as a Festival Calendar Narrative

I own more than 400 books on the topic of origins, broadly speaking. That includes commentaries on the book of Genesis, works on the relationship of science and faith, young-earth creationist textbooks...

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A Family History of Coronavirus–Origins and Future Prospects

The talk of the world is coronavirus-so many questions. How did it come to infect humans?  How should we go about controlling its spread? Will the virus mutate and become more infectious or deadly? Are...

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Young-earth Hyper-migration? Drowned Ice Age Caves Contradict Young-Earth...

During the last Ice Age when the oceans were up to 300 feet lower than they are today, an extensive cave system on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico was exposed, above sea level, allowing it to...

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My First Step into Social Media: Parasitic Plants and the Garden of Eden

My post-doctoral research from 1995 to 1999 included searching for, sequencing and characterizing genes of chloroplast genomes of holoparasitic plants (plants that cannot obtain energy from the sun and...

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Multituberculates and the YEC Flood/post-Flood Boundary Problem

Yes, multituberculates have something to say about the ongoing division among YECs about where to locate the Flood/post-Flood boundary in the geological column. Is that boundary to be found in the...

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Did Adam have a Tail? Ken Ham, Adam and Eve and a Tale of Tails

Ken Ham recently tweeted about a baby born with a “tail.” I agree with his assessment that these are not cases of bony tails, homologous to tails in almost all vertebrate species, but then I wondered,...

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The Manifold Beauty of Genesis One: Reviews and Interviews

"The Manifold Beauty of Genesis One" By Drs. Gregg Davidson and Kenneth Turner is an important new book published late last year. I recommended the book on this blog and given away copies to numerous...

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Are Species Created with Hidden Information Pre-adapted for Future Environments?

How did the incredible species diversity today manifest itself from just a few individual animals preserved on Noah's Ark? How much speciation has happened? What are the mechanisms for young-earth...

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Are God’s Knitting Needles Revealed in the Creation of LeBron James?

We all recognize that LeBron James has a unique set of skills. He, you and I are all unique in some way if you think about the millions of variants in our genomes. But how was LeBron James made? How...

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