Transcript God's Incredible Creatures

Reaching Children
Through God’s Creatures
Formed by Evolution OR Created by God?
Dr. Heinz Lycklama
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“The world in which we live is truly an
amazing and wondrous place.”
Scott Huse, The Collapse of Evolution
Reaching Children
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Questions children ask:
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The facts:
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Conflict between Science and the Bible?
Is Evolution really true?
The Bible teaches “kinds” of Creatures
No credible transitional fossils in support of evolution
Looking at Creatures – Evolved? Created?
Reaching children with the truth
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Education on Creation vs. Evolution, Christian
Apologetics, Christian Worldview
Resources available
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Creation of Distinct Kinds
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Gen. 1: 11(1), 12(2), 21(2), 24(2), 25(3)
Ten major categories of organic life created
“after its kind”
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Plant kingdom - grass, herbs, fruit trees
Animal kingdom - sea monsters, other marine
animals, birds, beasts, cattle, crawling animals
Man “kind”
One kind cannot transform itself into another
kind
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Definite and distinct categories
There is variation within a kind
These “kinds” are still recognized today
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NO Transitional Fossils
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The “Cambrian Explosion”
“Inverted” fossil orders
Lack of empirical evidence for transitions
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The archaeopteryx was a bird, not a transitional
fossil between reptile and bird
Whale “evolution” debunked
Horse “evolution debunked
“Living fossils”, e.g. coelacanth fish
Polystrate fossils
No credible ape-to-human fossil identified
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“Hominid” Fossils
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Neanderthal Man – accepted as
homo sapiens
Java Man – artificial construct
Piltdown Man – proven to be a hoax
Nebraska Man – an extinct pig
Ramapithecus – an orangutan
Lucy – make-believe creature
NO credible
“ape ->human”
fossil found!
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Lord Zuckerman Chimes In
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“For example, no scientist could logically
dispute the proposition that man, without having
been involved in any act of divine creation,
evolved from some ape-like creature in a very
short space of time – speaking in geological
terms – without leaving any fossil traces of the
steps of the transformation.”
Zuckerman, Solly. 1971. Beyond the ivory tower: The frontiers of public and private science. New York: Taplinger
Publishing Company. p. 64.
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The Fossil Record
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Darwin admitted in 1859:
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“Why then is not every geological formation and
every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology
assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated
organic chain.”
Paul Moody wrote in a standard textbook:
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“So far as we can judge from the geologic record,
large changes seem usually to have arisen suddenly. ...
fossil forms, intermediate between large subdivisions
of classification, such as orders and classes, are
seldom [read never] found.”
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Quote From Raup [Evolutionist]
“The record of evolution is still surprisingly jerky and,
ironically, we have even fewer examples of
evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin’s time.
By this I mean that some of the classic cases of darwinian
change in the fossil record, such as the evolution of the
horse in North America, have had to be discarded or
modified as a result of more detailed information—
what appeared to be a nice simple progression when
relatively few data were available now appears to be
much more complex...”
[Raup, David M. (evolutionist), “Conflicts Between
Darwin and Paleontology,” Bulletin, Field Museum
of Natural History, vol. 50 (January 1979), p.25.]
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Quote from Simpson [Evolutionist]
"...Every paleontologist knows that most new
species, genera, and families, and that nearly
all categories above the level of family
appear in the record suddenly and are not led
up to by known, gradual, completely
continuous transitional sequences.”
[George Gaylord Simpson (evolutionist), The Major Features of
Evolution, New York, Columbia University Press, 1953 p. 360.]
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Quote From West [Evolutionist]
“Contrary to what most scientists write, the fossil
record does not support the Darwinian theory of
evolution because it is this theory (there are
several) which we use to interpret the fossil
record. By doing so, we are guilty of circular
reasoning if we then say the fossil record supports
this theory.”
[Ronald R. West (evolutionist), “Paleontology and
Uniformitariansim.” Compass, Vol. 45 (May 1968), p. 216.]
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Evolution: The Fossils Still Say No!
“In the preceding chapters, we have cited
example after example of failure to find
transitional forms where evolutionary
theory predicts such forms should have
been found. … The examples cited in this
book are in no way exceptions, but serve to
illustrate what is characteristic of the fossil
record.”
[Duane T. Gish (Creationist), Evolution:
The Fossils Still Say NO!, page 333.]
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Chance, Necessity (Law) or Design?
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Incredible Creatures
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Some amazing creatures
The living cell
Human eye, Trilobite eye
Giraffe
Symbiotic relationships
Migratory feats
Incredible insects
Butterfly, Woodpecker, Bombardier beetle
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The Cheetah
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Cheetah cat can run at up to 70 mph over a
distance of 700 yards or more
Cheetah can reach 45 mph in 2 seconds!
Cheetah is the fastest land animal
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Cicada Insect
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About 2500 species exist
One (magicicada) can live
underground for 13 to 17 years
Do not bite or sting and not a pest
Make a real racket when they emerge
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The Weddell Seal
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Weddell seals that can remain underwater for
45 minutes
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Dive to depths of 1500 feet
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The Archerfish
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Archerfish that can shoot water
15 feet into the air and hit a bug
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Mouth at surface
Eyes underwater
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Eight-Armed Octopus
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Eight-armed, ink-shooting octopuses
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Jet-propelled and fast swimmer
Shoots ink to create smoke
screen and dull a predator
Can re-grow an arm if it
loses one
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Cell Structure
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Average human body contains 75+ trillion cells
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Examining the Cell
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How to examine the cell?
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Darwin’s Black Box
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Behe showed that the cell, Darwin’s Black Box,
is filled with irreducibly complex molecular
machines that could not be built by natural
selection
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Darwin’s Black Box - 2
Over 100 molecular motors are now known to exist inside the
cell with very specific analogies to human designed motors.
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Behe’s Insight
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Michael Behe contends that when we look at
the protein machines that run cells, there is a
point at which no parts can be removed and
still have a functioning machine. He called
these machines “irreducibly complex” (IC)
We encounter irreducibly complex devices in
everyday life. A simple mouse trap is an
example of an irreducibly complex device:
Staple
Trigger
Hammer
Board
Cheese
Bait holder
Spring
Bacterial Motors
Certain bacteria swim by means of rotary flagella. These are
driven by reversible electric motors!
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Bacterial Motors - 2
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The Human Eye
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Staggering complexity
Can’t be explained by step-by-step
random mutation and selection
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The Human Eye - 2
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Automatic aiming, focusing, aperture adjustment
Functions from almost complete darkness to
bright sunlight
Can see a fine hair
Makes about 100,000 separate motions per day
Provides us a continuous series of color
stereoscopic pictures
All performed without complaint
Carries out its own maintenance while we sleep
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The Human Eye - 3
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So complex and sophisticated that scientists
do not fully understand how it functions
Requires sophisticated synchronization of
complex structures and mechanisms
The eye would be useless unless fully
developed
Piecemeal evolution of the human eye is a
completely unreasonable notion
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Probability of chance formation is 1 in 10**266
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Human Eye - 4
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“To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable
contrivances for adjusting the focus to different
distances, for admitting different amounts of light,
and for the correction of spherical and chromatic
aberration, could have been formed by natural
selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the
highest possible degree. … The belief that an organ
as perfect as the eye could have formed by natural
selection is more than enough to stagger anyone.”
Charles Darwin
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More Than The Human Eye
“My last doubt concerns so-called parallel
evolution. … Even something as complex as the
eye has appeared several times; for example, in
the squid, the vertebrates, and the arthropods. It’s
bad enough accounting for the origin of such
things once, but the thought of producing them
several times makes my head swim.”
Frank Salisbury
“Examination of the eye is a cure for atheism.”
Sturmius
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The Trilobite Eye
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Trilobite now extinct
Eyes composed of inorganic calcite
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Double lens design [human eye is single lens]
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Trilobite lenses preserved in fossil record
100 to 15,000 lenses in each eye
Could see underwater without distortion
Implicit knowledge of Abbe’s Sine Law, Fermat’s
Principle, and other principles of optics inherent in
the design of these lenses
Carefully designed by a knowledgeable physicist!
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The Giraffe
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Ten ft. high at the shoulder
Eight foot neck
Seven neck bones
Huge heart to deliver
blood to the brain
Large lungs (8 * human)
Slow air intake
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Giraffe - 2
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Reinforced artery walls
By-pass and antipooling valves
Web of small blood
vessels
Pressure-sensing signals
Engineered for survival
Defies explanation by evolution!
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Cleaning Symbiosis
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Certain fish feed on smaller
fish and shrimp
Their mouths become littered
with debris and parasites
Larger fish pay visit to “cleaning station” and
opens its mouth and gill chambers
Little “cleaner” fish and shrimp swim in and
“do their job”
“Win-win” for both parties
Also practiced by Egyptian plover bird in
cleaning out parasites from Nile river crocodile
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Water Beetle
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Defends against enemies by secreting a
detergent substance from a gland
Propels beetle forward
quickly out of
immediate danger
Detergent causes the
surface tension of water
to break down
Pursuing insect sinks
into the water
O Lord, how manifold are Thy works! In wisdom hast thou
made them all: the earth is full of Thy riches” Ps. 104:24.
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Migratory Instincts
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White-throated warbler
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Summers in Germany
Winters in Africa
Parent birds take off for Africa at end of Summer as
young birds become more independent
Young birds take off a few weeks later, flying
instinctively across 1000’s of miles of unfamiliar
land and sea to rejoin their parents
Brains of birds have inherited knowledge
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Can tell latitude, longitude and direction by the stars
Have “calendar”, clock and navigational data
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Alaskan Golden Plover
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Born in Alaska
26 days of incubation
After a few months,
parents fly to Hawaii
4500 Km from Alaska to Hawaii
Average weight of bird is 140 grams
Puts on 70 more grams of weight as fuel
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Alaskan Golden Plover - 2
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Takes 88 hours to fly to Hawaii
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At a rate of 51 Km/hour
All over open water, without a break
Takes 250,000 wing flaps
Fly through fog, rain, sunshine, starlight, overcast
skies
Requires 0.6% of body weight per hour
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All fuel exhausted in 72 hours
Flying in V-formation saves 22% of energy
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Other Migratory Feats
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Canadian Golden plover bird
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Barn swallow
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Travels 8000 miles south from
Hudson Bay
Crosses 2000 miles of sea from
Nova Scotia to Caribbean countries
Winters in Argentina
Returns by way of Central America
and the Mississippi Valley
Migrates 9000 miles from Northern Canada to Argentina
Artic tern migrates 14000 miles, pole to pole and back
Others – whales, fur seals, bats, salmon, turtles, etc.
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The Evolutionist is Baffled!
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Remarkable migratory abilities cannot evolve
piecemeal through mere chance
Requires directing intelligence
Migratory instincts are useless unless perfect
Navigating perfectly across only half of an
ocean does not help
These animals were carefully created and
designed with these instincts
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Insect Flight
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Insects are the only invertebrates
able to fly
Wing of an insect:
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Capable of very strong sculling action
Capable of elevation, depression, fore and
aft movement, pronation and supination
Capable of changes in shape by folding and buckling
Many insects can hover, or fly backwards or
sideways, or rotate about the head or tail by
using unequal wing movement
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Special Insects
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Some insects (e.g. bees, wasps,
flies) have small wing area
Honeybee needs small wing
for bee hive
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Very rapid wing beat rate of
200 per second
Midge has wing beat rate
of 1046 per second
Amazing engineering wonders!
“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the
firmament sheweth his handywork.” Ps. 19:1.
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Evolution Cannot Explain
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More features of God’s incredible creatures:
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Visual beauty – where from? why?
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Mimicry – how did it develop?
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One type of organism imitates/mimics another type
e.g. spiders disguising as ants (8 legs vs. 6 legs)
Angler fish
Convergence (similar organs/structures)
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Exhibited by fish deep in the sea
Sonar systems in bat and porpoise
Wing mechanisms “evolved” separately in insects, bats,
flying reptiles, birds
No evolutionary mechanism can explain this!
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More of God’s Incredible Creatures!
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Woodpecker
Metamorphosis of a Butterfly
Bombardier Beetle
From slides [9-30] in the file called
“Creation, Evolution and Biology.ppt”
produced by Dr. Gish, ICR
“Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and
benevolent design lie around us … the atheistic
idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.”
Lord Kelvin, British physicist
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Metamorphosis of the Butterfly
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God’s Creatures Are Designed
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Creatures are Creations
Creation requires a Creator
God is The Creator
Creatures:
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Cannot be explained by evolution
Are designed for a purpose
God created creatures for our enjoyment
We are created by God
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To worship Him
To enjoy His fellowship
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More Information
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ICR – Institute for Creation Research
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Answers in Genesis
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www.creationresearch.org
Publication of peer-reviewed creation articles
Dr. Heinz Lycklama’s Lectures
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www.answersingenesis.org
Books, seminars, articles on Creation
Creation Research Society
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www.icr.org
Acts and Facts articles on Creation
www.osta.com/creation & www.osta.com/apologetics
True Origin Archive
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www.trueorigin.org
Exposing the myth of evolution
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Thank you
for your
attention!
Dr. Heinz Lycklama
[email protected]
www.osta.com/creation
www.osta.com/apologetics
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Creation Organizations
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ICR – Institute for Creation Research
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www.icr.org
Books by Henry Morris (founder), e.g.
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The Genesis Flood
The Genesis Record
The Modern Creation Trilogy
Acts and Facts articles on Creation
Answers in Genesis
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www.answersingenesis.org
Founded by Ken Ham
Books, seminars, articles on Creation
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Creation Organizations - 2
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Creation Evidence Museum
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Creation Moments
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www.creationevidence.org
Dinosaurs and human tracks
www.creationmoments.com
Radio spots
Creation Research Society
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www.creationresearch.org
Publication of peer-reviewed creation articles
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Creation Organizations - 3
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Center For Scientific Creation
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Creation Science Evangelism
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www.creationscience.com
“In The Beginning” Book by Walt Brown, Ph.D.
www.drdino.com
Videos, seminars
Discovery Institute
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www.discovery.org
Intelligent Design “Think Tank”
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Important Books
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The Genesis Record, Dr. Henry Morris
The Genesis Flood, Dr. John Whitcomb & Dr. Henry Morris
The Collapse of Evolution, Scott Huse
The Lie: Evolution, Ken Ham
Refuting Evolution, Dr. Jonathan Sarfati
Evolution: The Fossils Still Say No!, Dr. Duane Gish
Scientific Creationism, Dr. Henry Morris
Dinosaurs by Design, Dr. Duane Gish
Genetic Entropy & the Mystery of the Genome,
Dr. J.C. Sanford
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More Important Books
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The Young Earth, Dr. John Morris
Science and the Bible, Dr. Henry Morris
Tornado in a Junkyard, James Perloff
In The Beginning, Dr. Walt Brown
Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Michael Denton
Darwin on Trial, Dr. Phillip Johnson
Darwin’s Black Box, Dr. Michael Behe
Design Inference, Dr. William Dembski
Icons of Evolution, Dr. Jonathan Wells
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Yet More Important Books
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The Battle for the Beginning, Dr. John MacArthur
Total Truth, Nancy Pearcey
The Design Revolution, Dr. William Demski
The Origin of Species Revisited, W. R. Bird
It Matters What We Believe, Mike Riddle
The Evolution of a Creationist, Jobe Martin
Grand Canyon (a different view), Tom Vail
In Six Days, Dr. John Ashton
Starlight and Time, Dr. Russell Humphreys
Starlight, Time and the New Physics, De. John Hartnett
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