Fossils are the imprint in rock of once living plants or animals. They are evolution’s greatest evidence, so they claim. Carl Dunbar in Historical Geology, stated, “Fossils provide the only historical, documentary evidence that life has evolved from simpler to more and more complex forms.” Thus, to understand the history of life, we need the …
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The Desperate Search for Life
What would you do with $3.4 billion? A more important question might be, if you had the choice, why would you choose to spend that kind of money on a vague notion? A Probe In Search for Life Recently PBS aired a special documenting the failures and successes of the space program dealing with the …
The Beaver
Several years ago I worked at a wilderness camp for the summer. Some beavers kept flooding one area of land and toppling nearby trees, so I voted myself into a committee of one to get rid of the problem. With mattocks in hand, I marched to their dam, and, with great effort, hack a hole …
Knobcone Pine
Nature not only declares the creative genius of God, but it also teaches us lessons He may well have had in mind at their creation. Take, for example, the Knobcone Pine. What Record Do They Hold? Scientifically, it is known as Pinus attenuata. This conifer grows at elevations from 1000-4000ft., in dry, rocky soils along …
How Much Time is ‘Enough’?
Obviously, evolution requires huge amounts of time to explain how the complexity of life we know today could have developed through a series of random accidents. As the orderliness and complexity of life have been better understood, the age of the earth and thus the length of time for evolution to occur has increased. Just …