Design

Guests: Doug Sharp and Rich Geer Description: This is a historic argument by Creationists used by Henry M. Morris in The Genesis Flood. Walter Lammerts in the 1960’s documented a long list of out of order strata that didn’t fit the traditional geologic column proposed by evolutionists. In 2001, we set out to explore the scope of the strata mix-up in Glacier National Park. First identified by Willis in 1901, the rock strata on top are identified as Precambrian, but the layer u

Guests: Doug Sharp and Rich Geer Description: How do you recognize if a painting is a cheap Starving Artist painting or one that has been painted by a Master Artist? Rich Geer relates from his experience as staff artist for the Michigan Historical Museum how to recognize a work by a master. Determining whether a painting is by a master artist can be challenging, especially for those without formal art training. Master artists are renowned for their exceptional skill, techniqu

Guests: Dr. Nigel Crompton Description: A six-year study of the genetics of peas inspired by the original study by Gregor Mendel concluded that sudden appearance of genetic information is more reasonable that accumulation of mutations over a long period of time. Dr. Nigel Cromption distinguishes characters and traits in plants and how there is a dominant wild type along with several mutations that cause certain characteristics to be expressed. The wild type has purple flower

Guests: Doug Sharp and Rich Geer Description: I often wondered who the unfortunate graduate student was who got the assignment of determining the chemical formula of skunk spray. This was finally done in 1980, and the unpleasant odor comes from thiols, which are sulfur compounds. Though it is obvious that this is a created feature, one wonders if it was always that way or if it was the result of the fall. There is very little information about skunk evolution, and one has to

IT EITHER WORKS OR IT DOESN’T PROBLEM OF EVIL STUMBLING BLOCK FOR ATHEISTS MAYBE YOU DON’T LIKE IT, BUT IT’S CONSISTENT WITH THE BIBLE SYNTHESIS OF LIFE IT’S EITHER DEAD OR ALIVE • CAN’T HIDE BEHIND MILLIONS OF YEARS • THE FIRST LIFE: RNA WORLD? • DNA AND PROTEINS • FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER PROGRAM • ORIGIN OF THE NUCLEUS OF THE CELL • ATP SYNTHETASE • CHLOROPHYLL AND HEMOGLOBIN • MULTICELLED ORGANISMS • DIFFERENTIATION AND SPECIALIZATION OF CELLS • ORIGIN OF SEXUAL REPROD

Kurt Rushlow talks about the power of cumulative evidence. He identifies the difference between empirical science and forensic science and how the former is more powerul thant the latter.

Ray Gates of the West Michigan Creation Fellowship is a retired professor at Cornerstone University. He is an enthusiast about bogs, frogs, pitcher plants, flying squirrels, Yellowstone National Park and everything that shouts the fact that God is the designer of the creatures found in nature.

Belief in evolution is a puzzling conundrum. What about your brain? If you believe that you are a product of random chance evolution, is your brain also a product of random chance evolution? If so, how can you insist that you can know anything about anything? The very foundation of logic is thrown out the window. Indeed, there are some evolutionists who argue this very thing; that there is no truth. That is a claim that demolishes itself by its own standard. After all, is tha

Bees are uniquely designed to fly in a manner that rivals that of stunt pilots. They have a compass that detects the polarization of sunlight. They have gyroscopes, airspeed gauges, and UV sensors to measure the tilt of the horizon. Their compound eyes have 7,000 hexagonal facets, which are tiny tubes containing their own lens and light-detecting cells. Each tube enables them to see in all directions. These tubes are hexagonal in shape, which like the honeycomb, is the most e

To understand the origin of life, we have examined life’s basic building blocks, the interrelationships between them, and their origin. Is it possible for atoms to materialize from the “Big Bang” and, organize themselves, and combine to form living things without the influence of an intelligent creator?’ Derek and Rich examine the fifth chapter of the book Revolution Against Evolution by Doug Sharp.

The second law of thermodynamics is in direct conflict with the theory of evolution. Derek and Sue, both physics majors and teachers, explain how the laws of thermodynamics supports the creation model.

The Natural Logarithm that is used to model the world around us was discovered by diligent scientists studying the fields of finance, mathematics, physics, chemistry. In science, we observe an orderly universe with periodicity and systems which obey laws, all of which we can express mathematically. We begin with a non-technical explanation of the who, what, where, when, and why of “e”, the natural logarithmic base. As we read in the Bible, God gave Israel the Law, but when th

Jerry Bergman is the author of over 60 books, and two of his new outstanding volumes are called Poor Design and Useless Organs. These books are the result of over 50 years of research into these outmoded arguments by evolutionists, and each of the examples that have been brought out have been answered, showing the purpose of the design of each structure in the human body. The fact that some show overdesign and redundancy is not an argument against design. They argue that the

The circulatory system is one of many interdependent systems that comprise life in the body. Along with the circulatory system, you have the respiratory system, digestive system, lymphatic system, skeletal system, integumentary system, each of which cannot exist without the others in place. If you were to construct the circulatory system from scratch, where would you start. The capillaries? Without the heart, lungs, blood vessels, red blood cells, hemoglobin, platelets, nothi

Dr. Grady McMurtry shares his story of inquiry into truth as a scientist that led him from a belief in evolution as a teacher to discover the truth of Christianity. He then questioned evolution and found it a house of cards. Dr. Grady talks about unique design in plants and how they are interdependent upon insects for pollination. We talked about the dinosaur tree, the Wollemi Pine, that was abundant during the time of the dinosaurs, yet was found in Australia and grows in va

If you were given an assignment as an engineer to create a living cell or any kind of organism or machine that emulates life, what would you need to do? Doug explains the chemistry that is behind life and looks at the barriers that scientists would need to ascend in order for its synthesis. The chemistry of proteins is just one of many complex processes that are beyond explanation. Amino acids, when they are synthesized, are produced in equal amounts of left-handed and right-

The second law of thermodynamics prevents the creation of perpetual motion machines and it is also a major complication for the theory of evolution. Dr. John Sanford points out that there is an additional layer on top of that he calls “genetic entropy” where the loss of information due to harmful mutations leads to a limit on the time life can continue to exist. At the rate of 300 deleterious mutations per generation it caused Dr. Kondrashov to ask the question, “Why aren’t w

Many features of life either exist or they don’t. A cold-blooded creature like a frog is far different from a warm-blooded animal like a giraffe. Some time in a supposed evolutionary development a cold-blooded reptile switched over to being warm-blooded. Other examples: non-life to life, gills to lungs, non-flying to flying, mammals to whales, and special valves in the neck of the giraffe.

Derek Marshall explains that there is evidence of design in that the biological molecules of earth are formed from 5-6 elements from the 3rd period of the periodic table creating a digital combination lock, a form of encryption. The chemical space created by this encryption is a possible 10 to the 60th power of possible organic compounds under 500 Daltons. Derek’s model shows that generation of the larger amino acids of the 20 that are used by life are not probable under orig

Dr. Jean-Guy Daigneault examines the claim that the spine is poorly designed because we are still recovering from the evolutionary development where man is walking upright. This is a review of the first chapter of the book Poor Design by Dr. Jerry Bergman. As a chiropractor, Dr. Jean-Guy takes advantage of the spine’s functionality where it heals itself, and to claim it is poorly designed is irresponsible.