Institute for Creation Research, PO Box 59029, Dallas, TX 75229. Website.
As we’ve previously said, Acts & Facts continues to improve. Of particular note in this issue is Randy Guliuzza’ response to his recent series on natural selection. Guliuzza deals with a variety of concerns and questions over four pages. Most Acts & Facts run one to two pages, very ocassionally three. Also, Jeffrey Tomkins reports on ICR’s research regarding “Internal Telemere Sequences.” Larry Vardiman reports on the SETI radio telescope going back online. Apparently the reason it’s been taken out of mothballs is the growing discovery of planets discovered by the space telescope Kepler. (Note: Answers in Genesis’s planetarium program, The Created Cosmos, was recently updated (and into Blu-ray!) to display the many hundreds of planets found by the Kepler telescope.)
Table of contents From the Editor: Victory in Jesus by Lawrence E. Ford. p. 3.
Victory Over the Wicked by Henry M. Morris III. p. 4. Research: Internal Telomere Sequences: Accidents of Evolution or Features of Functional Design? by Jeffrey Tomkins. p. 6. Events. p. 7.
Hidden in Plain View: Evolution’s Counterfeit History Is Everywhere by James J. S. Johnson. p. 8
SETI Radio Telescope Goes Back Online by Larry Vardiman. p.10 Impact: Darwin’s Sacred Imposter: Answering Questions about the Fallacy of Natural Selection by Randy J. Guliuzza. p. 12. Back to Genesis: Gaps in the Geologic Column by John D. Morris. p. 16. Back to Genesis: Arithmetic and the Genetic Code by Frank Sherwin. p. 17. Back to Genesis: The Genetic Decline of Humanity by Brian Thomas. p. 18.
SOBA Graduate Profile: Seth Trotman by Christine Dao. p. 19.
Letters to the Editor. p. 20. Stewardship: Enlarging the Tent by Henry M. Morris IV. p. 21
Love and the Heart by Henry M. Morris. p. 22.
Tucked away in a nondescript office park in northern Kentucky, Noah’s followers are rebuilding his ark. The biblical wooden ship built to weather a worldwide flood was 500 feet long and about 80 feet high, according to Answers in Genesis, a Christian ministry devoted to a literal telling of the Old Testament.
This modern ark, to be nestled on a plot of 800 acres of rolling Kentucky farmland, isn’t designed to rescue the world’s creatures from a coming deluge. It’s to tell the world that the Bible’s legendary flood story was not a fable, but a part of human history.
“The message here is, God’s word is true,” said Mike Zovath, project manager of the ark. “There’s a lot of doubt: ‘Could Noah have built a boat this big, could he have put all the animals on the boat?’ Those are questions people all over the country ask.”
Institute for Creation Research, PO Box 59029, Dallas, TX 75229. Website.
This issue of Acts & Facts takes a rather strong stand against compromising evangelicals! Henry Morris III in particular comes down hard on Peter Enns, Bruce Waltke and the BioLogos crowd. James Johnson follows up with a critique of the Intelligent Design Movement. John Morris covers the gap theory and theistic evolution as being particularly fatal to the Gospel because these interpretations place death before sin. Of additional note is Jeanson’s on-going examination of purported human-chimp genetic similarity. Vardiman, Sherwin, Thomas, and Forlow each round out this issue with short articles. Overall, another good issue of Acts & Facts!
Table of contents From the Editor: The Donkey Strategy by Lawrence E. Ford. p. 3.
Balaam’s Error and Today’s Evangelicals by Henry M. Morris III. p. 4.
Events. p. 7. Research: Human-Chimp Genetic Similarity: Refuting the Appeal to Human Genetic Testing by Nathaniel T. Jeanson. p. 8.
The Failed Apologetic of the Wedge Strategy : How the Intelligent Design Movement Treats the Bible as Irrelevant by James J. S. Johnson. p. 10. Impact: Both Argon and Helium Diffusion Rates Indicate a Young Earth by Larry Vardiman. p. 12. Back to Genesis: Doubt Versus Unbelief by John D. Morris. p. 15. Back to Genesis: Fishy Evolutionary Explanations by Frank Sherwin. p. 16. Back to Genesis: Fit for Flight by Brian Thomas. p. 17. Education: Creation Expo VBS Reaches Thousands by Rhonda Forlow. p. 18.
Letters to the Editor. p. 20. Stewardship: Can I Get a Witness? by Henry M. Morris IV. p. 21.
True Learning by Henry M. Morris. p. 22.
It’s not all atheists and evolutionists that are publicly displaying their disapproval of the Answers in Genesis Ark Encounter theme park. Apparently fellow creationist Todd Wood is not happy with AiG spending money that doesn’t belong to him (despite his claim to the contrary):
AIG’s latest project is indeed the Ark Encounter theme park, with a life-sized model of Noah’s Ark as the centerpiece.
What do I think? Personally, I don’t really care. I can easily think of dozens hundreds thousands of more important projects to spend $150 million on, but it’s not my money. What is curious though is why they think they ought to do this. Clearly the governor and the investors are excited about the economic impact. But what’s in it for the rest of creationism? We still don’t have a comprehensive model to understand Flood geology, a topic that creationists often bitterly and angrily debate. We’re also deeply divided in our approach to biological problems (witness the tempest over hominid baraminology), and we don’t have a generally-accepted (among creationists) young-age creationist cosmogony. So what should we do? Let’s build a theme park!
In all seriousness, I do hope that these endeavors of AIG (both the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter) will be used by God to inspire a new generation of creationist researchers. I also hope that God will bless the endeavors of those of us trying to make a place in academia for these up-and-comers.
Perhaps Wood’s view of Christianity and the creationist movement is too narrow. Perhaps he doesn’t really understand, or believe, that Answers in Genesis is also about the Gospel, not just creation “science” research. Implicit in Wood’s short posting is that no research is done at Answers in Genesis–the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter are distractions at the very least. (That seems to be the impression he wishes to leave his readers…)
Yes, Todd, the various Answers in Genesis projects and programs will (and does) inspire and encourage a new generation…of researchers, pastors, teachers, parents, Sunday school teachers, laypeople, and professionals. The Ark Encounter project is more than a theme park!
Thank God for the vision of AiG leaders!
Where there is no vision, the people perish… Proverbs 29:18
Much information about the Ark Encounter project. Interviews with: Ken Ham, Mark Looy, Mike Zovath, Pat Marsh, and Cary Summers. Includes overview of the project.
Acts & Facts, Vol. 41, No. 2, February 2012, monthly, free. 24 pages.
