Beyond Distant Starlight: Next Steps For Creationist Cosmology

pp. 1–9 • James Upton

On both large and small cosmic scales there is a diverse range of trends, patterns, and phenomena that beckon some kind of explanation.

Toward an Accurate Model of Variation in DNA

pp. 11–23 • Mitchel Soltys

The Bible’s description of created kinds implies an information model which uses variables. The findings in this paper show that a model which uses variables forms a basis for understanding biology.

Where in the World Is the Tower of Babel?

pp. 25–53 • Anne Habermehl

This biblical story is believed by many to be the record of a real historical event that took place after the worldwide Flood, at a time when the earth’s population still lived together in one place.

A Well-Watered Land: Numerical Simulations of a Hypercyclone in the Middle East

pp. 55–74 • Dr. Larry Vardiman , et. al.

A hypercyclone was simulated over the Arabian Sea to test enhanced precipitation over the Middle East and explain evidence for greater vegetation in the past.

The Human Retina Shows Evidence of Good Design

pp. 75–80 • Dr. Jerry Bergman

Darwinists try to disprove the argument from design by providing examples of what they claim are poor design.

How Genomes are Sequenced and Why it Matters: Implications for Studies in Comparative Genomics of Humans and Chimpanzees

pp. 81–88 • Jeffrey P. Tomkins

When evaluating comparisons between genomes using DNA sequence, it is important to understand the nature of how that sequence was obtained and bioinformatically manipulated before drawing conclusions.

An Examination of Augustine’s Commentaries on Genesis One and Their Implications on a Modern Theological Controversy

pp. 89–101 • Dr. Tim Chaffey

Few individuals in church history are as popular as Augustine of Hippo. Old-earthers claim him as support for figurative interpretations of Genesis 1. But what did Augustine really say?

Created Kinds and Essential Natures: A Biblical and Philosophical Response to Evolutionists

pp. 103–112 • Callie Joubert

Assuming that “natural kind” is a merely biological rather than metaphysical would be a mistake, resulting in Christians having difficulty evaluating and correcting rival views to created kinds.

Emergentism and the Rejection of Spirit Entities: A Response to Christian Physicalists

pp. 113–125 • Callie Joubert

Emergentism defies commonsense; there is also no scientific evidence that something material could produce an entity of a kind radically different from itself.

Ancient Egyptian Chronology and the Book of Genesis

pp. 127–159 • Matt McClellan

This paper will look at the different possibilities that can be constructed concerning how long each dynasty lasted and how they relate to the biblical dates of the Flood, Tower, and Patriarchs.

Response to Comments on “How Genomes are Sequenced and Why it Matters: Implications for Studies in Comparative Genomics of Humans and Chimpanzees”

pp. 161–162 • Jeffrey P. Tomkins

The author believes that his use of the Y-chromosome comparison example was misinterpreted and desires to clarify.

Geomorphology of Uluṟu, Australia: Discussion

pp. 163–166 • J. A. Bourne , et. al.

Controversy and informed debate are the lifeblood of scientific investigation. Thus Ken Patrick’s 2010 paper on the origin of Uluru is welcome.

Geomorphology of Uluṟu, Australia: Reply

pp. 167–170 • Ken Patrick

Twidale and Bourne’s comments are appreciated by this author who respects their professional and long-standing experience in the field of modern geomorphology.

Time to Abandon Postmodernism: Living a New Way

pp. 178–183 • Dr. Andrew Fabich

In Western civilization, the Mosaic generation and those that are younger are leaving religious institutions en masse while embracing spirituality nonetheless at unprecedented rates.

Adam, Free Choice, and the Cause of Sin: A Creationist Response to a Christian Evolutionist

pp. 185–194 • Callie Joubert

This paper will show that Christian professor Daniel Brannan’s arguments are based on faulty premises regarding Adam’s constitutional nature, the nature of Adam’s perfection and Adam’s free choice.

Determining the Ark Kinds

pp. 195–201 • Dr. Jean Lightner , et. al.

This research effort provides information necessary for the best possible reconstruction of the animal kinds preserved on the Ark for the Ark Encounter.

Untangling Uniformitarianism, Level II: Actualism in Crisis

pp. 203–215 • Dr. John K. Reed

Although the term uniformitarianism was not introduced until 1832, the concepts that Lyell so cleverly fused together had already been operating in the nascent discipline of geology for some decades

What Makes Us Human, and Why It Is Not the Brain: A Creationist Defense of the Soul

pp. 217–232 • Callie Joubert

A Christian view of the world entails that science is not a Christian’s ultimate or sole source of knowledge and the physical world is not the only world there is.

Genome-Wide DNA Alignment Similarity (Identity) for 40,000 Chimpanzee DNA Sequences Queried against the Human Genome is 86–89%

pp. 233–234 • Jeffrey P. Tomkins

To provide a global set of analyses, large-scale comparative DNA sequence alignments between the chimpanzee and human genomes were performed with the BLASTN algorithm.

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