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Water that is nearly five times saltier than the ocean is deadly to most animals. But in Utah’s Great Salt Lake, scientists have found a tiny roundworm living in these harsh waters. The organism, called Diplolaimelloides woaabi, was recently described in the Journal of Nematology.1 Its discovery gives a clear example of how life can function at the edge of what is possible. More than adding a new species name, this worm shows features that precisely fit its environment.

Read the full article here: Engineered for Extremes: The Hidden Precision of a Salt Lake Survivor | The Institute for Creation Research 

What if every living creature—from coral reefs and cold-water fish to mountain flowers and desert reptiles—followed the same hidden temperature rule? Scientists at Trinity College Dublin recently reported that all life seems to follow a single pattern called the universal thermal performance curve. This curve shows how living things react as temperatures rise and fall.1 The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that as the environment warms, performance improves up to a limit—then quickly drops when proteins and cell membranes start to fail. Many researchers viewed this as proof of nature’s self-organizing order. But when studied closely, it points to something deeper: life’s built-in precision and the clear mark of design.

Read the full article here: Bound by Design: How a Universal Temperature Law Reveals Life’s Divine Engineering | The Institute for Creation Research 

A remarkable fossil find in Australia has scientists buzzing—literally. In the Talbragar Fish Beds of New South Wales, researchers discovered a beautifully preserved midge fossil, Telmatomyia talbragarica. The study, published in Gondwana Research, identifies it as the oldest known freshwater midge in the Southern Hemisphere.1 With its delicate wings and unusual anchoring disc, this fossil offers a fascinating look at precision and purpose in insect design....

Read the full article here: Holding Fast Through Time: A Fossil Fly's Testimony to Design | The Institute for Creation Research  

What if a fossil no bigger than a grain of rice showed engineering so precise that it still puzzles scientists? That is the intrigue surrounding Salterella, a tiny cone-shaped creature recently studied by Virginia Tech researchers. Their work highlights a surprising feature—a shell made from two different minerals. They describe it as an evolutionary “experimentation” from the start of animal life.1 Yet the structure points instead to purposeful craftsmanship woven into even the smallest creatures...

Read the full article here: Bold Claim, Hidden Design: What Salterella Reveals About Early Life | The Institute for Creation Research 

Imagine a machine that keeps working even when its parts change slightly or its surroundings shift. Most human-made machines would fail under that kind of stress. Living cells, however, manage this every day. Life is not weak or accidental. It shows flexibility, responding to change while keeping its basic function. A recent study in Nature Ecology & Evolution highlights this ability, showing biological systems that seem prepared for change rather than dependent on chance....

Read the full article here: Built to Adapt: What Microbial Flexibility Reveals about Biological Design | The Institute for Creation Research  

To an ant, the world is written in scent—and they read it with uncanny precision. A single colony can recognize thousands of chemical cues that guide foraging, mark trails, and maintain order. Each ant relies on odor receptors in its antennae to decode this chemical language, with every nerve cell specializing in just one receptor type. But since the genome contains hundreds of receptor genes packed closely together, scientists have long wondered how ants prevent cellular cross-talk...

Read the full article here: Ant Super Smell: A Masterclass in God's Genetic Engineering | The Institute for Creation Research 

Imagine a fish designed with such precision that it has thrived in deep, dark ocean waters for generations unchanged, resilient, and wonderfully suited to its world. That’s the coelacanth, a mysterious creature first known from fossils in ancient rock layers. For decades, textbooks claimed it had gone extinct 65 million years ago. But in 1938, the “extinct” fish stunned the scientific community when one was caught alive off the coast of South Africa. Since then, more have been found, looking remarkably similar to their fossilized ancestors—a striking testimony to stability and purposeful design...

Read the full article here: The Coelacanth: A Living Window into God's Design | The Institute for Creation Research 

On days one through five of the creation week, God developed and populated the originally empty (“without form and void”1) earth introduced in Genesis 1:2. He did so with great precision and tact to form a magnificent backdrop on which to place His crowning creative achievement, humankind. Not only did God save the best for last, but He created humans distinctly different from animals. Human life was segregated in distinct relation to God as Genesis 1:26 explains: by the divine plan (“let us make man”), by the divine pattern (“in our image”), and by the divine purpose (“let them have dominion”)...

Read the full article here: Imago Dei: Man’s Designed Role as Image-Bearer | The Institute for Creation Research 

A new study published in Nature describes the discovery of 13 fossilized teeth from the Ledi-Geraru site in Ethiopia. They have been dated to between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago and are attributed to two distinct hominin species: early Homo and a newly identified Australopithecus relative. The researchers argue that this find supports a “bushy tree” model of human evolution, where multiple species lived side by side rather than evolving from one to another in a straight line. While this may sound like progress to evolutionary scientists, it actually raises more questions than answers...

Read the full article here: Fossil Confusion in Ethiopia: Are Evolutionary Trees Built on Toothpicks? | The Institute for Creation Research 

What if the smallest creatures held the biggest clues to life’s design? A 2025 study in Nature Physics investigates the remarkable behaviors of Stentor coeruleus, a trumpet-shaped unicellular protist. Though it has only one cell, Stentor shows traits that match the complexity of multicellular life. These findings support the biblical view of intentional design and reveal the Creator’s wisdom at the tiniest scale...

Read the full article here: Microscopic Ingenuity: Stentor and the Case for Intelligent Design | The Institute for Creation Research 

During World War II, fighter planes often returned from battle riddled with bullet holes. The Allies analyzed the litany of data and mapped the areas that were most commonly struck by enemy fire. In an effort to bolster resiliency for flying combat missions, engineers sought to reinforce the most commonly damaged areas of the planes to reduce the number that were shot down.

Dr. Abraham Wald (1902–1950)—a mathematician whose work contributed to the disciplines of decision theory, geometry, and econometrics, as well as to the foundation of the field of statistical sequential analysis—noted that an alternate perspective could perhaps make more sense of the data...

Read the full article here: The Importance of Context in Sound Biblical Interpretation | The Institute for Creation Research 

Remote sensing is a field designed to enable people to look beyond the range of human vision. Whether it is over the horizon or in a spectral range outside our perception, we search for information about our environment. Remote sensing data is enormously powerful and gives humans more data than can be discriminated directly via our senses. The extraction and analysis of this data reveals important, valuable information. It also implies specific design characteristics that only a designer could invoke. One of the incredible phenomena found through remote sensing is the illumination of the “IR Ledge” in vegetation. The IR Ledge or “red edge” is an essential and dramatic spectral feature found in remote sensing and refers to the region of dramatic change in reflectance of vegetation in the near infrared (NIR) range of the electromagnetic spectrum. This dramatic variation in reflectance facilitates photosynthesis and protects vegetation in the higher energy, longer wavelength region of the electromagnetic spectrum. This article contends that this reflectance phenomenon combined with the unique and precisely tuned blackbody radiation profile of the Sun centered on the visual spectrum displays characteristics that transcend coincidence, meets the definition of Complex Specified Information, and infers causation and, therefore, design.

Read the full article here: Design Revealed by the Spectral “IR Ledge” 

This article is an exercise in gospel contextualization, not for a particular cultural group but for people working in the business sector. It applies ‘root cause analysis’, a well-known tool in business quality development, to answer the question of why Christ had to die. In this way, it offers both solid biblical interpretation and a creative approach to apologetics. 

Read the full article here: ERT-48-4_web.pdf 

Whether they are theologians, lay people, or non-believers, most have at least anecdotally heard of the miracle of Jesus walking on water. Many important lessons and insights can be gleaned from this important passage, including testimony to the identity of Jesus that bolsters belief in Him and His deity and a non-trivial display of Jesus' power over His creation. However, was God trying to convey more than just His ability to elude physics, and displaying His authority over the dimension of time and its creation? The dimension of time is an elusive and much debated dimension that is difficult to understand, and in the context of God and heaven, it is in many respects beyond human comprehension. However, as expressed by Albert Einstein, "the distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." This illusion can only be unlocked by God, and thus it was created by God. In this article, the miracle of Jesus walking on water is explored in relation to the phenomenon of gravitational time dilation; it is considered as an instance that reveals God's relation to time, as well as the complexity and awesomeness of creation in general. We show that the equations for time dilation around a massive body may serve as a model to show the independence of God from His creation of spacetime.

Read the full article here: The Miracle of Jesus Walking on Water Through the Lens of Gravitational Time Dilation.pdf 

This article examines the theological significance of wine at the Last Supper, highlighting its absence in the original Passover and its fulfillment in the New Covenant. We argue that Jesus’ use of wine was not merely liturgical but covenantal—transforming the Passover meal into a Christ-centered ordinance of remembrance, proclamation, and eschatological anticipation.

Read the Full Article Here: ERT-49-2-web.pdf