https://creationontrial.com/ Recent content on Creation on Trial Hugo -- gohugo.io en Copyright © 2021-2024, Nicholas Petersen / Contributing Authors Fri, 25 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://creationontrial.com/creation-corner/earths-rapidly-decaying-magnetic-field-says-the-earth-is-young/ Mon, 01 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://creationontrial.com/creation-corner/earths-rapidly-decaying-magnetic-field-says-the-earth-is-young/ One of the most powerful evidences for a young earth is its rapidly decaying magnetic field. Measurements taken from 1835 to 1965 reveal that the earth lost a whopping 8% in its magnetic field strength over those 130 years.1 More recent measurements confirm this exponential rate of decrease, at a rate of about 1.5% every 30 years.2 That means if you are 60 years old, in your own lifetime, the earth’s magnetic field decreased in strength by about 3%. https://creationontrial.com/creation-corner/the-human-genome-advanced-operating-system/ Mon, 01 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://creationontrial.com/creation-corner/the-human-genome-advanced-operating-system/ How many of you are Mac fans out there? Windows fans? Any die-hard Linux hold outs? Well, before you start fighting with each other, let’s just clear the table: none of these operating systems can hold a candle to the human genome. I have so little space, so most of what follows will be key citations that illustrate this marvel. The call graph of the Linux OS compared to the genome of the E. https://creationontrial.com/creation-corner/dinosaur-train-wreck/ Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://creationontrial.com/creation-corner/dinosaur-train-wreck/ Recently I was doing a little resarch on Dinosaurs, so naturally at one point I did what we all do: I typed in “dinosaur” into a Google search. One thing that peaked my interest is that by the time I typed “d-i-n-o-s…”, Google was already suggesting a term as it’s number one suggestion: Dinosaur Train. Dinosaur Train is a children’s cartoon depicting, but of course, the supposed ‘world of dinosaurs.’ It offers a steady diet of indoctrination into the supposed Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous “eras. https://creationontrial.com/raqia/when-the-ocean-springs-burst-forth/ Fri, 25 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://creationontrial.com/raqia/when-the-ocean-springs-burst-forth/ Intro בַּיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֗ה נִבְקְעוּ֙ כָּֽל־מַעְיְנֹת֙ תְּה֣וֹם רַבָּ֔ה On this very day, all the springs of the great deep burst forth. (Gen 7:11) Even before the Flood account speaks of waters from heaven, it mentions these waters that came from “the great deep.” But this brings up a load of questions: What are these “springs”? What does it mean that they “burst forth” (NIV), or “burst open” (NAS), or “were broken up” (NKJV)? https://creationontrial.com/raqia/raqia-intro/ Sun, 30 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://creationontrial.com/raqia/raqia-intro/ I, with my own hands, stretched out (natah) the heavens, and all their hosts didst I command. Isaiah 45:12 Raqia research For my friends who care about this work: Please pray that God will help me move forward with this research, that I have long been burdened with, but which has taken so long for much of it to come forth. I’m sorry! And that “he who stretched forth the heavens” would stretch and inspire my own thinking, not because I expect to have all the answers (we see in part and know in part), but at least that I will be able to share what he wants the world and his body to know, to the degree any of that knowledge has been entrusted to me. https://creationontrial.com/articles/historical-vs-operational-science-dr-sanford/ Tue, 18 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://creationontrial.com/articles/historical-vs-operational-science-dr-sanford/ Many creationists speak of the importance of distinguishing between operational and historical science, and claim that failing to draw this distinction has allowed naturalists to falsely claim that we are against science, just because we don’t adopt their mainstream views on earth and cosmic history. I believe this is a critical point we must stand upon, and below, we will see an excellent defense of this view by one of my favorite creationists, Dr. https://creationontrial.com/articles/rapid-growth-during-creation-week-as-a-solution-to-the-starlight-and-time-problem/ Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://creationontrial.com/articles/rapid-growth-during-creation-week-as-a-solution-to-the-starlight-and-time-problem/ Did Adam and Eve have a belly button? You may have heard this issue being caricaturized as a typical issue that churches have fought over. As silly as that would be, I believe that a tremendous amount of insight can be gained from pondering this question and others that are related to it. Doing so may just help resolve some of the outstanding problems us creationists have not yet solved. https://creationontrial.com/articles/folded-rocks/ Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://creationontrial.com/articles/folded-rocks/ Intro A couple years ago (on January 1, 2015) I responded in the comments section of an article posted by an old-earth geologist named Dr. Jonathan Baker, who is very passionate to show that young-earth creationist claims are contrary to the real evidence. The article was entitled: “Is folded sedimentary rock evidence for a young earth?” It was a good discussion, and I appreciate the cordiality Mr. Baker showed. (Though I wish more cordiality could have been shown to Andrew Snelling, who appears to be Baker’s favorite punching bag! https://creationontrial.com/articles/the-syntax-of-genesis-1-2-allows-no-gap-of-time-says-survey-of-hebrew-examples/ Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://creationontrial.com/articles/the-syntax-of-genesis-1-2-allows-no-gap-of-time-says-survey-of-hebrew-examples/ Introduction In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth became (?) formless and void…. At the core of the gap theory is this interpretation of Genesis 1:2. Does the text indicate that something happened to the earth, after it was already created in verse 1? Is there merit to this view, that the Hebrew more correctly should read (or at least, that it possibly can read): “the earth became formless…” rather than: “the earth was formless…”? https://creationontrial.com/creation-corner/remember-your-creator-the-salvation-of-the-world-depends-on-it/ Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creationontrial.com/creation-corner/remember-your-creator-the-salvation-of-the-world-depends-on-it/ As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything. (Ecclesiastes 11:5) Not only does our current society in America and the West deny that “God makes everything,” worse, they don’t even acknowledge that God made anything. While there are plenty of frontal attacks that establish this atheistic stance (a HS football coach getting fired for praying on the field, a decorated soldier being demoted and severely threatened because she had a simple bible verse on her desk (? https://creationontrial.com/creation-corner/gods-answer-to-the-worlds-mockery-behold-he-comes/ Sun, 20 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://creationontrial.com/creation-corner/gods-answer-to-the-worlds-mockery-behold-he-comes/ Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming?” (2 Peter 3:3) I have some good news to share with you: God has an answer to the mocking of man. Have you ever seen so much mocking and ridicule? It is so bad now that after a terrorist attack, the ‘progressive’ side of society ridicules even the statement: “We’ll be praying for you. https://creationontrial.com/creation-corner/peters-last-days-warning-part-1/ Tue, 01 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://creationontrial.com/creation-corner/peters-last-days-warning-part-1/ Near the end of the apostle Peter’s life, he had a stark warning for the church. Nearly all of Peter’s second epistle is dedicated to communicating this warning. He states the issue most fully for the first time as follows: “For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty” (2 Peter 1:16). https://creationontrial.com/creation-corner/peters-last-days-warning-part-2/ Wed, 01 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://creationontrial.com/creation-corner/peters-last-days-warning-part-2/ Here we will continue our discussion from the previous article entitled “Peter’s Last Days Warning Part I.”. After writing that, I was flung off into much more research on these issues. This has only provoked me all the more, and convinced me of the critical significance of Peter’s last days warning for our time: Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? https://creationontrial.com/creation-corner/a-billion-years-in-a-genesis-day-sorrow-and-death/ Fri, 01 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://creationontrial.com/creation-corner/a-billion-years-in-a-genesis-day-sorrow-and-death/ Is it possible that the six days of Genesis 1 in fact refer to something other than a simple ‘day’? Might the true sense of the text all along have carried with it a possible allegorical or, at least, undefined sense to it? In other words, might we replace ‘days’ in Exodus 20:11 with ‘eons’ as follows: “For in six ‘eons’ (?) Yahweh made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them…”? https://creationontrial.com/creation-corner/erosion-ultimate-fact-check-on-billions-of-years/ Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://creationontrial.com/creation-corner/erosion-ultimate-fact-check-on-billions-of-years/ We hear it and read it daily: This or that formation is said to have formed 332 million years ago, or 3 billion years ago, or “just” 33 million years ago. Have you ever thought of “fact checking” those claims? I submit that erosion rates provide one of the ultimate fact checks in this regard. Amazingly, this exercise takes no more than some simple arithmetic to demonstrate the impossibility that the earth is multi millions (let alone billions) of years old.