Genetics
What Is DNA?
Scientists have discovered an unmistakable language within all living things. Like a miniature library, DNA stores piles of information in extraordinary molecules that specify the details of everything from the shape of flower petals to the color of your eyes. A supremely intelligent Author and Life-Giver left His indelible message in every living thing.
Genetics and Interbreeding
The species on earth today descend from the original created kinds of Genesis 1. The many inter-species breedings that are possible today (e.g., zonkeys, wholphins), as well as the close similarities within biological groups (e.g., the canine group) that are distinct from one another, remind us of this fact. But exactly why the created kinds have fractured into many incompatible species has only been answered indirectly by creationists.
Hox Gene—Gaining or Losing Genetic Information?
Successful evolution requires the addition of new information and new genes that produce new proteins that are found in new organs and systems. Losing structures, or misplacing their development, should not be equated with the increased information that is needed to form novel structures and cellular systems.
Genetics and “Creating ” Life
“Minimal genomes” is the number of genes considered essential for a bacterium to survive in a nutrient-rich, stress-free and competitor-free environment in the lab. Evolutionists believe if the genes universal to all life can be determined then it’s just a matter of tinkering with the existing genetic information via mutations to go from goo to you.
Genetics Topics
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Animal Genetics
Does our growing understanding of animal genetics support evolutionary principles or special creation by a caring, intelligent Designer as the Bible proclaims?
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DNA Similarities
Do similarities in DNA between organisms suggest a common ancestor or a common Designer? Are chimps and humans actually 98% similar?
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DNA Structure
The iconic, complex double-helix structure of DNA displays the masterful design and creativity of the all-wise Creator.
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Epigenetics
Our physical makeup is determined by our genes, not our environment—right? The science of epigenetics is forcing scientists to rethink their assumptions.
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Human Genome
The exhaustive project of mapping the human genome has provided further evidence of biblical truths as presented in Genesis.
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Information Theory
Information only comes from other information. DNA is a complex information system, so it must have come from an information source—the mind of the Creator God!
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“Junk” DNA
Using evolutionary assumptions about life’s history, geneticists have branded vast sums of DNA as junk, but research is showing this DNA is far from useless.
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Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA research confirms that all humans alive today share common ancestors just a few thousand years ago as the Bible teaches.
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Mutations
Are mutations—copying errors in DNA—the driving force for biological evolution? Or do they represent the sad reality of a sin-cursed world?
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Natural Selection
Is natural selection, which uses existing information leading to varations in organisms, proof of information-adding, molecules-to-man evolution?
News About Genetics
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April 11, 2024 from Ken Ham Blog
A recent news article detailed an experiment by developmental biologist Moisés Mallo and his colleagues who were studying Tgfbr1.
Articles About Genetics
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Nov. 5, 2023 from Answers Magazine
Prominent scientists are speaking out against Darwinian evolution, and they’re not even creationists.
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Oct. 10, 2023 from Answers in Depth
Christians need to be able to make biblical decisions about gene editing.
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July 7, 2023 from Answers in Depth
Evolutionists claim a new mouse experiment explains how humans lost their tails. Does it?
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April 30, 2023 from Answers Magazine
After years of predictions, gene editing is finally becoming a reality. The issues are complex, pitting human freedom against the risk of corrupting the DNA of future generations.
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April 1, 2023 from Answers Magazine
According to some evolutionists, sometime “between infinity and a few thousand years,” the Y chromosome will become extinct unless we can evolve a new sex gene.
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Feb. 12, 2023 from Answers Magazine
When an adoptive Christian family looked beneath the surface of their DNA tests, they discovered an amazing truth, providing powerful evidence that we are all “one blood,” as the Bible teaches.
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Sept. 18, 2022 from Answers Magazine
What happened to the early Americans? New research is turning evolutionary narratives upside down—and creation scientists like geneticist Nathaniel Jeanson are leading the way.
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April 8, 2022 from Answers in Depth
Non-coding DNA, far from being “junk,” has multiple functions that are a problem for evolutionists and point to the Creator.
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Dec. 1, 2021 from Answers in Depth
How mutations could be removed from a genome through inbreeding, though the original integrity could not be restored in reality or in an evolutionary paradigm.
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March 21, 2021 from Answers Magazine
Upon closer examination, this popular evolutionary argument quickly comes undone.
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Feb. 20, 2021 from Answers in Depth
The diversity of eye, hair, and skin pigmentations across the globe actually demonstrates a genetic relationship with our first parents, Adam and Eve.
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Jan. 30, 2021 from Answers in Depth
Getting new genetic information is required for evolution—but every proposed (and imaginative) method for obtaining it fizzles one way or another
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Jan. 1, 2021 from Answers Magazine
Does this popular gene-editing tool combat the curse or cut away at God’s design?
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May 16, 2020 from Answers in Depth
Are intelligently designed experiments using already present features in already-existing bacteria and viruses really examples of molecules-to-man evolution?
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Nov. 1, 2019 from Answers Magazine
The powerful new gene-editing tool CRISPR will soon be used in the US for the first time in human trials.
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Sept. 1, 2019 from Answers Magazine
Researchers continue to unveil incredible complexities in a secondary DNA language, complicating efforts to explain life by evolution.
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March 1, 2019 from Answers Magazine
In November 2018 global headlines announced the stunning birth of the first gene-edited humans.
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Jan. 1, 2019 from Answers Magazine
Medical researchers have launched one of the most ambitious mapping projects ever—the human cell atlas.
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Nov. 1, 2018 from Answers Magazine
A new study discovered the complexity of a cell’s DNA repair system. It seems the cell repairs damaged strands of DNA.
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Oct. 6, 2017 from Answers in Depth
Scientists report the biochemical footprint of a particular sugar polymer—a type that modern humans cannot make—has been found in an ancient African fossil.
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Aug. 3, 2017 from A Response to Adam and the Genome
In this article, we explore Venema’s claims in Adam and the Genome about genetic sequences that he thinks have lost their function.
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July 6, 2017 from A Response to Adam and the Genome
Venema claims that the published, comprehensive genetic comparisons between humans and chimpanzees reveal a genetic identity of 95–98%.
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June 29, 2017 from A Response to Adam and the Genome
In our series, we’ve discovered ample support that evolutionists fit facts to conclusions. In this article, we’ll continue to explore whether it is true.
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April 30, 2017 from Answers Magazine
The discovery of an easy way to “edit” genes may someday make it possible to manufacture “designer babies.”
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April 23, 2017 from Answers Magazine
When you hear stories about the astonishing similarity between human and chimp DNA, there’s something they’re not telling you . . .
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Oct. 9, 2016 from Answers Magazine
For more than a century Christians have looked for the scientific silver bullet that would destroy Darwinian evolution and prove biblical creation to be true.
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Semi-Technical In-Depth ArticleJust How Random Are Mutations?Aug. 18, 2016 from Answers in Depth
Changes to the sequence of nucleotides (e.g., mutations) can alter the genetic information of the organism, which, in turn can alter its physical features
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Semi-Technical In-Depth ArticleHow Are New Genes Made?April 21, 2016 from Answers in Depth
Evolutionists conclude “the birth of new genes is an important motor of evolutionary innovation,” but how are new genes made?
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A Fresh Look at Human-Chimp DNA SimilarityDec. 30, 2015
Creationist scientists Drs. Tomkins and Bergman came up with an overall DNA similarity between humans and chimps of around 81%—quite a difference!
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Oct. 31, 2015 from Answers in Depth
Spiders were designed with two versions of the dachshund gene, one essential to knee formation, but spider knees did not evolve through gene duplication.
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July 1, 2015 from Answers Magazine
Evolution would require an enormous amount of change. Modern laboratory experiments have tested bacteria’s ability to change. Is this ability truly unlimited?
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In-Depth ArticleDenisovan Gene Gave Tibetans Their High-Altitude ToleranceJuly 19, 2014 from Answers in Depth
Tibetan natives ability to tolerate high-altitude conditions is a genetic inheritance obtained from mixing with the long-extinct Denisovan people.
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Semi-Technical In-Depth ArticleChromosome Tales and the Importance of a Biblical WorldviewJune 18, 2014 from Answers in Depth
When evidence is interpreted in a particular worldview, it can sound very convincing that the evidence supports that worldview.
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In-Depth ArticleStop-or-Go DNA Codes Reveal Rampant Rule-Breaking in the Language of LifeMay 31, 2014 from Answers in Depth
When does “stop” mean “go”? Surprisingly often! The DNA code common to all living things is not quite as uniform as previously thought.
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In-Depth ArticleComb Jelly Genome Mystery Generates ConfusionMay 29, 2014 from Answers in Depth
Jelly genome shakes the evolutionary tree of life to its roots.
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