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How does design provide evidence for a Creator, and is it enough?

• A brief history of design
• How would you answer: is there really a God?
• Is the design explanation legitimate?
• Origins of Life: A Simple Approach?

What is the ‘intelligent design’ movement? Do the people in this group believe in biblical creation?

• Designer Science (review of Intelligent Design: The Bridge between Science and Theology)
• Divining design (review of The Design Inference: Eliminating chance through small probabilities)
• The Intelligent Design Movement
• It’s intelligent, but is that good enough?
• Secular creation?
• ID theorist blunders on Bible: Reply to Dr William Dembski

What about allegations of ‘badly designed’ features?

• See Q&A: Vestigial Organs

Astronomy

Are there special design features pointing to a Creator that are evident in the universe?

• The Angular Size of the Moon and Other Planetary Satellites: An Argument for Design (Semi-technical, CRSQ 35:23, 1998)
• Created to spread the gospel
• Gravity: the mystery force
• Kuiper Belt Objects: solution to short-period comets? (Technical)
• Mercury?the tiny planet that causes big problems for evolution
• The Moon: The light that rules the night (available in Spanish)
• Neptune: Monument to Creation
• Preliminary comments on the PBS-TV series ?Origins?
• Revelations in the Solar System (Semi-Technical)
• The Ringed Giants —Jupiter and Saturn (PDF, The Biblical Creation Society)
• The sun: our special star (available in Spanish)
• Taking back astronomy: the heavens declare ?creation?!
• Universe Finely-Tuned for Life
• Uranus: the strange planet
• The energy balance of uranus: implications for special creation (Technical)
• Venus — cauldron of fire (Semi-Technical)
• There’s Only One Universe (off-site, ICR Back to Genesis article)

Biology

Could the molecular intricacies of DNA and RNA really have evolved by chance as evolutionists claim?

• Dazzling Design in Miniature (DNA, information storage/retrieval system)
• Decoding and editing design: double sieve enzymes (Technical)
• DNA - It Beats Computers!
• DNA computer milestone
• DNA: marvelous messages or mostly mess?
• DNA?what does it prove?
• Evolution Hopes You Don't Know Chemistry: The Problem of Control (ICR Impact)
• Living database

What is ‘irreducible complexity’ in living organisms, and how does it offer supportive evidence for a created world?

• The Amazing Cell — evidence for creation and against evolution!
• The amazing motorized germ
• Mutation and Design

Botany

What are some of the specially designed traits that can be found in plants?

• Creation in a Basket
• Fantastic fibre optics in plants!
• God’s little green machines
• God’s micro world
• Mini ‘hand grenades’ explode evolutionary ideas
• Orchids … a witness to the Creator
• Pliable plants
• Splashing Success (fungi)
• Tropical rainforests—a created treasure trove!
• You can tell time from flowers

Hydrology

How do the life sustaining properties of water give glory to a Creator?

• The Wonders of Water (Semi-Technical) (available in Spanish)

Human Biology

How do the intricate design features of the human body rule out the possibility of evolution through ‘favorable mutations’ over millions of years?

• Human appendix?just can?t get no respect
• Blood Types and their Origins (Semi-technical)
• The breath of life
• Bridges and Bones, Girders and Groans
• Critical Characteristics and the Irreducible Knee Joint (Technical)
• Design — ‘Man Computerised Thermostat’
• “Ear Ye, Ear Ye” (ICR Origins Issues)
• Electrical design in the human body
• Eye, Darwin vs the
• Eye for creation, An: An interview with eye-disease researcher Dr George Marshall, University of Glasgow, Scotland
• The Hearing Ear
• Human Body, God’s Masterpiece
• Is Our ‘Inverted’ Retina Really ‘Bad Design’? (Technical)
• Mammals present some milky problems
• The miracle of tears
• More on God’s Amazing Designs, skin & hair (Dr David Menton, Sydney Supercamp 2001, 58 minutes)
• Olfactory Design: Smell and Spectroscopy (Technical)
• Our brain
• The Pineal gland—not a useless relic after all
• The Placenta
• Railroad wants monkey off its back
• Regenerating ribs: Adam and that ‘missing’ rib (available in Spanish)
• Standing upright for creation
• Why nail biters don’t cry
• Wonderfully Made: Design in Creation, the eye (Dr David Menton, Sydney Supercamp 2001, 1 hour)
• Your hearing: a powerful pointer to God's creation

Mathematics

Is there design in mathematics itself? What about chaos and fractals?

• Chaos physics: an escape route for evolution?
• Golden Numbers: Mysterious numbers in nature
• Shapes, Numbers, Patterns, and the Divine Proportion in God's Creation (ICR Impact article)
• Order or Chaos?

Musicology

How did music and musical instruments originate?

• Music—Evidence of Creation

Zoology

What features in animals support the belief that they were created rather than the belief that they evolved (came about by natural processes)?

• 100 years of airplanes—but these weren't the first flying machines!
• Aim, spit and cach (archer fish)
• Agile Alligators (Creatures of Creation)
• Almost as dead as a dodo
• Animal secrets
• Ants: swarm intelligence
• Agile Apes (gibbons) (Creatures of Creation)
• Armadillo, The Wonderfully Made
• Australia’s Amazing Kangaroos
• Bat sonar points to creation!
• Bats: Sophistication in Miniature
• Bears across the world!
• Beautiful butterflies
• Beavers: Aquatic architects
• Beetles … nature's workaholics
• Bees, Dancing
• Busy Bees (Creatures of Creation)
• Bird, A wonderfully bizarre (American woodcock)
• ‘Bird of prey’ that's not, The (vultures)
• Birdbrains?
• Blown away by design: Michael Denton and birds’ lungs
• Blue-t-ful Beetles, Birds, ‘n Butterflies (off-site, ICR Back to Genesis article)
• Bombardier Beetle, The Amazing
• Butterfly
• Camels: confirmation of creation
• Catch 22—Toxotes chatareus (archer fish)
• A coat of many colours: Captivating chameleons
• Copy challenge
• Coral: animal, vegetable and mineral
• Created to fly
• Creation's crustaceans
• Crustaceans (A few facts from under the rocks)
• Cuttlefish
• Damselfly, The Acrobatic
• Discovering the Dolphin’s Secret
• Do drinking giraffes have headaches?
• Dragons of Komodo Island
• Dragonflies: designed to dart!
• Dugongs: ‘sirens’ of the sea
• Ear now … An incredible design in a tiny fly is inspiring engineers (Semi-technical; available in Spanish) (Semi-Technical)
• Earthworms, Wonderful
• Echidna enigma
• Eggs
• Elephants, Heard of?
• Elite swimmers (streamlined fish)
• Fawn among the flowers
• Feathers, the evolution of: a major problem for Darwinism (Semi-Technical)
• Flighty flippers (humpback whale flippers)
• Why a fly can fly like a fly (available in Spanish)
• The frog: a relic of evolution?
• Frogs: Jeremiah was not a bullfrog
• ‘Fungus’ that ‘walks’, The
• Gecko foot design
• Ghostly coincidence in an unusual fish (black ghost knifefish)
• Giant squid
• Giraffes — Animals that Stand Out in a Crowd
• God's amazing glue (monogeneans)
• Green islands
• Grouse, The Remarkable Ruffed
• Hairy horror or high-tech marvel? (spiders)
• Hermit Crabs, Those Clever Little
• Hitch-hiking insects
• Horse legs: the special catapult mechanism
• Horseshoe crab
• Hummingbird, The
• Icthyosaurs: created to live in the sea
• ‘Impossible’ insects
• Insects: Defying the laws of aerodynamics?
• Jellyfish
• Kangaroo rats
• Kangaroos: God’s Amazing Craftsmanship
• Lamb (Creatures of Creation)
• Leapin? Lemur! (Creatures of Creation)
• Life at the extremes
• Living Lights (ICR Acts and Facts article)
• Lobster eyes—brilliant geometric design (Semi-Technical)
• Long Jump Champions (grasshoppers) (Creatures of Creation)
• Love trap (orchids and gnats)
• Magnificent Migrating Monarch, The (Semi-Technical)
• Mary had a little lamb
• Metamorphosis misnomer
• The Mole
• The molecular sledgehammer (bacteria and blue-green algae)
• Monarch Butterflies and Navigation (Technical)
• Moths navigating by the stars?
• Octopus Suckers: Glowing in the Dark
• Panda, the Bamboozling
• Peacock tail, the beauty of the, and the problems with the theory of sexual selection (Technical)
• Peeping in on the Thermometer Bird
• Penguins
• Penguin puzzle
• Peripatus
• Pinyon Pines, Pinyon Jays
• Platypus
• Platypus: A freak, a fraud, and now a new finding
• Platypus, Shock-Billed
• Polar bears … one of a (created) kind (PDF, The Biblical Creation Society)
• ‘Primitive’ cell inspires advanced robot mini-sub
• Purple Pearls of Creation Wisdom
• Purring Cats and Roaring Tigers
• Rats can be cute, too!
• Rats: no evolution!
• Ready to prey
• Red Panda
• The robber crab
• Rotary engines
• Salmon, Pacific
• Scavenger Hunt (vulture) (Creatures of Creation)
• Sea dragons
• Sea horse, The amazing
• Sea lilies and starfish … splendours of the sea
• Sea slugs leave Darwin’s theory slipping
• Seals, spectacular, surprising
• Sharks and rays
• Sharks: denizens of the deep
• Skunks: lasting impressions
• Snakes alive!
• Snake, To Make a
• Snail trail
• Spiral Wonder of the Spider Web (ICR Origins Issues)
• Sponge’s super spicules
• Stag beetle
• Startling stickiness: Designed that way
• Sulawesi bear cuscus
• Super shells (giant conch shell)
• Sweet revelation, A
• Tail for a Whale, To Make a
• Tantalizing tuatara
• Technology of Flight, The
• Termites, Weird and Wonderful
• Those bones
• Tight Squeeze (python) (Creatures of Creation)
• Toucans — Strange, but special!
• Trilobite Technology (Semi-technical)
• Turtles can read Magnetic Maps
• Un-Bee-lievable Vision (bee vision, ICR Origins Issues)
• Water, Water Everywhere … And Not A Drop To Drink (seabird desalinzation system, ICR Impact)
• Whales
• Who invented it first?
• Wings on the wind
• Wise Old Owl (Creatures of Creation)
• World's smallest compasses