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Summary of Reasons to Believe's Testable Creation Model

Publication by Hugh Ross ( March 1, 2022 )

… This summary lists just 20 of the numerous successful predictions made by the Reasons to Believe model.

transcendent creation eventcosmic fine-tuningfine-tuning of the earth’s, solar system’s, and Milky Way Galaxy’s characteristicsrapidity of life’s originlack of inorganic kerogenextreme biomolecular complexityCambrian explosionmissing horizontal branches in the fossil recordplacement and frequency of “transitional forms” in the fossil recordfossil record reversalfrequency and extent of mass extinctionsrecovery from mass extinctionsduration of time windows for different speciesfrequency, extent, and repetition of symbiosisfrequency, extent, and repetition of altruismspeciation and extinction ratesrecent origin of humanityhuge biodepositsGenesis’ perfect fit with the fossil recordmolecular …

Astronomy

Sudden Appearance of Jurassic Dinosaurs Demonstrates the Creator’s Work

Publication by Hugh Ross ( October 6, 2014 )

Only during the last few decades have scientists recognized the many mass extinction and speciation events throughout life’s history. Psalm 104:29–30, however, described these events thousands of years ago:

When you [God] hide your face, they [Earth’s creatures] are terrified. When you take away their breath, they die and return to the dust. When you send your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the earth.

Earth’s organisms have experienced several catastrophic upheavals. The Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction event (TJEE) is the second greatest mass extinction event on record. It eliminated more …

Fossil Record & Paleontology

Does Naturalism Explain the Fossil Record?

Blog by Hugh Ross ( March 20, 2023 )

… development of taxonomic hierarchy (see figure 2). That is, natural processes predict that over time they will first produce a proliferation of species, which, in much more time, will produce a proliferation of genera—and so on until one or more phyla finally appear.

Figure 2: Hierarchical Classification of the Body Structures of OrganismsCredit: Wikimedia Commons

The problem with these predictions is that the fossil record reveals the opposite: a top-down hierarchy. As paleontologists Douglas Erwin, James Valentine, and John Sepkoski have observed with respect to the Avalon and Cambrian explosions, “The major pulse of diversification of phyla occurs

Evolution

Cambrian Explosion Becomes More Explosive

Blog by Hugh Ross ( January 17, 2022 )

… Chen, respectively. Diazhao Chen and four colleagues obtained uranium-lead zircon ages from the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary strata, where one stratum contains fossils of Ediacaran (the period prior to the Cambrian) animals and the immediately adjacent stratum contains fossils of Cambrian animals in the Liuchapo Formation in South China.

The fossil record reveals that the Ediacaran animals were the first to appear on Earth. Unlike the Cambrian animals, the Ediacaran fauna lacked digestive tracts, circulatory systems, skeletons, and complex organs. The record shows that the Ediacaran fauna experienced a sudden worldwide mass extinction event that was quickly followed by the …

Evolution

How Earth's Surface Oxygen Is Optimized for Marine Animals

Blog by Hugh Ross ( December 27, 2021 )

… 419 mya (during the Late Silurian period); and To greater than 16%, 383–359 mya (during the Late Devonian period).3

The geochemists also determined that there were likely more than a few rapid brief leaps, up and down, in atmospheric oxygen levels from 800–50 mya.

Marine Animal ExtinctionThe fossil record reveals a decline in extinction rates for marine animals throughout the past 540 million years. The reason for this decline has mystified both paleontologists and evolutionary biologists.

Now, a team of five geologists and biogeologists at universities in California and France have suggested a cause for extinction decline …

Design

Mass Extinction Cycle and Life’s Long History

Blog by Hugh Ross ( December 12, 2016 )

… Extinction Periodicity Explained
One of the more encouraging of these new scientific discoveries came from two physicists, Eric Kramer and Michael Rowan, at Harvard University. Last month, they posted a preprint of their research paper1 in which they explain the apparent periodicity in the mass extinction events seen in the fossil record.
As I described in Improbable Planet, the fossil record reveals a nonrandom nature in the mass extinction events of life that occurred over the past half billion years.2 These major extinction episodes occur roughly every 30 million years. I also noted that a leading candidate for the …

Evolution

Astrosphere Habitable Zones Display Fine-Tuned Characteristics

Publication by Hugh Ross ( July 7, 2014 )

… mass star, only a close encounter with a dense molecular cloud will collapse that star’s astrosphere to a size smaller than the overlapping set of habitable zones.3 They determined that solar-mass stars will encounter these descreening events about 1–10 times per billion years. With Earth’s fossil record revealing that mass extinction events happened, on average, every 27 million years within the past 600 million years,4astrosphere descreening events may account for a few of these episodes.
Humans have the “good fortune” of living on Earth at the ideal astrosphere moment in Earth’s history. We …

Astronomy

Top 10 Science-Faith Conversation Starters

Blog by Guest Writer ( November 23, 2011 )

… you know humans are the only creatures with an intrinsic ability to dance? This type of creative behavior is reflective of beings who are endowed with the image of God. (See “Let’s Dance”)

Sure, the Bible says we are created in God’s image. But did you know the fossil record reveals a sudden surge of creativity alongside the appearance of modern humans? This co-appearance of humans and culture stands in stark contrast with evolutionary models. (See “A Song for You”)

Rather than producing a clear evolutionary tree, the fossil record looks more like blades of grass, consistent …

Theology

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“Hurry Up and Wait” Pattern in the Fossil Record Supports Creation Model

Publication by Fazale “Fuz” Rana ( September 19, 2011 )

Many people maintain that the fossil record (a record of life’s history) supports the evolutionary paradigm.
However, a new analysis of the fossil record reveals that the observed patterns—no evolutionary change punctuated by rapid biological innovation—do not match the patterns predicted if biological evolution accounts for life’s history and diversity. On the other hand, this pattern fits nicely within a creation model.
Typically within this sort of “hurry up and wait” pattern, new groups appear suddenly in the fossil record and then experience no evolutionary change (stasis). Recent work by an international team of evolutionary biologists …

Evolution

Why Would a Good God Create That? Part 1

Blog by Guest Writer ( March 12, 2010 )

… forms, such as bacteria and insects, do not qualify as life in the same sense as birds and mammals.) Biblical passages used to support this viewpoint include Genesis 1:29–30 and 9:1-4 and Romans 5:12–19 and 8:18–21.
Yet the physical evidence remains. The fossil record reveals billions of years of death, from the first bacteria to the mighty dinosaurs to the mysterious hominids. Can this reality fit with the Bible? Yes, it can.
The case for animal death before the Fall can be argued from Scripture. For example, RTB philosopher/theologian Kenneth Samples