Reasons to Believe

Human Origins and the Bible

  • Equipped for High-Tech Society

    Human beings seem vastly "over-endowed" for hunter-gatherer or agrarian existence. For tens of thousands of years humanity carried intellectual capacities that offered no discernable advantage. From a … more

  • New Clues to a Genesis Mystery

    The biblical record of patriarchs who lived 900+ years has raised questions and doubts for centuries. In the context of current life expectancy (which places me on the brink of “senior … more

  • The Distinctive Human Self

    Unfortunately there is an obsession by “advanced” thinkers to discredit traditional value systems as obsolete, presumably because they had a religious base. So the challenge is to … more

  • The Genesis Genealogies

    For the updated version of this article, please download the PDF here.

    In 1650, James Ussher, the archbishop of Ireland came up with a detailed timeline for all the events in the Bible, going all … more

  • Are There Gaps in the Biblical Genealogies?

    William Henry Green, "Primeval Chronology” Bibliotheca Sacra (April, 1890), 285-303.

    The question of the possible reconciliation of the results of scientific inquiry respecting the antiquity … more

  • Why Shorter Life Spans?

    None of the explanations offered in the accompanying article imply that God randomly selected the life span of early humans or that He simply reacted to natural disasters in shortening human life. … more

  • Cosmic Acceleration Narrows Life's Time Window

    Recent discoveries about the universes expansion rate significantly impact the case for divine design. Past research revealed that only after a certain period of expansion would the universe be ready … more

  • Wheat Tells a Story of Beginnings

    DNA “fingerprinting” helps with investigations beyond the criminal courtroom. In one recent case, this research technique was applied to the study of agriculture’s origin, and the … more

  • Arts Own Big Bang Affirms Special Creation

    If the naturalists and Darwinists were right about the evolution of humankind, we would expect both the quantity and quality of human artwork to increase gradually over time. New research, however, … more

  • The Great Divide of Peleg's Time

    In the genealogy of Noah's son Shem, we see the name Peleg and along with it a brief note that "in his time the earth was divided."(1) I've linked this statement with the break up of the warm land … more

  • Eve's Secret to Growing Younger

    by Dr. Hugh Ross and Sam Conner

    A new discovery about a genetic phenomenon called "heteroplasmy" revises the date for our oldest female ancestor, Eve.(1) Previous research on mitochondrial DNA (the … more

  • To Clone or Not to Clone?

    A cloud of moral confusion seems to surround recent advances in cloning research. When British zoologists announced Dolly the sheep, the first mammal successfully cloned from an adult cell, my phone … more

  • Y-Chromosome Reveals Evolutionary Limits

    Y-chromosome studies have just answered a long-standing anthropological question: Are modern Japanese people descended from the Jomon or from the Yayoi people?1 The Jomon migrated to Japan from the … more

  • The Broken Tie that Binds

    According to Genesis, the human race both before and after the Flood ignored God's direct command to spread out and fill the earth.1, 2 Despite God's warnings about the seriousness of disobedience, … more

  • Chromosome Study Stuns Evolutionists

    A new study by evolutionary biologists Robert Dorit (Yale), Hiroshi Akashi (University of Chicago), and Walter Gilbert (Harvard) flies in the face of prevailing origin-of-man scenarios. l-2 In an … more