Dinosaur Tracks in Bolivia

Dr. Duane Gish of the Institute for Creation Research recently toured Bolivia after several speaking engagements in Brazil.

Included was a fascinating visit to a site just outside of Sucre, Bolivia (altitude 9,130 feet), where hundreds of footprints of a variety of dinosaurs were plainly visible on an uplifted, practically vertical surface exposed by an operation of Fancesa, a Portland cement company.

Acts and Facts, Vol. 26, No. 12, Dec. 1997
Institute for Creation Research

Christian fellowship, uplifting devotionals, and studies in science will highlight a tour of Yellowstone National Park, September 10-18, 1998.

The tour will include a close look at volcanic activity in the region, petrified trees, fossils, wildlife, dinosaur fossils, glacial evidence, and many more educational opportunities for the whole family.

First class motels, luxury touring coach, admissions to all parks and attractions, instruction, and two guidebooks are all included.

For more information, call (619) 448-0900.

Did a seafloor upheaval contribute to Noah’s Flood? According to Scripture, the breakup of all of the "fountains of the great deep" occurred on just a single day (Genesis 7:11). That cataclysmic event on the ocean bottom has attracted the attention of the Geology Department at the Institute for Creation Research in El Cajon, California.

Can a record of the great tectonic upheaval associated with the beginning of Noah’s Flood be seen in the strata of the Mojave Desert of southeastern California?

Preliminary published research answers "yes" to the above questions (see S. A. Austin and K. P. Wise, "The Pre-Flood/Flood Boundary: As Defined in Grand Canyon, Arizona, and Eastern Mojave Desert, California," Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism, Pittsburgh, PA 1994, pp. 37-47).

The ICR work began in 1991 and has focussed on a remote mountain area known as the Kingston Range. The initial research has demonstrated that what are believed to be the earliest flood strata layers of Grand Canyon correlate with strata of the Mojave Desert.

Drs. Steve Austin and Kurt Wise have been working with geology graduate students of ICR Roger Sigler and Van Wingerden to measure, describe, and map the Kingston Peak Formation.

-Acts and Facts, Vol. 26, No. 12, Dec. 1997
Institute for Creation Research

Life appears abruptly and in complex forms in the fossil record, and gaps appear systematically in the fossil record between various living kinds. These facts indicate that basic kinds of plants and animals were created.

The second law of thermodynamics states that things go from order to disorder unless added energy is directed by a conversion mechanism (such as photosynthesis), whether a system is open or closed. Thus simple molecules and complex protein, DNA, and RNA molecules seemingly could not have evolved spontaneously and naturalistically into a living cell; such cells apparently were created.

The laboratory experiments related to theories on the origin of life have not even remotely approached the synthesis of life from nonlife, and the extremely limited results have depended on laboratory conditions that are artificially imposed and extremely improbable. The extreme improbability of these conditions and the relatively insignificant results apparently show that life did not emerge by the process that evolutionists postulate.

-Impact, Information Packet, Institute for Creation Research