Creation and Origins Series
Creation & Origins series (in-light-of-eternity.com, R.M. Mayes) — COMPLETE, 15 posts, all sequentially cross-linked. Part 1 ‘Why This Is So Hard’ (id 3806), Part 2 ‘The Assumptions Under the Dating’ (id 3810), Part 3 ‘Death in an Instant’ (id 3814), Part 4 ‘Caught in the Act’ — Mt St Helens (id 3826), Part 5 ‘Soft Tissue That Shouldn’t Exist’ (id 3830), Part 6 ‘DNA Is a Language’ (id 3834), Part 7 ‘Life Can’t Start, Life Can’t Hold’ (id 3839), Part 8 ‘Out of Nowhere’ — Cambrian Explosion (id 3844), Part 9 ‘A Universe on a Razor’s Edge’ — fine-tuning (id 3848), Part 10 ‘In the Beginning’ — Big Bang (id 3852), Part 11 ‘The Wall’ — methodological naturalism (id 3856), Part 12 ‘Created Kinds and the Limits of Change’ — baraminology (id 3935), Part 13 ‘Creativity, Meaning, and the Human Difference’ (id 3940), Part 14 ‘Babel and the Origin of Language’ (id 3944), Part 15 ‘Distant Starlight and a Young Universe’ — Danny Faulkner’s light-travel-time problem stated candidly as unsolved, survey of competing YEC models (Humphreys white hole cosmology, Lisle ASC, Setterfield c-decay largely abandoned), spiral galaxy winding vs. density wave theory, honest JWST early-galaxy-maturity anomaly on the mainstream side, series-closing callback to Part 1’s presuppositions frame (id 3950). All 15 posts remain WordPress drafts, not published — awaiting review before going live.
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A 1952 experiment got taught as the first chapter of a solved problem. A Rice University chemist with 130 patents says origin-of-life research is nowhere close — and DNA has a second problem once it exists: it doesn’t hold together either. Part 7 of the Creation & Origins series.
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Watson and Crick set out to prove life was just chemistry — and found a code instead. Ken Ham’s rope-and-beads version, Meyer’s philosophical case, Carter’s genetics, and the real mainstream answer. Part 6 of the Creation & Origins series.
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A pattern in the fossil record that’s genuinely strange under the conventional timeline: footprints showing up millions of years before the animals that supposedly made them. Paleontologist Marcus Ross walks through the strongest under-answered thorn in this whole series. Part 3 of the Creation & Origins series.
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Why does the age of the earth matter so much to both sides? Because it’s the load-bearing wall for each paradigm. A closer look at how radiometric dating actually works, and a case where the same rock, dated multiple ways, gives wildly different answers. Part 2 of the Creation & Origins series.
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Stretchable, squishy tissue pulled out of a dinosaur horn that’s supposedly tens of millions of years old. It’s not a hoax and not an isolated case — but it’s also not the slam-dunk it’s sometimes presented as. What the discovery actually shows, and the real science on both sides. Part 5 of the Creation &…
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Most of this series argues from inference — what best explains rock we can’t watch form. This post is different: a case where geologists watched a canyon system, hundreds of feet deep, cut itself in a single day. What that does and doesn’t prove. Part 4 of the Creation & Origins series.
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Before we look at a single fossil, footprint, or star, we need to talk about the assumptions everyone brings to the evidence — including the ones almost nobody tells you about. Part 1 of the Creation & Origins series.