Today’s science-focused culture sees nature as the giver of life and the cause of all of its diversity. Darwin’s nature-centric approach to biology has immense backing in the science community. Why does it have so much appeal? Many scientists and philosophers believe Darwin found a way to explain the obvious design of living creatures without appealing to a Designer—He portrayed nature itself as the Designer exercising intelligent agency over creatures. ICR’s research and new initiatives are playing a crucial role in pushing back against this Darwinian selectionism.

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From the beginning, ICR has affirmed the Bible as our foundation for truth. ICR founder Dr. Henry M. Morris searched the Bible for scientific insights that he developed into a new theory for interpreting Earth’s geological structures. In his groundbreaking book The Genesis Flood, co-authored with Dr. John Whitcomb, Dr. Morris demonstrated how the biblical account of a global flood explains many of the geological features we see today. ICR is using the same approach now to construct a biological model to explain what we observe in living creatures. Pulling together biblical insights into God’s creation, we are developing a theory of biological design called Continuous Environmental Tracking (CET) that offers a new framework for interpreting biological phenomena. ICR President Dr. Randy Guliuzza says:

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ICR’s most pressing assignment is to fundamentally change the way people understand biology. Our task is to construct a completely new theory of biological design that incorporates recent discoveries and respects the biblical narrative. The theory would explain hundreds of fascinating examples of creatures’ abilities from an organism-centered, engineering-based perspective that gives glory to their Creator— and not to nature.

We hope this theory will become the fundamental, design-based principle uniting biological explanations in Christian textbooks and museums educating future generations of young believers. We pray that an engineering-based approach to biology will spark a second creationist revival…and once again stir up a sense of certainty in Christian truth.