For the first time, in too many years, our schedule allowed us to attend the annual Creation Research Society (CRS) meeting, held this July in Pensacola, Florida. It was a wonderful gathering of Christians researching God’s Creation from a Biblical perspective, and I highly recommend that anyone interested in understanding science and history from a Scriptural viewpoint join CRS and attend these annual meetings. Here are a few highlights:

Iron Preservation of Soft Dinosaur Tissue Shown to be Totally Bogus

In 2005, Dr. Mary Schweitzer reported—through a widely publicized discovery—that undecayed tissue was found within fossilized T‑Rex bones. Subsequent discoveries have revealed measurable amounts of chromosomes, proteins, blood cells, nerve bundles, and osteocytes (bone‑forming cells) present in dinosaur fossils. These discoveries were initially highly controversial because the scientific community understood that such fragile organic structures could not survive for millions of years.

Almost a decade after her initial discovery, Dr. Schweitzer reported that iron from blood was the primary reason these organic tissues were preserved. Since then, whenever the subject of tissue preservation is raised, iron preservation is stated as the cause. What is almost never reported is that Schweitzer’s method for determining the amount of decay was based solely on visual comparison of tissue samples. And now, for the rest of the story…

CRS and ICR scientists decided to repeat Schweitzer’s experiment—except they used a quantitative method to accurately measure how much of the original protein molecules remain over time at higher temperatures, both with and without iron. The results of this much more highly controlled experiment revealed that the decay rate for bone proteins was statistically identical with or without iron present. It confirmed the rapid decay of protein molecules, and they could last (at most) hundreds of thousands of years—not millions—regardless of the presence of iron.

This means that dinosaur fossils, and hundreds of other documented examples of proteins still present within fossils throughout the rock layers of the earth, cannot be millions of years old. Therefore, the rock layers cannot be millions of years old.

So what when awry with Schweitzer’s iron preservation experiment? One likely answer is that microbes consumed the blood vessels that did not contain the iron, causing rapid and visual degradation. Iron acts as an antibacterial agent, preserving the blood vessels better. If iron merely kept germs at bay, then Dr. Schweitzer’s team mistook biological degradation for chemical decay (which the team did not test for).

But don’t expect to hear anything about this in online articles, textbooks, or movies (such as Jurassic World, which immediately publicized the “iron‑preserved dinosaur tissue” misinformation in its 2015 release) anytime soon. This bogus iron preservation fantasy is one of the few threads those who promote ‘millions of years’ as a ‘fact of science’ have to hang from, in order to promote their evolutionary belief system.

Biblical Knowledge Source

Barna reports that we have reached the point in America where only 5% of Christians have a consistent Biblical viewpoint of science, history, and morality. If we are going to credibly reach the increasingly unsaved world around us, we need to be knowledgeable, accurate, and able to clearly present what the Bible has to say in these areas. CRS has launched the Research Assistant Database (RAD) as a repository of creation research information. It contains abstracts from tens of thousands of articles dealing with science and the Bible—well‑researched, well‑documented, and searchable. You can find it at: RAD.creationeducation.org

This year will be the busiest mission year in our history, with our team members spending over three months overseas in five different nations preparing for and presenting creation science seminars in public high schools. In 2026 we are purchasing 100,000 full-color devotional books to give to students during these trips (costing almost $350,000). These books are the key to getting into the public schools, and each one contains the Gospel message. They will be read by hundreds of thousands of students, but this expenditure has depleted most of the funds which supporters have donated over the last few years.

The center section of this newsletter shows images from the Philippines/Fiji trips that have been completed. Here are a few additional testimonies from these first two trips:

• “Normally the Filipinos are reserved and shy about asking questions, but that was not the case this time. Each student and teacher was given a copy of Explore the World, and at the end of the presentation a local pastor presented a clear Gospel message. One young lady asked if she would go to hell because she liked girls and not boys. Chris answered her by pointing her to the cross of Calvary and her need to be saved. The world’s agenda of promoting more than two genders and the idea that ‘you are in the wrong body’ is an evil and diabolical travesty being pushed worldwide upon this generation. The Lord has opened the doors for us to reach these students, and now we pray for the follow-up.”

• Spike Psarris, who moved to the Philippines, continues to distribute our books in colleges and has spoken to an additional 2,500 students in the last two months.

• Our final trip to Fiji in round two to all the high schools reached siblings of students we spoke to during round one. Many had seen the first book and were thrilled to receive a different one. One teacher was excited to have the new book and said with great excitement, “The sister of Pearls in Paradise!” as we handed her the new book.
• We visited a dozen Hindu and Muslim schools in Fiji where we presented a clear Gospel message at the end of our presentation!

• The YWAM coordinator working in Fiji to host short term YWAM teams joined us for two days to observe our presentations. She was so excited about our method of reaching the next generation with the Gospel that she and our primary Fijian contact, Sister Lagi, have developed a plan to continue giving our presentation in schools and then follow up with interested students at evening gatherings later in the week.

• Our ministry returned to Fiji in Feb 2025 for the third time since Covid. So far in ROUND 2, we have spoken to 50,020 students in 109 schools (approximately 75% of the high school students in the entire nation). More about this in the center section.
• We had an opportunity to travel to Panama City, Panama to speak with to 60 youth and children’s pastors from six different countries on the importance of teaching children how well science supports the Bible. Mike Snavely (www.missionimperative.org) represented our ministry by speaking in four 90-minute teaching sessions during this event. During the third session, one attendee commented, “We have never heard this kind of information before!” and the Rich and Wanda Ferguson, who organized the conference, quipped, “We are going to steal your passports, so you have to stay and teach longer.”
• Christian student groups invited us to speak at both Eastern Michigan University (EMU) in Ypsilanti and Northwestern Michigan College (NMC) in Traverse City where students heard evidence for a Biblical creation and were given our books. The normal attendance at the monthly NMC meetings is less than 15 but we had 50 people attend! The student-run newspaper interviewed Bruce after the hour-long lecture and had a follow-up article in the school newspaper.
• Here is Cindy Hays’ report from the EMU event: “I was blessed by the opportunity to present the scientific evidence for creation at the first (and hopefully annual) “Faith and Science” event held at EMU. Of the three panelists, I was the only one defending a Biblical creation viewpoint. The other panelists’ presentations combined evolution and Christianity – utilizing a “God made us through evolution perspective.” It breaks my heart to know that evolution is the only viewpoint being allowed throughout American universities. Encircling a giant image of the DNA molecule in the marble floor of the main hallway at Notr Dame’s Jordon Science Building, is this quote from Theodosius Dobshansky, ‘Nothing in Biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.’ Perhaps for the first time, many students at EMU were exposed to the evidence showing how statements such as this are gross misrepresentations of the truth. I long for their hearts to be awakened to the fact that Jesus is both their Creator and Savior.”