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Figure 1: Walt Brown, page 1
Figure 2: Aristo Graphics, page 2
Figure 3: design by Bradley W. Anderson using Corel Professional Photos by Jeanne White, page 5
Figure 4: Bradley W. Anderson, page 6
Figure 5: Natural History Museum, London, page 8
Figure 6: NASA, page 9
Figure 7: Bradley W. Anderson, page 11
Figure 8: courtesy of Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas, page 11
Figure 9: Natural History Museum, Washington D.C., photo by Bradley W. Anderson, page 11
Figure 10: Natural History Museum, Washington, D.C.; photo by Bradley W. Anderson, page 11
Figure 11: used with permission of the Creation Research Society, P.O. Box 8263, St. Joseph, MO 64508-8263, page 12
Figure 12: Natural History Museum, London, page 13
Figure 13: D. L. Cramer, page 13
Figure 14: G. Elliot Smith, Illustrated London News, 24 June 1922, p. 944, page 14
Figure 15: copyright William Zittrich, page 18
Figure 16: Corel Professional Photos, page 18
Figure 17: copyright Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, photo by Lennart Nilsson, The Incredible Machine, National Geographic Society, page 19
Figure 18: Arctic Tern from Corel/migration route by Bradley W. Anderson/cockpit photo by Walt Brown, page 20
Figure 19: drawing of microphotograph by Bradley W. Anderson, page 20
Figure 20: Image excerpted from the video "A Question of Origins," Eternal Productions, www.eternal-productions.org. Used with permission, page 20
Figure 21: Life Art Collections, TechPool Studios, page 22
Figure 22: NASA, page 28
Figure 23: NASA, page 29
Figure 24: composition by Bradley W. Anderson using NASA photos, page 30
Figure 25: NASA, page 32
Figure 26: PhotoDisk, Vol. 34, Spacescapes, page 36
Figure 27: U. S. Naval Observatory, page 36
Figure 28: Walt Brown, page 37
Figure 29: courtesy of Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany, page 37
Figure 30: used with permission of the Creation Research Society, P.O. Box 8263, St. Joseph, MO 64508-8263/composition by Bradley W. Anderson, page 37
Figure 31: composition by Bradley W. Anderson using NASA photos, page 40
Figure 32: NASA, page 40
Figure 33: L. A. Frank, The University of Iowa, page 41
Figure 34: PhotoDisk, Vol. 34, Spacescapes, page 41
Figure 35: composition by Bradley W. Anderson using pictures copyright by Aris Multimedia Entertainment, Inc., page 45
Figure 36: Walt Brown, page 46
Figure 37: John J. McIntosh, page 47
Figure 38: Charles R. Hazard, Insight on the News, page 48
Figure 39: Ethel R. Nelson. For details see her book, The Discovery of Genesis, p. xii, page 49
Figure 40: Ark sketch by Walt Brown/photo by U.S. Air Force Academy, page 50
Figure 41: Steve Daniels, page 107
Figure 42: copyright-LANDISCOR INC., page 109
Figure 43: World Ocean Floor, Bruce C. Heezen and Marie Tharp, 1977, copyright by Marie Tharp 1977, reproduced by permission of Marie Tharp, 1 Washington Ave., South Nyack, NY 10960, page 111
Figure 44: U.S. Navy SEASAT satellite photo, page 111
Figure 45: Walt Brown, page 111
Figure 46: Bradley W. Anderson, page 111
Figure 47: Bradley W. Anderson, page 112
Figure 48: John Pinkston and Laura Stern, USGS, page 112
Figure 49: courtesy Geological Survey of Canada (photo no. GSC180345), page 113
Figure 50: illustration by Allen Beechel, page 116
Figure 51: Bradley W. Anderson, page 116
Figure 52: Bradley W. Anderson, page 116
Figure 53: Walt Brown, page 118
Figure 54: Bradley W. Anderson, page 123
Figure 55: NOAA Photo Library, page 123
Figure 56: Bradley W. Anderson, page 123
Figure 57: Steve Daniels, page 124
Figure 58: Bradley W. Anderson, page 124
Figure 59: Walt Brown, page 124
Figure 60: Bradley W. Anderson, page 125
Figure 61: Steve Daniels/Bradley W. Anderson, page 126
Figure 62: Steve Daniels, page 126
Figure 63: computer animation by Bradley W. Anderson, page 127
Figure 64: Bradley W. Anderson, page 128
Figure 65: Bradley W. Anderson, page 129
Figure 66: Bradley W. Anderson, page 129
Figure 67: Walt Brown, page 131
Figure 68: Walt Brown, page 131
Figure 69: Chile’s Paleontological Museum of Caldera, page 133
Figure 70: copyright WorldSat International Inc., 1999; www.worldsat.ca; all rights reserved, page 135
Figure 71: Walt Brown, page 135
Figure 72: Walt Brown, page 138
Figure 73: Walt Brown, page 139
Figure 74: Walt Brown, page 140
Figure 75: Bradley W. Anderson, page 141
Figure 76: Bradley W. Anderson, page 141
Figure 77: Walt Brown, page 141
Figure 78: Walt Brown, page 142
Figure 79: Walt Brown, page 143
Figure 80: Digital Wisdom, Inc.; inset map by USGS; labels by Walt Brown, page 149
Figure 81: photo of Ashley Wilcox by Walt Brown, page 151
Figure 82: Walt Brown, page 153
Figure 83: drawn by Walt Brown after Satoru Urakawa, page 154
Figure 84: Calvin Hamilton, used with permission, page 155
Figure 85: Walt Brown, page 156
Figure 86: drawn by Walt Brown after Cliff Frohlich, page 156
Figure 87: NASA, page 156
Figure 88: Walt Brown, page 160
Figure 89: Walt Brown, page 161
Figure 90: NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, page 167
Figure 91: *Walt Brown, based on data taken from "Episodic Tremor and Slip on the Cascadia Subduction Zone," Science, 20 June 2003, Vol. 300, p. 1943, page 167
Figure 92: Jim McDowell, page 168
Figure 93: Jim McDowell, page 169
Figure 94: Walt Brown, page 170
Figure 95: Walt Brown, page 178
Figure 96: George W. Housner, page 185
Figure 97: George W. Housner, page 185
Figure 98: Walt Brown, page 189
Figure 99: Walt Brown and Bradley W. Anderson, page 189
Figure 100: Walt Brown, page 190
Figure 101: Bradley W. Anderson, page 193
Figure 102: Jim, Sean, and Ryan McDowell, page 194
Figure 103: Walt Brown, page 194
Figure 104: Bradley W. Anderson, page 194
Figure 105: Walt Brown, page 194
Figure 106: Bradley W. Anderson, page 194
Figure 107: Walt Brown, page 195
Figure 108: Corel Professional Photos, page 195
Figure 109: Walt Brown, page 195
Figure 110: Walt Brown, page 195
Figure 111: *Walt Brown, page 196
Figure 112: Lupus Animation, LLC, page 201
Figure 113: copyright 2008 TerraMetrics, Inc; copyright DigitalGlobe; Google Earth; captions and outline by Walt Brown, page 204
Figure 114: Walt Brown, page 204
Figure 115: Heinrich Balduin Mollhausen, page 205
Figure 115: *Heinrich Balduin Mollhausen, page 205
Figure 116: R Scott Cherba, website: http://cherba.com/wcs/features/030420/index.html, page 206
Figure 117: computer-generated map by Bradley W. Anderson, page 208
Figure 118: computer-generated illustration by Bradley W. Anderson, page 209
Figure 119: U.S. Geological Survey, page 209
Figure 120: Walt Brown, page 209
Figure 121: Walt Brown, page 209
Figure 122: Photo by (c) Vadim Aristov–www.aristov.com, page 210
Figure 123: Walt Brown, page 211
Figure 124: Walt Brown, page 212
Figure 125: Walt Brown, page 212
Figure 126: Walt Brown, page 212
Figure 127: copyright Creatas, 2006, page 213
Figure 128: Corel Professional Photos, page 214
Figure 129: Lupus Animation, LLC, page 214
Figure 130: Walt Brown, page 214
Figure 131: courtesy California Imperial Sand Dunes, page 215
Figure 132: Walt Brown, page 217
Figure 133: courtesy of Dr. Larry Sobel, page 219
Figure 134: The Wave, Coyote Buttes, Arizona; Symon Byrne, page 220
Figure 135: Walt Brown, page 221
Figure 136: Marine Geoscience Data System, page 221
Figure 137: Walt Brown, page 228
Figure 138: Walt Brown, page 228
Figure 139: Walt Brown, page 232
Figure 140: (above) Corel Professional Photos; (below) copyright Churchill & Klehr, page 243
Figure 141: Corel Professional Photos, page 246
Figure 142: Walt Brown, page 246
Figure 143: courtesy Zoological Museum of St. Petersburg, page 251
Figure 144: Natural History Museum, London, page 251
Figure 145: map drawn by Bradley W. Anderson, page 252
Figure 146: courtesy of Richard B. Firestone et al., page 255
Figure 147: N. A. Transehe, “The Siberian Sea Road,” The Geographical Review, Vol. 15, 1925, p. 375, page 256
Figure 148: N. A. Transehe, “The Siberian Sea Road,” The Geographical Review, Vol. 15, 1925, p. 375, page 256
Figure 149: Steve Daniels, page 256
Figure 150: courtesy of Adrei Sher, page 259
Figure 151: B. Willis et al., Research in China, Vol. 1 (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution, 1907), page 260
Figure 152: Steve Daniels, page 262
Figure 153: Steve Daniels, page 262
Figure 154: Comet Linear: NASA; All others: PhotoDisk, Vol. 34 Spacescapes, page 285
Figure 155: PhotoDisk, Vol. 34, Spacescapes, page 286
Figure 156: NASA, page 287
Figure 157: NASA, page 287
Figure 158: Apollo 16, NASA, page 288
Figure 159: NASA, page 289
Figure 160: Walt Brown, page 290
Figure 161: Jim McDowell, page 290
Figure 162: Walt Brown, page 291
Figure 163: Walt Brown, page 292
Figure 164: Walt Brown, page 299
Figure 165: *Artist: Lieve Verschuier, page 301
Figure 166: Walt Brown, page 302
Figure 167: NASA, page 303
Figure 168: NASA/JPL, page 321
Figure 169: drawn by Walt Brown after Erik Asphaug, page 323
Figure 170: Walt Brown, page 324
Figure 171: Walt Brown, page 324
Figure 172: Walt Brown, page 326
Figure 173: Marvin Killgore, Southwest Meteorite Laboratory, page 327
Figure 174: Walt Brown, page 328
Figure 175: NASA, page 330
Figure 176: ISAS/JAXA, page 331
Figure 177: NASA. The Cassini Program, page 332
Figure 178: Walt Brown, page 333
Figure 179: NASA, page 335
Figure 180: NASA/JPL/MSSS, page 337
Figure 181: U.S. Naval Observatory, page 349
Figure 182: Randy Montoya, Sandia National Laboratory, page 349
Figure 183: Jon Schoenfield and Walt Brown, page 351
Figure 184: Joshua B. Spencer and Walt Brown, page 353
Figure 185: Stanislav Adamenko, page 354
Figure 186: Stanislav Adamenko, page 354
Figure 187: Walt Brown, page 358
Figure 188: drawing by Walt Brown, based on Figure 16 in referenced paper by Paul A. Ramdohr, page 360
Figure 189: Walt Brown, page 360
Figure 190: Walt Brown, page 361
Figure 191: Walt Brown, page 361
Figure 192: Walt Brown, page 361
Figure 193: reproduced with permission of B. W. James, School of Physics, University of Sydney, page 362
Figure 194: Walt Brown, page 364
Figure 195: Jim McDowell, page 365
Figure 196: Henry W. Miller, The Paris Gun, page 366
Figure 197: NASA, page 371
Figure 198: photograph by R. Pelisson, Sahara meteorite from Hammada al Hamra Plateau, Libya, page 376
Figure 199: redrawn from Briere and Scanlon, Figure 4, U.S. Geological Survey, page 378
Figure 200: Jim McDowell, page 379
Figure 201: Walt Brown, page 389
Figure 202: Walt Brown and Jim McDowell, page 399
Figure 203: Walt Brown, page 401
Figure 205: PhotoDisk, Vol. 34 Spacescapes, page 404
Figure 206: (A) (B) (D) (E) (F) National Optical Astronomy Observatories, W. Schoening/N. Sharp, (C) T. Boroson; composition by Bradley W. Anderson, page 404
Figure 207: Courtesy of Indiana University, page 409
Figure 208: NASA, page 417
Figure 209: Gerhard Heilmann, The Origin of Birds, p. 168, page 419
Figure 210: courtesy of N. Chandra Wickramasinghe from Archaeopteryx: The Primordial Bird; design by Bradley W. Anderson, page 419
Figure 211: courtesy of N. Chandra Wickramasinghe from Archaeopteryx: The Primordial Bird, page 419
Figure 212: courtesy of N. Chandra Wickramasinghe from Archaeopteryx: The Primordial Bird, page 420
Figure 213: composition by Bradley W. Anderson using T-Rex from the Natural History Museum, London, and bird from Corel Professional Photos, page 420
Figure 214: Adventures Unlimited Press, page 426
Figure 215: Michihimo Yano, page 431
Figure 216: Walt Brown, page 434
Figure 217: Walt Brown, page 459
Figure 218: Walt Brown and Bradley W. Anderson; inset by Donald Wesley Patton, page 465
Figure 219: Bradley W. Anderson and Walt Brown, page 466
Figure 220: design by Peggy Brown and Bradley W. Anderson using Corel Professional Photos and photo by Bradley W. Anderson, page 478
Figure 221: Tom Moore, page 484
Figure 222: based on an earlier drawing by George Mulfinger, page 495
Figure 223: Bradley W. Anderson, page 499
Figure 224: Walt Brown, page 507
Figure 225: ScienceCartoonsPlus.com, page 510
Figure 226: Walt Brown, page 521
Figure 227: Walt Brown, page 522
Figure 228: Walt Brown, page 525
Figure 229: Bradley W. Anderson, page 527
Figure 230: Walt Brown, page 531
Figure 231: Bradley W. Anderson, page 531
Figure 232: Walt Brown, page 532
Figure 233: Drawn by Diego Rodriguez based on photo by E. U. Franck, page 535
Figure 234: Walt Brown, page 543
Figure 235: Walt Brown, page 545