Today's Creation Moment: Recent Episodes
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Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance.
"Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance.
The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on CD. See creationmoments.com for more information.
A recent theory claims human ancestors were aquatic apes who evolved speech while swimming. This odd idea attempts to explain why humans lack body hair. Such theories show the desperation to explain away our divine origin.
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Evidence shows humans domesticated horses much earlier than evolutionists thought. Ancient Egyptian records mention horses, contradicting critics of Scripture. Once again, the Bible’s historical accuracy is confirmed.
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Plants not only respond to sound and music but also seem to possess memory and sensitivity. They react to injury and can communicate chemically. If God gave plants this much care, how much more does He care for you?
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Ancient observatories and calendars, like those at Stonehenge and the Sun Dagger, support the Bible’s account of early advanced humans. These achievements align with Genesis’ description of inventive, intelligent people since the day we were created.
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Piltdown Man, once used to support evolution, was later revealed as a hoax, possibly orchestrated by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Scientific fraud has often supported evolutionary theory.
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Image: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Walter Benington 1914, Walter Benington, PD, Wikimedia Commons.
Archaeological finds show evidence of farming long before evolutionary timelines allow. Grindstones and grains found in supposedly ancient sites support the Bible’s record. The Bible’s account of early intelligent humans is reliable and affirmed by science.
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Image: Farming portrait, Maler der Grabkammer des Menna, Maler der Grabkammer des Menna, PD, Wikimedia Commons.
Researchers discovered that spiders feel pain, challenging the evolutionary idea that “lower animals” lack such experiences. The Bible's descriptions of animals as experiencing life are being validated. Creation shows a consistency in sensory design.
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The assassin bug camouflages itself with termite nest material and lures its prey using dead termites as bait. This complex, strategic behavior is unique and intelligent.
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Image: Tegea atropicta (termite assassin bug), Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
Mistletoe seeds rely on birds for distribution, even using bird behavior like beak-cleaning to ensure growth. Then there’s also the dwarf mistletoe that uses explosive force to spread seeds without birds.
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Scientists often interpret red-shifted starlight as evidence of distant galaxies, but alternate explanations exist. Non-creationist astronomers like Halton Arp challenge these assumptions. This is a good reminder to trust Scripture over speculative science.
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Image: Celestial Fireworks, Hubble 25th Anniversary Image, NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), A. Nota (ESA/STScI), and the Westerlund 2 Science Team, PD, Wikimedia Commons.
Pigeons can recognize all letters of the alphabet and outperform humans on assembly lines. Evolution struggles to explain such ability in small-brained birds. Intelligence is a gift from the Creator, not the product of brain size.
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Research shows that even 36-hour-old babies can smile and recognize expressions, challenging the idea that all behavior is learned. These natural, innate abilities reflect divine design. The Bible's depiction of humans as unique, loved individuals is confirmed by science.
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Elephant ear plants generate heat and rely completely on their symbiotic relationship with scarab beetles for pollination. This precise biological interdependence points to a divine plan. If God provides for plants and beetles, how much more will He care for humanity?
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Mercury still has a magnetic field despite its supposed billions-of-years age, which confounds evolutionary timelines. A young planet, as supported by the Bible, easily explains this observation. The heavens continue to declare the glory of God.
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Some plants, like the skunk cabbage, generate heat that enables them to bloom even under snow. These early blooms remind us of God's promise to sustain the cycles of nature.
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Image: Eastern Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) in snow, Judy Gallagher, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
Contrary to claims that Christians are more prone to superstition, studies show Bible-believing Christians are the least involved in cults and pseudo-science. The most susceptible to superstition are the irreligious and religious liberals. Christianity, grounded in truth and creation, promotes rational thinking and freedom from superstition.
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Nobel Prize-winning scientist George Wald acknowledged a non-material aspect of life—consciousness—which he believed exists beyond space and time. His view challenged the materialistic foundation of evolution, leading to strong rejection from the scientific community. This response highlights how evolution functions more as a belief system than an open scientific inquiry.
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Photo: Children Talk to Nobel Prize Winner George Wald, Bart Molendijk, Anefo, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
Bees create “bee bread” by adding enzymes, microbes, and secretions to pollen, enhancing its nutrition far beyond honey. This complex process involves antibiotic protection, microbial control, and biochemical transformation, all done instinctively. Such advanced preparation reveals a depth of knowledge in bees that could only come from a Creator.
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Photo: Bee bread (perga fermented pollen), Vta78, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons, Changes Made.
Some bacteria can survive extreme conditions by forming spores and entering a state of suspended animation for decades. They even produce special proteins to protect their DNA from ultraviolet radiation.
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Mussels use a remarkable foot to locate ideal surfaces and apply a complex adhesive that works underwater. This glue is resistant to water, freezing, and pressure changes, outperforming modern adhesives. The mussel's specialized chemistry and design reveal sophisticated engineering by the Creator.
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Creationists have long predicted that fossils would show "modern" creatures living alongside dinosaurs, contradicting evolutionary timelines. Recent fossil finds have pushed back the supposed age of anthropoids, placing them closer to the time of dinosaurs. These discoveries support the biblical view of a young Earth and the coexistence of various life forms from the beginning.
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Some plants release "green leaf odors" when attacked, attracting wasps that paralyze attacking caterpillars. This complex interspecies communication between plants and insects shows intelligence in creation. Such systems defy the idea that these relationships "just happened" and instead point to a Creator's provision and design.
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Tomato plants, when attacked by insects, produce defensive chemicals and release a compound called methyl jasmonate to warn neighboring plants. These neighbors then begin their own defenses, showcasing communication and biochemical awareness in plants.
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Scientists have discovered that species have built-in mechanisms to maintain a balanced male-to-female ratio, even when disrupted by natural events. This has been observed in fish populations, which correct imbalances in just a few generations. Such intricate design challenges evolutionary theory and supports the biblical view of purposeful creation.
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Image: Atlantic silverside, Hugh McCormick Smith, PD, Wikimedia Commons, Changes Made.
Studies show people often don't know how or why they believe what they do, and distractions can lead to accepting falsehoods. Belief begins with automatic acceptance before being evaluated against known truth, often without conscious awareness. This underscores the importance of staying grounded in Scripture, like the Bereans who tested all teachings against God's Word.
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Certain bacteria can build their own magnetic compasses out of iron-sulfur crystals called greigite, enabling them to navigate in their environments. Remarkably, these bacteria can create complex crystal structures at normal temperatures—something human technology can't replicate.
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Image: Magnetosomes in magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense, Frank Mickoleit, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
A rare condition called "foreign-accent syndrome" causes individuals to suddenly speak with accents they’ve never learned, suggesting that the brain may have built-in language templates. This phenomenon aligns with the biblical account that God originally gave humanity a unified language before confusing it at Babel. It supports the idea that language is more than learned sounds—it's a gift embedded in our very design.
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The Colombian rock-climbing catfish can scale 20-foot waterfalls using specialized features like a suction-cup mouth, a gripping stomach plate, and strong muscles. This unique climbing method defies random chance and points to intelligent design. Such complex abilities in an unassuming creature highlight the handiwork of a Creator.
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Photo: Climbing catfish (chaetostoma microps), Geoffrey Hoese, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
Some trees use complex defense strategies against insects, producing toxins or shedding leaves to resist attacks. Insects, in turn, exhibit clever adaptations—such as caterpillars that neutralize cyanide or larvae that weaponize toxic oils. These sophisticated interactions in nature reflect the intelligence and planning of a wise Creator.
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Some spiders cleverly mimic ants—right down to waving their front legs like antennae—to avoid predators, even though ants themselves aren’t fooled. These spiders often live among the ants they imitate, gaining protection from more dangerous predators like wasps. This behavior, replicated in many forms across nature, reflects intentional intelligence in creation rather than mere coincidence.
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Photo: Red weaver-ant mimicking jumper spider(myrmarachne plataleoides), Aukid phumsirichat, Vecteezy.
Dr. Colin Patterson of the British Museum of Natural History challenged evolutionary claims when biochemical comparisons among species didn't match expected evolutionary relationships. Though not a creationist, Patterson’s findings highlighted major flaws in evolutionary theory.
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Photo: Charles Darwin 1881, Elliott & Fry, PD, Wikimedia Commons.
Trees provide far more than wood and food—they purify the air, create sugar through photosynthesis, regulate climate, and even communicate with one another through fungal networks. As science uncovers more about trees, it increasingly affirms the wisdom in God's creation.
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The Amazonian leaf fish is expertly camouflaged to look and behave like a drifting leaf, complete with markings that mimic veins and a leaf stem. It uses this disguise to ambush prey, deceiving other fish until it's too late.
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Photo: Amazon leaffish (monocirrhus polyacanthus), Daiju Azuma, CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons, Changes Made.
Scientists have discovered that musical ability, including perfect pitch, is likely inherited genetically, challenging the idea that such traits could arise randomly through evolution. Only a small percentage of people possess perfect pitch, and musical talent often runs in families regardless of formal training. These findings highlight the Creator's intentional design and the special gifts He gives to each person.
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Trees under insect attack can emit chemical signals to warn neighboring trees, prompting them to produce toxins as a defense. This chemical communication enables even immobile plants to respond to threats.
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Certain plants and animals demonstrate astonishing survival strategies. These strategies ensure survival against parasites and environmental challenges. The sophistication in these interactions points to an intelligent Creator behind life's design.
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Photo: Two New Zealand mud snails (potamopyrgus antipodarum) on leaf, Judi Lapsley Miller, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
For centuries, Christians—including Jesus Himself—understood Genesis 1 as a literal, historical account of creation and regarded Adam and Eve as real people. Only in more recent times, under the influence of secular philosophy and evolutionary thinking, have some begun to question this view. The natural, straightforward reading of Genesis remains the most consistent with both biblical teaching and church history.
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Image: Jesus Teaching, Chil Vera, Pixabay.
Fever, often viewed as a symptom to be treated, is actually a defense mechanism designed to help the body fight infection. It boosts the immune system's response and deprives bacteria of resources, increasing the body’s ability to heal. This clever design shows God’s wisdom in how He built our bodies to combat disease.
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Many creatures in nature have been designed with clever camouflage, mimicking their surroundings to avoid predators. From moss-like crickets to leaf-resembling moths, these examples show remarkable attention to detail by our Creator God.
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Photo: Trachypetrella anderssonii (Stone grasshopper), Ragnhild & Neil Crawford from Sweden, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
The natural world is filled with constant change, but that change serves to maintain stability and balance in life. Life cycles in nature, such as reproduction and renewal, show an intricate design meant to preserve creation rather than evolve it. This design reflects a Creator who sustains His creation until the day He returns.
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Even prominent scientists like Sir Fred Hoyle and Dr. Colin Patterson have questioned the validity and evidence for evolution. Patterson admitted that nothing he knew about evolution was definitively true, calling it "anti-knowledge." Evolution is increasingly seen as lacking scientific grounding.
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The kakapo, a flightless, nocturnal parrot from New Zealand, defies evolutionary logic with features that seem to hinder survival. Its unique behaviors and traits highlight the creativity and variety in God's creation. Despite being considered unfit by evolutionary standards, it thrives in its environment by design.
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Photo: Kakapo chick, Department of Conservation, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
The coelacanth, once thought extinct and used as evolutionary evidence, was rediscovered alive and well, displaying traits that contradict its supposed primitiveness. Its advanced reproductive system and sensing abilities highlight its sophisticated design. Far from supporting evolution, the coelacanth affirms the idea of a purposeful Creator.
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Image: Coelacanth, Envato.
The "gap theory" suggests a time gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 to accommodate evolutionary timescales and fossil records, but this theory is not supported by the original Hebrew or biblical doctrine. The Bible clearly teaches that death came into the world through Adam’s sin, not before.
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Image: Scofield Bible, GEOGOZZ, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons, Changes Made.
Ancient civilizations demonstrated remarkable technological capabilities long before modern times. In South America, massive stone monuments may have been cast from liquefied rock using a technique still known to some indigenous groups. These discoveries challenge the belief that human intelligence and innovation are recent developments.
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Photo: Villahermosa, Parque Museo La Venta, Colossal Head, Arian Zwegers from Brussels, Belgium, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
Spider silk is so strong and precise that scientists use it in nuclear fusion experiments. Even in cutting-edge science, human innovation relies on God’s superior materials.
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Animals instinctively use medicinal plants to treat illnesses, demonstrating knowledge beyond mere survival instincts. This is evidence of an inherent wisdom placed within creation by God.
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Basic mathematical calculations challenge evolutionary claims about population growth and geological change. When examined closely, the numbers align better with the biblical timeline.
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The evolution of male and female sexes poses an unsolvable problem for evolutionary theory. However, God’s creation of gender from the beginning provides a clear answer.
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The deadly botulinum toxin has been harnessed for medical use, demonstrating how harmful substances can serve beneficial purposes. This transformation echoes the biblical theme of redemption.
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Image: Botulinum toxin A1 (BoNT/A1), 5-HT2AR, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
All living things use exclusively left-handed amino acids despite natural processes producing equal amounts of both. This mystery points to intentional design rather than random chance.
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Image: Amino Acid Chirality, NASA, PD, Wikimedia Commons.
The bucket orchid’s elaborate pollination strategy forces bees to transport pollen. Such irreducible complexity challenges the notion of gradual evolution.
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Photo: Coryanthes, Walter from Tampa/St Petersburg, Florida, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
Our sense of smell is intricately wired to our brain, allowing us to detect complex scents. This complexity defies evolutionary explanations.
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A sophisticated ancient well suggests early humans had greater intelligence than evolutionists assume. This aligns with the biblical account of early man’s advanced capabilities.
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Photo: Well at the Atlit Yam site, by Yosef Galili, אהוד גלילי עתלית, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
Many natural medicines, from aspirin to quinine, come from plants. This provision reflects God’s care in equipping creation with remedies for human ailments.
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The pineal gland regulates our response to seasonal changes in daylight. Originally dismissed as vestigial, it proves to be an essential part of God’s design.
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Image: Pituitary and pineal glands, US Gov., PD, Wikimedia Commons, Changes Made.
Certain crickets have a built-in bat detection system that activates only when they are flying. Indeed, the Creator cares for even the smallest of His creatures.
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Fossilized forests and warm-climate animal remains in the Arctic suggest the region was once much warmer. This aligns with biblical history rather than evolutionary timescales.
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Photo: Alaskan edmontosaurus skulls, Tim Evanson, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
Despite advances in science, researchers have struggled to explain how bumblebees generate enough lift to fly. This mystery highlights the limitations of human knowledge compared to God's wisdom.
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Spider silk is stronger than steel by weight and resists chemical breakdown, making it one of nature’s most remarkable materials. This innovation inspires human technology but ultimately points to God's superior design.
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A parasitic fungus manipulates flowers to attract pollinators, turning them into spore factories instead of pollen providers. This complexity in nature speaks of purposeful design rather than chance evolution.
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Photo: Catchfly, Takaharu Misawa, Pixabay.
Babies begin learning sounds and smells even before birth. This shows their individual human identity and confirms the biblical truth that life begins in the womb.
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Our ability to detect faint scents far beyond expected chemical thresholds is due to proteins that trap odor molecules.
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Fossilized termite nests identical to modern ones were found in dinosaur-era wood. This contradicts evolutionary claims of gradual development, supporting the biblical assertion that creatures reproduce after their kind.
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Hawaiian fruit flies have complex and varied mating songs, demonstrating that even small creatures possess sophisticated behaviors.
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Photo: Melon fly (Bactrocera cucurbitae), Scott Bauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
The cheetah’s specialized features, including its unique skeletal and muscular structure, allow it to be the fastest land animal. Fossil evidence shows cheetahs have always been the same, supporting creation over evolution.
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Contrary to evolutionary expectations, life returned to Mount St. Helens within five years of its eruption. This rapid recovery challenges assumptions about the slow pace of ecological restoration.
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Despite their deadly reputation, rattlesnakes are surprisingly vulnerable to environmental stress and predators. This mirrors how Satan, though dangerous, is ultimately a defeated foe through Christ.
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Photo: Squirrel vs rattlesnake, Richard Coss, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
Scientists believe Neptune and Uranus may have vast diamond deposits due to extreme pressure. Material wealth is insignificant compared to the riches found in God's kingdom.
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Rattlesnakes have intricate sensory abilities, including binocular-like vision and jawbones that detect vibrations. These remarkable features reflect a precise design.
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Certain ant species nurture beetle larvae, even to their own colony’s demise, contradicting Darwin's theory that natural selection always favors survival. Such behaviors suggest a purpose beyond evolution.
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Photo: Ant carrying something, Cyril, Pixabay.
The sidewinder snake uses a clever hunting strategy, burying itself in the sand and using its tail as bait to lure geckos. This remarkable design testifies to the intelligence of our Creator.
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Photo: Sidewinder snake, nmoorhatch, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
Goldfish not only see colors but also have brains that adjust for color constancy, a feature once thought exclusive to humans. This discovery challenges the assumption that simpler creatures lack complex abilities.
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Evolutionists once thought snakes lost their legs to save energy, but research has disproven this claim. Scientific findings show snakes use as much energy as legged creatures, undermining evolutionary explanations.
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While most animals use lungs or gills to breathe, the sand-bubbler crab breathes through its legs, a fact that scientists overlooked for over a century. This discovery challenges evolutionary assumptions and highlights the uniqueness of God's creations.
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Photo: Sand bubbler crab, Rushen, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
The glass knifefish uses its unique nervous system to emit and process up to 700 electrical impulses per second, functioning much like a radar system to navigate its surroundings. Its brain utilizes parallel processing, a technique also used in advanced computing, to manage these rapid and complex signals. This extraordinary design reflects the ingenuity of a Creator and showcases nature’s complexity that is far beyond what could have arisen from random evolutionary processes.
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Image: Glass knifefish (Sternopygidae Eigenmannia), Clinton & Charles Robertson, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
The Bible teaches that God did not intend for the world to have death, suffering, or disease. His original creation was perfect, with direct and joyful communication between God and man. However, human sin introduced death and suffering as consequences for turning away from God, and only through Jesus Christ's death and resurrection can we have salvation and eternal joy once more.
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The Aspilia shrub has traditionally been used for treating wounds and stomachaches, but when researchers observed chimpanzees eating the leaves, further discoveries on the Aspilia’s antibiotic properties to fight bacteria, fungi, and worms were made. The chimps’ remarkable behavior raises the question of how these animals discovered the plant’s medicinal qualities in the first place.
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In the Amazon rainforest, mixed-species bird flocks are led by the ant-shrike who warns the flock of bird-eating hawks. Interestingly, the ant-shrike often gives false alarms to distract other birds and steal their food, yet the flock tolerates this behavior due to its value as a vigilant hawk watcher. While such actions are natural for birds, humans are accountable for their moral choices.
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Image: Bluish-slate antshrike, photo 23901440, (c) Cullen Hanks, CC BY-NC, iNaturalist.
The fungus that causes mummy-berry disease in blueberries mimics flowers by producing nectar-like substances, releasing a flower-like perfume, and reflecting ultraviolet light to attract bees. These unsuspecting bees, thinking they're gathering nectar, inadvertently spread the fungus to healthy plants, enabling its reproduction.
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Image: Mummy berry (Monilinia vaccinii-corymbosi), Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Bugwood.org, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons, changes made.
Bumblebees are warm-blooded creatures capable of maintaining a body temperature of 95°F even in freezing conditions. This is thanks to a sophisticated circulatory system that regulates and adapts blood flow to manage heat. This system allows bumblebees to power their flight muscles efficiently and even incubate their eggs at a consistent 80°F, showcasing their remarkable design and complexity.
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Evolutionists claim the fossil record shows an ascending ladder of life with increasing complexity, but evidence from places like the Burgess Shale in Yoho National Park contradicts this. Fossil records actually display life being more diverse and complex in the past than it is today. This aligns with the Bible’s account of living things having always been complex, with no evidence of one kind of creature changing into another.
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Image: Trilobite fossils, Burgess Shale Yoho National Park, Edna Winti, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
Australia's unique wildlife, with its absence of horned animals, challenges the interpretation of ancient Aboriginal rock art depicting horned creatures. Evolutionary scientists struggle to explain how the memory of these animals could have been passed down through 2,000 generations.
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As Christians, we should recognize that many so-called "facts" supporting evolution have been revised or proven incorrect over time. Scientific "facts" are often interpretations that can change with new evidence. However, we can confidently trust in the unchanging truth of Scripture, knowing it remains consistent despite shifting scientific theories.
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Image: Tepexpan skull cast, Ryan Somma from Occoquan, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
Unlike the cooperative systems often attributed to bee societies, bumblebees rely on individual initiative to gather nectar and maximize productivity, with each bee selecting the most rewarding flowers based on personal effort. This efficient, self-driven system benefits the entire colony and is evidence of our Creator’s careful design.
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The narwhal and the strap-toothed whale both appear ill-equipped for hunting. However, scientists have discovered that these creatures, along with dolphins and other toothed whales, likely use loud, focused sound beams underwater to stun their prey. This remarkable ability is a stunning example of how biology, physics, and chemistry work together, set in place by a powerful and intelligent Creator.
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Image: Narwhals, пресс-служба ПАО "Газпром нефть", CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
The moon's craters, once thought to be millions or billions of years old by evolutionary scientists, are now understood to be much younger, only a few thousand years old at most. This conclusion comes from studying moon rock samples brought back by astronauts.
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Image: Lunar Sample Exhibit (people looking at lunar rock), Smithsonian Institution from United States, PD, Wikimedia Commons.
The Asian clam, introduced to the United States by Chinese immigrants, has spread across at least 35 states in just 50 years, causing significant economic impact due to its clogging of water intake pipes. Scientists discovered that the clam can "sail" by using its foot to catch currents, allowing it to travel between bodies of water. While this rapid spread is remarkable, it also showcases the intricacy of design in nature, where balance is maintained to prevent overpopulation—another testament to the Creator's wisdom.
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Image: Asian clams (corbicula fluminea), AnRo0002, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
Cellular slime molds are fascinating life forms that blur the lines between plants and animals. They start as individual amoebas that live in moist environments but can combine into a slug-like mass when conditions become unfavorable. This complex behavior highlights the incredible God-given design and versatility found in nature.
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Image: Slime mold fuligo septica, 5snake5, CC BY-SA 4.0 , Wikimedia Commons.
Before sin entered the world, man was created with extraordinary abilities, likely with far greater mental and physical potential than we experience today. Evidence of this original capacity can be seen in remarkable individuals such as savants like "K" and Leslie Lemke, who demonstrate incredible feats of memory and skill. These abilities, while extraordinary, also highlight the regression from the original design.
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Image: Leslie Lemke at the piano, Rob Amrosius, St. Norbert College in Photos, 1995.
Plants are far more complex than previously thought. They utilize specialized cells to focus and concentrate light, much like a machine. Some plants can even intensify light up to 26 times to maximize photosynthesis efficiency, and when light levels become too high, they direct the excess to cells that can safely absorb it. This sophisticated design, which reflects advanced chemistry and physics, serves as a powerful testament to the Creator's ingenuity.
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Scientists still don't fully understand how raindrops form, despite theories like the ice crystal model and the idea that radon gas helps droplets attract each other. The mystery arises because particles in clouds are typically negatively charged and repel each other, making it unclear why they would come together to form rain. This uncertainty in scientific understanding serves as a reminder not to be overly swayed by claims that challenge the Bible when even fundamental processes remain unresolved.
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In nature, animals like birds and frogs organize their calls to avoid interference, much like how radio stations are assigned frequencies. Two species of frogs in South America, despite using the same frequency for their calls, manage to avoid interference by calling in different environments—one above water and the other underwater. This clever arrangement displays how the Creator designed these animals to communicate effectively.
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The diamondback caterpillar, a major pest for cabbage family plants, has a surprising strategy for survival. It prefers to feed on unhealthy fields where the crops have already suffered, knowing that its primary predator, a parasite wasp, targets healthy fields. This behavior suggests the caterpillar has been designed with an instinctual understanding of how to avoid danger.
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Image: Diamondback caterpillar (Plutella_xylostella), K. Chaikovska (Kate Chkv), CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
In Antarctica's frigid waters, a small shrimp-like plankton uses a clever survival strategy. It kidnaps a tiny snail-like pteropod to protect itself. The pteropod produces a chemical that deters fish from eating the plankton, but after some time, the plankton releases the pteropod to continue its search for another one. This extraordinary behavior is not a product of chance, but rather, the design of an all-wise Creator.
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Image: Unidentified plankton, NOAA's National Ocean Service, PD, Wikimedia Commons.
The leatherback sea turtle, the largest living reptile, can weigh over 2,000 pounds and spends most of its life in deep water. Remarkably, its jaw is equipped with sharp fangs that interlock perfectly to eat large jellyfish (the bulk of its diet), and its digestive system is specially designed to process these jellyfish.
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Image: Leatherback Sea Turtle, Alastair Rae from London, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
The human brain is a marvel, capable of storing not just ideas but also sights, sounds, and even smells, with an average memory capacity of 100 billion bits of information—equivalent to 500 encyclopedias. Remarkably efficient, it weighs under four pounds, uses just 20 watts of energy, and grows stronger with use.
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Creation is intricately woven with mathematics, which happens to be the foundation of music. A geneticist discovered that DNA's base patterns can be translated into musical notes, with each gene producing unique melodies reminiscent of composers like Bach, Debussy, and Chopin. This beautiful harmony in creation testifies to God's power and wisdom, inviting us to join in creation’s song of praise.
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Blood is a marvel of design with many complex components. One example is serum albumin. Produced by the liver, serum albumin regulates blood volume and pressure, ensures proper blood chemistry, transports molecules and medications, and protects the body from protein digestion outside the digestive tract. As the Bible emphasizes the importance of blood for physical life, it also points to eternal life found through the sacrificial blood of Jesus.
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Image: Serum albumin model on abstract background, Borislav Mitev, PD, Wikimedia Commons, changes made.
Scientists have documented evidence of massive ancient waves, such as a 1,000-foot wave that may have shaped parts of Earth's geology and a recorded 1,700-foot wave in Alaska. Similar events are hypothesized to have occurred in Hawaii, with ocean debris and thick gravel beds found on high slopes. These phenomena align with the flood of Noah and its destructive aftermath.
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Human language is uniquely complex, with children instinctively grasping advanced linguistic principles without formal instruction. This exceptional ability sets humans apart from animals and aligns with the biblical view that humans are unique beings, purposefully and intelligently designed.
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The stars, each unique and stunning, testify to the creativity and power of the Creator. While evolutionists claim stars change over billions of years, the rapid transformation of FG Sagittae from a blue to a yellow star in just 36 years challenges these assumptions.
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Image: FG Sagittae light curve over star illustration, Lithopsian, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, changes made.
According to the Bible, language is a divine gift from God, designed to enable fellowship with Him and humans. Studies on deaf children support this view. Those who lack language exposure instinctively follow universal grammatical patterns, indicating humans are programmed for language. This contrasts the evolutionary view, which struggles to explain the complexity of ancient languages and fails to account for innate linguistic abilities.
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Coal formation, once thought to require millions of years, has been demonstrated to occur in much less time under the right conditions. Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory showed that heating lignin with clay at 300°F for weeks to a year can produce coal, with longer heating yielding high-grade coal. These findings align with creationist claims that most of the Earth's coal beds likely formed rapidly during Noah's flood.
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The "self-esteem movement" seeks to boost people's self-image without addressing sin or the need for forgiveness, often lacking a scientific basis. Jesus' parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector illustrates that self-righteousness, rooted in inflated self-esteem, distances people from God, while humble repentance fosters a true relationship with Him. Christians are encouraged to focus on Christ, finding peace and value in His redemption rather than in self-esteem.
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Evolutionary theories that claim the Earth and universe are billions of years old are contradicted by the fact that stars are dying at a rate much faster than they are being formed. Astronomical findings showing stars dying at twice the expected rate further support the biblical truth that creation is young and, because of sin, in a state of decay.
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The process of vision involves a complex chain of chemical and electrical reactions, and research has revealed that the photochemical reaction in the eye occurs incredibly fast - at a rate of 200 billionths of a second. This speed and complexity suggest that such an advanced system could not have developed gradually through evolution. Instead, it points to a Creator who designed the eye with extraordinary precision and purpose.
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Scientists debate whether aging is a result of wear and tear on the body or if it is genetically programmed. Some research highlights an "anti-aging gene" that produces a chemical called SOD, which protects the body from damage caused by free radicals and may extend life. While science explores ways to slow aging, the ultimate solution to death is found in the promise of eternal life through Jesus Christ.
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The rare Australian aquatic frog has an extraordinary method of rearing its young: after fertilizing her eggs, the female swallows them, and they develop inside her stomach without being digested. The young frogs secrete chemicals that prevent the production of stomach acid, turning the mother’s stomach into a safe nursery.
Image Credit: Gastric Brooding Frog (Rheobatrachus silus) giving birth via its mouth, Mike Tyler, University of Adelaide.
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The complexity of the eye challenges evolutionary explanations, as it would require thousands of beneficial mutations for an eyeless creature to develop sight. Mutations generally harm creatures rather than help them, and no evidence exists of gradual eye development in living or fossil animals.
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Creation scientists have criticized the eagerness of evolutionists to turn any ancient fossil into evidence for human evolution. An example is the misidentification of a bone found in northern Africa in 1979, initially claimed to be a hominoid clavicle, which was later confirmed to be the rib bone of a dolphin.
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The human heart beats around 100,000 times a day, operating with incredible precision and adaptability. Controlled by the sinus node, a built-in pacemaker, the heart maintains its steady rhythm. It can even do so when the sinus node fails. This intricate design highlights the complexity and intelligence behind the heart's function.
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God originally created a perfect world, but sin introduced thorns, thistles, and insect pests. Modern science is discovering that natural methods, like using the spined soldier bug, can control pests without the harmful effects of chemicals. These solutions, rooted in God's design, remind us that His ways are always better.
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The belief in evolution has negatively impacted fields of medicine and social sciences, as seen in the patterning technique. Patterning, based on the idea that the nervous system must pass through evolutionary stages, was found to be ineffective and potentially harmful to children and families. This demonstrates how rejecting a Creator can lead to misguided practices.
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Nature documentaries often attribute clever designs in nature to evolution. However, a fossilized moth egg, found to belong to a species capable of hearing the ultrasonic signals of bats, contradicts evolutionary theory. For those who believe in the Bible's account of creation, these creatures were designed by God, created together, and there is no mystery in their existence.
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The concept of "cavemen" as primitive humans has been challenged by evidence of fully human cave-dwelling people such as the Indonesian Basap tribe. Regardless of lifestyle or environment, we are all created by God, valued, and loved by Him.
Image Credit: Caveman Sketch, Leo Wehrli, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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Louis Pasteur's legacy is a powerful example of how faith and science can coexist harmoniously. In a time when evolutionary ideas were gaining prominence, Pasteur’s unwavering belief in the Creator God led him to challenge the idea that life could arise from non-living material. His work not only disproved spontaneous generation but also laid the foundation for important medical advancements, saving countless lives through his discoveries related to germs and vaccines.
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The vastness of the universe, as revealed through the energy of the sun and the enormity of galaxies, underscores the greatness of our Creator. Yet, despite the unimaginable scale of His creation, He has made each person unique with a specific purpose. The idea that God has written out a personal genetic code for each of us is profound - showing His attention to detail and His deep desire for a relationship with us.
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The incredible migration and feeding habits of the Mexican free-tailed bats reflect a highly sophisticated and well-designed system in nature. With 20 million bats congregating in one place, the timing of their migration, reproduction, and feeding is perfectly orchestrated to meet their needs.
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Research supports the idea that the ability to learn language from such a young age is innate and pre-programmed into the human brain. As early as two months old, infants begin distinguishing sounds from their native language, showcasing their inherent capacity for language acquisition. By six months, they can even understand the emotional tones in speech. This built-in skill reflects God’s design for human beings to communicate - not only with each other but ultimately with Him.
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The bola spider's ability to catch moths is a remarkable feat. This spider can not only mimic the moth’s scent and detect vibrations from the moth’s wings, but it also produces a sticky, elastic silk that outmatches anything in modern chemistry. The only plausible explanation for such an intricate and specialized design is that the bola spider was created by God, the ultimate inventor of the complex systems and chemistry it uses.
Image Credit: Bola Spider casting bola, Judy Gallagher, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Researchers found that reducing the size of the brain cortex in rats didn’t result in lower intelligence but caused more aggression and antisocial behavior. This discovery leads us to the conclusion that brain size might not directly correlate with intelligence but rather with the ability to handle complex situations.
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Animals demonstrate the ability to learn through experiences and environmental changes. Honeybees recognize pollen-producing flowers and slugs avoid their favorite food when conditioned to do so. Despite this widespread learning ability, scientists who support evolution struggle to explain how such complex learning processes evolved, especially since they don’t fully understand how learning works.
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The male white-lipped frog of Puerto Rico uses both sound and seismic signals to communicate. By creating thumps through rapid throat inflation, the frog sends seismic waves that help other males determine both his direction and distance. This precise and complex system of communication reflects the intelligence of our Creator.
Image Credit: Caribbean White-lipped Frog, Photo 245354234, Sean Werle, (CC BY-NC), iNaturalist.
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Fossilization, which is often thought to take millions of years, can actually begin in just a few days when the right conditions are met. Research has shown that materials like bone, hair, and even cloth can fossilize quickly. If fossilization can occur in a much shorter time frame than traditionally believed, it challenges the long-age view of Earth's history.
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Eye surgery, practiced for thousands of years, dates back to ancient Egypt and India. The Code of Hammurabi from 4,000 years ago even set penalties for successful or unsuccessful eye surgeries, reflecting the value placed on medical knowledge. This historical evidence highlights mankind's long-standing intelligence and understanding, demonstrating that knowledge is a gift from God.
Image Credit: Ancient Egyptian Medicine (story of eye injury and medical help), PD, Wikimedia Commons, Changes Made.
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Tiny magnetic particles made of magnetite have been discovered in the human brain, particularly concentrated in the membrane surrounding it. While their exact purpose in humans remains unclear, these particles may have once helped with navigation, especially when Earth's magnetic field was stronger in the past.
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The giant Armillarias fungus in Michigan, spanning 38 acres and weighing as much as a blue whale, exemplifies God's design as a vital part of forest ecology. Its underground network decomposes dead wood, releasing carbon dioxide that plants use to produce oxygen, preventing forests from being overwhelmed by waste.
Image Credit: Armillaria gallica (humongous fungus), Dan Molter at Mushroom Observer, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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The South American rainforest, often thought to have evolved over millions of years, may actually be only a few hundred years old, as evidenced by ancient human populations who cleared forests and built cities before the land was reclaimed by nature. Anthropologist Anna Roosevelt's findings suggest that adaptation in the rainforest occurs more rapidly than previously believed.
Photo Credit: Marajoara Culture funerary urn, São Paulo Museum of Art, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons, Changes Made.
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The painted lady butterfly, known for its stunning wing patterns, is the most widespread butterfly species, migrating from Mexico to Canada in a one-way journey. Its ability to instinctively migrate and its dependence on drought-induced thistle crops highlight mysteries of nature and ecological balance.
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Hearing begins with the external ear collecting sound waves and directing them to the eardrum, where vibrations are converted into hydraulic pressure by tiny bones. This pressure is sent to the cochlea, where hair cells sensitive to minute vibrations generate electrical signals for the brain to interpret as sound. The intricate and precise design of our hearing reflects the generous and masterful craftsmanship of our Creator.
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The star P Cygni, which became visible in 1600, is aging much faster than current astronomical theories predict, challenging the idea that stars take millions or billions of years to evolve. Its rapid brightening suggests that some stars may age on a scale of centuries rather than millennia, aligning more closely with a younger universe as described in the Bible.
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Celery, long used in Asian folk medicine for hypertension, contains a natural chemical that prevents stress hormone production, relaxes blood vessels, and lowers blood pressure. Dr. Quang T. Le’s research on this chemical could lead to more effective treatments for hypertension.
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God's creation provides the foundation for all human innovation, as seen in the genetic information He embedded in living organisms. Scientists are utilizing this information to produce useful materials and medicines.
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European blackbirds demonstrate remarkable characteristics that allow them to survive harsh winters. They can even lower their body temperature at night to conserve energy, enabling them to endure extreme cold. These sophisticated features reflect intelligent design and point to the wisdom of our Creator.
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The belief that early humans evolved from primitive ancestors with limited intelligence is challenged by instances of extraordinary mental capacity in individuals today. For example, International Chess Grandmaster George Koltanowski demonstrated remarkable memory and cognitive skills when playing 56 chess games simultaneously while blindfolded. Such human ability raises questions about the evolutionary process.
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Photo: George Koltanowski playing multiple chess games simultaneously, doe-oakridge, PD.
The intelligence of octopuses has been previously underestimated, as demonstrated by studies showing their ability to learn from observation. In experiments, trained octopuses attacked specific colored balls, and untrained ones watching them quickly learned to do the same. This challenges the notion of octopuses being primitive creatures and highlights the complexity of their behavior.
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Biology textbooks often present misleading interpretations about the evolution of fish into land animals. They typically assert that early fish had air-filled swim bladders that evolved into lungs, but according to evolutionists’ own form of dating, the fossils show that lungs appeared in fish before swim bladders. This contradiction undermines the evolutionary narrative and supports the biblical creation account, where both lunged and swim-bladder fish were created on the fifth day.
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In the open markets of Kenya, the warburgia bush is sold for its medicinal properties. Studies have found that extracts from this bush can significantly enhance the effectiveness of antibiotics, making treatments up to 16 times more powerful against yeast infections and other fungal issues. This discovery underscores the Creator's provision of natural remedies for diseases stemming from sin.
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Research has revealed that moths exhibit a sophisticated method of communication through pheromones, far beyond what scientists previously understood. Female moths release these pheromones in rhythmic pulses which can travel up to a meter, akin to blowing out a candle from 60 feet away. Findings like these only further highlight the elegant design found in all of creation.
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The Lascaux cave paintings in France, dating back thousands of years, showcase the intelligence and skill of their ancient artists. Researchers have discovered tools such as scaffolding, stone lamps, and palettes used by the painters, revealing that they sourced local minerals to create a vibrant range of colors that have endured over time.
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Photo: Lascaux cave painting, EUX, PD.
Scientists have been examining the remarkable dragline silk produced by the common garden spider, which is as strong as nylon yet twice as stretchy. This silk is composed of both crystalline and rubber-like sections, giving it unique properties that are difficult to replicate.
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Bacteria, such as E. coli, exhibit surprisingly sophisticated behavior despite their simplicity. They can swim towards favorable conditions and away from unfavorable ones by using whip-like flagella. This movement requires the ability to sense their environment and remember previous experiences, indicating a level of intelligence imparted by an intelligent Creator.
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Research shows that living cells possess dormant "suicide genes" that trigger cell death when necessary, like during a tadpole's transformation into a toad. This discovery suggests that such genes, which seem counterproductive to evolution's survival narrative, align more closely with the biblical view that the curse of sin introduced death into creation.
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The ice plant scale, a tiny wingless insect, exhibits sophisticated preflight and flight strategies to move between ice plants. Under microscopic observation, researchers noted that these insects can sense wind direction and position themselves to maximize lift by extending their legs and antennae. This remarkable behavior suggests that such knowledge and abilities were intricately designed by our Creator.
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Photo: Iceplant scales, Mary K. Hanson, CC-BY, via iNaturalist.
Evolutionists claim that similarities between species indicate common ancestry, such as humans and apes being closely related. However, this reasoning can lead to absurd conclusions, such as cockroaches and humans sharing a common ancestor due to similar brain chemicals. It would seem that when the Creator is denied, so is logic.
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The traditional concept of the five senses has been expanded with the discovery of a sixth, linked to the vomeronasal organ (VNO). David L. Berliner observed a change in social dynamics among coworkers when exposed to extracts from human skin, leading to the realization that the VNO plays a role in communicating emotions and social signals. Science continues to uncover new aspects of human biology.
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Illustration: Frontal section human embryo's nasal cavity, Henry Vandyke Carter, PD.
A comprehensive eight-year study involving 2,000 adolescents revealed that teenagers are "desperately" searching for rules to navigate life. The research found that when parents provide consistent values, teens are more likely to adopt them over peer influences. However, conflicting values from parents and community elements can lead teens to reject all rules and create their own. This underscores the Biblical encouragement for parents, particularly fathers, to impart consistent values to their children.
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Research has shown that insects are capable of learning and generalizing from their experiences, contradicting the long-held belief that they lack intelligence. In experiments with milkweed bugs and praying mantises, mantises learned to avoid milkweed bugs after having a bad experience with them.
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The Puerto Rican forest frog, known as the coqui, exemplifies unique parental care among amphibians. While the female lays her eggs and departs, the male takes on the crucial role of protecting and moistening the eggs, dedicating up to 23 hours a day to this task. The Creator designed a system where both parents contribute to the survival of their species while fulfilling their respective roles.
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Photo: Coqui, Edgar Torres, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Bdellas are fascinating microscopic predators known for their speed and unique feeding habits. They hunt and consume E. coli bacteria by puncturing their membranes and injecting enzymes to digest them from the inside. Scientists recognize that bdellas play a crucial role in controlling bacterial populations. Every part of creation, even the smallest creatures, serves a God-given purpose.
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Illustration: Bdella life cycle, Estevezj, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, changes made.
The belief that modern humans are more advanced than ancient people is a common misconception. The Bible teaches that humans have always been the same in terms of emotions, needs, and curiosity. While technological advancements may differ, ancient discoveries, such as the Chinese makyo or "magic mirror," reveal the ingenuity of past civilizations.
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Photo: Makyo mirror, Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
God has created living things with purposeful design, often beyond what we can understand. While evolutionists struggle to explain the vast array of male antelope horns that have no clear functional purpose, Christians see them as expressions of God's creativity and glory.
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The origin of an idea, whether from the Bible or other sources, doesn’t make it unworthy of scientific consideration. Scientific discoveries can emerge in unexpected ways, such as Kekule’s vision of atomic structure or the accidental discovery of an insecticide from orange peel soap.
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The parting of the Red Sea may have been a natural event directed by God. A study using computer simulations suggests that a strong east wind could have lowered the water, allowing the Israelites to cross before drowning Pharaoh’s army when the waters returned.
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Illustration: Distant Shores Media/Sweet Publishing, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Mistletoe often mimics the appearance of its host, especially in Australia where species like the drooping and box mistletoes resemble eucalyptus trees. Evolutionary explanations struggle with how this happens, but from a creationist perspective, this mimicry reflects the care and design of a Creator who enables mistletoe to blend into its environment.
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Illustration: Box Mistletoe by Adam Forster, PD.
Researchers are learning to follow animals to discover new medicines. For example, chimps in Tanzania use tree leaves to rid themselves of intestinal parasites, while woolly spider monkeys in Brazil eat certain fruits to restart ovulation. Do animals possess innate medical knowledge or does God guide them to the right remedies when needed?
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Grass and palm leaves absorb silica and store it in their cells, making their edges sharp enough to cut. These silica particles, called phytoliths, not only protect plants from insects but also persist in the soil after the plants die. Scientists can identify past plant life by studying the unique shapes of phytoliths in soil, offering fascinating insights into ancient agriculture.
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Researchers developing "liquid air," a perfluorocarbon that mimics amniotic fluid, are helping infants born as early as 20 weeks survive. This breakthrough raises ethical questions about abortion and highlights the incredible complexity of the womb.
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The sea dragon, a stunning and unusual marine creature related to sea horses and pipefish, is known for its vibrant colors, varied shapes, and seaweed-like appearance. With unique traits like a trap-door jaw and independent eye movement, evolutionists struggle to explain its origins, making it a remarkable example of God's creative design.
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The duckbill platypus, once thought to be a hoax, continues to puzzle scientists. It can detect tiny electric currents from its prey, and its genetic distinctiveness defies evolutionary explanation. However, the mysteries of the platypus align with the biblical account of God's creation. It, like all creatures, was made by divine design.
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Animals display remarkable abilities to convey specific messages, often with surprising complexity. Researchers have discovered that elephants and ground squirrels use distinct signals and even pass down learned behaviors.
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Lobsters exhibit surprisingly tender behaviors during their mating ritual. Despite their differences from humans, the tenderness and care lobsters display remind us of the common origin of all creatures, and the love and affection of our Creator.
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Though humans share many physical and behavioral traits with animals, the true distinction lies in humanity's spiritual nature and moral accountability to God. Unlike animals, humans are created in His image.
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In Antarctica's seemingly lifeless Victoria Land desert, scientists have discovered a hidden ecosystem just beneath the surface of the porous sandstone. God has the remarkable ability to create life and ecological balance even in the most hostile conditions.
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The human brain communicates through complex chemical interactions. With over 50 chemicals working together to create around 800 different messages and dynamic information pathways, the brain's intricate and adaptive design still far exceeds the complexity of computer systems.
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Studies show that lobsters, often seen as less evolved, possess remarkably advanced abilities. Their sense of smell and taste is up to a million times more sensitive than ours. Lobsters also use scent signals for communication and mating. They are complex creatures intricately designed by our Designer.
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The well-digger fish, a member of the Jawfish family, uses its specialized mouth to dig and line holes in the sea bottom with shells and coral. It’s a feat of complex engineering not achievable by chance.
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The South American hoatzin is a unique bird with distinctive features. Its unusual traits challenge evolutionary explanations and highlight the intricate and intentional design of our Creator.
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Science reveals that from the moment of conception, a fertilized human egg is genetically unique and fully human. By just a few weeks, the unborn baby exhibits a heartbeat, brain waves, and movements, demonstrating the intricate and miraculous process of human development within the womb.
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The seven-day week, deeply embedded in human history and biological rhythms, aligns with the biblical account of creation, suggesting a profound and enduring significance beyond mere cultural convention.
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The complex social behaviors of lobsters are fascinating and challenge previous thought. These behaviors underscore the diversity and ingenuity in the natural world, reflecting a well-thought-out design rather than random chance.
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Giraffes are remarkable examples of the intricate design and functionality found in creation. The specialized valves in its jugular veins, the tight-fitting skin on its legs, and the complex network of blood vessels all contribute to maintaining proper blood flow and pressure despite the challenges posed by its height.
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It’s interesting how people in the past had their own ingenious methods for solving everyday problems like we do today. The use of herbs to freshen air and repel pests is a great example of practical, natural solutions that reflect a deep understanding of the resources available to them.
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The rust-proofing systems in our bodies are indeed fascinating! The way our cells manage iron and protect against rust-like damage showcases an incredible level of design and complexity.
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Just as computers use multiple processors to handle complex tasks efficiently, our bodies have specialized systems that preprocess information before it reaches the brain. The taste buds, with their ability to process and combine different flavor signals, are a great example of this intricate design.
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The star the wise men followed to find Jesus cannot be easily explained by natural phenomena. According to the Bible, the star moved in a way that led them directly to a specific house, an attribute that defies natural explanations and suggests it was a supernatural sign created by God Himself.
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Scientists discovered that the Moses sole, a fish from the Red Sea, repels sharks by secreting a detergent-like substance from its skin. This unique defense mechanism shows that sometimes, simple solutions can be effective, much like how avoiding temptation helps us avoid the consequences of sin.
Photo: Moses Sole by Christian Wittmann, CC 4.0
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The colugo, a unique mammal with a four-foot gliding membrane, has puzzled scientists who initially classified it. God's creativity shown in the colugo defies conventional scientific and evolutionary assumptions.
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Deep in the Venezuelan jungle lies the Mountain of the Mists, a remote peak with a unique ecosystem. It’s home to many species new to science. The extraordinary diversity and adaptation of life there reflect the boundless creativity of the Creator.
Photo: Pico da Neblina by Robson Esteves Czaban, CC 3.0
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The poison dart frog, known for its vibrant coloration and lethal skin, also displays remarkable parental care. Their nurturing behavior reflects the Creator's wisdom.
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Christians often ask why a perfect God would create harmful germs. In reality, only a tiny fraction of microbes cause disease; most are beneficial and essential to life.
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Today we explore the instinctual wisdom behind fish schooling. Schools of fish, numbering in the millions, use instinct and specialized organs to navigate and protect themselves from predators.
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The virgin birth of Jesus Christ is beyond human comprehension for those who don’t believe in a Creator, but this does not mean science should deny it. Just as we accept complex technologies like television despite not understanding every detail, we can acknowledge that God's intervention in human history is a profound mystery that transcends scientific explanation.
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The decline in science scores among American high school students may be linked to the dogmatic teaching of evolution. Many students find the evolutionary claims confusing and unrealistic. Introducing critical analysis of evolution and evidence supporting creation often rekindles their interest in science and shows them that true science and belief in God are compatible.
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Penguins are not truly flightless; they’re just designed to "fly" underwater. The king penguin excels in this aquatic flight, with wings perfectly adapted for efficient swimming. This remarkable ability highlights the penguin's design and reflects the Creator's ingenuity.
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The rapid rate of extinction observed, especially in places like the Hawaiian Islands, predates modern human impact. This high rate of extinction, with no new species evolving to replace them, suggests that evolution cannot fully account for the diversity of life.
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Creation scientists argue that evolutionary dating methods exaggerate the age of rocks, as demonstrated by a lava flow in the Grand Canyon. The inconsistencies suggest that these dating methods are questionable and that the Earth's age described in the Bible continues to remain unchallenged.
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The bird of paradise, known for its striking beauty and bizarre behavior, has puzzled evolutionary scientists. But for those who believe in a Creator, the bird of paradise exemplifies His boundless creativity and inventiveness.
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Discoveries suggest that the brain might categorize information similarly to a filing system, as seen in a stroke patient who lost the ability to identify only fruits and vegetables. Our minds are intricately designed and point to a Creator whose intelligence far exceeds our own understanding.
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Weddell seals can go to great depths without getting decompression sickness. As they dive, their lung sacs shut down, preventing excessive nitrogen from entering their bloodstream. As they ascend, these sacs reactivate, allowing them to surface safely.
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Ant colonies efficiently manage their food and water supply through a continuous sharing system among worker ants. Researchers found that within a day of giving a worker sugar water tagged with a radioactive marker, it was shared throughout the entire colony, ensuring that all ants have equal access to resources.
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Trees are more aerodynamically efficient than jet planes due to their flexible branches and leaves, which adapt to the wind and reduce drag. The Creator's design principle of resilience and adaptability in nature highlights His wisdom and care.
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Certain species of tree frogs freeze in winter and thaw in spring. These frogs produce glycerol, which acts as an antifreeze, preventing cell damage from ice crystals, showcasing God's creative power and His incredible designs found in nature.
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While hermit crabs are known for their industrious nature in searching for the perfect shell, their ability to sense calcium - a key component of strong shells - is a God-given trait that helps them choose the best homes for protection.
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When we think of major geological changes in the earth we usually think of events that happen too slowly to notice. Certainly no one would notice major geological shifts in the space of one lifetime, or even the lifetime of a civilization. Yet, if the Biblical history is true, major geological changes have taken place within the lifetimes of civilizations.
REF.: C. Simons. "Why Ancient Canals Went Wrong." Science News, Vol. 122, p. 56. Photo: Temple of the Sun at Machu Picchu, built around 1450, at the height of the Inca Empire. (PD)
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God did not allow man to eat meat before the Great Flood but gave us permission to do so after the flood. At the same time, God placed the fear of man into the animals so that they would know that they needed to protect themselves.
REF.: Joan Arehart-Treichel. 1982. Pets: The Health Benefits. Science News, Vol. 121, Mar. 27. P. 220-223. Photo: Cat and Dog Pixabay (PD)
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Many of God's creatures are beautiful. However, some of them, like the appropriately named hagfish, strike us as ugly. Not only does the hagfish look like something out of a science fiction movie, it has bad habits.
REF.: Andrew Herrman. 1991. North Sider's Hagfish Story is Really one the Books. Chicago Sun-Times, Nov. 1. P. 1&12. Photo: Hagfish by Perter Southwood CC By SA 4.0
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One of the most common questions Christians ask is "What about the dinosaurs?" Are dinosaurs proof that the earth is countless ages old and that life must have evolved?
Notes: Illustration: Skeletal anatomy of a Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus from Conybeare's 1824 paper that described an almost complete plesiosaur skeletion found by Mary Anning in 1823. (PD)
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How did we get all of the different races on earth if we are all descended from Adam and Noah and his family?
Image: Painting: "Ham's Redemption" by Modesto Brocos shows a Brazilian family, with each generation becoming "whiter". (PD)
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One question we are often asked is why more human fossils are not found in older rocks. In order to become a fossil, a creature must be buried rapidly in sediment so that it does not decay. Aquatic animals would be much more likely to produce fossils in say, a worldwide flood than land animals; and indeed geologists universally use small marine creatures as their "index fossils."
Notes: Photo: Lucy, Australopithecus afarensis, another so-called "missing link" between apes and humans. (PD)
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The fact that man is by nature a religious creature was underscored with the discovery of the oldest known religious sanctuary in the world. The shrine was discovered in northern Spain. Evolutionists say that the shrine was built by early Stone Age man. In terms of biblical history, the sanctuary was probably built by some of the first post-flood settlers in Spain.
REF.: C. Simon. 1981. Stone-age Sanctuary, Oldest Known Shrine, Discovered in Spain. Science News, Dec. 5. P. 357. Illustration: Symbols of some of the world's religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Shinto, Sikhism, Baha'i Faith, Jainism. (PD)
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We don't often associate aggressive behavior and the need to fight with butterflies. Rather we think of bright, beautiful creatures that decorate nature and always seem to cheer people up.
REF.: L. Langley. Butterfly Colors: Alluring or Alarming? Science News, Vol. 121. P. 38. Photo: Swallowtail, taken by creationist and photographer Robert Zuvich. Used by permission.
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When we hear about the "cave man" and the "Stone Age" most people think of Neandertal man. Popularly called "Neanderthal," the preferred usage today is Neandertal. When we think of Neandertal, most people think of a large, brutish, hairy, bent-over creature that looks like a cross between an ape and a human. Who, in fact, was Neandertal?
Photo: Neanderthal man reconstruction – Werner Ustorf CC BY SA 2.0
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The modern, educated person often tends to look down on previous generations. Many people seem convinced that if we look back 1,000 or 2,000 years, some measurable evolutionary improvement in man must have taken place over so much time.
REF.: A New Old Remedy. Discover, August 1985. Photo: 19th-century illustration of Cinchona calisaya, the plant from which we get Quinine. (PD)
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When little or no oxygen is dissolved in the blood of most animals or humans, death quickly follows. The chemistry by which our cells generate energy to stay alive needs oxygen. When oxygen runs short, a second, temporary, energy-producing system kicks in. This system doesn't need oxygen, but it produces lactic acid that can kill living cells. Therefore, this second energy system is an emergency measure, used only when seriously starved for oxygen.
Ref: Janet M. Storey and Kenneth B. Storey. "Out Cold." Natural History, 1/92, pp. 23-25. Photo: Painted turtle, courtesy of Jmalik and licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2.
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Because it is sometimes connected to New Age religion, acupuncture is often seen as something negative. However, stripped of its pagan mumbo-jumbo, acupuncture has a sound medical basis.
Ref: "It's Nature's Way of Saying, Whoa!" Science 84, Dec., p. 6. Photo: Acupuncture chart from the Ming Dynasty. (PD)
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We are all familiar with evolution's battle cry of survival of the fittest. Another way of putting it is that evolution favors the selfish.
Ref: Bruce Fellman. 1992. "Looking Out for Number One." Natural Wildlife, Dec.-Jan., pp. 46-49. Photo: Acorn woodpecker with hoard, taken by Johnath and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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Many who reject the Creator work hard to try to prove that He doesn't exist. Creationists argue that the creation is so well designed that it must have a Designer. After all, a watch is much simpler than a bumblebee. If a watch needs a Designer and builder, so does a bumblebee.
Ref: Bert Thompson, Ph.D. 1991. "Evolution's 'New' Argument- Suboptimality." Reason and Revelation, Vol. XI, No. 11, Nov., pp. 41-44. Photo: Panda (PD)
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Scientists who are working on newer and better materials out of which to make things are concentrating their attention on ceramics. Ceramics do not break or wear as easily as other materials, including metals. High temperatures don't cause them to weaken. Some ceramics have even shown the promise of bringing about another revolution in electronics. Ceramics have one major problem, though. They are difficult to form into usable parts. Sometimes they are also too brittle to work well as machine parts.
Ref: E. Pennisi. "Nature Points the Way to Tougher Ceramics." Science News, Vol. 140, p. 150. Photo: Dental porcelain bridge, used by permission of Wagonerj and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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The human brain is like a network in which each brain cell is connected to thousands of other brain cells. Scientists have long suspected that this unique design helps give the human brain its intellectual power.
Ref: E. Pennisi. 1992. "Neural-net Neighbors Learn From Each Other." Science News, Jan. 11, p. 23, Paula Rooney. 1990. "Neural Nets Breed Applications-But Not EE Employment." EDN, Oct. 18, pp. 105,108,120. For more information, see the "Artificial Neural Network" article on Wikipedia. Illustration: An example artificial neural network, used by permission of Cburnett and licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2.
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Today, people regularly travel a thousand miles in modern airliners. A thousand miles is a long day's drive, but it can be done. We would never think of walking or riding a horse that far.
Ref: Wayne Jackson. 1991. "Archaeology and Abraham's Journey." Reasoning From Revelation, Vol. III, No. 11. Nov., p. 22. Photo: The Standard of Ur mosaic depicts peacetime, from the royal tombs of Ur. (PD)
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The White-fronted bee-eater is an East African bird that lives in clans of up to fourteen members.
Ref: Bruce Fellman. 1992. "Looking Out for Number One." National Wildlife, Dec.-Jan., pp. 46-49. Photo used by permission of Luc Viatour. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2.
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The painted turtle is found farther north than any other turtle in North America. During their first year of life, painted turtles survive temperatures as cold as 18 degrees Fahrenheit.
Ref: Janet M. Storey and Kenneth B. Storey. "Out Cold." Natural History. January, 1992, pp. 23-25. Photo: Frontal shot of painted turtle. (PD)
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One would not think that a brightly colored, relatively slow butterfly has much of a chance against a bird moving in for lunch. But you would be surprised. Scientists were.
Ref: James H. Marden. "Newton's Second Law Of Butterflies." Natural History 1/92, pp. 54-60. Photo: Butterfly (PD)
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When they flower, some plants actually generate their own heat. The voodoo lily can raise its temperature by 25 degrees. As it does so, it releases a scent that attracts the beetles that pollinate it.
Ref: "Do Do That Voodoo That You Do So Well." Discover, Feb. 1988, p. 10. Photo: Corpse Flower by Sailing Moose – CC BY SA 4.0 Wikipedia.
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Do you think that people are generally out to benefit themselves at your expense? Or are you someone who usually makes sure that you get what you feel is your share, even if it's at someone else's expense? Research shows that our mental attitudes can shorten our lives.
Ref: "Only the Hostile Die Young." Discover, February 1988, p. 15. Image; Question Marks – Pixabay (PD)
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A spider's venom paralyzes its victim, keeping the victim fresh, yet immobile. Spider venom does this by slowing or stopping the work of a chemical called glutamate, which controls muscle movement in insects. Glutamate is also an important messenger chemical in the human brain.
Ref: Elizabeth Pennisi. "Spider Toxins May Take Bite Out of Strokes." Science News, Vol. 139, p. 270. Illustration: Hippocrates was the first to describe the sudden paralysis often experienced by those who have a stroke.(PD)
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How does the brain remember what it learns? What happens when you think? Is your mind the same as your brain?
Ref: Paul D. Ackerman. 1990. In God's Image After All: How Psychology Supports Biblical Creationism, pp. 68-73. Image: Brain – Pixabay (PD)
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Scientists have been studying the different ways in which insects move, hoping to discover a better way to design mobile robots. In doing this they have inadvertently recognized the wisdom and creativity of the Creator, even though they may not care to admit His existence.
Ref: E. Pennisi. 1991. "Scoot Scramble and Roll." Science News, Vol. 140, Nov. 30, p. 363. Photo: Cockroach shortly after molting. (PD)
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According to evolution, dinosaurs developed tens of millions of years before horses and were extinct long before the first horse galloped across the countryside. According to the Bible, however, horses and the land dinosaurs were made on the same day. This means that it should be possible to find evidence of horses in the same rocks as we find dinosaurs. Such a discovery would be a challenge to evolution!
Ref: Edwin D. McKee. 1982. "The Dupai Groups of the Grand Canyon." Geological Survey Professional Paper, p. 93. Photo: Bhimbetka (India) rock painting showing man riding on horse. Photographer: w:User:LRBurdak and licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2.
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During the mid-1980s, the residents at the north end of San Francisco Bay began complaining about a strange droning noise coming from the Bay. During the months of July and August, the odd noise started after sunset and continued until sunrise. People living on houseboats found that the noise disrupted their sleep.
Ref: John E. McC. 1986. "In Sum, it was Some Hum." Discover, June, pp. 67-71. Photo: Oyster Toadfish NOAA (PD)
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There is a blind spot where the optic nerve enters the retina of your eye. Yet, we don't see a hole in our field of vision. Scientists always thought that this was because our brain simply ignores the ever-present blind spot. Research has shown that an even more complex system erases that blind spot.
Ref: B. Bower. "Vision System Puts Eyesight in Blind Spots." Science News, Vol. 139, p. 262. Photo: Blood vessels of a normal retina. The blind spot would be at the extreme left.
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All of us learned in school that the fierce Tyrannosaurus Rex was the largest of the meat eaters. He was large enough to reach into a second story window with his five-foot-long head and grab a person with his six-inch-long teeth. Longer than a railroad boxcar, he probably weighed about ten tons!
Ref: Richard Monasters Key. 1991. "A Tyrannosaurus' Troubled Past." Science News, November 9, p. 303. Illustration by Nobu Tamura and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
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When human beings think that they have found mistakes in the Bible, they are eventually judged by their own words. Beneath old Jerusalem lies a complex, ancient water supply system. However, archaeologists have long considered it to be poorly designed. Worse, they said that the biblical account of David's capture of Jerusalem was in error since it mentioned water tunnels that didn't exist in his time. Now these archaeological and biblical critics have been proven wrong on both counts.
Ref: B. Bower. 1991. "Jerusalem Yields 'Natural' Waterworks." Science News, Dec. 7, p. 375. Photo of Warren's Shaft, once thought to be the tunnel David used to conquer Jerusalem. Used by permission of Deror Ari.
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I remember reading in grade school that the human appendix is a useless organ. My textbook said that scientists thought that the appendix was once used to help digest the tree bark that our supposed ape-like ancestors ate. Does the human body have "extra" parts? Do we have organs that we no longer use because we have evolved away from needing them?
Ref: Jerry Bergman, Ph.D. Vestigial Organs – A Brief Summary of the Latest Research, pp. 111-115. Photo: Even today, evolutionists persist in asserting that the appendix is a vestigial structure. According to Wikipedia, "It has lost much of its ancestral function.".
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We've all been taught that fish are cold-blooded. In many people's thinking, perhaps the most cold-blooded of all is the shark. However, scientists have discovered that four types of sharks can raise their internal body temperatures. Why and how they do this offers a powerful witness to the love and provision of the Creator.
Note; "The Fire in the Belly of the Beast." Discover, Feb. 1988, p. 8. Photo: Captures tiger shark. (PD).
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A large, sophisticated concrete floor has recently been discovered in China. The floor dates to a period that, not long ago, evolutionists called the "Stone Age."
Notes: L. Smart. 1986. "Scientists find ancient concrete." The Herald (New Britain, CT), January 25, p. 11. Photo: Boston City Hall, completed in 1968, was constructed largely of concrete. (PD).
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Fireflies in southeast Asia regularly put on a show like that seldom seen from fireflies in the rest of the world. These fireflies have an ability found only among humans.
Notes: Ivars Peterson. 1991. "Step in time." Science News, Vol. 140. August 31, pp. 136-137. Photo: Photinus pyralis, common eastern USA firefly by PhotoFramer CC BY SA 2.0.
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There is no room in the harsh realities of evolution for selflessness. For example, evolution says if I help you, I do so because I'm going to get something for myself. Likewise, what appears to be friendly behavior among animals is said to be only an evolutionary adaptation designed to preserve an animal's genetic code. But research is leading some to question this harsh materialism.
Ref: "Ants Can Learn to Favor Friends Over Family." Discover, May 1986. P. 10-13. Painting: Belisarius asking for alms by Jacques-Louis David, 1781.
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Mammoths and mastodons were distant relatives to the elephant. There is a great deal of debate over when they became extinct and why.
Ref: "What Is a Fossil?" The Rich, Rich Desert. Student Handout. Photo: Skeleton of Columbian mammoth, Mammuthus columbi, in the George C. Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, California. Taken by WolfmanSF and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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Many kinds of birds collect and store food for later use. However, scientists recently reported that the female red-cockaded woodpecker collects, stores and appropriately uses a dietary mineral supplement as well.
Ref: "Red-cockaded Woodpeckers Stash Bone." Science News, August 31, 1991. P. 143. Painting: Female red-cockaded woodpecker on right. (PD)
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When talking about a baby's expected time of birth, we have all heard someone say, "The baby will come when it's ready." While that might not sound very scientific, new research shows that the statement is probably scientifically accurate. The infant, not the mother, seems to control the start of the birth process for mother and infant.
Ref: Fackelmann, K. "A Fetus Tells Mother: It's Time for Labor." Science News, Vol. 140. P. 182. Diagram: Mother-preborn circulatory system. (PD)
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In Deuteronomy 27:2-8, we read of how Moses instructed Joshua to build an altar on Mt. Ebal after the Israelites had entered the Promised Land. There, the people were to sacrifice and give thanks to the Lord.
Ref: Machlin, Milt. "Joshua and the Archaeologist." Reader's Digest, Sept. p. 135-138. Image: Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal map. (PD)
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All of us are familiar with using bait to lure prey. Both live and artificial bait are used to catch fish. Stores lure shoppers with sale prices. The use of both bait and camouflage is an even more sophisticated activity. The duck hunter not only hides in a blind, disguised to look like the natural surroundings, but he sets decoys around him to make it look as if the area is safe for ducks.
Ref: "Bugs that Use Bait." Science 83. P. 6. Photo: Taken by Fernando Otálora Luna, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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If you are like most people, you may not care whether spiders feel pain. However, because of the way spiders are designed, their ability to feel pain has implications for many other creatures.
Ref: "The Sensitive Spider." Science 83. P. 6. Photo: Ambush bug, taken by Iron Chris, licensed under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2.
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Many creatures have complex and beautiful mating rituals. However, few are more wondrous or dramatic than the firefleas' ritual.
Ref: "Romantic Lighting." Discover, Feb. 1988. P. 16. See also http://books.google.com/books?id=DNrTfH5PcWoC&pg=PA49. Illustration: Cypridina mediterranea. (PD)
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Ouch! You've just gotten a paper cut on your finger. What's the first thing you do? If you're like most people, you'll probably put your finger in your mouth. If you think about it, you probably have no idea why you put your finger into your mouth. Actually, when a dog licks its wounds or you put your paper cut ravaged finger in your mouth, you are beginning medical treatment.
Ref: "An Aid to Healing that Simply Can't Be Licked." Discover, April, 1986. P. 10. Diagram: Protein structure of mouse epidermal growth factor. (PD)
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The monarch caterpillar feeds on milkweed. Milkweed manufactures a powerful toxin that can, in most cases, stop the heart of any creature who eats enough of it. However, the monarch caterpillar itself is unharmed by this poison. In fact, the caterpillar stores the poison in its body, and this poison remains even after the caterpillar has turned into a butterfly.
Ref: Walker, Tim. "Butterflies and Bad Taste." Science News, Vol. 139. P. 348. Photo: Viceroy butterfly. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License.
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Despite modern medical advancements, pain management remains a difficult problem today. Man has used various forms of aspirin to manage pain for thousands of years. While more potent drugs can be used today, our primary approach to pain has changed little over the millennia. Recent advancements now promise to show us how to deal directly with many forms of pain.
Ref: McKean, Kevin. "Pain." Discover, October, 1986. P. 82-92. Illustration: Brandykinin (PD)
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According to the claims of evolutionists, the dawn redwood trees lived from the time of the dinosaurs until about two million years ago. Then they became extinct. At the very same time this was the official scientific teaching, Chinese rice farmers were planting the tree because it was a good indicator of fertile rice fields.
Ref: Wolf, Thomas H. "The Object at Hand." Smithsonian, Sept. 1990. P. 26-28. Photo: Dawn redwood on the campus of San Jose State University, taken by John Pozniak and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License.
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It can be forty feet long. It can have many mouths and just as many stomachs. It swims along in the darkness more than 1,500 feet beneath the sea, reaching out for food with its lethal tentacles.
Ref: Discover, February, 1986. Illustration: Siphonophore (PD)
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How long does it take to petrify wood? Scientists who believe in those millions and billions of years that evolutionists are always talking about have never tested the answer to this question. They simply assumed that it must take hundreds or thousands of years to petrify wood. It wasn't until the 1970s that scientists bothered to explore this question.
Ref: Chittick, Donald E. The Controversy. Multnomah Press, 1984. P. 240-241. Photo: Petrified log at Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. (PD)
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It is always as dark as night 2,000 feet beneath the ocean's surface. Yet, a rich variety of life thrives in the darkness. The strategies for life, however, are quite different far beneath the waves.
Ref: Discover, February, 1986. P. 67. Picture: Jellyfish by Pexel (Pixabay.com)
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Back in the 1990s, new fossil discoveries in China were greeted by evolutionists as among the most spectacular of the century. The fossils, said evolutionists, represented some of the earliest multicelled creatures. Evolutionists publicized these fossils as evidence for evolution. However, it's not difficult to see how these fossils support creation rather than evolution. Evolutionists admit that the fossils show that the first multicelled creatures appeared suddenly. This confirms creationist claims that life appeared suddenly and without evolutionary ancestors.
Ref: Wilford, John Noble. "Fast Evolutionary Jump Led to Complex Life, Study Says." Star Tribune, Wednesday, April 24, 1991. P. 4A. Photo: Fossil (PD).
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The relationships between two or more creatures are sometimes so well-designed and complex that there is no conceivable way that they could have evolved. Sacculina carcini is a microscopic crustacean that begins life as a free-swimming larva. The female first seeks out a crab for a host then she searches for a tiny hole in the crab's leg joint. Finding one, she inserts a hollow tube through the hole and squirts a few cells that are herself into the crab, leaving most of her body behind. As she grows as a large bulge on the underside of the crab, she is also sending tendrils throughout the crab's body.
Ref: Discover, 8/00, pp. 80-85, "Do Parasites Rule the World?" Image: A parasitical barnacle on a female swimming crab, from the Belgian coastal waters by Hans Hillewaer CC By SA 4.0.
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Research is showing that we can forget just about everything we ever learned about how we taste food. To begin with, we don't taste with our tongues but with our brains. Remember those tongue maps that we all learned about in school? They show that we taste sweet on the tips of our tongues, salt and sour flavors on the sides, and bitter tastes at the back of our tongues. In truth, research shows that we taste each of these flavors all over our tongue. And, no, those little bumps on your tongue are not taste buds. Rather, each of those bumps contains many taste buds.
Ref: Discover, 7/00, pp. 70-75, "Tourist is a taste lab." Photo: Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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Evolutionary scientists are often hard‑pressed to explain human or even superhuman-like intelligence in animals. For example, let's say that you last saw your child when she was four months old. It is now four years later. Are you certain you could pick out your child in a room full of a hundred four‑year‑old little girls?
Ref: Science News, 7/29/00, p. 69, "Mom, is that you? Seals show family recall." Photo: Northern male fur seal and females.
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The Bible mentions "the fountains of the deep" several times. During the Flood, we are told, God opened the fountains of the deep, suggesting seismic activity. When God ended the flooding, we are told that God closed the fountains of the deep, suggesting that they continue to exist, albeit with less water than at creation. In 1997, scientists said that they may have found an astonishing reservoir of water deep in the earth.
Ref: New Scientist, 8/30/97, pp. 22‑26, "Deep Waters." Painting: The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge by Thomas Cole.
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How big is the largest living organism on Earth? We all know that the giant Redwoods of California grow larger than any whale. However, there are other living organisms that dwarf even the Redwoods.
Ref: Minneapolis Star Tribune, 8/5/00, p. A17, "2,400‑year‑old Oregon fungus is largest living organism." Photo: Strawberry Lake in Malheur National Forest, Oregon. (PD)
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New archaeological evidence supports the factuality of the Greek legend about the prophet, or oracle, of Delphi.
Ref: National Post Online, "The oracle of Delphi – high on ethylene?" Photo: View of Delphi, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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Tropical passion vines have a unique defense against insects that would nibble on their leaves. Its leaves contain sealed packets of cyanide that are made inactive by being linked with sugar molecules. There are other sealed packets with an enzyme that releases the sugar molecules, activating the cyanide. When an insect chews on the leaves, both packets are broken, the cyanide is activated and another predator is gone.
Ref: Science News, 7/22/00, p. 59, "How butterflies can eat cyanide." Photo: Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License - Version 2.0. Copyright 2008, Alex Popovkin.
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Many people have wondered at the abilities of savants. These are people who have very low intelligence, yet they can do seemingly impossible mental tasks. Some savants have been able to instantly name the day of the week when given any date within the last 6,000 years. Others have been able to instantly give a correct solution to tedious mathematical calculations. Could such abilities reflect a throwback to the mental abilities the human race once had?
Ref: Nature, 5/11/00, p. 139, "Lie detection and language comprehension." Photo: Polygrahp testing (PD)
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The fact that they must breathe air would seem to limit sea creatures like whales, dolphins and sea turtles. But these creatures are so well designed that their abilities amaze even the most informed scientists.
Ref: "Yertle:1, Orca: 0." Discover, Sept. 1987. p. 14. Photo: Leatherback turtle at Sandy Point National Wildlife Reserve (NWR) (PD)
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While many people think that the octopus is an ugly creature, the octopus is intelligent. The mother octopus puts a lot of love and effort into the care of her young.
Ref: Ruggieri, George D., with Norman David Rosenberg. 1978. "The healing sea." Science Digest, Aug. p. 18. Photo: A Pacific Giant Octopus (PD)
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Bee-eaters are birds whose way of life and behavior are both intelligent and unusual. Bee-eaters make their living catching and eating bees and wasps with stingers. The poison in many of these stinging insects is powerful enough to kill bee-eaters, but the birds are not only skilled at avoiding stings, they know how to remove the poison from the bee when they eat it.
Ref: Clanbake. Natural History, Mar. 1990. p. 94. Photo: A male Blue-throated Bee-eater presents his mate with a captured insect. Photo taken by Lip Kee Yap and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
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Several years ago, Canadian and U.S. papers were filled with the results of polls in both countries that tested members of the public by asking some scientific questions. The problem is, both polls were heavily stacked with questions that resulted in so-called "wrong" answers if the respondent didn't believe in evolution. Since more than 10 percent of the questions dealt with evolution, we can assume that the real purpose of the "poll" was to make belief in evolution look the same as "scientific literacy."
Ref: "Read it and weep." The Globe and Mail (Toronto), Mar. 1, 1990. p. A7. Photo: Evolution’s progression of man. (Pixabay)
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Do you and I think? Or do we just think that we think? If you believe that we were created by God, your answer to that question will be that we actually do think. But if you believe that life is just a chemical accident, you might agree with those evolutionists who actually believe that we do not think. We only think we think.
Ref: Hoffman, Paul. 1987. "Your mindless brain." Discover, Sept. p. 84. Photo: "The Thinker" by Auguste Rodin, 1902.
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The aspirin tablet has been hailed as the miracle drug of the twentieth century. Although it took the twentieth century to flavor, coat and stamp little letters on aspirin, people have been using aspirin for centuries. The most common form in which aspirin has been taken is as willow bark tea.
Ref: Shodell, Michael. 1983. "The prostaglandin connection." Science 83. p. 78. Photo: Aspirin (Pixabay.com)
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Scientists have found that the usual explanation for lightning is not quite true. School children are taught that as a cloud moves through the air it picks up electrical charge because of turbulence. This eventually causes lightning.
Ref: Lampe, David. 1978. "Lightning research strikes a windfall." Science Digest, Apr. p. 25. Photo: Lightning strikes during the eruption of the Galunggung volcano, Indonesia, in 1982. By R. Hadian, U.S. Geological Survey CC BY SA 1.0
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Inside your body there is a large and amazing family of chemical workers who, although they usually last less than a minute, make life possible. There are so many different kinds of these chemicals, called prostaglandins, that science is just beginning to learn how important they are to life.
Ref: Shodell, Michael. 1983. "The prostaglandin connection." Science 83. p. 78. Photo: Scanning electron micrograph of blood cells. From left to right: human erythrocyte, activated thrombocyte (platelet), leukocyte.(PD)
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The surface of the Earth 50 to 150 feet below the great living canopy of the rainforest is a dark, humid, still world dominated by great columns of tree trunks. Within those trunks and some of the giant hollow branches extending from them lie the secret of the life of the canopy itself.
Ref: Perry, Donald. "Life in the treetops." 1978. Science Digest, Oct. p. 26. Photo: Rodrigues fruit bat. Pixbay.com
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Today, lasers do many important jobs in manufacturing and medicine in addition to serving in weapons that once existed only in the minds of science-fiction writers. But if our small imaginations can think of amazing things, we shouldn't be surprised to learn that our Creator's limitless imagination can think of even more incredible things. As science studies the handiwork of the Creator, we are learning about His imagination.
Ref: "Fashioning see through metal." Science News, July 8, 1989. p. 31. Photo: Gas giant planets such as Jupiter may contain large amounts of metallic hydrogen.
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Evolutionary scientists have been amazed by the discovery that the very oldest artifacts left by humans indicate written language and mathematical ability. Creationists, on the other hand, are as pleased as can be at the findings, since they predicted that it would be possible to find that humans have had language throughout their history on Earth. After all, they were created by the Word of God – who later took human flesh upon Himself. And before the Fall away from God into sin, humans were able to speak directly with God.
Ref: "Ice age artists open doors on early man." Science Digest, May 1978. p. 87. Photo: Middle Babylonian legal tablet is an example of cuneiform script.
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Can ants count? It seems so! When scout ants find an item of food, they take it back to the nest. If the food item is especially good but too big to carry, the scout will return to the nest to get help. Scientists have discovered that ants apparently size up the task ahead before getting help so they can return with enough help, but not too much.
Photo: Fire Ants (PD)
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When an engineer builds a building, a bridge, or some other structure, he must build it so that it can withstand both stretching and compressing forces. In designing the structure to withstand both kinds of these forces, he must anticipate how much of each force the structure might face in its lifetime.
Photo: Study of Skeletons, c. 1510, by Leonardo da Vinci.
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In our rapidly modernizing world, engineers are kept busy solving problems. Take, for example, all of the various kinds of transportation. There are millions of problems in this area alone that keep engineers busy inventing better solutions.
Illustration: Sagittal section of right knee joint. (PD)
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Ants love to work and live in sunlight. They will spend hours clearing their little backyards of leaves and even plants and shrubs. Ants are also known to wander far from their local area. One scientist from the University of California tagged ants with colored dyes and then watched their meanderings. No matter how far they wandered, they didn't seem to get lost.
Photo: Leaf-cutter ant by Charles Sharp CC BY SA 4.0
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Do evolutionists believe that life always becomes more complex and sophisticated? Does evolution ever go backward?
Photo: French-born Belgian paleontologist Louis Dollo (1857-1931).
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Have you ever noticed that many who believe in evolution depict early humans as so primitive that they had to live in caves while many kinds of animals build much more sophisticated shelters? This inconsistent thinking is built on the evolutionary assumption that intelligence, like everything else, has evolved. Creatures that evolutionists think evolved much earlier must be less intelligent.
Ref: Timm, Robert M., and Barbara L. Clauson. 1990. "A roof over their feet." Natural History, Mar. p. 55. Photo: Common tent-making bats (Uroderma bilobatum) in the gardens of the Arenal Nayara Hotel, Costa Rica by Charles Sharp CC By SA 3.0
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The entire forty-first chapter of the book of Job describes a creature called "leviathan." As in his earlier description of "behemoth," the Lord is impressing Job with the wisdom and might of His creating power.
Photo: Restoration of Tylosaurus proriger with a tail fluke by Dmitry Bogdanov CCA 3.0
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Most of us have heard of plants like the Venus flytrap and the pitcher plant, which eat meat, even if we've never seen one. But did you know that there are mushrooms that also eat meat?
Photo: Courtesy of Jean-Pol Grandmont, Sept. 2006_CCA BY SA 3.0.
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Some Christians believe that God's words in Genesis 1:3, "Let there be light" are a biblical description of the Big Bang that some scientists say created the universe. But, perhaps, we Christians should be a little more careful about assuming that modern science knows very much about the origin of the universe.
Ref: "Galaxy clumps may shed light on cosmic creation." Minneapolis Star Tribune, Feb. 23, 1990. Photo: Sloan Great Wall courtesy of Willem Schaap and licensed under GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2.
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For generations it was a rule that reptiles were cold-blooded. And turtles, being reptiles, were therefore called cold-blooded as well. Being cold-blooded, it was expected that the body temperature of turtles would be close to that of the surrounding water.
Ref: Discovery. Bible Science Newsletter, Apr. 1973, p. 2. Image; Leatherback turtle. (PD)
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We have all seen it many times. A mother walking in a crowd with a small child loses track of her child and begins calling and searching for the little one. But can you imagine a crowd of 70 million mothers and children all looking for each other?
Ref: "Some mothers don't forget their children." Science 84, June. p. 8. Image: Mexican Free-tailed bat (PD)
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We all learned about photosynthesis at school. For this particular chemical reaction to take place, you need the chemical chlorophyll together with the essential ingredient, sunlight. For thousands of years, man has known that for green plants to prosper, they need the sunlight.
Ref: Discover, 1/06, p. 36, Anne Sasso, "Photosynthesizing Life-Form Exists Without Sunlight." Image: White smokers at Champagne Vent, Eifuku, Japan . (PD)
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While many creatures create structured music – shall we say, songs? – it was thought that only man makes use of objects in the environment to get specific tone qualities. In other words, it was thought only man makes musical instruments. That claim has now been challenged by a frog!
Ref: Science News, 12/7/02, p. 356, S. Milius, "Frogs Play Tree." Photo: Bornean Tree-Hold Frog by Arshiya Urveeja Bose CCA 2.0 (Wikipedia)
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Scientists have long known that ants lay down scent trails, using pheromones, to mark the trail to goodies for their nest mates. While this is an efficient method for food gathering, it has been found that when a food source is exhausted, the ants leave a "Do not enter" sign that saves fellow ants from wasting time on this trail.
Ref: Science News, 11/26/05, pp. 340-342, S. Milius, "Unway Sign." Illustration: Leaf cutter ans by Pjt56 (Wikimedia CC BySA 4.0)
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All green plants, some algae, and even some bacteria are able to make food out of nothing more than air, water, light and a few minerals. The process is called photosynthesis, and without it we would run out of food to eat as well as oxygen to breathe.
Image: Ivy on trellis. Courtesy of R.J. Michaud
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Each one of us can learn about God's way of working with us from a fresh water snail that is often preyed upon by crayfish.
Ref: "Snail's pace picks up if hunted; it gets bigger and lives longer." Minneapolis Star Tribune, Feb. 24, 1990. Photo: Fresh water snails by Jess Van Dyke CCA 3.0 US
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Throughout the centuries, people have noticed, whether or not they believed in a Creator, that there is a mathematically precise structure to the universe and everything in it.
Ref: Murchie, Guy. 1979. "The exquisite mathematics of nature." Science Digest, Apr. p. 48. Photo: Oak tree foliage and acorns. Courtesy of Nick Shaforostoff. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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If all life evolved from, and is related to, earlier forms of life, then closely related animals should also have similar kinds of chemicals in their bodies. As the science of biochemistry has grown, those who believe in evolution have held high hopes that creatures that look similar to each other would also have similar chemicals. For example, insulin from a shark should be more like insulin from other fish than insulin from mammals.
Notes: Illustration: Relaxin 1 protein hormone. (PD)
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Most of us have heard a few of the theories that are offered to explain how birds are able to migrate for thousands of miles to an exact spot. The arctic tern migrates 22,000 miles a year to winter in the same spot where it wintered the previous year. But most birds seem to have this amazing ability even if they don't use it as often or to travel as far.
Ref: Cook, Patrick. "How do birds find where they're going?" Science 84. p. 26. Image: P puffinus griseus (PD)
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On Creation Moments we regularly look at unusual plants and animals that show the unlimited inventiveness of our Creator. Unusual living things are also fascinating because, since they are clearly unrelated to any other living things, each one is a challenge to evolutionary theory, which says that every living thing is related to other living things.
Ref: "Very small flower found in Mexican jungle has its sex orientation reversed." Minneapolis Star Tribune, Feb. 4, 1990. p. 5E. Image: Photo: Diagram of a typical mature flower. (PD)
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The eye, with its incredibly sensitive color vision, is increasingly being recognized as a marvel as we learn more about how it works. The eye is able to detect the smallest measure of light known to physicists. These units are called photons.
Notes: Discover, 1/06, p. 36, Anne Sasso, "Photosynthesizing Life-Form Exists Without Sunlight." Image: White smokers at Champagne Vent, Eifuku, Japan. (PD)
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We at Creation Moments are often asked, where do evolutionists get all those millions of years? It seems they are always finding rocks and fossils that are tens or hundreds of thousands or even millions of years old.
Notes: Jackson, Wayne. 1990. "Scientific red faces." Reasoning from Revelation, v. II, n. 1, Jan. p. 3. Image: US Army Star emblem. (PD)
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Because we were created by God who values communication and has always desired to communicate with us, we are born with the natural ability to learn and to speak language. Those who believe in evolution usually disbelieve that humans have the natural mental ability to speak, since they think both the ability to speak and language itself evolved.
Ref: Kobren, Gerri. 1990. "Tots assemble building blocks of language." Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jan. 20. p. 1E. Image: Baby with toys (Pixabay.com)
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There is a common sense saying in science that when anything can serve as an explanation to support a theory, the theory is not scientific.
Image: Pink elephant (Pixabay.com)
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Can the dead come back to life? While many scientists assure us that they cannot, the empty grave of Christ assures us that in Him everyone who trusts in His saving work on the cross of Calvary will live bodily with Him forever. When modern science tries to raise doubts about the bodily resurrection of Christ, just keep in mind that science cannot even explain the miracle of the seed.
Ref: Pope, Jon Cedar. 1979. "Carrying an immature plant through time and space." Science Digest, May. p. 60. Photo: Lotus seeds. (PD)
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Historical science is one branch of human knowledge that consistently supports the biblical record.
Notes: Corliss, William R. 1983. "Tornados, Dark Days, Anomalous Precipitation, and Related Weather Phenomena." Glen Arm, MD: The Sourcebook Project. p. 31. Photo: "The Crucifixion" by Simon Vouet (1590-1649).
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Many of the features of the Earth's surface have been formed by the cutting and eroding action of moving water. When you think about how hard rock is compared to water, it's easy to believe that it must have taken hundreds of thousands or even millions of years for water to shape the land. This ignorance about how rapidly water cuts rock has cost people their lives.
Notes: Photo: Memorial in the memory of all who died in 2004 Tsunami at the Kanyakumari Beach, India.
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On Creation Moments, we often challenge evolution with examples that show that the creation is carefully and lovingly designed by the Creator. Many of these evidences leave evolutionists silent and unable to respond. But one evidence for design is so powerful, it almost seems unfair for creationists to mention it. Yet they do, as in one release from scientists at the Institute for Creation Research.
Ref: DeYoung, Don, and Richard Bliss. 1990. "Thinking about the brain." ICR Impact. Feb. p. 1. . Photo: Portrait of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913).
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Do you realize that the Bible's own arguments have been stolen by evolutionary scientists in their attempt to prove that there are no such things as miracles? It's past time that Christians reclaim those arguments in order to deflate the doubt that has been created.
Notes: Bartz, Paul A. 1990. “The Bible teaches a predictable world – but not naturalism.” Bible Science Newsletter, Mar. p. 10. Painting: “Elijah Resuscitating the Son of the Widow of Zarephath” by Louis Hersent (1777-1862) (PD)
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One mystery that has intrigued humans for thousands of years is the location of the Garden of Eden. Even Sunday school children stare at maps and carefully read Genesis 2:814, trying to locate it. But when we wonder where the Garden of Eden was, there are other passages in the Bible that we need to consider. Genesis 3:2324 makes it very clear that God closed the Garden to humans – meaning no one could ever go back.
Image: Painting – The Garden of Eden by Thomas Cole (PD)
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Did you ever wonder why, while there are lots of round and cylindrical living things, there are almost no square plants or animals? Why isn't there any animal that has a skeleton made out of metal? And while there are so many ways for living things to move about, why do almost none of them have wheels?
Ref: Wickelgren, Ingrid. 1989. "The mechanics of natural success." Science News, v. 135, June 17. p. 376. Image: A composite of the skeletons of a Human and a Horse arranged into a lifelike pose, at an exhibit in the Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia. (PD)
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For generations we have heard that people become criminals and go to prison because of their parents, friends, poverty or society itself. Yet there has always been a majority of people who come from bad homes or poor neighborhoods who have lived responsible lives.
Notes: "Exposing the criminal mind." Science 84, Sept. 1984. p. 84. Image: US Disciplinary barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
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As spring comes to the temperate areas of the northern hemisphere, one of the first signs of spring is the blossom of the Lion's Tooth. This bright yellow flower is also called the Irish daisy, priest's crown, peasant's cloak and yellow gowan. Its other name appears on the sides of bags of lawn care chemicals – the dandelion.
Notes: "A weed by any other name." Science 83, Apr. 1983. p. 82. Image: Dandelion (PD)
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The language is so logical and precisely structured that it is being used to create a programming language that a computer can understand. Unlike most languages of the world, this language has few irregular verbs, no prepositions and almost no exceptions to strict grammatical rules. What would take a long sentence to say in most languages can be said in only a few words in this language.
Ref: "Computer application helps save an ancient language." Minneapolis Star Tribune, Feb. 24, 1990. p. 9A. Photo: Literacy class in El Alto, Bolivia.(PD)
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How long have people been living on Earth? The evolutionist says millions of years. Bible believing Christians generally say only about 6,000 years. But the answer to this question is amazingly simple.
Ref: Weigand, Cleone H. 1985. "Morality remains the best way to stem population growth." Milwaukee Journal, Apr. 14. Map: World map (Pixabay.com)
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The water flea fills one of the lowest spots on the food chain. What this means is that even though the water flea is concerned about little else than going about his business, just about everyone else in the pond is interested in eating him.
Ref: Fellman, Bruce. "Quickchange flea." Science 84. p. 76. Image: Evadne spinifera (PD)
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Evolutionists say that human beings evolved from an ape like creature. And how do they claim to know this? Because they find various kinds of apes in the fossil record. As one would expect, some of these apes are a little – and I stress, a little – more like us than others. They are all more like apes than like us. But evolutionists will tell us that those apes that are a little more like humans are evidence for evolution. Is this a logical way to think?
Image: Illustrations from the Manuscript of Baburnama (Memoirs of Babur) - Late 16th Century (PD)
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Despite the fact that most microorganisms are necessary and good, throughout our lifetimes each of us encounters tens of thousands of different infectious bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites.
Ref: "MIT researchers isolate masterbuilder' diseasefighting gene." Minneapolis StarTribune, Dec. 22, 1989. p. 2. Image: T-cell dependent b-cell activation, showing TH2-cell (left) B-cell (right) and several interaction molecules. (PD)
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What would the typical living cell look like if enlarged to the size of New York City? Let's take an imaginary journey through the cell.
Notes: Image: HeLa cells stained with Hoechst (PD)
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Some things don't have to be understood to be appreciated. You can enjoy the smell of dinner cooking or the scent of a rose without any idea of how your nose works. And believe it or not, you're doing just as well as the most brilliant biologist.
REF.: Reyneri, Adriana. 1984. The nose knows, but science doesn't. Science 84, September. p. 26. Notes: Image: HeLa cells stained with Hoechst (PD)
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While scientists often talk about how it takes millions of years to form oil and gas deposits, they say little about the fact that oil and natural gas are forming today in the ocean's sediments. The sediments of the Gulf of Mexico are well known examples of the rapid natural formation of petroleum deposits. In addition, oil and natural gas are seeping from petroleum deposits under the floor of the Gulf of Mexico.
REF: Ocean depths harbor an ecosystem of creatures who dine on oil, natural gas.Star Tribune (Minneapolis), Dec. 31, 1989. p. 15A. Image: Oil spill clean up NOAA (PD)
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These days we don't have to wait very long before we hear some nonsense about how flight or—more recently—space travel are but stages in human evolutionary development. As Christians we know that when Adam, the first man, is described as perfect, he is perfect in every way—spiritually, morally and intellectually. This probably explains why Scripture says that within the first few generations of human existence on earth the arts and sciences were flourishing.
Notes: Photo: Courtesy of Dawoudk and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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One of the most studied but least understood organs in the human body is the brain. The human brain is the most complex arrangement of matter in the universe. There are many different theories about how the brain works, but one universally recognized fact is that the brain is more sensitive to damage than any other organ.
REF.: Sobel, David. 1983. Brain selfrepair. Omni, v. 55, February. p. 39. Image: Drawing showing several important brain structures. (PD)
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Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species opened the modern era of evolutionary thinking. The very name of his book suggests that as we look back in time, we should see fewer kinds of animals. Darwin led many people to think that there should be a greater variety of plants and animals today than in the distant past. And, those plants and animals should be more sophisticated today.
Image: Image: Palm tree by Ernst Haeckel (PD)
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What has three eyes, lives in the sea and can swim faster than most boats can travel? No, it's not a creature from another planet. It's the porpoise.
REF.: Schwarz, Joel. 1984. Porpoise secrets. Omni, v. 6:6, March. p. 37. Image: Two Dalls Porpoises (PD)
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How would you like to live in a neighborhood where garbage was never collected and taken away? What if there was no provision in the creation for getting rid of waste? By now the earth would have become a filthy mess!
REF.: Minute diners love our waste. The Province, July,12, 1989. Image: Trash can with trash (Pixabay.com)
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While evolutionary historians refer to the ages of humanity before the birth of Christ with terms like the Stone, Bronze and Iron ages, it seems that human metal working technology was much more sophisticated than these names suggest. And that fits with what Genesis 4 tells us about human history.
Notes: Illustration: Drawing of Baghdad battery parts by Ironie CC BY SA 2.5
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One interesting way in which to help young people gain an appreciation for God's creation is to ask them to solve certain problems that the Creator Himself had to solve.
REF.: Science 84, April 1984, p. 65. Image: Sunflower Seed (PD)
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One of the most amazing things in our modern age is the scientist who thinks he can use science to judge the Bible. After all, many things accepted today as scientific fact were first taught in the Bible.
Notes: Illustration: Earth's water cycle (PD)
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Many different creatures, from mice to insects, eat seeds. The tropical forest offers the greatest variety of seeds found anywhere in the world. The problem is that among this great variety are seeds that are poisonous and others that are hard as rocks. Yet even these seeds are used for food by some creatures.
REF: Science 84, April 1984, p. 65. Image: Hymenaea courbaril (PD)
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Relationships among creatures who are often very different from one another are so numerous—and so intelligent—that they witness to an overall design for living things. Even evolutionists recognize this when they talk about the "grand design" of the living world. And if design is that evident, there must be a designer. But there's even more to the matter than seeing a designer.
REF.: Science 84, April 1984, p. 65. Image: Kayedid (Pixabay.com)
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If we could harness all of the sun's energy that reaches the earth, we would have more than enough energy to fill all our energy needs—even if the entire world became as industrialized as the west. Yet less than .10% of all of the sun's energy output reaches the earth! What is going on within the sun to create so much energy?
REF.: DeYoung, Don B., and David E. Rush. 1989. Is the sun an age indicator? Creation Research Society, Quarterly, v. 26, September. p.49. Photo: Surface of the sub – pixabay.com
Sociologists are treading more boldly on ground that once was the sacred domain of Christianity. In recent years sociologists have tried to explain why certain universals exist among human beings. They are puzzled, for example, by the fact that a smile or a look of grief looks the same in every culture in the world.
REF.: Rensberger, Boyce. 1983. On becoming human. Science 83, April. p. 38. Photo: Children of the World by Alexas Foto_Pixabay.com
The frogfish is yet another strange creature for which those who believe in evolution can find no history. Not only do evolutionists admit that frogfish are not related by evolution to any other creature, but also they can find no relationship among 35 of the 41 known species of frogfish!
Image: Frogfish (PD)
Nearly everyone is familiar with the way in which the whistle of a train moving toward them lowers in pitch as the train passes. The change in pitch is caused by the change in the movement of the train relative to the listener—first it is moving toward the listener, but after it passes it is moving away. This change in pitch is called Doppler shifting. Now let's apply this principal to the bat's echolocation system.
REF.: Bats alter frequency of squeaks to aid hunt for prey. The San Diego Union, Mon., Oct. 23, 1989. p. D1. Image: Echolocation of Bats by Shung_CCA BY SA 3.0. Explanation of chart: A – Chiroptera B – prey d – distance E – emitted wave of bat R – reflected wave of prey
Is language learned or is it a builtin part of our very nature? If we were made by a Creator who values communication, we would expect to have some builtin language skills and desires. In fact, common features among all languages would also support the Bible's historical account of how humans once had only one language.
REF.: Gould, Carol Grant. 1983. Out of the mouths of beasts. Science 83, April. p. 69. Photo: Cuneiform tablet_wikimedia (PD)
We hear it often: Christian values are to blame for most of the problems in society. Marriage is ridiculed as "just a piece of paper." Strongly held convictions of right and wrong are said to be to blame for arguments, fights and wars. And by all means, we must free ourselves from old fashioned attitudes about sex and marriage.
REF.: Rensberger, Boyce. 1983. Margaret Mead. Science 83, April. p. 28. Photo: Margaret Mead by Lynn Gilbert CCA By SA 4.0
In Psalms 148:3 the sun, moon and stars are specifically encouraged along with the rest of creation, to praise God. And truly God, as our Creator and our Savior through Jesus Christ, is worthy of all praise. But perhaps many Christians have been a little too ready to accept this biblical language as figurative.
Image: Sun by Alexas Foto Pixabay.com
The number of different kinds of insects in the world seems almost endless. There are millions. The larva of many of these insects feed on trees and bushes at least until they develop into adults. One would think, then, that we wouldn't have any trees left, since they are so unfairly outnumbered by such hordes.
REF.: Bernhardt, Peter. 1989. Wily Violets & Underground Orchids: Revelations of a Botanist. pp. 79. Photo: Caterpillia eating_pixabaycom
Australia has many animals that are not found anywhere else in the world today. One of the most unique is the wombat, which looks like a small bear with brown fur. The wombat is a burrowing animal.
REF.:Major, Trevor. 1989. The backward wombat. Reasoning from Revelation, August. p. 3. Photo: A Youngster Looks out of it´s mother´s pouch_TimSagorski_CC BY SA 4.0jpg
While the origins debate is basically a religious debate, many people have been taught that evolution is science and creation is religion. But even according to the evolutionists's own rules of science, evolution is not good science. Let's the claims of evolution in light of what science knows today.
REF.: Brown, Walter T. 1984. The scientific case for creation: 116 categories of evidence. BibleScience Newsletter, JuneAugust.
Evolution says that life began with the simplest forms. It took over a billion years just to evolve algae and another billion years for living things to have more than one cell. It took half a billion years of slow development to generate today's creatures. And evolution says that this story comes from the fossil record.
REF.: Marland & Rudwick. 1964. The great intraCambrian iceage. Scientific merican, v. 211, August. pp. 2836. Photo: Trilobites_Ángel M. Felicísimo_CCA 2.0
In 1805 when Lewis and Clark crossed the Continental Divide they saw North American Indians preparing the large roots of a plant for cooking. Lewis writes that he asked to taste a sample of the root. It was probably with some sense of amusement that the Indians, who cook the root before eating it, handed Lewis the raw root—which immediately upon tasting he named the bitterroot.
REF.: Keithley, W.E. 1989. Bitterroot. Creation Research Society Quarterly, vol. 26, Sept. p. 53. Photo: BitterroomPixabay.com
A young student once asked Martin Luther what God was doing before He made the creation. Luther is said to have responded by telling the young man, "He was making switches to use on children who ask foolish questions." Now some evolutionary physicists are asking what the universe was like before the big bang.
Notes: New Scientist, 6/3/00, pp. 24-27, "Before the Big Bang." Image: Universe explosion_Pixabay.com
Over the past several years, scientific studies of women have shown that those who have had abortions increase their risks of infertility, breast cancer and other problems. Now, a study released by the Population Research Institute reveals a whole new category of risks associated with abortion.
Ref: Population Research Institute, 20 January 2006, Vol. 8, No. 3, Joseph A. D'Agostino, "Why Think Abortion Good for Anyone?" Photo:Pregnant woman – Pixabay.com
Given the size of its brain, could a honeybee recognize a specific human face? And if a bee could recognize specific human faces, how would the evolutionist explain this kind of ability?
Ref: Science News, 12/3/5, p. 360, S. Milius, "Face Time." Photo: Honey Bees on flower – Pixabay.com
If you enjoy keeping tropical fish, the Mantis shrimp is one creature you may not want to keep in your aquarium. While this creature is related to common shrimp, it has a very unusual and specialized feature.
Ref: http//www.USA Today.com. 1/9/06, April Holladay, "Shrimp spring into shattering action” Image: Mantis Shrimp_PD
Those who fear global warming blame any climate changes upon man's activity, including the raising of cattle for food. The digestive system of all ruminants, including cows, produce methane gas as part of the digestive process. Methane is considered one of the greenhouse gases that change the Earth's climate. Some have even suggested ways of limiting the methane produced by cows.
Ref: Science News, 1/14/06, p. 19, S. Perkins, "Greenhouse Plants" Photo: Cow- Pixabay.com.
Could a plant devise a special growth for itself so that it becomes inviting to its only pollinator? If evolution were true, how could such a plant survive until it could learn enough about its pollinator, and about genetics, to evolve a special growth just for that pollinator.
Ref: Science News, 6/4/05, p. 365, "Built-in bird perch spreads the pollen." Photo: S. African Rat Tail plant by Shyamal CC BY SA 4.0
Most listeners have heard of the little "cleaner fish" or wrasse that clean the teeth of larger fishes. New research on the behavior of these fishes shows that they are not always honest-business fish. Other fish, including those who might ordinarily consider a meal of "cleaner fish", actually stand in line for their services. That's because they need to have parasites and diseased tissue removed. They also know that the little "cleaner fish" offer massages.
Ref: Science News, 11/2/02, p. 277, S. Milius, "Fish Fraud." Photo: Wrasse by Leonard Lowe_CCA 2.0_
Chickens aren't the brightest creatures in the animal world, but the mother hen knows to protect her eggs and keep them warm. Many species of snakes also care for their young. Amazingly, scientists have learnt that even some plants have been designed with "motherly" instincts.
Ref: Science News, 7/23/05, pp. 59-60, Susan Milius, "Mommy Greenest." Photo: Galls on the head of Plantago lanceolata. Auchenmade (PD):
Can you imagine a plant that moves so fast that science didn't know what it was doing until recently? The plant is a forest wild flower found in North America and called the Bunchberry dogwood.
Ref: Science News, 6/11/05, p. 381, "World's Fastest Plant Explodes with Pollen." Photo: Bunchberry Dogwood Flower (PD)
Ask any evolutionist, and he will tell you that the Venus Flower Basket is one of the least-evolved animals. This animal is actually a sponge that is made up of a colony of creatures, and it does some amazing things.
Ref: Discover, 8/05, pp. 42-47, George M. Whitesides, "Illuminated Life." Photo: Euplectella Aspergillum Vnus flower sponge (PD) NOAA
Scientists have shown that the so-called "Mozart effect" of music in young children is just a myth. This popular idea said that exposing young children to classical music improves their ability in non-verbal tasks. Nevertheless, researchers did find a more interesting effect of classical music on students.
Ref: Science News, 6/19/04, p. 389, B. Bower, "Tuning Up Young Minds." Painting: Young Mozart before Emperor Francis (PD)
Homing pigeons are valued because of their highly developed sense of direction, and this includes the ability to read the Earth's magnetic field. Some other birds, turtles and even a few salamanders have also shown this same ability. However, bees, ants or people are not born with this ability.
Ref: Science News, 1/4/03, p. 4, S. Milius, "Homing Lobsters." Photo: Spiny Lobster by James St.John CCA 2.0
Ethicists who believe in evolution are trying to figure out an evolutionary explanation for why people universally have a sense of right and wrong. This line of study is so new that it doesn't yet have a name, although some have suggested "neuroethics" or "moral neuroscience".
Ref: Discover, 4/04, pp. 60-65, Carl Zimmer, "Whose Life Would You Save?" Photo: portrait of Immanuel Kant.(PD)
Listeners will know from our Creation Moments programs that the scientific establishment is firmly convinced that Man evolved from the higher apes millions of years ago. For this reason, rhesus monkeys have long been used not only for pharmaceutical trials but in psychological tests to determine how Man's intelligence evolved.
Ref: Science News, 7/2/05, p. 14, "Monkeys keep track of small numbers." Photo: Monkey by Alxas Foto Pixabay.com
Today, hummingbirds are found only in North, Central and South America. Of course, since Noah's Ark landed in the mountains of Ararat, they had to cross Europe and the Atlantic or Asia to get there. However, until now, there was no evidence for this migration.
Ref: Science News, 5/8/04, p. 292, S. Perkins, "Ancient Buzzing." Photo: Hummingbird by BryanHanson_Pixabay
The last creature a rattlesnake wants to see is the California ground squirrel.
Ref: Science News, 6/26/04, p. 403, S. Milius, "Hot Bother." Photo: Squirrels_by Holly Cheng CC BY SA 3.0
If it weren't for mushrooms, there would be so many un-decayed dead trees that there would be no room on Earth for anything else to grow. But mushrooms don't just recycle dead trees. They help make the trees grow in the first place.
Ref: Discover, 2005, pp. 48-53, Greg Mueller, "Dr. Mushroom.". Photo:Mycelium by James Lindsey CC BY SA 3.0
How important is father to a child's religious growth? Due to the way in which census information is gathered in Switzerland, researchers were able to find out. And while their conclusions might shock modern sensitivities, they are really not too surprising.
Ref: Touchstone Magazine, 2003, Robbie Low, "The Truth About Men and Church." Photo: Father and Child by Ljor Pixabay.com
The last few years have seen a good deal of excitement among astronomers over the possibility of discovering planets orbiting distant stars. Astronomers are looking at stars that are surrounded by disks of dust and debris.
The idea is that planets form over millions of years from the dust and rock that orbits a star. This was supposedly how the Earth formed billions of years ago.
The long, cold winters of Scandinavia not only freeze the lakes, but pile so much snow on the lake ice that no light can penetrate to the cold, unfrozen water beneath. This means that the creatures below the ice can use up all the oxygen in the lake water.
How do the fish in the water survive?
Photo: Crucian Carp_by Viridflavus CC BY-
A real monster prowls the ocean floor from the Aleutian Islands to Southern California. It is a terror to even relatively large bottom dwellers. It eats many things, including hermit crabs, clams, sea cucumbers, sea urchins and even abalone. This monster goes by the seemingly innocent name of the Sunflower Star.
According to the evolutionary timetable, mankind has been on Earth for about 100,000 years. Archeologists and Paleo-archeologists claim that 100,000 years ago the earliest true men began to bury their dead, often with flowers and other trinkets, suggesting that he was capable of abstract thought. Paintings on cave walls and ceilings show that early man was capable of creating exquisite art. Other excavations have yielded scale models, toys and jewelry. It is strange, then, that for these 95,000 years, man left no written record of himself.
Evolutionary scientists studying the workings of the human brain are trying to find out what the human "mind" is. The problem is that everyone, including scientists, knows that human beings are conscious people with minds. Yet, strict, materialistic science says that there is no scientific evidence for the mind.
The year of 1816 was called the "year without a summer." Weather records and newspaper clippings offer us a record of the unusual weather that struck all over the Earth in 1816.
Scientists have known for some time that hummingbirds prefer bright-colored flowers. On the other hand, all of us know that white is most easily seen at night. That means that moths that pollinate flowers will more easily find white flowers. The question is: What is a flower to do when it is pollinated by hummingbirds during part of its flowering season and by night-flying moths later in its flowering season?
Bats are among the most underappreciated and misunderstood creatures in the entire world. Yet, they are most worthy of our appreciation. Nearly all of the 1,400 species of bats eat either insects or fruit, only three type of Central and South American bats feeds on blood – usually the blood of cattle.
Many of us have heard the old legend about why Christopher Columbus was told he could not sail too far west. According to the legend, Columbus was repeatedly told that he could not sail west to India because the Earth was flat. If he sailed too far, he would fall off the edge. That story was a piece of fiction cooked up by Washington Irving in the 1830s.
Tucked neatly beneath the ribs, your liver performs more than 500 different tasks. It is a vital link between your heart, lungs and digestive system.
The amazing structure of the honeycomb has fascinated scientists for thousands of years. In the third century, the astronomer and geometer Pappus of Alexandria became the first to offer an explanation for why the honeycomb has a hexagonal shape.
Photo: Honeycomb with eggs and larvae. Courtesy of Waugsberg. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2.
How old did the Earth look five years after the creation? Geologists tell us that it takes hundreds of thousands of years to wear down new rock into sand and soil and for the sea to cut a beach. If this was true, one would not expect to see beaches or soil on an Earth that was only five years old. Or would we?
Even though it's a mammal and not a fish, the Weddell seal of the Antarctic is one of the greatest deep-sea divers in the world. Weighing up to 1,200 pounds, the Weddell seal can cruise under water for up to 70 minutes. It is able to reach depths as great as 1,600 feet. For comparison, the record for a human being is a 13-minute, 43-second dive down to 282 feet.
Most of the effects of aging are due to genetic mistakes that accumulate over generations. This is in addition to the age limitations God imposed on human beings after the Genesis Flood. These early generations, so close to Adam and Eve, would have accumulated comparatively few genetic mistakes.
Those light flashes created by fireflies are actually a quite complex language. The more than 200 species of firefly each have their own language. Each species uses a different combination of color, intensity and flash intervals.
Photo: Firefly by Bruce Marlin_CC By SA 2.5.J
Fireflies are able to read the light signals of other fireflies. These signals may contain several messages.
Photo: Eastern Firefly by art farmer – CCO By SA 2.0.
There is nothing our Creator God does that is not intended to bring us closer to Him. Why? Because His purpose in making humans was to make someone to love. We exist because He wanted to love us and be loved by us.
The ability to smell is one gift we often take for granted. That's probably because we usually identify things more quickly with one of our other senses. At the same time, dinner wouldn't be the same without the smells.
Medical researchers are finding out just what a wonderful gift laughter is. Laughter, it has been found, is excellent exercise for the lungs. It clears the respiratory system and is emotionally healthy. Laughter relaxes muscles. It is a proven reliever of emotional tension. Research also suggests that laughter has healing effects, possibly boosting the immune system.
For a long time, researchers were confused about the sounds gerbils make because they were only hearing a small part of the communication. This is because our human ears hear sounds that go up to about 20,000 cycles per second. However, gerbils do most of their talking at as high as 32,000 cycles per second. Their talk is too high-pitched for us to hear.
The discovery of tiny pollen grains in rock shows just how inflated the billions of years claimed by evolutionists really are.
There are many methods of communication, some of which we human beings don't often think about. One of these is chemical communication.
Photo: Silkworm moth by CSIRO – CCA 3.0 Unported
Humans were not the inventors of the hook-and-loop fastener. The plants which God made were the first to use this principle.
It occurred to scientists only about 30 years ago that insect pests might be controlled through hormones.
Every day, all over the Earth, plants engage in chemical warfare against insects and animals that would eat them.
We have often pointed out the many plants and animals that are interrelated. Their lives depend upon one another. Very often they are interrelated in such a way that creation offers the only reasonable explanation for their special features. Evolution can call on "lucky coincidence" just so many times to explain these relationships. It makes far more sense to say that all living things were carefully planned and designed by an all-wise Master Designer.
Photo: Pyralis farinalis moth – courtesy of Entromart_Wikimedia.
In showing how the Creator is intimately involved with His creation, Jesus Christ said that the very hairs of our heads are numbered by Him.
Fruit bats are the collection and transport system for the raw materials that make possible the tropical rain forest.
According to evolutionists, coral is one of the earlier creatures on the evolutionary time line. If evolutionary theory were fact, one would expect the corals to be very simple. One would also expect them to have changed a lot in over half a billion years of life.
However, corals are not at all simple creatures.
REF.: What’s in a name. Science Digest, Feb., 1985. p. 87. Photo: Pillar coral. (PD)
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Honeydew is one of the favorite foods of ants. There are a number of insects, including thorn bugs and aphids, who consume so much honeydew that they cannot digest it all. These insects are designed so that ants can milk them for the excess honeydew, just the way a farmer obtains milk from a cow.
REF.: Thorn bug. Science Digest, Jan., 1985. p. 81. Photo: Ants and Aphids by Agrinberg - CC 2.0
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If the Bible’s account of a worldwide flood is true, it was witnessed by every person on earth, but only Noah and his family, who survived in the ark, were able to pass down the story of this event to their descendants, who spread across the whole face of the earth.
Researchers have catalogued some 270 stories of an ancient destructive flood in various cultures around the world. A large majority of these stories have been shown to predate any Christian influence.
REF.: Roth, Ariel A. 1990. Flood stories—can they be ignored? Origins, v. 17, n. 2. p. 51. Photo: Waterfall by Simon Berger – Pixabay.com
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Like bees, ants have a sophisticated society, which includes workers, nurses, soldiers, hunters, farmers, and even builders. Each of these different classes have specialized organs for their work.
REF.: Wilson, Edward O. 1990. Stalking the mighty ant. Discover, March. Photo: Ant by Josch – Pixabay.com
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If your measuring stick is inaccurate, you could end up with too much wallpaper or too little. If your map tells you that your destination is 200 miles away when it’s really only 50 miles away, you might drive right past it. If your map of the universe is inaccurate and stars are a lot closer than you expect, you will arrive at the wrong age for the universe.
REF.: Virgo images suggest smaller universe. Science News, v. 139, June 15, 1991. p. 381. Photo: Milky Way – Pexel – Pixaby.com
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Some people have the green thumb in their family. Others may complain that they fail with plants because plants don’t tell them when they need care. Of course, most people can do well with family pets, who are enthusiastic about letting their needs be known.
Now scientists have learned that plants do indeed cry out when they need attention. We just haven’t heard them because the sounds made by a thirsty plant are about five times higher-pitched than we can hear. But scientists with tiny, specialized microphones have heard corn plants calling for water.
REF: Scientists say plants may tell of watering needs in future. Wichita Eagle-Beacon, Jan. 12, 1986. Photo: Corn by couleur -Pixabay.com
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Most of us are familiar with the body’s response to foreign tissue. Transplant patients must be carefully matched and then patients still must be given powerful drugs to prevent destruction of the transplanted tissue. Our bodies’ immune system identifies tissue that’s not its own and then tries to destroy that tissue.
REF.: Wechsler, Rob. 1988. Hostile womb. Discover, Mar. p. 83. Photo: Baby and Mom Hands – Pixabay.com
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In a clever scheme of self-protection, the more poisonous the male rattlebox moth is, the more prized he is by the female rattlebox moth.
REF.: Different strokes for six-legged folks. Discover, June 1988. p. 12. Photo: Rattlebox moth by Judy Gallaghe CC 2.0
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Fireflies may help light the way to new medical break-throughs. The gentle glow of a firefly on a summer evening is produced by the chemical luciferase. The firefly has a gene with the code that makes this chemical. When that gene is added to the genetic information of other plants or animals, the cells begin to glow harmlessly. Researchers have been using the firefly gene to test their ability to add genetic information to a cell.
REF.: Glowing evidence of gene-altered arteries. Science News, v. 139, June 22, 1991. p. 391. Photo: Eastern Firefly by Art Farmer CC By SA 2.0
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Knowing the elegance with which God designed everything in creation, creationists suspected that God probably designed the earth with built-in thermostats that help keep it from warming up too much. When the Pacific Ocean warms more than normal, it sends increasing amounts of water vapor into the air. If heating continues, the water vapor will actually cause the heating to increase until vapor is forced higher into the atmosphere, creating icy cirrus clouds. These clouds reflect enough incoming sunlight to shut down the temperature increase and return things to normal.
REF.: Clouds keep ocean temperatures down. Science News, v. 139, May 11, 1991. p. 303. Photo: Desert – Pixabay.com
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Many textbooks tell young people today that birds are modified reptiles. Suppose, they say, that millions of years ago the scales on some reptiles began to fray along the edges. In time, they say, the frayed scales turned into feathers and birds were born.
REF.: Vandeman, George. 1991. The miracle of flight. Signs of the Times, May. p. 25. Photo: Dove – Pixabay.com
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Excavations north of Baghdad, in Iraq, are helping us to understand one of the most famous Old Testament characters. The more than 4,000 ancient documents that have been found there shed detailed light on the life and times of Abraham. Abraham was from Haran, which was an important city in the Hurrian empire.
REF.: West, Stuart A. 1981. The Nuzi tablets. Bible and Spade, v. 10, n. 3-4. p. 65. Photo: Departure of Abraham by Jozsef Molar - oil on canvas - PD
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Spider silk begins as a liquid protein made by silk glands on the spider’s abdomen. Spiders make many kinds of silk for different uses. As the liquid silk is forced through the spider’s spinnerets, it begins to dry. The spinnerets pull and stretch the silk, creating just the right kind of silk for the spider’s use. Though the result seems thin and weak to us, ounce for ounce, spider silk is stronger than steel.
REF.: Pinkston, William S., Jr. 1980. BIOLOGY for Christian Schools. Greenville, SC: Bob Jones University Press. p. 413. Image by ClaudiaWollesen_pixabay.com
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The founders of modern science, on the whole, believed in the Creator. The methods they developed were based upon the truth that the creation is voluntary. This means that God was not confined to what we have later defined as “scientific laws.” God could make anything He wanted in any way He wanted. Science cannot be done from the philosopher’s easy chair. Scientists must go out into the field and study how nature works. When science follows this path, it is open to astonishing discoveries.
REF.: Thomas, Lewis. 1983. On life in a hell of a place. Discover, Oct. p. 42. Image: Champagne_vent_white_smokers _ PD
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It’s a challenge, even for the Christian, to get along with lazy, selfish people. This is because they also tend to be quarrelsome, especially when their desires are not met. Now scientists have discovered that the phrase “industrious as an ant” does not apply to all ants. They report that they have found an entire ant society that is lazy, selfish and quarrelsome.
REF.: Antagonistic ants. Discover, Nov. 1983. p. 14. Photo: Slaves and slave maker ant by Adrian A. Smith-CCA 2.5
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“Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” We’ve all heard this familiar saying. In the case of the sun’s fire, scientists expect to find not smoke but tiny particles called neutrinos. The problem is, most of those neutrinos are missing.
REF.: Peterson, Ivars. 1989. Making sunshine. Science News, v. 136, Oct. p. 280. Image: Sun – Pixabay.com
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Scientists have, for the first time, successfully communicated with honeybees in their own language! Scientists have for some time known how to interpret many of the elements of the bees’ so-called “waggle dance.” This dance is used by scouts to communicate the location of food sources to the food gatherers in the hive.
REF.: Weiss, Rick. 1989. New dancer in the hive. Science News, v. 136, Oct. p. 282. Photo: Bees – Pixabay.com
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We have long known that the community within a honeybee hive divides the labor among specialized workers. There are scouts who search for food. Nurses tend the young. Some bees specialized in cleaning. There are even undertaker bees who remove and dispose of dead members of the hive.
Scientists have now discovered that honeybee colonies also have brigades of specialized “soldiers.” These bees often seem to be sitting around, not doing much. In fact, they have only one duty—attack large intruders. It appears that these bees are fed and cared for by the hive members while they wait for the alarm. Should a raccoon, bear or human threaten the hive, thousands of soldier bees swarm around the enemy and sting.
REF: Soldiers swarm to rescue. The Argus (Fremont, CA), Mar. 17, 1991. Photo: Honey bees by Polly Dot - Pixabay
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How many different scents do you think your nose is able to smell? The answer is about 10,000. How does your nose tell the difference between a rose and a skunk? Until only recently, scientists really weren’t sure.
REF.: Scientists find genes that let nose make scents of what it smells. Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Apr. 5, 1991. p. 7A. Photo: Baby skunk by Vicky Roberts – Pixabay.com
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Mastodons were distant relatives of the elephant. Modern science says that one of the main parts of their diet was conifer needles. Supposedly they died out at the end of the Ice Age because conifers became scarce as the world warmed.
Now the discovery of the last meal of one mastodon calls this theory into question. Living bacteria have been found in a mastodon that died during the Ice Age. The bugs were found in the remains of a mastodon’s last meal, preserved with a skeleton that was discovered while preparing a golf course in Ohio. Scientists think the bacteria normally lived inside the mastodon, working as part of the mastodon’s digestive process.
Image: Mastodon herd by Charles Knight (PD)
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Could the giant flying fox be a primate? In the 18th century, scientists weren’t quite sure what to do with bats. Some wanted to classify them as primates, while others thought they should have their own category. Since 1780, all 950 known species of bats have been classified in their own category. The bat order is divided into microbats and megabats. Microbats have an average wingspan of less than a foot. Megabats are larger. The giant flying fox has a wingspan of six feet!
REF.: The eyes have it: megabats are primates. Discover, June 1986. p. 7. Photo: Lyle flying Fox - PD
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The Bible itself tells us that the first five books of the Bible were written by Moses. Jesus Himself calls Moses the author of the first five books of the Bible over a dozen times. Unfortunately, liberal biblical scholarship has rejected these claims. These scholars have tried to teach Christians that the first five books of the Bible were written over many generations and finally finished only five centuries before Christ’s birth.
Now an amazing new discovery is forcing these scholars to change their teaching and has helped to scientifically confirm what Jesus said. Archaeologists have discovered two tiny silver scrolls on which are carved important passages from Moses. The scrolls, once used as amulets, were found in the ruins of early sixth or seventh century B.C. Jerusalem.
REF.: A startling revelation about the Good Book. Discover, Aug. 1986. p. 10. Photo: Ketef Hinnom scrolls (PD)
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A family of fish that live in the depths of the sea actually go fishing—pole, dangling bait, and all. This is only natural, since they, like people who go fishing, like to eat fish.
This group of fish is collectively called the angler fish. The front dorsal spine in the female angler is located on her head. It is much longer than any of the other dorsal fins and has a fleshy bait on the end. When hungry, she sits very still and dangles the bait in front of her mouth. It doesn’t take long before something swims up to investigate this bait as its possible lunch. But before it can think about taking a sample, the angler has turned the tables and eaten her own lunch.
Image: Humpback Angler Fish (pd)
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A revolutionary design in metal-cutting blades is changing the metal-working industry. These blades don’t cut like a knife. Instead, the blade is fixed in one position while the metal to be shaped spins on a lathe. This new-style blade stays sharp six times longer than the old blade design. And where titanium used to make the old-style cutting blades dull almost the second they were used, the new blades last up to 30 minutes.
REF.: Self-sharpening blade has edge. Science Digest, Mar. 1984. p. 86. Photo: Rat by Karsten Paulick_Pixabay.com
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Consider the mystery of flight, for example. Some evolutionists suggest that perhaps birds are descended from lizards that fell out of trees a lot. Other evolutionists say that birds came from lizards who grew wings—not for flight, but to chase down and catch insects. Yet, they have little to say about the fact that we humans have come by most of our sophisticated knowledge about flight from studying the birds.
REF.: Dragonfly model for future wings Science Digest, Mar. 1984. p. 87. Image: Dragonfly by Marc Pascual from Pixabay.com
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It seems like science fiction to suggest that if someone typed your name into a computer, misspelling your name, the computer would find it and correct it.
Yet the genetic code within each of your cells is an even more sophisticated information storage and transmission system.
REF: Fersht, A.R. 1980. Trends in Biochemical Science, v. 5. p. 282. Lambert, G.R. 1984. Journal of Theoretical Biology, v. 107. p. 387.
Photo: Chart showing the relationship between codons and amino acids. Courtesy of Seth Miller.
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Late at night, in hundreds of thousands of homes around the country, people are watching a bewildering array of monster movies. In these films, shadowy and not-so-shadowy monsters attack, possess or inhabit their victims. These stories are make-believe. However, in our real world, there is a fungus that does all these things.
REF.: Perry, Donald R. 1984. The creeping killers. Science Digest, Feb. p. 82. Photo: Cordyceps By Andreas Kunze CC BY-SA 3.0
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Roman Vishniac is a renowned photographer of microscopic scenes. One of his favorite subjects is one of the so-called simplest forms of life. This “simple” life, the protozoan, is supposedly the ancestor of all living things. However, Vishniac has noted that the protozoan is neither simple nor archaic in character. This creature carries out all the functions of life that we require millions of cells to sustain—all within a single cell.
REF.: Science Digest, Feb. 1984. p. 80. Photo: Roman Vishniac (PD)
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The exotic Venus flytrap is an insect-catching plant and a wonder of God’s engineering.
Notes: Ref: David Dreier, “Venus’s-Flytrap Case Closed,” OMNI. Vol.5-10, July1983, p.42.. Photo: Courtesy of Picasa 2.0. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license
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Have you ever watched ducks out on an icy lake paddling around in the near-freezing water. They will spend much of the day in that one spot with the temperature well below freezing, and yet the cold doesn’t seem to bother them. Perhaps on shore there are some sparrows hopping around in the snow. One wonders: why don’t birds need shoes and socks?
REF.: Why don’t duck’s feet freeze? Science Digest, Feb. 1984. p. 76. Photo: Penguin - Courtesy of Roux. (CC-BY-SA 3.0)
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The bombardier beetle has a powerful and complex system for protecting himself from enemies.
If this system is missing any of its parts, it is more than worthless to the beetle; the chemicals alone are very dangerous.
Ref: Science Digest, Aug., 1983. p. 74. Photo by Patrick Coin (cc-by-sa-2.5).
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Perhaps to get evolutionists to rethink their beliefs, the Creator has provided many inventive and unique structures. There are so many of these that even the longest evolutionary timescale could not account for their evolution.
Ref: Wilder, Rachel. 1983. "Flying frogs." Science Digest, Nov. p. 120. Photo: female marsupial frog by Mauricio Rivera Correa -CC By SA 2.5.jpg
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Beavers are widely known for their huge constructions. However, beavers build more than just dams. The beaver is quite an engineer.
Ref: Science Digest, Aug. 1983. p. 73.
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Imagine a beetle that can move across the surface of water without any body movement. Some creatures have been given such ability and skill that it should be clear to even the most skeptical person that their Maker and Teacher is greater than any human being.
Ref: Science Digest, Aug., 1983. p. 74. Photo courtesy of © Entomart.
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Intelligence – as much as is needed and no more – is generously found throughout the creation. So we cannot say that intelligence alone makes humans special.
Ref: Science Digest, Aug. 1983. p. 73. Photo: Weaverbird and its nest in northern India. Courtesy of Ashish Aitian. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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What is the most complex structure in the universe? I'll give you a hint: it weighs only a few pounds, and you own one.
Ref: Finn, Robert. 1983. "Amnesia: case of a fragmented past." Science Digest, Nov. p. 72. Photo: A pyramidal neuron from the hippocampus, stained for green fluorescent protein. PLoS Biology Vol. 4, No. 2, e29. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic license.
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Those of us who accept our creation as the work of the Creator find many examples of what seems to be His wonderful creativity – creativity just for the sake of creativity! These add to our appreciation of the creation and stir us to learn more of the wonders of His creative thought.
Ref: Sitwell, Nigel. 1983. "The ruffed-rabbit mystery." Science Digest, Aug. p. 20. Photo: Rabbit – Pixabay.com
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When we compare ourselves with many of the other living things on this Earth, our abilities are not very impressive.
Ref: "Animal athletes." Science Digest, Dec., 1983. p. 20. Photo: Camel caravan by Simon - Pixabay.com
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Evolution devalues humanity. It tries to find the most unflattering way to describe human beings to try to counter the Bible's claim that they were created in God's image.
Ref: "Tool-wielding beasts." Science Digest, Aug. 1983. p. 107. Photo: Bonobo fishing for termites with stick – Mike Richey -CC By SA 3.0
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We are told by evolutionists that the whale evolved from a cow-like creature that originally lived on land. Let's look at that claim. First, the whale can hear what direction a sound is coming from under water. Neither cows nor humans can do this. Nor is the whale's ear damaged by the pressures deep in the sea. The whale also has other, very complex differences from land-living mammals that allow him to cope with the great pressures in the depths of the sea.
Ref: Bartz, Paul A. 1984. "It takes more than this to make a whale transition." Bible-Science Newsletter, Feb. p. 1. . Photo: Breaching whale – Pexel -Pixabay.com
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Scientists are learning that even the lowly bacteria have mind and memory. New research is showing that mind, memory, brain, and personality did not evolve. These can be found in the lowliest of creatures, including the bacteria.
Ref: Pietsch, Paul. 1983. "The mind of a microbe." Science Digest, Oct. p. 103. Photo: Bacteria – Pixabay.com
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Many plants reproduce simply by cloning. The most obvious example of cloning that comes to mind is the dandelion. Unless you get all of the main dandelion root out of the ground, each piece of the root can sprout another dandelion, identical to the parent.
Ref: Batten, Mary. 1983. "Sex & plants." Science Digest, Oct. p. 61. Photo: Bamboo-Pixabay.com
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Many plants, especially orchids, offer different ploys to fool insects into pollinating them. Each of these ploys shows planning, design and the ability to create the design that will work. That there are so many examples makes it impossible for any rational person to believe that mindless, impersonal forces could have made these plants.
Ref: Batten, Mary. 1983. "Sex & plants." Science Digest, Oct. Photo: Orchid (ophrys speculum)by Han Braxmeyier CC0_ Pixabay.com
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The largest known beetle in the world is the aptly named goliath beetle. This African beetle can become almost as large as a mouse. Dinosaurs were not the largest animals ever to live. The great blue whale holds that honor. The smallest mammal in the world is smaller than many insects. A newly discovered species of bat in Thailand weighs only six one-hundredths of an ounce.
Ref: Wilder, Rachel. 1983. "Secrets of size." Science Digest, Sept. p. 112. Photo: Spider by Martin Winkler CC0_Pixabay.com
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Researchers are learning that bacteria have senses similar to our hearing and sight. Bacteria even have a brain that receives information from their senses. They can make decisions. However, all of this is not enough to explain how bacteria can make the decision to swim toward food.
Ref: Pietsch, Paul. 1983. "The mind of a microbe." Science Digest, Oct. p. 103. Image: Bacteria by Arek Sochia CC0- -Pixabay.com
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There are at least four known types of orchids that effectively pretend to be female insects. They are so good at this ruse that they attract the attentions of male pollinators. That there are four different varieties that do this makes it clear that this trickery isn't due to chance. The Creator does not want us to make the mistake of thinking that He doesn't exist.
Ref: Batten, Mary. 1983. "Sex & plants." Science Digest, Oct. Photo: Hammer Orchid by Mark Brundett CC BY SA 3.0
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Two groups of tropical vines rely for reproduction on the world's only known species of pollen-eating butterfly. Neither vine has very showy flowers, nor do their flowers have any scent. However, they don't need to attract pollinators because the Heliconius butterfly depends on the pollen produced by the vines for its food. So the butterflies don't go far from their food source.
Ref: Batten, Mary. 1983. "Sex & plants." Science Digest, Oct. p. 61. Photo: Zebra butterfly PD
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When lost in the forest with no clues to where to go, humans tend to go in circles. And we have brains. Amoebas, which don't have brains, somehow manage not to end up going in circles when they have no clues where to go.
Ref: Science News, 3/31/07, p. 205, D.C., "How smart are amoebas?" Photo: "Amoeba Proteus, an animal consisting of a single naked cell. (PD)
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Bees depend on a good memory of their surroundings to make the thousands of trips necessary to keep their hive in operation. Each day a single bee must make trips to hundreds of flowers, some as far as a mile from the hive. Scientists have long wondered how the tiny bee can remember what may be dozens of square miles of territory.
Ref: Horton, Elizabeth. 1983. "Bees as mapmakers." Science Digest, Sept. p. 90 Photo: Honey bee wiggle dance - Emmanuel Boutet CCBy SA 2.5.
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One good test of whether a theory is scientific is whether the theory can accurately predict new and surprising findings. If you have a barometer, you may do this all the time. The sky may be clear, but the barometer is falling fast. No matter how nice the weather looks, you know that rain is likely.
Photo: Barometer from Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira _CC By 4.0
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Modern researchers are learning that bacteria are not a simple form of life. Rather, a bacterium is a tremendously complex creature that thinks. Scientists have discovered that bacteria actually have molecule-sized sensors. Some of these sensors act as eyes, while others act as ears. A dozen other proteins have been discovered that receive the information gathered by the bacteria's "eyes" and "ears." The collected information is then processed the same way your brain gathers and makes sense of information.
Ref: Pietsch, Paul. 1983. "The mind of a microbe." Science Digest, Oct. p. 69. Photo: The structure of a bacterial cell (PD)
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According to evolution, life began in the sea. However, because the land was better for life, evolution developed land life from sea life. It was on land that mammals evolved, according to evolution. Here, though, evolution has painted itself into a corner. Or perhaps it is better to say that evolutionists have fallen into one of the traps set for them by the Creator. You see, the largest creatures on Earth live in the sea – and they are mammals!
Ref: Bartz, Paul A. 1984. "It takes more than this to make a whale transition." Bible-Science Newsletter, Feb. p. 1. Photo: Whale – Pexels – Pixabay.com
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There are five known groups of orchids that throw their pollen. These flowers are designed with mechanical flower structures that work as triggers. Some types use a bee's back to trigger the pollen discharge. Another uses, yes, the bee's knees.
Ref: Batten, Mary. 1983. "Sex & plants." Science Digest, Oct. p. 61. Photo courtesy of Larsen Twin Orchids.
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Even though many frogs live much of their lives out of the water, they need water to reproduce. This can be a problem since some frogs live in trees and some even live in the desert!
Ref: Wilder, Rachel. 1983. "Flying frogs." Science Digest, Nov. p. 120. Photo: Tree Frog – Pixabay.com
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Hydraulic machines are part of our everyday lives. When you step on the brakes in your car, brake fluid, which cannot be compressed, is forced from a cylinder into the braking mechanism attached to your wheels. Hydraulic mechanisms work because fluid cannot expand, but it will easily flow to areas where there is less pressure.
Ref: Tributsch, Helmut. 1983. "How spiders stretch." Science Digest, Oct. p. 74. Photo: Spider by Marjon Besteman – Pixabay.com
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There are between 10,000 and 15,000 species of orchids. While you surely are not familiar with all of them, it sounds strange to talk about orchid behavior. This huge variety of orchids offers a multitude of different flower shapes, colors and sizes. Each unique shape, color and size is perfectly suited to the bees, butterflies, bats, moths, flies and birds that are involved in that orchid's pollination.
Ref: Batten, Mary. 1983. "Sex & plants." Science Digest, Oct. p. 59. Photo: Bee Orchid by Ian Lindsay – Pixabay.com
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It sounds silly to ask whether bacteria can think. However, science has known for more than 100 years that the little guys can indeed think. Experiments in 1883 conducted by Wilhelm Pfeffer showed that bacteria will swim toward good food like chicken soup and away from poisons such as mop disinfectant.
Ref: Pietsch, Paul. 1983. "The mind of a microbe." Science Digest, Oct. p. 69. Photo: Chicken noodle soup by Cajsa Lilliehook CC By SA 2.0
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While the Bible teaches us that sex is a wonderful gift of God, evolutionists believe that sexual reproduction should not have evolved. According to evolutionists, if sexual reproduction were to develop, evolution is supposed to get rid of it.
Ref: Batten, Mary. 1983. "Sex & plants." Science Digest, Oct. p. 59. Photo: Black Calla by Sean O’Hara - CC By 2.0
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When the piranha is mentioned, nearly everyone thinks of a picture of a herd of cattle crossing the Amazon – and splish, splash – nothing is left but bones. Actually, the piranha is a rather interesting fish. It certainly seems to be the bearer of a few tricks the Creator wanted to play on those who want to explain the world without Him.
Ref: "The piranha's fishy feeding habits." Science Digest, Oct. 1983. p. 29. Photo: Piranha – Pixabay.com
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Modern skeptics of the Bible, including skeptics within the church, often deny the Bible's description of God's actions in the ten plagues against Egypt. However, our growing knowledge of ancient Egypt tells us that the plagues described in the Bible were exactly what God Himself said that they were.
Image: Seventh Plague of Egypt painting by John Martin (PD)
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Some creatures are so bizarre that they suggest a lesson to us. Yet even in their strangeness we see that they have been perfectly provided for by their Creator.
Photo: Sloth in tree – Pixabay.com
Back in 1836, well-known astronomer Sir John Herschel wrote a series of articles for the New York Sun reporting his discovery of life on the moon.
Image: Rough image of the lithograph of the “ruby amphitheater” described in The Sun (New York City) newspaper (August 28, 1835) (PD)
You might not think of the crocodile as a particularly loving creature. In reality, the crocodile is among the most gentle and loving of parents.
Photo: Crocodile – Pixabay.com
Imagine a huge living creature covering about one square mile and made up of almost a third of a billion cells. Imagine each of those living cells being able to move about independently of the others.
Note: Photo: Wood ant mound by Hans – Pixabay.com
How would you like to be a dental hygienist for a crocodile? That’s how the crocodile bird makes his living.
Photo: Crocodile bird by Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland – Egyptian Plover (Pluvianus aegyptius), CC BY-SA 2.0,
This archer fish is testimony to a wise and skillful Creator.
Image: Illustration of an archerfish shooting water at a bug on a hanging branch, (PD)
Our Creator’s work reflects some of His incredible inventive creativity.
Note: Firefly captured in eastern Canada – the top picture is taken with a flash, the bottom with only the self-emitted light by Emmanuelm – CC BY 3.0
How certain are evolutionists of evolution? Of course, no believer in evolution is going to go on national television and say that he is not sure of evolution. However, within the scientific community, those who really know the facts don’t always sound so convinced of their arguments.
Notes: Photo – Karl Popper (PD)
If God created, but He did so by evolution, it means that there were many generations and billions of deaths before the first man appeared on the scene. Does Scripture say anything about this?
Photo: Gravestone – Pixabay.com
Many Christians are willing to accept what Genesis has to say about creation with one exception. They don’t want to accept the six days as literal, natural, approximately 24-hour days.
Photo: Stained glass window of Moses with the ten commandments – Pixabay.com
Many, if not most, of the leaders of the creationist movement today were once evolutionists. Most of them once believed that God created, but that He created through evolution.
Image: Sign post.
Let’s be honest. If you believe God created, but that He used evolution to do so, you have to answer a difficult question. Does evolution allow the supernatural to take place?
Photo: Bible on table – Pixabay.com
Nearly 50% of the people in the United States, including many Christians, believe that God did indeed create all things. Unfortunately, they believe He used evolution as His instrument of creation.
Photo: Man kneeling at cross – Pixabay.com
How old is the universe? Evolutionary scientists talk about how radiometric dating methods prove the universe and the earth are billions of years old. Let’s look at all the methods scientists could use.
Image: Stars – Pixabay.com
Nearly everyone just “knows” that if enough monkeys were allowed to pound away at typewriters for enough time, they would eventually produce all the great works of literature. But there are some fundamental laws of science and some very simple commonsense facts that show this claim to be nonsense.
Photo: Antique typewriter -Pixabay.com
It has been said that if you take a frog and turn it into a man by adding a kiss, you have a fairy tale. But if you take a frog and turn it into a man by adding millions of years, you have science.
Photo: Frog on lily pad – Pixabay.co
There is a great deal of dust in between the earth, the moon, all the other planets, and the sun. However, you won’t need to send your friend with the mop to clean it up, because the sun and planets slowly sweep this dust from space.
Photo: Comet trail – Pixabay.com
If the sun is shrinking at this rate, it would have been twice as large as it is now only 100,000 years ago. And 20 million years ago the surface of the sun would have touched the surface of the earth! The dinosaurs, or more accurately their descendants, would have been cooked, to say the least. No life would have been possible on earth! This obviously poses a huge problem for evolutionists.
Photo: Volcanic lava flow – Pixabay.com
Space is full of mysteries. Those who think that the universe is millions or billions of years old have more mysteries to solve than Bible-believing Christians do.
. Photo: The brightest star – Hubble telescope CCA 3.0 unported.
What is a religion? You might be tempted to answer that it is any kind of belief about a god or some gods. However, that’s not complete enough to cover all religions. There are many old religions—not to mention the new ones—that don’t believe in any gods at all in the traditional sense!
Blank book with ink blot – Pixabay.com
Christianity is not the only religion in the world that starts with origins. While Genesis begins the
Bible by Steve Buissinne – Pixabay.com
It’s behind your refrigerator and under your bed. It’s part of the air you breathe.
Photo: Dust in the sunlight – Pixabay.com
It was first discovered in 1855, but many scientists debated its existence for another 50 years.
Who would have thought that squirrels would tell us how old the Grand Canyon is?
Photo: Tassel-eared squirrel – Pixabay.com
Marine biologists have been surprised to learn that the modern populations of jellyfish are actually much more complex than they ever suspected.
Photo: Jellyfish – Pixabay.com
It is difficult to imagine what things would be like had we not fallen into sin. We have never known the perfect world that God created for us.
Tomatoes on vine by KieKer – Pixabay.com
Scientists and manufacturers are studying a new technique that could lead to more durable fibers. This technique manufactures liquid crystals to produce stronger, longer-lasting fibers.
Photo: Spider web – Claudia Wollesen – Pixabay.com
The remarkable structure of the honeycomb has amazed scientists for thousands of years.
Photo: Bees and honeycomb – Pixabay.com
Thought maps help us remember where to find a water glass, the gas or brake pedal, and home. Thought maps require intelligence.
Photo: Bee – Pixabay.com.
The jellyfish lives two very different lives, each with different lifestyles and methods of reproduction.
Photo: Jelly fish - Pixabay
Before we had detailed knowledge of the daily lives of many animals, it was easy for scientists to dismiss signs of animal intelligence as instinct. After all, to the evolutionist, intelligence can only evolve in the highest creatures – like humans.
Photo: Bees and Hive – Pixabay.com
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If, as we are continually told, evolution is a fact, why is it that human technology improves when we copy designs found in nature?
Photo: Dolphin – Pixabay.com
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We have all looked in wonder at the amazing transformation of a caterpillar into a moth. However, did you realize that a moth needs an entirely different kind of brain than a caterpillar?
Photo Eyed hawk moth – Pixabay.com
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Creationists are often objects of scorn because they take the Bible's account of history literally. If the Bible's history is accurate, humans were on the Earth at the same time as many animals that are extinct today.
Photo: Courtesy of Giovanni Dall'Orto.
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They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. While that is often true, they also say that it takes a highly evolved brain to picture objects and remember them.
Photo: Bee – Pixabay.com
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At first glance, jellyfish may not look like much of a creation. Many are quite beautiful. However, most jellyfish simply look like blobs of jelly, so fragile that what might be a minor blow to one of us could prove fatal to them.
Photo: Jellyfish – Pixabay.com
Some creatures simply try to look uninteresting to hungry predators. Others take their role-playing so seriously that they actually fulfill some of the same roles as their models.
Photo: Inchworm – Pixabay.com
Many people have been taught that evolution is science and creation is religion. However, the origins debate is really a debate between two religions. According to the evolutionist's own rules of science, evolution is not good science. Consider the claims of evolution in view of what science knows today.
Image: Cyprus Coast Cliff – Pixabay.com CCO
Biologists have recently discovered a gene that suggests that God may not be above playing a practical joke on those who reject what His Word says.
Illustration: Fruit fly – Pixabay.com
Do you know how to handle a sailboat? If you had to sail to a destination that was not exactly downwind, would you be able to do it?
Photo: Velella jellyfish – (PD)
One would never expect to find any insect sharing living arrangements with a spider. That's why scientists were amazed to find a tiny fly in the rain forests of Central America who shares both room and board with a spider!
Photo: Spider Web – Pixabay.com
By the time Jefferson was 14, he could read four languages. He later learned three more. Jefferson's legacy goes far beyond his accomplishments in law and government.
. Image: Jefferson – Pixabay.com
As our knowledge about the universe grows, the big bang theory looks increasingly unlikely.
. Photo: NASA image of cosmic microwave background radiation.
Language requires some very special designs that are rare in nature and found together only in humans. First, human language requires vocal cords, which none of the apes have. The only animals with vocal tracts are birds, but no one is suggesting that we evolved from birds.
Image: Black board and chalk writing – Pixabay.com
Which body structure is a powerful generator of emotions, gives you a sense of direction, and serves as a cannon all at the same time? It's your nose, of course!
Photo: Nose – Pixabay.com
We have looked at many plants and animals that use different forms of camouflage to keep from being noticed. Some don't wish to be noticed so that they can surprise their prey, while others don't want to be noticed so they can avoid becoming prey. However, what happens when both predator and prey encounter each other in full camouflage?
Photo: Inchworm -Courtesy of Mila. GNU Free Documentation License.
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Squirrels often seem to run about without any purpose. However, a naturalist in the State of Maine recently discovered that the squirrel's activities are well planned and efficient.
Photo: red-squirrel – Pixabay.com
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We tend to associate being warm-blooded with mammals and human beings. Yet there are "warm-blooded" plants, reptiles and bumblebees. There is also a warm-blooded moth.
Photo: Corn_Earworm_Moth_Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren CCA 2.0
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Our senses link us to the world around us and enable us to interact with the world. While most people believe that our sense of sight is the highest of the senses and the most marvelous in design, our sense of hearing is no less marvelous.
Image: Anatomy_of_the_Human_Ear by Lars Chittka; Axel Brockmann CCA 2.5
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Many plants and animals disguise themselves as something they are not in the hope of protecting themselves. However, a true master of disguise must have many disguises. The tiger swallowtail offers no less than three disguises as it grows through its various stages toward adulthood.
Photo: Papilio_canadensis_caterpillar_3 Cephas CCA BY SA 4.0 International
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Witchweed is no simple plant. We learn from the witchweed that the Creator's unlimited imagination not only created some very strange living things, but also created some unique solutions to providing a means of living for them.
Photo: Witchweed by USDA APHIS PPQ Archive CCA by 3.0
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Not only is the human brain the most complex structure in the universe, it is also one of the busiest.
Image: Brain by ErMed14 CCA By SA 4.0
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Africa's southern deserts have a plant called living stones. In a desert, any vegetation can be a welcome source of food or moisture. In this setting, a plant that doesn't look like a plant has an advantage. And living stones look like nothing more than just another rock in the sand.
Photo: Ceresa_taurina by Bruce Marliin CCA by 2.0
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One of the spider’s virtues is that it loves to eat flies. However, not all spiders catch flies in their webs.
Image: Zonosemata_vittigera_by Robert Webste_ CCA by SA 4.0
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Over the last couple of centuries many Bible scholars have developed a skeptical approach to the Bible. Their treatment of the Bible as nothing more than a human document stems from their belief in evolution. According to them, Christianity has evolved from earlier religions just as humans evolved.
Photo: Hittite chariot from an Egyptian relief.
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Why is the sky dark at night? There’s more to the answer to this question than the fact that the stars do not appear as bright as the sun from earth.
Photo: Starry Sky – Pixabay.com
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In 1981 it was only a theory—one that seemed to go against all logic. The theory said that if you have a signal, say a sound that was too weak to be heard, adding a little noise would make it easier to hear.
Photo: Example of “stochastic resonance” enhanced image. (PD)
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Evolutionists have said that it must take millions of years for the tiny polyps to build large coral reefs, like the 2,000-kilometer-long Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
Photo: Coral – Pixabay.com
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One would think, for example, that it would be a simple job for modern science to create a fireproof fabric better than anything found in nature. After all, no living things in nature— besides humans—crash and burn.
Photo: Pixabay.com
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Which is more likely to last buried in the ground for a few thousand years, a wooden spoon or a stone hammer?
Picture: Cave painting of bison – Pixabay.com
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Researchers studied five infants, two of whom were deaf and had deaf parents. In the deaf households, communication took place through American Sign Language.
Scientists found that both hearing and deaf children babbled in the language used in their homes. Hearing infants produced sounds, then syllables, and eventually meaningful words. The deaf infants did the same with their hands. At first they would make the hand signs for basic letters and numbers, stringing them together without meaning. Just as the hearing infants were beginning to offer meaningful communication by their first birthday, the deaf infants’ signing had reached the same point by their first birthday.
REF: Hands-on babbling. Science News, v. 139, Mar. 30, 1991. p. 205. Image: Sign Language Alphabet by Jazz Davis CCA By SA 4.0
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For centuries Asian cooks have wrapped meat, sushi and candy in bamboo bark. Though the reason for this practice seems to have been forgotten, humans evidently once knew what modern science is rediscovering about bamboo.
REF: Keeping food fresh with bamboo. Science News, v. 139, Mar. 23, 1991. p. 191. Image: Bamboo – Pixaby.com
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Medical researchers are learning that your thoughts can affect your health.
REF: Wechsler, R. 1987. A new prescription: mind over malady. Discover, Feb. p. 51. Image: Macrophage ingesting a pathogen.(PD)
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Some of the most fascinating discoveries have to do with our growing knowledge of plant communication. New research continues to reveal even more amazing facts about the exquisite intricacy of God’s marvelous work.
REF: Weiss, R. 1991. Root words. Science News, v. 139, Mar. 23. p. 188. Photo: King Clone, the 11,700-year-old creosote bush ring in the Mojave Desert (PD)
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The strange partnership between the snapping shrimp and the goby is absolutely necessary if both creatures are to survive. The nearly blind shrimp relies on the goby, and the goby relies on the safety of the complex tunnel system the shrimp digs.
REF: Yanagisawa, Y. 1990. Strange seabed fellows. Natural History, Aug. p. 46. Photo: Shrimp (PD)
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The relationship between the snapping shrimp and a fish called the goby is a good example of the Creator’s attention to the finest detail.
REF: Yanagisawa, Y. 1990. Strange seabed fellows. Natural History, Aug. p. 46. Photo: Gobi and shrimp - by Steve Childs CCA By 2.0
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Science has shown that touching is necessary for life. Newborn animals that are licked by their mothers have a higher resistance to disease. They are also more likely to live to adulthood than newborns who are untouched by their mothers. Lambs will die after birth if their mothers do not lick and nuzzle them. Even human infants who are not lovingly touched enough will suffer from depression, poor sleep, weight loss, poor immunity and, in extreme cases, even death.
REF: McCutcheon, M. 1989. The Compass in Your Nose . . . . Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher. p. 112. Photo: Mother cat and kitten _Ilona Burschl_pixabay.jpg
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In South America ground hot peppers have been used for centuries to help relieve pain. Scientists have discovered the active ingredient in peppers that relieves skin pain. This sub-stance blocks the pain signals that come from the nerves just under the surface of the skin.
REF: Check, William A. Hot peppers for pain. Los Angeles Times (Repr. in Reader’s Digest) Photo: Peppers _ Pixabay.com
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Scientists have also known that animals generate a similar natural plastic called chitin. Like cellulose, chitin is a carbohydrate made of long chains of sugar molecules. Chitin is found in the shells of all insects and crustaceans, like crabs. Each year the crabmeat industry had thrown away thousands of tons of chitin because scientists couldn’t figure out how to extract chitin from the shells in a usable form.
REF: Dworetzky, T. 1987. How an old crab could keep you in stitches. Discover, Feb. p. 16.. Photo: Crab_Pixabay.com
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Many cultures around the world have legends about creation and a great Flood that have been handed down from generations in the distant past. Most of these creation and Flood stories sup-port the biblical story of creation and the Flood.
REF: Branscome, Gary R. 1991. The Delaware Indians and the creator. Bible-Science Newsletter, May. p. 1. : Photo: Ark_in_Dordrecht_ by Ceinturion _CCA BySA 3.0
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For many people bats bring to mind words like “creepy,” “fangs,” “rabies,” and even “ugly.” However, over 450 years ago Martin Luther marveled at the delicate beauty of the bat. He pronounced the creature an excellent witness to the skill and wisdom of the Creator.
REF: Givens, K.T. 1990. Going batty. Modern Maturity, Oct.-Nov. p. 60. Photo: Big-eared Townsend bat – (PD)
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Some people talk to their plants. But what do you say to a bacterium? Evidently the soybean plant knows just what to say to make bacteria its close friend and helper.
REF: Pennisi, E. 1991. Intimate chemistry of a symbiotic odd couple. Science News, v. 139, Mar. 9. p. 151. Photo: Soybean plants – (PD)
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Life appears suddenly in the fossil record. And the living things found in the earliest rocks are completely developed and well equipped for life. Trilobites had fully formed eyes that were apparently more sophisticated than many creatures today. They appear without ancestors.
REF: When life got hard. Science News, v. 138, Aug. 25, 1990. p. 120. Photo: Trilobite – (PD)
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Garlic. Even say the word and some people move away to give you some distance. Others gather around, because to them, garlic helps make the meal. Garlic has begun to attract the attention of medical researchers as well.
REF: Garlic medicine: cures in cloves? Science News, v. 138, Sept. 8, 1990. p. 157. Photo: Garlic – Pixabay.com
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They are the only cells in the human body that repeatedly die and self-regenerate throughout life.. And science considers them so interesting that several branches of science are studying them. I am talking about hair cells.
REF: Weiss, R. 1991. Fuzzy science. Science News, v. 139, Mar. 16. p. 169. Photo: Strand of human hair at 200x magnification (PD)
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We don’t often think about our sense of smell. While our noses are on the job all the time, we note an odor only when it is unusual. Most of the time the scents around us contribute, unnoticed, to our overall impression of our surroundings.
REF: McCutcheon, M. 1989. The Compass in Your Nose . . . . Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher. p. 99. Photo: Beach dunes_ Pixabay.com
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When you are ill, you need sleep. And when you are sick you are usually sleepy. Medical researchers are now learning that it’s not accidental that illness and sleepiness go together. In fact, the relationship is one of God’s ingenious designs.
REF: Feeling sleepy? Shhh! Bacteria at work. Discover, April 1987. p. 12. Photo: Sleeping baby - Pixabay.com
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Roses have fascinated people for thousands of years. Rose breeding is one of the oldest human experiments in the science of genetics. Roses are bred for variations in size, color, frequency of bloom, and scent. More than 25 distinct scents have been identified in roses. By the mid-19th century, breeders had developed some 4,000 varieties of roses.
REF: Mohs, M. 1987. Where has all the fragrance gone? Discover, June. p. 90. Photo: Autumn Damask roses_ courtesy of A. Barra.
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A growing number of scientists, some of them with worldwide reputations, are changing their minds about evolution.
The world famous astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle announced that there is so much information within higher forms of life that they could not have evolved. Dr. Hoyle said that he could not understand why so many biologists deny this obvious fact and accept evolution.
REF.: Sunderland, Luther. 1988. Darwin’s Enigma. El Cajon, CA: Master Books. Photo: Persuaded by the Evidence by Doug Sharpe and Dr Jerry Berman.
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One of the more unusual creatures God made was thought extinct until it was rediscovered in 1958. The kakapo parrot lives in New Zealand and, perhaps not surprisingly, the world’s only non-flying parrot.
REF.: Discover, Mar. 1985. p. 36. Photo: Kakapo by Chris Birmingham CCA 2.0.xcf
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The coelacanth is a rather strange looking fish that was supposed to have become extinct 70 million years ago with the dinosaurs. That’s what scientists thought anyway.
REF.: No stinking fish in my taxi! Discover, Mar. 1985. p. 40. Photo: Ccoelacanth-fish (PD)
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It is unfortunate that we so often have the sense that nothing technologically important has happened in human history until modern times.
REF.: Patton, Robert. 1982. Ooparts. Omni, v. 4. p. 53. Photo: The Gate of the Sun - PD
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All insects that hear, except one, have two ears. Some insects have ears on their legs, thorax, or abdomen. However, they all follow the same principle. Their ears are separated so that they can locate the source of the sound - except in one insect.
REF.: Miller, Julie Ann. 1986. Sensory surprises in platypus, mantis. Science News, v. 129. p. 104. Photo: Praying Mantis– Pixabay.com
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Research is confirming that even before birth children in the womb are learning about the world. The child in the womb does much more than simply hear sounds, including its mother's voice.
REF.: Recollections from the womb. Science 84, Dec. 1984. p. 84. Photo: Smiling baby – Pixabay.com
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It's commonly known that many animals are able to detect extraordinarily weak odors. The real mystery is how they can smell scents that are 1,000 times too weak to produce the chemical reactions necessary to make a scent signal.
REF.: Vaughan, Christopher. 1990. Molecular odor‑eaters. Science News, v. 133. p. 348. Photo: Diagram of olfactory senses. (PD)
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Tropical beauty has inspired many Hawaiian love songs. However, none is more unusual than the love song of Hawaiian fruit flies.
REF.: Edwards, D.D. 1990. Unique island love songs attract flies. Science News, v. 133. p. 244. Photo: Drosophila_setosimentum by Karl Magnacca. CC By SA 3.0 unported
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Algae are among the world's premier plants. Scientists never expected to find an alga that feeds like a Venus flytrap.
REF.: Miller, Julie Ann.1986. Lake algae dine on bacteria. Science News, v. 129, Feb. 1. p. 71. Photo: Venus fly trap by Lynn B. Pixabay.com
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Normally they bother no one. The creatures, called protozoan ciliates, quietly go about their business in water‑filled tree holes, eating other microorganisms.
REF.: Revenge of the placid protozoan. Science News, v. 131, June 4, 1988. p. 363. Photo: Scanning electron microscope view of Oxytricha trifallax. (PD)
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The ancients had a very sophisticated knowledge of food and health, some of which is only being rediscovered today.
REF.: Season gingerly to retard rancidity. Science News, v. 129, Mar. 1, 1986. p. 137. Photo: Ginger Spice by Andrea (Ajale) – pixabay.com
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A remarkable discovery in Israel is shedding new light on life in Bible times. The discovery is also allowing scientists and the rest of us to get to know an important New Testament character.
REF.: Greenhut, Zvi. 1992. Burial cave of the Caiaphas family. Biblical Archaeology Review, Sept./Oct. p. 29. Image: Christ Before Caiaphas by Matthias Stom (PD)
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Some types of bacteria are able to go into a state of suspended animation when living conditions become too harsh. Not only do they change their form and appearance, they are amazingly able to change their DNA structure to avoid damage from harmful types of light!
Image: God Appears to Moses in Burning Bush. Painting from Saint Isaac's Cathedral, Saint Petersburg. (PD)
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Nothing is more frustrating than glue that refuses to stick. And nothing is harder on an adhesive’s ability to stick than water. Water can prevent adhesives from solidly touching the surfaces that are to adhere. Freezing and thawing temperatures can force glued surfaces apart.
Photo: mussels – Pixabay.com
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New research shows that, when attacked, many plants make chemicals that will give munching insects a bad case of indigestion. They also seem to warn their neighbors about the attack so that they, too, start up their defenses. Some plants even call in air defenses.
Photo: Parasitoid wasp by Ian Alexander - CC BY-SA 4.0
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The study of plants’ abilities to protect themselves from insect attackers is a fairly new and rapidly growing area of research. It seems that new and even more amazing discoveries are appearing about plants.
Photo: Tomatoes on vine Pixabay.com
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Have you ever wondered how, over thousands of years, the population balance between males and females remains roughly even?
Photo: Atlantic Silverside – Smithsonian Environmental Research- CCA 2.0
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There are a number of species of bacteria that possess tiny chains of crystal particles called magnetosomes. Magnetosomes, as the name suggests, have iron in them to help the bacteria sense magnetic fields for navigation. They can also help the bacteria find food.
Image: The magnetic field of a bar magnetic - Newton Henry Black (PD)
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After suffering a stroke, a man in Baltimore suddenly began speaking with a Scandinavian accent. Though he had no experience with languages other than English, he suddenly sounded Nordic and appeared unfamiliar with English! In the weeks after the stroke his speech gradually returned to normal.
Image; Tower of Babel by Gustove Dore (PD)
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It’s not very pretty, nor is it graceful, but Colombia’s rock-climbing catfish has a unique ability among fish.
Photo: Catfish - Photo: Courtesy S. Schaefer/AMNH.
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How smart is the smartest tree you ever met? Does it sound silly to speak of trees as being smart? Botanists are learning that some trees have elaborate defenses against insect pests.
Photo: Eastern tent caterpillar by Katja Schultz CC 2.0
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One good method of avoiding attack in nature is to pretend that you are somebody who should not be attacked. In the insect world one of the most feared creatures is the ant.
Photo: Jumping Spider mimicking an ant by Yogendra Joshi CC 2.0
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Genesis uses only a few words and simple language to describe the creation of trees. That hardly seems fair, considering the importance, variety and complexity of the largest and longest-living things on earth.
Photo: Bristlecone Pine (PD)
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It’s a warm day on the Amazon River. A small fish swims near the surface looking among the natural floating river debris for some food. As he looks among the occasional leaf or twig in the water he sees no danger . . . just a nearby leaf.
Photo: Leaf fish (PD)
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Are you a musician? From the standpoint of evolution, human musical ability serves no purpose.
Photo: Peruvian playing a zampoña. (PD)
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Some creatures seem more wise and powerful in dealing with the problems of living than seems reasonable.
Photo: New Zealand mud snail (PD)
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Many people today think it’s unusual for someone to interpret the Genesis account of creation literally. For example, many in the church seem unsure of whether Adam was a real person. How are we to understand Genesis?
Image: Genesis Factor book cover by Ron J. Bigalke.
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Medical researchers are learning what happens in the body when we develop a fever. They say that the body’s fever response is usually a very important part of our body’s defense against disease.
Image: Brain illustration by LeevanJackson_ CC By SA 4.0
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We live in a world—indeed a universe—that is in continual change. Things have been designed that way for a very important reason. Unfortunately, some people choose to define evolution as simply change. However, that’s not the kind of continuous change that surrounds us.
Photo: Swan family – cob, pen and cygnets by Suzanna Jutzeler_Pixabay.com
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Naturalists are discovering that many animals use a variety of plants and other items to treat their illnesses. Animals often know about the medicinal properties of plants when modern medicine has yet to learn about them.
Photo: Bear (PD)
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According to evolution’s history of life, the male and female sexes must have developed in different kinds of creatures dozens of times.
Photo: Male and Female – Pixabay.com
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If I were to ask you whether you are left-handed or right-handed, you would probably answer with most people that you are right-handed. While that may be true, you are also left-handed, and your life depends on it.
Photo: Handshake – (PD)
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The relatively rare bucket orchid, Coryanthes, behaves almost like an animal at pollination time. This remarkable ability is essential to its survival.
Photo: Coryanthes and bee by Alex Popovkin_CC 2.0.JPG
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Your nose performs an extremely unlikely job. It senses invisible molecules in the air and turns each molecule into a unique sensation that is sent to the brain.
Photo: Mona Lisa details (PD)
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Archaeologists discovered a water well that is the oldest they’ve ever seen. Because of the well’s sophisticated design, they immediately concluded that ancient humans were much smarter than they ever expected.
Photo: Mediterranean Sea illustration. (PD)
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In His wisdom, God filled the creation with chemical factories that could provide temporary help for pain and disease.
Photo: Foxglove illustration (PD)
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Our bodies are a network of complex control systems and chemical factories—a complex union of systems that go beyond the abilities of the best human designers, but which testify to the wisdom of the Creator!
Photo; Pineal illustration (PD)
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The swiftly moving bat cuts almost invisibly through the darkness, silent to all but those who can hear its ultrasonic radar. What chance does a poor night-flying cricket—prized as a tasty bat snack—have?
Photo: Crickets – (PD)
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At one time the tropics may have extended into what are today polar regions. However, the Bible and evolutionary geology don’t agree on how long ago that was. Bible-believing geologists, on the other hand, are reporting evidence to support the Bible’s story of history.
Photo: Arctic fox in sunglasses by RJM Sanpdragon from Pixabay.com photo elements.
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What keeps the big-bodied bumblebee with those little stubby wings in the air?
REF: Cowen, R. 1990. Bumblebee energy: What’s the buzz? Science News, v. 138, Oct. 6. p. 215. Photo: Bumblebee (PD)
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The silk produced by spiders is very different from the silk produced by silkworms in some very important ways. While silkworm silk is strong yet not prone to stretching, spiders make silk that is both strong and stretchy. They also make several different kinds of silk, each with its own purpose.
REF: Amato, I. 1990. Unraveling the biochemistry of spider silk. Science News, v. 138, Oct. 6. p. 214. Photo: Spider Web by Albrecht Fietz – Pixabay.com.
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The book, entitled The Blind Watchmaker, tried to show that the design we see in the creation is simply an illusion.
Most of us were amazed when we first learned that physicians in ancient Egypt did brain surgery. Even more amazing is that the skulls of their patients showed healing: they accomplished such complicated surgery without killing their patients. That physicians had the knowledge to do such delicate operations thousands of years ago challenges the modern, evolutionary view that humans began as primitives.
Photo: Courtesy of Pixabay. (PD)
It should be obvious that attentive parents are a blessing to their children. However, as we look around us, we see too many examples of inattentive parenting. Scientists in Canada have experimentally demonstrated one of the benefits of attentive parenting.
Photo: Courtesy of Pixabay. (PD)
According to the Bible, Noah's Ark was 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. It was built of a type of wood called "gopher wood." This may have been laminated wood, but it was wood. However, skeptics claim that even today wooden boats cannot be made that large simply because wood is not strong enough to endure the huge stresses generated by such a large structure; they say only iron can endure these stresses.
Photo: Gold octadrachm issued by Ptolemy IV Philopator, British Museum. (PD)
Many people do not want dandelions in our garden because thye are classed as weeds, and they have a tendency to take over large areas, But, did you know pretty much every part of a dandelion plant can be put to some useful purpose?
"One day, long long ago, before the white man came to America, a party of Sioux Indian warriors were out hunting. They had left their village far behind. Before they realized it, the group of braves found themselves alone in the bare and rocky badlands of the West. Suddenly the sky darkened…. There was a clap of thunder that shook the earth. Looking up in terror, the Indians thought they saw the shape of a giant bird falling to earth…."
Image: A thunderbird totem pole from Victoria, BC, Canada. License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported.
What is the Troutdale Formation and what dose the great flood have to do with it?
. Image: Quartzite, and other Troutdale stones, photographed by author.
Evolustionists appears to have lost millions of years . . . where did it go?
. Image: Troutdale Formation, photographed by author.
Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
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The Moon is covered with craters. Other bodies in the Solar System are also covered with craters. If you look at an unlabeled photograph of Mercury, it is likely that you would simply assume it was the Moon because the cratering is so similar. Such craters have only been discovered since the advent of spacecraft to view the planets close up, so it was not until 1965, when the Mariner 4 craft flew by Mars, that craters other than on Earth or Moon were seen.
Image: Far Side of the Moon, Public Domain (NASA).
What makes a hero? Is it a particular character trait? Are some personalities better suited to being heroes than others? Or could anyone be a hero, given the right circumstances?
Image: Kigali Genocide Memorial Center, Rwanda; Public Domain image.
“The toolmaking techniques mastered by prehistoric humans there were more sophisticated than previously thought,”
Image: Public Domain.
Could the Icelandic epic poem, the Vǫluspá, which told of the eruption of Eldgjá, in the south of the island, in 939, been the reminder that encourage the viking people to turn from their worship of pagan gods?
Image: Andreas Tille, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International.
How could a 1,000-year-old lens is equal in quality with modern lenses?
Notes: Discovering Archaeology Online, 3-4/00, "Medieval Craftsmen Rivaled Descartes." Painting: Portrait of Rene Descartes by André Hatala. (PD)
Like burning embers removed from the fire, when believers fail to be a regular part of their faith community, believers' faith, too, cools to the temperature around it.
Notes: Science News, 6/3/00, p. 359, "Religious commitment linked to longer life." Courtesy: Pixabay
The shell of the giant pink queen conch is made of such remarkable material that scientists speak of its design, even while they say that it is a product of evolutionary chance.
Photo: Shell of the queen conch Lobatus gigas. Courtesy of cheesy42. (CC BY 2.0)
Genes carry the biological information to make specific living things. Evolution says that simpler living things evolved first, and more complex life evolved later. This would lead us to believe that more complex living things would have developed more genes.
Photo: Side view of fruit fly. Courtesy of Karl Magnacca. (CC BY-SA 2.5)
We take the sky for granted. It is just there. Yet, whether it is covered with cloud, or clear, we do not consider the fact that, during the daytime, all of the sky is somewhat light. In particular, on a clear day, the sky appears blue. The blueness itself is remarkable, given that the sun is yellow, but why is the sky any color at all?
. Image: PiccoloNamek at En.Wikipedia, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported.
Curiously, the bones of the famous "Lucy" are always mounted in such a way as to give the impression of a creature looking much like a human being. However, this presentation is extremely deceptive since, apart from the shape of the pelvis, knee, and ankle joints, the bodily proportions are distinctly ape-like.
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It is generally assumed by schoolteachers and the media that fossilization is a painfully slow process. In fact, there are many contemporary evolutionists who know that fossilization can be much more rapid.
What is an exoplanet? An exoplanet is a planet orbiting a star other than our own sun. You might suppose that they were discovered by peering through a telescope in the same way that planets like Uranus and Neptune and the dwarf planet Pluto were discovered. However, this is not the case.
Image: NASA, Public Domain
The oldest radio-carbon dates, of between 50,000 and 100,000 years, are notoriously problematic, even by evolutionary standards.
Image: Derby Museum Viking Display, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic.
Unlike other animals, octopi use a variety of strategies to solve the same problem. They can use their eight powerful arms to open clams, or they can drill through the shell and inject a fast-acting poison. In the laboratory, octopi kept in isolation were given a floating plastic bottle. The bored octopuses quickly devised a variety of games to play with the bottle - a sure sign of intelligence.
Photo: Pixabay.com (PD)
People often worry about the fat in nuts. However, most of that fat is the good kind that protects hearts, while at the same time satisfying the body's need for fat.
Photo: Pixabay.com (PD)
John Stevens Henslow was a highly respected scientist of the 19th century. He taught both botany and mineralogy at England's Cambridge University. In addition to being a scientist and professor, he was also a devout Christian and ordained into the Anglican clergy.
Lithograph: John Stevens Henslow. (PD)
All the textbooks inform us that the speed of light is about 186,000 miles per second. This is the absolute speed limit of the universe, according to Einstein's theory of relativity, we have always been told. Should anything travel faster than that, Einstein's theory falls.
Photo: Einstein portrait. -Pixabay.com (PD)
When bees are threatened by some diseases or predators, they act like sick children - they get a fever. More specifically, they give their nest a fever, sometimes raising its temperature to levels nearly fatal to themselves.
Photo: Pixabay.com (PD)
There are some pastors and teachers who tell me that it does not matter what we believe about Genesis. It does not matter if there were really six 24-hour days, or millions of years. It does not matter if there was death before Adam’s sin. It does not matter if Adam were not a real person, but an allegory.
Ref: Taylor, P.F. (2007), The Six Days of Genesis Chapter 1. Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.
Everyone knows Charles Darwin . . . but do you know there was another evolutionist who isn't quite as well known.
Ref: Encyclopaedia Britannica, , accessed 1/31/2018. Image: Public Domain.
A discovery at Scarborough – a seaside resort in northern England – has shed some new light on the art abilities of ancient humans.
Image: Cave Painting, French Ministry of Culture, Public Domain.
Evidence speaks for itself, we are told. But, that is not the case. The one thing that evidence cannot do is to speak for itself.
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In 1814, Thomas Chalmers was a young Scottish clergyman with an interest in geology. He had grown up with the deep-time views of James Hutton, and the work of more contemporary geologists seems to have caused Chalmers difficulties in accepting these ideas along with the book of Genesis. So it was that in 1814, Chalmers wrote a review of Georges Cuvier’s book Theory of the Earth. Cuvier was a catastrophist.
Image: Public Domain.
The ideas of deep-time geology are actually older than Darwin’s theory of evolution. In many ways, it was the deep-time ideas that gave birth to Darwinism, not the other way around.
Image: portrait of Georges Cuvier, Public Domain.
The idea of plate tectonics is today such a deeply ingrained idea that many people assume the concept is completely proved and is the only obvious way to explain the Earth’s crust. Many creationists – and I include myself – would suggest that plate tectonics is indeed the best explanation, though we would not accept the evolutionary timescale, suggesting that tectonic movement must have been rapid and catastrophic in the early days of the Flood.
Image: Public Domain (over 100 years after author’s death).
There is an upper layer to the Earth’s Mantle called the Asthenosphere. This comprises of semi-molten rock. Crustal rocks of the Earth’s tectonic plates seem to almost float on this. The heavier rocks of the ocean crust float lower than the less dense rocks of the continental crust. This suggests that the rocks of the ocean floor would be older than the rocks of the continent. However, this is not the case.
Image: Subduction-en.svg, Wikimedia Commons, author: KDS4444, license: CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Westminster Confession of Faith and showed that the statement in chapter 4 it is very clear on the necessity of believing that God made the world in six literal 24-hour days. The same statement also appears at chapter 4 of the 1689 London Baptist Confession.
Image: Claes Janszoon Visscher II (1587–1652), license: Public Domain (more than 100 years after artist’s death).
When scientific ideas seem to disagree with the Bible, Christians should hold firm. The Bible is God’s word, and oftentimes changes in those scientific ideas create renewed alignment with the Bible.
Image: A natural arch produced by erosion of differentially weathered rock in Jebel Kharaz, license: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported.
The Bible teaches that until several centuries after the Flood all people on Earth spoke the same language. The fact that many supposedly unrelated languages have similar sounding words with the same or similar meanings supports this teaching. Some language researchers say that this is simply due to chance. Now some language researchers say that they have developed another line of research that supports the belief that all humans once spoke the same language.
Photo: Baby – Pixabay.com
While most people know that several ancient cultures built pyramids, which culture built the most? Most people would answer "Egypt", but they would be wrong. However, they did inspire the culture that built the most pyramids.
Photo: Aerial view of the Nubian pyramids at Meroe. CC By SA 1.0 .
Often the most productive science is done when scientists, as one founder of modern science put it, "Think God's thoughts after Him." For example, while antibiotics have saved millions of lives, they have proven to be only a temporary solution. In addition, there are some bacterial infections that move too fast for antibiotics to be effective.
Photo: Micrograph of ''Vibrio vulnificus'' bacteria. (PD)
Let's go back to the very first moment that the supposed Big Bang took place. Evolutionists say that at that very first moment, everything was up to chance. The size and charge of electrons, protons, the structure of atoms or whether they would even exist could have been anything.
Photo: Space-filling model of the oxygen molecule. (PD)
One of the most beautiful and famous passages in the Bible, concerning unborn children, is found in Psalm 139.
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The Bible does not directly refer to abortion. Of course, there are many other issues on which the Bible does not give a specific comment. However, in many cases, it is clear what the biblical position is. I believe the same is true with the subject of abortion.
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Four words refute all naturalistic explanations of the universe. They refute evolution because they make clear that there was a planning intelligence behind the universe rather than blind, random chance.
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Did the complexity of the photosynthesis process evolved by chance. Evolutionary scientists like to point to what they refer to as simple systems from which more complex systems might have evolved, and so a recent scientific article discusses the earliest known organisms that use photosynthesis. Evolutionists assume that more complex plants could have evolved from single-celled algae, many of which use photosynthesis.
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Green plants are green, mostly because of a green pigment called chlorophyll. Many of us learned in high school that this green pigment is what causes photosynthesis.
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Climate Change Denier” is a derogatory term, used against those who are skeptical about changes in global climate having been caused by human industrial activity. The term is, however, used to imply that such skeptics deliberately deny obvious facts about changes in climate. This is not so.
Image: Public Domain (NASA).
How old is the world’s oldest fossil? The problem is that the term “oldest” implies a timescale, and we may not agree on the nature of that timescale. For example, deep-time evolutionists assume that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, whereas creationists show that the age of the Earth given in the Bible is about 6,000 years.
Image: Public Domain.
An article in the Los Angeles Times about a recent fossil find began:
"If it walks like a duck and swims like a duck, it might be a dinosaur."
The writer was referring to a fossil called Halszkaraptor escuilliei, which the paleontologists think shows traits of both therapod and aquatic bird – a sort of dinogoose.
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During a radio interview on the BBC, Richard Dawkins once said, “The view that all living organisms have a common ancestor, from which they have evolved, is the correct one.” Statements like these often intimidate the layman into thinking that certain ideas in science, such as evolution, must have been proven beyond all reasonable doubt.
Image: Public Domain.
Over 2,000 years ago, Aristotle wrote about red snow. Today, red, orange and even green snow has been found on every continent. It is typically found in deep mountain snows in the late spring.
Photo: Green algal cell (Chlamydomonas nivalis) responsible for red coloration of mountain snow packs. (PD)
During his visit to the Galapagos Islands Charles Darwin saw that each island was populated by finches. These birds were all very similar, yet from one island to another there were some differences in the size and shape of the beak. Darwin concluded that in the past a pair of these birds had been blown 600 miles from the mainland and the off-springs "evolved" into all the other types he saw.
Illustration: Darwin’s finches. (PD)
One of the early evidences for evolution, at one time found in almost every school textbook, was based upon the salt content of human blood plasma and the salt content of the sea.
Photo: A unit of fresh frozen blood plasma by DriverDave CC BY SA 3.0 Unported.
Like most social insects, termites don't tolerate strangers. However, the Trichopsenius frosti beetle likes to make its living within the nest of just one species of termite.
Photo: Trichopsenius. Copyright © 2012 Jeff Gruber & UW-Madison Dept. of Entomology. (Fair Use)
All cats seem to consume a very high fat meat diet. Unlike other carnivores, cats cannot manufacture their own taurine, so their diet is almost perfectly carnivorous, with very little in the way of plant material.
Image: Little Jerry, license Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International.
The word ichthyosaur means fish lizard. The animal looked like a fish but appeared to be reptilian in nature.
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For many people studying the early chapters of Genesis, the account of Babel is a troubling interlude.
Image: Bruegel’s Tower of Babel, Public Domain.
The Apostle Peter reminds us in 2 Peter 1:20 that “no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation.”
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Anthropology is the study of human beings and where they came from. As a scientific discipline, it has been led for decades by people with evolutionary presuppositions.
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It was Charles Darwin’s assumption that new species arose from previous ones by a process of natural selection. Darwin famously illustrated this point by reference to the various species of finch living on the Galapagos Islands.
(Image: Female resident finch from Daphne Major, License: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Unported.)
Some frogs are regular little drug factories. Their skins produce a wide range of powerful alkaloids, are a large family of chemicals usually produced by plants. Familiar alkaloids include quinine, caffeine and morphine. Different alkaloids have different effects, usually on the nervous system.
Photo: Blue Poison Dart frog (PD)
Love is one of the necessities of life that is both physical and spiritual. While it doesn’t fit with a strictly materialistic view of life, love and touch, or lack of love and touch, can determine our health and sometimes even life and death.
Photo: Parent and baby - Pixabay.com
Researchers who examine the workings of the basal ganglia of our brain, have concluded that the deep structures of the brain that are supposed to be primitive are actually quite sophisticated.
Image: Basal Ganglia and Related Structures (PD)
Most evolutionists believe that human beings evolved in East Africa – areas now covered by nations such as Tanzania and Kenya. However, cutting tools found in North Africa suggest to some that there had been early migration of hominids from East to North Africa, or that hominids had evolved separately in more than one region.
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There is a particular type of spider found in Singapore that are actually exceptional mothers who carefully looks after her babies.
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Whalebone was used for all sorts of ornaments and structural purposes as a gently bendable, yet firm material. Today it has been replaced by plastics. But it wasn't really bone. It came from the mouth of the whale.
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What evidence could we provide that would prove to an evolutionist that evolution was false?
Apparently, the late evolutionary biologist J.B.S. Haldane (1892–1964) addressed this question, and his answer was, famously, "Precambrian rabbits".
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If you look up an animal in an encyclopedia, whether that animal is extant or extinct, you will usually be presented with a cladogram, which looks like a sideways family tree, and it represents the supposed evolutionary descent of the creature.
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Researchers from the University of Edinburgh, examining yet again the cave drawings at Lascaux, France, determined that these early people understood the precession of the Earth's orbit, and an ancient comet strike.
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The red panda has to be one of the world's most attractive animals, with a cute white face and a ginger red body. As its name suggests, it was once thought to be closely related to the giant panda.
As far as we know, the blue whale is the largest animal that has ever existed. Every statistic that we find about these giants is overwhelming.
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Jesus talked about "the sign of Jonah" when He was being asked about signs. He said it was the only sign that would be given to that generation. He then proceeded to tell them what the sign meant.
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Most people are familiar with the story of Jonah and the whale. However, by calling it a story, some people want to cast doubt upon the key event of the account.
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It is almost like a religious catechism to state that apes and humans share a common ancestor from which they have both evolved.
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The conventional understanding has always been that North America was populated by people who crossed from Asia to Alaska via the Bering Strait and then migrated down the West Coast.
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The Aye-Aye is one of the strangest little monkeys on earth. Its peculiar features bear witness that it was specially designed and created to fill a unique niche in nature, not a chance development of evolution.
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Dinosaur fossil hunters and paleontologists have long debated whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded or cold-blooded.
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"Survival of the fittest" is an essential principle of evolution. This principle has not only been applied to animals, but also to human beings, as a social theory.
Scientists, however, are learning that cooperation among animals is more often the rule.
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For generations cave guides have been telling cave visitors that the stalagmites and stalactites that they see around them grow at incredibly low rates. The figure that is usually given is one inch per century for stalactites (they are the ones that hang down). Now a group of scientists who believe in young Earth creationism has studied the chemistry of stalagmite and stalactite formation in actual cave conditions. They discovered that there are many variables in the growth of these formations.
Most mammals in Australia are marsupials. That is one of the things that makes Australia so special to those of us elsewhere in the world who may never have been there.Yet, there is one placental mammal that is associated with Australia, as a typical wild animal. That is the wild dog known as the dingo.
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The significance of Newton’s historical writings is that he compared biblical timescales to those of other nations and peoples. He started with an important presupposition – that the biblical timescale is correct.
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It is less well known that Newton wrote a lot about history and theology. He accepted a biblical timescale of events.
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An article in the New Scientist magazine suggests that the Reformation was a spur to scientific development. In their minds, Luther was a rebel, and it was this attitude of rebellion that led to the free-thinking required for modern science to develop.
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Genesis is one book. That might seem pretty obvious to many of you, and yet sometimes we have given the impression that it is two books. The first book runs from chapter one through chapter eleven. The second is from chapter twelve onward.
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There has been a tendency among some evangelicals to worry about scientific opinion. For example, there has been a drive to reinterpret Genesis in the light of evolutionary theory, and, although that drive is decades old, it has accelerated among conservative evangelicals.
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Comets are fascinating objects. At their best, they can be spectacular objects in the sky, with beautiful tails pointing away from the Sun.
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The old joke goes: “What’s gray and has a trunk? A mouse on vacation.” Of course, we know that this is really the description of the world’s favorite animal, the elephant.
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At every stage in a supposed evolutionary process there needs to be a spontaneous production of new genetic information. Yet, the only mechanisms seen are the coding and decoding of existing information.
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Tyrannosauruses are no longer rare! Lots of fossils have been discovered, so even though none of them are complete.
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When you look through the Bible, there is one interesting land animal type which is missing.
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Does it really take millions of years for opals to form?
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Evolutionists claim “music” and “language” developed independent of each other. Did they?
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Humans work together and so do certain animals, but did you know some bacteria do too?
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Are pigs and peccaries related?
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On today’s program we’ll shed some light on dark matter.
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You know how assumptions can lead you astray. On today’s program we’ll talk about how evolution assumption does just that!
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Did you know there are actually, animal “con artists” who deceive members of their own kind?
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Did the great flood and the tower of Babel really occur or are they nothing more than stories?
(Painting: Tower of Babel by Lucas van Valckenborch, 1594, Louvre Museum.) (PD)
Being a “copycat” can be a very good idea when engineer and inventors copy God’s ideas and designs.
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Have you ever felt hopeless and didn’t know where to turn? The Bible has the perfect answer for that!
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Some people suggest the fearsome leviathan in the book of Job was merely a crocodile.
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When you have a theory as faulty was evolution, it takes a lot of “word tricks” to get people to accept it.
Which explanation of origins does the “Fossil record” support?
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Scientists who reject the Bible’s account of “Creation” will not only have to explain how life got started, but also how did the Earth come into existence.
Why does King Solomon used the phrase “under the sun” so many time in the book of Ecclesiastes?
According to some evolutionary scientists, meteorites might have added just the right ingredient to the “primordial soup” to create life!
It seems our “smart phones” aren’t very smart for people wanting to reduce stress in their lives.
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Scientists studying the origins of “blue eyes” made an amazing discovery.
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What is the most beautiful verse in all of the book of Genesis?
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Can you imagine what it was like at the beginning of the worldwide flood? Well, we don’t have to, because the Bible tell us about it.
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Worshiping idols of wood, stone and metal was a problem back in ancient days, but it’s not a problem now in modern times . . . right?
Noah’s ark had to be waterproof. It was coated inside and out with pitch. But, what exactly is pitch?
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What might you have seen if you lived during the worldwide flood of Noah’s days?
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What does the fossil record actually reveals about dinosaurs?
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God made animals according to their kind. We refer to these kinds as baramins – from two Hebrew words for created kind. God did not make lions, tigers, pumas, etc. He made felids – the technical word for members of the cat family, or felidae.
You may not think of plants as being intelligent on any level since it appears that they just sort of sit in the soil and grow. However, the lima bean employs an sophisticated defense strategy that not only warns surrounding lima beans of an insect attack, but also calls in defenders.
Scientists have long wondered how deep‑diving creatures such as whales, dolphins and seals can dive so deeply on one breath. It takes a great deal of energy for a seal, for example, to dive 1,200 feet deep and then return to the surface.
The Bible speaks of bird calls as songs, as most of us do. However, evolutionary theory has led some scientists to say that we are merely assigning human meanings to the calls of birds. They say that the bird calls have nothing to do with real music.
The chempedak tree is found in Malaysia. It is closely related to jackfruits in the mulberry family. The chempedak tree produces edible fruits that are about a foot long.
Words are very important, and it is very easy for miscommunication by using the wrong words.
Event that scar the lives of real people, even those who follow God’s will, is full of genuine pain. Yet, we see that God still makes beautiful things out of things that were once broken. And God makes beautiful people out of people who were broken and sinful when we repent and put our trust in Jesus Christ.
We have now got used to the idea that there are dinosaur fossils containing soft tissue. Our familiarity with such finds has begun to dull the edge of the surprising import of such finds. Whichever way you spin this, the presence of soft tissue is not consistent with evolutionary ages for the dinosaurs.
Earlier, we described the natural ability of an athlete like David Beckham and how his skill could be defined by math. When we consider great sportsmen, we must consider the link between talent and what they have done with that talent to excel in their sport.
Is David Beckham a master of differential calculus in the way he scored goals? Beckham's curling free kick will fool defenders and goal keepers, as the ball bends around them into the net. Does that mean Beckham is a master mathematician or just an extremely skilled athlete?
The purpose of an advertising billboard would be to grab the attention of the passerby – or, in today’s world, the person driving by. One way of attracting the attention of prospective customers might be to use bright colors.
Many museums and other institutions around the world have a as pendulum as part of their exhibits. These large, swinging pendulums are based on that used by French scientist Léon Foucault for a famous experiment.
A recent science article in the UK’s Telegraph newspaper suggested that grizzly bears may have dropped their carnivorous ways in favor of a life of eating berries.
Interest has recently been shown in a 100-page document in Latin, written by the fourth-century Italian bishop Fortunatianus of Aquileia.
Everybody loves pandas, don’t they? We must love them because we are trying to save them from extinction, with some success; pandas have been downgraded from endangered to vulnerable.
Current evolutionary thought suggests, as most people are aware, that birds evolved from therapod dinosaurs. Therefore, evolutionary scientists must find their evidence, not only for the evolution of the skeletal structure of birds and features such as feathers, but many other behavioral characteristics.
A recent study has linked drinking coffee with a long and healthy life. 337 participants were studied over a ten-year period and were found to have a 64% lower risk of all-cause mortality than those who never or almost never consumed coffee.
Many atheists and skeptics have used the verse in 1 Kings 7:23 to criticize the Bible. They suggest that the inaccuracy suggested by the dimensions given is inconsistent with a Book claiming to be without error.
A clay tablet, called Plimpton 322, was discovered in the early 1900s in the area where Babylon must have been. This mysterious tablet, with four columns and 15 rows of numbers, has remained an enigma until recently.
You must have heard the evolutionary idea that dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid hitting the Earth about 66 million years ago – probably on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Recently, this idea has come under criticism from evolutionists as well as from creationists.
From an early age, Charles Darwin’s mother took him to church. That is why so many people assume that Darwin’s background was Christian. But the church to which Sukey Darwin took her children was not just any church, it was a Unitarian Church.
One morning, three miners drove to their claim in the heart of the Cascade Range in the state of Washington, close to the volcano known as Mount St Helens. The next morning, Sunday May 18, 1980, the mountain blew and the car was thrown 60 feet and landed where it remains to this day as a macabre tourist sight.
Darwin’s theory of evolution, and its neo-Darwinian variants, like to suggests that the evolution of organisms are an analogy between computer programming code and the arrangement of information in DNA – except that DNA information is a great deal more complex than a computer app.
An eclipse happens when the Sun, Moon and Earth are perfectly lined up, with the Moon casting a shadow on to the Earth. You might think that such an arrangement would happen every month, but it does not because the Moon’s orbit.
When you come up against a Christian who believes in evolution, your conversations with him will be qualitatively different from the conversations that you might have with an unbeliever.
Although Heisenberg was not an active Christian, his scientific work was informed by his Lutheran upbringing.
It is impossible for us, 6,000 years later, to get into the mind of the first man. For a start, he was created perfect, and we have no idea what it is like to be perfect or to have a perfect mind. Then again, given that he was perfect, we have difficulty in understanding why he would deliberately choose to disobey God and eat the fruit.
It must have been a very exciting meeting of the Geological Society of London in December 1912. Charles Dawson was presenting a paper concerning a skull that he said had been found at a gravel pit in Sussex, England. The skull appeared to be half human half ape. Thus began the legend of Piltdown Man.
Most people have heard of red shift without necessarily knowing what it means, apart from knowing that it has something to do with stars and galaxies.
One of the most common question asked is, how did Noah fit two of each kind of animal on the ark. On today's program we'll talk about that!
Everyone know frankincense was one of the gifts given by the wise men, but what is it and why was it given?
Bible skeptics never tire of ridiculing James Ussher for his assessment that the world is only 4,000 years old.
Is human generated carbon dioxide really contributing to climate change - as the global warming alarmist claim?
Gold was one of the gifts given by the wise me. On today's program we'll take a look at the properties of gold and why it was given.
The explosion of Mt. St. Helens could have claimed so many lives - on today program see why so many lives were spared.
Are we made of "star dust"? Does that mean we are a product of random evolution or that we were made by God!
Though it is poisonous, the foxglove is one of the most interesting plants in creation.
She sells seashells on the seashore . . .what does this famous tongue twister have to do with Darwinism?
When we see the photos of polar bears clinging to melting floats of ice - climate change alarmist would have us believe the bears are going to drown. However, polar bears are as comfortable swimming as they are walking on the the arctic snow.
When Pluto was demoted to a dwarf place, scientists searched for another planet to take Pluto's place.
Poor Pluto . . . scientist decided first it was a planet, then it wasn't a planet and now they've changed their minds and say it is a "dwarf" planet.
Evolutionists would like us to believe that whales evolved from land animals which evolved from sea animals - who decided to go back to living in the sea . . .
On today's program we answer the question, where did all the water go after the great flood!
Some evolutionist see the "proof" for evolution in everything - even the shape of bird eggs.
Some people are so sure climate change will destroy Earth that they want to set up colonies on Mars.
The world’s most infamous hockey stick was probably the graph produced for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 1998. The purpose of the graph was to show how global temperatures had changed over time and what had caused these changes.
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What is the "Trinity Curriculum Model" and why could it be considerable help to many in Christian educations?
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Why was Abel offering to God accepted, while Cain's was rejected? We'll talk about that on today's program.
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How will people know the truth - unless we tell them?
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Evolutionists assume that evolution happens by increases in genetic information. This, they claim, happens by mutations making more information. Except, life doesn't happen from information that wasn't there!
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Evolutionists often use a language all of their own.
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Were T. Rexes fluffy feathered bird-o-saurs? That's today on our program.
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If there really was a worldwide Flood and the Ark was floated above Mount Everest,wouldn't the air have been so thin that that no one would have been able to breathe?” We'll answer this skeptical question today on our program.
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Did you know: When bees return to the hive, they will do a little dance. These dances are quite sophisticated and give information to others in the hive about the distance and direction of nectar flowers.
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Is evolution's logic air-tight or is it full of holes?
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Were angels created before "Creation"? After Creation or perhaps - during creation week? We'll tall about to day on our program.
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Who was James Hutton and what is theory of "Deep Time"?
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Mount St Helens has proved that the surface of the Earth can change rapidly at times, and that changes do not require millions of years.
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On today's program: Petroleum oils need not have taken millions of years, but could have formed in conditions at the time of the Flood.
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Technologically speaking, the world is getting better and better, yet we also see the world sinking downhill fast in terms of its moral standard.
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Evolutionist are always eager to hear news about water being discovered on Mar as evidence for life on other planet. Life requires water, but water does not imply there is life.
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Mica crystals have two possible ages - an evolutionary age and a creationist age. However, the results of independent experimental results by heating other crystals when plotted on to a graph, fit with the creationist long-age rates, and not with the evolutionary model.
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On today's program we'll tell you about how the term "half-life" is a misleading term.
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On today's program: What does an hourglass and Radiometric dating have in common?
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How old is a star? And how can we tell? we'll talk about that on today's program.
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Could God have used the "impacts" that form craters as part of the creation process? We'll talk about that today on our program.
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If God has designed the eye the way evolutionist, Dr. Richard Dawkins thought it should have been designed - our wires would have been crossed!
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Need proof of a wise Creator and God? Just look at the sky above you! That's today on our program.
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On today's program - why do evolutionist continue to use the example of the "Peppered Moth" as an example of evolution when the famous photo was exposed as a fake staged photo?
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On today's program we'll talk about the amazing variety of dogs, wolves, foxes and other wild dogs and how they are all the same species, Canis familiari.
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Did you know the area around Mount St Helens is a wonderful laboratory, helping us to understand more about the mechanism and aftermath of the Flood?
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What does the descendants of Noah, Babal and Stonehenge all have in common? We'll tell yo on today's program.
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On today's program, learn about a crafty flower and its special bee that pollinates it.
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Some creationist scientists, working in secular universities, have estimated that many of their colleagues do not really accept evolution, but are afraid of losing their careers.
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Did whale "evolve" from land dwelling creatures that were one sea dwelling creatures and theb went back to being sea dwelling creatures?
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In fact, there is no reason from Scripture to believe in a flat earth. But then the flat earth idea did not originate with biblical Christians. It originated as a modern myth, to give something for evolutionists to lampoon creationists with.
Ref: Faulkner, D (2016), A Flat-Earth Prediction Falls Flat, accessed 05/26/2017. Image: Orlando Ferguson, Public Domain
There are those that claim that Evolution is a scientific theory. Scientific theories can be subject to the scientific method. If the same test or experiment is carried out under the same conditions, on different days or locations, the results should still be the same.
Evolution is not testable, and is therefore not Operational Science.
Ref: Two Kinds of Science?, < https://answersingenesis.org/what-is-science/two-kinds-of-science/ >, accessed 05/26/2017. Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.
Science has an elevated position in Western society. There are those who would try to put Christians down, by saying “You have faith, but I have science”.
Ref: Scientific Method, Encyclopædia Britannica, < https://www.britannica.com/science/scientific-method >, accessed 05/26/2017. Image: Archon Magnus, license: Creative Commons Share-Alike, 4.0 International.
C.S. Lewis was right to allude to the marvelous construction abilities of the beaver.
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God has provided humanity with resources in the world, for which we are responsible, and over which we have dominion.
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Many secular cosmologists believe that the universe came into existence in a singularity, as a result of a quantum event about 14.7 billion years ago. However, this so-called Big Bang theory is not without its problems.
Ref: Faulkner, D.R. (2014), Has Cosmic Inflation Been Proved?, < https://answersingenesis.org/astronomy/cosmology/has-cosmic-inflation-been-proved/ >, accessed 05/17/2017. Image: representation of Big Bang and Inflation, by Yinweichen, License: Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike 2.0 Unported.
The so-called Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (or CMB) has been known about since 1965. It is assumed to be an echo of the Big Bang, and is offered in High School textbooks as a proof of the Big Bang. Yet, it is actually problematic for Big Bang cosmologists.
Ref: Faulkner, D. (2016), Created Cosmos, (Green Forest, AR: Master Books), p53-54. Image: The binary star system Rho Ophiuchi, by Rogelio Bernal Andreo; released to Public Domain.
Wood will get waterlogged, if it is left in water for too long. And yet wood has often been used throughout history to build boats and ships. The city of Pensacola, Florida, was, in many ways, the birthplace of the US Navy, because of the deep harbor, and the abundance of live oaks, from which to build ships. To prevent water-logging, the wood must be treated, to make it waterproof.
Ref: Taylor, P.F. (2013), Don’t Miss the Boat, (Green River, AR: Master Books). Image: Adobe Stock Photos, licensed to author.
In 2 Peter 2:5, the apostle remarks, almost parenthetically, that “[God] did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly.” Noah was a herald of righteousness—someone proclaiming the Good News!
Ref: Taylor, P.F. (2013), Don’t Miss the Boat, (Green River, AR: Master Books), Appendix. Image: Adobe Stock Photos, licensed to author.
C.S. Lewis suggested that those who deny the supernatural can still believe in a god of sorts.
Ref: Lewis, C.S. (1947), Miracles, (New York: Macmillan Collins), p12. Image: Adobe Stock photos, licensed to author.
Out of more than 30,000 species of spiders, there are three species that make their living through thievery. That number was recently raised from two with the discovery of a tiny, thieving species on the island of Taiwan.
S. Milius, New spider: Unusual suspect steals web, Science News, v.154, p.53. More than 30,000 species, “Spiders” Grolier, 1995, Multimedia Encyclopedia. Image: Diagram of the internal anatomy of a female two-lunged spider. Courtesy of John Henry Comstock. (CC BY 3.0)
The basilisk lizard is yet another tribute to God's unlimited creativity, knowledge and power. Basilisk are found from Mexico to Ecuador and are equally at home in the trees, on the ground and in and on the water.
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The idea of different races, as distinct from different religions, was not much of an issue until 1859 when Charles Darwin published his famous book, On the Origin of Species.
Besides demonstrating variety in God's creation, the Komodo dragon may eventually save more lives than it has ever taken.
According to evolution theory, birds should not have been around at the time of the dinosaurs, especially the parrot, which by evolution beliefs is supposed to be a more highly-evolved bird.
The rock in which the beak was found was dated as coming from the Cretaceous period. But it is not just one parrot's beak that was found but Loons, frigate‑birds and other shore bird fossils were found in rock that was supposedly laid down during the time of the dinosaurs!
In late 1999, Russian and American scientists excavated a buried, frozen mammoth in Northern Siberia. Once excavated, the mammoth was airlifted, using Russia's largest helicopter, to Siberian ice caves that were fashioned into a laboratory. There the frozen mammoth was studied to see if either sperm, or DNA could be extracted from it.
When we started out ll in our mother's womb, how did all those our new cells know to hook up to each other to knit together our nerve connections? How did other cells know to hook up with each other to make our circulatory system, or form the heart?
A fascinating new theory has now been proposed, based on the fact that every cell in your body has the same active genes that your nose uses to enable you to smell.
Evolutionary scientists tell us that mutations were central to the production of the great variety of creatures on Earth today from the first living cell. At the same time, biologists admit that 99 percent of all mutations are harmful.
Aspirin works by disabling the chemicals that cause our pain. Now scientists have discovered that aspirin also works to shut down a plant's response to injury. Aspirin shuts off the plant's production of jasmonic acid, even though jasmonic acid is not at all similar to human pain‑causing chemicals.
Two strange species of orchids are among the rarest flowers in the world. These unconventional plants live their entire lives underground, even flowering underground. Most often, their flowers never break the surface of the ground.
The creation is filled with plants and animals which use deception to survive. The glow‑in‑the‑dark cookie-cutter shark is a master at such deception.
For thousands of years the Bible has taught that there is a link between spiritual health and physical health. When rationalism came along, many sought to deny the spiritual aspect of humans. For them, the spiritual and the material have nothing to do with each other.
Saliva is an amazing fluid. Besides helping us moisten and digest food, saliva is able to speed healing and fight bacteria, fungi and viruses. Saliva is chemically almost identical to the clear part of your blood.
How small can a living thing be and still be considered alive. Viruses are not considered living things because they cannot reproduce on their own. But now scientists have confirmed the existence of bacterai that are smaller than the largest viruses and yet can reproduce on their own.
The hunted are smart to stay upwind of the hunter. Many predators hunt using scent, at least in part. The same principle works in water.
The Bible teaches that proper authority is respected when it comes from a spirit of servanthood. This pattern seems to extend even to wasps.
When we look at the size of the universe, it sometimes becomes easier to see evolution as credible. But, in truth, the immensity of space is really not so friendly to evolution's claim that the universe, and the earth, are billions of years old.
Human bridegrooms are not the only males who give gifts to their intended. The birds and the flies do it, too.
A study conducted by researchers from the State University of New York at Stony Brook examined the effect of a mother's stress on the birth weight of her baby.
Episodic memory, the ability to remember something that happened in the past is called mental time travel. It has long been thought that only humans are capable of episodic memory. New research suggests that some birds are also capable of mental time travel.
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There are many plants that have effective defenses against the insects that attack them.
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Before the Flood people were living hundreds of years. As man grew more evil, God declared that man’s lifespan would be reduced to 120 years. Modern biology has learned that we do indeed have built-in timers in each of our cells that limit the number of times they can divide.
Photo: Human chromosomes (grey) capped by telomeres (white). Courtesy of U.S. Department of Energy Human Genome Program. (PD)
The Hawaiian bobtail squid needs to be able to reflect different levels of light because of its unique lifestyle. This squid glides through moonlit waters but without its special reflective tissue its shadow would be seen as it passes over the bottom.
Photo: Adult Hawaiian bobtail squid. Margaret McFall-Ngai. (CC BY 4.0)
You get up early. The illumination isn’t very good, you put on your socks anyway, only to find out, in the light of day, that you have one blue and one gray sock on. That’s because our eyes have cone cells to detect color, as well as rod cells that are sensitive to light, but cannot see color.
Photo: Gecko (not the hooded gecko). (PD)
On the evolutionary side of things, musical ability would seem to provide no survival advantage. Yet, the human brain devotes considerable resources to the processing of music.
Photo: Courtesy of Pixabay. (PD)
A debate about the definition of “species” may remove Homo erectus from the human evolutionary tree.
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The first book that urged us to take good care of the earth was the Bible. The Bible also reminds those who would be careless about their responsibilities that there is a Creator who is going to hold us accountable for how we carry out our responsibilities. Why, then, does Christianity always seem to be taking the blame for destruction of the environment?
Photo: The sunflower. Courtesy of RS3. (CC BY-SA 3.0)
The news has again been filled with stories about the search for planets orbiting nearby stars. All these stories assume that our Earth was not formed by God. They perpetuate the idea that the Earth and other planets in the solar system formed when dust around the young sun began to collect into lumps.
Image: Artist’s impression of dust around Beta Pictoris. Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC). (PD)
The bacterium Bacillus cereus likes to live in soil that would kill most other bacteria. It’s bothered neither by lethal concentrations of metal nor natural antibiotics.
How can cereus survive under conditions that would kill any other known bacteria?
Photo: Bacillus cereus by Loes Van Damme –CCO - Pixabay.com
It is often forgotten how much energy a plant uses, in producing flowers and blossoms. Though cherry blossoms are small, there are a lot of them. The colors they reflect, and the aromas released, are attractive to the insects necessary for pollination.
Photo: Cherry Blossom by Chiem Seherin_Pixabay.com
“What is the place of art in the Christian life?”, asked Francis Schaeffer. Many people have pondered the same question.
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One study has suggested that caffeine production must have evolved independently at least three times. Not only that, but plants contain at least two different biosynthetic routes for its production. Yet evolutionists claim that caffeine production fulfills just one main evolutionary purpose – to modify the behavior of other organisms.
Image: Julius Schworzman. License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic.
While Bach wrote theological notes in the margins of his manuscripts, and his well-thumbed Bible also contained comments, Beethoven’s music is honest in its skepticism. There is power and passion in it, as well as a great deal of anger.
Image: Josef Karl Steiler, 1820 – Public Domain, due to age.
Is there life on other ocean covered worlds?
Image: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Public Domain.
Could the stuff of science fiction be a reality in the outer reaches of our Solar System?
Image: NASA, Public Domain
Technology is looking at the way nature folds things to copy the natural designs, to produce better robotic algorithms, for packaging fragile objects.
Image: Andreas Bauer. License: Creative Commons Share-Alike 2.5 Generic.
Wisdom is demonstrably not the same as intelligence. It is possible – and, I would submit, common – for a highly intelligent scientist to be foolish.
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Haeckel’s famous embryos drawings of 1874, were deliberately shaped, to support his recapitulation theory, even though actual embryos do not show such similarities. The drawings were debunked in 1965 and yet some science curriculum still included this false concept.
Image: G.J. Romanes (1892), Public Domain (due to age).
Many materials in nature give an appearance of design. Consider just a small number of properties of water. It freezes from the top down. We are so used to this, that we forget how unusual it is.
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Several different animals communicate on a limited basis with one another. But human speech is unique, leaving those who believe in evolution perplexed.
Image: Head and Neck view by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(PD)
“The family that prays together, stays together.” A survey by the Barna Research Group indicates that this old saying is still true.
Photo: Prayer by CongerDesign_Pixabay.com CCO
A number of species of fish live, apparently comfortably, in Antarctic waters as cold as the freezing temperature of seawater, which is a couple of degrees colder than fresh water. This presents us with several mysteries. First, cold slows down the chemistry necessary for life. At these temperatures, life's chemistry all but stops.
Photo: Ocellated Icefish by NOAA (PD)
Aerodynamics, the science of flight, is a highly complex science. This is because many complex forces are acting on anything in flight. One critical force that has been under recent study is the turbulence that forms at the tips of the wings.
Photo: Bombardier_Learjet_60 by Allen Wilson-CCA BY SA 2.0
Shore birds like the oystercatcher search for buried mollusks by touch. They poke around in the sand, hoping to find a hard shelled mollusk. But if you have ever tried to find something that was hiding where you couldn't see it?
Photo: Red Knot by Hans Hillewaert CC BY-SA 4.0
Could pizza be good for you? Research has shown that tomatoes, especially cooked, have powerful health benefits.
Photo: Pizza by DesignDrawArtes_ Pixabay.com CCO
What determines the sort of smells that we like and dislike? Is it nature or nurture? Do we like the smells of the environment, in which we were brought up, or are our likes and dislikes inherited from previous generations?
Image: Laboratory Mouse, author: Rama, license: Creative Commons Share-alike 2.0
Have you ever tried to get a bottle in a baby's mouth in a dark room? It would be handy if the baby had a glowing target on its mouth. God has given the Gouldian finch, a native of Australia, a unique solution to this problem.
Photo: Male Goulding finch by Martin Pot - CCA By SA 3.0
Deep inside an ant colony, perhaps in a decaying log is an "ant" that is really an impostor! Learn about this insect imposter on today's program.
Photo: Microdon mutabilis by PaulT CCA By SA 3.0
How is it that an unborn baby isn't rejected by the mother's body as something that is foreign? Learn the answer on today's program.
Image: Fetus in utero_Wellcome Trust_CCA 4.0
God gave fireflies a complex chemical factory that lets them generate flashes of light we love to watch on warm summer nights. But on today’s program, you’ll see the main reason why God gave fireflies this unique ability.
Photo: Eastern Firefly by art farmer – CCO By SA 2.0.
The universe that God created is filled with things that demonstrate His unlimited generosity. Many of God’s gifts are visible. But as you’ll see on today’s program, some of God’s greatest gifts are invisible to the eye.
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The world is filled with smells – from the foul odor of skunk spray to the fine aroma of freshly ground coffee. Our sense of smell is no less important than our senses of seeing and hearing, as you’ll learn on today’s program.
Ref.: Science Digest, June1979, page45. Photo: Child smelling flower – Pixabay.com
Laughter is surely a gift from God. In fact, as every parent knows, babies don’t even have to LEARN how to laugh. On today’s program, we’ll show you a few of the many reasons why laughter is such a valuable gift.
Ref: Peterson, K. 1996. "A chuckle a day does indeed help keep ills at bay." USA Today, Oct. 31, page 10D. Photo: Christmas dogs – Pixabay.com
What might gerbils be saying to one another with their squeaks? Scientists have lowered the pitch of their voices so they could hear what our ears cannot hear. And on today’s program, we’ll tell you what they’re saying.
Ref.: Science Digest, March 1978, page 53. Photo: Gerbil – Pixabay.com
Pollen is bad news for people suffering with allergies. But it’s also terrible news for evolutionists who claim the earth is billions of years old. On today’s program, see how tiny pollen grains destroy the myth of an old earth.
Ref: Burdick, Clifford L. 1981. "Pine pollen in the Grand Canyon." Bible-Science Newsletter, June, page 1. Photo: Pollination Through Microscope by Stockvault.net/Pixabay CCO
Everyone knows that communication is accomplished via hearing and seeing. But did you know there’s a third form of communication that’s just as vital for life on Earth? Find out what it is on today’s program.
Ref.: Emmel, Thomas C. Worlds Within Worlds-An Introduction to Biology, page 333. Photo: Silkworm month by CSIRO – CCA 3.0 Unported
Did you know that humans did not invent the hook-and-loop fastener known as Velcro? God didn’t patent the design, but He does deserve credit for being the first to use it. Learn about nature’s Nature’s Velcro on today’s program.
Ref.: Science Digest, March, 1979, page 68. Photo: Burrs – Pixabay.com
They don’t look like chemists. They just look like ordinary plants. But when you discover on today’s program, these plants use hormones and chemicals as a means of self-defense, you’ll see they were created by a very wise Designer.
Ref.: Science Digest, March, 1979, page 67. Photo: Flosee flower PD
Since plants don’t move around like animals, you might think they’d be easy prey for insects that would eat them. But on today’s program, you’ll see that plants DO have some formidable tricks up their leaves!
Ref.: Science Digest, March, 1979, page 66. Photo: Milkweed – Pixabay.com
Which animal do most people usually associate with wisdom? Right – owls! On today’s program, we look at screech owls and see what wisdom they can teach us about being a good parent.
Ref.: Science Digest, March, 1979, page 62. Photo: Eastern Screech Owl. By Greg Hume CCA By SA 3.0 unported.
On today’s program, we will conduct a search for buried treasure. In this case, the treasure is a metal that’s valuable monetarily and also for its use in medicine. What is this treasure? Stay tuned for the surprising answer.
Ref.: Science Digest, March 1978, pages 57-59. Photo: Electrolytically refined silver. Courtesy of Alchemist-hp. Licensed under the Creative Commons ‘Attribution-NonCommercial-NonDerivative 3.0 (US) License.
We have all been taught that frogs hibernate in the winter. But on today’s program, we’ll take a closer look and see that hibernation cannot be the result of mindless, purposeless evolution.
Ref.: Science Digest, November, 1978, page 96. Photo: Frog – Pixabay.com
What is it that the Bible tells us that God has counted on each one of us? Yes, it’s the number of hairs on our head. Why does our Creator do that? We’ll tell you why on today’s program.
Ref.: Science Digest, June, 1979, page 71. Image: Hair braid – Pixabay.com
Did you know that the huge trees in a rain forest are usually hollow? You might then ask, how do nutrients get to the top of the trees? On today’s program, we’ll tell you about our Creator’s ingenious solution!
Ref.: Science Digest, October, 1978, page 30. Photo: Fruit bats – Pixabay.com
Imagine finding an elevator while walking through a thick forest. You ride the elevator up 100 feet and then step out into another forest, filled with plants and animal life. Today’s program explores the rain forest canopy.
Ref.: Science Digest, October, 1978, page 30. Photo: Rain forest trees – Pixabay.com
Though evolutionists tell us that corals are among the earliest and simplest forms of life, corals are actually quite complex. For starters, just consider their poison-filled stingers! Learn more about coral on today’s program.
REF.: What’s in a name. Science Digest, Feb., 1985. p. 87. Photo: Pillar coral. (PD)
If the sun wasn’t created until Day Four of Creation Week, creationists are often asked what was the source of light before Day Four? This is the subject we’ll be dealing with on today’s program.
Ref: Taylor, P.F. (2019), About Genesis – Volume One, (Naples, ID: J6D Publications), p. 10-12. Image: Adobe Stock, licensed to author.
Now that a number of countries – including the United States – are changing their laws regarding marriage, we look at God’s Word to see what it tells us about God’s unchanging standards on marriage.
Ref: Ham, K. (2020), “Polyamorous Parenting”: Who Defines the Family?, < https://answersingenesis.org/culture/polyamorous-parenting-who-defines-family/ >, accessed 9/2/2020. Image: Shutterstock royalty free image, licensed to author.
Today’s program introduces you to the Naked Mole Rat, a creature that is neither mole nor rat … but it really is hairless. It doesn’t have something else which you’d expect such a creature to have, and our host will tell you about it today.
Ref: Murugesu, J.A. (2020), Naked mole rats are nearly deaf because their ears can’t amplify sound, < https://www.newscientist.com/article/2253661-naked-mole-rats-are-nearly-deaf-because-their-ears-cant-amplify-sound/ >, accessed 9/2/2020. Image: CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported.
In light of a news headline that there are now robots that can give massages, today’s program deals with both science and science fiction.
Ref: Asimov, I (1950), I, Robot (New York, NY: Gnome Press). Image: ASIMO by Honda, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported.
How many kinds of dinosaurs were there? On today’s program, we’ll look at how evolutionists would answer that question, and then we’ll answer this question from the standpoint of scientists who believe the Bible.
Ref: Lightner, J. et al (2011), Determining the Ark Kinds, < https://answersingenesis.org/noahs-ark/determining-the-ark-kinds/ >, accessed 9/1/2020. Image: Triceratops and centrosaurus, separate Wikimedia images, both released under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported, combined by author.
On today’s program, we look at evolutionists’ use of scientific evidence and show how they sometimes use this data in a way that fails to support the theories they’re trying to prove.
Ref: Australian National University. “Ancient star explosions revealed in deep-sea sediments.” ScienceDaily, 25 August 2020. . Image: Supernova SN1994D, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA/ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported.
Be on your guard when you see or hear phrases like “studies show”. Why? Because phrases like that are designed to CONCEAL the truth rather than to reveal it.
Ref: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau. “Exploding stars may have caused mass extinction on Earth, study shows.” ScienceDaily, 18 August 2020. . Image: Trilobites, supposedly destroyed by supernova, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported.
On today’s program, we continue talking about the Two Moons hoax, which is also known as the Mars Hoax.
Ref: < https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/qi/episodes/1/2/ >, accessed 9/1/2020. Image: The photographic plate on which Cruithne was first discovered, Sonia Keys, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported.
On today’s program, learn about hoaxes – how they begin and what you can do to keep from believing them – especially hoaxes based on so-called science.
Ref: < http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8184351.stm >, accessed 9/1/2020. Image: Genuine close approach of Moon and Mars, August 27, 2005, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported.
Did you know it is impossible for comets to be any older than a hundred thousand years? The existence of comets also reveals much more about God’s creation, and our hostwill tell you about these things on today’s program.
Ref: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. “Hubble snaps close-up of celebrity comet NEOWISE.” ScienceDaily, 21 August 2020. . Image: Comet Neowise from Joshua Tree National Park, CC BY-SA 4.0 International.
Would you be shocked to hear that on today’s program we agree with evolutionary scientists about climate change? Unthinkable, you say? No, not when it comes to what led to the extinction of the Siberian woolly rhinoceros.
Ref: Cell Press. “Ancient genomes suggest woolly rhinos went extinct due to climate change, not overhunting.” ScienceDaily, 13 August 2020. . Image: Woolly rhino and mammoths, CC BY-SA 2.5 Generic.
Evolutionists say that evolution happens very slowly over a long period of time. But now, some of them are agreeing with creationists in a catastrophic event followed by rapid speciation. Find out more from our program today.
Ref: University of Lincoln. “New research reveals effect of global warming on Greenland ice melt.” ScienceDaily, 17 August 2020. . Image: Rink Glacier in Greenland, US Coastguard, Public Domain image.
As you know, we get milk from cows by milking them. But did you know that some species of ants have their own livestock from which they get honeydew? We'll tell you more on today's program.
Photo: Ants and Aphids by Agrinberg – CC 2.0
If the worldwide flood of Noah’s time actually happened, we would expect there to be a flood of flood legends from all over the world. As you’ll learn from today's program, that’s exactly what we DO find!
Photo: Walterfall by Simon Berger – Pixabay.com
It has been estimated that there are more than 10 million billion ants on our planet. Why would God want there to be so many ants? That’s a question we'll answer on today’s program.
Photo: Ant by Josch – Pixabay.com
On today’s program we look at the age of the universe. But rather than using the dates found in science textbooks, we’ll be looking at the universe itself through high-resolution cameras.
Photo: Milky Way – Pexel – Pixaby.com
Did you know that plants cry out when they need attention, such as when they want water? You can’t hear them, but plants really do make a fuss. Find out about noisy plants on today's program.
Photo: Corn by couleur -Pixabay.com
Why doesn’t the immune system of pregnant women reject her unborn child as foreign tissue, like it would be expected to do? As our program's host will explains – the baby’s father has a lot to do with it!
Photo: Baby and Mom Hands – Pixabay.com
On today’s program, we introduce you to the male rattlebox moth. This unusual moth wins the affection of lady moths by coating their eggs with poison that keep them safe from predators.
Photo: Rattlebox moth by Judy Gallaghe CC 2.0
Did you know that the chemical that lights up fireflies is being studied by medical researchers for use in the treatment of heart disease? Find out more about the research on today’s program.
Photo: Eastern Fireflyby Art Farme -r CC By SA 2.0
It seems like we’re constantly bombarded with frightening stories about how global warming will destroy all life on Earth. But on today’s Creation Moment, we'll explain God has given us a thermostat to protect our planet.
Photo: Desert – Pixabay.com
Science textbooks published by evolutionists typically include stories about how feathers on bird wings evolved from the scales of reptiles. But on today’s our host, will explains why such stories are nothing but flights of fancy.
Photo: Dove in flight – Pixabay.com
The Bible isn’t the only book that sheds light on the life and times of Abraham. More than 4,000 ancient documents help us understand the lives of the patriarchs, and that’s what our host, Paul Taylor, will be sharing on today’s program.
Photo: Departure of Abraham by Jozsef Molar - oil on canvas – PD
On today’s program, learn about the many different kinds of silk spiders produce, including one type of silk that gives young spiders the ability to fly!
Image by ClaudiaWollesen_pixabay.com
Deep below the ocean’s surface are hot water vents where the temperature reaches as high as 700 degrees. And yet, guess what scientists have found in such an inhospitable environment? That's why we will tell you on today’s program.
Photo: Champagne vent white smokers – PD
On today’s program, we introduce you to some very bizarre ants that make their living by plundering the nests of other species and making slaves of their captives! Find out more about slave-making ants.
Photo: Slaves and slave maker ant by Adrian A. Smith-CCA 2.5
If the sun’s energy is produced by nuclear forces, we would expect the sun to turn out a large number of neutrinos … but most of them are missing. How come? That’s the mystery our program will be unraveling today.
Picture: Sun – Pixabay.com
On today’s program, learn about a golden calf discovered in the ancient city of Ashkelon. No, it’s not THE golden calf we read about in the Bible, but this discovery is an important one nevertheless.
Photo: Golden Calf – Pixabay.com
On today’s program, we introduce you to computer-controlled robot bees that are actually able to communicate with living honeybees in a language they can understand!
Photo: Bees – Pixabay.com
Until the Fountain of Youth is found, aging is a reminder that we will all die someday. But why do we age? And can the aging process be reversed? Spend the next two minutes of your life to get the answers on today's program.
Image: An elderly man, photograph by Ahmet Demirel, released to Public Domain.
On today's program, we'll introduce you to the Red Panda. Though they are easy to take care of in zoos, they are quite hard to classify. That's because they are like pandas in some ways and bears in another.
Ref: Encyclopaedia Britannica, < https://www.britannica.com/animal/red-panda >, accessed 8/3/2020. Image: CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported.
Some people call them fireflies. Others call them lightning bugs. Whatever you call these beetles, they put on a light show made possible, not from evolution but from the Father of Lights. We'll shed light on bioluminescence during today's program.
Image: Emmanuelm at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported.
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Have you ever heard of the Carrington Event? Most people haven't, so today's program will make you just a little smarter than everyone else in the room. Here's a hint. It has to do with a storm on the sun.
Image: Similar solar event observed 1999, NASA, Public Domain image.
One of the main purposes of NASA's Perseverance mission to Mars is to collect oxygen to see if the Martian atmosphere can support human life. On today's program, find out what they're REALLY hoping to find.
Image: Artist’s impression of Perseverance on Mars, NASA, Public Domain image.
Have you heard about NASA's mission to Mars called Perseverance? We'll tell you about it on today's program and describe one of the most exciting "firsts" in the history of NASA missions.
Image: Artist’s impression of Perseverance on Mars, NASA, Public Domain image.
If star gazing is your hobby, you know that the larger and more expensive your telescope, the better. But we doubt you'll ever be able to afford the Very Large Telescope we'll tell you about on today's program.
Image: ESO image, from VLT; CC BY-SA 4.0 International.
When we wear clothes made of different fabrics, are we sinning? After all, the mixing of fabrics was forbidden by God in two books of the Old Testament. That is the topic we'll be exploring on today's program.
Image: Flax flowers, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported.
Today's program is based on the fascinating premise of time travel found in a well-known short story by science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury.
Image: Shutterstock images, licensed to and edited by the author.
Everyone today is well aware of what is known as fake news. The word "fake" can also be applied to science news, especially in the area of news about evolution. Find out more on how you are being misled on today's program.
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Oh no, said the scientist. Human evolution has ceased! Not so, said other scientists. Humans continue to evolve. On today's program, our host will tells you why they disagree with one another … and why they're both wrong.
Image: Shutterstock, licensed to author.
When scientists have questions they want to answer, they collect as much data as they feel is necessary. Unfortunately, they leave out the most important data of all – the data found in the Bible. Find out more on today's program.
Image: Popular diagram of the Big Bang. NASA, Public Domain.
When scientists disagree with each other about how long ago the Big Bang took place, we prefer to keep from taking sides. After all, both sides are off to the tune of billions of years. Find out more on today's program.
Image: Map of Cosmic Microwave Background radiation. NASA, Public Domain.
The members of a honey bee hive all have jobs to do. On today's program we'll take a look at the "soldier" bees who protect the hive from intruders.
How many different scents do you think your nose is able to smell? The answer is about 10,000. How does your nose tell the difference between a rose and a skunk? Until only recently, scientists really weren’t sure.
What scientists discovered about the mastodons’ diet could upset some theories about what drove them to extinction.
Could the giant flying fox be a primate? In the 18th century, scientists weren’t quite sure what to do with bats. Some wanted to classify them as primates.
On today's program we'll tell you about a discovery that proves the first five book of the Bible, written by Moses, is older than what liberal scholars claim.
On today's program we'll tell you about a fish that "fishes" for fish, using its own unique bait!
A revolutionary design in metal-cutting blades is changing the metal-working industry. Where did this idea come from?
It was a design inspired by God's creation!
The engineering excellence found in nature and from which we have learned so much even in this day of interplanetary probes, is not witness to a mindless process of evolution, but to a wise and mindful Creator.
Yet the genetic code within each of your cells is an even more sophisticated information storage and transmission system. Not only does your genetic code store far more information in a microscopic space than our largest computers can, it has a built-in error correction system.
On today's program we'll tell you about a very scary fungus . . . but no need to worry. This fungus is only interested in insects!
Have you ever watched ducks out on an icy lake paddling around in the near-freezing water. They will spend much of the day in that one spot with the temperature well below freezing, and yet the cold doesn’t seem to bother them.
The fact that many rabbits and hares have a tuft of longer hair in their upper chest is one mystery to evolutionists they can't seem to explain.
Humans can use their superior intellect to build the machines they need. But God simply made a gift to the animals of the specialized abilities they needed.
For generations, evolutionists said that the humans' use of tools was all that made them different from animals. It wasn't so long ago that evolutionists scoffed at creationists who showed them that there are animals who use tools – and, therefore, the evolutionists' definition was wrong.
We are told by evolutionists that the whale evolved from a cow-like creature that originally lived on land. Let's look at that claim on today's program.
Scientists are learning that even the lowly bacteria have mind and memory. New research is showing that mind, memory, brain, and personality did not evolve. These can be found in the lowliest of creatures, including the bacteria.
When we look at the things God created, we are filled with wonder, but when we look at this fallen world filled with sin and suffering, we are left with sadness. On today's program deals with the problem of sin.
When robots became popular in science-fiction stories and movies, they looked quite a bit like humans. But as you'll learn on today's program, real-life robots used today in industry look nothing like us.
You've probably heard of star-like objects called Quasars but you may not know how they were discovered, how they got their name and what makes them so unusual. That's what we'll be exploring on today's program.
Why are plants green? Photosynthesis, made possible through the green dye chlorophyll, is only part of the reason. On today's program, we'll tell you the rest of the story.
Who could have guessed that the crust of the moon has a higher concentration of metals than the crust of the Earth? Well, this recently discovered fact certainly is no surprise to creationists. Find out why on today's program.
Did you know that there's a moth larva in Australia and New Zealand with as many as nine hats on its head? On today's program you'll learn how that stack of hats got on top of this caterpillar’s head.
Climate-change alarmists have invented many ways to scare people into believing the world is headed for disaster. Now they are claiming that many kinds of fish could become extinct. On today's program we’ll pours cold water all over that claim.
Everyone knows that humans can learn and sing new songs. But did you know that some birds can learn new songs, too? On today's program, we'll introduce you to birds that tutor other birds to sing their song.
Move over, Mars. Scientists are now looking for liquid water under the surface of Pluto to see if there might be any signs of – you guessed it – life. On today's program we’ll takes you to Pluto to see what NASA has uncovered.
Will the next generation of Christians be able to meet the secular world head-on? Will they be able to stand firm against secular arguments while introducing others to Christ? That's the serious subject we will be looking at on our program today.
Instead of a dog or cat, have you ever considered having a rodent as a pet? On today's program, we take a closer look at guinea pigs, mice and rats, and see what they all have in common
Today's program picks up where we left off last time … on the subject of the origin of life. See why a famous experiment from the 1950s just leads scientists farther away from the fact that God created life.
Try as they might, evolutionists still can't answer how the first living cell came into being. Some scientists think that a famous experiment from the 1950s has the answer. But today, our program, we'll tells you why they're wrong.
Did you know that bamboo is a plant that reproduces by cloning itself? This is why bamboo has an important lesson for us about the age of the earth
Some orchids produce flowers that look so much like a particular kind of wasp, they actually fool male wasps into mating with them. Find out more about plants that fool insects on today’s program.
Monster movies from the 1950s could cause viewers to ask if a spider really could grow to be the size of a house. Listen up, monster movie lovers. We’ll Paul Taylor, answers that big question on today’s program.
Did you know that single-celled bacteria actually have senses similar to our hearing and sight? Once you hear today’s program, you might stop thinking of bacteria as a “simple” form of life.
Did you know there’s an orchid that looks and smells so much like the insect that pollinates it, the orchid will fool the insect into mating with it? We’ll tells you about this unique flower on today’s program.
On today’s program, learn about vines that keep butterflies as pets! Their story is so unusual, it provides clear testimony that this match was made in heaven by our all-knowing Creator.
Though the amoeba has no brain, somehow it knows how to get around in a way that enables it to find food. How does the brainless amoeba pull that off? That’s what today’s program is all about.
When bees discover a good source of nectar, they tell other bees where to find it by doing a dance back at the hive. Bees need a good memory to pull that off, and that’s what we will share on today’s program.
One important way to know if a scientific position is true is to see if it is able to make accurate predictions. So how well does creation science do? Find out on today’s program.
If you think that bacteria are a simple form of life, you have accepted what evolutionists want you to believe. That’s why you’ll want to listen very closely to today’s program.
Though whales look nothing like any land animal that ever existed, evolutionists insist that the two are related. On today’s program, see why this idea causes a whale of a problem for evolutionists!
Even evolutionists can see evidence of design when they look at such things as the variety of orchids. Their design is unmistakable, and we’ll show you what we mean on today’s program.
Since frogs need water to reproduce, what would explain the presence of tree frogs in the dry dusty desert? On today’s program, we see how God helps frogs survive where water is so scarce.
When you think of hydraulics, you think of brakes and other machines. But did you know that hydraulic mechanisms were actually invented by God? On today’s program, we look at hydraulic spiders
Orchids are among the most beautiful flowers in creation. Not only do they vary in shape and color, they vary greatly in behavior. And that’s what today’s program is all about.
Can bacteria think? That is, can they make decisions? Well, if you think that bacteria can’t think, we suggest you think again! On today’s program, we look at bacteria that can actually think!
According to the basic principles of evolution, sexual reproduction just shouldn’t exist. Find out more about the birds and the bees, the flowers and the trees on today’s program.
If you believe that the days of Creation Week were normal, 24-hour days, you may hear someone object to this by saying that the seventh day is still going on. We’ll show you why this assertion is false on today’s program.
Bible skeptics tell us it simply wasn’t possible for Adam to name all the animals in one day because there were far too many animals to name. Do they have a good point? Listen to today’s program to find out.
Some animals – like cats – are meat-eaters that cannot survive if meat is missing from their diet. So how did cats survive before Adam and Eve sinned, bringing death into the world? That’s what you’ll learn on today’s program.
Scientists are sure to be surprised and upset at the news that Ceres – the largest object in the asteroid belt – is much younger than they thought. On today’s program we’ll presents the evidence and shares why it’s so important.
Some Christians think that mankind’s place is on the Earth and that we shouldn’t be involved in space exploration. On today’s program, we’ll tell you what we believe and why we believe it.
Much like people in Minnesota travel south for the winter, willow warblers go where the climate is most comfortable. On today’s program, you’ll learn about their incredible 75-hundred mile migration
On today’s program, you’ll learn everything there is to know about comets … or at least everything we can put into a two-minute broadcast. You’ll also learn what scientists think they know about comets
If long bolts of lightning scare you, just be glad you don’t live on Jupiter. The lightning there is far more frightening than anything seen on Earth. On today’s program, you’ll discover what lightning is like on Jupiter
Where do you think you’d find rocks known as Martian Meteorites? Mars? No, they’re actually found here on Earth. On today’s program, you’ll hear the story about how they supposedly got here.
Evolutionists tell us that some bacterial strains have evolved antibiotic resistance. But on today’s program, we’ll show you why this often-repeated claim is unscientific and untrue.
Some say that the Yellowstone super-volcano is on the verge of erupting. Others say it is slowly dying. On today’s program we will tell you why there’s no need to cancel your next trip to Yellowstone National Park.
Is climate change causing bigger hurricanes than ever? Some scientists say YES … but others say they’re just spewing hot air. So where do we turn for the truth? We will guide you in the right direction.
What causes hurricanes to form? An even more difficult question to answer is: WHY do hurricanes cause so much death and destruction to a world that God called very good? The answers are coming up on today’s program
If you have ever seen a video of frenzied piranha tearing an animal apart, you might think you’re seeing Darwinism’s survival of the fittest in action. But on today's program we'll tears that idea to pieces.
When God punished Egypt with 10 plagues for not letting God’s people go, He wasn’t just punishing Egypt. He was attacking Egypt’s gods as well. Find out more on today’s program.
Like some teenagers, the three-toed sloth doesn’t do much but hang around all day. But once you get to know them, it’s easy to see why God loves the helpless sloth. Find out more from our program today!
Scientists like to think there’s life in space. After all, if they can’t find evidence that life evolved here, they can always say it came here from somewhere else.
When we think of crocodiles, we picture ferocious creatures with powerful jaws and really sharp teeth. But on today’s program, you’ll learn about the gentle and loving side of crocodiles.
The next time you see an anthill, you’ll have a greater appreciation for very social creatures after listening to today’s program. You’re about to learn how complex ant society really is.
On today’s program, we’ll introduce you to the crocodile bird. No, it doesn’t look like a crocodile but it does help crocodiles by cleaning their teeth! To hear the story of this amazing bird, stay tuned.
Did you know there’s a fish equipped with a water gun that can shoot its lunch off the branches of trees with deadly accuracy? You’ll meet the incredible archer fish on today’s program.
On today’s program, you’ll be blown away by some of the wonderful design features that God gave to His creatures to help ensure their survival.
On today’s program, we’ll introduce you to some well-known evolutionists who admit that it takes faith to believe in evolution.
The Bible makes it clear that the sin of Adam brought death into the world. But if evolution were true, death would have preceded Adam’s sin. On today’s program we will makes sense of it all.
When the Bible says that God created in six days, does that mean six literal days or something different? That’s the thorny question that we will be answering on today’s broadcast.
Did you know that nearly all Christian creationists once believed in evolution? On today’s program, we will show you why evolution is a theory that should be considered unthinkable for Christians.
Does evolution allow the supernatural to take place? As you’ll see on today’s program, people really must make a choice between God and evolution, and our host, Paul Taylor, is here to tell you why.
Did God create living things supernaturally as described in the Bible or did he use evolution as so many people now believe? That’s the subject we’ll explore on today’s program.
Did you know that there are over 100 dating methods that evolutionary scientists can use to determine the age of the earth? We'll explains on today’s program they avoid all methods that give a young date!
If a million monkeys sat down at a million computer keyboards, do you think that any of them might type “to be or not to be” if they were given enough time? That’s what we'll be looking at on today’s broadcast.
On today’s program, you will see why the much-misunderstood Big Bang theory on the origin of the universe cannot explain the structure found everywhere in the universe.
Why did God create bacteria? After all, they have caused so much sickness and suffering in this world. On today’s program, you’ll get a very different view of these micro-organisms and see why you should thank God for them.
Did you know that cheese is mentioned in the Bible … and NOT in a way that would make you want some? On today’s program, we look at cheese and give God thanks for endowing mankind with the ability to make so many varieties.
Believe it or not, there are many Bible-believers who maintain that the Earth is as round and as flat as a pizza! On today’s program, we’ll look at what the Bible has to say about the shape of our planet.
When you hear the words “natural selection”, most people immediately think of evolution. Well, you might be surprised to know that creationists have no bones to pick with natural selection … we'll tell you why on today’s program.
On our previous program, we looked at eagles in flight. On today’s program, we look at how these majestic birds of prey go about fishing for their dinner. It’s truly a sight to behold!
Who hasn’t looked at an eagle soaring overhead without being impressed with its graceful, seemingly effortless flight? The prophet Isaiah certainly noticed the way eagles fly and that’s what we’ll be looking at on today’s program.
How sad it is that so many people believe that the early chapters of Genesis are allegorical and that it only becomes historical in chapter 12 when Abram is introduced. On today’s program, we'll tells you why ALL of Genesis is historical!
If you are willing to toss the Bible aside and believe what evolutionists say, human beings are the descendents of ape-men. But what evidence do they have to support this claim? That’s today’s on our program.
Do you remember when Pluto was the ninth planet in our solar system? Well, we may once again have a ninth planet if scientists can find what’s disturbing the movement of extreme Trans Neptunian Objects.
Do hardened rocks bend … or do they break? Common sense tells us that they break. And yet, we’ve all seen rock strata that gradually fold upwards and downwards without breaking. On today’s program we'll sets the record straight.
People are divided on the topic of whether ghosts are real. Scientists are also divided on whether a planet discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope is real or a ghost. Find out more about the Ghost Planet on today's program.
"Oh, look at what the Kepler space telescope discovered – another Earth-sized planet that scientists hope will be crawling with life."
But on today's program our host explains why CREATIONISTS can rejoice over this newly discovered planet.
Does time work miracles? If something is impossible, does it become possible or even probable if you give it enough time? That’s the provocative subject we’ll be exploring on today’s program.
Scientists believe that the famous Red Shift shows that the universe started with a Big Bang. But what if the Red Shift isn’t caused by objects moving away from us?
The amount of dust in our solar system keeps diminishing as it’s grabbed by all the planets and moons. On today’s Creation Moment, we'll shows what space dust teaches us about the age of the earth.
Did you know that at the rate the sun is shrinking, the sun would have incinerated all life on earth 100,000 years ago? Those who believe in an old earth have some explaining to do.
How can a red giant star turn into a white dwarf star in 2,000 years when scientists tell us it should take at least 100,000 years? That’s the question we’ll look at on today’s program.
If you knew how often scientists have changed their figures for the age of the earth, you might come away thinking: Why should I believe them now?
As Christians, we know that Eve was the world’s first woman. But did you know that science now agrees that Eve is the mother of us all? Find out more on today’s program.
As you know, a great number of Christian kids are walking away from the church. On today’s program, we’ll show you one way to help prevent that from happening to your kids.
Did you know that some religions reject the very existence of God? In fact, one of those religions is being taught right now in our public schools and colleges. Find out more on today’s program.
Did you know that some religions reject the very existence of God? In fact, one of those religions is being taught right now in our public schools and colleges. Find out more on today’s program.
Would you be surprised to know that secular humanism is a religion in which faith plays a major part? It’s true! And on today’s program we will prove that point by looking at the Humanist Manifesto.
Did you know that some of the dust you see on the table and floating through the air has come from outer space? Get set to learn a lot more about dust on today’s program.
At the back of your eye is a tiny moat with a thin layer of fluid you’ve probably never heard about. As you’ll see on today’s program, that fluid is an amazing testimony to God’s incredible design.
Creationists and evolutionists have very different views regarding the age of the Grand Canyon. On today’s program, we call tassel-eared squirrels to the witness stand to see what we can learn from them.
Jellyfish are said to be the simplest of animals, having no nervous system. But on today’s program, we’ll look at some jellyfish with nervous systems that rival those of mammals!
You’ve seen how quickly fruit can go bad. But on today’s program, we ask if the fruit in the Garden of Eden went bad before Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit.
Scientists are learning how to make fibers more durable by looking at how spiders and silkworms make silk that’s stronger by weight than steel. We'll tell you more on today's program.
On today’s program, we take you to one of Australia’s most magnificent landmarks, a place once known as Ayers Rock. What an awesome silent witness it is to the biblical worldwide Flood!
Have you heard of the White Cliffs of Dover? Those cliffs are white because they are made of the same material that teachers use on blackboards. On today’s program, we see what chalk teaches us about the biblical worldwide flood.
Did you know that there are rock strata that stretch from one end of a continent to the other? Secular scientists won’t like what we say, but on today’s program we will give you the one position that’s both scientifically and biblically true.
How could God have judged people before He revealed his Law to Moses? For that matter, how can God judge people – both then and now – who haven’t even heard about God’s Law? That’s what we will be explaining on today’s program.
Evolutionary scientists and creationist scientists look at the same evidence and come up with such different understandings! That’s what today's program and our host will be sharing with you today, using the forests of Antarctica as an example.
Why did God make Antarctica? Surely it wasn’t for climate change alarmists to warn us of disaster each time some of its ice melts! On today’s Creation Moment, our host will explain why melting ice in Antarctica is no cause for alarm!
Can you imagine seeing an elephant jump high into the air? Of course you can’t! But did you know there’s a creature much larger than an elephant that can actually become airborne? Here to tell you about this creature is our program.
When we think of dinosaurs, we usually picture huge creatures the size of a house. But recently, a small dinosaur has been discovered that looks more like a hummingbird!
The COVID-19 pandemic has made us all more knowledgeable about viruses, including the fact that viruses mutate. On today’s broadcast, we look at how mutations even produce fake news ABOUT the virus!
When looking at the night sky through a telescope, you may spot objects that are more blurry than stars. Some of these are comets. Others are nebulae. But on today’s program, our host will tells you about blurry objects that are neither.
Secular scientists have made an unsettling discovery in Western Australia. You see, what they found supports the BIBLICAL view of history – that the whole world was once covered by water!
How long does it take to make coal? Evolutionists would have us believe it takes millions of years. But on today’s program, you’ll discover how quickly coal can REALLY be made.
On today's program, we look at the burnt offerings recorded in the Old Testament. What lessons do they teach us today, thousands of years after the sacrifices ceased?
Why did Jesus teach us to call God “our Father”? After all, God is spirit and is neither male nor female. That’s the question we will answer on today’s program.
Have you ever wondered why honeycombs are filled with row after row of hexagons and not squares or triangles? We’ll answer that question on today’s program.
We all know how to get around by using maps, but chimps, bees and even ants are able to use a very different kind of map to find food. Find out more on today's program
As you’re about to learn on today’s program, jellyfish appear to swim in random directions but in reality, their swimming patterns show mathematical precision.
They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but on today’s program, you’ll see that you CAN teach bees some amazing new tricks for their survival.
Over the years, our program Moments has told you about many different products designed by engineers who copy what they see in living things.
On today’s program, we look at an insect with not one but two brains! We also see what truths it teaches us about our Creator and Savior.
On today’s program learn about a discovery in Cyprus that supports the biblical view of a young earth, not the old-earth views of theistic evolutionists. And now, our Creation Moments host, Paul Taylor.
As you’re about to discover, honeybees are much smarter than you ever imagined. As our program will tell you, their Creator gave them an excellent memory and ability to learn.
While jellyfish appear to be relatively simple creatures, some are equipped with toxins that enable them to kill creatures that could tear them apart. Find out more from today's program.
On today’s program, we'll take a look at the defense strategy of inchworms. He’ll also tell you about an experiment you can try the next time you see an inchworm.
Evolutionists want you to believe that a war is going on between religion and science. But as you’ll discover on today’s program, the war is really the clash of two religions.
Did you know that some of us carry a gene that evolutionists can’t even begin to explain? That’s why we call today’s program, “The Impossible Gene.”
On today’s program, we’ll introduce you to a jellyfish that was created with the special ability to sail the ocean blue! It can even sail AGAINST the wind.
Most spiders waste no time eating flies caught in their web. But on today’s program, we’ll tell you about a spider and a fly that live in perfect harmony.
Thomas Jefferson was a brilliant man, but he lacked the faith to believe in the miracles of the Bible. On today’s program, we’ll tell you why he also didn’t believe in Darwinism.
As we learn more and more about the universe, fewer and fewer scientists are believing that the Big Bang actually took place. Has the Big Bang gone bust? Find out on today’s program.
Evolutionists often point to the fossil record as the best evidence for evolution. But we say that the fossil record actually supports the biblical creation. On today's program, we'll make our case so YOU can be the judge!
Futurists tell us that artificial intelligence will soon surpass human intelligence. But just because some prognosticators predict that day will soon arrive doesn't make it so, as you'll see on today's program.
How many moons do we have orbiting the Earth? Just one? Are you sure? Well, don't be because on today's program, you'll discover that the correct answer isn't as obvious as you think.
The term "fake news" is well known when it comes to political news, but today's program looks at "fake news" in science reporting – specifically, the difference between amino acids and proteins.
If people who are worried about climate change and its effects read the Bible and actually believed it, their worries would quickly disappear. How can we be so certain? We'll look at that question today on our program.
The InSight mission to Mars made a number of important discoveries, and we'll tell you about them on today's program. Sorry, evolutionists. NASA is still not finding any signs of life!
On today's program: Since bacteria are known to cause sickness, it may be hard for some of us to believe that God created bacteria during the six days of Creation Week. How can that be?
As you know, positive magnetic charges repel one another. So how is it that the positively charged protons in the nucleus of atoms don't repel one another? As you'll see on today's program, the Force is with them!
Are you worried about rising sea levels caused by the melting of Antarctic ice? If you believe what climate change alarmists say, you probably are. But on today's program, we'll show you why there is nothing to worry about.
As we've seen with the inaccuracies of the COVID-19 models, modeling is only as good as the data used by modelers. On today's program, we see why modeling can also produce faulty models with astronomy and evolution.
Have you heard of the Framework Hypothesis? On today's program, we will explain what it is … and why we say that it breaks down as a valid interpretation of the first chapter of Genesis.
Does a person's salvation depend on believing that God created the heavens and earth thousands and not billions of years ago? As you'll see on today's program, you'll see how the Bible answers that question.
There has been a long-time dispute over the meaning of the word "day" in Genesis 1. As you'll hear on today's program, we believe that a day means an ordinary 24-hour day.
We learned to speak by listening to our parents and others speak. But who taught Adam and Eve? That is the question we’ll be answering on today’s program.
Image: Black board and chalk writing – Pixabay.com
When our Creator designed our nose, He pulled off one of the most amazing engineering designs ever! On today’s programt … the amazing multi-purpose nose!
Photo: Nose – Pixaby.com
Who taught the lowly inchworm how to outsmart spiders into thinking its favorite lunch is nowhere around? Find out on today’s program.
Photo: Inchworm -Courtesy of Mila. GNU Free Documentation License.
It may look like squirrels scurry about on cold winter days without purpose, but on today’s program, we’ll tell you why God created them that way.
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Did you know that there are moths capable of keeping their blood from freezing in cold winter weather? See how these moths manage to pull this off on today’s program.
Photo: Corn_Earworm_Moth_Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren CCA 2.0
Did you know that our ears were designed to keep us from hearing some types of sounds? On today’s program, see why God created our sense of hearing to NOT hear!
Image: Anatomy_of_the_Human_Ear by Lars Chittka; Axel Brockmann CCA 2.5
On today’s program we features a creature that is known for the three different disguises it uses to fool predators.
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Just as its name suggests, witchweed can and does do harm to crop plants. And yet, God has still provided a way for it to survive despite the harm it causes. Find out why on today’s program.
Photo: Witchweed by USDA APHIS PPQ Archive CCA by 3.0
It’s inconceivable that something as complex as our brain could be the result of mindless forces. On today’s program, see how our brain unmistakably proclaims the existence of God.
Image: Brain by ErMed14 CCA By SA 4.0
What do we learn from the abundance of creatures that look like something they are not? Do they support mindless evolution or creation by an all-wise God? Find out on today’s program.
Photo: Ceresa_taurina by Bruce Marliin CCA by 2.0
On today's program: Every parent loves hearing the sound of their baby babbling away in their playpen but how do babies babble when their parents are deaf!
Image: _Sign_Language_Alphabet by Jazz Davis CCA By SA 4.0
On today's program: Why does Asian food often get served on bamboo?
Image: Bamboo – Pixaby.com
On today's program: Do plants have a sense of self?
Photo: King Clone, the 11,700-year-old creosote bush ring in the Mojave Desert (PD)
We’ve been told we are what we eat, but after listening to today’s program, it’s accurate to say we are what we THINK.
Image: Steps of a macrophage ingesting a pathogen.(PD)
We told you how the goby is a snapping shrimp's seeing-eye fish. On today’s Creation Moment, learn what the goby gets out of the relationship
Photo: Shrimp (PD)
On today's program: Seeing-eye dogs are a great help to those who are blind. But did you know there are seeing-eye FISH as well?
Photo: Fish Gobi and shrimp – by Steve Childs CCA By 2.0
On today’s program we ponder the question: "How EXACT is a day in the Bible?"
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On today’s program, we meet an evolutionary scientist who thinks that mankind’s evolution has reached its end.
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Today on our program: "Have you ever wondered why our galaxy is called the Milky Way?"
Image: European Southern Observatory, CC BY-SA 4.0 International.
Have you heard about the galaxy that formed shortly after the Big Bang and then – poof – suddenly disappeared? We'll tell you about it today on our program.
Image: NASA/ Hubble Deep Field Team, Public Domain.
On today’s program, we’ll look at real-life people who are said to be "hobbits".
Image: Cast of the entire Flores LB1 specimen, CC BY-SA 2.0 Generic
On today' program: Several psalms in the Bible mention stringed instruments accompaniment , but one psalm refers to the flute.
Image: Flutes from around the world, Public Domain.
On today's program: "Why do several psalms in the Bible include “with stringed instruments” at the beginning of the inspired text?"
Image: Piano strings, Public Domain image.
Today on our program, we’ll introduce you to what Neanderthals were really like.
Image: Neanderthal in a Business Suit, CC BY-SA 2.0 Generic.
On today’s program, we’ll show you why water is stranger than you ever imagined.
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On today’s program, we'll help you polish your reading skills to separate fact from fiction.
Image: Replica of meteorite in Willamette Valley, OR; photo taken by author.
On today’s program: "Did you know that locusts are one of the few insects that God said was okay to eat?"
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Every so often, swarming locusts sweep across nations. What stirs up grasshoppers to swarm like this? Find out on today’s program.
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On today's program : "After the tower of Babel, the people were dispersed in every direction. But how did some get to Australia?"
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Though pain is something we all try to avoid, we actually can’t live without it. On today’s program, see why physical pain is actually a blessing from a loving God.
God has given us many natural substances to treat a wide variety of ailments. On today’s broadcast, learn about an effective pain treatment that comes from the unlikeliest of sources.
If you enjoy seafood, crab might be one of your favorite foods. But there’s another big reason for loving crab, and we’ll you about it on today’s program.
Of all the many Great Flood legends held by people groups around the world, one of the most interesting is the one we’ll tell you about on today’s program.
Bats have developed a bad reputation thanks to legends and stories about vampires. In reality, bats are highly intelligent creatures that are of enormous benefit to man.
Did you know that plants are able to communicate with bacteria in a way that benefits them both? It’s a fascinating fact of nature which you’ll learn about on today’s program.
If you believed evolutionists, you’d think that all the scientific evidence supports Darwinism. But as you’ll hear on today’s program, nothing could be further from the truth!
If you love garlic in your meals, here’s another reason to like garlic – it can even make you healthier! Get set to learn about Garlic Medicine on today’s program.
What human body part kept Darwin awake at night as he thought about the impossibility of evolution producing it? Find out on today’s program.
Did you know that leeches are still used in modern hospitals? It’s true, and today we’ll tell what else we’ve learned from these seemingly simple creatures.
You may have years of experience cutting it and combing it, but on today’s program, you’ll learn fascinating facts about your hair that you never learned in school.
If you think it’s hard to wrap your mind around things like infinity, that’s a relatively easy task compared to understanding the mind of God.
Did you know that doctors can diagnose many different diseases using nothing but their nose? Find out what else your nose can do on today’s program.
Why do we tend to sleep more when we’re sick? And why do we get sleepy at the end of the day? On today’s broadcast, we will tell you about a biochemical that can take much of the credit.
Roses are red, the poem goes, but did you know they can be almost every other color too? Roses all don’t smell alike either, as you’ll discover on today’s program.
Why do our eyes so easily deceive us … like when looking at an optical illusion or missing a typo in something we’ve written? That’s what we will be looking at on today’s program.
The changes he noticed in fruit flies helped lead Darwin to his theory of evolution. But the fruit fly you’ll meet on today’s broadcast is sure to lead you to a very different conclusion!
We call Polaris the Pole Star because it points us to our planet’s North Pole. But did you know it hasn’t always been the Pole Star? On today’s program, we’ll tell you about a faint star that was once our Pole Star.
Are all people with blue eyes related to one another? On today’s program, we’ll explain why some scientists think this is true … and why we think that they’re right!
Are wind farms a viable way to provide us with clean energy? How about solar panels? Or are we better off sticking with coal? That’s what we’ll be looking at on today’s program.
On a previous program, we told you the story of the hagfish and its ability to tie itself into a knot to remove the slime it produced to defend itself from predators. Today we will take an even closer look at this unusual creature.
Did you know that scientists are trying to turn hydrogen gas into a metallic solid? It’s too soon to tell if they will succeed. But as you’ll hear on today’s program, success could supply spacecraft with large amounts of energy.
Though God allowed people to eat meat after the worldwide flood, eating meat is now considered by many to be a very bad idea. On today’s program Moment, we’ll tell you why eating meat is actually a very GOOD idea!
Did you know that in ancient times, Christians used the wild goose rather than the dove as a symbol for the Holy Spirit? When you hear on today’s program why they thought this way, it will all make sense.
When Jesus was baptized, the Bible tells us that the Holy Spirit descended on Him like a dove. On today’s program, we share why we think the dove was chosen to represent the Holy Spirit on this very special occasion.
The Galapagos Cormorant has wings that are so small, it cannot fly. Evolutionists, of course, tell us that its small wings are due to evolution. But on today’s program, we’ll show you why their explanation doesn’t fly either!
All of us have seen news items supporting evolution. On today’s program, we’ll give you some tips to help you recognize the suppositions that such news stories are often built on.
Did you know that owning a dog early in life can make you less likely to develop some forms of mental illness when you are much older? On today’s program, we’ll tell you more about the study and its results.
On today’s program, we introduce you to a frog that has no “ribbits” because it has no lungs. How does this unusual frog breathe? Well, that’s just one of the things you’ll learn about the Bornean flat-headed frog.
Though its name would suggest that it is a fearsome and ferocious predator, the hellbender salamander is really quite shy. On today’s program, find out why it was given such an inappropriate name.
By now, Bible critics really should have learned that attacking God’s Word is a losing proposition. Find out why on today’s program.
Did you know that the night sky is darker than it should be? Once you know the reason, you’ll see why this ought to keep evolutionary scientists up at night!
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Today’s program makes no sense at all! What I mean to say is that what you are about to hear seems to go against common sense.
Photo: Example of "stochastic resonance" enhanced image. (PD)
How long does it take algae to build large coral reefs? Millions of years, as evolutionists tell us? As you’ll hear on today’s program, the answer just may surprise you.
Photo: Coral – Pixabay.com
When evolutionists tell us that living things only give the appearance of design, are they pulling the wool over our eyes? As you’ll hear on today’s program, yes they are!
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Perhaps the creators of The Flintstones weren’t too far off when depicting stone age people as more advanced than we give them credit for. Get the stone cold truth on today’s program.
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Imagine – a bacterium that can change its chemistry so it can sleep as if in a coma for decades when its environment becomes too harsh.
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Have you ever tried gluing something together underwater? As you’ll see on today’s program, there’s an animal that has no trouble getting its foot to stick to things under water.
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Evolutionists like to taunt creationists with the claim that we never make scientific predictions. But as you’ll see on today’s broadcast, nothing could be further from the truth.
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When you look at plants’ abilities to protect themselves when attacked, there can be no doubt that their Creator gave them these gifts. On today’s program, we look at one type of plant defense..
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In the battle between insects and plants, it seems that bugs have all the advantages. But God hasn’t failed to give plants a line of defense, as you’ll hear on today’s program.
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What does the amount of salt in the world’s oceans tell us about the age of the Earth and evolution itself? Find out on today’s program.
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On today’s program, we look at why there is roughly the same number of men and women in the world. Does it have something to do with evolution or is there a better explanation?
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As you’ll hear on today’s Creation Moment, a team of researchers conducted a study to find out why we believe what we believe.
On today’s program, learn about a species of bacteria that can actually make its own navigation system to find its next meal! Evolutionists are in the dark, but it’s no mystery.
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Though today’s program might seem unbelievable, Foreign-Accent Syndrome is real. Why do some people suddenly start speaking with a foreign accent?
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As any skilled climber can tell you, climbing rock walls requires great skill, strength and smarts. On today’s program, we’ll see if the rock-climbing catfish possesses those same qualities.
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On today’s program, we look at the topic of broadcasting. No, not the broadcasting that brings you this program over this radio station, but the broadcasting that keeps food on your table.
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From the earliest chapters of Genesis in the Garden of Eden, the Bible has a lot to say about agriculture. On today’s program0, we’ll look at a few of the many Bible truths we gleaned from its pages.
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What motivated NASA to send a solar probe to the sun in 2018 to scoop up material from the solar atmosphere? The answer to that probing question is coming up on today’s program.
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It’s been said that when you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. In the same way, when you’re an evolutionist, everything looks like it evolved and IS evolving. We’ll show you what we mean on today’s program.
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Today’s program is about the second law of thermodynamics, a law that has never been broken. But that didn’t stop one famous scientist from trying to break the law.
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Can unborn babies see anything besides light and darkness? Scientists used to think they couldn’t. But today’s program describes what babies can see and why this is so important to the pro-life position.
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If the universe was really as old as evolutionary astrophysicists say, this would put evolutionary biologists smack dab in the middle of something known as the faint sun paradox.That's today on our program.
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As you know, incest can bring about genetic defects in the child. But that didn’t appear to be a problem when the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve married their siblings. On today’s program you’ll find out why.
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On today’s program, we’ll see how unscientific science can be, especially when it comes to determining the age of the universe.
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Why do so many of us freeze for a moment when we are startled? On today’s program, we look at this behavior which humans actually share with many kinds of animals.
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On today’s program, we’re going to talk about inflation. No, not the inflation that’s involved with the rising prices of the things we buy. Nevertheless, cosmic inflation can be very costly to scientific truth.
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In today’s political climate, those who swim against the tide of popular scientific thought – like climate change – are held up to scorn … or worse. We’ll introduce you to one of these unfortunate individuals on today’s program.
Though it’s common knowledge that music is an art form, how many people know that music also crosses the line into science and mathematics? That’s what we’ll be talking about on today’s program.
Does the title of today’s program throw you for a loop? Yes, there really ARE smart trees and clever bugs that came from the hand of our very smart and clever Creator!
What happens when schools replace our Creator God with evolution? Today’s program focuses in on what godless evolution is doing to our educational system and our nation.
On today’s program, meet a bug that can make itself look like an ant to scare away predators. Did someone give this bug acting lessons?
Evolution is just full of surprises … and most of them are unpleasant surprises for people who believe in evolution. On today’s program, see why evolution is a house built on shifting sand.
Trees are among God’s most magnificent creations. Even if you think you know a lot about trees, there is still so much you don’t know!
On today’s program, we tell you the unusual story of the Hungry Leaf. How can a leaf experience such a thing as hunger, you ask? Stay tuned as tells you about a leaf that’s beyond belief!
Why are some people more musically talented than others? Is it just the result of lots of practice? On today’s program, we look at whether some people are born with musical genes.
Did you know that trees can communicate with one another? In fact, some trees will be a good neighbor by talking to other kinds of trees! On today’s program, program, we'll tells you what they’re talking about.
On today’s program, we look at some of the more creative strategies for life that God has given to some types of fungus and snails. Truly, God’s creativity is astonishing!
Why do so many people today – even church members – believe that the Genesis account of creation shouldn’t be taken as true history? On today’s broadcast, program our host will shares what Jesus had to say about Genesis.
The first thing most of us do when running a fever is to take something to lower our temperature. But is that always a good idea?
It’s foolish to think that creatures which can fool predators into thinking they are something else is the result of lucky mutations. On today’s program, we'll introduces you to some of these incredible creatures.
Have you heard the phrase “the more things change, the more they stay the same”? On today’s program, we’ll show you why change itself is evidence of an all-wise Creator.
Evolutionists get upset when some of the most highly respected scientists in the world say disparaging things about evolution. On today’s program, we’ll tell you about two of them.
On today’s program, we introduce you to the most unusual parrot on earth. By evolutionary standards, this parrot shouldn’t even exist!
When a fish thought to be extinct starts showing up in fishing nets, evolutionists know they have to RE-THINK their position on evolution. On today’s program – a living fossil!
Today’s program is about the Gap Theory, a notion that is neither scientific nor biblical. Keep listening to why this theory fails at every level.
What were pigs before they were pigs? Were they giraffes, hippos or even whales, as evolutionists tell us? Or were they pigs from the moment they were created by God?
If you could climb aboard a rocket and fly it fast enough in one direction, would you eventually end up where you started? Well, it depends on which Big Bang astrophysicist you ask.
Evolutionists claim to have an explanation on how some plants move to follow the sun during the daylight hours. Unfortunately for them, however, their explanation doesn’t seem to fit with evolution!
On today’s program, we’ll introduce you to a flower that was designed with a special way to attract pollinating insects to the exact spot where they are needed.
What is God’s view of education? What does the Bible have to say about this very important topic? If you are the parent or grandparent of a school-age child, you will not want to miss today’s program.
On today’s program, we broach the subject of sex education in the schools. But it’s not what you’re thinking. The discussion today is how boys and girls learn differently and how our schools favor a girl’s way of learning.
Did Mars once have water on it? Evolutionists certainly hope so that they can then claim that life must have once existed there too. On today’s program, see why water does NOT automatically imply life.
Though some Christian authors and teachers assert that Genesis 1 is God’s way of describing the so-called Big Bang, stay tuned to see why it really does nothing of the sort!
Evolutionists should be in great physical shape when you consider how often they jump to conclusions. On today’s program, see how they use legitimate science to jump to the most unscientific conclusions.
How startling it is for evolutionists to say that all humans are descended from one human female, a woman they call Mitochondrial Eve. But that doesn’t mean they agree with the Bible … as we’ll see on today’s program.
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On today’s program, we turn our attention to coal. Though many people despise it nowadays, coal is both a God-given resource and strong evidence for a worldwide flood.
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Scientists are continually working on new technologies to improve the batteries that power our phones and other electrical devices. But on today’s broadcast, we'll tell you about a battery that can power a whole town!
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On today’s program, learn about a power station in North Wales that not only generates electricity but stores it up by pumping water back from where it started.
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Did you know that the differential gears in your car are not a modern invention? As you’ll see on today’s Creation Moment, ancient peoples were far more advanced than you were taught.
In man’s quest for clean energy, scientists are thinking about developing a power source similar to the sun. On today’s program, see how spiders are pitching in to help.
If evolution were true, you’d have to conclude that wild animals like chimps and bears evolved into pharmacists! It’s true, and we’ll tell you why on today’s program.
From the same type of so-called Bible scholars who ripped the books of Moses into four pieces comes the view that a woman wrote Genesis. Find out more on today’s program.
Between evolution and the Bible, which one provides a better explanation of reality? As we’ll show you on today’s Creation Moment, one is clearly the winner of the reality award.
Long before gender identity became such a controversial issue, evolutionists have always had troubles explaining males and females. That’s what we’re looking at on today’s Creation Moment
On today’s program, we look at how Adam’s Fall into sin might have brought about the existence of deadly toxins and poisonous substances.
Are you right or left-handed? Without even waiting for your answer, we already know you’re left handed. Don’t believe us? Then listen to today’s program.
Though it doesn’t have a brain, the rare bucket orchid almost behaves like a very smart animal to ensure it’s able to reproduce. We’ll explore this unusual flower on today’s program.
Oh, how boring our lives would be if we didn’t have the sense of smell. Perhaps that’s why so many nerve cells are used to transport signals from our nose to our brain.
When archaeologists who accept evolution discover that early man was technologically advanced, creationists are never surprised that THEY are so surprised!
Disease and pain are inescapable parts of life, but God hasn’t left us helpless. On today’s program, we look at some of the plants that provide cures and comfort to those who are sick.
On today’s program, we bring you the story of a creationist who’s not turning the whole world upside down, but he IS doing that to stagnant and dying lakes.
Today’s program is about clocks, but not the one you have on your nightstand. These clocks are inside your body and are so complex, only God could have put them there.
You might think that night-flying crickets are an easy-to-find snack for bats with their built-in radar. But as you’ll hear on today’s program, God HAS given them a fighting chance.
Did you know that the Arctic was at one time warm enough for dinosaurs to roam there? Find out more about the Tropical Arctic on today’s program.
Nature is filled with mysteries that are beyond the grasp of scientists. On today’s program, we investigate how the humble bumblebee manages to stay in the air with those little wings.
Biologists use the common fruit fly so often in scientific research because they hope to see evolution in action. But much to the scientists’ dismay, the fruit fly has repeatedly shown that evolution just doesn’t happen.
Did you know that our galaxy – the Milky Way – is on a collision course with the Andromeda galaxy? Before you start building an underground shelter, calm down and listen to today’s program.
As you know, even a small amount of arsenic can be deadly to humans. But on today’s program, we’ll introduce you to a small worm that is able to live in a lake with a high concentration of the deadly poison.
On today’s program, we take you inside the atom and show you why the atom and matter at the quantum level point clearly to an Intelligent source – that is, a divine Creator.
Though evolutionists have been telling us that birds evolved from dinosaurs over millions of years, a fossilized duck has been dated far older than dinosaurs! How can this be? Find out on today’s program.
Which bird is not related to any other bird on the planet, causing evolutionists to wonder how they got here to begin with? And what are this bird’s other unique characteristics? Find out on today's program.
Though they look quite similar, crocodiles and alligators are not able to produce, for example, a croco-gator. See why this is so from the BIBLICAL classification system on today’s program
What animal resembles a giraffe but is much shorter and is the only known creature that’s in the same created kind as its more famous relative?
Wildcats in Scotland are becoming harder to find because, tragically, they are often shot by mistake. Learn about the dilemma of this endangered species on today’s program.
On today’s program, we’ll take a look INSIDE the giraffe’s long neck and show you why the evolutionary explanation is nothing more than a tall tale intended to avoid the truth of a Creator!
When you look at a giraffe, you are looking at a creature that evolution is powerless to explain. In fact, the only way it CAN be explained is that it was designed by the same God who created us! Find out more on today's program.
Do you remember being taught that giraffes got their long necks by reaching for food on high branches of trees? As you’re about to hear, that evolutionary explanation is a real stretch!
Where did morality come from? Is it a gift to us from our Creator or did it evolve from animals that exhibit altruistic behaviors? That’s what we’ll explore on today’s program
Did you know that spider silk is stronger than an equal amount of steel? On today’s program, learn about other amazing properties of spider silk.
On today’s program, we take you to China, home of scientific breakthroughs that go back millennia. As you’re about to see, primitive man wasn’t so primitive after all.
Even the simplest, most primitive life forms are incredibly complex, whether biologists like to admit it or not! And we’ll prove it on today’s program.
Not all timepieces are made by watchmakers. In fact, many of the most sophisticated timepieces are found in nature. Get the right time on today’s program.
On today’s program, you’ll learn about a plant that produces a hormone that protects itself from insect predators. The process is so complex, evolutionists can’t begin to explain it! And now, our Creation Moments host, Paul Taylor.
Can you name the only creature that has just one hearing organ? We’ll give you a clue. It’s a predator that prays before meals. Get the answer on today’s program.
What do babies in the womb like listening to the most? You might think it’s the sound of their mother’s voice, but we’ll tell you what’s at the top of their playlist on today’s program.
How do you smell? You might be surprised to know what your nose knows, and we’ll tell you about it on today’s program.
A termite’s nest has been found from the time of the dinosaurs? On today’s program, we’ll tell you why evolutionists might not be thrilled over this discovery.
On today’s program, we take you to Hawaii for some of the most unusual songs you will NEVER hear. That’s because they are songs sung not by islanders but by fruit flies.
On today’s Creation Moment, we take a look at lake algae that actually eat bacteria. It’s not only good for them, it’s great for the lakes they inhabit. And now, our Creation Moments host, Paul Taylor.
On today’s program, we look at protozoans that are usually quite harmless. But when they sense the presence of mosquito larvae, what comes next is NOT a pretty sight.
On today’s Creation Moment, we share some cooking tips that have been around for thousands of years – more evidence that ancient man wasn’t so primitive after all!
On today’s program, we look at one of the most important archaeological discoveries of modern times … and no, we’re not talking about the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Would you believe that some species of ants employ a virtual road department to make sure they can get to new food sources? Find out how these ants deal with potholes on today's program.
The closer we look at God's creation, the more clearly we see that our world of living things could not have come about by evolution and chance. See why chance doesn't stand a chance on today's program.
On today's program, we'll talk what has been learned about the existence of water on and below the surface of Mars.
On today's program, we take a close-up look at the asteroids between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter … and tell you the fascinating story of how they were discovered.
Why do so many people break the book of Genesis into two parts with the separation beginning at chapter 12? As you'll see on today's program, no such division is necessary. In fact, it can even separate people from God.
Perhaps you have heard that some scientists hope to turn greenhouse gases into fuel that can power cars. While it seems like a good idea, find out on today's program why this idea is – pardon the pun – fuelish!
Three moons orbiting the planet Jupiter are causing a huge problem for deep-time evolutionary scientists. What problem is keeping these scientists awake at night? Find out on today's program.
Climate change, we are told, is a very bad thing and we must do something about it NOW or our planet is doomed. On today's programs, you'll see how a warmer planet can actually be good for some creatures that inhabit it.
Are you familiar with the astronomer Frank Drake or the equation bearing his name? Though we've talked about Drake on a previous broadcast, his equation is what we'll be investigating on today's program.
On today's program, we take you to Ganymede, one of the four moons orbiting Jupiter. See why evolutionary scientists are bubbling over with excitement at what they've found there … and why they shouldn't be.
We've all heard of Galileo, if only from a song by Queen. But what did this man discover and why did he get in so much trouble with the religious leaders of his day? That's the topic of today's program.
Today's program is not about climate change alarmism, but it IS about climate you'll find nowhere on Earth. Today's forecast focuses on the planet Jupiter, and trust us, you wouldn't want to live there!
What do scientists do when they discover that their well-thought-out predictions fail to come to pass? As you're about to hear, they make up imaginative stories to account for their errors. That's today on our program.
What do you think of when you hear the sound of thunder and see the flash of lightning lighting up the sky? Most people think of finding shelter. But on today's program, we suggest you think of one more thing.
Skeptics often point to cruelty in the world of nature and complain: "How can a God of love allow something like that?" How would you respond to such a question? On today's program, we'll tell you what WE would say!
Would God really create a parasitic worm that can cause a disease that's able to harm us physically and mentally? Or is there another way to look at this? That's the topic of today's program.
Did you know that some plants can move faster than you can blink and others can think, even without a brain? And as you'll hear on today's program, some plants can even gossip.
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On today's program, we'll introduce you to one of the most bizarre animals in all of God's creation – a frog we lovingly call "the horror frog".
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On today's program, we take a close look at a beetle with a very special talent. If the beetle wasn't given this special ability by its Creator at the start, it would have died out long ago.
(Photo: Southern Pine Beetle by Erich G. Vallery (Dendroctonus_frontalis) CC By 3.0)
The topic of today's program is Artificial Intelligence … or AI for short. Will robots someday surpass humans in intelligence and abilities? We doubt it and we'll use a house cat to show you the reason why.
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What can scientists and engineers learn by studying God's creation – such as the bumps on the front edge of a humpback whale fin? Plenty, as you're about to discover on today's program.
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Did you know there's an insect that spins its silk underwater where its silk retains its stickiness? Just think of how this could help engineers design surgical tapes for use in the body!
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How did a mountain range get buried under miles of ice in Antarctica? According to conventional science, it shouldn't even be there. But its existence fits right in with biblical creationism.
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The story you're about to hear might sound brutal, but it clearly shows how our Creator has provided for the needs of even one of His most fearsome creatures – the floodplain death adder.
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One question we often hear from our listeners is why isn't there evidence of dinosaurs in history books, world literature and works of art? The surprising answer is coming up on today's program.
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One of the most unusual sea creatures is a fish called Barreleyes. As you'll hear on today's program, there's a good reason for that name, and its unique eyes have evolutionists seeing red!
(Image: Opisthoproctus soleatus, a species of barreleye. - PD)
Engineers who are involved in robotics and Artificial Intelligence often get their best ideas by looking at the creatures God has made. On today's program, see what we've learned from slime mold!
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Archaeology isn't needed to prove that the Bible is true, but it is exciting how often archaeological discoveries confirm what's in the Bible. On today's program, we turn the spotlight on King Solomon's mines.
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How do creatures decide whether flight or fight is the best option? On today's program, meet an insect with an unusual way of making that decision and does so at blinding speed!
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The science of biomimetics is teaching engineers how to solve engineering problems by copying our Creator's designs in nature. On today's program, we'll look at some of these designs.
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Evolutionists have once again jumped to the wrong conclusion because their assumptions have led them astray. On today's program, see how fossilized squids could set them straight.
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Evolutionists figure that worms must be pretty stupid since they are so primitive compared to other creatures. On today's program, see how some of these worms are giving evolutionists an education!
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On today's program, we'll introduce you to an amazing creature that can actually change its defense strategy depending on whether it is being hunted by a bird or a snake!
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Though the term “fake news” became a part of our vocabulary only recently, evolutionists have been spreading fake news for centuries. On today’s program, we’ll expose one of the tricks they use to deceive us
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Did the little birds delicately nibbling seeds from your bird feeder evolve from the colossal dinosaurs that once walked the earth? That’s what evolutionists want us to believe. We’re not buying it, and neither will you once you’ve heard today's program.
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Most people in this day and age think that dragons only lived in medieval folklore. But more and more evidence is coming to light that dragons were just as real as the animals we see at the zoo. That’s what today's program is all about.
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Have flying creatures, thought to be extinct for millennia, been spotted in the skies over Wales, to the west of England? There’s plenty of evidence strongly suggesting that they have! Find out all about it on today's program.
(Image: Old Beaupré Castle, location of "dragon" sightings, CC BY-SA 2.0 Unported.)
You have heard of black holes, but have you heard of holes in space? On today's program, you'll learn not only about these holes but a vast region of the universe called the Local Void.
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Until recently, climate-change alarmists have stayed far away from mentioning what is known as the Medieval Warm Period. Why is that? Well, that's what you're about to find out on today's program.
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If you hear that scientists have found the missing link between apes and humans, don't believe it. Quite often, what they have actually found is nothing but a tooth! On today's program, We will tell you tell the difference between lies and the tooth!
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No, she wasn't selling sea shells by the seashore. That tongue twister was about a real person but she was selling something far more interesting than seashells! On today's program, find out what she was really shelling, um, selling!
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If you thought evolution was supposed to lead to survival of the fittest, think again. On today's program, see why evolutionists tell us that evolution is a big reason for our high rate of heart disease and death.
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Climate change alarmists now want us to give up eating burgers and other red meat because of cow flatulence. On today's Program, we look at another animal that has been charged with crimes against the environment.
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In addition to looking for missing links between humans and apes, scientists are also looking for missing links between planets in the hopes they'll find life there. So don’t even think of missing today's program.
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On today's program, we take you into a mysterious world filled with antiprotons, antineutrons and antiquarks, along with many other particles you may have heard of but never really understood.
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On today's program, we take you into a mysterious world filled with antiprotons, antineutrons and antiquarks, along with many other particles you may have heard of but never really understood.
(Image: Superconducting quadrupole electromagnets, which accelerate the hadrons in the LHC. CC BY-SA 2.0 Generic.)
As more and more evidence for a young earth is discovered, evolutionists have to get more and more creative in explaining the evidence away. That's what we'll be looking at on today's program.
Have you ever noticed that some music makes you feel sad while other music makes you feel other emotions? That's what today's program is all about – music, the universal language.
When evolutionists notice how well living things can mimic other living things, they say it's an example of evolution. But what do they call it when the mimicry is imperfect? Find out on today's program.
If you think that all plants and flowers move very slowly, today's program will change your mind! Don't blink or you'll miss what the fastest flower in the forest can do!
Pianists and typists have to make many perfect decisions in a second. But so does everyone, and on today's program, you'll see that our Creator made us that way.
On today's program, we take a closer look at tears and see why they are such a valuable gift given to us by our wise and loving Creator.
On today's program, we look at the science of biomimetics. Not only is this science improving the way we live, it shows how much we can learn by copying the incredible designs of our Creator God.
Dinosaur bones and fossils are being found in places most of us would never think of looking for them. On today's program, we take a look at dinosaurs found under the ice in the coldest, driest place on Earth.
Bible-believing creationists know that God can create life forms that can thrive in places that appear to be totally hostile to life. And indeed, that's exactly what He DID do, as you'll discover on today's program.
Evolutionists think that lobsters are very low on the intelligence scale. But if this were true, why are lobsters now escaping from the most sophisticated lobster traps? Find out on today's program.
On today's program, we take a look at honeybees and how their working memory is a mental process that can only have come from a wise and loving Creator.
As the global warming debate continues to heat up, a grape grown in France just might hold the answer to this hotly contested issue. We'll tell you the whole story on today's program.
Owls are such good hunters mainly because of their vision. But they also use a form of know multiplication to locate their prey. Find out more about calculating owls on today's program
Evolutionists consider mutations to be the driving force behind evolution. But as you'll see on today's broadcast, God has placed self-correcting genetics in His creatures to deal with mutations.
You won't find Jumbo Fairy Shrimp on the menu at seafood restaurants, but you WILL find them to be one of the most unusual creatures in the sea. Find out more on today's program.
Lungfish are supposed to be the link between sea-dwelling creatures and animals living on land. But on today's program, you'll see how lungfish are actually taking a bite out of evolution.
Did you know that social insects have their own laws as well as law enforcement officers who punish law breakers? It's true, and we'll tell you about them on today's program.
Did you know that the man who discovered Uranus was a Bible-believing Christian? In fact, he made the discovery because he expected the universe to show order and logic. We'll tell you about this man on today's program.
As we now know, Saturn isn't the only planet with rings. Uranus has them, too, and they are quite different than the rings around Saturn. See why this difference is so troubling to scientists who reject God on today's program.
How can a science magazine make claims about events going on nearly 200 light years away? Well, they do it by making assumptions based on what they already believe. We'll give you a good example of that on today's program.
Did God make parasites and other creatures that kill in ways that make our skin crawl? To answer this question, you need to see what the Bible has to say about such things, and that's what today's program is all about.
Lots of people want to know if NASA will ever send men to the Moon again. Others are hoping we'll go to Mars. On today's program, we explore the issue of manned space missions in the near future
It seems like everybody is doing DNA testing nowadays. Our DNA can tell us a lot about ourselves, and it can be very accurate. But how accurate is it on the subject of evolution? That's what we'll explore on today's program.
The mission to explore Mercury in 2025 will be a momentous feat, requiring incredible planning and engineering. On today's program, we take a look at the Mercury mission and the difficulty of doing it successfully.
If you have a dog in your family, you know what "puppy dog eyes" are and how they affect you. On today's program, see what evolutionists and creationists say about the origin of puppy dog eyes.
Bible skeptics used to say that the Hittites never existed. After all, only the Bible mentioned them! But thanks to archaeology, Bible believers are having the last laugh. Find out what we now know about the Hittites on today's program.
Evolutionists must have a very strong faith because most of them believe in the spontaneous generation of life, and everyone knows this has been disproven. So how do they get around this fact? Find out on today's program.
When one species of animal mates with a different species and gives birth to offspring with features from both species, is this evidence for evolution? Not at all, and we'll tell you why on today's program.
With their photos of polar bears sitting on tiny pieces of ice, climate-change alarmists are trying to make us think that humans are wiping out the polar bear population. But today's program tells you what's REALLY going on.
Climate-change alarmists think they're saving the world by cutting down on carbon emissions. But what they're really doing is consigning millions of people to poverty, sickness and death. Find out more on today's program.
On today's program, we tell you about the European Beewolf, a wasp that is actually able to make an antibiotic that protects its hatchlings.
How can pliable blood vessels – along with red blood cells – be found in dinosaur bones that evolutionists date at 68 million years old?
Although most people are afraid of bats – and terrified of vampire bats – the saliva from this bat could someday save your life.
After a hearty meal, the heart of a large python undergoes a major change so the snake can digest its meal. How does the python pull off a trick like that? Find out on today's program.
Try as they might, geneticists studying butterflies for evidence of evolution are coming up empty-handed. We'll take a closer look at anti-evolutionary butterflies on today's program.
You've heard of fighting fire with fire. Well, on today's program, we'll tell you how scientists are learning how to fight insect pests with other insects.
Do animals ever communicate in secret? Just ask the Swordtail fish. On second thought, don't, because Swordtails know how to keep a secret. We'll reveal their secret on today's program.
We have been told that cars are fouling up the atmosphere while trees are cleaning up the air. On today's program, you'll see that some trees may actually cause more pollution than cars!
If you think that stone-age people were clueless in the area of technology, today's program will change your mind as we examine some of the things such people left behind.
You probably know you can buy fresh frozen frog legs at the grocery store, but on today's program, we'll tell you about frozen FROGS that can come back to life when they thaw out!
The ordered structure of the abalone shell is difficult to explain as the result of unordered chance. Indeed, the only way it CAN be explained is that it's a product of design.
Did you know that some male fish decorate their homes to impress the ladies? Find out more about these fishy decorators on today's program.
On today's program, we look at another futile attempt by evolutionists to find that elusive source for the origin of living things.
When Galileo declared that the Earth moved around the Sun, he was forced to recant that belief. But his famous quote – "It Still Moves" – shows that he never moved from that position.
Did you know that most bacteria are actually beneficial to our health? In fact, we couldn't live very long without them. On today's program, we take a close look at these good bacteria.
Calling someone a "bird-brain" may actually be a compliment when you consider that coots can actually count the number of eggs in their nest! Find out more on today's program.
Scientists used to think that only humans use tools. But now we know that several animals use tools as well. And on today's program, we look at how crows are amazingly good at using tools.
Some evolutionists in France believe they’ve solved the riddle of what led to the extinction of Neanderthals. But as you’re about to hear, their conclusions are faulty since they’re based on so many false assumptions.
To this day, indigenous people groups in the Pacific Northwest talk about seeing a large flying creature popularly known as the Thunderbird. On today’s program, find out what we think those people have seen in the sky.
Though there are no vestigial organs in the human body, evolutionists still say there are. In fact, they say there is such a thing as “junk DNA.” But such thinking is junk itself, as you’ll see on today’s program.
Though most people in the UK put more trust in science than in God, a large percentage believe in the supernatural. On today’s program, see why this is in perfect agreement with what Paul wrote in Romans, chapter one.
On today’s program, we introduce you to an extinct bird that confuses many evolutionists because it has some properties that remind them of reptiles. Stay tuned to hear all about the bird with claws!
Whether archaeopteryx were dinosaurs or birds – or in a class of its own – they were fascinating creatures … on today’s program we'll take a closer look at the behaviors of these fabulous flying animals.
Was the archaeopteryx a dinosaur-like bird … or was it a bird-like dinosaur? Or was it a special creature in a class of its own? Find out what we think on today’s program.
Rivers that flow through mountain ranges are not uncommon. But they pose an insurmountable problem for geologists who believe in the millions-of-years evolutionary timescale. We'll tell you why on today's program.
When students are taught that the worldwide flood of Noah's time was a legend, they are being told to reject the biblical truth of catastrophism. We’ll pour some water on this legend idea on today's program.
On today's program, we bring you the story of a waterfall that is much larger than Niagara Falls and yet practically no one ever heard about it … until today!
King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, admonishes us in the book of Ecclesiastes to remember our Creator in the days of our youth. See why these are wise words indeed on today's program.
DNA contains an enormous amount of stored information, a whole lot more than what you'd find in a set of encyclopedias. But today's program will show you that DNA has a surprising secret that will boggle your mind.
Do you ever tell your kids to eat their broccoli because it's good for them? On today's program, we see why it really is so healthy and ask: How can evolution account for such compounds that benefit our health?
Those birds we hear singing their cheerful songs outside our window may actually be challenging a rival bird to a fight. On today's program, we take a closer look at dueling birdsongs.
When creationists discovered that wood can become petrified in a very short time, no one expected a scientific journal to agree. But that's what happened, as you'll see on today's program.
Can you imagine what it would be like to walk across the ceiling just like geckos can? That may actially be possible someday, as you'll hear on today's program.
Have you ever heard of an animal that doesn't need to eat? Seems impossible, but on today's Creation Moment, we'll introduce you to a snail that lives its whole life without eating.
We're often told these days that high self-esteem is a good thing. But is such worldly wisdom actually true and beneficial? We'll explore this topic on today's
Throughout human society, lying to others too often goes unpunished. But for Paper Wasps, lying to other wasps brings immediate retribution.
Did you think that only plants use photosynthesis? On today's program, we'll introduce you to algae that perform photosynthesis and does so in an amazing way that should put evolution in the scrap heap of absurd ideas.
Other than a cell phone to call for help, what would you most want to have with you if you were lost in the desert and dying of thirst? The answer just might surprise you, and you'll find out what it is on today's program.
Did you know that the icy continent of Antarctica was once home to forests filled with lush greenery? On today's program, learn more about the Antarctica of long ago, when the climate was much warmer than it is today.
Are infants born with mathematical reasoning skills? Though most of us would say "no", studies reveal that they are able to use mathematical skills as early as five months of age. Find out more about mathematical infants on today's program.
When it comes to the beauty of God's creation, it's hard to think of something more beautiful than colorful butterflies. On today's program, we'll look at butterfly wings and see that only God could have designed them.
Strange as it seems, sedimentary rock layers all over the world failed to convince scientists that they were laid down by flood waters, such as the catastrophic worldwide flood of Noah's day. See why on today's program.
As you know, God gave Adam the responsibility of naming the animals. Since the first man was created in God's image, God also gave him the ability to accomplish the task … and we'll tell you all about it on today's program.
On today's program, we take you deep within the rain forest to watch the amazingly creative way that birds known as sentinels fool other birds into feeding them. How can evolutionists account for this?
On today's program, we introduce you to some of the most bizarre creatures ever discovered. These complex animals were found in the oldest rocks, much to the surprise of evolutionists. Here to tell you about it is our Creation Moments host, Paul Taylor.
Did you know that plants can see? No, not in the way we do, but on today's program, you'll learn about the amazing structure God gave plants to help them grow.
Now that DNA is being found in bones that have not been fully fossilized, evolutionists are facing problems they never dreamed they'd encounter. Find out why DNA has been so problematic for evolutionists on today's program.
Before evolutionists can get away with their claim that dinosaurs evolved into birds, they first need to explain the evolution of scales to feathers. On today's program, you'll see that evolutionists can't even do that!
At one time, dinosaurs were depicted as having no feathers, but the times they are a-changing. What we wants to know is – why are the feathers always missing from the fossils? And now, our Creation Moments host, Paul Taylor.
On a previous program, we've said that evolutionists go on a flight of fancy each time they assert that dinosaurs evolved into birds. On today's broadcast, we reveal one of the latest attempts to link dinosaurs to birds.
Many Christians believe that Charles Darwin recanted his theory of evolution in the final days of his life on earth. Is there any truth to this or is this an early example of Fake News?
We now know that some dinosaurs lived at the same time as man. But before 1841, they were known as dragons. But how can we account for the legends of fire-breathing dragons? That's the topic of today's program.
Evolutionists can't make up their mind when it comes to how quickly evolution works. Most of the time, evolution is slow and gradual. But as you'll see on today's program that's not the case when the facts don't fit their philosophy
Since God placed the stars in the sky for signs and seasons, you can thank Him the next time you use the stars to help you find your way at night. Learn more about these signposts in the sky on today's program.
On our previous broadcast, we revealed what the writers of the Bible knew about the constellations. On today's program, our host, Paul Taylor, takes a closer look at one of the constellations mentioned in what could have been the first book of the Bible to be written.
In previous programs, we've looked at evidence showing that people in Bible times were not ignorant of such things as stars, planets and other astronomical objects. Today we look at what people knew about constellations.
Why do so many liberal Bible scholars assert that Moses couldn't have written the first five books of the Bible? As we'll see on today's program, part of the reason is because of the scientific accuracy found in these books.
Did you know that male wasps can only produce female offspring? So how is it possible for wasps to still be around today? That's why we titled today's program "Wasps Do the Biologically Impossible."
Is the book of Job the first book of the Bible to be written? Many Bible scholars think so and with good reason. On today's program, we will examine some of the evidence and see what Job teaches us about our Creator.
Were people in Bible times ignorant of the stars, planets and other astronomical objects? As we'll see on today's , even program a quick reading of the Scriptures reveals that these people knew a great deal about these things.
Did you know that some lakes literally sing when they are struck by raindrops? You'd have to be under the water to hear the song, and we'll tell you more about this strange phenomenon on today's program.
Many of us say "good luck" out of habit, but many people really believe in luck. Should they? On today's program, we'll consider that question as we look at the subject of God's involvement with the world He created.
Jesus taught in parables. In fact, this was the very best way to teach spiritual truths. But when it comes to science, parables from evolutionists probably aren't the best idea, as you'll discover on today's program.
Over the years, many people have presented their theories regarding the Star of Bethlehem. Was it a conjunction of stars or planets or another natural explanation? Discover clues from the Bible on today's program.
Throughout history, nations have been ruled by kings. But there's also a King of the whole Universe – a King who holds the key to eternal life. Find out more about this King on today's program.
You would think that a book written by so many different men over such a long period of time would be filled with contradictions, right? Well, think again! On today's program, you'll see another supposed Bible contradiction get shot down by our Creation Moments host, Paul Taylor.
Environmentalists warn that our planet is doomed if we fail to take immediate action. Such alarmists don't consider the safeguards our Creator has put into place … and we'll look at this on today's program.
Evolutionists have used horses throughout history to persuade people into thinking that their horse is going to win the race for truth. But we suggests you don't place a bet on the horse named Darwinism.
Who did Peter call a "preacher of righteousness" in his second epistle? Though this preacher didn't bring many people to the Lord, God used him to benefit all mankind. Discover his identify on today's program.
When atheists and Bible skeptics ask you where Cain got his wife, they aren't really looking for an answer. They merely want to undermine the Bible. But you won't let them get away with that after you listen to today's program.
Though the title of today's program is "Invasion of the Spiders", it could also be called "It's Raining Spiders" thanks to a spider skill known as ballooning. If you're frightened of spiders, don't get caught in a spider storm!
Do you have a fear of spiders? On today's program, we'll introduce you to a spider that can jump at you or even walk across the ceiling right over your head. Here to tell you the incredible story about its sticky spider feet is our program host, Paul Taylor.
On today's program, we take you to one of the most incredible planets in our solar system – the planet Saturn. In our brief visit today, you'll learn more about its beautiful rings that make Saturn so easy to identify.
On today's Creation Moment, we take you to a graveyard – a fossil graveyard, to be more specific. What could cause such a variety of creatures to be buried in one place? That's what we'll explore on today's program.
Have you ever wondered why soap is able to clean dirt and grease off your hands? We know that you and our other listeners have a high degree of curiosity, so we'll tell you how soap works on today's program.
Though they are no longer featured performers at sea-related theme parks, killer whales are still among the marine creatures that everyone wants to see. So that's what we're doing on today's program.
On our previous broadcast, we showed you that unicorns really exist, but they look nothing like a beautiful one-horned white horse. On today's program, we take a look at another real unicorn but this one lives in the ocean.
What can you say in response to a person who says in derision: "How can anyone believe the Bible when it mentions the existence of unicorns?" We'll tell you exactly what to say on today's program.
Are crows in Europe evolving? Surprising though it may be, even evolutionists agree with creationists when we say that crows are not evolving but are just doing what God created them to do.
Carrots can be big or small, skinny or fat, but they're always orange, right? On today's program, we'll give you a closer look at carrots and what they teach us about God's creation.
Evolutionists tell us that large dinosaurs like T. Rex evolved into the birds we know and love today. If that sounds pretty hard to believe, wait until you hear today's program.
On today's program, we'll introduce you to a most unusual creature that spends its whole life under water … and yet is not a fish. In fact, it doesn't swim at all but walks very much like we do
On a recent program, we told you about frogs that are much smaller than a thumbnail. Today, we'll introduce you to a salamander from China that is at the opposite of the size spectrum.
Do you remember the hockey stick graph that was used by climate change alarmists to scare us into believing that rising temperatures would soon kill us all? On today's program, we look at this masterpiece of deception.
Many Christian leaders and Bible teachers today want you to believe that biblical creation is not important. Just preach Jesus, they say. Is that good advice?
While they are beautiful to look at, you wouldn't want to touch the toxic skin of the creature we'll tell you about on today's program. Their poison has proven to be especially deadly to the theory of evolution.
When frogs start filling the air with the sound of croaking at twilight, what are they actually doing? Not only will we answer that question on today's program, we'll tell you what their croaking reveals about their Creator.
Though they are small enough to sit on your thumbnail, the five new species of frog recently discovered in Madagascar are among the most interesting … and we'll tell you about them on today's program.
Though we often disagree with their evolutionary conclusions, Creation Moments does appreciate scientists who dig up the bones of the extinct creatures God has made.
Do you know the difference between a fact and a theory? Well, don't feel bad if you don't because many deep-time scientists have also mixed up those two terms, as you'll discover on today's program.
Though there are differences of opinion on the subject of today's program, we bring it to your attention so you can decide for yourself if the Los Lunas Rock in New Mexico throws light on biblical history.
Many of the foods we eat can be harmful to our health. And yet, God has also filled His creation with foods that offer beneficial health effects. On today's program, we look at the health benefits of eating nuts.
On today's program learn about an unusual lizard that has a third eye on the top of its head. This discovery may one day be of great importants to those who lose their sense of sight.
Most watches today run on electricity coming from batteries or by being charged up. On today's program we'll tell you about a watch being charged by a living battery.
Do you suffer from a back problem? Millions of people do, and so do evolution scientists who blame our on back problems on evolution. Learn the painful truth on today's program.
Each time the moon circles the earth, it moves a little farther from our planet. On today's program you'll see what this tells us about the age of the earth and moon.
What do the trails of fallen meteorites tell us about the age of the earth and the universe? Plenty! As you are about to find out on today's program.
Two floating arks are described in the Bible. Though they were very different in size and appearance, these two arks were similar in a very significant way, as we'll discover on today's program.
On a previous program, we looked at sycamore trees. But on today's program, we'll visit the alder trees that grow near the volcano in Washington State that erupted so violently in 1980.
Everyone is drawn to sycamore trees because of their seeds that spiral down to the ground, looking very much like tiny helicopters. But there's much more to adore about the sycamore, as you'll see on today's program.
The Bible describes with some detail a mighty creature known as behemoth. While some people think it was an elephant, others say it is more likely to have been a hippo. On today's program, we'll show you what it really was.
The hippopotamus is certainly amusing to look at, but they can be quite dangerous, so you'd better keep your distance. As you'll discover on today's program, hippos are especially deadly to the theory of evolution.
On today's program, we look at the large number of wooly mammoths found in Siberia. We'll also take a look at which story of origins these remains support – biblical creation or evolution.
The closer you look at an elephant's incredible trunk, the easier it is to see a miracle of God's design! Coming up on today's program – where the elephant REALLY got its trunk.
On today's Creation Moment, we introduce you to an unusual tree that grows not in Brooklyn but in the mountains of New South Wales. What makes this tree so interesting is what today's program is all about.
Where do we get oil? Most of us think of oil wells and big offshore oil rigs. But on today's program, we're taking you back to a time when oil was obtained from the oil tree.
Do you know the difference between science and scientism? If not, listen closely to today's program because one is good and the other is like poison that's being served to you and your children.
The educational establishment both here and abroad agrees that students should be taught that the fossil record is evidence for evolution. On today's Creation Moment, we'll see how the fossil record teaches nothing of the kind!
Just as Christians feel a sense of awe when looking up at the night sky, the leading evolutionist of our day wants everyone to experience that same sense of awe … but without believing in the Creator who made it all.
Many parents make an assumption about the education their children are receiving. But as you'll see on today's program, this assumption is not only unsound, it is a danger with eternal consequences to your kids and grandkids.
You'll know why we titled today's program "Strange Kiwis" once you see how different kiwis are from all other birds. However, they are like other birds in that they bear are evidence not of evolution but of a Master Creator.
It wasn't long ago that environmental alarmists used the term "global warming" to describe the crisis confronting mankind. On today's program, see why that term was replaced with "climate change"
On a previous program, we pointed out that environmental fanaticism is a form of idol worship. On today's program, find out how we can embrace biblical stewardship of our planet WITHOUT replacing God with a false idol.
Whether you call it climate change, global warming or even global cooling, what we're really dealing with here is nothing less than environmental nature worship. See why we say that on today's program.
If it seems to you that our world is out of touch with the moral standards you were taught as a child, you're not alone. On today's program, we look at today's morality and see how it has turned our world upside down.
You've undoubtedly heard that the dinosaurs were wiped out when a large meteor crashed into the earth. On today's program, discover a hole in that theory that's big enough for a dinosaur to walk through!
Were dinosaurs still around in England in the 15th century? There appears to be good evidence for that.
In their effort to show that Neanderthals were subhuman creatures who evolved into us, evolutionists have stooped to a new low by ignoring the evidence they were as fully human as we are. Find out more on today's program.
In the misguided effort to save the planet from global warming, scientists are trying to turn carbon dioxide back into carbon. On today's program, learn more about this little-known technology.
On today's program you'll hear about a microorganism that can fool our immune system into thinking it is dead, only to come back more deadly than ever.
Why did so many Jews reject Jesus at His first coming? The Dead Sea Scrolls and today's program will shed some light on this subject.
Everyone knows our ears were created to hear sounds, but did you know our ears also produce sound. We'll take a look at this on today's program.
After listening to today's program you'll have a greater appreciation for whales! They are the great giants of the sea who could have only been created by God.
What have scientists studying sea lions discovered? You might not like it if you are a dog lovers. Find out more on today's program.
Our Creator is infinite in His creativity and you you see that in all the creatures He has made. On today's program we'll take a look at an animals we almost know nothing about - a mammal with scales.
Amoebas reproduce by literally splitting in half, but what are they to do when they have trouble splitting apart? Their Creator has come up with an ingenious solution. Find out more on today's program.
Bible skeptics tell us that the miracles recorded in the Bible were accepted by gullible people who were ignorant about science. On today’s program, we turn our own skeptical eye at this argument that just doesn’t hold water.
Not even the evolutionists who write for Wikipedia have an answer on how the mimic octopus could possibly have evolved! On today’s program, see why this astonishing creature could only have come from the hand of God.
It is said that Charles Darwin experienced great anxiety when thinking about the complexity of the eye. On today’s program, we see how even the eyes of the lowly mollusk creates major problems for the pseudo-science of evolution.
Did you know that scientists are looking into a new way of brewing coffee to make that morning cup of coffee taste better than ever? Learn about this new process on today’s program.
Are moths turning into moths a good example of evolution? Of COURSE not! But this hasn’t stopped evolutionists from teaching this in school textbooks for decades! On today’s Creation Moment, we expose the famous peppered moths hoax.
Sparrows are under-appreciated partly because they are so common. But isn’t it interesting that the Bible turns the spotlight on the lowly sparrow in the book of Psalms? Find out what these little birds are telling us on today's program.
Evolutionists would have you believe that flightless birds like ostriches lost the ability to fly. But as we’ll see on today’s program, this goes against the biblical view that God had a perfectly good reason for designing them that way.
When evolutionists see strong similarities between different kinds of animals, they often say that one evolved from the other. But now, even THEY are finding out that this ain’t necessarily so. That’s the subject of today's program.
Ostriches have long been thought to be rather stupid – not only because of the way it looks but because they lay their eggs on the ground. Even the Bible describes them as forgetful. We’ll take a closer look at them on today's program.
Did you know that the now extinct Tasmanian tiger was not a tiger and wasn’t a cat at all? They were actually related to an animal that’s found in Australia. Find out more about these marvelous marsupials on today's program.
If you’re a cat owner – or rather, if you have a close friend who happens to be a cat – you probably don’t think of your friend being related to tigers and other big cats. But they are, and that’s the topic of today’s program.
On today’s program, we look at what G.K. Chesterton wrote about evolution in his book Orthodoxy. More specifically, we’ll look at what he wrote comparing humans to tigers.
Two of the most remarkable birds in existence are the subject of today’s program. Though they are related, kingfishers and kookaburras are very different from one another. Is this an example of evolution … or God’s design?
Though secular scientists and creationists alike have learned a great deal about the universe, there is so much more to discover that it boggles the imagination. Find out some things scientists DON'T know on today's program.
Have you heard about the moon rock that was brought back to Earth that turned out to be a rock they say was actually FROM THE EARTH? Find out how this rock supposedly got to the moon on today's program.
On previous programs, we've looked at carbon dating. On today's Creation Moment, we turn the spotlight on uranium-lead dating to see how it works and to determine how trustworthy it is … or isn't.
If the Big Bang did indeed occur, where in the universe did it take place? How do some Big Bangers answer such a question? You'll never believe it but we'll tell you the answer anyway on today's program.
Many biblical creationists are alarmed whenever they hear the words "carbon dating" … but they shouldn't be. Carbon dating can be a valuable witness for creation when it is used correctly, and that's what today's program is all about.
Did you know that Bristlecone Pine trees appear to be 8,000 years in age? Is this a serious problem for biblical creationists who say that the worldwide flood took place around 4,000 years ago? Find out on today's program.
Some people believe that the Bible prohibits space exploration, but is this really what the Bible is telling us? On today's program, we take a closer look at Psalm 115 for the answer.
Now that we've covered carbon dating in a number of our programs, today we'll look at how the worldwide flood of Noah's time may have had a surprising impact on the science of carbon dating.
Although we've all heard of carbon dating, how exactly does it work? What's the science behind it? And how is it useful in the debate between evolution and biblical creation? That's what today's program is all about.
Did you know that carbon dating has never been used to determine the age of fossils? Some listeners know this but if you have mistaken ideas about carbon dating, today's program.
What do evolutionists do when a cherished evolutionary idea is found to be in error? Do they abandon their belief in evolution? Far from it, as we will see on today's program.
How small are the smallest creatures? We'll tell you how small and where they can be found on today's program.
Do animals have friends who are not a part of their family. We'll tell you the answer on today's program.
How did Noah fit all the animals of the world on the ark, including dinosaurs? We'll tackle that question today on our program.
Skeptics use to scoff at the Bible's mention of ant farmers. On today's program hear why those skeptics are learning a thing or two about the reality of ant farmers.
What is it about the giraffe's wonder net that makes people who believe in evolution re-think what they believe.
There was one big problem that the inventors of radar had to solve, but God had already solved that problem when He created bats. On today's program find out what it was.
Is the Bible reliable? So many unbelievers say "no", thinking that it's been translated so many times, we can't know what was originally written. We'll look at this claim on today's program.
Our last two programs dealt with our sense of hearing and the complex – and ingenious – design of our ears. Today, we look more closely at this design and see how evolution is powerless to account for it.
On today's program, we look at ears and our sense of hearing. Like our sense of vision, our ability to hear is so amazingly complex, evolution can't possibly explain it.
On our previous program, you learned about the relationship between music and physics. Today we continue by looking at how sound waves are produced and how we are designed to hear them.
When you think of music, probably the last thing you think about is physics. And yet one wouldn't be possible without the other. That's the topic of today's program.
Because they are roughly similar in size and mass, the planet Venus has often been called "Earth's identical twin". But on today's program, you'll see why that saying is nowhere near the truth.
We've all seen pictures of the Moon, with its surface covered with craters. On today's program, we look at craters on the Earth and see what they tell us about our own planet.
Many scientists tell us that the Earth came about through the gradual clumping together of space dust and gas. On today's program, we ask the question: So where did all of our water come from?
On our previous program, we took you to the Moon. Today we'll take you on a tour of the areas known as "seas". Why are they called this when there is no water on the Moon?
Most people know that the Moon orbits the Earth. But did you know that this is slightly misleading? Find out more about our Moon's orbit on today's program
On today's program, we turn the spotlight to the Moon. Our Creation Moments host, Paul Taylor, shares his thoughts on why God created the "lesser light" that rules the night in the first place.
Many of us remember the Christmas Eve of 1968 when the Apollo astronauts read from the book of Genesis while orbiting the Moon. On today's Creation Moment, our host, Paul Taylor, shares his memories of that historic event.
Does dark matter really exist? Many scientists who believe in the Big Bang say that our universe is the way it is because of dark matter. On today's program, our host, Paul Taylor, throws light on dark matter and the Big Bang itself.
On a previous Creation Moment, we looked at whether baby stars exist. Today we'll look at whether baby planets exist. Is there any hard scientific evidence for them? Find out on today's program.
Are new stars being born at this very moment in the universe? Why do so many Big Bang Believers assume that baby stars exist? That's what we'll find out on today's program.
On today's program, we look at how the sudden death of insects trapped in amber supports the biblical creationist position on catastrophes … like the worldwide flood.
On today's program, we bring you the story of a very unusual creature called the coconut crab. It's also known as the robber crab, but these names might be a little misleading.
Evolutionists teach that the scales of flying dinosaurs gradually evolved into the feathers we find on birds today. But on today's program, you'll see why such thinking is nothing more than a flight of imagination.
If you're a fan of classical music, you might be familiar with one of Franz Josef Haydn's most beloved compositions – The Creation. Find out more about the composer and his famous oratorio on today's program.
On today's program, our host talks about the dinosaur egg he has on display at the Mount St. Helens Creation Center. Learn more about the hadrosaurus that was once inside that very egg.
Other than our own planet, Saturn is undoubtedly the most photogenic of all planets in our solar system. On today's program, we take you on a tour of the planet and its rings.
On today's program - From time to time, new evidence comes to light that makes it necessary for evolutionists to completely revise what they BELIEVED to be true.
At last, a research team conducts a study of a dinosaur fossil WITHOUT making the assumptions that evolutionists always make! We can only hope it's the beginning of a new trend. Find out more on today's program.
Whales are beautiful and intelligent creatures that are often friendly to humans. Yet, they can be unpredictable too. Today on our program we'll talk about the "wild" side of whales.
Did the universe start off as a "Big Bang" or is that theory just a big mistake? That's today on our program.
By looking at a Giant Panda, you can tell it's related to bears, but did you know the lesser panda, or Red Panda, is actually related to the same family as raccoons?
Is eastern meditation really effective in relief of stress? Learn more about the claims and the what a study reports, today on our program.
On today's program we'll take a look at frogs ability to product chemicals that can heal wounds or cause a quick death depending on the frog. We also see that evolution had nothing to do with it.
Human touch is very important to newborn babies. On today's program we'll tell you about a study on just how important it is!
It doesn't take much "brain power" to know that mindless evolution could not have produced the human brain.
With its latest Mars mission, NASA is once again looking for signs of life on the Red Planet. But this time they are hoping to find it UNDERNEATH the surface. On today's Creation Moment, we look at what else they're looking for.
The recent discovery of stone age tools in North Africa has caused evolutionists to reevaluate the course of human evolution. On today's program, we'll take a closer look at what this all means.
What's the best evidence that the story of Noah's Ark in the book of Genesis is true? Would you say it's the photos of wooden structures buried in ice on or near Mount Ararat? On today's broadcast, our host, Paul Taylor, tells you about the most powerful evidence of all.
Is there any evidence so powerful that would make an evolutionist turn away from his belief in Darwinism? Some evolutionists say that finding a rabbit in Precambrian rock would do it. Find out more on today's program.
Though some female spiders are known to eat their young, a newly discovered species is making headlines because mother spiders look after their babies in a most unusual way. On today's program, meet the toxeus magna.
Evolutionists have a great deal of faith to believe that scales evolved into feathers. On today's Creation Moment, we look at another miracle of evolution that supposedly took place within the mouths of baleen whales.
What can you say when a Bible critic accuses the Bible of being wrong? For instance, they often mention that the Bible incorrectly asserts that rabbits chew the cud. On today's program, see how our host, Paul Taylor, answers such an objection.
Do you believe in ghosts? Evolutionists do. That is, they believe in using what are called "ghost lineages" whenever they dig up fossils that are not where they're supposed to be. On today's program, our host, Paul Taylor, explains why creationists don't believe in such ghosts.
How much do you know? How much do you REALLY know for sure? On today's program, you'll see why you know a lot less than you think you know. That is, unless you know a know-it-all who really DOES know it all! Confused?
Why does evidence for biblical truths like creation that are so convincing to you seem to be falling on deaf ears to the person you are talking to? Do you blame yourself? If so, you do not want to miss today's program!
Did you know that scientists have now mapped the genome of a dinosaur? That would be good news, indeed, if evolutionists didn't immediately jump to the wrong conclusions based on their evolutionary worldview. Find out more on today's program.
What are Christians supposed to think when hearing news reports of people who say they were abducted by aliens from another world? Well, on today's program, we'll tell you what WE think about such alien abductions.
Interest in extra-terrestrial life has never been higher than it is right now. Sad to say, the belief in life on other worlds fits beautifully with the tenets of evolutionism. On today's program, we answer the question: Are aliens out there or not?
Global warming "chicken littles" keep running about, telling us that the ice is falling into the Arctic Ocean as temperatures climb. In fact, they've been telling us that the entire ice cap should be melted by now. Find out more on today's program.
Did you know there's a type of orchid in Australia that can actually trick a wasp into thinking it's another wasp? Evolutionists can't explain how such an amazing orchid came to be, but creationists certainly can. Find out more on today's program.
Even though today's program is pretty cheesy, it's worth listening to! In fact, it's about a particular archaeological discovery that shows the remains of what could very well be ancient cheese!
What exactly is meant by the title of today's broadcast is: Be like the sons of Issachar? Who were they and why should Christians and creationists in particular be like them? That's what we'll share with you on today's program.
Have you ever wondered why the petals of flowers are so pretty? Well, even though humans find them delightful to our eyes, they have been designed by God to attract pollinators. On today's program, find out more about pollination.
Before leaving Australia, we would be remiss if we didn't feature the koala on today's program. You've admired their cuddly appearance, but when you get to know them better, you'll see how they bear evidence of God's creative hand.
We return to Australia on today's program to talk about one of its most beloved animals – the kangaroo. As you'll see, the kangaroo is not a product of evolutionary time and chance. It was designed by our all-wise Creator.
On today's program, we'll take you to Australia where you'll meet an astonishing creature that has God's fingerprints all over it – the spiny anteater. You'll also discover why this creature is not a friend of evolutionists.
On today's program, you'll meet one of God's strangest creatures – the platypus. If ever there was a creature that seems to have been put together by a committee, this is it! But our amazing God gets full credit for this unusual creature.
If there's intelligent beings on other worlds, why haven't we encountered them already? True believers in UFOs have many different answers. But on today's program, we'll tell you OUR answer to that question.
Do you remember that historic day when man took his first step on the surface of the moon? Our Creation Moments host remembers it well, and he shares his recollections and asks a provocative question about it on today's program.
Here at Creation Moments, we get excited with every new dinosaur discovery, but we cringe when evolutionists assign their age to a time that never even existed! Millions of years? Absolutely not, and we'll show you why on today's program.
How exasperating it is when scientists conduct brilliant experiments but then interpret the results through their evolutionism worldview! When a faulty worldview is applied, even the best experiments can go awry. Learn more on today's program.
Are you familiar with the word "subduction"? After listening to today's program, you'll know what it means and why it can happen very quickly. The bottom line? The Earth is much younger than what geologists tell us.
Want to see an evolutionist pull a rabbit out of his hat? He does it with the wave of a magic wand called mutations. But like professional magicians, it is merely a trick, and we'll reveal how the trick works on today's program.
The only things missing from many stories about evolution are the words "once upon a time" and "they lived happily ever after." Much of what evolutionists tell us are fairy tales, and on today's program, we'll give you a good example.
Hummingbirds are amazing creatures that reveal God's creative hand in ways that no other creature can. On today's program, you'll learn why evolution had nothing to do with the existence of these beautiful birds.
Get ready to laugh – or groan – when you hear this humorous conversation between a creationist speaker and a person who approached him after the presentation! Our Creation Moments host, Paul Taylor, will tell you all about it on today's program.
Theistic evolutionists say that God didn't know how to explain a concept like evolution to primitive people, so the Genesis account shouldn't be taken as historically true. On today's program, we'll show you why this idea is totally false.
What do you think of when you hear the word "ancient"? Is it the same for everyone or is it a relative term? On today's program, we will discuss this and see why it matters when looking at the age of the Earth.
Did God "dumb down" His description of Creation Week in Genesis because ancient man was too primitive to understand it? Many liberal Bible teachers say He did. This is what we'll be looking at on today's program.
Is there life on Mars? People have been asking this question for centuries. Science-fiction writers and scientists alike can only speculate. But we believe the answer to this question is in the Bible, as we will see on today's program.
On Day Three of Creation Week, God made the dry land, including rocks and minerals. On today's program, we take a closer look at rocks and see why they're vital for the work God would do on days four, five and six.
On a previous program, we introduced you to the dark side of Artificial Intelligence. On today's broadcast, we'll see why some people think AI is a good thing while others warn it could be the end of civilization as we know it.
Is AI, or Artificial Intelligence, an attempt by humans to replace our Creator with a god made in our own image? Some prominent people who know a great deal about AI seem to think so. Find out why on today's program.
What has a body like a bear, legs like a cow and horns like a wildebeest? On today's program we'll be talking about the takin!
Photo: Standing Takin – Pixabay (PD)
On today's program we'll tell you about a species of lizard who has its own canteen for surviving in the desert.
Photo: Yarrow’s spiny lizard – Pixabay (PD)
You know there are bacteria that can harm us, as well as bacteria that keeps us well. On today's program we'll tell you about a bacteria that can dissolve steel.
Photo: Transmission electron micrograph of bacterium. (PD)
On today's program we'll take a look at a wasp that not only feeds its young, but also helps eliminate pests for farmers.
Photo: The parasitoidal ichneumon wasp by Richard Bartz CC BY - SA 2.5
Could we be building a new Tower of Babel, powered by technology? That's today on our program.
Image: Pixabay (PD)
On today's program learn how the earth's magnetic field support the Biblical conclusion of a young earth.
Image: Dipole Field. (PD)
On today's program we'll take a look at the intelligence, not instincts in infant developments. Babies are smarter then evolutionists think they are!
Photo: Jean Piaget. (PD)
On today's program we'll tell you about an extinct animals best described as a spiny postage stamp.
Photo: Silicified (replaced with silica) fossils from the Road Canyon Formation (Middle Permian of Texas). Courtesy of Wilson44691. (CC BY-SA 3.0)
On today's program we'll take a look at how the vervet monkeys teach us that language is not the evolutionary development of early humans, but a gift from God, the Author of language.
Photo: Vervet monkey. Courtesy of Derek Keats. (CC BY 2.0)
Did you know your dog, cat and other mammals aren't the only animals that bark and growl? We'll tell you more on today's program.
Photo: Pembroke Corgi – Pixabay (PD)
What creature is so real you might not find it in your local zoo. Here's a hint, it a lizard with three eyes. We'll tell you more about the tuatara on today's program.
Photo: A male tuatara named Henry, living at the Southland Museum, is still reproductively active at 111 years of age. Courtesy of KeresH. (CC BY 3.0)
When you were pregnant did you have "morning sickness"? Though unpleasant it might have been a way to protect your unborn child. We'll tell you more on today's program.
Photo: Pixaby (PD)
What does bee cologne smell like? Well depending on what it smells like it could either get a bee a warm welcome or it could get it killed. We'll tell about it on today's program.
Photo: Bee, Pixabay (PD)
On today's program we will take a close look at a flower that's either very smart … or it was designed by a very intelligent God. The bucket orchid is surely one of the most fascinating plants we've ever presented.
Image: Wikimedia Commons, license: CC BY-SA 3.0.
On today's program we ask the question: How might a protein have evolved? As you'll see, this is nothing but wishful thinking in the minds of evolutionists … because they need this to get the whole evolutionary ball rolling.
Image: Peptide Synthesis, Public Domain.
Today's program deals with not one but two pseudosciences that are believed by too many people – evolution and global warming. Evolutionary scientists are now telling us that global warming is making corals evolve. But that just isn't true.
Evolutionists are now telling us that humans are responsible for driving such evolutionary changes as elephants having smaller tusks. On today's program, we'll take a closer look at this claim to see what's REALLY going on.
Image: Muhamed Mahdi Karim, released under GFDL 1.2 License.
Would you believe that evolution is behind the resurgence of head lice, bedbugs and rats? No, we didn't think so. And it's time that science magazines stop reporting such nonsense. Find out more on today's program.
Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.
Ask an evolutionist what evidence he has for evolution, and he'll likely tell you that bacterial antibiotic resistance is all the evidence they need. On today's program, see why antibiotic resistance proves nothing of the sort!
Image: MRSA under a scanning electron microscope, Public Domain.
Do geologic layers prove deep time? Scientists assume that the lower levels of rocks are older than the higher levels. This seems to be logical … until you take other matters into consideration. That's what we'll be exploring on today's program.
Image: Evolutionary view of Geologic Layers, Public Domain.
When reading about new archaeological discoveries, it seems that evolutionists are constantly in a state of being surprised. But as we'll see on today's program, creationists take each new discovery in stride because it is supported by our biblical worldview.
Image: Russia’s Denisova Cave, CC BY-SA 4.0 International.
When scientists discovered a turtle without a shell, they immediately jumped to the conclusion that they had found a creature supporting evolution. But on today's program, you'll see why we say NOT SO FAST!
Image: A “normal” turtle skeleton. CC BY-SA 3.0 unported.
When scientists use their evolutionist eyeglasses to look at the world around them, everything they see is interpreted within that framework. On today's program, we'll examine how those eyeglasses are distorting their vision.
Image: Heritage Israeli building in Peqi’in, Israel, license: CC BY-SA 4.0 International.
Did Jesus take a stand on the subject of same-sex marriage? There are many people today – including Christians – who would say "no" but on today's program, you'll see why we would strongly disagree with that answer.
Image: Adobe Stock images, licensed to author.
On our previous two broadcasts, we looked at whether Paul and Peter got it wrong when writing about the early chapters of Genesis. On today's program, we will see if Jesus made a similar mistake by viewing Genesis as actual history.
Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.
On our previous broadcast, we tackled the question: Did Paul get it wrong when he wrote that Adam was an actual historical figure? On today's program, we'll ask if Peter got it wrong when he wrote about a historical Noah.
Image: Strozzi’s Release of Peter, Public Domain image.
Did Paul get it wrong when he wrote that Adam was an actual living and breathing historical figure? Some well-known Bible teacher think so. On today's program, we will see why it's so important to believe in a literal Adam.
Image: Raphael, St. Paul Preaching in Athens (1515), Public Domain image.
Though nearly everyone agrees that the Earth travels around the sun, there are some who insist that the Earth is stationary. Such people are geocentrists, and on today's program, we'll take a look at what they believe and why they believe it.
Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.
Do you know the difference between observational science and historical science? It's extremely important to know the difference between the two when talking about creation and evolution. See why on today's program.
Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.
Ever wonder why some reef fish are such vivid yellows and brilliant blues? On today's program we'll tell you how those bright colors help to protect them.
On today's program we'll tell you about a flower that smells awful. You might wonder why God created such a flower?
Have you heard the claim that humans and chimps are 98 percent alike, genetically? On today's program we'll take a look at that "percent".
On today's program we'll look at the unusual way some animals communicate with each other.
Did you know a baby's body may choose it's date and time of birth? We'll tell about that on today's program.
All too often we'll forget where we left our car keys or the TV remote. On today's program we'll tell you about a bird who can remember a year later where it stored its food.
Humans and animals both have an immune system that protects them, but did you know plants have an immune system too. On today's program we'll tell you about it.
Here’s a mystery. Why have so many unhatched dinosaur eggs been found in the fossil record? Evolutionists have no credible explanation, but as you’ll hear on today’s program, it’s no mystery at all for creationists.
When asked why they believe in evolution, many people say that all the evidence they need can be found in the fossil record. Actually, as you’ll learn on today’s program, the fossil record is certainly no friend of evolution.
On today’s program we introduce you to some real-life Hobbits! Seriously, that’s the nickname of the small-statured people who once lived on the island of Flores in Indonesia.
Though there are very few people today who believe that the Earth is flat, many people believe that nearly everyone in the past were flat-earthers. But is this really so? That’s the topic of today’s program.
Don’t be tricked into thinking that evolution is a scientific theory. As you’ll see on today’s program, evolution doesn’t qualify to be considered a scientific theory. And it certainly isn’t a FACT, as many evolutionists call it today.
Today, scientists talk a lot about dark matter and dark energy. Well, if you’re in the dark about dark matter and dark energy, we’ll cast some light to make them easier to understand. In fact, that’s the topic of today’s program.
Evolutionist Richard Dawkins has said that biology is the study of complicated things that appear to have been designed for a purpose. On today’s program, see why such a statement makes sense only to those who have rejected God.
Though all penguins aren’t disappearing, one species is dying out at an alarming rate. Though the reason is unknown, it does remind us of something we too often forget. On today’s program, a gentle reminder of why we should care.
What can we learn from the ten names given in the fifth chapter of Genesis from Adam to Noah? On today’s program, we take a look at what some consider to be a coincidence while others believe it is a hidden prophecy of the gospel.
As you know, the nucleus of atoms consists mainly of positively charged protons. So what keeps the nucleus from flying apart? What keeps the protons stuck together? This is what we’ll be exploring on today’s program.
Biblical creationists can rest easy in the knowledge that evolution can not accounting for how life came to be. On today’s program, see just one reason why chance and evolution fall apart right from the start.
Is the Earth the only planet in the entire universe to have life on it? Evolutionists say NO! After all, if evolution produced life on Earth, surely it would work on other planets as well. That’s what we’ll explore on today’s program.
Some of you may remember the Viking 1 spacecraft that landed on Mars back in the seventies. On today’s program, see why some scientists now believe that the spacecraft may have inadvertently destroyed the very evidence they had hoped to find!
Did stressed chimps walk upright because they were dehydrated, thus becoming an important link between apes and modern humans? That’s what some evolutionists believe. And we’ll take this idea apart on today’s program.
Do you think you could figure out how to get an unmanned spacecraft to the sun’s outer atmosphere without burning up? No? Then see how NASA engineers are solving the problem, using the ingenuity that God gave them. That's what we'll be talking about on today's program.
We see people all around us that have turned their backs on God and live their lives as if God didn't exist. On Today's program we'll talk about such a man.
After murdering his brother; did Cain ever repent? we'll take a look at that question on today's program.
On today's program, we'll explore the twelve moons of Jupiter that were recently discovered. We'll take a look at one of these moons in particular because it blows the evolutionists' age of the solar system into tiny pieces
Have you ever wondered where is Eden? The Bible gives many clues concerning its geographical location. But don't go planning a vacation in Eden because you'll never find it. Learn why on today's program.
Which is the first gospel in the Bible? No, it's not Matthew. In fact, the first gospel isn't in the New Testament at all. Just like many other "firsts" in the Bible, we find the first gospel in the book of Genesis. We'll show you the proof on today's program.
After Adam ate the forbidden fruit, why did God call out: "Where are you, Adam? If nothing can be hidden from God, what was God's purpose for asking such a question? That's what you'll find out on today's program.
Evolutionist tell us that the earliest humans were just a little more advanced than apes. but that's not what we find in the Bible. In fact, metalworking was well underway before the worldwide flood, as you'll hear on today's program.
Did you know when you look at the leaf on a tree you are looking at a highly complex part of the tree that seems to act almost like a computer. Learn more on today's program.
Why would a team of scientists spend their time tickling the the legs of locusts? Find out on today's program.
Do some of your friends believe that Adam and Eve were legendary figures and were not real people at all? If so, they headed in the wrong direction, and we'll tell you about the danger they're in on today's program.
Evolutionist expect us to believe that dinosaurs evolved into birds. But is something life that even possible? On today's program we'll take a look at the lungs of birds to answer that question scientifically and without bias.
Why do so professing Christians add to God's written word - the Bible? On today's Creation Moment, we'll look at what happens when people do that, and we'll begin by examining the conversation between Eve and the serpent.
Depression is often associated with those who are brokenhearted, but on today's Creation Moments we'll look at depression that can lead to a broken heart.
On today's Creation Moments we'll take a look at living fossils, creature once thought to be extinct.
Today on Creation Moments we'll clear up some widely believed but mistaken facts about volcanoes.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Social insects seldom, if ever, tolerate other species within their communities. Strangers are generally identified by their smell, rather than by their appearance, since those insects that aren't actually blind have very poor eyesight. It is common for social insects to unite to destroy even one stranger who invades their nest.
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Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Each program features some scientific fact of nature that points to deliberate design not evolutionary chance. "Creation Moments" daily 2 minute radio broadcast with host Ian Taylor is heard around the world on over 1300 stations and outlets. Each program features scientific evidences of nature that points to delicate design not evolutionary chance. The daily broadcasts are compiled in our daily devotional book, Letting God Create Your Day. Each program is also available on cassette or CD. See CreationMoments.com for more information.
Anthropology is the study of human beings and where they came from. As a scientific discipline, it has been led for decades by people with evolutionary presuppositions. There are many people within Christian churches – including many pastors – who do not think it matters what we believe about how human beings got here. What matters is the value that we place on humanity today.
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It was Charles Darwin’s assumption that new species arose from previous ones by a process of natural selection. Darwin famously illustrated this point by reference to the various species of finch living on the Galapagos Islands.
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It was the late Stephen J. Gould who popularized the idea of Evolution by Punctuated Equilibrium. This was because he noticed the lack of transitional forms in the fossil record, which is so obvious to those who want to see. Yet, as a committed evolutionist, Gould could not bring himself to the natural corollary of his ideas – that the theory of evolution is just not tenable.
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A recent report in the journal Science has reached the startling conclusion that human brains and chimp brains are entirely different. A study led by scientists at Yale University has discovered that much of the gene activity in the human brain is completely alien to that occurring in the brains of chimpanzees.
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The conventional understanding has always been that North America was populated by people who crossed from Asia to Alaska via the Bering Strait and then migrated down the West Coast. Eventually, some of them crossed as far as the eastern coasts of North and South America. Known as the Clovis culture, their descendants produced all the North and South American Indian tribes and nations.
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The Aye-Aye is one of the strangest little monkeys on earth. Its peculiar features bear witness that it was specially designed and created to fill a unique niche in nature, not a chance development of evolution.
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Often naturally occurring medicines work better and more gently than man-made concoctions. Ginger has long been accepted as a natural treatment for nausea. Several modern studies have confirmed that ginger can even work better than modern nausea medicines such as Dramamine®.
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Dinosaur fossil hunters and paleontologists have long debated whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded or cold-blooded. With reptile characteristics, it was expected that dinosaurs would be cold-blooded. Yet, some evidence indicated that they must have been warm-blooded.
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The $250 million Human Genome Project is attempting to map all the human genes. Their preliminary findings were released sometime in the year of 2000. Some observers have been saying that the human genome project will define what it means to be human.
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"Survival of the fittest" is an essential principle of evolution. This principle has not only been applied to animals, but also to human beings, as a social theory.
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For generations cave guides have been telling cave visitors that the stalagmites and stalactites that they see around them grow at incredibly low rates. The figure that is usually given is one inch per century for stalactites (they are the ones that hang down). That estimate, however, was not based on any scientific research.
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Most mammals in Australia are marsupials. That is one of the things that makes Australia so special to those of us elsewhere in the world who may never have been there. Think of Australia, and most of us think of kangaroos, koalas, and wombats. Placentals, like rats and rabbits, are normally pests, introduced in colonial times.
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John records in his Gospel that the first miracle of Jesus was performed at the wedding at Cana in Galilee. During the course of the celebrations, they were found to have run out of wine. Jesus instructed the servants to fill six 20-gallon stone jars with water, and He turned this 120 gallons of water into wine.
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One passage of the Bible that a lot of people stumble over is found in Joshua 10. The Israelites were engaged in a battle with Adonizedek, King of Jerusalem. In order to gain success, Joshua prayed to the Lord, “Sun, stand still at Gibeon.” As a result of this prayer, the sun stayed in the sky for a whole day. In other words, sunset to sunset lasted 48 hours instead of the normal 24.
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There is a myth perpetrated by some that Flood Geology is an invention of the 20th Century, not supported, except implicitly, by geologists of earlier eras. This is not the case. One man who can prove this myth to be false is John Woodward, a contemporary of Isaac Newton.
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Everyone loves bacon; or maybe every scientist loves Bacon. The Bacon to which I am referring is Sir Francis Bacon, later Viscount St. Alban, 1561-1626. It is to him that we owe a debt of thanks for the introduction of an early scientific method.
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Joseph Priestley was, by all accounts, not a pleasant man. He was brought up in a dissenting chapel in Heckmondwicke, Yorkshire, having been born in Birstall, near Leeds, Yorkshire, in 1733. That chapel believed the Bible to be completely true, but Priestley began to develop ideas that rejected the divinity of Christ and the Virgin Birth. In adulthood, he was, therefore, a Unitarian.
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In another Creation Moment, we discussed the fact that the famous scientist and mathematician Isaac Newton believed Genesis to be a true book. We would probably not want to follow Newton’s theological beliefs, given that they were Arian in nature, but it is not often realized that Newton wrote extensively on the subject of history.
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It surely is not possible to learn science without coming across the name of Sir Isaac Newton, one of history’s greatest scientists. While many scientists concentrate on one field of study, Newton is famous for three: light, calculus, and gravity.
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An article in the New Scientist magazine suggests that the Reformation was a spur to scientific development. In their minds, Luther was a rebel, and it was this attitude of rebellion that led to the free-thinking required for modern science to develop.
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As I write this article, there have been reports about the imminent extinction of the vaquita, a little porpoise that lives in Mexico’s Gulf of California. In 2016, it was estimated that there were only 30 of these small marine mammals left, whereas 97 were counted in 2014.
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In Genesis 12:5, we read about Abram leaving Haran. Among his party were people acquired in Haran, as the NKJV, ESV, and CSB versions put it. The KJV and the earlier Geneva Bible refer to the ones taken from Haran as “the souls that they had gotten in Haran”. The Hebrew word being translated here is nephesh – a word that refers to the breath of life; an in-pouring of the Spirit.
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Genesis is one book. That might seem pretty obvious to many of you, and yet sometimes we have given the impression that it is two books. The first book runs from chapter one through chapter eleven. The second is from chapter twelve onward.
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There has been a tendency among some evangelicals to worry about scientific opinion. For example, there has been a drive to reinterpret Genesis in the light of evolutionary theory, and, although that drive is decades old, it has accelerated among conservative evangelicals in the last ten years or so. The tendency seems to be to panic whenever a new scientific idea appears that seems to be opposed to the Bible.
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In the beginning was Ida, the initial Darwinian ancestor – the first material on Earth to transform from inert to, well, ert. Ida begat Luca, the last universal common ancestor, and the molecule that gave rise to every kind of life on Earth, from lowly bacteria to the giant panda.
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Comets are fascinating objects. At their best, they can be spectacular objects in the sky, with beautiful tails pointing away from the Sun.
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The old joke goes: “What’s gray and has a trunk? A mouse on vacation.” Of course, we know that this is really the description of the world’s favorite animal, the elephant.
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According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, animals evolved from unicellular eukaryotes. Eukaryotes are cells that contain a clearly defined nucleus. This membrane enables the two stages (coding and decoding) of protein synthesis to be separated. According to the encyclopaedia, this has enabled different types of cell to evolve to do different jobs.
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Accounts of the supposed evolution of human beings read like the modern equivalent of fairy stories. These intricate fables often seem to mask the inability to reject evolutionary theories when they come up against unfortunate or difficult facts.
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Joachim Neumann was born in 1650 in Bremen, in what is today part of Germany. His father was a teacher of Latin. Joachim grew up in the Reformed Calvinist Church in Germany. At 16, he studied theology at home, being too poor to go to university. Shortly before he finished his course, in 1670, he heard a sermon which changed his life.
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In 1957, a dead Neanderthal man was discovered with nine other skeletons in Shanidar Cave in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. This particular Neanderthal Man had serious injuries, probably inflicted by other people. Police are looking for a 50,000-year-old murderer.
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A previous Creation Moment talked about the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs – those beautiful models of dinosaurs built in Victorian times that do not look anything like what we imagine those same dinosaurs to look like today.
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When you look through the Bible, there is one interesting land animal type which is missing. There is nothing to say that a pair of them got on the Ark, but we have to assume that they did so that they survived until after the Flood. Today, we just think of them strutting around the world, vicious killers, waiting for the opportunity to spring on their next prey.
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I don’t like spiders, but I am not particularly bothered by the sight of snakes. Don’t get me wrong. I have no personal desire to approach a snake if I don’t know anything about it as it could be dangerous, but those snakes which I know to be harmless, like the garter snakes that populate the area close to Mount St Helens, I find quite appealing.
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In 1997 scientists recovered mitochondrial DNA from the leg bone of a Neanderthal man. After comparing it to modern human mitochondrial DNA, they declared that Neanderthal man was not human after all. This neatly moved him back into the ape-man category, but we need to look at this claim more closely.
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Con men develop elaborate schemes to cheat people out of their money or other possessions. Successful cons are cleverly and intelligently directed toward the con man's goal. We would not expect such intelligently directed, albeit sinful, behavior in animals, except that the Bible tells us that deceit is the way of the world since sin has entered the creation.
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According to the Bible's history, human beings were created perfectly by God about 6,000 years ago. We should note that this means we were not only morally perfect, but genetically perfect as well. According to evolutionists, our ancestors split off from the monkeys millions of years ago. Both viewpoints agree that each generation of human beings adds mutations to the ongoing human gene pool.
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We have all heard of "superbugs" - bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. Antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus bacteria have even shut down hospital wards. Now, researchers in New Zealand and Australia may have found out how to fight superbugs. And their weapon is one that has been in medical use for over 4,000 years!
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When Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden, they brought death into the world. Death is an enemy, but for the believer who has eternal life, death provides a doorway out of a sinful world and into Christ's presence. Modern science has learned that our cells themselves carry the information that will result in their death one day.
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Many people today tend to dismiss the early chapters of Genesis as legend rather than history. However, if the Bible's story of the Flood and the Tower of Babel are not history there are some established historical facts that have no explanation.
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Many people today tend to dismiss the early chapters of Genesis as legend rather than history. However, if the Bible's story of the Flood and the Tower of Babel are not history there are some established historical facts that have no explanation.
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In C.S. Lewis’s book about the creation of Narnia, The Magician’s Nephew, there is an “Enclosed Garden”. This is the place where Aslan sent Digory so that he could get the fruit which would heal his mother. It is clear that Lewis is referencing the Garden of Eden in his account, and it is interesting that he chose to position this Garden on top of a hill.
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If you want to learn a new subject, find a master at the subject and copy them. If you want to lose weight, find someone who has already lost weight. If you want to program video games, find the ace games programmer and become her apprentice. And if you want to design ingenious and innovative new materials, go to the master designer Himself – God.
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Qohelet, the writer of the book of Ecclesiastes, reminds us to "Remember your Creator". Why do we need to remember Him? It is because everything that we value has come from Him. Qohelet has spent eleven previous chapters, explaining that if we do not reference everything to God, then it is all meaningless, just like trying to grab hold of the air.
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"Put thi mack' on, mi lad," shouted my father, "Or tha'll catch thi death o' cowd!"
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The leviathan of Job 41 appears to be a ferocious creature. It cannot be caught with any sort of hook. It cannot be captured by harpoon, either through its jaw or its nose. The description given in Job 41 is that of an enormous sea monster with great strength, defensive armor, and able to breathe fire. This last attribute has led many to suggest that the creature is not real but only mythical.
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"There's glory for you!" said Humpty Dumpty.
"I don't know what you mean by 'glory'" Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't – till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!"
"But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument,'" Alice objected.
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We are all familiar with the concept of the Ice Age – probably due to the eponymous cartoon feature film series. Evolutionists believe that this event took place about 2.6 million years ago. There is considerable evidence around the world of valleys carved by glaciation, and glacial moraines – deposits of rocky debris left at the end of glaciers.
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The word prehistoric refers to a period of time before there were people on the Earth. Evolutionists assume that to have been for millions of years, so their accounts of the majority of fossils would refer to them as prehistoric. As Bible believers, we know that God made everything in the Creation Week, so there was no prehistoric time.
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Many people are aware that evolutionary astrophysicists believe that the Earth came into existence about 4.5 billion years ago. The formation of this planet-size lump of rock allegedly happened by gravitational accretion from the dust that had previously swirled around the Sun. One grain of dust would attract another. Gradually, one lump would attract another.
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The Book of Ecclesiastes keeps on referencing the world "under the Sun". What does the writer mean by this?
The writer of the book of Ecclesiastes is referred to in Hebrew as Qohelet. This word describes an office rather than a name and refers to one who addresses a gathering, assembly, or congregation. Therefore, Qohelet is often roughly translated as teacher or preacher.
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Life on Earth began somewhere between 3.7 and 4.5 billion years ago, after meteorites splashed down and leached essential elements into warm little ponds, say scientists.
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I am completely relaxed. I have my work under control. I have a cup of coffee with me. And Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony is playing in the background.
Then there is an ugly sound. It is a pinging sound, and it comes from my smartphone. It is a notification.
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Why are poison frogs poisonous? Clearly their toxins are very harmful indeed to predators. For this reason, evolutionists would assume that those frogs which produce toxins are likely to be fitter to survive in the process of natural selection.
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It was singer Frank Sinatra who was known as Ol' Blue Eyes because of the piercing color of his irises. But now evolutionary scientists are suggesting that those, who, like me, share Sinatra's eye color, might also share a common ancestor. Frank might be my cousin!
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One leading left-wing UK newspaper headlined a report on Hurricane Harvey with these words:
"It's a fact: climate change made Hurricane Harvey more deadly."
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Genesis 1:1 is pretty cool. It tells us that God made the world, the universe, and everything from nothing. It is a verse that gives the lie to all the great philosophies of the modern age. Yet, if I had to choose what I thought was the most beautiful verse in Genesis, that first verse would be close, but not the one.
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Imagine that the tide went out much farther than it had ever done before. Imagine that you lived in a world full of evil, but this day it seemed like something big was about to happen. One man and his family had been building an enormous vessel while warning people of the coming judgment of God. You had joined in the laughter with everyone else.
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One of the fundamental lessons we learn from Scripture is that there is only one God. There are, however, a lot of false gods. In biblical times, these would often have been idols of wood, stone, or metal. But there are idols all around us today which demand our worship. These could be anything that people have put in the place of God.
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The Ark was made of wood, so it had to be waterproofed. The most suitable type of waterproofing would be a hydrophobic substance, such as oil or grease. So it was coated inside and out with pitch. But what actually is pitch? In modern parlance, this refers to an oil fraction. But here some people raise a problem. If pitch is an oil fraction, then do we not assume that oil was produced during the Flood?
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The Scripture tells us that "God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse". The word translated as "expanse", or, in some versions, as "firmament", is raqia. This word is related to the concept of stretching out, rather like metal being beaten with a hammer. As such, it refers to the entire universe and not just to the atmosphere.
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The Flood began with two geophysical events – the bursting forth of Fountains of the Great Deep and the opening of the Windows of Heaven. But what could these events have actually looked like?
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Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of the large dinosaur book that I had as a child was the large number of pictures showing large sauropods walking through forests of giant ferns, eating their leaves. My child-like trust in the abilities of scientists led me to assume that there must have been some way for these clever adults to know what the habitat and living conditions of these dinosaurs were.
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The Cassini-Huygens Mission, which ended in 2017, was, by any stretch of the imagination, a remarkable human achievement. Launched on October 15, 1997, the craft was active for nearly 20 years before its final descent into the oblivion of Saturn's gravity on September 15, 2017.
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A lot of our difficulties with the text in Genesis could be resolved if we would only have confidence in God's word.
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A poll conducted by George Gallup reveals some alarming trends in Americans' religious thinking. First, the good news is that more than 80 percent of Americans desire to grow spiritually. Secondly, Christian religion continues to show wide popularity, with church attendance remaining steady over the last half century.
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You may not think of plants as being intelligent on any level since it appears that they just sort of sit in the soil and grow. However, we have done a few Creation Moments programs on plants that try to poison or repel a predator. Now we will see that the lima bean employs an even more sophisticated defense strategy that not only warns surrounding lima beans of the attack, but also calls in defenders.
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Scientists have long wondered how deep-diving creatures such as the whale and the dolphin can dive so deeply on one breath. It takes a great deal of energy for a seal, for example, to dive 1,200 feet deep and then return to the surface. Scientists computed that one breath should not be able to provide enough oxygen to burn the muscular fuel necessary for such dives.
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The Bible speaks of bird calls as songs, as most of us do. However, evolutionary theory has led some scientists to say that we are merely assigning human meanings to the calls of birds. They say that the bird calls have nothing to do with real music.
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The chempedak tree is found in Malaysia. It is closely related to jackfruits in the mulberry family. The chempedak tree produces edible fruits that are about a foot long.
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The apostle Paul told Timothy that he should “hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me”. Words are very important, and it is very easy to miscommunicate by using the wrong words. For example, I was a teacher in government schools in England and Wales for many years and well used to teaching students the science national curriculum.
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It is both a privilege and a joy that I get to take people to see sights around Mount St Helens. The other day, I took a school group into the Lava Canyon. As the river cascades violently over a lava flow, from about 2,000 years ago, it makes a beautiful sight. Some of that ancient lava flow was washed away by mudflows from the eruptions of 1980.
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We have now got used to the idea that there are dinosaur fossils containing soft tissue. Our familiarity with such finds has begun to dull the edge of the surprising import of such finds. Whichever way you spin this, the presence of soft tissue is not consistent with evolutionary ages for the dinosaurs.
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In another Creation Moment, I described the natural ability of a sportsman like David Beckham and how his work could be defined by math. When we consider great sportsmen, we consider the link between talent and what they have done with that talent.
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The purpose of an advertising billboard would be to grab the attention of the passerby – or, in today’s world, the person driving by. One way of attracting the attention of prospective customers might be to use bright colors. Suppose that the more brightly colored paint was more expensive.
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What happens if a man tries to walk on water? The answer is that his feet would sink into the water.
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There was a certain hydroelectric dam built in Brazil. This involved the flooding of a region of countryside, which left some populations of geckos isolated. Gradually, the populations of other lizards in the area died out. After about 15 years, it was noticed that the geckos in the area had “developed” larger mouths in order to eat large insects that would formerly have been eaten by larger lizards.
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A recent science article in the UK’s Telegraph newspaper suggested that grizzly bears may have dropped their carnivorous ways in favor of a life of eating berries. Apparently, the streams and rivers on Alaska’s Kodiak Island are replete with salmon.
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The Bible’s authority is constantly questioned, and so-called scholars constantly attempt to undermine it. As I write this, a new attempt is being made to undermine people’s trust in God’s word.
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The Bible’s authority is constantly questioned, and so-called scholars constantly attempt to undermine it. As I write this, a new attempt is being made to undermine people’s trust in God’s word.
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Everybody loves pandas, don’t they? We must love them because we are trying to save them from extinction, with some success; pandas have been downgraded from endangered to vulnerable. Apparently, their habitat in China is expanding, so that the likelihood of those adorable black-and-white icons of world wildlife may not disappear after all.
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Current evolutionary thought suggests, as most people are aware, that birds evolved from therapod dinosaurs. Therefore, evolutionary scientists must find their evidence, not only for the evolution of the skeletal structure of birds and features such as feathers, but many other behavioral characteristics.
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James says that “every good and perfect gift is from above...” Perhaps I am twisting Scripture a little by including coffee in this category. I have to confess – I love coffee. So I was delighted to read on the Science Daily website recently that the intake of coffee could contribute to longer life! If that is so, I could be looking forward to living as long as Methuselah!
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In 1 Kings 7:23, there is an unusual account of how Solomon had the sea of bronze made. We read that is was “ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference”.
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Mostly, I liked math (or maths, as we called it) when I was at high school. But one aspect of math was tedious. This was when special numbers had to be looked up in boring books called log tables. These books contained not only logarithms but also the trigonometric functions – sines, cosines and tangents.
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You must have heard the evolutionary idea that dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid hitting the Earth about 66 million years ago – probably on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Recently, this idea has come under criticism from evolutionists as well as from creationists. Other models for the extinction of the dinosaurs have been explored.
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I used to love it when my elementary school teacher read stories to the class. She had some favorite stories. One of her favorite collections was Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories. The idea of each story was to give a fictional account of how certain features of various animals came to be. Of course, Kipling was not presenting a scientific thesis. He expected his stories to be received as works of imagination.
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Three people went out to dig for rock. The rocks in their claim were rich in minerals, such as malachite – the principle ore of copper.
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Some years ago, a major international software company took out some commercials on British television. The theme of the commercials was that their software was now better than it had ever been because it had evolved. The commercials showed images of dinosaurs and so-called primitive animals as they evolved into more modern, up-to-date varieties.
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Many of us in the United States watched the total eclipse of the Sun in 2017. I was at my place of work in the state of Washington, where the eclipse was 98%.
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When you come up against a Christian who believes in evolution, your conversations with him will be qualitatively different from the conversations that you might have with an unbeliever. It can be very frustrating and even depressing to encounter a Christian who says that he believes the Bible but does not believe the literal truth of what the Bible teaches in Genesis 1.
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There is a time and a place to defend your faith. Scripture tells us that we are always to be ready to give that defense to someone who asks us the reason for the hope that is in us (1 Peter 3:15). But what if the questioner is not interested in asking about the hope?
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It is impossible for us, 6,000 years later, to get into the mind of the first man. For a start, he was created perfect, and we have no idea what it is like to be perfect or to have a perfect mind. Then again, given that he was perfect, we have difficulty in understanding why he would deliberately choose to disobey God and eat the fruit.
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It must have been a very exciting meeting of the Geological Society of London in December 1912. Charles Dawson was presenting a paper concerning a skull that he said had been found at a gravel pit in Sussex, England. The skull appeared to be half human half ape. The prevailing opinion of the time, as it is today, was that apes and humans had a common ancestor from which they had all evolved.
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Not every animal appears to be of equal value to God. Some of them, in Genesis 1, were blessed. Then there is the way that God described some of these creatures.
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We know that Noah did not have to fit two of every species of animal on the Ark. The Ark sheltered two of every kind of land and flying vertebrate, not two of every species. For example, modern species like lions and tigers would have developed from the pair from the cat family that were on the Ark. Over time, different species of cats have developed from this pair.
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As a child, I was told that frankincense had been brought to Europe by the Frankish people – ancestors of the modern French. This turned out not to be the case. Instead, the prefix frank refers to this incense being of particular high quality or purity.
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The years between 1639 and 1651 were times of great turbulence in the British Isles as a series of deadly conflicts were played out. James Ussher was right in the middle of these events, being born, as he was, in Dublin in 1581. In a previous Creation Moment, we related Ussher’s precocious childhood, that led to his famous calculation of the date of creation as 4004 BC.
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James Ussher is famous, or infamous, depending on your point of view, for his work on creation. It was Ussher who calculated that the Earth was created at 6 pm on the evening before October 23rd 4004 BC. Because of his exactness in choosing this date, he has been criticized and held up for ridicule in recent years.
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Carbon dioxide is a wonderful gas. It occurs in the atmosphere at an average concentration of 404 parts per million by volume (ppm). Plants need carbon dioxide to grow. This is the principle source from which plants derive the carbon compounds that they require. Green plants use chlorophyll to catalyze a reaction between carbon dioxide and water vapor that produces sugars and also some free oxygen.
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Gold must be one of the most remarkable elements in the Periodic Table. Its chemical symbol is Au, its atomic number is 79, and its atomic mass is 196.967. It is a lustrous, yellow-colored metal, and is almost chemically inert. It is this lack of chemistry, coupled with its rarity, that gives it its value.
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Coldwater Lake in Washington State looks so pretty, nestled between the mountains. This scene of tranquility is very popular among the fishing community.
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The atheist physicist Lawrence Krauss believes he has life figured out. As a cosmologist, he adheres to the Big Bang view of origins, believing that the universe came into existence from a singularity about 13.7 billion years ago.
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Suppose your friend has a bag of M&Ms. She is counting each color separately. You have five orange M&Ms, and you add them to her mix. But this stops her being able to count them properly. She wants you to remove your five orange M&Ms from the six orange M&Ms that she has. But they are now mixed. How do you know which were the original M&Ms and which were the ones you added?
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One lady who approached me after one of my presentations said, “God made the Earth 10,000 years ago, but he made it look like it was millions of years old.”
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Everybody’s scariest monsters would be robots. I remember as a little boy, in November 1968, hiding behind the couch while watching Doctor Who – The Invasion. I was enthralled as the Cybermen (cybernetic robots) emerged from London’s sewers to take over the world!
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Why did the Wise Men bring myrrh as a gift for Jesus, along with their gifts of frankincense and gold? This is an interesting question, and many people have pondered the meanings of all the gifts given to Jesus, but I think it is unlikely that we can give a definitive answer.
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Species of foxglove appear on both sides of the Atlantic. I was familiar with this poisonous weed when I was growing up in England. The plants are abundant in Washington State also. Although every part of the plant is poisonous, it is a source of the useful drug group digitalis, used in the treatment of heart complaints.
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British comedian Milton Jones tells this one-liner:
It’s difficult to say what my wife does for a living. She sells sea shells on the sea shore.
However, the famous tongue-twister actually refers to a young woman who never married.
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If you visit London, England, there are a lot of interesting sights to see. You will probably want to take photos of the Horse-guard's Parade, Westminster Abbey, the Houses of Parliament, and, of course, Buckingham Palace, among many, many other sights. But it might not occur to you to visit the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs.
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In my book Where Birds Eat Horses, I talk about the way that evolutionists use, or rather misuse, language in order to make their case. One type of language much loved by evolutionists is what we call “fuzzy words”.
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Think of the Arctic and you probably think about polar bears. Those magnificent, big, white carnivores are probably pictured in your mind standing on snow and ice, where they can be difficult to see. The Arctic is the realm of the bear, and this is reflected in its name. The word “Arctic” is derived from the Greek word arktos, meaning bear. There are layers of meaning here.
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When I was a boy, there were nine planets. I remember reports in 1982 about the discovery of a tenth planet. Nobody actually saw the alleged tenth planet through a telescope. However, measurements were made of the orbits of other planets, and perturbations from where they thought the orbits should be were noted. It was assumed that these perturbations were caused by a large planet beyond the orbit of Pluto.
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Do you feel sorry for Pluto? It isn’t a planet anymore.
Of course, you might want to point out to me that this is old news. Pluto was reclassified in 2006, being downgraded to the new category of dwarf planet. Thus, the Solar System went back to being a collection of eight planets, just as it had been before the discovery of Pluto in 1930.
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A small boy was asked in class “What family does the whale belong to?” Nervously, he replied”I don’t know sir. No family on our street has one!”
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Jesus described Abel as a prophet. He referred to all the prophets who had been killed, “from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah” (Luke 11:51). Prophecy refers to that forthtelling, which comes from the Holy Spirit. The words of the prophet are the words of God. Prophecy can sometimes, though not always, be predictive.
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As a child attending Sunday School and listening to so many disconnected Bible stories, I was confused by the account of Cain and Abel. In particular, I found it strange that God accepted Abel’s offering, but not Cain’s. There didn’t seem to be a reason. I remember asking my Sunday School teacher, who didn’t know either.
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It is notable that the first giving of the Gospel was spoken to Satan, but in the hearing of Adam and Eve. It is also notable that the first Gospel was given immediately after the first sin. God, in His mercy, did not leave mankind for a moment without a means of salvation.
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“There can’t possibly have been a worldwide Flood. Where would all the water have gone after the Flood?” This is a common objection to belief in the biblical account of the Flood of Noah’s time. Did the water drain away, or evaporate?
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Popular science information websites sometimes reveal fascinating facts. The Science Daily website recently published an articled suggesting that water is not one, but two liquids.
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One of the most persistent rumors of popular evolutionary mythology is the concept of a primitive Stone Age. While serious evolutionists do not view such a time in the same way as the popular thinking, particularly in the media, the idea that there were early human societies that had no technology, save the ability to use rocks, is deeply ingrained.
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If you fire a beam of laser light at the Moon, how long will it take to get there?
At first, some might suggest that this is a relatively easy problem. Speed equals distance divided by time, so surely we can calculate how long the light will take. But do we really know how fast the light travels from Earth to Moon? Creationist astrophysicist Dr. Jason Lisle suggests that we don’t.
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It was, they say, the “Great Dying” – supposedly 250 million years ago. 57% of all land-dwelling vertebrates became extinct. Yet, amidst the death and destruction of this event, a new group of animals arose. We call them the dinosaurs.
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“The evolution of the amniotic egg was key to vertebrates leaving the oceans and colonizing the land and air.” So claimed a recent article on the evolution of the egg. The article noted that there are different shaped eggs among birds. Researchers conducted a statistical study of the eggs produced by 1,400 species of bird.
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David Bowie sang:
Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
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The world’s most infamous hockey stick was probably the graph produced for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 1998. The purpose of the graph was to show how global temperatures had changed over time and what had caused these changes. Over the last millennium, the graph showed a steady but gentle increase in temperature until about 1900 when the graph showed a sharp increase.
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As Christians, and especially as Christian parents, many of us have negative comments to make about what happens in school science lessons. In so many areas, it is often easier to criticize and break down than to build up something new. Many years ago, I came across a fascinating yet simple curriculum model idea that would be of considerable help in many Christian education situations.
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We have talked before about Cain and Abel, and we have seen how Cain’s offering was rejected because it was his attempt to get right with God by his own power. We have also seen how Abel’s offering was acceptable because it was the necessary blood sacrifice to atone for sin.
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Recently, I took a group of 6th Grade children and their teachers around the Hummocks’ Trail as part of their homeschool co-op’s fieldtrip to the area near the Mount St. Helen volcano. It was a hot sunny day. The slopes of many of the hummocks were covered in wild strawberries. The heady scent was strong and delicious in the air!
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Evolutionists assume that evolution happens by increases in genetic information. This, they claim, happens by mutations making more information. We should analyze how this might happen.
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Evolutionists often use a language all of their own. Frequently that language involves reification. Reification is a logical fallacy whereby an abstract concept is treated as if it were something real or concrete. Evolutionists frequently refer to selection of genetic information by nature – the so-called Natural Selection. Nature is an abstract concept.
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I am a long-time fan of the BBC science fiction show Doctor Who, having watched it since the mid-1960s when the show was in black and white with no computer graphics and Daleks were upturned trash cans with sink plungers attached. One of my favorite episodes of the modern era was entitled Dinosaurs on a Spaceship. The title said it all.
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“You can’t possibly believe that there was a worldwide Flood. If the Ark was floating above Mount Everest, the air would be so thin that they would not be able to breathe.”
This objection to the Flood is a very common one that I hear frequently. It is also one that is most easily disproved. In fact, I am always very surprised that so many people think this must be a valid argument.
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When I was in my twenties, I had a friend whose father, Peter, kept bees. One day, he invited me to help collect honey. I was fascinated by the paraphernalia that goes with this activity – the costume, the hood, the smoker, and the hives. Peter had ten hives. His bees were very distinctive. They had a deep brown abdomen with a single yellow stripe across the middle of it.
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Logic can sometimes be a little difficult to follow without seeing pictures. But if we take this carefully, it should make sense. There is a type of logical sequence called a syllogism, where two premises are made, followed by a conclusion. The conclusion should be based on those premises. For example:
Premise 1: If it is raining, the streets are wet.
Premise 2: It is raining.
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Have angels always existed from eternity? The Bible says “No”. Only God, the One God in Three Persons, has existed for all eternity. So the angels and any other spirit beings that there might be must have been created by God.
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I was on an open-topped tour bus, seeing the sights of downtown Edinburgh—the capital city of Scotland. From this vantage point, our guide stopped frequently, to tell us about John Knox’s grave and house, the Royal Mile, and beautiful Edinburgh Castle. At one stop, there were three things to see. To our left was Britain’s ugliest building—the Scottish Parliament.
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Many people know about the devastating and explosive eruption of Mount St Helens in 1980. Not so many people know that the volcano has erupted since then, but in less spectacular fashion.
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Forestry organizations have a major problem with beetles. The Mountain Pine beetle infests many coniferous trees in the Western United States. Apparently 40 million acres of forest have been damaged by these critters. A fungus can get into the tree with the beetle, and this fungus prevents transportation of water and nutrients. The beetle lays its eggs in the bark, and beetle larvae can also cause the tree to die.
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I was talking to a group of young children, perhaps 10 or 11 years old, and they were looking at a partly mud-covered house. This house had got covered in mud at the time of the 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens. Meanwhile, close by was a fridge, which had been washed out of the house, at the time of the mudflow. One boy was incredulous.
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Like many people of my generation, I was fascinated by the Apollo Moon landings from 1969 through 1972. As a small boy, I keenly watched all the special programs that I could on BBC TV. I clearly remember one of the BBC experts, signing off the Apollo 17 broadcast, by telling us that NASA would certainly have people on Mars before 1990. I waited eagerly, but it never happened.
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In two previous Creation Moments, I have described how radiometric dating works, and how uranium changes into lead. We found that, for every atom of uranium that decays, eight atoms of helium are made. If a rock contained no lead when it was formed, then all the lead must have been made from uranium, and there would be 8 times as many helium atoms as lead atoms.
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The half-life is a value which gives an indication of the rate of decay of radioactive isotopes. Radioactive decay occurs in an exponential, rather than linear way. Suppose an isotope, which we will call X, has a half-life of 1 year. If we have 32lb of X today, then in a year, we will have just 16lb – half of 32. In another year, however, we will lose only 8lb more—half of 16.
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Evolutionary geologists find ages for rocks, using a method known as radiometric dating. For example, uranium-lead dating relies on the change of uranium into lead. The rate at which uranium changes into lead is not linear, but can nevertheless be measured. This value is called the half-life.
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Today, I want to talk about aging stars. But I am not referring to your favorite movie icon of yesteryear. Instead, I am talking about stars in the universe.
How old is a star? And how can we tell?
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The Solar System has seen many impacts. On so many bodies of the Solar System, these impacts have produced craters. It is well known that the surface of the Moon contains many craters, which are thought to have been formed when a meteorite hit the Lunar surface. However, the Moon is not alone.
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Richard Dawkins believes he has found an organ system, which is badly designed, and so proves that no god could have designed it. He has popularized this accusation so widely that atheistic websites and forums simply quote the example, as if it were proven. He refers to the color receptors on the retina of the vertebrate eye.
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I often think that all Christians should be interested in astronomy. That does not mean that I think you should be experts in how stars work, or how light travels. But the Psalmist says that “the heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork”.
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Every so often, we need to return to the topic of peppered moths, which we have featured a number of times before. Previous Creation Moments have explained why Peppered Moths are not an example of evolution, and how, in the 1980s, it was found that the famous photos showing light and dark moths on light and dark tree trunks had, in fact, been staged.
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There is a story about a man, who had a dog. A friend asked him what kind of dog it was. The man replied “He is a Heinz dog”. “I have never heard of a Heinz dog”, said the other. “Sure you have”, said the first. “He has 57 varieties”.
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The devastating blast from the eruption of Mount St Helens, on May 19, 1980, tore down huge, mature trees. Old growth forest was flattened north of the volcano in an area covering 230 square miles. Trees were demolished up to 17 miles away.
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It often surprises visitors to England, to see how close it is to the main road. Perhaps they imagine it should be remote, miles from civilization. However, when Stonehenge was built, whatever purpose it was built for, it was clearly at the center of civilization at the time.
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When I was a science teacher, in government schools in England, I used to like to show a particular video to my classes. This video featured some unusual plants that had strange reproductive methods. The most unusual of all was the bucket orchid.
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One highly qualified British creationist scientist related to an audience how another scientist has approached him, to help with a course he thought their university should run, about the problems associated with evolution. My friend said he would be happy to help. A few days later, the other scientist returned sheepishly to my friend. He would not, after all, be able to run the course.
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London’s famous Natural History Museum features an enormous gallery, where, among other large creatures, you can see a life-size blue whale hanging from the ceiling.
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Since starting these broadcasts, I have received a number of surprising emails, from people who claim to believe that the Earth is flat, instead of spherical. Is the idea of a spherical earth a lie fed to us as if it were true, along with evolution and deep time? No.
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There are those that claim that Evolution is a scientific theory. Scientific theories can be subject to the scientific method. If the same test or experiment is carried out under the same conditions, on different days or locations, the results should still be the same.
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Science has an elevated position in Western society. There are those who would try to put Christians down, by saying “You have faith, but I have science”. Science, in the abstract, is therefore assumed to be the ultimate truth, and the universal standard, against which everything must be tested.
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Frequent excursions into the Mount St Helens National Volcanic Monument bring me regularly into areas populated by beavers. Many of the ponds around the Hummocks show signs of beaver activity. One notable dam, which I often see on the trail, is over four feet high, and is easily over 50 feet long.
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When I was a high school science teacher, I taught both Physics and Chemistry. However, Chemistry was my main subject. Because of my background in education, I really enjoy taking groups of families and young people on the excursions to Mount St Helens, which I lead two or three times a week during the Summer.
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Many secular cosmologists believe that the universe came into existence in a singularity, as a result of a quantum event about 14.7 billion years ago. However, this so-called Big Bang theory is not without its problems. Principle among these is the Horizon Problem, which refers to the fact that Big Bangers cannot account for the Cosmic Microwave Background being the same temperature in all directions.
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Outer space has a temperature. It has become common to think of space as a vacuum, that has nothing in it, which means it would be at absolute zero temperature. In fact, space is nearly a vacuum, but not quite. And the particles in that near vacuum are in motion, so they have a temperature of 2.73K—the equivalent of 2.73 Celsius degrees above Absolute Zero.
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Wood will get waterlogged, if it is left in water for too long. And yet wood has often been used throughout history to build boats and ships. For example, the city of Pensacola, Florida, was, in many ways, the birthplace of the US Navy, because of the deep harbor, and the abundance of live oaks, from which to build ships. To prevent water-logging, the wood must be treated, to make it waterproof.
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In 2 Peter 2:5, the apostle remarks, almost parenthetically, that “[God] did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly.” Noah was a herald of righteousness—someone proclaiming the Good News!
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C.S. Lewis suggested that those who deny the supernatural can still believe in a god of sorts. He said:
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Out of more than 30,000 species of spiders, there are three species that make their living through thievery. Several years ago that number was raised from two with the discovery of a tiny, thieving species on the island of Taiwan. The other two species live in South America and are known to steal only silk from the webs of other spiders.
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Would you like to be able to walk on water the way Jesus did? The closest human beings have come to walking on water is water skiing, which some even do without skis. But they still need a powerful and noisy power boat to do it. But there is an animal that can walk on water without help of any kind.
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The descendants of Ham, who were cursed, were the Canaanites. Yet when Rahab, a Canaanite, came to faith in the true God, she not only was welcomed to marry a believer, but God included her in the line leading to Christ. The idea of different races, as distinct from different religions, was not much of an issue until 1859 when Charles Darwin published his famous book, On the Origin of Species.
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Numerous television programs have been made about the Komodo dragon and the creatures are even going on display at some zoos. Reaching up to 400 pounds, they can even outrun a man. And they eat anything that they find dead or alive. Even a simple bite from a dragon will prove fatal within 72 hours unless you get immediate treatment.
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Americans lead the industrialized world in belief in creationism and a literal Bible. A recent study by a University of Cincinnati researcher, compares American's belief in a recent creation and the truth of the Bible with beliefs in other countries. The study found that 45 percent of Americans believe that God created the world less than 10,000 years ago. Another 40 percent try to mix God and evolution.
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According to evolution theory, birds should not have been around at the time of the dinosaurs. This is especially true of the parrot, which is supposed by those who believe in evolution to be a more highly-evolved bird.
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Will the mammoth walk the earth again? At one time, herds of these giant creatures, which stand 10 to 12 feet tall at the shoulder, covered North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. In late 1999, Russian and American scientists excavated a buried, frozen mammoth in Northern Siberia.
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We all know that we each started out as a single cell in our mother's womb. Then those cells began to divide and within 21 days we had a working nervous system and a beating heart. How did all those new cells know how to hook up to each other to knit together our nerve connections? How do other cells know to hook up with each other to make our circulatory system, or form the heart?
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Evolutionary scientists tell us that mutations were central to the production of the great variety of creatures on earth today from the first living cell. At the same time, biologists admit that 99 percent of all mutations are harmful.
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A few years ago we aired a "Creation Moments" program about how plants seem to have pain and alarm responses similar to humans and animals. Of course, we don't know if plants have feelings as we know them. But when a plant is injured, it produces a chemical called jasmonic acid. This acid produces a vapor, similar to the jasmine in commercial perfumes, that is sensed by surrounding plants.
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Two strange species of orchids are among the rarest flowers in the world. These unconventional plants live their entire lives underground, even flowering underground. Most often, their flowers never break the surface of the ground. One of these species, Cryptanthemus, has been found only three times in this century. Only 150 flowering Rhizanthella plants have ever been found.
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The creation is filled with plants and animals which use deception to survive. The glow in the dark cookie-cutter shark is a master at such deception.
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For thousands of years the Bible has taught that there is a link between spiritual health and physical health. When rationalism came along, many sought to deny the spiritual aspect of humans. For them, the spiritual and the material have nothing to do with each other. Even medicine was, and still is, taught and practiced by many without any consideration of human spirituality.
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Someday, instead of having to give a blood sample during your physical exam, the doctor might just ask you for a saliva sample. Saliva is an amazing fluid. Besides helping us moisten and digest food, saliva is able to speed healing and fight bacteria, fungi and viruses. Saliva is chemically almost identical to the clear part of your blood. It even has, in lesser concentrations, the infectious organisms found in your blood.
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How small can a living thing be and still be considered alive? Viruses are not considered living things because they cannot reproduce on their own. But now scientists have confirmed the existence of bacteria that are smaller than the largest viruses and yet can reproduce on their own. They call this amazing class of bacteria nanobacteria. They are less that 20 percent the size of normal bacteria.
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The hunted are smart to stay downwind of the hunter. Many predators hunt using scent, at least in part. The same principle works in water. Many predators smell chemicals given off by their prey and use that scent to help them locate their prey. If you were a predator in a stream you would be smart to stay downstream from your prey. The prey won't smell you.
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Wasp colonies in temperate zones usually wait until the end of summer to raise male young. That's because male wasps are typically useless consumers of food. They don't do anything worthwhile in the nest, nor do they help gather resources.
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When we look at the size of the universe, it sometimes becomes easier to see evolution as credible. After all, when we see galaxies that are said to be billions of light years away, it seems possible that there really have been millions of years. But, in truth, the immensity of space is really not so friendly to evolution's claim that the universe, and the earth, are billions of years old.
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Human bridegrooms are not the only males who give gifts to their intended. The birds and the flies do it, too. On a previous program we talked about how the bower bird woos his potential mate by building a hut for her and decorating it with bright objects.
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We all instinctively know that worry and anxiety are not good for us. Previous studies have shown that stress affects our health and makes our immune systems less efficient. But somehow that knowledge doesn't seem to be enough to keep us from fretting about the challenges and problems of life.
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Episodic memory, the ability to remember something that happened in the past is called mental time travel. It has long been thought that only humans are capable of episodic memory. New research suggests that some birds are also capable of mental time travel.
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Our Lord recognized that in a sinful world we must be prepared to protect ourselves. The same is true in the animal and plant world. When it comes to trying to explain this truth using evolutionary thinking, there are some serious difficulties.
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Before the Flood, people were living hundreds of years. As man grew more evil, God declared that man's lifespan would be reduced to 120 years. Modern biology has learned that we do indeed have built-in timers in each of our cells that limit the number of times they can divide. When enough cells can no longer divide, we die. We can even do things to speed up the timers.
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Many marine creatures reflect surrounding light. They can do so because of tiny light-reflecting platelets. Typically, these crystalline platelets are made of purine, one of the building blocks of DNA, but these particular crystals cannot change how much light they reflect.
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You get up early. The illumination isn't very good, you put on your socks anyway, only to find out, in the light of day, that you have one blue and one gray sock on. That's because our eyes have cone cells to detect color, as well as rod cells that are sensitive to light, but cannot see color. So, as the light level becomes lower, we have a decreasing ability to detect colors.
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The Bible tells us that the earliest generations of human beings were making music. By the time the eighth generation of man came along, Jubal, a member of that generation was able to make his living providing musical instruments. On the evolutionary side of things, however, musical ability would seem to provide no survival advantage. Yet, the human brain devotes considerable resources to the processing of music.
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A debate about the definition of "species" may remove Homo erectus from the human evolutionary tree.
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The first book that urged us to take good care of the earth was the Bible. The Bible also reminds those who would be careless about their responsibilities that there is a Creator who is going to hold us accountable for how we carry out our responsibilities. Why, then, does Christianity always seem to be taking the blame for destruction of the environment?
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The news has again been filled with stories about the search for planets orbiting nearby stars. All these stories assume that our Earth was not formed by God. They perpetuate the idea that the Earth and other planets in the solar system formed when dust around the young sun began to collect into lumps.
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The bacterium Bacillus cereus likes to live in soil that would kill most other bacteria. It’s bothered neither by lethal concentrations of metal nor natural antibiotics.
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What can be more appealing, than the sight of a cherry tree in full bloom? Cherry blossom seems to enhance every environment, of which it is a part. Even urban areas can play host to cherry trees, and concrete city can be made attractive for a while, when the blossoms appear.
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“What is the place of art in the Christian life?”, asked Francis Schaeffer. Many people have pondered the same question. Writers who might, broadly, be considered within a Christian worldview have commented on this issue before. Perhaps the most famous quote on the subject is from J.R.R. Tolkein, who said this about his fantasy stories:
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You might not all agree with me, but I love to start the day with a cup of coffee. It was not until I came to live in the US, that I fully began to appreciate quality coffee, and this appreciation is enhanced all the more here in the Pacific Northwest, where every block’s corner seems to host a wooden shack, serving this delicious honey-colored beverage.
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One of my favorite classical composers is Ludwig van Beethoven. While Bach wrote theological notes in the margins of his manuscripts, and his well-thumbed Bible also contained comments, Beethoven’s music is honest in its skepticism. There is power and passion in it, as well as a great deal of anger.
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I recently talked about ideas concerning a possible planet-covering ocean on Enceladus – one of the moons of Saturn. There are other moons of Saturn and Jupiter thought to be covered by similar ice-crusted oceans. The reason why such findings excite evolutionists, is that they think these oceans might contain hydro-thermal vents, like those found on Earth.
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Could the stuff of science fiction be a reality in the outer reaches of our Solar System? As a boy, I read two sci-fi novels, which proposed that the planet Venus was covered in ocean: Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus, by atheist writer Isaac Asimov (published in 1954 under the pseudonym Paul French) and Perelandra (1943), by Christian writer C.S. Lewis.
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As a child in the 60s, going for a meal at my Godmother’s house was a fascinating experience. In those days, many families would get out the best dinnerware for such occasions, and would probably provide napkins—or serviettes as we called them.. But my Godmother would fold the paper serviettes into swans, rabbits and all manner of beautiful objects.
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What arrogance to tell someone that he is a fool! How much more arrogant, if that man is a highly educated, highly qualified scientist, with a string of degrees and doctorates to his name. Such a man might think that he has the right to comment on the existence, or rather the non-existence, of God, and that his intellectual superiority will be sufficient to convince his hearers.
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Ernst Haeckel is famous for having produced diagrams of embryos, to show their similarity. His idea was that “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny”. In other words, the developmental stages, through which an embryo goes (ontogeny), are a sort of recapitulation of the evolution of that organism (phylogeny). I clearly remember being taught this, as an evidence of evolution, when I was in elementary school.
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When I was a department head in a high school in Wales, I had to kit out a new science laboratory. My team and I chose laboratory work surfaces, made from a specially designed material. This artificial material was resistant to corrosion by strong acids, and other chemicals and solvents. It was impervious to ink, so that graffiti left by schoolchildren could easily be removed.
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Several different animals communicate on a limited basis with one another. But human speech is unique, leaving those who believe in evolution perplexed. The very oldest human fossils show the bony structures needed to support speech. Evolutionists will admit, in a candid moment, that they have no idea how speech could have evolved.
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We have all heard it said that, the family that prays together, stays together. A new survey by the Barna Research Group indicates that this old saying is still true. The phone survey interviewed 1,512 Christians about their marriage history and their church membership.
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A number of species of fish live, apparently comfortably, in Antarctic waters as cold as the freezing temperature of seawater, which is a couple of degrees colder than fresh water. This presents us with several mysteries. First, cold slows down the chemistry necessary for life. At these temperatures, life's chemistry all but stops.
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A number of species of fish live, apparently comfortably, in Antarctic waters as cold as the freezing temperature of sea water, which is a couple of degrees colder than fresh water. This presents us with several mysteries. First, cold slows down the chemistry necessary for life. At these temperatures, life's chemistry all but stops.
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Aerodynamics, the science of flight, is a highly complex science. This is because many complex forces are acting on anything in flight. These forces include the power available for flight and drag produced by the flying object. Each of these categories include many additional forces that depend on the shape of the flying object, the shape and length of the wings, the speed and the altitude.
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Shore birds like the oystercatcher search for buried mollusks by touch. They poke around in the sand, hoping to find a hard-shelled mollusk. But if you have ever tried to find something that was hiding where you couldn't see it, you know that this method of looking for something is not very efficient. But another shore bird, the red knot, seems to know just where to find its hidden food.
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Could pizza be good for you? Research into tomatoes has shown that tomatoes, especially cooked, have powerful health benefits. That's because tomatoes have a powerful antioxidant called lycopene, in addition to beta carotene, other B vitamins, vitamin C and other important minerals. A four-ounce tomato can provide you with one-third the recommended daily amount of vitamin C.
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What determines the sort of smells that we like and dislike? Is it nature or nurture? Do we like the smells of the environment, in which we were brought up, or are our likes and dislikes inherited from previous generations?
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Have you ever tried to get a bottle in a baby's mouth in a dark room? It would be handy if the baby had a glowing target on its mouth. God has given the Gouldian finch, a native of Australia, a unique solution to this problem.
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Have you ever tried to get a bottle in a baby's mouth in a dark room? It would be handy if the baby had a glowing target on its mouth. God has given the Gouldian finch, a native of Australia, a unique solution to this problem.
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Deep inside an ant colony, perhaps in a decaying log in northern Idaho or even the north woods of Minnesota, there are ants who only think they are taking care of their pupae. In addition to attending to their young, however, they are providing a dangerous ant predator with food and protection as it matures.
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When someone receives a donated organ they must take powerful drugs to prevent rejection. That's because the body's immune system identifies the implanted organ as "not me." It then assumes that the invader is dangerous and must be destroyed.
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Hummingbirds are among the most exquisite jewels in God’s creation. Many of their activities and habits seem almost unreal.
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There are many different kinds of salts that occur naturally in our environment. Yet, only one of those salts stirs our taste buds. That salt – sodium chloride – is the tastiest of all the salts and the one that all living things need. The amazing chemistry behind this mystery shows that this is no accident.
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Most mice are nocturnal. The African four-striped grass mouse, however, operates in the fierce equatorial sun.
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What color is the scarlet gilia? Well, that depends on where and when it’s blooming. Despite its name, the scarlet gilia can be red, pink, and even white.
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Xerography is the process used in most copying machines today. The page you want copied is exposed to the bright light in the machine. That light enables the machine to make an image of your original, using electrostatic charges to record the light and dark spots on your original. The toner – that fine black powder – is then drawn to those spots on the copier paper in exactly the same spots that were dark on your original. After the powder is fixed in place, your copy – perfect in every detail – pops out.
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Research has repeatedly shown that dogs can be an effective sedative. Continued research has now shown that dogs can relieve more stress and promote better health than even the presence of a close friend will do.
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Modern sophisticated laboratories have produced many specialized materials with amazing qualities. Yet, many creatures make ceramic materials that are stronger and tougher. If a crack starts in a piece of our ceramic, over time it grows. The same crack will not grow in ceramic made by the oyster.
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Do spiny lobsters know that they are a delicacy to many, if not most, of the carnivores on earth? New research into the social habits of spiny lobsters shows that much of their interaction with each other is based on the fact that they have learned to cooperate in order to survive their many predators.
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Nazareth, the town in which Jesus grew up, is often portrayed as a tiny backwater town. As a result, Jesus is often portrayed as an unsophisticated man. He has been painted many times as someone who could more easily relate to farmers and shepherds than to the city dweller. Biblical researchers point out that this is not an accurate picture of Jesus of Nazareth.
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Biotechnology may be a new word to you. It’s a relatively new science. Biotechnology is the science of engineering custom-made life forms. For example, biotechnologists can add to a bacterium the gene that makes fireflies glow. This procedure gives the bacterium the ability to glow.
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He looks slow and unimportant. He spends 90 percent of his time underground. But the gopher tortoise constructs a housing development that is home to over 360 species. In addition, his tunnels provide emergency shelter to many other creatures during forest fires.
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We have previously reported on research that shows that human beings are born with a natural language ability. We are not only born with a hunger to learn language, we are also born with certain expectations about what language is. This fact can only serve as a witness to the Creator and His genius.
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Reed instruments like the oboe and clarinet trace their ancestry back to instruments made by the Egyptians more than 4,000 years ago. An Egyptian relief dated to about 2700 B.C. shows a clarinet- type instrument.
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Though they are only insects, stick insects seem to have an amazing knowledge of their surroundings. They are geniuses at using their predators’ weakness for their own protection.
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Leatherback turtles make use of far more of the sea than most creatures. They can dive to depths of over 4,000 feet. They prefer cold, open ocean waters but lay their eggs on tropical beaches. Not only are they found all over the world, but the same individual may be found all over the world. In 1970, a turtle that was tagged off the South American coast also turned up just off the West African coast, almost 4,000 miles away.
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We are all familiar with the fact that the very tips of most plant roots have tiny hairs. These hairs seek out water and nourishment from the soil and absorb them for distribution in the plant. Few people beyond some biologists and chemists are aware that these delicate portions of some plants are able to produce a large variety of important medicines. Often, the hairy parts of plant roots are able to make medicines that even our best chemists and genetic engineers cannot make.
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Researchers at Stanford University surprised scientific colleagues several years ago when they proved that plants were not … well, vegetative. We think of plants as things that sit and grow, not as living things that can react to their environment. Now researchers at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, have shown that plants not only react to the environment, they react with the same immediacy as animals.
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Most water fowl are faithful to one mate over long periods of time. The swan, in particular, champions marital fidelity.
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Like an ancient empire, there is a species of ant whose entire society is built on slavery. In fact, raids to capture more slaves are about the only thing resembling work that western slavemaker ants do.
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Twice in the Gospels, Jesus is asked by a disciple for a leave of absence to bury his father. In each case, Jesus tells the disciple to let the dead bury their own dead.
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I need to wear my glasses for distance vision. I read books just with my eyes, but I cannot see things far away clearly.
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There are some who think that the book of Ecclesiastes is a depressing book. The writer—an old man, called Qohelet (the Preacher)—seems to be musing on a life of achievement, that he now thinks is meaningless.
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Britain’s Telegraph newspaper carried a fascinating article, recently, with a new spin on the myth of the evolution of human beings: that apes evolved into humans, by eating lots of fruit.
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Lampreys are very odd creatures. They are fish, and hence are vertebrates. However, they have no jaw, so many species of lamprey are parasitic, burrowing into the flesh of other fish, with their toothed, tunnel-like mouths, in order to suck their blood. A recent article on the Science Daily website said this about them:
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The Northwest Passage is, in many ways, the stuff of legend. It is the idea that there could be a shipping route around the North Coast of Canada. This would provide a much quicker route, than existing routes, for ships to get, for example, from Europe to India and China. For centuries, explorers have tried to find this route. For example, during Elizabethan times, English privateer Sir Martin Frobisher undertook three voyages to try to find it.
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A recent science article in London’s Telegraph newspaper stated:
Animals could start shrinking because of global warming, scientists have predicted, after discovering that mammals became ‘dwarfed’ in a similar episode of climate change 50 million years ago.
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When I was a boy, Summers were brighter and warmer than they are today. In Winter, we always had snowfalls, that made the place look pretty on Christmas Day, but the snow did not last long enough to cause damage. Before we knew it, the snowdrops and daffodils were announcing Spring.
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What was the world like before the Flood? It is almost impossible to say. We know, from Genesis 6:5 that “the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” Even so, we know that there were some people who worshiped the Lord—probably descendants of Adam’s son Seth (Genesis 4:26).
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Lamech was the great great great grandson of Cain, the world’s first murderer. We don’t know much about him, but what little we do know is not good. We know, for example, that he took two wives, despite the fact that the created order of things was for there to be one man and one woman in a marriage. We also read that he had four children, three of whom were significant pioneers in culture, as the world’s first nomadic herdsman, musician, and metallurgist.
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Calculating the age of the earth, from empirical data, requires presuppositions. The scientists, who calculate the age of rocks using, for example, uranium-lead dating, are intelligent people, and completely capable of performing careful experiments. Their care, coupled with their technology, means that they make highly accurate measurements of the amounts of uranium and lead.
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One of the many delights of moving to the Pacific North West of the United States has been getting acquainted with hummingbirds. Watching wildlife documentaries in British television had certainly piqued my interest for these miniature superbirds, but to be able to see them up close is a wondrous thing.
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Abraham was 175 years old when he died. This is an unusual age. It is a much greater age than people tend to live today. However, it is much less than the ages of the pre-Flood patriarchs, listed in Genesis 5. How can we understand this age?
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Those of us with a Western-centric background often come across similarities between languages. For example, the second most widely spoken language in the United States is Spanish, and those English-speakers who learn it will often find words that have a similar look and feel to English words.
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A number of Christians have, in the last couple of years, posted articles and YouTube videos, and even published books, stating that the Earth is not a sphere, but is flat.
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Comets are fascinating things. Although there are a lot of them out there in our night sky, the overwhelming majority of them are insufficiently bright to see with the naked eye. But every so often, a comet appears, which is bright enough to see during the night, and sometimes bright enough even to see during the day.
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Gold is a chemical element, with the symbol Au. It has an atomic mass of 197 and an atomic number of 79. It is a yellow-colored metal, highly malleable, ductile and lustrous. It is rare, and this makes it valuable. Throughout history, it has been used to represent wealth. There was a time when many of the world’s currencies were basically backed by an equivalent amount of gold. Chemically, gold is quite boring.
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In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, there is a famous scene where Hamlet is talking to Polonius. Hamlet – for various reasons too complicated to go into now – is feigning madness. Polonius finds him reading a book, and asks “What do you read, my Lord?” Hamlet answers “Words, words, words.”
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Michael Ruse famously told Ben Stein that complex lifeforms could have begun as “molecules on the backs of crystals”. The reason for his comments was that Stein was questioning Ruse on how the information in life could have arisen by chance. The conceit offered is that crystals show a remarkable regularity, which can be reproduced. New crystals will have molecules in the same arrangement as a previous crystal. Therefore, it is said, the regularity of information in a DNA crystal could have arisen in the same way.
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In the year 2000, a German scientist called Dr. Werner Gitt, wrote a book called In the Beginning Was Information. In this book, Gitt introduced the reader to the sophistication of Information Science. Gitt says that information consists of five levels, of increasing complexity. Evolutionary biologists assume that information can arise by itself from statistical accumulation.
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Did you know that a spiral staircase is not really a spiral? The width of the loops in a spiral staircase does not change, but the structure winds upwards or downwards. The correct name for this shape is a helix.
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One question that I get asked a lot, after my talks, is “When did God create angels?” It is a fair question. Angels are created beings, so it is fair to ask when God made them. The assumption in many people’s minds is that God must have made them before the Creation Week. However, this idea does not seem tenable.
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“Mind the gap” is the refrain constantly heard on the London Underground, warning people to be careful not to step into the gap between the platform and the train. But “mind the gap” would also be a good refrain for students of the Bible!
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What exactly did God create? How much of everything did He create? An impression is sometimes given, by those who want to accept long, deep timescales, that there is much in the universe, which is just going on and on, and has gone on since eternity past.
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The first event to happen was Creation. And Creation was a direct act of God.
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A few months after I was saved, I came across people who did not believe in the theory of evolution. I appreciated their position, and was soon convinced, because I wanted to believe that the whole Bible was true. Nevertheless, not all of these creationists believed that the Creation Week comprised of six literal days. Some pointed to verses in the Bible describing God as the “Ancient of Days”, or referring to “ancient heavens”, as biblical evidence that the world had not necessarily been created to the so-called literal timescale.
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You have probably heard of Young Earth Creationists and Old Earth Creationists. Wikipedia defines Young Earth Creationism as a belief that the world was made by “direct acts of God less than 10,000 years ago”. Where does the figure of 10,000 years come from? There are a number of scientific calculations and principles that suggest that the world could be no older than 10,000 years – for example, the aging and gradual destruction of comets. Yet other people give different ages. Certain creationists have suggested ages of 30,000, or even a million years.
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It must have been pretty disconcerting for many people, who heard the famous Orson Welles 1938 radio adaptation of HG Wells’ The War of the Worlds. The radio play was made to sound like an actual news broadcast. Apparently, there was widespread panic among the listening audience, who were sure that they were learning about invaders from Mars.
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In the Big Bang scenario, the supposed expansion of the universe, from the original singularity, can be calculated, based on the strength of the gravitational fields of the matter in the universe. But there is a problem with the calculation. The universe has nowhere near enough matter to cause a strong-enough gravitational field to explain how we view the universe today.
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When I was a university student in the late 70s and early 80s, few students had cars. One of the young men that I shared accommodation with was one of the lucky few. Student cars of that era were infamous! My friend’s car fit into this category. When the fender fell off, he tied it back on with string.
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In creation ministries, such as this, we are very eager that people should see the fallacies and the lack of a good scientific basis for evolutionism. Instead, we point people to the factual basis for science, found in the pages of God’s Word. It is particularly important that we do not allow our children to be indoctrinated by the godlessness of secular philosophies. It is for reasons such as this, that many parents prefer their children to be educated in Christian schools, or to be homeschooled.
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Many astrophysicists have speculated that the universe is like a four dimensional sphere. If we imagine that we were ants, living on the surface of a very large beach ball, we might think that the surface on which we stood was a flat surface, even though it stretches around and back on itself in a sphere through the third dimension.
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In a previous Creation Moments, we talked about the Circumstellar Habitable Zone, or CHZ, which is a region around a star, where astronomers think that water is likely to be in liquid phase. This zone, not too hot and not too cold, is sometimes called the Goldilocks Zone.
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Secular astronomers have defined a region around each star as the Circumstellar Habitable Zone. It is in this zone that it is assumed that life as we know it, Jim, could exist. The closer a planet is to its star, the higher its average temperature would be, unless there are other factors (like the runaway Greenhouse Effect on Venus).
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The remarkable recovery of flora and fauna around Mount St Helens, since the devastating eruption of 1980, was aided in large measure by a seemingly insignificant little plant, called the Prairie Lupine. It grows no taller than 24 inches, but is usually much smaller, with tiny blue flowers. Today, it grows in abundance in the areas most affected by the eruption and landslide.
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I recently recorded a Creation Moments program about the Trinity, as reflected in the first verse of the Bible. My reason for revisiting this matter is for two reasons. 1. I read a blog, entitled “Genesis 1:1 – the Most Offensive Verse in the Bible”, and 2. A recent visit from religious people to my door.
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As I sat in my office, to write this program, the wind was howling outside. We have some idea, today, of why the wind blows, as the atmosphere contains shifting areas of high and low pressure. However, the direction of the wind is not simply from high to low – other factors, such as the rotation of the Earth, are also important.
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In another Creation Moment, I talked about the Road to Mount St Helens. One of my favorite spots on this road can be found 40 miles along the road – still 12 miles short of the dead end at the Johnston Ridge Observatory. At this point, you will find Castle Lake Viewpoint.
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Most people visit the area around Mount St Helens, by leaving Interstate 5 in Washington state at exit 49, and traveling East, along a road called Spirit Lake Highway. The road is so called, because, before 1980, it used to terminate at Spirit Lake. The lake is no longer accessible by road from the West, and even from the East, a substantial hike is required. So, I like to refer to Spirit Lake Highway as the Road to Mount St Helens.
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To the North of Mount St Helens is a beautiful lake, called Spirit Lake – probably from trapped water in an earlier eruption of the volcano. This lake played a fascinating role in the events of May 18th 1980, when the mountain blew.
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Rainbows are beautiful. But why do they happen?
Isaac Newton showed in his famous experiment that white light is a mixture of colors, which can be separated by refraction, or bending, using a prism. Light is similarly refracted by droplets of rainwater in the atmosphere, when the sunlight shines on them. The large bow-shaped spectrum of colors thus produced is what we see as a rainbow.
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One of the most fundamental doctrines about the nature of God is the doctrine of the Trinity. This primary doctrine states that there is only one Being called God. At the same time, we find in the Bible that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are all described as God, and as Persons in their own right. Therefore, God is One Being, yet Three Persons.
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I have often been asked this question. “If the Earth is only 6,000 years, why does it look as if it is millions of years old?” Other people have suggested that the Earth could look as if it is millions of years old, because God could have chosen to make it look old. However, I am going to suggest a different answer to this question.
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There are many Christians, who choose to believe that God created the world as it is today by guiding a natural process of evolution. Such Christians accept all the teaching of evolutionary biologists, but part company where such evolutionists deny the existence of God. I have often been told “God could have produced this world by evolution, if He wanted to.” What God could have done, however, is not the most important issue. The most important issue is what God Himself said about how He created things.
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Evolutionary scientists have recently claimed strong evidence to support the evolution of birds from dinosaurs. Palaeontologist Lida Xing was visiting a market in Myanmar, when he saw a piece of amber, containing a tiny feather, along with the more usual insects.
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Why does God ask questions? He has been asking questions, since the beginning of time.
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There are those who believe that they can read the supposed evolutionary order of things into the account of creation in Genesis 1. However, when we look more closely, we realize that there are a number of discrepancies, which cannot be reconciled. Even evolutionary atheists have noticed this – for example, Richard Dawkins is adamant that it is not possible to harmonize Genesis with evolution.
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Scientists at the University of Lincoln, in the UK, have discovered that there is no link between the shape of bacteria and their movement. The study, published in Nature’s Ecology and Evolution Journal, concerned the famous flagellum motors possessed by many bacteria. Their reasonable predictions that rod shaped bacteria would move faster than other shapes proved to have no support.
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It is rumored that GK Chesterton said “When a man stops believing in God, he does not believe in nothing – he believes in anything”. Of course, the quote is somewhat inaccurate. It was actually said by Émile Cammaerts, in his book The Laughing Prophet: The Seven Virtues and G. K.
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Science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke once said “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. I guess it is true that the concept of having all the information of the Internet on my pocket cellphone would have seemed like magic to me, during my teenage years in the 1970s. The quote has often been used to suggest that super-intelligent alien lifeforms would appear to us like deities, if they ever visited us. Astrobiologist Caleb Scharf has now suggested that some super-advanced alien technology might not appear to us like magic, but like physics.
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Uniformitarianism is a big word to describe the prevailing scientific philosophy of the world. It is the idea that everything in nature has proceeded in a regular and smooth fashion since the start of the Universe.
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Some Christian apologists believe that all Christians should accept the Big Bang theory. They say that the Big Bang theory has been proved, and that at least it tells us that the universe had a definite beginning. They use this as part of a logical syllogism, which they claim proves God. It runs as follows:
Everything that has a beginning has a cause.
The universe had a beginning.
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We do not believe that God created the Universe because of evidence. We believe it, because that is what God said in His Word. Having presupposed the obvious truth of God’s Word, we notice that any evidence observed and collected is consistent with what we know of the truth of God’s Word.
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In a previous Creation Moments broadcast, we looked at why chimps and humans have similar features, and showed that it is because they have a common designer. Evolutionists use the similarities between organisms to suggest proof of descent from common ancestors. This is illogical. Let me explain a little logic. Suppose I use this syllogism:
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Why are chimps so similar to humans? They have five fingers on each hand, like we do, and five toes on each foot. They have facial expressions a bit like us.
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Was there a time, when large parts of the Earth’s surface were so cold, that they were covered with ice sheets? Many U-shaped valleys throughout northern Europe and North America show markings somewhat similar to the impressions left today by moving glaciers – “rivers” of ice.
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I loved the zoo, when I was a boy. How we used to laugh at the antics of the chimpanzees at their “tea parties”! We were amused that they wore clothes, as they performed activities that looked vaguely human. Well, we kept on laughing, until we decided that it was an improper anthropomorphism, and the events were banned.
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A report in a British newspaper about 10 years ago suggested that dinosaurs may have died out, because they picked up diseases from insect bites, with which they were not able to cope. Previously, it had been an article of faith for over 20 years that dinosaurs had died out as a result of a massive asteroid strike on the Earth, supposedly at Chicxulub, Mexico.
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The Moon has always fascinated me, as it hangs there in the sky, the only extra-terrestrial world where some of its surface features can be seen with the naked eye.
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A whale got stuck in the middle of London, England, in 2006. The bottle-nosed whale swam up the River Thames. Attempts to rescue the confused animal led to its death, and an unusual outpouring of popular grief in the UK’s capital.
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We are used to evolutionists getting certain aspects of science wrong. But sometimes we are not aware of how words and phrases of bias can be slipped through unnoticed.
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When is a day a day? And when is a day not a day? Are the days really 24 hours long? Let’s look at that well-known Bible passage that tells you about the first day, second day and so on. I am referring to Numbers 7.
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One well-known pastor has recently stated that, if we ask our young people to believe something, because “The Bible tells me so”, then we are creating a house of cards religion. What happens, he asks, when they go to college and find that the walls of Jericho did not really come down, or that what they have been told about the world being created in 6 days is at odds with the fact that the universe is 14.7 billion years old?
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Why did God accept Abel’s offering, but not Cain’s? As a child, I just couldn’t get it. They both brought offerings to God. Why did God show such favoritism?
I was told by teachers at elementary school that we should do the best we could for God. God deserves the best. But didn’t Cain bring to God the very best of his crops?
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Why did Charles Darwin take so long to publish his Origin of Species? His Beagle journal was published in 1839, but Origins was published 20 years later, in 1859. And why was Darwin in such a hurry in 1858 to get his book finished and published? A book by Roy Davies, entitled The Darwin Conspiracy, suggests that Darwin was guilty of plagiarism.
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The gramophone was switched on, 12-inches of vinyl placed on it, and the needle balanced on the disc, in order for us to hear the music. This was my mother’s favorite record, featuring the deep, gravelly bass voice of Paul Robeson, singing a song called “Trees”.
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There are those who are searching for life in outer space. Such groups include SETI – the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. But supposing they received a signal from outer space. How would they know, if it was really an intelligence? In 1967, scientists at Jodrell Bank in England picked up regular pulses of radio signals, and they assumed that the signals must be intelligent in origin.
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Did Jesus get things scientifically wrong? After all, He was a man of His times. Jesus’ followers could never have comprehended the sophistication of evolutionary biology and cosmology, would they?
Yet, in so many places, we read about Jesus stating things that went against the very grain of the society He lived in. This is because He told the truth.
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It must have made a tremendous noise, when the Earth’s crust cracked into pieces.
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Mount St Helens is an active volcano. It, and the other volcanoes in the Cascade Mountains, could erupt at any time.
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A strange alga that has muscle like tissue illustrates that there are no simple life forms. Protein muscle fibers, say evolutionists, are a later and more advanced development in living things. Yet, these scientists also claim that alga are among the first of the living things to have evolved.
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What two things are most important to someone lost in the desert? Why, a compass and, of course, some water. If you are lost in the desert and find a compass barrel cactus, you have both in this amazing plant.
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When it comes to wasps, you can just forget everything you learned about sexual reproduction in Biology 101. There are male and female wasps. But that has very little to do with wasp reproduction.
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As we learn more about the history of our planet, it's becoming increasingly obvious that the Earth has had many faces over its history. Remains of tropical forests have been found within 400 miles of the North Pole. Dinosaurs once lived in the tropical lushness of Alaska. At one time, you could even walk to Australia from Asia.
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Does a five-month-old infant know that three is more than two? Impressive new evidence strongly supports the idea that infants have natural mathematical reasoning skills.
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The beautiful wing of the butterfly has a lesson to teach everyone who believes living things were created by chance. The design of the butterfly wing involves much more than just intricate complexity. In addition to showing a knowledge of flight, each wing design is the product of very precise specifications built around the specific wavelengths of visible light.
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The great Flood at the time of Noah was more than simply the world's biggest rainstorm. Scripture paints the picture of an upheaval across the face of the Earth that combined floods, landslides, volcanoes and earthquakes. As the ground literally danced with earthquakes of unimaginable intensity, hills and mountains would have flowed like pudding.
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In Genesis 2:19 we read that God brought to Adam the animals He'd made to see what Adam would call them. It's been noted for generations that this task showed Adam's great intellectual abilities.
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The rainforest offers a rich variety of living things. Part of that richness can be seen in the flocks of birds that cooperate in the canopy, even though the flocks are made up of several species.
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The fossil record shows us examples of God's great creativity in designing living things. It also shows that life appeared suddenly on Earth, in finished form. The fossil record shows us that Earth originally had a much greater variety of life. Finally, the fossil record doesn't show any evidence of creatures evolving from one type into another.
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If a plant could see, what would it look at? Amazed scientists have learned that plants can indeed see and react to their environments just as do animals!
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It's a quiet, cool, overcast morning at the lake. There's a hint of fog in the air and a fine, lightly falling drizzle. Then you notice the sound. It's almost a musical note, and it's coming from the lake. It's almost as if the lake were singing.
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Is there any such thing as chance or luck? Does anything ever happen randomly? Many people don't realize that the Bible speaks to these questions.
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Parables are a good way to teach. Jesus often used parables to teach a lesson. Parables can even be a good way to teach science. However, parables cannot be used to establish scientific fact.
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That infant in the manger is God's voice to mankind. And despite appearances, He is the King of the universe.
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What was the star the wise men followed to find the infant Jesus? Some suggest that it was a comet. Others say it was the conjunction of two or more planets or stars. Do any of these theories offer possible explanations?
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Skeptics are forever trying to find errors in the Bible so that they can discredit it as God's Word. When a faithful Bible scholar discovers some puzzle in Scripture, he never assumes that he has found an error. He assumes that he doesn't have all the information necessary to resolve the question.
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The environment naturally produces hazardous waste without human help. Ashes from a wood fire can contain enough naturally occurring radioactivity to merit a hazardous waste classification. Uranium and other radioactive elements occur naturally in the environment and can be dissolved in ground water. Chloro fluorocarbons, manufactured for refrigeration, are also spewed from volcanoes. Also called CFCs, these chemicals are thought by some scientists to degrade the Earth's ozone layer. The fact is, nature produces more hazardous waste than man does.
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Did someone engrave the Ten Commandments, in ancient Hebrew, on a New Mexico rock 2,000 years ago?
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Between 70% and 90% of the calories in nuts come from fat. That's why they have traditionally been on the list of foods to avoid for those who want to avoid heart disease.
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Did you know that you have three eyes? In fact, someday your third eye may provide spare parts that might be necessary to repair the two eyes you normally think about.
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How many hornets does it take to power a digital watch? In the case of the Oriental hornet, six hornets can generate enough electricity to run the watch.
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Back pain is one of humanity's most common complaints. And the most common explanation one hears for back pain is that our backs hurt because we stand and walk erect.
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Our moon is moving away from the Earth at the rate of four centimeters per year. That might not seem like much. However, that rate of movement away from the Earth presents problems for those who believe the Earth and moon have been around for 4.5 billion years.
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Two rocks float through silent space, unaware that they will soon cause a scientific debate millions of miles away on Earth. On Earth, these two small asteroids added together may weigh only a few hundred pounds. However, the conclusions that can be drawn from them might be weighty enough to overthrow a powerful theory.
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One of the best strategies for overcoming an opponent is to fool the opponent into thinking you do not exist. Then you infiltrate your opponent and make him think that you are on his side.
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A debate has broken out over the image of the Messiah that's presented in one of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Two American scholars have claimed that one of the scrolls talks about the leader of the religious community being put to death.
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Can your ear talk to you? New research seems to show that your ear actually generates sound that echoes whatever you hear.
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Whales can maneuver precisely through the world's oceans and ice floes and among each other. Herman Melville noted this when he wrote in Moby Dick that whales seem to be guided by a "secret intelligence from the Deity."
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Does a sea lion make a good scientist? Human scientists say that sea lions show a good understanding of complex relationships between variables.
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Its long, slender, scale-covered body glides along the ground on four short legs, each of which has sharp claws. Its slender head has no teeth. It will not seek to hurt you, but if it feels threatened it will lash out with that scale-armored tail.
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Ever since Old Testament times, midwives have been helping mothers during the birthing process. They are especially valuable should there be difficulties since they not only offer an extra set of hands, but experience in dealing with common problems. Some of the scientists who were studying amoeba behavior observed some very strange behavior which suggests that some amoebas, too, employ midwives.
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A series of unlikely discoveries has scientists shaking their heads. They have discovered the smallest creatures ever seen three miles below the Earth's surface, happily living where the temperatures go as high as 338 degrees.
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It has long been argued that animals do not make friendships. According to evolutionary thinking, animals only make friends among relatives because it benefits another creature that shares the same gene pool. Survival of their gene pool is said to be the driving force for every living creature, although animal knowledge of gene pools is still a mystery!
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Noah saved a pair of each kind of unclean creature, and seven pairs of every kind of clean creature on the Ark. Generally speaking, the classification of "kind" is broader than today's species. Creationists believe that today's species developed from those creatures, staying within the kind. For example, while there are many species of fruit flies, they are all of the same kind.
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God cares about all of the creatures He has made – even ants. God has invented such incredible ways to provide for them that Bible skeptics often get caught in their own traps!
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Did you ever stand up a little too quickly and get dizzy? That happens because by standing you may have temporarily lowered the blood pressure in your brain. Can you imagine what can happen when the giraffe swings his head from the ground to the treetop?
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If you wake up when it's still dark, you know how overwhelming it can be to turn on the light. Your eyes may even hurt at first. If you've had this experience, you can understand one of the problems that had to be solved when radar was developed.
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One of the things the Hawaiian Islands have been famous for is that they have no snakes. But although there are no friends or relatives for them to visit, increasing numbers of brown tree snakes are catching the next plane to Hawaii.
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Like dinosaurs, whales are huge and wondrous creatures whose sheer size and majesty glorify the Creator. Some whales are even larger than were any of the dinosaurs.
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It was only a few years ago that excited supporters of the big bang theory for the origin of the universe announced that their theory had apparently been proven. Now their unverified conclusions are being seriously questioned on several fronts.
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In creation, things aren't always as simple as they seem. Even before Charles Darwin, scientists who believed in evolution classified plants and animals by appearance. A story about the creature's evolutionary history would be invented, based on its appearance and, sometimes, its habits. However, God is too creative for this kind of attempt to write Him out of history.
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Some frogs are regular little drug factories. Their skins produce a wide range of powerful alkaloids, which are a large family of chemicals usually produced by plants. Familiar alkaloids include quinine, caffeine and morphine. Different alkaloids have different effects, usually on the nervous system.
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Many people promote meditation as harmless and healthful. Of course, growing interest in meditation cannot be separated from the increased popularity of Eastern and New Age religion.
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Love is one of the necessities of life that is both physical and spiritual. While it doesn't fit with a strictly materialistic view of life, love and touch – or lack of love and touch – can determine our health and sometimes even life and death.
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According to evolutionary thought, humans came from ape-like creatures. These ape-like creatures came from reptiles through many steps. Likewise, reptiles ultimately came from fish, through many steps. Evolutionists say that with each major stage, more parts were added to the brain. The final development, and the greatest of all, is the cerebral cortex.
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In has a bulky, humped body like a bear. Its hindquarters slope downward like a hyena. It has legs like a cow. Its tail looks as if it were borrowed from a goat. It has the horns of a wildebeest and a face like a moose with mumps. Some scientists think the golden fleece Jason brought to Greece in classical times was from a takin. One scientist commented that if the camel was designed by committee, the same committee designed the takin from the parts that were left over.
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When you go into the desert, it's always a good idea to take a canteen of water with you. Our Creator applied that same simple wisdom when he designed the Yarrow's spiny lizard.
Like many desert dwellers, Yarrow's spiny lizards are well designed to conserve water in the dry desert climate. For example, they don't even have a urinary bladder. Their bodies are designed to remove water from their waste before it is released. The water is recycled within the body, since water is a precious resource in the desert.
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They work silently and in the dark. While most of Earth's inhabitants need oxygen for life, they merely tolerate it. They prefer to build their own environments where there's no oxygen. Then they go to work. And they love metal. Using complex chemistry, they begin dissolving metal. The can make a sixteenth-of-an-inch hole through an inch-thick pipe in six months. Stainless steel isn't so tough – it doesn't slow them down a bit. Even modern space age metals like titanium can't stand up to them.
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On previous "Creation Moments" programs we've talked about wasps that control crop pests. Natural controls – such as these wasps – show the Creator's hand in designing the creation. New facts about how wasps control pests make our Creator's hand even more evident.
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We live in a day and age when God has allowed men and women more freedom than He has allowed previous generations. That freedom can be used for worse evil than the world has ever known, or it can be used for more good than the world has ever known. Christians will make the difference.
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The Earth's magnetic field makes compasses work so that Boy Scouts don't get lost in the woods and ships arrive at the correct port. It actually moves over time. This means that navigators periodically need updated information on the position of the pole for their charts.
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Traditional approaches to early childhood development have relied heavily on the claims of those who don't believe in the Creator. As a result, these approaches see human beings as simply another animal. Along with this, they usually think that humans are born into the world as a blank slate with no knowledge. As a result, the traditional view has assumed that everything an infant does is based on instinct.
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After more than a century of digging Earth's hills, valleys and plains, paleontologists have uncovered and catalogued more than a billion fossils. Evidence has been found of many plants and animals that are extinct today. However, no evidence has ever been found showing new plants or animals developing.
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When it was introduced, some people thought that it was against God's will. After all, since the human body was made in God's image, it is wrong to put something into the human body that was made from a cow. An artist of the day even drew a cartoon showing people receiving the vaccine that was made from a cow. It showed cows emerging from the leg of someone who had been vaccinated. The vaccine was smallpox vaccine, and the year was 1796.
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Several years ago Koko the gorilla amazed scientists and the public by apparently learning enough of the rudiments of the English language to communicate simple thoughts. Now, studies on wild vervet monkeys suggest that Koko's achievement might be nothing more than a normal, God-given ability.
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Have you ever noticed that we can usually sense whether an animal is hostile or friendly, simply by its sound? Did you ever wonder about the universal features that allow for important basic information to be shared between animals and humans?
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What's green, has three eyes and is one of the rarest animals on Earth?
The answer: the tuatara. This reptile is found today only on a few small islands off New Zealand. Its home on the islands in the Bay of Plenty and Cook Strait has no mammals at all. The tuatara was once also found in New Zealand. However, when settlers introduced mammals, the tuatara became extinct, probably because it could not compete with the mammals.
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More than 75 percent of all women in their first trimester of pregnancy suffer some form of morning sickness. More than half become physically sick. While it may not help a woman with morning sickness feel better, it might help to know that morning sickness may serve a good purpose.
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Imagine being at a party that's all packed into one room and everyone is talking. Under these conditions it's often difficult to hear, or at least understand, what others around you are saying. Now imagine that all of these people look nearly identical. No one has any noticeable distinguishing features that make him different from anyone else in the room. Now, to make matters worse, you have been informed that you are to find the person in the room who was not invited to the party.
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Over the past several years, scientific studies of women have shown that those who have had abortions increase their risks of infertility, breast cancer and other problems. Now, a study released by the Population Research Institute reveals a whole new category of risks associated with abortion.
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Given the size of its brain, could a honeybee recognize a specific human face? And if a bee could recognize specific human faces, how would the evolutionist explain this kind of ability?
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If you enjoy keeping tropical fish, the Mantis shrimp is one creature you may not want to keep in your aquarium. While this creature is related to common shrimp, it has a very unusual and specialized feature.
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Those who fear global warming blame any climate changes upon man's activity, including the raising of cattle for food. The digestive system of all ruminants, including cows, produce methane gas as part of the digestive process. Methane is considered one of the greenhouse gases that change the Earth's climate. Some have even suggested ways of limiting the methane produced by cows.
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Could a plant devise a special growth for itself so that it becomes inviting to its only pollinator? If evolution were true, how could such a plant survive until it could learn enough about its pollinator, and about genetics, to evolve a special growth just for that pollinator.
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The Big Bang theory holds that in the very early stages of our universe, there were few galaxies, and they were small by today's standards. In this theory, no star can be older than its home galaxy.
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Most listeners have heard of the little "cleaner fish" or wrasse that clean the teeth of larger fishes. New research on the behavior of these fishes shows that they are not always honest-business fish. Other fish, including those who might ordinarily consider a meal of "cleaner fish", actually stand in line for their services. That's because they need to have parasites and diseased tissue removed. They also know that the little "cleaner fish" offer massages.
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Chickens aren't the brightest creatures in the animal world, but the mother hen knows to protect her eggs and keep them warm. Many species of snakes also care for their young. Amazingly, scientists have learnt that even some plants have been designed with "motherly" instincts.
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You hear a bird sing. Can you tell by its dialect where it spends the winter? Birds, like some other creatures, do have different dialects, depending on where they live. However, for most of us, animal dialects are not easy to detect.
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The world that God created for us and intended us to live in had no wars and no death because there was no sin whatsoever. Once the first man, Adam, brought sin into the world, murder, wars and disease descended upon the entire creation, including the animal world.
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Can you imagine a plant that moves so fast that science didn't know what it was doing until recently? The plant is a forest wild flower found in North America and called the Bunchberry dogwood.
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Many listeners will recall the volcanic eruption that rocked Washington State as Mount St. Helens exploded in May of 1980. Fortunately, there was plenty of warning and the event was recorded in detail. Since that time, many studies have been made by the Park service and by creationists, including Creation Moments, on the rate of recovery. In 2005, a generation after the eruption, scientists took a close look at the area to get an idea of how the earth might have recovered a generation after Noah's flood.
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Ask any evolutionist, and he will tell you that the Venus Flower Basket is one of the least-evolved animals. This animal is actually a sponge that is made up of a colony of creatures, and it does some amazing things.
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Scientists have shown that the so-called "Mozart effect" of music in young children is just a myth. This popular idea said that exposing young children to classical music improves their ability in non-verbal tasks. Nevertheless, researchers did find a more interesting effect of classical music on students.
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Homing pigeons are valued because of their highly developed sense of direction, and this includes the ability to read the Earth's magnetic field. Some other birds, turtles and even a few salamanders have also shown this same ability. However, bees, ants or people are not born with this ability.
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Ethicists who believe in evolution are trying to figure out an evolutionary explanation for why people universally have a sense of right and wrong. This line of study is so new that it doesn't yet have a name, although some have suggested "neuroethics" or "moral neuroscience".
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Years ago, evolutionary scientists labeled 180 human organs, such as the appendix, as vestiges left over from evolution. The fact is they did not know the function these organs actually served. Since that time, it has been learned that all of these organs have useful functions and have nothing to do with evolution.
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Listeners will know from our Creation Moments programs that the scientific establishment is firmly convinced that Man evolved from the higher apes millions of years ago. For this reason, rhesus monkeys have long been used not only for pharmaceutical trials but in psychological tests to determine how Man's intelligence evolved.
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Today, hummingbirds are found only in North, Central and South America. Of course, since Noah's Ark landed in the mountains of Ararat, they had to cross Europe and the Atlantic or Asia to get there. However, until now, there was no evidence for this migration.
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The last creature a rattlesnake wants to see is the California ground squirrel.
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If it weren't for mushrooms, there would be so many un-decayed dead trees that there would be no room on Earth for anything else to grow. But mushrooms don't just recycle dead trees. They help make the trees grow in the first place.
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How important is father to a child's religious growth? Due to the way in which census information is gathered in Switzerland, researchers were able to find out. And while their conclusions might shock modern sensitivities, they are really not too surprising.
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Millions of North Americans are familiar with the call of the Black-Capped chickadee: "Chicka-dee". However, most bird-watchers know that the little chickadee communicates danger with its "chickadee-dee-dee" call. Bird-watchers also know that chickens use different warnings for dangers from the air or from the ground.
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Over hundreds of years, science has learned a lot about manipulating light. And while lasers and liquid crystals might seem pretty sophisticated, some of God's creatures show us how much more there is to learn.
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Over hundreds of years, science has learned a lot about manipulating light. And while lasers and liquid crystals might seem pretty sophisticated, some of God's creatures show us how much more there is to learn.
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The last few years have seen a good deal of excitement among astronomers over the possibility of discovering planets orbiting distant stars. Astronomers are looking at stars that are surrounded by disks of dust and debris.
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The long, cold winters of Scandinavia not only freeze the lakes, but pile so much snow on the lake ice that no light can penetrate to the cold, unfrozen water beneath. This means that the creatures below the ice can use up all the oxygen in the lake water.
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A real monster prowls the ocean floor from the Aleutian Islands to Southern California. It is a terror to even relatively large bottom dwellers. It eats many things, including hermit crabs, clams, sea cucumbers, sea urchins and even abalone. This monster goes by the seemingly innocent name of the Sunflower Star.
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The enemy prowls the night skies, searching. But its would-be victims may have sensitive sonar detectors, allowing them to flee before detection. If the prey is spotted on sonar, the prey has counter measures, even jamming the enemy's sonar.
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According to the evolutionary timetable, mankind has been on Earth for about 100,000 years. Archeologists and Paleo-archeologists claim that 100,000 years ago the earliest true men began to bury their dead, often with flowers and other trinkets, suggesting that he was capable of abstract thought. Paintings on cave walls and ceilings show that early man was capable of creating exquisite art. Other excavations have yielded scale models, toys and jewelry. It is strange, then, that for these 95,000 years, man left no written record of himself.
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The piano you hear in the background was being played by Matt Savage. He wrote the music and called this piece "Ladybug Bounce". Matt is an autistic boy, does piano concerts and was then just twelve years old.
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As we have reported on previous Creation Moments broadcasts, some snakes hide when they are threatened. Others play dead, hoping predators will lose interest. Some snakes rear up or make hissing and rattling sounds to scare off would-be predators. But have you ever heard of a harmless caterpillar that can make itself look and act just like a deadly snake?
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Many fish are surprisingly fast when they're hunting for lunch. Which species do you think is the fastest-swimming fish in the ocean? Think you know the answer?
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Did you know it's practically impossible to laugh without smiling at the same time? Try it sometime. Oh, you can make laughing sounds without smiling, but you can't laugh for real. Well, if you're anything like me, you just might laugh out loud when you hear what evolutionists are now telling us about why babies smile and laugh.
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On a previous broadcast, we told you about a small hopping insect with gears in its legs, allowing both legs to jump at the exact same moment. Today, I bring to your attention the first animal ever found to have a screw-and-nut mechanism in its body. I'm talking about the weevil.
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Over the years, Creation Moments has presented many interesting facts about blood, but a new study from the University of Rochester Medical Center may be the most amazing one of all.
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Should a parrot be allowed to testify at a murder trial if the bird appears to be an ear-witness to the crime? That's a question that is ruffling the feathers of animal experts and legal eagles alike!
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While Creation Moments is outspoken in criticizing evolution, we are just as vocal about extolling the work of scientists who are doing real science – especially the science that benefits mankind. For example, scientists are now working on developing a "second skin" for soldiers that would protect them from biological and chemical weapons.
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All of us have seen ivy clinging to the sides of houses and trees, but did you know that these climbing plants can withstand the force of hurricane and tornado-force winds? What gives them such sticking power? Well, an article at the Engineering360 website points out that scientists are now learning that ivy "might hold the key to manufacturing stronger adhesives, more durable paints and even cosmetics with better staying power."
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According to the Journal of the American Heart Association, it takes just one minute of breathing secondhand marijuana smoke to cause blood vessel impairment for the following 90 minutes. That is, if you're a rat. But Dr. Matthew Springer, senior author of the study, noted, "Arteries of rats and humans are similar in how they respond to secondhand tobacco smoke, so the response of rat arteries to secondhand marijuana smoke is likely to reflect how human arteries might respond."
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If you're listening to today's broadcast on the radio, let me suggest that you go to the Creation Moments website and do a search on the title of today's program: "Waters Shall Be Turned to Blood." You will see an incredible satellite photograph showing Lake Urnia in Iran looking like it's filled with blood rather than the green waters just a few months earlier.
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For me, catching a fish of any size is a great accomplishment … but can you imagine what it would be like to find a gigantic Mola mola at the end of your fishing line? Also known as the ocean sunray, the Mola mola is the world's largest bony fish, weighing as much as 5,000 pounds and measuring up to 14 feet from top to bottom!
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Evolutionists never get tired of mocking the supposedly poor design of the human eye. They are attempting to poke a finger into the eye of the Christian's Creator God when they say, "If God is such a good designer, why did he do such a sloppy job with the eye?"
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For years, evolutionists have told the public that during the time of the dinosaurs, plants were only of the non-flowering kind. According to these experts – including the most famous evolutionist of his time, Carl Sagan – flowering plants had not evolved yet. Dinosaurs only saw non-flowering cone trees and cycads.
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More than 150 years after his death in 1850, William Kirby is still known as one of the first scientists to devote his life to the study of insects. But let me add that he was also devoted to something else. Shortly before publishing his first major work on the bees of England, Kirby wrote the following:
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According to researchers from the University of Tübingen and the German Center for Infection Research, there's a bacterium in your nose that may have already saved your life numerous times in the past and will likely save your life many times more in the future. That bacterium – Staphylococcus lugdunensis – is well known for inhabiting your nose. But now it has come to light that the bacterium produces a previously unknown antibiotic named Lugdunin.
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Ever wonder why habits are so hard to break? If you think it's just a matter of weak willpower or cravings that refuse to subside, scientists from Duke University have startling news for you. They have found that habits leave a lasting mark on specific circuits in the brain, priming you to keep engaging in the habitual activities.
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From 1961 to 1972, the Apollo space program captured the world's attention with its 11 manned flights into space, its tragedies and its triumphs. Though the program is best remembered for the failed mission of Apollo 13, NASA succeeded beyond measure when it landed a man on the moon in 1969.
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Ask evolutionists what they consider to be the single most important evidence for Darwinism, and you'll hear them give many different answers. But the one answer we hear most often is: "the fossil record."
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On our previous Creation Moments broadcast, we had good news for coffee drinkers – specifically, that the caffeine in coffee does not make a person dehydrated. The long-held myth that coffee is a diuretic was the product of 90-years-old bad science. Well, today we've got even more good news about something you might already be consuming at breakfast. Once you hear how feeding it to laboratory mice improved their learning ability, you might want to make it a regular part of your family's breakfast.
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One of the most popular broadcasts Creation Moments has ever done was the one about the health benefits of coffee. That's not surprising when you consider all the coffee drinkers out there. However, some people did write to tell us that we should have mentioned that the caffeine in coffee is a diuretic and that coffee drinking can lead to dehydration.
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On a previous broadcast, we told you about the archerfish and its ability to shoot well-aimed squirts of water through the air at bugs. That's not all these amazing fish can do. Scientists have recently learned that they can distinguish one human face from another. Even more surprising is that the team of researchers from the University of Oxford admitted that "fish are unlikely to have evolved the ability to distinguish between human faces."
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Many environmentalists would have us all believe that the Earth is as fragile as a raw egg. While creationists agree that we must be good stewards of the planet God has put us on, we believe He created our planet to be amazingly resilient. Even when we do something that some people feel is harmful to our planet, the natural processes that God has put into place – combined with man's own creativity – will keep our world from self-destructing.
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Glass squid are amazingly good at not being seen by creatures who desire to eat them because, as their name makes clear, their bodies are transparent. In fact, as an article in Science News tells us, "Marine predators often scan the waters above them for the silhouettes of prey blocking sunlight, but there's little to betray a glass squid." There's just one problem, however. The squid's eyes are not transparent, exposing the creature's whereabouts.
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Dr. John Long, Paleontologist and Head of Science at the Museum Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, should know a lot about fish … and he does. But even though he wrote a book about the evolution of fish, there are many things he readily admits remain shrouded in mystery.
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Did you know that scientists are working to create new colors? Well, perhaps it's more accurate to say that they are working on new colorants that are being used to add color to other materials.
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When you were a child, did you ever stick your arm out of the window of your car as it traveled at high speed? If so, you will remember how the fast-moving air currents would push your arm up, down, up, down and so forth.
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In an article titled "Excitement Builds for the Possibility of Life on Enceladus," a Scientific American writer begins with these words, "Saturn's frozen moon Enceladus is a tantalizing world – many scientists are increasingly convinced it may be the best place in our solar system to search for life."
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Sometimes you just have to feel sorry for Bible skeptics who cast doubt on the historical accuracy of the Bible. With each passing year, archaeologists keep finding evidences that the Bible is thoroughly reliable!
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"The denial of the Genesis account is not a matter to be taken lightly by Christians," warns nuclear physicist Brandon van der Ventel. "If the biblical record is not true, then we are left with naturalism and atheism, of which the consequences are truly horrific."
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According to a nationwide survey conducted in 2016 by the Discovery Institute, most American adults agree that "teachers and students should have the academic freedom to objectively discuss both the scientific strengths and weaknesses of the theory of evolution." In fact, 88% agree that "scientists who raise scientific criticisms of evolution should have the freedom to make their arguments without being subjected to censorship or discrimination."
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Opals are precious multicolored gemstones made primarily of silica. How do they form? Scientists admit that much of the chemistry is not well understood. However, according to the traditional explanation, their formation begins as water filters through silica-rich rock, dissolving some of the silica. When that water passes through a cavity in a suitable rock, the silica precipitates as a film on the wall of the cavity. After tens of millions of years, say the scientists, you will have an opal.
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Presumably, before the fall into sin, we didn't have any bad cholesterol, or at least it didn't do any damage in our bloodstream. The so-called "bad cholesterol" is low-density-lipoprotein. It's called bad because it tends to cause our arteries to clog unless countered by the so-called "good cholesterol" or high-density-lipoprotein.
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If you live in a temperate climate, you have probably heard your home pop and crack on cold days. Those sounds are caused by the different materials that make up your house contracting at different rates as the temperature falls. At some point, the growing tensions are released and you hear the result. If you live in a warm climate that is subject to hurricanes, you know that a building is likely to fail at the point where different parts of the house, like the roof and wall, meet together.
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Evolutionists often claim that language and music evolved independently of each other. However, new research along several lines is showing that there is a close connection between music and language.
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According to the theory of evolution, all life is related. There is claimed to be a hierarchy of rising complexity from the earliest simple organisms to man. The earliest organisms are said to include corals, sea anemones and jellyfish that thrived 500 million years ago. These early creatures eventually led to the first creatures to move onto land, and worms were among them.
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One commonly heralded claim to the evolution of man from the animal kingdom is the statement that humans and chimpanzees are more than 98 percent genetically identical. Many people think this claim has been proven, but it has always been an assumption made by believers in evolution.
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About 300 years after the Genesis Flood, when all people spoke the same language, they decided to work together to build a great city. Working together for a common goal is called "social intelligence." Do animals practice social intelligence? Of course, there are the bees, the ants and the beavers, but even bacteria – among the lowliest of all creatures – also show social intelligence!
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We are surrounded by sounds, some of which can be louder than an airliner taking off. Yet, we never hear these sounds. It's called infrasound. It's real sound that can be recorded if you have the right equipment.
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Most people have seen the beautiful colors of reef fish. However, all those bright colors would be expected to make them attractive to predators.
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A flower called the dead-horse arum has a problem. The individual flowers are able to receive pollen for only one day. To make matters worse, its male parts are not mature that day. The next day, the male parts of the flower produce pollen, but the female parts of the flower have shriveled up and cannot receive it.
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Until recently, it was thought that, excluding mankind, only a few insects, beetles, ants and termites actually farmed crops for their food supply. Then an amazing snail was found.
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Speaking, singing, writing and body language are all familiar ways of communicating. Science has now learned of another means of communication that has been going on all around us, yet we are not even aware of it.
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Does the mother's body or the unborn baby's body trigger the birth process? Those who advise that the baby will come when it's ready may be correct.
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The shy bird called Clark's nutcracker collects food during the growing season and stores it for the cold winter months. In one year, a bird will store between 22,000 and 33,000 seeds in as many as 2,500 locations, which can be more than ten miles apart. But does the little bird remember where he put all those seeds?
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People and mammals have a multi-pronged immune system. When a bacterial infection is detected, cells begin to release nitric oxide, which kills bacteria, and they begin a cascade of other defense strategies. Ultimately, antibodies that directly attack any invader are produced.
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Visitors to the Grand Canyon will recall the Park Rangers saying that it took millions of years for water to carve out the Canyon. We have looked at examples of rapid canyon formation in previous programs, and today we have one more example.
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Normally, the desert locusts mentioned in the Bible are shy and reclusive and are green in color. What turns them into the multi-colored army that sweeps across the land, eating every leaf in sight?
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As science learns more about the universe, some are suggesting that they see basic mathematical principles that underlie everything. This principle, which one scientist has called "cellular automata", might be at the root of everything from astronomy to zoology.
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With the exception of basic messages such as aggression, communication between two entirely different species has seldom been observed among animals in the wild. We know that many animals among the same species give each other specific warnings about an impending danger. However, scientists have never noted one species recognizing the specific warning given by a second species.
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Everyone will remember those school textbook diagrams showing the ever-upward progression of living organisms, including man. We recall the horse series, found in textbooks and the museum displays showing the evolution of the horse – the first stage as a small mammal and, after several transitions, the modern horse. The claim that fossils in the rock layers show a progression from simple life in the lowest layers to the most complex life at the top accompanies these diagrams.
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How do you get the water you need in a desert in which it almost never rains? We have often looked here at how God's designs in nature show us practical designs we may never think of. The water-hoarding beetle provides us with one more such example.
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Mention snakes or other crawly reptiles, and people usually shy away. Typically, snakes have a reputation for being dangerous or, at best, completely unable to show affection. New research shows us that in many cases this isn't true at all.
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The history of science, supposedly supporting evolution, shows the power of expecting to find something, whether it exists or not.
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There are countless scientific studies designed to find out how diet, environment and our habits influence our health. These studies urged us to eat this, not eat that and generally give up bad habits.
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Most listeners to these programs will at sometime have visited a museum to see the dinosaurs. Of course, the tangible remains consist of fossil skeletons and, if one is allowed to touch the bones, they are as hard as rock. Sometimes they are actually cement or plaster since they are copies. However, we are told that over the millions of years, the original bone had been replaced by minerals.
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The lancet fluke is a parasite that accomplishes its life cycle in a most complicated, Rube Goldberg, manner.
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For thousands of years salt has been considered valuable as a seasoning, a preservative and even as a means of payment. But could salt preserve bacteria alive for thousands or even millions of years?
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Living fossils are creatures believed to be extinct and known only through the fossil record. The most famous living fossil is the Coelacanth. It is a fish, and textbooks claim it has been extinct for 70 million years according to the evolutionary timetable. Now we know that schools of them live in the Indian Ocean.
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An unusual example of a design in nature that runs counter to human common sense is found in the pectoral flippers of the humpback whale. The leading edge of these flippers, which one would intuitively expect to be smooth, actually sport evenly spaced bumps.
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Almost everyone in the world today knows of the terrible disaster that struck the coasts of South East Asia. The North American news media gave daily body counts, reported human tragedy and inflicted damage ... yet, as far as is known, none mentioned the animals.
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Do you know how your ears help you pinpoint the location of whatever you are hearing? Two factors come into play. First, you hear the sound louder in the ear that is closer to whatever is producing the sound. And second, the sound arrives at the closer ear a little sooner than the other.
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Here's an idea for those who create superhero comic books and movies. Introducing the amazing Sea Cucumber Man – able to turn his skin into a hardened shield that can stop bullets cold!
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I can still picture it in my mind – the large periodic table of the elements on the wall of my high school classroom. For those of you who don't remember it, the periodic table is a tabular arrangement of all the chemical elements, ordered by their number of protons, starting with hydrogen as number one. So who invented the table? You will find his name in the table itself. Element number 101 – Mendelevium – was named after Dmitri Mendeleev, the Russian chemist who first published the periodic table in 1869.
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If you had nothing better to do with your time, you might enjoy thinking about such things as: "How do I know that the whole world isn't just a figment of someone's imagination?" Or, "How do I know that the whole universe didn't suddenly pop into existence 20 minutes ago?"
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Several years ago, a Creation Moments staff member was discussing biblical creation with a well-known Bible teacher and Old Testament scholar. When this professor – whose name I will not disclose – began writing articles promoting theistic evolution for the BioLogos Foundation, he was asked to leave his teaching position at a conservative Christian seminary.
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Many evolutionists and atheists have fooled themselves into thinking that those who believe in God are incapable of making important contributions in the fields of math and science. Today we're going to take a look at just a few individuals to prove how false that claim really is.
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Which came first – the chicken or the egg? Well, I'm happy to report that this age-old dilemma has finally been solved. It was the chicken that came first – something that creationists have known all along. After all, the Bible tells us that God created every winged fowl and gave them the ability to reproduce after their kind.
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Probably one of my all-time-favorite movies is King Kong. I'm talking about the original black-and-white film made in 1933 and starring Faye Wray. But, of course, the real star of the movie was the "eighth wonder of the world" – the enormous and powerful King Kong.
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Several years ago I read a short story about three friends sitting around a campfire discussing whether life on other planets would ever be found. Two of them believe in life on other planets, but one disagrees. He insists that God created life on their planet alone. As the conversation continues, one of them sees that the fire is dying out, so he stirs the smoldering embers with a stick he is holding in his third green tentacle!
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You probably remember being taught that the lenses in your eyes turn everything you see upside down on your retina. Your brain then turns these upside-down images right side up, and all is well with the world. But wait until you hear this!
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The star orchid is an amazing flower that really shouldn't even exist. You see, its pollen is located at the bottom of a long and narrow spike – or spur – that extends behind the flower. That's also where the nectar is. So how long is that spur? The last part of the orchid's scientific name gives us the answer – a whopping one and a half feet!
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Myles Willard is an avid bird watcher, award-winning nature photographer and long-time friend of Creation Moments. Myles has given us hundreds of breathtaking nature photos, one of which accompanies the printed transcript of today's program at the Creation Moments website.
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A few years ago, evolutionists discovered what they called the world's oldest mites. These little critters were encased in amber and were said to be 230 million years old. And yet, the lead researcher said, "They're dead ringers for [modern] gall mites."
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Why did God give us fingernails? So we can scratch our itches? To serve as hardhats for our sensitive fingertips? Or did our Creator give us fingernails as a diagnostic window into our bodies?
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If you have ever traveled to a distant city on vacation, you know how much planning you have to do before you leave. And, of course, you need to know where you are going and the route you must follow to get there. But the creatures we'll be talking about today know exactly how to get where they are going. In fact, they were born with an internal GPS system to show them the way.
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Do you remember when home computers used floppy disks? Magnetic floppies were replaced by optical discs, using laser technology, and now we depend on hard drives, flash drives and cloud drives for the storage and retrieval of digital data. But someday even our most advanced data-storage systems will give way to the latest and greatest advances in technology.
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On our previous program, we told you how evolutionists enjoy finding fault with what they consider to be bad designs in nature – particularly the poorly designed human body. They aren't using such arguments to critique evolution, of course. They are poking an accusing finger into the eye of God. If God is so smart, they taunt, why did He make so many mistakes?
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We've all seen advertisements from retail establishments selling merchandise they call "slightly imperfect". Well, if you listen to evolutionists, we humans are more than slightly imperfect. As one writer claims, "From our knees to our eyeballs, our bodies are full of hack solutions."
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Creationists and proponents of Intelligent Design don't agree on several matters, but we do share the same views on the utter impossibility of evolution to account for the existence of all living things. Recently we came across a wonderful explanation of how plants got here by way of evolution. It's from the book Billions of Missing Links, and it's so good, I just had to share it with you today.
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In their book A Closer Look at the Evidence, public school science teachers Richard and Tina Kleiss write that our conscience is an undeniable evidence of God's existence. Another evidence is the intricate design of nature. After all, the Bible tells us in the book of Romans that He makes Himself evident to everyone so that no one can claim that He does not exist.
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In the arid desert regions of the southwestern United States lives a creature with so many astonishing abilities, it speaks loud and clear about God's hand in creation!
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On our previous broadcast, we told you about the complex molecular machine kinesin. As we mentioned, kinesins carry cargo from one part of the cell to another, walking along self-assembling highways called microtubules.
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Imagine, if you will, a robot mailman carrying a huge sack of mail on its back, walking step-after-step on the sidewalk until it reaches its destination. You'd be pretty impressed with the robot's designer, right?
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On a previous Creation Moments broadcast, we told you about the microscopic flagellar motor that some bacteria use to move from place to place – much like an outboard motor propels a speedboat along the surface of a lake. Today, I'm going to tell you about a different kind of nanomachine that some bacteria use to get around.
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Not long ago, I was talking with another creationist about the impossibility of the first living cell coming into being through natural causes from non-living chemicals. I asked him, "Even if such a thing were possible, what would the first living cell eat?" Without missing a beat, my friend said: "Cellery?"
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In the early 1950s, people were stunned when former Soviet spy Whittaker Chambers testified that Alger Hiss, an American government official, was spying on the U.S. for Russia. In his book Witness, Chambers relates how a little child led him to change his beliefs and the course of his life.
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Evolutionists are good at giving the appearance they know what they are talking about when they say that such and such fossil is 150 million years old or 320 million years old or whatever.
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Does the theory of evolution pass the test of being a legitimate theory? Not according to Ph.D. geologist and marine scientist Roger Gallop. In his book Evolution: The Greatest Deception in Modern History, Gallop points out that a theory is "an explanation of a set of related observations based on hypotheses and verified by independent researchers." But, he adds, "evolution – that is, genuine gain in genetic information or net increase in complexity – has never been observed in fossils or living populations."
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Which part of the world do you suppose is home to the biggest volcanic eruption in history? Indonesia perhaps? In 1883, the volcano Krakatoa erupted, destroying over two-thirds of the island and unleashing a huge tsunami that killed more than 36,000 people. The explosion is thought to have been the loudest sound ever heard in modern history. It could be heard 3,000 miles away. That's 600 miles more than the distance between New York City and Los Angeles!
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Does the name Harold Clayton Urey ring a bell? Urey was an American physical chemist who did pioneering work on isotopes, earning him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering deuterium. He also played a significant role in the development of the atom bomb. Still no bell? Well, perhaps you'll recognize his name if I mention the Miller-Urey experiment, conducted in 1952.
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Does the name Harold Clayton Urey ring a bell? Urey was an American physical chemist who did pioneering work on isotopes, earning him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering deuterium. He also played a significant role in the development of the atom bomb. Still no bell? Well, perhaps you'll recognize his name if I mention the Miller-Urey experiment, conducted in 1952.
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Does the name Harold Clayton Urey ring a bell? Urey was an American physical chemist who did pioneering work on isotopes, earning him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering deuterium. He also played a significant role in the development of the atom bomb. Still no bell? Well, perhaps you'll recognize his name if I mention the Miller-Urey experiment, conducted in 1952.
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As we all know, coughing is a reflex that clears our breathing passages from secretions, irritants, foreign particles and even microbes that might make us sick. We also know that sneezing is a reflex that cleanses our nasal cavity by forcefully expelling foreign particles and irritants. But why do we sigh? Is it just because we're exasperated or surprised?
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What caused dinosaurs to virtually disappear from the face of the Earth? Was it an asteroid, as scientists now tell us? According to Dr. Henry Gee, science writer for Nature, "Nobody will ever know what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs because we weren't there to watch it happen."
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Though the title of today's program is "One of evolution's best-kept secrets," Creation Moments could bring you hundreds of broadcasts with the same title. While evolutionists are filling science textbooks, Hollywood films, science magazines and natural history museums with their favorite evidences of evolution, they routinely fail to mention the evidences that call evolution into question.
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Today's program is dedicated to all of you cat lovers out there. Now, you probably remember being told that your precious pet laps up milk by curling his tongue backwards, and he then uses his curved tongue to ladle the liquid into his mouth. Well, I'm sure you'll be happy to know that your cat is a lot more talented than that.
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In 1976, a naval research vessel working in the deep waters off Hawaii discovered a large fish that was entangled in its anchor. When the sailors hauled the fish aboard, they saw something no one had ever seen before. This fish – now considered to be one of the most important marine discoveries of the twentieth century – was over 14 feet in length and weighed 1,650 pounds.
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How long does it take for a volcano to form? Scientists who reject the flood of Noah's time insist that it takes many thousands or millions of years. And yet, we know from eyewitness testimony that at least one volcano – Mount Paricutin in Mexico – grew to over 300 feet in height within a week of its birth.
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One of God's most amazing and amusing creatures is the Superb Lyrebird, a bird found in the rainforests of Victoria, New South Wales and southeast Queensland, in Tasmania and along the east coast of Australia. After British naturalist and filmmaker David Attenborough turned his cameras on them, the lyrebird achieved worldwide fame for its unique ability to mimic the calls of virtually anything they hear.
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Is the human hand evidence of a Creator? In a paper which appeared in the science publication PLOS ONE, a team of four scientists claimed that the link between muscles and hand movements is the product of "proper design by the Creator." The paper goes on to say that human hand coordination "should indicate the mystery of the Creator's invention," and concludes by again claiming the mechanical architecture of the hand is the result of "proper design by the Creator."
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Is the human hand evidence of a Creator? In a paper which appeared in the science publication PLOS ONE, a team of four scientists claimed that the link between muscles and hand movements is the product of "proper design by the Creator." The paper goes on to say that human hand coordination "should indicate the mystery of the Creator's invention," and concludes by again claiming the mechanical architecture of the hand is the result of "proper design by the Creator."
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On today's program I will give you one guess at what howler monkeys are especially good at. That's right – they howl. Or perhaps I should say, they shout. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, their shouts can be heard clearly up to three miles away, making them the loudest land animal on record.
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To environmental alarmists, carbon dioxide is a pollutant and its existence in Earth's atmosphere is one of the greatest threats facing our planet today. But if plants could talk, they'd tell you a totally different story. To plants, carbon dioxide is food, and right now they are begging for more!
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If the streets of heaven are made of pure gold and its twelve gates are pearl, what are the windows of heaven made of? The King James version of the Bible tells us: "And I will make thy windows of agates."
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In a surprisingly candid article at the pro-evolution website ScienceDaily, one scientist admits that most fossil finds include a generous amount of hype.
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Evolutionists tell us that the muscles which control movement of the ears – the auriculars – are vestigial. That is, they might have been useful to humans in our evolutionary past, but other than allowing some people to wiggle their ears, they have no purpose today.
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Science textbooks, articles and documentaries about evolution are saturated with what creationist Mike Riddle calls "fuzzy words." These are words that evolutionists typically use when they have no observable evidence to support their claims.
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Creation Moments has aired hundreds of programs over the years dealing with gifts God has given to His creatures so they could survive in the environment where He has placed them. But what is a poor animal going to do when it lives most of its life in one environment and then moves to a totally different environment?
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Many of our listeners are familiar with the name of Dr. Don Batten. This plant scientist and creationist is the author of countless books and articles as well as booklets on science topics that Creation Moments has distributed over the years. Recently we came across an interview where Dr. Batten was asked to respond to the claim being made by evolutionists that science would be impossible without evolution.
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Even if you haven't seen the movie The Martian, you know it takes several months for a spacecraft from Earth to reach the red planet. But if NASA has anything to say about it, that trip might someday take only a matter of days.
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Zombies are all the rage today in movies and television series. On today's broadcast, however, we will be looking at a real-life zombie, produced not by Hollywood but by a fungus. The Ophiocordyceps fungus literally turns carpenter ants into zombie slaves.
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You may want to be sitting down as you listen to today's broadcast. Why? Because scientists tell us there are far more bacterial cells in your body than actual human cells. According to researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, an average adult weighing 155 pounds consists of about 40 trillion bacteria and only 30 trillion human cells.
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I'm sure you remember the fairytale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Goldilocks tries to eat papa bear's porridge but finds it too hot. So she turns to a second bowl, and it's too cold. Finally she discovers a third bowl of porridge and finds it to be just right, so she eats it all up.
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In his excellent article in Creation magazine "Jesus on the Age of the Earth", Carl Wieland reports that the standard secular timeline of billions of years for the age of the universe is "accepted by most people in the evangelical Christian world." He went on to write, "Some would even say that to even dispute billions of years is to place an unnecessary stumbling block in the way of any scientifically-minded potential converts."
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Evolutionists would be foolish to question creation scientist Dr. Markus Blietz's credentials as a legitimate scientist. Dr. Blietz earned his Ph.D. in astrophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and now works in the semiconductor industry in charge of helping researchers develop new ideas.
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How good are evolutionists at explaining the origin of life? Not very! Listen to what some have written and said. First up is professor Paul Davies from the University of Arizona. In his book The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life, he wrote, "Obviously, Darwinian evolution can operate only if life of some sort already exists." He continued: "Darwinism can offer absolutely no help in explaining that all-important first step: the origin of life."
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On our previous broadcast, we told you about the Fermi paradox. In case you missed it, the Fermi paradox is the attempt by scientists to account for the fact that we have not come in contact with extraterrestrial life. This is a very real problem for evolutionists because they believe that if life evolved here, evolution must have occurred on countless other planets. So why haven't we found anybody out there? Here are a few attempts to solve the Fermi paradox.
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Where is everybody?! That's what physicist Enrico Fermi wanted to know. After all, if life evolved on Earth, he thought, certainly it must have evolved on countless other planets. So in 1950, he put forth what is called the "Fermi paradox" – a challenge to other scientists to explain why extraterrestrial life has not yet been found.
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Where is everybody?! That's what physicist Enrico Fermi wanted to know. After all, if life evolved on Earth, he thought, certainly it must have evolved on countless other planets. So in 1950, he put forth what is called the "Fermi paradox" – a challenge to other scientists to explain why extraterrestrial life has not yet been found.
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In his review of Dennis Sewell's book The Political Gene, creation scientist and author Dr. Jerry Bergman mentions one of the most deplorable events in evolutionary history – the story of Ota Benga. A pygmy from the Congo, Benga attracted a great deal of attention when he was put on display at the Bronx Zoo. He eventually ended his life by firing a bullet into his heart in 1916.
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Dr. Gary Parker, a scientist with a doctorate in biology, used to love teaching his students about what he called "the fact of evolution." As he describes it in his book Creation Facts of Life, "For me, evolution was much more than just a scientific theory. It was a total world-and-life view, an alternate religion, a substitute for God."
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A cable TV news commentator often poses the question – "Who's looking out for you?" – implying that he's looking out for his viewers. Well, Christians know who's really looking out for us. That would be Jesus, the One who created us, saved us and watches out over us every hour of our lives. But in His wisdom, our Creator has also given us a number of animals to watch out for us in a more earthly sense. These creatures are known as animal sentinels.
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Most bats, as you know, hang from their feet on the ceilings of caves. But not until recently did scientists know how bats switched from flying right-side-up to landing upside down in the space of a half second. Scientists assumed that bats used some kind of aerodynamic trick to pull this off. But the bats' mid-flight flip has almost nothing to do with air flow.
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As dinosaur bones containing blood vessels and blood cells are continually being found, more and more laboratories are assigning dates to these bones in the thousands, not millions, of years. This makes evolutionists just like the patient who goes to his doctor, convinced that he is dead. After failing to convince the patient he is alive, the doctor pricks the man's finger, causing it to bleed. "See?" the doctor says. You must be alive because dead men don't bleed." And the patient replies: "Imagine that! Dead men do bleed after all!"
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You're driving down the road and all of a sudden traffic slows to a crawl. Finally, you get to the cause of the slowdown – a big pothole in the road that causes people to slow down and drive around.
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There are many incredible designs around us that are unlikely to exist if everything is the result of mindless chance. Many birds eat insects through the summer. While such high protein diets like this are good in mating and reproductive season, they do not prepare the birds to survive the cold weather of winter.
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One of the biggest headlines in planetary exploration in recent years was the confirmation that at one time Mars had water. Further exploration and study reveals evidence that there was once quite a lot of moving water on the surface of Mars.
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The venus flytrap senses a fly and, in less than a second, its trap springs shut. It will eat today. A new area of science is plant behavior. Plant behaviorists point out that plants, like the venus flytrap that interact with animals, have to move on an animal scale. We have traditionally thought of plants as inactive living things that just sit there.
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Did you know that there are salamanders that can grow spines? They do this by forcing their ribs to grow through their skin. But a frog nicknamed the "horror frog" is even stranger.
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The southern pine beetle is a real problem in southeastern North America. They burrow into pine trees that could be harvested for lumber, often killing them. Those that aren't killed are left, stained an unattractive blue tint by a fungus they leave behind.
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A robot that can move about on its own must be programmed in great detail. Instructions must be given to each moving part. These instructions must also be able to direct the robot under all anticipated conditions. If there is any error in the instructions or an encounter with unexpected conditions, the robot will probably just freeze in place. Even slime mold can do better than this.
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While modern computers can do increasingly amazing things, they would not compete well on even a simple task with an animal.
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Ask any scientist and he'll tell you that blades designed to operate in fluids, like air or water, are best designed to have smooth edges. It only makes sense that a smooth leading edge is more efficient.
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Many types of insects make silk. Among them, they make many types of silk. But many of the multitude of species of the caddisfly make a very unique silk even among silk-makers.
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There are three ways to make mountains. The movement of two crustal plates running into one another will push up mountains. Likewise, volcanic activity will produce mountains. Finally, massive erosion of soft strata from harder strata can also create mountains.
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Australia has many unique creatures that people find fascinating. One example is the floodplain death adder and its habit of eating dangerous frogs.
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We are often asked why, if the Bible's account of creation is true, don't dinosaurs appear in any historical documentation. After all, according to the Bible, both the great land creatures and humans were created on day six of creation week.
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Almost all sighted animals that aren't insects see with eyeballs. But that is not true of a fish named barreleyes, and that's for a good reason.
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There is a school of biblical interpretation that does not consider the Bible divinely inspired. For example, they say that the Bible's description of David's conquests and Solomon's wealth and greatness were written down many centuries after they lived. The stories had been verbally passed down, getting wildly exaggerated through the years. When they lived, Israel and Edom were little more than a few small, insignificant tribal villages.
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If an octopus thinks you have found him in his lair, he will squirt ink in your face and hope, in your surprise, you don't see him fleeing. On the other hand, challenge a bull, and you will have more fight on your hands than you want. Other creatures will evaluate the situation to determine whether fight or flight is the best response.
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A new science called biomimetics is making news. In the past we have talked about how some of man's designs are often similar to God's which do the same job. However, in biomimetics, researchers actively seek to study the creation to learn of designs that will solve engineering problems.
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Charles Darwin once wrote of the fossil record, "No organism wholly soft can be preserved." That's because evolutionary orthodoxy says that fossils are buried and formed by slow, natural processes. In reality, there are many fossils of soft-bodied animals like jellyfish and squid. That is evidence, of course, of rapid, catastrophic burial at the time of the flood. Darwin rejected the flood and therefore got the science wrong.
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With the early morning dew on the leaves, a vegetable garden may seem a very peaceful place. Actually, though, it's a war zone.
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Evolutionary naturalists have predicted that a given creature should have pretty much the same strategy for dealing with any of the predators that seek it out. As our knowledge of the animal world grows, they are beginning to realize that they may have to reexamine their prediction.
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While even many Christians feel obligated to accept millions of evolutionary years, evidence continues to build for a young creation. The evidence has mounted to the point that even many evolutionists feel they must find some explanation for it.
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It has often been said the music is the universal language. That now appears to be a scientific fact.
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A surprising number of living things mimic other living things. We have done a number of programs on these wonders of God's creativity. However, evolutionary biologists discount such mimicry as any sort of wonder because in many cases the mimicry is imperfect. The biological term is "flawed mimicry."
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The peace and serenity of North America's spruce forests is occasionally broken by little other than the rustle of a deer passing by. At least that's what most people think. In truth, there are things going on which would cause us profound wonder.
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Studies show that it takes about a second to decide whether a person will do A or B. That's much too slow to make a successful typist or pianist. Good typists execute one key stroke every 60 thousands of a second. A pianist can play 30 notes with each hand about every 40 thousands of a second. How do they do it?
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While the development of a new science is helping mankind, it says something that many scientists did not intend to say. The science is called biomimetics. As the name suggests, biomimetics is based on the idea that if we copy designs found in nature, we can often improve our own technology.
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The fact that dinosaur fossils are found in the Arctic suggests that there have been catastrophic changes on this Earth since those dinosaurs lived. Some of the changes, like the worldwide flood, are even described in the Bible.
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Even life that exists where sunlight never reaches nevertheless gets its nutrients as a result of photosynthesis. Furthermore, no matter what the organism, it always lives in some sort of community with other organisms.
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With no backbone and not much of a brain, the lobster is usually depicted as pretty low on the evolutionary scale. It follows that lobsters are also intellectually pretty dim.
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When you look in a mirror you are conscious of seeing yourself. Bottlenose dolphins, elephants and primates in general have also shown this ability, but that's about it.
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While materials scientists are always interested in super-strong glues, they are especially interested in super-strong glues that harden under water. It turns out that a small marine worm called the Sandcastle Worm has a few things to teach them.
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A peregrine falcon diving toward its prey reaches a relative speed of 200 body- lengths per second. This is close to the 207 body-lengths that the space shuttle travels as it enters our atmosphere. Thus, the peregrine falcon was thought to easily be the fastest dare-devil bird on Earth.
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We have all heard the claims – and school textbooks love to include it – that humans and chimpanzees are about 99 percent genetically identical. However, that claim evaporates when the details of what is being compared are examined.
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Countless television programs, museums, textbooks, and popular articles tell us that the birds evolved from dinosaurs. It now appears that this claim is even less credible!
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There is a species of ant that, although quite small, makes slaves of yet smaller ants. This slave-making ant makes its nest inside acorns, and unlike the species they enslave, they have chemical weapons and powerful jaws.
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"You are what you eat." We've all heard the saying. It doesn't mean that if you eat a lot of chicken, you'll literally become a chicken. But now science has discovered a creature for which the saying is literally true, in part, right down to the genetic level.
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When one thinks of clever creatures, moths are probably not the first creature that come to mind – in fact, they probably don't come to mind at all!
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We were once told that tool use is what separates man from the animals. Then it was discovered that some animals use tools. Now scientists have learned that these animals do more than just grab something from their surroundings; they look for something that would be needed to do the job.
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Plant seeds are distributed by a number of ingenious methods, including wind, water, mammals and birds. Plants that rely upon these creatures to distribute their seeds often attract them with tasty fruit surrounding the seed. However, tasty fruit contains sugar and other substances that many other creatures also find inviting. Yes, the problem is, everybody likes sugar and that includes insects, molds and fungi, all of which are useless as seed distributors. Some plants make up for this problem by producing large amounts of fruit, just to ensure that some are reproduced.
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Can mammals that spend time in the water smell odors under water? Of course they can, but no researcher is going to take a big sniff under water to find out!
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Most people know that if they are stranded at sea without fresh water they should not drink sea water. While we need salt, the amount of salt in sea water would kill a person more quickly than thirst. Have a little too much salt on your popcorn and your kidneys will filter out the extra. But to do so, they need extra fresh water.
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Perhaps you have a self-cleaning oven in your kitchen, and if you have small children in your house, you've probably wished for self-cleaning walls. Self-cleaning clothes would be nice, too!
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In the perfect world that God created there were no meat eaters. In today's sinful world it is hard to imagine meat eaters, like spiders, being vegetarians.
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When God told Noah that man could now eat meat after the Flood, He kindly filled the animals with a natural fear of man. However, He evidently left a few animals without that fear in order for them to be helpmates and companions for man.
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According to the theory of evolution, the atmosphere of the very early Earth contained no oxygen, but it did contain carbon dioxide. When the plants and trees evolved, they lived on the carbon-dioxide as they still do today and, by metabolizing carbon dioxide, they released oxygen as a waste product.
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One of medicine's greatest challenges are those populations of bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics.
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Bottlenose dolphins have a reputation as intelligent, playful creatures. A newly released video shows just how intelligent their play is.
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When they have a headache or perhaps a toothache, many people take an aspirin. It turns out that many plants do almost the same thing when they are under stress.
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Those who widely travel usually have interesting experiences to talk about. That is no less true of animals that migrate. A commonly known example is the monarch butterfly. In the fall, monarchs from all over North America head south to the same small patch of jungle trees in Mexico. Even more astonishing is that each generation finds this exact traditional wintering spot but has never been there before.
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Without a doubt the brain is a marvelous organ, although there is still a great deal to learn about how it works. We do know that brain cells communicate through connections which reach out in three dimensions to other cells. When thought and motion take place, they communicate with each other very quickly. They are even in communication while you sleep.
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It was once thought that only man used tools. However, scientists have learned that some monkeys and even some birds use "tools." Now we can add dolphins to the growing list of tool-users.
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Cavemen. The very word conjures images of bearskin clothing, wooden clubs and perhaps some simple stone tools. We think of the cavemen themselves as part ape and certainly less than modern humans. All of these images help make human evolution look more plausible.
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We all know that there is strength in numbers. Many animals have even discovered this and, for example, migrate in large herds. However, one would never expect bacteria to have discovered this or know enough to organize themselves collectively.
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It turns out that not all creatures need eyes to see light. It all depends on what the creatures were designed to do.
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Bacteria and fungi form biofilms on just about every wet surface, like that bowl of water you left out last night! In this biofilm state, bacteria cause 70 percent of all human bacterial infections. On underwater pipelines, biofilms cause corrosion. Such biofilms even form on seaweed. That is, except for the seaweed called Delicate Beauty.
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The Tiger Keelback snake has a bite that delivers slow-acting venom and prevents the victim's blood from clotting. An adult human could bleed to death from a bite, but it takes a while for the snake to deliver a lethal dose.
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Homer, the blind Greek poet, spoke of Odysseus's return to Ithaca and describes some astronomical events that seldom happen in the order he describes. Yet, the setting of the events he writes about took place 400 years before it is thought Homer lived.
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The potter wasp is a solitary wasp that makes a mud nest with several rooms in it. At egg-laying time, the wasp lays one egg in each cavity and leaves some food in each cavity. She also leaves behind a security force!
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It was a nice day on a tropical reef in what is now Western Australia when an armored fish began to give birth. Before she could finish, the violence of the Genesis Flood encased her in mud.
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If you're a long-time listener, you know that Creation Moments does not discuss politics. That's why today's program focuses not on Ben Carson's political involvements but on Dr. Carson's courage as a scientist and world-renowned surgeon for sharing his politically incorrect views on Darwinian evolution.
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To hear evolutionists tell it, millions of years of chance mutations, combined with natural selection, produced all manner of living creatures. Now, let's look at just one creature – the porcupinefish – and see how the theory of evolution works out in real life. If the theory fails the test, it's a strong indicator that the theory lacks the power to explain the existence of any living creature.
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Have you ever wondered why blood cells look like red discs that are indented toward the middle? Furthermore, is this distinctive shape an element of design or is it the product of millions of years of mutations and natural selection?
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Not long ago, we told you about the ingenious way that electric eels release strong electric current into the water to make fish thrash about and come out of hiding. That's a pretty cool trick from such a supposedly primitive creature.
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The evolutionists over at the ScienceDaily website must have been overjoyed to write this: "Many families believe religion plays an essential role in childhood moral development. But children of religious parents may not be as altruistic as those parents think, according to a new international study from the University of Chicago."
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I'm sure you've heard evolutionists say that all real scientists believe in evolution. Well, let me tell you about a different theory that many if not most scientists believed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – eugenics. This is the belief that some people groups – like blacks and Jews – are inferior and should be eliminated to improve the gene pool of the human race. In theory, it made sense to many. But when the innocent blood of millions was spilled by Adolf Hitler, suddenly it didn't seem like such a good idea.
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Best-selling author of Jurassic Park and many other novels, the late Michael Crichton added a fascinating non-fiction appendix at the end of his novel State of Fear. Listen to how it begins:
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Most spiders use their silk to make webs to catch prey. But there's one spider that spins its silk to make a virtually waterproof sack and fills it with air bubbles so it can survive underwater for hours at a time. In fact, the air-filled sack is so efficient, it allows this air-breathing spider to live virtually its whole life a few inches below the water's surface.
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I'm sure that many of you have seen aerial photos of massive drawings that can only be viewed while flying over the Nazca Desert south of Lima, Peru. Some of these images depict spiders, hummingbirds and monkeys. Others are perfectly straight lines that run as far as five miles. In fact, writes Dr. Donald Chittick in The Puzzle of Ancient Man, "the lines are as straight as our best modern methods of aerial surveying could make them."
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Did you know that your tears reveal a whole lot more about you than what you might expect?
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HRL Laboratories, owned by Boeing, startled the world years ago when they unveiled the lightest metal ever produced. More recently they're in the news again after Boeing released a video talking about what Popular Mechanics called one of the top 10 world-changing innovations of 2012.
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On our previous Creation Moments broadcast, we told you about researchers who are claiming that our hands evolved so that they can be formed into fists for fighting. Now that same group of researchers is also telling us that our faces evolved to withstand being punched.
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Today on Creation Moments we bring you a rather bizarre story. Its seems that scientists used the arms and hands of corpses in an attempt to show that human hands evolved for fighting. True story. In fact, it was reported in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
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True or false? When the population of lemmings grows too large, they get into a frenzied state, and huge groups of the furry rodents commit suicide by hurling themselves into the nearest body of water.
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Are you hungry to learn more about God's magnificent creation and teach your family what they need to know to defend the faith from the pseudoscience of evolution? Of course, the Creation Moments website is a great place to start.
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As one perfume expert puts it, "It's beyond comprehension how beautiful it is. It's transformative. Its like an olfactory gemstone."
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While visiting Niagara Falls in 1840, Charles Lyell was told that the falls were receding at about three feet per year. This was based on what eyewitnesses who lived in that region had reported. But for reasons Lyell did not disclose, this lawyer-turned-geologist concluded that a "much more likely conjecture" – his words, not mine – is that the rate of erosion was only one foot per year. At this rate, it showed that Niagara Falls had been flowing for 35,000 years. Now, why would Lyell make such a conjecture?
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While visiting Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry about 20 years ago, a Creation Moments staff member stood in a long line, waiting to take his first look at what we now know as "virtual reality". Today you can experience virtual reality – or VR for short – on your smartphone with a headset that can cost as little as ten dollars.
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Evolutionary biologists like to give people the impression that they are unbiased individuals who follow the evidence wherever it leads. If only this were true!
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I'm not much of a coffee drinker, but after hearing about its many health benefits, I just might make coffee my drink of choice.
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As everyone knows, most sea creatures get from place to place by swimming. Others – like the octopus – use a form of jet propulsion. But one thing that no one expects to see on the sea floor is a fish that walks! And what makes this creature even more unusual is that the spotted handfish gets about on pectoral fins that look almost like human hands!
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According to the ScienceDaily website, "New research involving a psychologist from the University of York has revealed for the first time that both belief in God and prejudice towards immigrants can be reduced by directing magnetic energy into the brain."
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In the introduction to his chapter on the origin of life for the book Evolution's Achilles' Heels, Ph.D. scientist Tas Walker points out that "geology has long been considered the solid foundation for evolution." He goes on to write that Darwin "built his theory of biological evolution squarely on then-current theories of geology, especially the work of his contemporary, Charles Lyell."
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Many atheists and evolutionists claim that creationists are anti-science. Well, let's see how well that claim holds up by looking at the life of one man.
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Since Creation Moments stands firmly on the side of creation as described in the Bible, we disagree at times with the Discovery Institute, the recognized leader of the Intelligent Design movement. But we do have to recognize and applaud them for putting together a list of several hundred scientists who do not agree with Darwinism.
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"Leaves of three, let them be." "One, two, three … don't touch me." Do you know what I'm talking about? I'm talking about poison ivy, a plant with three leaves connected closely together on each stem.
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I admit it. I enjoy reading comic strips from time to time. I especially love the single-panel "Far Side" cartoons by Gary Larson. He's one of the only cartoonists who has repeatedly focused on the foolishness of evolution and gotten away with it.
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On our previous Creation Moments program, we told you about several esteemed scientists with advanced degrees who believe in biblical creation. Today I'm going to tell you what some of these scientists – and others – have said about a recent creation.
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How often have we heard the statement – "No real scientist believes in creation" – as we talk to people about why creation is actually more credible than evolution. If you ever hear someone say something like that, you'll want to listen closely to what I am about to share with you today.
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Today on Creation Moments we bring you a bit of old news. I mean really old news. Though this news is nearly a hundred years old, few people even today know that the massive stone heads on Easter Island are actually sitting atop tall stone bodies buried in the ground.
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Considering the decades of evolutionary indoctrination going on in schools and the media, you might think that most Americans no longer believe in a Creator. But that's not what a recent survey from LifeWay Research reveals.
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What tiny shrimp-like creature is a bright iridescent blue one moment and then – in the blink of an eye – invisible the next? It's the Sapphirina copepod, also known as the "sea sapphire." Though the sea sapphire is only about a tenth of an inch long, it is surely one of the most amazing creatures in God's creation.
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Here at Creation Moments, we frequently get upset with the National Geographic Society for misleading their readers and viewers with stories supporting evolution. But when a scientist at the Smithsonian Institution writes a scorching letter to them to express his outrage, this is something that doesn't happen every day!
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On today's program, we bring you the end of the world. Well, not exactly. I'm going to present an alphabetical list of global catastrophes supposedly being caused by global warming. Never mind the fact that there has been absolutely no global warming for over 18 years.
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On today's program, we bring you the end of the world. Well, not exactly. I'm going to present an alphabetical list of global catastrophes supposedly being caused by global warming. Never mind the fact that there has been absolutely no global warming for over 18 years.
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On today's program, we bring you the end of the world. Well, not exactly. I'm going to present an alphabetical list of global catastrophes supposedly being caused by global warming. Never mind the fact that there has been absolutely no global warming for over 18 years.
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As the fierce T-Rex approaches its prey, the dinosaur is suddenly hit from above with something white that spatters on its upturned head. Yes, it's the same kind of bird droppings that you'll find all over your car when you park under the branches of a tree.
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In a recent study of over 4,000 children in the United Kingdom and more than 1,420 children in the United States, researchers concluded that bullied children have similar or worse mental health problems later in life than those who have suffered emotional or even physical abuse.
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On a previous Creation Moments program, we told you about the elephant's trunk with its 40,000 muscles. This is 70 times the number of muscles in your entire body! And that amazing trunk can bulldoze a tree or pick up a pin.
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Though Creation Moments doesn't agree with everything that Christian author and apologist Eric Metaxas believes about origins, we have to congratulate him on his excellent op-ed piece that appeared in The Wall Street Journal – "Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God."
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If you held a salpa maggiore in one hand and looked at it closely, what you would see is … your hand! That's because this strange marine invertebrate is transparent! Put it back in the water, and it would almost completely disappear. A fisherman who found one floating near the top of the water said, "It felt scaly and was quite firm, almost jelly like, and you couldn't see anything inside aside from this orange little blob inside it."
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In the early 19th century, a papyrus was found in Egypt – called the Ipuwer papyrus – that appears to be an actual eyewitness account of the events recorded in the book of Exodus. Of course, nearly all secular archaeologists attempted to say the papyrus does not describe these events. After all, their worldview is opposed to the historic reliability of the Bible.
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"Have you ever heard the claim 'all smart people are atheists', or maybe its inverse: 'people who believe in God are dumb'?" So begins a column at Examiner.com by a writer who decided to see if this is true by taking a closer look at the ten highest IQs ever recorded. His conclusion is that the most intelligent people on the planet believe in God.
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Some of you listening to me today are too young to remember the glory days of NASA – when the U.S. space agency put a man into Earth orbit and, a few years later, on the surface of the moon. NASA had brains and guts in those days – as evidenced by the remarkable story of Apollo 13 … or when astronauts weren't afraid to read passages from Scripture in their transmissions from space.
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In Italian, its name means beautiful woman. The belladonna plant first received this name because it was used to make eye-drops for women in ancient Rome. Belladonna made the women appear more seductive by dilating the pupils of their eyes.
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Judging from the things many of us choose to eat, you'd be right in thinking that we sometimes don't use our brains when it comes to making healthy food choices. But a tiny multicellular animal, which scientists call "Trix" for short, doesn't use its brain at all at mealtime. In fact, it doesn't have a brain or a single nerve cell in its whole millimeter-sized body.
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On an earlier broadcast, I shared with you how Darwinism led to racism and horrendous acts that are comparable to what terrorists are doing today with unspeakable acts of violence. Though our broadcast today tells a far less gruesome story, it does show how Darwinism even played a part in America's early immigration policies.
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Charles Darwin introduced his theory of evolution in 1859 in the book Origin of Species. Many evolutionists, however, would like people to forget that the full title is On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
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One of my favorite books is Rupert Sheldrake's Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home. Though the book was written by a non-Christian author who happens to be a well-qualified scientist from Cambridge, this book is filled with interesting stories about animal abilities that evolutionists are powerless to explain.
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Evolutionists never seem to tire of taunting creationists with such words as: "If creationists were real scientists, their papers would be published in secular scientific journals."
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Many men today believe that the shedding of tears is a sign of weakness. They seem to have forgotten that Jesus wept when told that Lazarus had died. Jeremiah is known as the "weeping prophet" who shed tears over a backslidden nation. Even David, the slayer of tens of thousands, wrote that he often drenched his bed with tears.
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"Planned Parenthood, the leading government-funded abortion provider in the United States, has a history rooted in Social Darwinism, a sociological theory from evolution's doctrine of survival of the fittest."
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A long-time friend of Creation Moments, Richard Rothermel, recently shared his thoughts with us about the worldwide flood of Noah's time and why this historic event is so important for creationists to defend. Here is what he had to say.
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Evolutionists never tire of taunting creationists with the statement, "If creationism is scientific, why are there no papers from creationists published in peer-review publications?"
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Considering the chameleon's slow walking speed, you might never guess that it possesses the fastest tongue of any creature. On second thought, it does makes a lot of sense for a wise Designer to equip chameleons with a tongue that's actually longer than its entire body … and lightning-fast so it can catch fast-moving insects.
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Born the son of slaves in the early 1860s, George Washington Carver grew up to become one of America's most prominent chemists. Though most people recognize him as the man who gave us peanut butter, few know that Carver was a scientist with a very close relationship with his Creator.
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I hope that today's program doesn't sound like a two-minute-long infomercial for Creation Moments' Letting God Create Your Day books. The purpose of today's broadcast is to point out that creation truth is not only a good way to begin conversations with your friends about spiritual things. It is also good for your own state-of-mind.
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Have you noticed how many of the most admired atheists come from a science background? I could name dozens – Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett and Stephen Hawking, to name a few. Thousands of people are fans of the late Carl Sagan and his protégé, Neil deGrass Tyson. Some of these atheists are practically superstars with followers numbering in the millions.
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Remember being taught that boa constrictors kill their prey by literally squeezing the breath out of them? Well, scientists now know this isn't true at all.
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Have you ever stood at a construction site watching cranes lift heavy objects suspended by steel cables? Well, a spider in Madagascar can do the same thing. They routinely lift snail shells 20 times their weight using stronger-than-steel cables made of spider silk. This would be like a 180-pound piano mover lifting a piano weighing 3,600 pounds!
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In an interview with Britain's The Guardian newspaper in 2011, famed physicist Stephen Hawking warned that the efforts by the SETI Institute to actively "contact possible intelligent life out there is way too risky and dangerous."
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Did you hear the exciting news about the scientist who found a snake with four legs? Well, actually it wasn't a snake. It was a fossil that British paleontologist David Martill from the University of Portsmouth discovered in an almost-forgotten box at a museum in Germany.
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As Creation Moments has reported in the past, evolutionists were dead wrong when they told us that viceroy butterflies evolved to look like toxic monarch butterflies to trick predators into thinking that they, too, are toxic. As it turned out, viceroy butterflies really are toxic – more toxic than monarchs.
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Imagine this – you're a carnivorous pitcher plant with no scent to attract insects. Even worse, though most pitcher plants are designed to kill insects in their pool of digestive fluids, you don't have enough fluid to do the job. What's a poor pitcher plant to do?
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While doing some research on how the non-venomous hognose snake is able to mimic the behaviors of the deadly rattlesnake, we happened to come across a website with an interesting article on biological mimicry.
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Many of us would enjoy watching a redheaded woodpecker bang bang bang his head into a tree trunk. But today I'd like to tell you about another redheaded creature that would probably have many of us running in the opposite direction. I'm talking about the giant redheaded centipede.
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As Creation Moments has pointed out in the past, evolution is a fundamental corruption of truth with far-reaching consequences – working to undermine and subvert morality, cultures and people.
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In a typical anti-creationist op-ed piece for Scientific American, columnist John Horgan begins by explaining why he titled his column: "Pssst! Don't tell the creationists, but scientists don't have a clue how life began."
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Evolutionists were so sure that dinosaur fossils are too old to contain any carbon-14, they never even bothered to check. Or perhaps they were afraid of what they would find. In any case, creationist scientists are now boldly going where evolutionists have feared to tread.
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Though the fish story I'm about to tell you is absolutely true, it goes against what we've always been taught about fish being cold-blooded. Scientists have just discovered the very first warm-blooded fish. Though fish typically require heat from the environment to stay warm, the opah is able to elevate its own temperature without the help of its environment.
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Evolutionists and creationists alike enjoy gazing upon the elegant seahorse swimming lazily about the aquarium. However, only creationists are able to see that the seahorse bears the unmistakable stamp of design – all the way from the top of its horse-shaped head to the tip of its unique square tail.
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Want to ruffle the feathers of an evolutionist? Just remind him that mutations are harmful. Yes, there are many mutations that are neutral, but beneficial mutations are only a figment of the evolutionist's imagination. The truth is that mutations typically bring about deformities and death. Such is the case with the tiny mutation that changed a harmless organism found in the intestines of humans and animals into a bacteria that resulted in the bubonic plague.
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When a very bizarre animal was first discovered in the Burgess shale of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, scientists literally couldn't tell its head from its tail. In fact, when they reconstructed the worm-like creature, they got it totally wrong. They assembled it upside down and put its head where its tail should be.
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Do you suppose that bacteria talk to one another when food is dropped on the floor nearby? Their leader shouts: "Hey, don't eat that! We have to wait five seconds!"
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You've heard of flying squirrels and flying fish, but did you know there's also a squid that can fly? Even more surprising is that it accomplishes this amazing feat using jet-propulsion! Yes, though they were once only rumors, we now know that a certain kind of squid can emerge from the water and streak through the air at speeds up to 25 miles per hour. A team of Japanese marine biologists have actually photographed Japanese flying squid doing just that in groups.
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Behold the amazing cuatro ojos – the four-eyed fish! At first glance, you would say it has just two eyes. But look closer and you'll see that each eye is divided into two separate eyes!
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"I think that evolution is absolutely the death knell of Christianity." No, those aren't my words. These words were spoken by atheist Frank Zindler, and they make it very clear what the origins debate is really all about. It is nothing less than the front line in the battle between two incompatible faiths.
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For several years now, the humorous "Will It Blend?" videos on YouTube have entertained millions of viewers. In each video, a man wearing a white lab coat places an object into a blender and turns it on, demolishing iPhones, Coke cans, a pair of Nikes, and anything else you can imagine. One of the only objects he wasn't able to "blend" was a crowbar. He didn't even try.
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True or false: Women have one more rib than men have. You might be surprised to know how many people believe that men have one less rib because God took a rib out of Adam and used it to make Eve. The fact is that men and women have 12 pairs of ribs in our chest.
However, modern science may now be able to explain why God chose to make Eve by using one of Adam's ribs.
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Some of you will remember the book Chariots of the Gods that was such a hit in the 1980s. Though its author wasn't the first or the last to write about "ancient astronauts", Erich Von Däniken popularized the notion that aliens from other worlds had come to our planet eons ago. These alien beings supposedly left traces of their visits all over the world – from the pyramids of Egypt to the Nazca lines in southern Peru.
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Creation Moments isn't in the business of reviewing Hollywood films, and we're not about to start now. However, we do have some thoughts about the whole Jurassic Park movie franchise. Though these films are entertaining, Christians need to be aware that the films are also promoting evolution by claiming that modern-day birds are descendents of Jurassic-age dinosaurs.
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We get lots of interesting letters and e-mails here at Creation Moments. Most of them are positive, but occasionally we hear from someone who disagrees with us. One such writer told us that there are, and I quote, "thousands upon thousands of articles written in medical journals about how evolution has been of enormous benefit in medicine."
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Scientists who reject the Bible believe that man's ability to see light from distant stars and galaxies can be likened to a deadly torpedo that sinks the ship of young earth creationism. But they are not taking into consideration that there are many possible solutions to how light from distant stars could reach the Earth very quickly.
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As we all know, there are 66 books in the Bible – no more, no less. And yet, from the way that many people interpret the first chapter of Genesis, it appears that they have added a sixty-seventh book to the Bible – a special "book" they use to interpret the other 66 books of the Bible.
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Many people – especially those who believe in creation – avoid watching science shows on TV because these programs are usually saturated with unscientific claims favoring evolution. However, even Darwinian soapboxes like Nova can be worth watching, just as long as you do so with a discerning eye.
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It is common for evolutionists to dismiss a lot of great work by creationists, saying that their papers do not appear in their own peer-reviewed journals. But now, editors of the two most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals have gone on record as saying that the peer-review process doesn't mean much anymore.
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Though they are less than a half inch in length, recent studies have shown that Habronattus jumping spiders have eyesight that, in some ways, rivals our own. In fact, they can do something even your family pooch can't do – see colors.
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A scientific paper called "DDT: A Case Study in Scientific Fraud" was published a few years ago in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Though the author deals with scientific fraud related to the banning of DDT, he also gives insights into how some scientists are committing fraud to support other matters, like global warming and evolution.
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Don't mess with the hoopoe – especially the female! Their Creator blessed this bird with an oil gland that produces a really foul-smelling liquid. When rubbed into their plumage, it smells like rotting meat and deters not only predators but parasites as well. In fact, it also acts as an antibacterial agent.
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On today's Creation Moments broadcast, we're going to give you a little quiz, so put on your thinking cap!
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When he was just a little boy, people could tell that Charlie was a problem child. By his own admission later in life, the boy was a sadist who experienced a great deal of pleasure from torturing and killing animals. One of his favorite things to do was killing birds by pounding on their heads with a hammer.
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The best fishermen not only know where the fish are biting, but exactly what type of bait or lure is needed to catch the big ones. That's why I say that the best fisherman of all is not a man but a bird.
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We have mentioned a number of New World sites at which ancient Old World writing has been found. These examples, of which there are many, serve to show that before the Dark Ages, knowledge of the New World was fairly common and that man has always been curious and resourceful.
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Several recent Creation Moments programs have featured the sounds some ants make, called stridulation. Not only do some caterpillars also make such sounds, but also they appear to communicate with some types of ants.
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The males of a fish called the three-spined stickleback turn blue-green on the tops of their bodies and red on their bellies when breeding. That is, unless they are male three-spined sticklebacks in the Chehalis river of Washington. These fish turn black when breeding. Evolutionists have long tied this behavior to the fact that the mudminnows in the Chehalis turn black as a threat display.
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We have all heard evolutionists claim certain rocks and fossils to be millions of years old. They claim to arrive at these long ages using index fossils. Index fossils are creatures that supposedly lived during specific ages. We are told that these ages are independently verified using radiometric dating methods. But is all of this as neat and certain as evolutionists say it is?
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Those who believe that the universe, the Earth and everything on it are the result of mindless evolution are hard-pressed to explain the origin of intelligence. Some even try to argue that there is no such thing as intelligence, saying that we only think that certain things reflect intelligence. As we learn more about the world, it takes an ever greater faith to believe in evolution.
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For over a century, scientists have wondered about the embellishments that at least 78 species of spiders weave into their webs. The extra bars and Xs seem to have no obvious purpose. Some have suggested that they might be hiding spots, sun shields, bird warnings or insect lures. Now a researcher at the University of Kyoto may have discovered the purpose of these designs. If he is right, evolutionary theory may be the victim of these spiders' webs.
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A few years ago, a news release revealed the result of a poll on what Americans prefer to have taught in public schools about origins. The poll was done for an organization that favors a dogmatic teaching of evolution. The news release stated only that a huge majority of Americans, 83 percent, favor the teaching of evolution in the public schools. We at Creation Moments were led to investigate this poll more closely since this poll result runs contrary to other recent polls.
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When God finished the creation on the sixth day, He declared all that He made to be "very good." There was no death, no decay, no pain and no sickness. When Adam and Eve committed the first sin, their actions resulted in sickness, decay and death. How could a finished, perfect creation have the ability to become this way?
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A healthy person with a minor injury heals without any thought required for the healing process. More severe injuries may require medical attention, but no amount of thought concentration on the healing process will speed healing along. This automatic healing process could not have evolved because without the power to heal in the first place, any injury to any creature would be ultimately fatal.
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According to evolutionary naturalism, the solar system began as a disk of hot, rotating gas. The sun began to form first. At the same time, the planets began to form as they collected material out of the gaseous disk. This process generated more heat, with the largest planets collecting more of the heat than smaller planets. The amount of heat collected by the large, heavy planets like Jupiter compared with a planet like the Earth accounts for the different elemental composition of the planets.
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According to evolutionary theory, humans had a common ancestor with chickens 300 million years ago. Much more recently in evolutionary time, we had a common ancestor with the mouse. One would then be led to conclude that, in evolutionary terms, we are genetically closer to the mouse than to the chicken. Of course, we must stress that we at Creation Moments have good reasons to reject all those multiple millions of years.
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Evolutionists say that an animal's unique features developed because the unique feature gives the animal some survival benefit. Just what that benefit might be is open to interpretation, and sometimes the explanation is a little fuzzy. Sometimes the explanation just doesn't work.
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A few years ago we did a Creation Moments program about the amazing fact that male seahorses, not the females, hatch the young and are solely responsible for their nurture. New research now tells us more about the relationship between the male and female seahorse. One of the surprises is that the female seahorse practices a limited form of monogamy.
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Scientists who believe in evolution have a faith just as much as any Bible-believing Christian. However, it is a very different faith than Christianity. This fact was illustrated when some secular scientists declared the bones labeled "Piltdown man" an ape-like human ancestor. Only after a couple of generations did they bother to actually study the bones and discover them to be an obvious hoax. They did the same with "Nebraska man," which turned out to be a pig.
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On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens exploded, devastating over 200 square miles in Southwestern Washington State. The heat spewing from the volcano melted the snow that covered its heights, creating mud flows that covered the surrounding area. The grim prediction was that forests and wildlife would never be found on or near the mountain within our lifetimes.
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Chocolate has long been thought of as a junk food. However, new research on several fronts reveals that chocolate should probably be reclassified as a health food.
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Here on our Creation Moments program we frequently report on fossil finds that show that rocks don't take millions of years to form. We feature many of these, rather than just one example, in the hope that it will become common knowledge that it is not unusual for rocks to form rapidly.
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There are several groups of people around the world that claim to be part of the Jewish people. Many even practice a form of the Judaic rites. But they don't have any provable connections to the Jewish people.
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Flying insects have been a huge mystery to scientists, especially those who believe in evolution. Until recently, scientists didn't know how flying insects could fly. Wind tunnel tests on insect wings showed that their wings produce anywhere from a third to half as much lift needed for flight, depending on the species. Yet, horseflies have been clocked flying at up to 90 miles per hour!
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Flying insects have been a huge mystery to scientists, especially those who believe in evolution. Until recently, scientists didn't know how flying insects could fly. Wind tunnel tests on insect wings showed that their wings produce anywhere from a third to half as much lift needed for flight, depending on the species. Yet, horseflies have been clocked flying at up to 90 miles per hour!
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Mice of the Sahara Desert pile up round stones in front of their burrows, making small pyramids through which the air can flow. As the morning air heats up, the rocks heat up much more slowly. As the dew point of the rapidly warming air rises, water in the air begins to condense on the cooler stones. It turns out that having round stones leaves exactly the right shaped spaces for this to take place. This is how the mice get their water.
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El Niños have been periodically changing the weather patterns of North and South America for thousands of years. El Niños in the Andes result in a four to six week delay in the rain needed for the potato crops on which ancient farmers depended. They even knew ahead of time when to wait to plant their potatoes for best results.
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Why do ants like electricity and why can they sense microwaves? If evolution were true, how would ants evolve a love for electricity in only the short time that man has been producing it? For what purpose would they have evolved the ability to sense microwave radiation long before man was using it?
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Researchers studying genetics have concluded that the evolutionary tree of life does not reflect the facts of biochemistry.
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We have, in past Creation Moments programs, mentioned studies that have shown that married couples enjoy a happier, healthier life than cohabiting couples. What we haven't mentioned is that hundreds of studies have been done on this subject by university and government groups. And each study supports the same conclusions: cohabitation without the commitment of marriage is a formula for trouble in life.
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You have probably never heard of the last animal you would ever want to meet undefended. This animal, found in the wild only in Madagascar, is called the fossa (pronounced FOO-sa). A typical specimen weighs only about 14 pounds. Its body is about 28 inches long, but its tail is another 28 inches long.
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The Old Testament frequently and disapprovingly mentions the fact that the Israelites often built "high places." The Bible indicates that high places were worship centers where a pagan religion or a mix of Israelite and Canaanite religion was practiced.
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Our solar system has a nice, neat structure. The planets all have nice, stable, relatively round orbits. This structure protects the Earth from being struck by another large planet. Evolutionary theories about the origin of the solar system have always said that it formed into its current neat structure from a swirling disk of hot gases that once orbited the sun.
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The creosote shrub is common in the desert of the American Southwest and northern Mexico. This remarkable plant is not only well designed for life in the desert, but also it protects itself from those who would munch on its leaves.
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Researchers searching for new medicines have been scouring the jungles of the world. Many of our new and most powerful drugs have come from Old and New World jungles. Sometimes researchers learn something about these medicines from local healers, who already seem to know how to use them.
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While all living things defy evolution, some do it more clearly than others. The echidna is one example of a creature that obviously challenges evolution. This Australian marvel is often called the spiny anteater. However, it has little resemblance to anteaters in other parts of the world.
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How did Noah have sons and build the Ark when he was 500 years old? Today, scientists can measure a marked decline in mental abilities even in a healthy 50 year old man. Undoubtedly there are several factors, with God behind each of them. However, one of the answers appears to be nutrition.
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Both Spain and Portugal claim to have discovered Brazil in the 16th century. However, mounting evidence suggests that neither country can claim discovery of Brazil.
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Scientists have discovered that seemingly purposeless behaviors among leaf cutting ants actually serve an important function. Leaf cutting ants cut green leaves into pieces that they can carry back to the nest. As they cut a leaf, they vibrate, creating an effect like an electric knife. Since they can cut the leaves without vibrating, it would seem to have no purpose.
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When a honeybee finds a good source of food, she returns to the hive to tell fellow bees where it is. Her dance tells nest mates the direction of the source from the nest and how far away it is. Researchers have long puzzled over how the bee knows the distance she has traveled. Several theories have been proposed, but until now, none have been proven.
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Unfortunately, many biblical archaeologists do not accept the Bible's account of the period of the judges. They believe that there was no distinct Israel during this time.
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While the word "fossil" is a modern term, people thousands of years ago may have known about fossils. If they did, they didn't know what fossils were. That's the new theory proposed by a group that includes a folklorist and some paleontologists. Their theory is based on the figures painted on a 2,500 year old Corinthian vase.
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It wasn't until 1839 that cell theory was first described by Theodor Schwann in basically its modern form. By 1858, researcher Rudolf Virchow had learned enough about the cell to conclude that every cell must come from a preexisting cell. But Charles Darwin wasn't paying attention. The very next year he published a book, On the Origin of Species, which theorized that the first cell was formed from non living matter.
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Scientists have learned that the eye is a multipurpose organ. They have long tried to figure out how our internal biological clock is set. This amazing clock is located in the brain and follows a period of almost exactly a day. It controls many of the body's rhythms, so it's important that it is properly set.
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Some people think that they can believe in Jesus Christ as their Savior and at the same time believe God created through evolution. These people are called theistic evolutionists or progressive creationists. What kind of nature would a god have who creates through the death that is essential to evolution?
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There are 13 species of a brightly plumed little songbird known as the fairy wren. The birds are found in Australia and New Guinea. So colorful are their feathers that the various species go by names like "superb," "splendid" and "lovely." However, even more noteworthy is the birds' unusual behavior.
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If you own a car, you know that it has an engine, doors and, of course, wheels. There are some engineering solutions to transportation problems that are clearly better than others, and no matter who makes the car, designers eventually arrive at the same solutions because they work best.
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Charles Darwin recognized that ants challenged his theory of natural selection. He even mentioned it in his Origin of Species. He even asked how the situation with the lowly ant could ever be reconciled with his theory. He never did come up with an answer, and neither have modern evolutionists.
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On recent Creation Moments programs we have talked about several evidences that strongly suggest contact between Europe and the New World before Columbus. Some evidence even suggests that knowledge of the New World was common before the Dark Ages. Now, mainstream science has concluded that the Romans made it nearly as far as Mexico City by the second century A.D.
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Evolutionists often claim that evolution can produce living things that look as if they are designed. This is their way of answering arguments that things that look designed don't need a Designer. However, in January of 2000, a paleontologist and an astronomer teamed up to publish a book that says that conditions on Earth are so unique, there is probably no other life like us in the universe. (We do need to keep in mind, however, that they write from an evolutionary perspective.)
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Here at Creation Moments we have mentioned a few examples of fossils that, without argument, were formed recently. We have been trying to show that when you see a fossil or hear the word, you should not automatically think millions of years. In an attempt to maintain the illusion that fossils automatically must be millions of years old, evolutionists dismiss the examples of young fossils as freaks of nature. However, there are many examples of recent fossils.
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Researchers at Purdue University are demonstrating that parrots are capable of intelligent communication. Their carefully designed experiments have convinced even skeptics that the two parrots under study are not just giving conditioned responses. Their results are challenging the accepted scientific knowledge about animal intelligence and the evolutionary claim that intelligence is one of the traits that separate us from animals.
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You may remember the "ice man" discovered in a glacier in the Alps in 1991. His frozen body had been preserved in the ice for thousands of years. Even his hair, beard and skin were largely intact. While there is some debate about when he lived, he is easily dated, in the biblical framework, to within several centuries after the Flood.
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The Bible tells us that at the beginning of the Israelites' 430-year stay in Egypt, they were well respected for Joseph's sake. Later, when the Egyptian leadership forgot how Joseph saved Egypt, it began making their lives difficult.
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Did you know that radiocarbon dating may offer supporting evidence for Noah's Flood? Many think that carbon dating provides evidence that the Earth is millions of years old, but this is not true. Radiocarbon dating can only reliably date things that are less than 3,000 years old.
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Warm-blooded creatures need to be able to vent excess heat or they begin to suffer heatstroke. One of the ways in which warm-blooded animals do this is through the nasal cavities. As they breathe, the air passes through sheets of mucous membranes that are designed to increase the surface area over which the air passes. These membranes have a rich blood supply.
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Scientists have long known that some ants communicate with one another using vibrations. They also know that these ants pick up vibrations through ears that are located in their knees. Ants in four subfamilies communicate using these vibrations. These ants tend to build nests with wood or dried pulp, which tend to carry the vibrations. Disturb a carpenter ant nest, and the vibrations will begin.
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Sometimes the Bible seems to offer unnecessary or even impossible details as it recounts a historical event. Take, for example, the Genesis account of Rachel's death while giving birth to Benjamin.
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Honey has always been a popular food. For thousands of years it was a symbol of prosperity. Perhaps honey's continuing appeal is one of the reasons there is so much research on honeybees. A research team has released their findings that explain how honeybees learn how to navigate. Another team has released information showing how bees know how far they have traveled.
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Modern evolutionists often give us the impression that evolution was accepted by the scientific community of Darwin's day. But the scientists of Darwin's day didn't hear his theory, slap themselves on the forehead, and say, "Of course!" In fact, some of the most influential scientists of the day were hostile to Darwinian evolution.
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A misunderstanding of some of the history recorded in Genesis has led some people to conclude that we are repeating the sins committed at the Tower of Babel. After all, we build huge cities and incredibly high skyscrapers. English is now virtually a universal language, and the Internet has led to the international pooling of knowledge.
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The usual theories for the origin of life have the first genetic material assembling itself by chance in a hot setting. Some have suggested that this may have happened in an undersea thermal vent or the side of a volcano. Trying to explain the origin of life without God suffers from many scientific problems. New research has now uncovered yet another problem.
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Today we look back on the European migration to North America as one of the results of a more enlightened age. When we do this, we forget that the American Indians migrated to North and South America from Asia and built their own culture long before the Europeans. If what a Texas Christian University linguist says is true, the Olmec Indians of the American Southwest and Central America may not have been Indians at all.
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Let's assume for a moment that the evolutionary explanation for the origin of the Earth and sun is correct. The sun formed about 4.6 billion years ago. Let's imagine that evolutionists are right in saying that life originated on Earth about 3.5 billion years ago. This scenario creates many scientific problems, but today we want to focus on one problem that is seldom mentioned.
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When Jesus healed people, they were usually immediately and completely healed. In several instances, He wasn't even in the presence of the person He healed. Then we come to a curious instance of a healing in the Gospel of Mark. Mark 8:22-25 tells us that Jesus was asked to heal a blind man in Bethsaida. After spitting on His hands and touching the man's eyes, He asked the blind man if he could see anything. The man announced that people looked like trees. After Jesus touched his eyes again, the man could see clearly.
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People who believe that God used evolution to bring about all living things claim that the Bible and evolution are telling the same story using different words. They say that everything in both stories happens in the same order. But is this really true?
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Over the years, Creation Moments has brought you countless examples of plants and animals that appear to have been designed because they really were designed! Nowhere is this easier to see than in the design of bird eggs.
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The rainbow eucalyptus tree is undoubtedly the most beautiful tree ever. Its bark looks like it was painted by an artist using a palette full of pastel pigments. Surprisingly, this tree's coat of many colors actually comes from the way its bark peels off the tree.
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Not long ago, a member of our Creation Moments staff went under the surgeon's knife. Cancerous growths had been discovered through a routine colonoscopy, so to keep the cancer from spreading, the growths and his ascending colon was surgically removed.
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Not long ago Creation Moments brought you a news report about NASA's search for extraterrestrial life and how they are quite sure they'll find it by the year 2035. The primary way they're searching for life is by looking for planets and moons with water. Where there's water, they hope to find life.
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"What a delicious-looking tomato," you say to yourself. But as you reach for it, that bright red tomato suddenly comes to life and jumps away in pursuit of its own lunch! That "tomato" you almost grabbed is actually a tomato frog, a creature found only on the island of Madagascar.
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NASA never seems to tire of looking for signs of life throughout the universe. Though the space agency is no longer involved with SETI, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life, it continues searching for water because water is necessary for life as we know it.
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From time to time we hear about scientific studies showing that Christians live longer and healthier lives than unbelievers. We also hear of studies proving that prayer really does work. One recent report, consisting of 1,500 different medical studies, showed that "people who are more religious and pray more have better mental and physical health."
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Lots of people today are skeptical that the ten plagues of Egypt described in the book of Exodus really took place. Today we'll tell you about a prominent Egyptian columnist who believes that the book of Exodus is historically true even though he has no love of the Hebrew Scriptures.
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What do the billionaires who founded such tech companies as PayPal, Google, Facebook, eBay, Napster and Netscape all have in common? They are all searching for the fountain of youth, hoping to extend the human lifespan to 150 years or much longer.
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If I were come out and say that "neo-Darwinism is effectively dead despite its persistence as textbook orthodoxy", you can be sure that evolutionists would be all over me. If I went on to say that our knowledge of genetics is now sufficient to reject evolution's slow, gradual selection of small mutational changes, you can bet evolutionists would hurl insults at me, using words I would not be permitted to repeat on this radio station.
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Number eleven in Science News magazine's top 25 top stories of the year 2014 was the discovery of thousands of microbe varieties lurking in the rivers and lakes beneath Antarctica's massive ice sheet.
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When a scientist dares to doubt Darwin in this day and age, the science establishment goes into attack mode. It will stop at nothing to silence anyone who dares to doubt their beloved Darwin. If you think I'm exaggerating, you need to read Dr. Jerry Bergman's thought-provoking and disturbing book, Slaughter of the Dissidents.
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Darwinists and climate-change alarmists are frequently heard to say that their respective topics are a matter of "settled science." They use this term to silence critics. But is this how science is supposed to work? The late Dr. Michael Crichton, best known as the author of Jurassic Park, didn't think so.
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If you have never opened a bottle of wine, let me give you a little instruction on how to use a corkscrew. First, you puncture the cork with the corkscrew's tip. Then you turn the handle, forcing the metal screw deeper and deeper into the cork. Finally, when it is deep inside the cork, you pull on the handle of the corkscrew, removing the cork from the bottle and spilling wine all over your white shirt!
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Alchemy is considered to have played a significant role in the development of early modern science. The history of alchemy is filled with fascinating stories about the precursor of chemistry and includes the names of such famous scientists as Robert Boyle and Roger Bacon. But perhaps no tale is more fascinating than the true story of glass-maker and alchemist Hennig Brand.
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Try as they might, no evolutionist can successfully explain how a four-legged ape-like creature evolved into a two-legged creature like man.
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While most evolutionists today would deny what I am about to say, many prominent evolutionists would agree that Darwin's "Origin of Species" utterly failed to explain the origin of species.
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The idea of multiverses – that our universe is one of many – has long been used in science fiction stories. But now, atheists and evolutionists are depending on it to be true! They're saying this to dispose of the obvious fact that we live in a finely tuned universe that bears the stamp of our Creator's design. We are lucky to inhabit just the right universe, they say.
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Did Moses know that germs – invisible to the naked eye – were the cause of disease thousands of years before the invention of the microscope?
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Though Louis Pasteur proved that life comes only from life, the myth that life can come from non-life – or abiogenesis – is still defended by evolutionists today. They now claim that while Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation, he did not prove that life comes only from life.
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The 40-year-long journey of Moses and the Israelites from Egypt to the land of promise continues to fascinate movie makers. From Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 silent film "The Ten Commandments" to the more recent "Exodus: Gods and Kings", the story of the Exodus never fails to excite our imagination. Even so, there are Bible scholars out there who are saying the Exodus never really happened. Some even insist that the Israelites never set foot in ancient Egypt.
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When most of us were in school, everybody knew that the terms "BC" and "AD" meant Before Christ and Anno Domine, meaning "in the year of our Lord." But those terms are disappearing as authors now prefer the terms "CE" and "BCE", which are abbreviations for "Common Era" and "Before the Common Era."
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Though it must surely be one of the most disgusting creatures in God's creation, the bird dung spider is yet another beautiful example of God's design.
Not only does the bird dung spider have a body covered with unattractive warts, the spider often produces a white thread and sits on it, looking almost exactly like bird poop that has fallen on a leaf.
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A bacterium has recently been photographed that is so tiny, researchers have debated about whether it could even exist. The bacterium has a volume of only .009 cubic microns. To put that into perspective, a micron is one millionth of a meter. This means that more than 150,000 of them could fit on the tip of a single human hair.
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When a well-respected scientist says anything that is critical of Darwinism, two things are bound to happen. First, evolutionists will put pressure on the scientist to retract his comments. The second thing is that creationists will quote the scientist to show that even some scientists understand the weaknesses of evolution. This is what we are doing on today's broadcast.
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I could easily fill up today's entire Creation Moments broadcast by listing the scientific accomplishments and affiliations of Paul Davies. His research interests span the fields of cosmology, quantum field theory and astrobiology.
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Evolutionists are rejoicing over a fossil jaw found in the Ledi-Geraru research area of Ethiopia. They say it pushes back evidence for early humans to 2.8 million years ago and predates all previously known fossils of mankind's lineage by about 400,000 years. The fossil which has caused such excitement consists only of the left side of a lower jaw and five teeth.
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What makes owls so good at catching prey as they fly through the night sky? Part of the credit obviously goes to their amazing eyes that are able to see with such clarity in low-light conditions. But owls also have another design feature that allows them to sneak up on their prey without being noticed. Owls, you see, were designed to fly in virtual silence.
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Criminals who have been linked to a crime through their fingerprints may not be happy that they were born with a unique pattern of "wrinkles" on their fingertips. But we can all be glad that God gave us fingerprints because they greatly improve our sense of touch.
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How often have you heard people say that the Bible must be wrong because science disagrees with it? That attitude certainly isn't new. It was common in 1932 when Dr. Harry Rimmer wrote his classic book, The Harmony of Science and Scripture. Even back then, Bible skeptics were using science to test Scripture. But as Dr. Rimmer pointed out, when science has matured to the point of infallibility, then and only then could it be used to test Scripture.
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Did you know that the intermittent windshield wiper on your car was discovered in the blink of an eye? According to the book Inspired Evidence: Only One Reality, here's the story of how it came about.
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Many thousands of people have visited the Creation Moments website after seeing a photo we posted at the popular WorldNetDaily website. The photo shows a cow with spots on its hide that look exactly like a map of the world. We asked readers if they thought the map on the cow was just a lucky arrangement of spots or if the photo was the product of a Photoshop artist.
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Numerous Chinese legends refer to a mysterious carriage on which a mechanical rider rode. Its arm was outstretched and continuously pointed south no matter which way the carriage turned. How did it accomplish such a feat? If you're guessing that magnets had something to do with it, you'd be wrong. Actually, the south-pointing chariot was invented about 800 years before the first navigational use of a magnetic compass.
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If you want to snack on fruit from a 10-story-high Grandidier's baobab tree, you'd better bring a very tall ladder. That's because there are no branches to climb until you get to near the very top of the tree. And you can forget about wrapping your arms and legs around the trunk. The baobab's massive cylindrical trunks measure up to 10 feet across, and are quite smooth.
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Why in the world would engineers at Mercedes-Benz and DaimlerChrysler turn to a fish built like a box for inspiration on automotive design? After all, automakers want their vehicles to travel just as efficiently through air as sharks swim through water. But the boxfish is anything but streamlined.
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Who do you think was the greatest mass murderer the world has ever seen? Adolf Hitler? Not even close. According to Creation Moments Board Chairman Mark Cadwallader, the greatest mass murderer was China's Mao Tse Tung. During his political reign, Mao was responsible for murdering 77 million people while enforcing his "Great Leap Forward", and he "purged" millions more during what he called "The Cultural Revolution".
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We love it when one of our listeners brings something of interest to our attention that we can pass along to other listeners. A listener sent us a link to an article at the National Geographic website on little-known facts about the eyes of animals. Since National Geographic treats evolution as fact, no mention was made that God created the eyes of these animals. But we are sure that our listeners will be quick to give credit where credit is due!
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The foundation of evolution is so weak, the flight feather of a bird can send it crumbling to the ground. Perhaps no one is better equipped to speak on the amazing design of flight feathers than Dr. Stuart Burgess, the engineer who designed the solar array deployment system on the European Space Agency's earth observation satellite. In addition to his engineering work at Bristol University, he is the author of Hallmarks of Design: Evidence of Purposeful Design and Beauty in Nature.
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As we've mentioned on previous Creation Moments programs, our bodies contain trillions of bacteria, viruses and fungi, most of which are harmless. But researchers have now discovered a virus that infects human brains and makes us more stupid. No, we're not making this up.
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Today's Creation Moment is taken from a viewpoint commentary written by Creation Moments Board Chairman Mark Cadwallader.
The date: October 31, 1517. The place: Germany. The event: Martin Luther nails his famous 95 Theses to the Wittenberg church door. Luther was primarily protesting the sale of indulgences, a direct attack on God's free gift of salvation.
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Most people consider Charles Darwin to be the father of evolution. The fact is, someone beat him to it by six hundred years. In the thirteenth century, a Muslim scholar by the name of Nasir al-Din Tusi proposed a theory of evolution that in many ways foreshadowed Darwin's.
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Though evolutionists would have you believe there's a war between science and faith, the very idea of a conflict is preposterous. Creation Moments board member Dr. Donald Clark points out that many of the early modern scientists were Christians – like Galileo, Copernicus and Newton. Because of their faith, they believed in a God of order, and this drove them to look for the order in the universe in the first place.
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When Creation Moments posted a story with the headline "Dawkins Becomes a Creationist," many evolutionists reacted in disbelief, saying that one of their own – namely, Richard Dawkins – could never become a creationist. And yet, a scientist and veterinarian by the name of Karen Dawkins was also an evolutionist … until God changed her way of thinking.
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It's a sunny, sweltering summer day, and you're looking for a place to park your car. Since you know you'll be gone for several hours, you look for a nice shaded spot so your car will be more comfortable when you return. Or it's a blustery winter day with sub-zero temperatures. This time you park your car where there's as much sunlight as possible so that the sunlight streaming through your windows will heat your car's interior while you're gone.
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You can thank roving pieces of DNA that you were born rather than hatched from an egg. At least, that's what evolutionary biologist Vincent Lynch and his team at the University of Chicago tell us. Science News magazine brings us the story about roving pieces of DNA that helped early mammals replace egg-laying in favor of giving birth to live young.
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See if you can answer the following question from Creation Moments Board Director Mark Cadwallader. The eleventh chapter of Hebrews includes a list of heroes of the faith. Each verse that introduces a faith hero begins with the words "by faith" or "through faith." Can you name the very first one mentioned in Hebrews 11? Also, can you identify why he or she was said to exercise faith?
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If an infinite number of monkeys sat down at an infinite number of typewriters, eventually one of these monkeys would type Shakespeare's play Hamlet. At least that's what French mathematician Émile Borel proposed in his infinite monkey theorem – an idea that scientists use to assert that given enough time, even evolution can happen.
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When the South American false-eyed frog is approached by a predator, it behaves in a way that evolution is powerless to explain. It turns its back on the predator.
So how is this a good strategy? In the time it takes to spin around, the frog's back is changing color to look like a pair of large, menacing eyes, complete with black pupils surrounded by blue irises. And it accomplishes this in only one second.
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Creation Moments and friends of our ministry spend countless hours sharing their faith and the truth of biblical creation on social networking websites. One such creationist, Allen Dunckley, Th.D. recently ran into a person he describes as a radical atheist. The atheist laid down a challenge with these words: "Demonstrate a causal link to why your god needs to exist or does exist."
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The long and skinny shrimpfish must surely be one of the strangest sea creatures to come from the hand of a Creator who never ceases to amaze us with His wonders. Of course, evolutionists claim that the shrimpfish is a product of millions of years of evolution. Let's take a close look at this remarkable creature and see for ourselves which view holds water.
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Perhaps you'll remember that it was Arthur Eddington who measured the bending of starlight near the sun during an eclipse in 1919. His work validated details of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and established Eddington as one of the greatest astronomers of all time.
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Evolutionists are simple minded. It's a fact! Charles Darwin thought that the cell was virtually as simple as a blob of gelatin with a nucleus inside, and evolutionists have been simple minded ever since.
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It has long been known that electric eels are able to immobilize prey with a jolt of electricity. But new research, reported in the journal Science, has shown that eels also use their electric organs to make fish come out of hiding. A researcher from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, found that the electric discharges from eels caused the muscles of their prey to twitch, making them easier to capture by revealing their whereabouts.
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What do a butterfly's shimmering wings, a fish's opalescent scales, and a peacock's brilliant feathers have in common? None of the colors come from pigments. As an article at the Gizmodo website rightly points out, "All of their beautifully iridescent colors are produced by the physical interaction of light with sophisticated nanoscale architecture that we are only just beginning to understand."
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Have you ever heard the palindrome "Madam, I'm Adam"? With a palindrome, the letters are exactly the same whether you read the sentence from left to right or from right to left.
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Evolutionists tell us that we used to walk on all fours, just like the apes from which we evolved. While this is fine for the Planet of the Apes science-fiction films, creationists are adamant that such a theory should not appear in school textbooks.
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Evolutionists hate the very idea of the worldwide flood because they know that such a catastrophe would cause the Earth to appear to be much older than it truly is. And without those long ages of time, evolution becomes an impossibility.
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While attending school in England, I was taught that my knee is a hinge joint – a rather simple design, much like the hinge of a door. But I now know that the knee is actually a masterpiece of design that could only have come from the hand of a supremely intelligent Designer and Creator.
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Some time ago, we told you about the nineteenth-century paleontologist Louis Dollo, who proposed a law that has become a cornerstone of evolutionary belief. Dollo's law says that a structure or organ lost during the course of evolution would not reappear in that organism. In other words, evolution never shifts into reverse.
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Some sports figures have practically made an art of trash-talking. Perhaps the most famous of them all is Muhammad Ali. His taunts-filled trash-talk – both before and during the bouts – worked so well, it helped him become heavyweight boxing champion.
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What if explorers actually found Noah's Ark? Would it instantly change unbelievers into followers of Jesus? Would scientists suddenly drop their belief in an old earth and millions of years of evolution and start believing the Bible?
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A few days ago, a light bulb on my ceiling fan exploded, showering my room with thousands of large, small, and tiny pieces of glass. I breathed a sigh of relief because I hadn't been hit by any flying glass. But there's another reason I was grateful.
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Welcome to Australia! This delightful continent is home to many of the world's most poisonous snakes and spiders, not to mention deadly sea creatures like the box jellyfish, salt water crocodiles, and everybody's favorite – the great white shark. Today, however, we're going to talk about another creature you don't want to meet on your next trip down under. It's called the jumper ant because it can jump as high as two inches into the air. But most people call it the bulldog ant, and with good reason.
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One of our listeners – pastor and creationist Phil Spry – told us a remarkable story that I'm going to share with you in his own words.
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Though we are aware of no confirmed reports of meatballs falling from the sky during a rainstorm, there have been hundreds of reports of strange things falling from the clouds during strong storms. And sometimes, this even includes living animals.
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How many times have you seen headlines proclaiming that "Sixty billion planets in the Milky Way could support life" or "One hundred billion planets in our galaxy may harbor complex life"? It seems that the numbers change with each new announcement. Where did those numbers come from in the first place?
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One of the most interesting artifacts at the British Museum is the Lycurgus Cup, a beautiful goblet made by the Romans sixteen hundred years ago. The cup depicts the story of King Lycurgus, entangled in grapevines for his treachery against Dionysus, the god of wine in Greek mythology.
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Behold the giant oarfish – a creature of which legends are made. With its snake-like body that can grow up to fifty-six feet in length, the longest bony fish in existence has inspired countless legends about sea serpents.
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Most evolutionists today hold to the belief that modern-day birds evolved from dinosaurs. In fact, they now feel that large, carnivorous theropods like T. Rex rapidly shrank over a period of 50 million years until they evolved into our fine feathered friends.
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Try as they might, evolutionists are powerless to account for the microscopic rotary motor that propels bacteria through fluid just like a powerboat skims along the surface of a lake. But if the bacterium's flagellar motor troubles evolutionists, they must really be puzzled by the fast-moving MO-1 bacterium. After all, its hair-like flagellum isn't powered by just one motor. It uses seven motors all hooked up in parallel!
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What scares you more – the polar ice caps melting and a worldwide cataclysm or the increased prices of everything you buy because of exaggerated global-warming claims? What upsets thinking people are all of the false and preposterous claims about global warming they hear on the nightly news.
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"That's a knotty problem!" This figure of speech is used to describe a problem that's complex and difficult to solve – filled with knots, so to speak. Today, we're going to talk about a knotty solution that God has given to a fish that's been called the most disgusting creature in the sea.
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Are you superstitious? A Harris poll conducted early in 2014 found that: 21 percent of Americans believe that knocking on wood prevents bad luck; 20 percent wouldn't dream of walking under a ladder; 14 percent believe it's unlucky to open an umbrella indoors; and 12 percent think the number 13 is unlucky. In fact, 14 percent of Americans said they believe Friday the 13th is an unlucky day.
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Parents, wouldn't it be nice if you didn't have to deal with dirty diapers during the early years of your child's life? And think of the money you would save! Too bad your little angel isn't more like a little robin.
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If you're concerned about maintaining your privacy in a world that is bent on snooping into every aspect of your life, you may not like what scientists are working on now. Researchers at MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe have developed a computer algorithm that is able to reconstruct an audio signal by analyzing the small vibrations of objects depicted in video. In other words, your potato chip bag is recording your words.
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Have you ever gone outside on a bright, sunny day and been almost blinded by the light? Then imagine what it must be like for penguins to go about their lives with the intense glare of polar sunlight reflecting off a snowy or watery landscape.
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How far will scientists and museums go to get people to believe in the theory of evolution? As scientist Carl Werner reveals in his book and on his webpage Evolution: The Grand Experiment, they will readily fabricate fake fossils and pass them off as real.
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"That's evolution for you!" That's what Dr. Rick Fairhurst, malaria researcher at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said when talking about malaria parasites that are becoming resistant to drugs that had been effective at fighting the deadly disease.
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One of the most solemn days of the year for the Jewish people is not a biblical holy day. No, this national day of mourning – known as Tisha B'Av – is commemorated because of the catastrophes that happened to Israel throughout history on the ninth day of the month of Av.
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It looks like H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man has just come closer to becoming a reality. A group of Caltech researchers recently announced they have succeeded in making a mouse transparent. The researchers said that their new scientific technique – called Perfusion-assisted Agent Release in Situ, or PARS for short – will help scientists study organs and tissues in the lab, and could even help diagnose illnesses in humans.
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Creation Moments has aired a number of programs about theistic evolution. We have also written a number of articles, which you will find at our website, about this false and dangerous belief. We interact with theistic evolutionists almost every day and have found them to be almost identical to atheists in their exceedingly low view of the Bible.
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If you're a parent, you undoubtedly remember being awakened by your little angel crying in the middle of the night. Sometimes it's dad who gets out of bed to see what's wrong. But more often, it's mom who gets up to breastfeed her baby. But now a Harvard scientist tells us that the baby who demands a nighttime meal has a more sinister reason. The child is trying to prevent siblings from being born.
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If there is an unwritten law in the field of science, it is this: Thou shalt not discover anything that even suggests that evolution could be wrong. And a second unwritten law is like unto it: If you do discover anything that undermines evolution, keep it to yourself.
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Birds and insects that take nectar from a flower without picking up any pollen are known as nectar robbers. Now, you'd probably think that nectar robbers would be harmful to plants and trees, but the desert teak tree couldn't survive without a nectar robber – the purple sunbird.
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What animal is the world's best smeller? Scientists now think it's the African bush elephant. As we've mentioned on previous Creation Moments programs, elephants possess a versatile trunk that can toss logs, grasp food, spray water and even pick up branches to use as tools.
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In light of their expectation to find life on other planets, the news story I'm going to tell you about today must have been sheer torture for the Science News magazine to report.
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Also known as the water ouzel, the dipper is a small bird so named because of its characteristic dipping or bobbing motion when perched beside the water of fast-flowing rivers.
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When this fish is taken out of the water, its face almost looks like a very sad person. In 2013 it was voted the "World's Ugliest Animal". What is this creature that was adopted as the mascot of the Ugly Animal Preservation Society? It's the appropriately named blobfish.
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A new species of dinosaur has been found. Scientists are calling Changyuraptor yangi the biggest feathered dinosaur ever discovered. Here at Creation Moments, however, we're calling it a feathered bird. Dinosaur-to-bird evolution is nothing more than a flight of fancy.
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The next time you enjoy a vanilla ice cream cone, keep in mind that vanilla wouldn't even exist if evolution were true. Evolutionists don't have a blooming idea about the origin of a special symbiotic relationship between a particular flower and a very special bee.
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The great scientist James Clerk Maxwell, a contemporary of Charles Darwin, was certainly no friend of Darwin's theory of evolution. Even so, the staunchest evolutionists today would agree that Maxwell was a scientist of gigantic proportions, ranking right up there with celebrated scientists like Sir Isaac Newton.
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When most people look at a photo of the Goniurellia tridens fruit fly, they think it must have been created by a talented Photoshop artist. No, this fly with images of ant-like insects on its wings is no accident of nature. The images were put there by a Master Designer.
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Humans, birds and seals are all known to navigate by the stars. But now, the lowly dung beetle could be the first example of an insect being a stargazer. These lowly insects appear to use the stars of the Milky Way to know where they are going. Most humans can't even accomplish that!
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If we can learn anything from science, it's this – the scientific facts of today won't necessarily be the facts of tomorrow. The simple truth is that a scientific fact that is no longer a fact was never a fact to begin with!
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Evolutionists and atheists like to think they've got Bible-believing creationists stumped when they ask, "If a worldwide flood really happened, where did all the water go? If Noah's flood covered the mountaintops, what happened to all that water?"
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Only four in 10 Americans believe God created the Earth and anatomically modern humans less than 10,000 years ago. That's the bad news, according to the latest Gallup poll. Even worse is the finding that half of Americans now believe that humans evolved over millions of years, though most of these people say that God guided the process.
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After three months of number crunching, using 8,000 computers running in parallel, scientists say they have been able to build a model of our "evolving universe" in a computer simulation.
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In his book, The Blind Watchmaker, evolutionary evangelist Richard Dawkins famously declared: "Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose." Yes, seeing design in nature is so natural, so common-sensical that even young children innately know that nature is filled with purposeful design.
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Are zebras white with black stripes or are they black with white stripes? If you're thinking that zebras just have a coat of two colors and that they don't have a "background" color at all, think again. Embryologists tell us that the zebra's background color is black and that their stripes and bellies are white additions.
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Over the years, Creation Moments has been introducing you to animals that are superior to humans when it comes to such things as eyesight, hearing and the ability to survive in conditions that are too hot or cold for us humans. But now, some scientists in Australia are saying that animals are smarter than us, too!
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Have you seen those animated films featuring characters made out of clay? Well, scientists at Cornell University have now published a study in which they claim that clay could have helped real life arise spontaneously from non-life millions of years ago. Scientists refer to this as abiogenesis. But Creation Moments says it's just as likely that one of those animated clay characters could suddenly come to life.
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If you think that light-emitting diode bulbs are bright, wait until you see what scientists are developing – an LED that's much brighter than the bulbs we're already using. And we can thank one of God's most delightful creatures – the firefly – for lighting the path to these brighter bulbs!
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Humans aren't the only ones who use sign language, a recent study has found. Two types of fish are now known to use gestures to help them capture prey. Both the grouper and coral trout hunt cooperatively with other kinds of aquatic sea life. And they pull this off with sign language.
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Until recently it was commonly thought that humans can smell approximately 10,000 different odors. But that's no longer thought to be true. So how many different odors can that nose in the middle of your face detect?
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Previously Creation Moments has reported on the surprising discovery of soft tissue, collagen, blood and even DNA in dinosaur bones. Researchers now claim they have discovered how such tissues can be found in bones that are supposedly millions of years old. A team of researchers, using Carbon-14 dating on multiple samples of bone from eight dinosaurs, revealed that the bones are only 22,000 to 39,000 years old!
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On a previous broadcast, we told you about the IPCC report designed to frighten people with dire warnings about the destruction of our planet if the world's governments don't take serious measures now to combat man-made global warming.
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On the last day of March, 2014, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a report warning that the effects of climate change are already occurring on all continents. They went on to predict that mankind would face catastrophic consequences if we don't take drastic measures right now. But as you'll see in a moment, the report was released one day too early.
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What creature lives deep underground, has a dark purple head and a blue-grey body, can grow up to nine feet in length and sounds like a bathtub draining of water? It's the Giant Gippsland earthworm of Australia, of course!
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Meet Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, a brilliant scientist who worked at the Max-Planck Institute until his retirement. Though he has written four books on the subject of evolution, he has infuriated evolutionists everywhere by daring to challenge Neo-Darwinism on scientific grounds.
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In March of 2014 a team of scientists headed by astronomer John M. Kovac of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced that they had finally found the evidence they were seeking to support the theory that the universe had a beginning.
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Graphene may be the most unusual material that will ever be produced. It has already revolutionized the world of physics and won the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics for physicist Andre Geim and his colleague, Kostya Novoselow.
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The heart is an amazingly complex organ consisting of muscle tissue. And what do muscles do? They contract when stimulated by electric pulses. Though the human heart will beat 2-3 billion times in a person's lifetime, heart disease is one of the most common causes of death. That's why researchers have been looking for a way to produce artificial heart tissue. Have they finally succeeded?
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Has Darwin's dilemma finally been solved? Darwin's dilemma has been vexing evolutionists for more than 150 years. Charles Darwin, you see, was unable to explain the sudden arrival in Cambrian rock of most of the phyla we have today when no fossil evidence of their ancestors can be found in pre-Cambrian rock.
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Would you believe that life on planet Earth was the result of icy comets striking the Earth's surface long, long ago? We didn't think so. But a team of researchers from three distinguished institutions would disagree with you.
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The University of Tübingen's Institute of Anatomy recently discovered a fish with what they called "a previously unknown type of eye." The glasshead barreleye has a cylindrical eye pointing upwards to see prey, predators and potential mates. But the eye also has a mirror-like second retina which is able to detect bioluminescent flashes created by deep-sea denizens to the sides and below, reports Professor Hans-Joachim Wagner.
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As you know, bats are able to find their way around and locate their prey using echolocation – high-pitched sounds that they also use to keep from flying into trees and other bats. But scientists have now learned that one particular kind of bat emits another call that warns other bats to stay away from bugs they've claimed for themselves.
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For many years, Creation Moments has been sharing information about the ways that plants and trees talk to one another to protect each other from invaders. Many scientists have ridiculed us for making such outrageous claims. But they're not laughing any longer.
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How smart are Americans when it comes to science? That's what the National Science Foundation attempts to find out every two years. The results of their 2014 survey – which included more than 2,200 adults – gave Americans a rather poor grade. But are Americans really less knowledgeable about science or is the NSF's survey biased against the many Bible-believing Christians in America? Let's take a look.
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Mechanical gears – like those found in clocks – have been around since the Greeks are thought to have invented them around 300 B.C. But scientists have now discovered a small hopping insect equipped with a set of living gears!
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Evolutionists tell us a 66-million-year-old feathered dinosaur resembling a giant demonic bird was discovered in the fossil-rich Hell Creek formation of South and North Dakota. Not surprisingly, this newly discovered dinosaur species was dubbed the "chicken from hell".
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When one hears the term "pyramid builders," one usually thinks of the Egyptians, Incas or the Aztecs, whose famous pyramids were built for religious purposes. You may not know that the Greeks also built pyramids. But as we might expect of the Greeks, their pyramids served a practical, everyday purpose.
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Did you know that there was no October 5, 1582? There wasn't even an October 6 that year. Why? The story begins with the Earth's orbit. A year is exactly 365 days, 5 hours 48 minutes and 46 seconds longer. This means that every year when the day of your birth arrives, the Earth is not exactly where it was in its orbit on the day you were born. Though the eleven-minute error is small, it does add up over hundreds of years.
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Rove beetles are found in the rain forests of Costa Rica and have three different ways of making a living. Their largest prey are the blow flies that frequent animal dung. The beetles wait on the dung for a blowfly to land, then stalk their prey with the skill of a cat. They can even capture their prey in the air if it tries to escape. But dung doesn't last long in the rain forest, because dung beetles quickly haul it off.
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Are we, as human beings, as good as it gets? According to several influential evolutionary scientists, human beings are as good as it gets, and evolution has stopped for us. Some dispute this, saying that human evolution is still happening, but it's invisible. Although none of this sounds very much like science, such claims have fueled new debate among evolutionists.
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We have noted many times the different ways in which bats defy evolutionary explanations. For their echolocation systems to evolve, bats had to develop simultaneously the ability to make high pitched sounds, hear those sounds, and figure out what they mean. How did they eat before they evolved these abilities? Then there is the problem of evolving typical mammalian forearms into bat wings without crippling the creature in the process. Even evolutionists admit that the evolution of all these features even once is highly unlikely.
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In October of 1999 scientists announced the discovery of a new fossil at the National Geographic Society in Washington. Scientists from the Dinosaur Museum in Blanding, Utah, and the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, China, announced the discovery of a so called "missing link." The feathered fossil was clearly a bird, but it had the tail of a small dinosaur. They named it Archaeoraptor.
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Popular psychology has for years declared that troubled young people, especially those who become violent, suffer from low self esteem. But three studies released in the summer of 1999 conclude the opposite: young people who become violent have too much self esteem.
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Those who believe that all living things are the product of millions of years of evolution tell us that living things develop features that aid their survival. They are quick to point out how some unusual feature of a plant or animal aids in its survival. That's why it's noteworthy that evolutionists cannot explain why kangaroos hop.
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The ages of human history are frequently divided into periods named after rocks and minerals. There was the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. This evolutionary way of describing human history is based on the materials people used to make weapons and tools. On the other hand, the Bible describes man as developing his knowledge of metalworking within a few generations of his existence.
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The Old Testament explicitly forbids God's people from getting tattooed. It might be argued that believers in God have refused to get tattooed because they view the body as the Holy Spirit's temple. But research conducted in 1999 is beginning to suggest that there is more to the issue.
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The Peruvian Andes gave the world the potato, which is one of the largest crops in the world today. The problem is, the modern potato is plagued by potato beetles and aphids, which also carry some viral diseases to the plant. Now a wild potato found in the Bolivian Andes is being studied because it seems to be quite resistant to these pests.
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Many lines of evidence support the Bible's claim that Noah saved two of every kind of creature on the Ark, including dinosaurs. This means that humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time rather than separated by millions of years, as evolutionists claim. Long before modern science discovered dinosaurs, many histories offered descriptions of these creatures.
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The sea holds some of God's most creatively designed living things. Just as on land, the variety of creatures in the sea was much greater in the past. One good example of this is an extinct sea going reptile known as Ophthalmosaurus. A full grown Ophthalmosaurus was about 12 feet long and shaped like a dolphin. What made it unusual were its eyes. They were each about the size of a dinner plate.
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According to evolution, biological history is one of "red in tooth and claw." In this view, living things compete with one another. The fittest survive at the expense of the less fit. In a forest, this means that trees compete with one another for light, water and nutrients. Taller trees benefit from the light they prevent shorter trees from receiving. But as it turns out, the true law of the jungle is cooperation.
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According to evolution, biological history is one of "red in tooth and claw." In this view, living things compete with one another. The fittest survive at the expense of the less fit. In a forest, this means that trees compete with one another for light, water and nutrients. Taller trees benefit from the light they prevent shorter trees from receiving. But as it turns out, the true law of the jungle is cooperation.
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As fall comes to the temperate regions of North America, Europe and Asia, many birds head for warmer climates, and insects enter suspended animation. While it might appear that nature is shutting down for the winter, amazing things are happening. About 50 species of moths are awakening from spending the summer in suspended animation. Winter is when these moths are active, despite the fact that they don't have any of the biological antifreeze that some other creatures do. The metabolic costs of such chemicals would hamper their way of life.
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Secular archaeologists usually assume that the historical statements found in Scripture are overstatements or simply incorrect. It was with this attitude that archaeologists approached the ruins of Hazor to see if they could tell whether Solomon actually did add to the wall of Hazor and build other structures there, as the Bible says. Hazor was an important city on the primary military and trade routes between Israel and Phoenicia, Syria, Mesopotamia and Egypt.
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Historians have dismissed many allegedly ancient maps as modern forgeries because the maps show features that the ancients supposedly knew nothing about. Among the more credible ancient maps are 20 variations of ancient Chinese maps that may be as much as 4,000 years old. Some of these maps are held in museums around the world. What's more, the maps accurately record features all over the world!
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What do you do when food resources are scarcer than normal for an extended period of time? People not getting enough nutrition lose weight and eventually muscle mass. It would really make more sense to proportionately shrink your body size. After all, children require fewer calories than adults. It appears that this is just what marine iguanas and perhaps some other reptiles actually do.
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The hooded pitohuis is an evil-smelling, blue jay sized bird that is native to New Guinea. The bird has been known to science since 1827, but they held a secret that only began to be uncovered in 1989.
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St. John's wort or Klamath weed is not native to North America. Until it was brought from Europe in colonial times, North American insects had never seen the plant. St. John's wort quickly spread because it was poisonous and thus not eaten by most insects. The plant manufactures a poison called hypericin that is activated by light. This poison is powerful enough to kill even livestock that might be foolish enough to eat it.
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If the biblical account of history is true, then man and dinosaurs lived at the same time. Some believe that this accounts for the almost universal legends of dragons. In many parts of the world, these legends were passed orally from generation to generation. Unfortunately, it takes only a few hundred years for such legends to become distorted.
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It has long been debated whether Christopher Columbus or Leif Eriksson was the first European explorer to discover America. But it's beginning to look as though this debate is beside the point. One surprising clue is found in inscriptions in West Virginia. These inscriptions are in a language called Ogam.
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One of the common methods of finding the age of rocks, and ultimately the age of the Earth, measures the decay of radioactive uranium into lead – the more lead, the older the rock. The method, however, makes some very big assumptions. First, scientists assume there was no lead in the rock when it first formed, but this is unprovable. Then, they assume that rocks are like locked vaults and that no uranium, lead, or the in between decay elements can ever enter or leave the rock.
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When a young man prepares himself to meet his young lady, he slaps on a little cologne, hoping to please her. It turns out that the males of at least some species of bats do the same thing. Researchers have recently discovered how a small North American tropical bat prepares to attract and keep his harem of up to eight females. In late afternoon the bat begins a ritual that takes more than half an hour to complete.
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According to those who believe that all living things are a result of evolution, life evolved from simple to complex. Plants, which are simpler than animals, are believed to have evolved before animals. When we started learning about the genetic codes of living things, it was expected that plants would have simpler genetic codes than complex living things. This is turning out not to be the case.
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Whales pose some interesting problems for those who believe that all living things slowly evolved to their present forms over millions of years. According to evolution, sea creatures gradually adapted to life on land because they could make a better living there. That's where mammals supposedly evolved. Then, for some unknown reason, some of those mammals – Darwin said it was the bear – decided to return to the sea.
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The blessings of modern medicine have saved many lives. Unfortunately, modern medicine's accomplishments have led many people to believe that good medical treatment is more important than God's healing power when you are sick. Astounding medical discoveries are being made all the time. For example, 60 percent of those with diabetes suffer nerve damage. This nerve damage can result in the body's inability to control blood pressure as well as other problems. In some diabetics, branching nerve cells swell, cutting off normal cell communication.
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A strange and beautiful family of creatures known as ammonoids nicely illustrate the illogic and lack of scientific reasoning used by defenders of evolution. While the chambered nautilus is the only species of ammonoid that exists today, the fossil record reveals hundreds of extinct species. While some, like the chambered nautilus, had relatively simple shells, others had intricately detailed shells with ruffled, wavy walls.
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Modern psychologists and social engineers generally hold that children are born innocent. Any evil they do is learned from those around them. Based upon this notion, they advise that children should not be spanked because that spanking only teaches violence. This modern teaching contradicts the biblical teaching that we are born in original sin, inherited from Adam. Belief in original sin is accepted in some form by most Christians, Jews and practically everyone who has ever raised children!
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When you are a small animal whose diet could injure or even kill you, eating can be positively dangerous. That danger increases if you belong to a family of animals that normally takes minutes or even hours to swallow a victim.
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Flight is a big problem for those who believe that we owe our existence to evolution. Birds, mammals, reptiles, insects, and even some fish fly or at least glide through the air in controlled flight. So many different creatures fly that evolutionists must say that flight evolved several different times. The dragonfly is among the best fliers in the animal kingdom.
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Most Christians realize that going to church, and worshiping in earnest, keeps them spiritually healthier. A study by Duke University researchers backs up an earlier study that people who attend church at least once a week do have better health and live longer lives.
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The creation is literally filled with millions of what those who believe in evolution call "happy coincidences." But when you encounter millions of instances of what appears to be thoughtful design, the obvious conclusion is that there is a Designer. Take the example of bird eggs.
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We hear many warnings these days that tell us not to eat this food, it's full of cholesterol, or that food, it's loaded with fat. It's easy to come to the conclusion that the curse of sin has turned the whole creation against us. But God is a merciful God. He has given us the ability to learn about many of the beneficial foods and medicines that He has created.
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We have always been told that it takes millions of years for muddy deposits to turn into rock. Those who believe in creation have always disagreed. It seems pretty clear to us that much of the sedimentary rock we see today was deposited during the Great Flood at the time of Noah, which was not millions of years ago. Creationists generally place the Flood at about 4,600 years ago. Until recently, evolutionists dismissed this date as impossible: sedimentary rocks simply could not form that fast. Well, now it seems that they spoke too soon.
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In August 1989, Voyager 2 made its contact with the planet Neptune nearly 3 billion miles from Earth. This was a tremendous technical achievement and enabled mankind to know a little more of the planetary system in which we all live.
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Why do 60 seconds make a minute? Why does an hour have 60 minutes? After all, there are no natural reasons for this. A year is a natural time measurement, based on the sun's position in the sky. Well, believe it or not, there may be connection between the length of an hour and the golden statue built by King Nebuchadnezzar that Daniel and his friends refused to worship.
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The consequences of man's sin have touched every part of the creation. After God made us, He declared His entire creation "very good," which by God's standards is perfect. But human rebellion against God set at work the forces of death throughout the creation. The gnat like jewel wasp is a good example of this. Under the microscope the jewel wasp lives up to its name, showing patterns of iridescent colors that change with the light. But that's about all there is about the jewel wasp that reflects its perfect creation.
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Do you remember how much milk is in your refrigerator? Do you remember which leftovers you have in there, and where you put them? This kind of memory is called episodic memory. It allows you to travel back in time with your mind to remember the details of a past action. Until now, it was thought that only humans had this kind of memory, although some researchers were convinced that monkeys and rats had episodic memory.
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You may be aware that the common cuckoo does not feed or raise its own young. Instead, it lays its eggs in the nests of other birds. The adoptive parents feed and raise the young cuckoo as their own until the cuckoo gets larger than the foster parents and flies away without so much as a "thank you."
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The Bible tells us that in conquering Canaan, Joshua destroyed the city of Hazor, which was the chief city in the area. Bible critics are usually skeptical of the claims made by the Bible, especially when it comes to Israel's conquest of Canaan. Excavations at Hazor began in 1955 and have gone on sporadically ever since. Archaeologists wanted to know when Hazor was destroyed and who it was that destroyed it. Doubting that Israel could have caused the destruction, some suggested Hazor was destroyed by the Philistines, by another Canaanite city, or the Egyptians.
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The Bible frequently warns against anxiety. Modern science agrees that anxiety produces all sorts of negative changes in the body. A study on rats some years ago suggests that the damage done by anxiety begins practically at the onset of anxiety.
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Most people know that the most important molecule in our bodies is DNA. But another large molecule called ATP is what keeps you and your DNA alive. ATP is the primary energy system within your body. It generates the electricity in your nerves, making it possible to move your muscles. ATP's operation should remove any doubt that it is a product of a wise and intelligent Creator.
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Are you shy or bold? Actually, if we are honest with ourselves, we must admit that we all have areas where we are bold, and other things we're shy about. A person can be bold in willing to fly in any aircraft, and at the same time terrified when crossing a high bridge.
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We have all heard that our ability to communicate our thoughts is one of the things that make humans unique. On the evolutionary scale of things, language was considered a sophisticated development. Supposedly, chickens didn't have any thoughts worth communicating anyway. Now, this view is being challenged by multiple studies of animal communication.
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How did life get started? We all know that the Bible tells us that life got started when God created it. But we have also learned, perhaps in school, or reading the news, that evolutionists believe that life could have started in the distant past all by itself if the conditions were right. Perhaps you have read that scientists can form amino acids in the laboratory. Besides the fact that amino acids are a long way from life, the amino acids made in the laboratory are the wrong kind for life.
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Many plant species undoubtedly became extinct during the Great Flood at the time of Noah. It has been speculated that many of the plants lost forever during the Flood offered better nutrition or medications than many of the plants we know today. This could be why, after the Flood, God allowed the eating of meat for the first time. Meat could make up for the nutrition no longer available in the now-extinct plants.
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As we learn more about the genetic code, it is becoming increasingly difficult to escape the conclusion that all living things – and by implication, all things – have a very wise, personal Creator. At least one researcher in this field has admitted that it is extremely unlikely that the genetic code shared by almost all living things arose by chance.
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Scientists have long known that honeybees communicate the location of nectar sources to their nest mates. The language that many species use has even been deciphered. At the same time, it was long accepted that bumblebees did not communicate the location of food resources to their nest mates. After all, it is astonishing enough that a supposedly simple creature like the honeybee had mastered the advanced skill of communication, but can even simpler bees communicate?
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If stress is an everyday part of your life, or if some past trauma has continued to haunt your thoughts every day, you may be losing part of your brain. Several studies have linked such constant or obsessive stress with a shrinking of the part of your brain called the hippocampus. Studies show that under such conditions this part of the brain can become 25 percent smaller than normal. These findings should get our attention since we use the hippocampus for long term memory and conscious memory. This is the same part of the brain attacked by Alzheimer's disease.
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Before the Great Flood of Noah, what did our forefathers see when confronted with a dinosaur? What did dinosaur skin look like? What were their babies like? Biblical history places the creation of the great land living dinosaurs on the same day as man was created. That means that there is little doubt that at least some of the people we read about in the Bible saw dinosaurs. Many modern creationists think that Job's description of leviathan actually describes some sort of dinosaur.
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If you've ever seen any photographs of Mayan pyramids, you will probably remember that they typically have a large set of stairs going to the top. Now an acoustics expert offers some interesting evidence that these steps may in fact be the world's oldest recording.
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Conifers aren't bothered by too many insect pests. That's because the oils that give them that nice pine scent are poisonous. They would be poisonous to the conifer sawfly larva if it digested them, too. But while it munches the pine needles, its body is busy storing the poisonous oils for future defense. The fact that the sawfly not only eats pine needles, but also uses the poisonous oils for defense, poses a difficult problem for evolution which appears to have no solution.
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New research suggests that you might want to be careful about what you say around babies. As every parent knows, young children are sponges that easily absorb knowledge from their surroundings. Now there is research that indicates that by seven months of age, infants have already absorbed the basic rules of language.
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Aluminum, the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust, is usually thought to be poisonous to life. When aluminum becomes too concentrated in soil, it will greatly reduce crop yield. No known living creature uses aluminum in its metabolism. That's why many scientists are skeptical of claims by a researcher from the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute in Baltimore that she has discovered a microbe that not only tolerates aluminum, but also needs it to live.
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Have you been on the internet lately? If so, it may be costing you more than you think. That's the suggestion of a study done by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
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There are more than 200 ant species in the Attine family of ants. All of them farm for a living. And they are as sophisticated about their farming as any modern human farmer. They are found anywhere from the tropics to New Jersey. The specialization shown by these ants makes an evolutionary explanation for them impossible.
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We recently reported on this program that another set of new planets had been discovered circling another star. We pointed out that in each case, most of the planets were too large to support life. In many of the instances, the planets also had egg shaped orbits that would provide them with harsh, highly erratic climates – if they had any atmosphere at all.
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Miles deep within the Earth, heat and pressure force water out of certain minerals, changing or metamorphosing the rock. All the textbooks say that it takes millions of years for such metamorphic rock to form. New research shows pretty convincingly that all the textbooks are wrong.
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According to the biblical chronology, God ordered Aaron to be consecrated as the first priest of Israel about 3,400 years ago. From Aaron, priesthood was passed down from father to son until the official priesthood ended with the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. After that, fathers would tell their children that they were descended from the priestly class. Though only these oral histories exist today, modern Judaism still honors Aaron's descendants. Today they are called cohanim, which is the plural of cohen, meaning "priest" in Hebrew.
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Axel Heiberg Island in Northern Canada is the closest point of land to the North Pole. The landscape is completely barren today, but long ago a dense forest of large meta-sequoia trees grew there. At that time, the climate must have been like Florida today. The stumps of these "fossil trees" have not mineralized and are still wood – that is, cellulose. They are claimed to be 45 million years old.
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In the Spring of 1997, a lamb named Dolly was born to become famous as the world's first genetically identical copy of an adult female sheep. In other words, she was a clone. Eventually, Dolly developed lung cancer and was put to death in February 2003.
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The calendar year has not always started on January 1. There was a time in Christian history when the calendar began on March 25. Nevertheless, when we come to the end of one year and begin the next, most people have a time of celebration and reflection.
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Dinosaurs are one of the most popular subjects among grade schoolers these days. These fascinating and awe-inspiring creatures seem distant and unreal to our modern world. Because of this, dinosaurs are often seen as proof of the idea that we live in an evolutionary world.
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Plants need oxygen, and those that live on the land breathe through their leaves. Other plants are designed to live and breathe under water. However, when a land plant is submerged in water, it can drown, just like one of us.
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Imagine lying around not just for days on end, but for months! And while lounging the months away, you get leaner and more muscular. The bear's lifestyle sounds like a couch potato's dream.
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For several years now, Creation Moments has brought to listeners each day evidences for design in nature. That design is often wonderful, usually ingenious and certainly places in question any possibility of it all having come about by chance.
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Evolutionists sometimes challenge those of us who believe in creation with the words, "Just name one scientist who doesn't accept evolution!" Since many Christians are not familiar with the names of notable scientists, the evolutionist then says, "See! You can't name any because there aren't any!"
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A few decades ago, when computers first began to become available to the general public, some writers, particularly for popular science magazines predicted that computers would soon have an intelligence similar to human beings. Do you ever wonder what happened to such optimistic expectations?
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What has five eyes and is the fastest-running insect on Earth? The little fellow is called the Cataglyphis, or desert ant.
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God has given your body incredible powers of healing and repair, and you could almost say that we carry our very own doctor and pharmacy inside us.
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No matter where you live, it is likely that a wondrous creature is, right now, at work in or near your lawn. This creature has more ability to sense the things going on around him than a sophisticated space probe. It can even hear earthworms chewing beneath the ground.
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In many of our Creation Moments programs, we have shown that animal intelligence is not a result of evolution but God's gift to His creatures. While animals are limited to a much smaller area of specialty, some can perform feats of intelligence that even man cannot accomplish.
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Space probes have now reached the farthest points of our solar system, and we have learned more about the outer planets in 24 hours than astronomers learned in the past century.
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All toads are not fat and ugly. The golden toad, which lives only in a few square miles of the cloud forest of Costa Rica, is a trim and slim toad with garishly bright orange coloring.
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If there was a great worldwide Flood, as described in Genesis, such a catastrophe certainly should have left obvious evidence of itself all over the world. Scientists who believe in creation say that we are surrounded by these evidences. Many of them also believe that some of the features associated with glaciers can be better explained by a catastrophic flood.
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Many animals love to eat frog tadpoles. If that situation was not difficult enough for the frog, some frogs live in areas where their pond is dry most of the time, preventing them from ever laying eggs.
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The idea of fish with lungs sounds about as strange as elephants with wings. The difference is there really are fish with lungs.
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Tsi-zun-hau-kau was a nineteenth-century Winnebago chief. A portrait painted over a hundred years ago shows him posing proudly with a stick in his hand. That stick is now at Michigan's Cranbrook Institute of Science where its carved markings have been under study.
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The relationship between the beaded lacewing larvae and the California termite poses a real problem for those who believe there is no Creator.
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In our previous program we heard how two creationists had scaled Mount Ararat and had filmed an object projecting from the ice near the summit. That object looked very much like Noah's Ark. The year was 1989 and other creationists at the time could have reported with great fanfare that Noah's Ark had indeed been discovered.
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As they rose toward the 15,000-foot plateau on the west side of Mount Ararat, they spotted a familiar looking dark form. It looked almost like the drawing of Noah's Ark developed from the descriptions provided by others who had seen what they thought was the Ark in this area. The year was 1989.
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Why do giraffes have long necks or kangaroos have pouches? Evolutionists answer that natural selection has favored the development of certain characteristics while discouraging and eliminating other features. But if this is what happened, we who believe in creation have a few questions.
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The French philosopher René Descartes argued that anything that cannot be investigated by human reason must be assumed not to exist. He applied this to animals, calling them "automata" and, while he was careful not to say so, the argument also applies to the human soul and the existence of God.
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Should we ever find ourselves in his environment, the great white shark is the most dangerous man-eating creature on earth.
The Australians call the great white shark the "white death." Its favorite food is not necessarily man, but any mammal it finds in the water. It has been recorded up to 21 feet in length and weighs over 7,000 pounds.
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Completely unrelated creatures that depend entirely upon one another to live and have no way of living without one another pose a very serious challenge to those who claim that all living things evolved. The relationship is called reciprocal altruism.
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Have you ever wondered why it is that ducks can spend all day in near-freezing water, and it doesn't seem to bother them? For that matter, birds never seem to be bothered about cold feet. If we ran around in the ice and snow with bare feet, it wouldn't be very long before we had a good case of frostbite. So why don't birds need socks?
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Whenever water is in contact with air, one of the most delicate structures in the universe is created. That structure is called surface tension. Surface tension is created because water molecules touching the air move just a little bit closer to one another, forming a delicate "skin" on the water.
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If man is the result of billions of years of evolution from the simplest of creatures, evolution predicts that man should have retained most, if not all, of the best abilities of those other creatures in his heritage.
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Most of us know that a plant under stress is more likely to have problems with insects. If a plant is dry, for example, we water it, hoping it will regain its health and stand strong against insect attacks.
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When a flower lives in harmony with and is dependent upon, say, an insect for fertilization, this is known as symbiosis. Creation Moments programs have given many examples of this, and each one defies the notion that these relationships could have developed by chance over very long times. We have another example today.
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A new revolutionary design in metal-cutting blades has been added to the metal-working industry. In use, the new blade is fixed in one position while the metal to be shaped spins on a lathe. This new blade stays sharp six times longer than the old blade design. When cutting titanium, the old-style cutting blades become dull almost the second they are used, but the new blades last up to 30 minutes. This wonderful new blade was developed by two engineers who got the original idea from a rat.
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The shark seems to have been designed for one purpose and one purpose only – to eat!
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Fungus grows in the dirt virtually all over the world. After millions of dollars of research on the fungus, looking for a usable drug, medical researchers were ordered to stop their research. But one scientist disobeyed orders. And the result is the most important miracle drug since the discovery of antibiotics!
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A recent study involved sticking little numbered tags on the backs of seven thousand living honeybees. The purpose was the age-old question of what determines our behavior: nature or nurture? genes or environment? The honeybees were used to see if their occupation in the hive was based upon what their father did. That is, was it genetic inheritance?
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Just imagine a scientist going to the supermarket where he picks up a banana, an antenna from a blue crab, and a whisker from a catfish. He takes these back to his lab, hooks them together and connects the whole thing to his computer. He calls it a "bananatrode" and uses it to detect chemicals from the human body called dopamine.
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It sounds like science fiction to suggest that if someone typed your name into a computer and misspelled it, the computer would find and correct it. This would need a very sophisticated software program.
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One of the greatest questions in biology asks how a single fertilized cell divides into many different cells – some become liver cells, skin cells, brain cells, and bone cells. This is the ultimate way of asking the question, "Where do babies come from?"
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One of our Creation Moments listeners has written to ask how evolutionists explain the development of male and female. The problem is, if a mutation produced the first male, it isn't likely that another mutation would have produced the first female at the same time and in the same neighborhood. The writer further pointed out that studies now show that with the current genetic errors we all carry within us, one male and one female would not be enough to establish a new population of male and female creatures.
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Sharks have larger and more complex brains than fish. In fact, in learning tests they score about as well as rabbits. That won't get them into college, but it does show that they are not some prehistoric left-over of evolution.
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It has been written against, outlawed, and is the original "food of the gods." Modern science is finding that chocolate seems to offer some positive health benefits.
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Intelligence – as much as is needed and no more – is widely found throughout God's creation. So intelligence alone is not what makes man special.
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Beautiful feathers worn by birds are a gift of the Creator, but it takes a lot of work on the part of the birds to keep their feathers beautiful. Nevertheless, the Lord has provided birds with ways to keep their feathers healthy and beautiful.
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There are over 350 species of shark. These remarkable creatures range from about the size of a shrimp to the whale shark that can be over 60 feet long. Most people view sharks as an ancient form of primitive fish, often because they are popularly presented to the public as a so-called "living fossil."
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Popular science magazines and school textbooks have, for more than a century now, repeated the theme that mankind evolved from the animal kingdom. Have you ever stopped to think what this means?
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While most would agree that our circulatory system is vital to life, many of us don't fully appreciate the almost miraculous workings of that system.
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One of the common arguments used by skeptics against the biblical account of the Flood claims that Noah's Ark could not possibly have accommodated all the millions of species of animals.
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Hydraulics are part of our everyday lives. Fluids – such as the brake fluid used in your car – cannot be compressed, so when you step on the brake pedal that fluid can be forced from a cylinder into the braking mechanisms attached to your wheels. All hydraulic machines work in a similar way because the fluid used will flow easily to areas where there is less pressure.
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Modern criticism of the Bible began in the late 1700s and has continued to this day. The usual claim, often from Bible scholars, has been that the Bible is nothing more than error-filled human writings. Before serious excavation work had begun in the mid-1800s, scholars felt free to consider lack of evidence as proof that people, cities, and even whole nations mentioned in the Bible never existed.
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The lowly earthworm is one of the most under-appreciated little creatures on Earth. People probably don't appreciate the earthworm because it's not very pretty. Biology textbooks say that the earthworms were among the first simple land creatures to evolve. Well, clearly there hasn't been much evolution since, and they are not that simple. The earthworm has a well-developed nervous system, a brain and ten hearts!
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The air we breathe has always been filled with dust particles. And whether it is dust blown off the ground, smoke particles, or tiny particles of fabric or even paper in the house, these particles find their way deep into our lungs.
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Many of the leaders of the creationist movement today were once evolutionists. Most of them believed that God created but that He used evolution to do it; this is called "theistic evolution."
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For thousands of years, man has applied a huge variety of things to his skin to help injuries heal. By trial and error he has come up with ointments that keep injured skin moist to assist the natural healing process. Antibiotics were eventually added to these ointments. But until recently no one has been able to actually increase the rate at which skin naturally heals.
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Whether you know it or not, you are the proud owner of the most complex arrangement of matter in the universe. I am speaking of your brain. Even though it weighs only three pounds, the brain's structure is so complex that it defies all explanation except to admit that a higher intelligence created it.
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Dr. David Menton is a biologist who believes that God created the heavens and the Earth in six days only some six thousand years ago. As he likes to point out, he is a biologist who evolutionists say cannot exist – a biologist who rejects evolution.
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Did you know that some fish actually go fishing? Yes, the female anglerfish lives deep down where it is cold and dark, and it has a six-inch-long fishing pole fixed to its top lip with a little orange light on the end. When the angler is not fishing, the rod fits into a groove on the top of its head.
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In the fall the plants and trees of much of the Earth's northern hemisphere prepare for winter. Flowers lose their petals, and the leaves fall from trees as the air begins to become cooler. But there is far more to this change in the plants than simply a response to lower temperatures.
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It is interesting to look at scientific predictions made, say, a generation ago. Here is one that appeared in the December 1977 issue of Science Digest predicting our future climate. This article pointed out that the world's climate is already cooler than at many points in recorded history. It said that at one time Greenland was actually green and England was a major producer of wine.
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Parents today are under a lot of pressure to be more "permissive" and less "authoritative" in raising their children. Research has now shown the results of this progressive thinking.
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The familiar little insect known as the water boatman is a marvel of engineering design. About an inch long, it swims on its back on the surface of the pond using two of its legs that are extra long and have little paddles on the end, just like the oars of a boat. Anyone who has tried swimming on his back knows how difficult it is to see where he is going, but not the water boatman.
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When you know who made something and why it was made, you know the purpose of the item. That's true of can openers, and it is true of human life. Anyone who doesn't know who designed us or why is almost certain to be confused about their purpose in life.
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Researchers have been trying to find out what is causing frogs to grow extra legs, or in some cases, grow no legs at all. While frogs with extra legs or no legs have been reported for centuries, there was some question about whether the incidence was increasing. Some suggested human pollution was to blame, while others suggested an increase in ultraviolet radiation was causing the problem.
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When scientists completed the first genetic map of an animal, they found that the results have the signature of our Creator all over them. This animal is the nematode, a very small worm. Even though it has only about 1,000 cells, it is very much like more complex animals. It has a nervous system, a brain, and it reproduces sexually. Scientists picked the species because, being transparent, it would be easier to work with.
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Are we Christians becoming less able to defend the truths of Scripture, like creation? Dozens of studies show that not only are we, as a group, less ready to defend the hope that we have in Christ, but also we are less able to explain why we have that hope.
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A family reunion among spiders is not a pretty thing. Many of the some 35,000 species of spiders begin eating their siblings as soon as they hatch. For this reason, spiders are typically lone hunters. Evolutionists have always explained that spiders evolved this way because it works best for them.
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Scientists who believe in creation often point out that when we finally learn the genetics of a creature, that information doesn't match its supposed evolutionary history. There are many examples of this, and a new example was reported in the scientific literature at the end of 1998.
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What's left to be discovered? Many people have the idea that scientists have discovered just about everything when it comes to everyday subjects. Sure, scientists are searching for cures for many diseases and making discoveries of new atomic particles. But when it comes to common things, say botany, even many scientists think everything has been discovered.
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For years those filled with anger were advised to vent their anger. Supposedly, venting one's anger – hitting a pillow, breaking things, yelling – would get rid of the anger. To many people, such advice seemed contrary to the spirit of Scripture. And a few more conservative voices in the counseling community maintained that far from dealing constructively with anger, venting actually increases it.
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Physicians have been mystified by and are in the process of studying GOD. But in this case, the acronym "GOD" stands for "generation of diversity." The diversity that amazes them is the diversity found in our immune system. While we have fewer than 100,000 genes, our immune system is able to generate tens of millions of distinct antibodies to defend and protect itself from disease. How can only 100,000 genes produce thousands of times that many antibodies?
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Some time ago here on Creation Moments we did a program about Asian fireflies that flash in unison. The unspoken question was, "Aren't there some American species that flash in unison?" Someone in Tennessee who saw the same reports on which our program was based had the answer to that question. She contacted a researcher at Georgia Southern University to report an American species that clearly flashes in unison.
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Perhaps you remember the line from the film Amadeus in which someone observes of Mozart's music, "Too many notes." That statement reflects some people's opinion of Mozart's highly complex music. But researchers are finding that this mathematical complexity may be the reason for what some call "the Mozart effect."
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The deep, dark depths of the ocean are filled with many varieties of luminescent creatures. But among the octopus there are only two or three species in which the females develop luminescent rings around their mouths. But that has all changed with a remarkable series of discoveries about an already-known species of octopus.
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Do good parents undo their best efforts when they place a child in day care? Who has more influence on a child's development when that child must be placed in day care? Recently we have heard about many studies, some of which arrived at conflicting conclusions. Some said that parents have little or no effect on their children's development. Others concluded that day care doesn't influence a child's development at all. Now unique new research seeks to clear this up.
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Not all dangerous predators can be seen. One of the most dangerous predators in a drop of pond water is Amoeba proteus. This amoeba literally terrorizes its one celled pond mates because they can smell him coming to engulf them. Among his favorite snacks are one celled creatures of the genus Euplotes. But Euplotes can defend themselves. When some members of this genus smell the amoeba coming, they dart away to safety.
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Just about every public school textbook once included the example of the peppered moth. The moth is used as a prime example of natural selection. Supposedly, as the trees in the English countryside began to be covered with coal pollution in the mid 1800s, the light colored tree trunks became darker. The peppered moth exists in two varieties – black and white – and was said to rest on the tree trunks.
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How do you take a much needed nap or get a good night's sleep when you must be alert to danger? Human beings designate people to stay awake and watch for danger when they sleep. Then, they set up warning systems.
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Has your great great-grandfather been born yet? If he hasn't, he's not your great great-grandfather! This might seem like a silly question. But when it comes to the claimed evolutionary fossil evidence for man's evolution, our claimed great great-grandfather has turned up in the wrong period of history.
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Dung beetles may not be a very pleasant subject, but after all, someone has to do the housekeeping. So God created what man has classified into 30,000 species of dung beetle. Many will form their finds into a ball about the size of a croquet ball and roll it home for the wife and kids. Others tunnel beneath a find and set up housekeeping there.
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Scripture frequently makes reference to the fact that birds are not very smart compared to human beings. The tropical wetland bird called the jacana shows that you don't have to be very smart to be deceptive. The jacana is noteworthy for several reasons. It is one of only 20 species of birds in the world where the female leaves the care of the young to the males.
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Sometimes it seems as if God made some creatures just to show us He could do the impossible. Many of these creatures, by their strange nature, offer direct challenges to evolutionary theory, since there was no evolutionary need for their unique nature.
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You may never see a troop of monkeys traveling from city to city to perform Shakespeare, but some researchers now believe that monkeys do, indeed, develop culture. This unexpected discovery does not support evolution. Rather, it shows how the creation itself reflects the nature of our Creator. God's very act of creation was an application of His knowledge to impress order on the creation.
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How important are fathers to their children? First of all, the role of father was given to us by God. But over the last several decades, some have tried to redefine or redesign the family in a way that makes fathers unimportant or unnecessary. Numerous studies have shown what happens when we do this.
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The abundance and variety of living things that God made continues to amaze scientists. All of us learned in school that bacteria are too small to see without a microscope. That's why, when scientists studied a newly discovered type of bacteria that is visible to the naked eye, they couldn't believe it was bacteria! More study convinced them that the sulfur pearl of Namibia is indeed the largest known bacteria.
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Since God is the Author of all language, we shouldn't be surprised to find many and varied forms of communication among the creatures He made.
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Did King David go to the mall? Malls or shopping areas are hugely popular today. Archaeologists are now asking whether shopping malls originated in the 11th century BC.
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The tropical looking flower Virginia Meadow Beauty offers some rare tricks for those who would pollinate it. A honeybee can poke around the flower all day and never get any pollen from the gaudy pink flowers. In fact, researchers report that honeybees don't seem to know what to do with the flowers. Rather, the Virginia Meadow Beauty is pollinated by bumblebees, not honeybees.
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Climate researchers are developing more complex computer models in an effort to discover the effects of climate changes. One unexpected conclusion is that greenhouse warming of the Earth may not be happening; even if it is, it may not be a bad thing. Researchers have also had to admit that the natural climate changes of the Earth are much wider than originally thought.
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With the creation of Adam and Eve, God also created the marriage relationship and blessed it. God knows how we are made. He knows how we work. And He had all that in mind when He designed the marriage relationship. For this reason, one would expect that trying to fashion a family by simply living together would result in less happiness than when properly married.
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New findings about how the human nose works may help explain why a world that was perfect when it was made has come to have so many stinky things in it. Humans and mammals hold the record among all creatures with about 1,000 genes for odor receptors. But with only 1,000 different kinds of odor receptors, how is it we can smell over 10,000 different kinds of scents?
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We have all heard reports of astronomers claiming that they have discovered a planet orbiting some nearby star. Each announcement results in speculation about whether there is intelligent life on the newly discovered planet. Lost is the fact that some planets are larger than Jupiter and made of gas.
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Astronomers who believe in evolution tell us that the stars formed when gas in a nebula began to gather due to gravity. Eventually, that gravity became strong enough to collapse the gas into a star.
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Charles Darwin's ignorance of geology, a science he never studied, probably resulted in the biological errors he made in formulating his theory of biological evolution.
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The Bible says that when the flood waters came upon the Earth, all living things that have the breath of life were killed. While many of them drowned, some were encased in mud while still alive, as some fossils show. What they all had in common is that they died from lack of oxygen.
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People and animals recognize their siblings and generally treat them differently than unrelated acquaintances. Scientists wanted to know: do plants do the same thing?
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Squid and chameleons change colors. So does the golden tortoise beetle. But it does so in a way never before seen.
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The evolutionary story of man's history tells us that it took man tens of thousands of years to figure out he could farm crops for himself. Yet, today we know that some termites, ants and ambrosia beetles actually cultivate food crops.
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Because half of the radioactive carbon-14 in anything decays to nonradioactive material in 5,730 years, things that are supposedly millions of years old cannot possibly have any. At least that's what evolutionary scientists always thought.
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Engineers who design vehicles to move through fluids face a quandary. A torpedo-shaped vehicle can move quickly and efficiently through a fluid like water, but it is difficult to maneuver precisely or get to hover. A boxier vehicle can be designed to hover and move with more precision but lacks speed and efficiency.
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Behavioral researchers define teaching very specifically. First, of course, a teacher must have pupils. Then the teacher must be less efficient in doing whatever he is doing than he normally would be if he were alone, as a means of showing the pupils how to do the task. And finally, the pupils must learn the task more quickly than they would on their own.
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It was a moonless night over England. A specially designed radar picks up something that has never been seen before.
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In the book of Judges we read of how "a certain woman" gave the Philistine leader Abimelech a skull fracture when she threw a millstone on him from a tower. Some biblical scholars concluded that no woman could lift a millstone to throw it. Besides, what would a millstone be doing at the top of a tower?
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Mitochondria generate energy inside each of your cells. They have their own DNA, which is passed directly from mother to child. This fact and the known rate at which mitochondrial DNA mutates has led to some conclusions which would be expected by those who accept the biblical history of mankind.
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Brine shrimp and water bears are tiny animals that are able to basically freeze dry into a state of suspended animation and then return to active life. Scientists have learned that they do this by replacing the water in their cells with a sugar called trehalose.
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What languages did Jesus speak during His ministry on Earth? Of course He spoke Aramaic, since that was the common language of the people He taught. When He read from Isaiah in the synagogue in Nazareth, He would have read it in Hebrew. But did Jesus also speak Greek?
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The metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a moth or butterfly completely restructures the creature internally and externally. Scientists at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. wondered whether that included the caterpillar's brain as well.
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Radioactive carbon, carbon-14, accumulates in all living things when alive. Once they die, half of any given amount of carbon-14 in a once-living thing decays to non-radioactive nitrogen in 5,730 years. Thus, by measuring the amount of carbon-14 left in a once-living thing, scientists can get a rough idea of when it died. It can be used to date things that are only thousands of years old, not millions.
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A cat crouching at a mouse hole is already hunting. Until now, no animal has ever been observed actually planning for the future.
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According to the inflated evolutionary time-scale, the Earth's moon is 4.5 billion years old. A rocky body the size of the moon would be expected to be geologically active for about 1.5 billion years. This means that for the last 3 billion years the moon has been geologically settled or dead. If it is indeed that old.
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Charles Darwin knew nothing about genetics. In his day the cell was thought to be filled with nothing more than a watery jell. Darwin also thought that characteristics picked up during life could be passed on to the next generation.
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Scripture tells us that Solomon's temple was overlaid with gold inside – the walls, the ceiling and even the floor! Solomon even decorated the Temple with gold, including over two U.S. tons of golden shields. Given the dimensions of the rooms, this would take a huge amount of gold.
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Precision in communication is highly important. This is especially true of the type of communication called music, whether you are talking about Mozart or magpie-larks.
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There are two major schools of thought among biblical archaeologists. Many archaeologists go about their work with the goal of providing background to biblical accounts with their finds. But another school, called "minimalists", refuse to accept anything the Bible says unless they find solid evidence for it.
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We all know that when bees swarm they are in defensive mode. However, not all species of bees have stinging in mind when they swarm.
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Many ancient peoples made various ointments from spices, including ancient Israel. In India, they have been using a spice called turmeric for medicinal purposes for 3,000 years.
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Scripture notes several times that King Solomon married a pharaoh's daughter in the tenth century B.C. His dowry for this marriage was the city of Gezer, which he received from the pharaoh.
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Though tiny, the scales of the swallowtail butterfly's wing are similar in design to light-emitting diodes. We say similar because the design is closer to a specialized light-emitting diode that puts out six times as much light as a standard LED.
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We have all seen those illustrations supposedly showing the stages of human evolution from some ape-like creature. Progressing from the earliest ape-like creature to modern man, you see Homo habilis and, closer to modern man, Homo erectus.
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Most people find the subject of radiometric dating too technical to understand. Until recent years, scientists who believe in creation haven't had the necessary resources to explore radiometric dating in detail.
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Researchers in England have, for the first time, identified an example of true human-like teaching in the animal world.
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While evolutionists can't explain how life originated, they have proposed theories of how inorganic matter became biological molecules. Each of these theories requires the assumption that the Earth had no oxygen in its atmosphere when life first began. Oxygen would destroy the chemistry they propose.
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Albert Einstein said that James Clerk Maxwell made greater contributions to physics than anyone except Isaac Newton.
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If Isaac Newton or someone else had never made the discoveries Newton made, our world would be very different today. He is one of the most important scientists in all of history. What many people don’t know is that this great scientist was a creationist. He actually wrote more Bible commentaries than he did scientific papers.
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We often hear today that no true scientists are creationists because science disproves creation. The truth is, most of the founders of the various disciplines of modern science were creationists, as are a great many scientists today.
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How do you know that what you think you know is really true? Charles Darwin wondered just that, and the answer to his question sheds a lot of light on the origins debate today.
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Most creationists are pro life because they see conception and birth as one of the clearest evidences of God’s original role as Creator. Scripture is filled with examples showing that God not only created the heavens and earth in six days, just as reported in several places in Scripture, but that He is still intimately involved with His creation.
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In 1866, a German scientist and strong supporter of Darwin, Ernst Haeckel, got into trouble for faking evidence. He supposedly showed that developing embryos go through the earlier evolutionary stages of their species. The scientific community investigated his so called discovery and found that he had faked his drawings. Unfortunately, some textbooks today – well over a century later – still present this faked evidence in support of evolution.
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Have you ever been in a cave? If you have, perhaps someone has told you that the rock formations hanging from the ceiling – called stalactites – are thousands or even tens of thousands of years old. Scientists tell us that stalactites take 100 years, on the average, to grow one inch. But just how accurate is this figure?
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Did you know that the actual dust on the surface of the moon is thousands of times less than expected by those who think the Earth is billions of years old?
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The subject of scientific dating has to do with scientific methods used to try to figure out how old the Earth is. However, you should know that what evolutionary scientists aren’t telling you about their methods changes the whole picture!
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We have all heard or read about a scientist from some university declaring that a certain rock or fossil is millions of years old. But what do these pronouncements do to the Bible’s history that begins with creation? Has modern science proven that the Bible’s history is inaccurate?
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According to evolutionary theory, all matter and energy were the result of a huge explosion called the “Big Bang.” The laws that matter and energy must follow are also the result of that same great explosion. As a further result of these beliefs, evolutionists are convinced that things behave the way they do quite accidentally.
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If you give a design problem to ten different engineers to solve, chances are you will not get ten different solutions. In fact, you are likely to end up with ten solutions that look very much alike.
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Scientists have tried to tackle the job of creating a machine that is able to see as well as the human eye. In the process, they are gaining a new appreciation for the wonderful gift of sight.
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We’ve all heard it said that we are made up of about 98 cents worth of chemicals. However, the living matter that makes up our bodies is very different from non living matter.
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Computer scientists, in trying to build a machine that sees like we do, have been studying how the eye works the miracle of vision. What they are discovering provides more scientific evidence that evolution is nothing more than a modern fairy tale for adults.
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Evolutionists, trying to answer creationist arguments, have suggested that there is an “error” in the design of the eye that any wise Creator would not have made. That “error” in design, as evolutionists call it, is that the retina of the mammal’s eye is “inside out” – the light entering the eye passes through other eye tissue before hitting the photoreceptors. But is this really an error in design?
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The human eye is so incredibly sensitive that it can actually detect a single particle of light – a photon.
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The tiny computer chip – the basis of modern computers – is a thin wafer of silicon only about 7 millimeters across – about one fourth of an inch. This tiny chip might have the equivalent of 100,000 transistors built into it. Despite its size, hundreds of connections might be attached to it. The design of the computer chip is a marvel surpassed only by the amazing technology that can build it.
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Many people think that faith is strictly a religious matter and concerns unprovable issues such as angels, heaven and, of course, belief in the creation story. They further feel that belief in evolution is more reasonable, since it is based upon hard and proven facts. But is this true?
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What is faith? Is faith something we believe despite the facts, as many would tell us? Is faith a blind leap into the dark?
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Many people think that evolution is simply any change. Developing a new breed of dog is often referred to by many people as proof for evolution. But is it really? Those who claim that the domestic breeding of crop or animal species has anything to do with evolution take their cue from Darwin, who – although he had no degree in science – made the same claims.
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Lots of folks would like you to believe that only ignorant, backward people reject evolution. But is that really the case? The fact is that the case for evolution is so weak that many scientists who cannot even be called friends of Christianity reject it on scientific grounds!
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Cooperation between two different species who depend upon each other for survival is known as symbiosis. This is remarkable enough, but what about cooperation between two different species who don’t depend upon each other for survival? This certainly defies that foundational pillar for the theory of evolution – the survival of the fittest.
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What if your refrigerator stopped working . . . in August? It would be a real mess! Without refrigeration, we would have to get fresh food almost every day. While the hunting wasp doesn’t build refrigerators, it has solved this problem.
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When we discover the unexpected in the creation, we are reminded that reality is much bigger than our small thoughts. That’s a hint! God Himself says in the Bible, “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways” (Isaiah 55:8).
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Wouldn’t it be amazing if a creature developed a chemical defense that is deadly to practically every other creature but itself – especially if that defense meant exposing itself and its enemy to deadly cyanide?
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Did you know that there is a mold that captures and eats animals? Those scientists who reject evolution in favor of creation often stress that there are no simple forms of life. Each kind of life is both specialized and very complex. While evolutionary scientists try to arrange living things from simple to complex, creation scientists ask them to let us know when they finally find a “simple” form of life.
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Of all the creatures which walk, crawl, creep or grow on Earth, which one invented the organ transplant? I’ll give you one hint, it wasn’t the human being.
Actually, several creatures perform organ transplants, and the inventor must be God because mindless natural forces could never have worked out the amazing transplants we see in our world.
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Farming and gardening are said by evolutionists to be very advanced activities. They say that primitive humans did not do these things, and that gardening developed only recently in human history. But if there is a Creator, we would expect that He would have taught many kinds of creatures to care for plants or even trees.
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One reason many scientists reject evolution is that it’s impossible to explain even the simplest of the incredible designs we find in creation as the work of a mindless, impersonal force. Imagine the challenge of explaining the many specialized features of the honeybee as the work of no one!
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God doesn’t make cheap things! While we speak of “simple” forms of life, the more we learn about living things, the more clearly we see that there are no simple forms of life.
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Many types of animals help each other – an activity called “altruism” – even though some of these animals would normally eat each other. Different kinds of animals that help each other pose a serious problem for those who deny an all wise Creator. Evolution has lots of reasons why natural enemies would not cooperate to help each other. But consider the example of the yellow tailed goat fish.
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The woodpecker’s tongue can stretch from three to five times its normal length in order to fish bugs out of trees. You would think that his tongue would have to be rooted in his tail to do that neat trick! This beautiful creation in which we live is not only filled with testimonies to the wisdom of God. It is also filled with special designs that deny the possibility that life in all its complexity developed entirely by chance.
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What does the Bible’s teaching on creation have to do with the Gospel of Jesus Christ? Are these just two separate and unrelated biblical teachings? Christians often ask us, “Shouldn’t we just worry about the basics? Why worry about a teaching like creation?” Indeed, we should be concerned with basics.
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Is right and wrong really a matter of doing what you think is best? What does morality have to do with origins?
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“Lucy” is said by its discoverer, Dr. Donald Johanson, to be the best and latest proof that humans evolved from some ape like creature. But Lucy is really a monument to human imagination!
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As Christians, we believe by faith. But did you know that even evolutionary scientists believe by their own kind of faith? Scientists early in the previous century, like scientists today, had no evidence that humans had evolved from ape like creatures.
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According to evolution, some explanation for the sun and planets must be found that does not include God as the Creator. Today, evolutionists generally believe that the sun and the other planets of the solar system are related to each other.
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We often hear people speak of “simple life forms” or the “simple cell.” Is there really such a thing as “simple life”? Although we often speak of the “simple cell,” there really is no such thing as a simple form of life. Even the single celled creature is a highly complex organism.
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Did life form all by itself, without a Creator, in some warm little pool of water or a clod of mud many billions of years ago? Some scientists would like us to think so. Over the years, newspaper headlines have declared that life has been created in the laboratory. We are told that life is no mystery and that the chemicals that cause life are common.
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The cells of all living things are filled with highly detailed information. The incredible system that is used for storing this information makes our best computer information systems look like a child’s simple slate board!
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If we discovered the work of an intelligence so superior to our own that we could not understand it, would we even recognize it for what it was?
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Can you picture Noah trying to get some of those giant dinosaurs on the ark to save them from the Flood? There’s no denying that dinosaurs really lived. The land dinosaurs were likely created on the sixth day with the other great land creatures, while the marine dinosaurs were created on the fifth day with the other denizens of the deep. So what happened to them? Today there seem to be more theories about why dinosaurs disappeared than there were dinosaurs to disappear.
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As we read Genesis 2, we might get the idea that humans were created before the animals and even before plants. Since this would seem to be a clear contradiction of Genesis chapter 1, some have said that the creation account does not intend to offer literal history. Is this really the case?
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A straightforward reading of Genesis offers a very different story of humanity than does modern evolutionary science. Does the rest of the Bible contradict evolution too? Can Genesis and evolution be harmonized?
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Did you ever try to plan all the details of a simple project? How many plans do you think the Lord had to make when He created living things? A billion? A billion times a billion?
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How wonderful! Your dog has just had puppies! But do you now have to sort through the litter and make sure there are no baby giraffes or kangaroos?
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What was the Earth like before the Flood? Bible believing scientists are giving us some surprising answers about the incredibly beautiful Earth God originally created.
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The Earth floats in space, attached to nothing, surrounded by a thin layer of air. What science has only just learned, the Bible has taught for thousands of years! Yes, while other ancients pictured the world as flat or resting upon giant turtles or some other animal, God told the Jews in Job 26:7 that He “hangs the earth on nothing.”
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Silently, a huge, powerful form slides through the deep, cold, dark depths of the sea. The men aboard the nuclear submarine have seen neither sun nor daylight for months, yet each one knows what day it is. The men know what day and what time it is even without seeing daylight because the sun’s movement – like a clock – only measures time; it doesn’t create it.
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Did you know that the Bible never tries to convince the reader that there is a God? As surprising as that sounds, it’s absolutely true. The Bible’s very first words begin by identifying God – but nowhere does the Bible try to prove there is a God.
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Scientific principles learned in the Bible have led to countless scientific discoveries and saved millions of lives. It’s true. Without the Bible, we would never have the blessings of modern science.
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In showing how the Creator is intimately involved with His creation, Jesus said that the very hairs of our heads are numbered by Him. No detail is too small to escape His attention; no change misses His careful and loving eye.
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Some time ago, a news article described how scientists had studied the genetic material of a magnolia leaf that supposedly died 20 million years ago.
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People sometimes wonder why, with all the marvels science can design and build, it cannot build a good replacement for the heart. As medical science learns more about the heart, it becomes clear that replacing this complex mass of muscles is more difficult than might be imagined.
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Most of us have heard recordings of whales singing. Scientists have not yet learned to understand the whale’s language, but they have identified individual verses in whale song. Now they are more convinced than ever that whale song is a sophisticated language.
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The automatic transmission in a vehicle changes gears in response to changing power demands and driving conditions. Likewise, the muscles in your body change gears in a sense, in response to your changing needs for them.
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It looks something like a small hyena, has habits similar to both wolves and the domestic cat, and eats almost nothing but ants. This strange creature is called the aardwolf.
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For many people, the fun of the boomerang lies in the fact that it seems to go against common sense. You throw the boomerang away from you, and it returns to you.
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What breathes with its feet, has thousands of jaws but no mouth, has up to fifty arms and an eye on the end of each arm? No, it’s not a new creature for the next Star Wars movie. It’s the starfish.
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Researchers have discovered a species of mammal that can actually survive being frozen for several weeks.
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The voodoo lily is native to Southeast Asia, although it is sometimes sold in the west as a curiosity. When it flowers, the voodoo lily sends up a fleshy, purple spike that can be three feet long. Besides being one of the worst-smelling flowers you’ll ever experience, the spike has another amazing ability.
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In 1836, well-known English astronomer Sir John Herschel wrote a series of articles for the New York Sun reporting his discovery of life on the moon. He reported seeing buffalo, goats, cranes and other animals. The Sun finally admitted that the whole thing had been a prank, and most of the public was amused.
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You might guess that the hummingbird, darting around from flower to flower with wings beating some 60 times a second, must burn a lot of energy to keep going. If a 65-pound boy burned up energy at the same rate, he would eat 100 pounds of chicken every day. The fact is, the hummingbird will die if it goes for more than two hours without eating.
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Those who take the Bible seriously will recall the numerous passages where God condemns the pagan custom of sacrificing the first-born child to the god Moloch. These children were just weeks or months old and burned alive as an atonement sacrifice; that is, offering one life on behalf of another. The Canaanites slaughtered thousands of children in this way when their nation was threatened. God ordered the complete destruction of the Canaanites.
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Are dinosaurs extinct? Decide for yourself. In 1911, Dutch explorers returned to the West with stories about huge, man-eating “dragons” that lived on the island of Komodo. This is one of the 13,000 islands that stretch from mainland Asia to New Guinea.
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We sometimes hear of a person worrying so much about something that they become obsessed with fear. We talk about someone being “worried sick.”
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In July of 1969, people all over the Earth watched the first astronauts land on the moon. Twenty years later, the first President Bush challenged the American people to make a manned landing on the planet Mars. It was acknowledged that it would take the astronauts nine months to get to Mars and part of the plan would be to use the natural resources of Mars once they were there.
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Could it be true that we have unwittingly been telling our young people that Christianity is irrelevant? As I present the evidences for creation and explain to young people the problems with evolution, a similar pattern emerges each time. While the material is new to them, it rings true. Soon, the questions start, and they begin to express anger as they realize they have been misled by those teaching evolution.
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Scientists say that it is not man but the lowly barnacle that makes the strongest glue in the world. This glue, called anthropodin, works well under water and enables barnacles to stick to the bottom of ships, sea turtles, rocks and piers.
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Just about everybody has seen a Swiss army knife. This tool is much more than a knife and has all sorts of other devices tucked away in its handle.
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God not only is powerful and creative as Master Designer, but He is more. He is the supreme artist.
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Most of us have heard that our sun is an average-sized star. Yet, this star churns out more energy every second than we could ever use. Less than one-tenth of one percent of its energy falls on the Earth in any one second. If we could harness only one second’s worth of that energy, we would have more energy than man has used in his entire existence or expects to use for thousands of years into the future!
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The mongoose is a superb snake fighter. The little creature is about three feet long and weighs about ten pounds. In many parts of the world, a mongoose is kept as a house pet because they keep the snake population down. This includes some of the most poisonous snakes in the world.
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Many creation supporters are Christians that are also interested in ancient history and like to read about the latest archaeological discoveries. However, they are concerned when, say, some very ancient remains are carbon-14 dated at forty or even fifty thousand years old. According to the Bible, the Creation itself is no more than 10,000 years old, so how does the Bible-believing Christian handle this kind of information?
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James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish physicist and professor at King’s College, London, and then at Cambridge University. Albert Einstein said that Maxwell had made a greater contribution to physics than anyone except Isaac Newton. Maxwell developed complex theoretical and mathematical explanations for all the forces in the universe except gravity and nuclear forces.
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Accepting that God created man, did He create a non-material part within him we call the soul as well as the familiar material body? Of course, the Bible has a lot to say about man’s soul and that following a person’s death, the soul of the faithful will be with God in heaven. However, there are others who regard the idea of a soul as nothing more than a superstition.
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Just how good are those radiocarbon dates? When reporting an exciting archaeological discovery, popular science magazines tell the reader, for example, that some man-made artifact is 40,000 years old. A few years ago it was common to find tolerance figures such as plus or minus 1,500 years attached to these ages. These tolerance figures effectively leave an impression of objective precision in the mind of the reader. Those tolerance figures are seldom used today.
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While the nautilus is a familiar sea creature that lives in a shell, it is actually more like the squid and the octopus. Like the squid and the octopus, the nautilus has a well-developed nervous system, mouth, eyes and tentacles and can swim backward quite rapidly by shooting jets of water. It also builds itself a shell home in which to live.
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In 1969 Dr. Dean Kenyon, then professor of biology at San Francisco State University, published a book that left him recognized as one of the leading evolutionary scientists. His book, Biological Predestination, tried to explain how simple living things could, over millions of years, become more complex, and finally evolve into human beings.
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The electron microscope was developed over 80 years ago and enables us to probe the secrets of God’s creation. One of the most surprising discoveries shows an incredible similarity between those little whips called flagellum – which some microbes use for swimming – and the inside of your ear!
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In 1866, Professor Ernst Haeckel, a German zoologist and strong supporter of Darwin, published his theory that every developing embryo recapitulates all the previous evolutionary stages of its species. So the human embryo began as a fish with gills, then became frog-like, and so on until at the ninth month it was fully human.
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It is a common perception that scientists are totally objective and impartial in their search for the truth. If a scientist says so, it must be true! Even among themselves, leaders of their field are jokingly referred to as the “high priests of science.”
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The thorny acacia tree is not the usual food of the Kudu antelope. But because of overcrowding on game farms, the antelope began eating the leaves of this tree. Eventually, the kudu starved to death, even though there were plenty of acacia leaves to eat. Scientists learned that when antelope feed on the acacia, the tree begins to produce a chemical called tannin k.
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What has eight legs, fangs, ridges on its underside, and is one of the “creeping things” that God created? No, it’s not a spider, it’s a daddy-long-legs.
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Scientists have tried to tackle the job of creating a machine that is able to see as well as the human eye. In the process, they are gaining a new appreciation for the wonderful gift of sight.
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The small bird, known as the chimney swift, is unmatched in its flying ability. These little birds are so adapted to the air that they have only small, weak feet that do not permit them to walk or perch like other birds. In fact, their Latin name even means “without feet.”
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Altruism – helping one another – is a real puzzle to those who explain the world of living things in terms of materialistic evolution. Evolution is supposed to work on the selfish survival-of-the-fittest principle, so there should be no reason for any creature, including man, to develop a helping attitude. In fact, there is no way to explain how the genetic code could possibly develop and pass on a trait such as altruism.
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Here, medical missionary Dr. David Livingstone speaks to us from his diary, written in 1872. He tells about God’s mercy as he experienced being the intended victim of a lion, “red in tooth and claw.”
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Many people think that the greatest of the dinosaurs were the largest creatures ever to live on Earth. But while a few of the very largest dinosaurs may have been longer than the blue whale, the blue whale has the largest actual body size of any creature that ever lived.
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History flows like a river, unstoppable by any man, from the creation to the final judgment.
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A 1989 study on patience and reward echoes what the Bible has to say about patience, reward and temptation.
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The spider’s web is more than simply a sticky net that catches insects. Scientists have learned that the spider’s web is also a clever lure that uses ultraviolet light.
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Several years ago, Dr. Francis Hitching gave us his book The Neck of the Giraffe and in this he writes that Darwinism is in a lot of trouble. He laments, and I’m using his own words, that evolution “has not, contrary to general belief, and despite very great efforts, been proven.”
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At one time textbooks defined man as the only tool-using animal. But then they discovered a number of animals that do use tools. So the definition of man was changed to say that man was the only animal that uses and makes tools. Before long, however, scientists began to discover that many of those tool-using animals actually make their own tools.
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What makes something right or wrong? Are things that are sometimes wrong always wrong? Most writers and commentators, even most preachers today, have problems with the question of right and wrong. That seems amazing since only a generation or two ago few people had any problems at all with the issue of right and wrong.
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Did you know that according to one standard method of dating, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. was built before the time of Christ?
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Their crystalline world might seem like another planet as they swim past monolithic crystals larger than themselves and down channels lined with nearly clear, often form-fitted boulders. But this exotic world is not on another planet. It may be below your feet.
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When he was 17, medical student John Eccles began asking questions about the nature of man, what is thought, and what is the meaning of life? Fifty years later, after he had become one of the world’s greatest experts on the human brain, had become Sir John Eccles and had received the Nobel Prize, he felt free enough to speak out about his studies.
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School textbooks continue to claim that man is the only animal to use tools. Of course, speaking this way not only identifies man as merely another animal but also completely ignores the fact that man was made in the image of God and, thus, has moral responsibilities. However, using this “man the tool-user” argument to support evolution has been quietly shot down as science continues to discover a growing number of animal tool-users.
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Did you ever stand up a little too quickly and get dizzy? It can happen because by standing, you may have temporarily lowered the blood pressure in your brain. Can you imagine what might happen when the giraffe swings its head from the ground to a treetop?
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In 1835, when scientists first saw Peru’s most unusual hummingbird, they were so overcome with its beauty that they gave it the name “Marvellous”.
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The fiery red and black shaggy coat of the so-called velvet “ant” does more than warn the unsuspecting that it packs a powerful sting. However, it is that shaggy coat that protects it from the heat of its desert home.
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There seems to be no end to the variety and wisdom of design in the creation. Most interesting are those creatures that share important traits and yet are nothing like each other. The whale is one example; it is constructed like a fish but is really a mammal.
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While we may speak of “simple” forms of life, the more we learn about living things, the more clearly we can see that no form of life is “simple.”
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The beautiful creation in which we live is not only filled with testimonies to the wisdom of God, it is also filled with special designs that deny the possibility of mindless evolution.
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According to man’s history as presented in the Bible, farming and shepherding were among the first occupations. Genesis specifically tells us that in the second generation of human beings there was a shepherd, Abel, and a farmer, Cain. Evolutionists disagree and tell us the first men were hunters and gatherers.
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Most listeners to Creation Moments know that honey bees communicate with each other through a complex dance. These dances are used by bee scouts who communicate the location, direction and distance of a new food source to other bees. Researchers have now learned that there is more to this communication than simply dance.
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What does the Bible’s teaching on creation have to do with the gospel of Jesus Christ? Well, let’s see what happens to Christ’s work of salvation if creation is untrue and God actually used evolution. Death in the animal kingdom must have come into the world long before the first man and before sin.
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There are certain things in creation that people seldom talk about, including earthworms.
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Did you know that there is a creature that can have a huge number of offspring, yet never have any children? That unusual creature is the aphid. The first aphid of spring is a female, has no wings, and hatches from an egg early in the season. After about 10 days, she will give live birth to another fully formed adult female aphid. There have been no males around.
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Most of us are familiar with the Big Bang theory. It says the entire universe is the result of a gigantic explosion that took place about 16 billion years ago. This explosion eventually resulted in stars, galaxies, our Earth and even our genetic codes.
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There is a popular idea that the biological differences between men and women are merely a “biological experiment” – and some say it is not a very good one! You may have even heard that all it takes is two sets of human genes to make a human being. This kind of thinking results from the evolutionary worldview. The Bible takes a very contrary view, extolling the unique virtues and abilities of both men and women.
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As Christians, we walk by faith. But did you know that even evolutionary scientists walk by their own kind of faith?
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We all like to live at a comfortable temperature. Excavations from the most ancient human sites show that homes and entire cities were often positioned to catch the prevailing winds in the summer or to avoid cold blasts in the winter.
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Aphids are tiny creatures that are often tended – even protected – by ants. Like many creatures, aphids provide a wonderful testimony to God’s ability to create endless variations on a theme.
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Most of us are familiar with the fact that our Earth is being observed by dozens of satellites that keep track of weather systems, natural resources, ocean currents, sunlight, climate and animal migrations which makes every crop grown anywhere on Earth able to be identified.
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We all know that it takes time to plan even simple projects. But did you ever think about the planning that God had to do when He created all the different kinds of living things? How many plans did He make? A billion? A billion times a billion?
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The ability to control someone else’s will is the stuff of classic horror movies. Thankfully, science has never devised a way whereby one person can take over another person’s will and control their every action. But there is a certain parasitic wasp that may, in fact, be able to control the actions of the aphid that it uses.
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Creation Moments has often talked about the social activities of bees, and we tend to think that all bees live together in large colonies or hives. In fact, not all of them do. Like people, bees can actually be found in a variety of social relationships, including those who live most of their lives alone.
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Probably the first thing that comes to your mind when yeast is mentioned is its use in making bread. Even three and a half thousand years ago, when Israel left Egypt, yeast was in common use.
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The Earth floats in space, attached to nothing, surrounded by a thin layer of air. What science has only just learned, the Bible has taught for thousands of years! While some ancient peoples pictured the world as flat or resting upon giant turtles, God told the Jews, in Job 26:7, that He hangs the Earth on nothing.
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Some animals use quite a bag of tricks to make their living or protect themselves. The puff adder is one example of a “wise serpent.” The puff adder is harmless, and if you try to grab him he will coil himself up so that you will have to reach past his head. Then he puffs his head up just like a cobra. No one wants to grab a cobra!
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Many of us can remember how, in biology class, we had to learn how different animals reproduce. Some give birth to live young while others lay eggs. But the thrip does it both ways! The thrip is a gnat-like bug that lives within decaying leaves and helps to break them down. The thrip has another surprise: it reproduces twice a year.
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Rocks, especially on high mountains, seem so solid and permanent by human standards that it is easy to believe that they have been there for millions of years. We can also be deceived into believing those evolutionary claims that rock formations represent millions or billions of years of Earth history.
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Scientists have long recognized that bees are intelligent creatures. At the same time, they believe that this intelligence is the product of millions of years of natural selection. The extremely fast learning ability of the bee either puts in doubt the millions of years or shows the hand of the Creator.
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When a clothing manufacturer selects a high quality fabric he is usually concerned enough to make sure that good workmanship goes into the final product. In a similar way, the fabric of the creation tells us a lot about its Creator. Mathematics more than anything else reflects the fabric of the creation.
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Can ants count? It seems so! When a scout ant finds an item of food too big to carry, but especially good, the scout will return to the nest to get help. Scientists have discovered that ants apparently size up the task ahead so that they can return with just sufficient help.
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One might expect that the ape would turn out to be the best animal communicator. But evolution’s expectations about language, and a link between man and apes, proves to be wrong.
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An adult’s liver is about the size of a football and weighs about three pounds, making it the body’s largest internal organ. Tucked neatly beneath the ribs, your liver performs more than 500 different tasks. It is a vital link between your heart, lungs and digestive system.
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About 10 percent of the 35,000 known species of spiders spin the familiar orb-shaped web. These amazing sticky silk constructions may be a few inches or even a yard across.
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The amazing structure of the honeycomb has fascinated scientists for thousands of years. In the third century, the astronomer and geometer, Pappus of Alexandria, became the first to offer an explanation for why the honeycomb has a hexagonal shape.
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In Genesis 1:28 God tells man to subdue the Earth. That command implies that God has placed, within the creation, many tools that man can learn to use for his benefit. After sin entered the world and sickness and death became a reality, God’s remarkable foreknowledge then became evident. One of the first antibiotics ever discovered by man has been in use for thousands of years.
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Picture this: The setting was the scientist’s weekend cottage. The scientist had placed a saucer of chocolate on a wooden stool inside a bowl partially filled with water because ants hate water. And to further hinder the ants, the scientist painted the outside of the bowl with a coat of very slow drying glue. He was sure that when he returned to his cottage the next weekend, the chocolate would be untouched.
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Evolutionary scientists have been amazed by the discovery that the very oldest artifacts left by man indicate the presence of written language and mathematical ability. Creationists, on the other hand, are not surprised and predicted that evidence would be found to show that mankind has always had a language.
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Many plants, including the elm or linden trees, grow their leaves, twigs and branches placed exactly half way around the stem from each other.
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How long have people been living on the Earth? The evolutionist says two million years. The Bible-believing Christian says about six thousand. Who is right?
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Our sun is, of course, a star although it is now becoming evident that it is a very special star that permits life to exist on planet Earth. If the Earth were only one percent closer to the sun, we wouldn’t be here to worry about any “greenhouse effect.” And if the Earth were only one percent farther away from the sun, there would be plenty of snow and ice on Earth, but no one around to ski on it.
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Our bodies have many different rhythms. For example, your body temperature and your blood pressure cycle throughout the 24-hour day. Other body rhythms complete their cycle in 7 days or 28 days and so on.
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One of the strangest creatures in the world is a rather reluctant fish called the mudskipper. Even though it is a fish, it can dig burrows, travel miles on land and even does a mating dance on land that can last up to an hour. Some species of mudskipper can even climb trees.
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Everyone knows that when you divide the circumference of a circle by its diameter, you get three and one-seventh, the value of Pi. Even the ancients knew about Pi. But 1 Kings 7:23 tells us that the bronze sea which Hiram made for King Solomon was 30 cubits in circumference and 10 cubits in diameter. Those measurements only give a value of three, not Pi. Is this a mistake in the Bible?
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Aristotle is quoted as saying that the main job of the physician is to amuse the patient while nature heals him. Well, medicine has come a long way since Aristotle, but modern physicians can learn from the medicine man.
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Some Christians give others the idea that Christianity is a dull and joyless faith, and that God is stern and humorless. But God is the One Who created humor.
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One of the most frequent questions we receive at Creation Moments is: “Where do you get all that fascinating information?” Is there a book that contains all these interesting programs?
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Spider webs can be beautiful things, although most people find spiders to be creepy and dislike them. Some spiders can give nasty bites and some are even deadly, showing us that danger often lurks with beauty.
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Every engineer will agree that if an intelligent design does a good job, then use that design again. There is no need to re-invent the wheel.
All warm-blooded animals generate heat as they digest their food. Large animals generate a lot of heat and, like a car engine, there has to be a cooling device. Otherwise, the heat would kill the animal, especially in a hot climate.
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The sea is the last, most unexplored frontier left on earth, and one of the most widespread modern myths about the sea is that life began there.
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How long does it take to make a fossil? Most people think that it takes a long time, and that’s partly because we have been repeatedly told that fossils are millions of years old.
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While it’s pretty easy to find an elephant’s ear, it’s not at all easy to find a frog’s ear. But how would you like to be one of the scientists who had to look for a sea anemone’s ear!
Early scientists described their work as “thinking God’s thoughts after Him.” Those of us who believe in the Creator would agree and leave the evolutionists to try to fit all living things into their simple-to-complex scheme.
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According to evolutionists, the early family of mammals called Diatomyidae has been extinct for eleven million years. Of course, as creationists, we do not accept this dating. This Diatomyidae family included rat-like creatures with long skulls, a furry tail and rounded ears.
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A parasitic worm that matures on land but must breed under the water has some remarkable abilities to make this difficult trick possible.
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Birds do it. Whales do it. Now, it appears that male mice do it. They all sing!
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Insects offer some novel designs. For example, they can have ears on their stomachs, wings or legs. Now, scientists at the University of Zurich in Switzerland have discovered an even more novel arrangement in the fruit fly.
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While many people recognize the virtues of feeding their infants human breast milk, science is still learning its amazing secrets. Although cow’s milk contains many substances found in human milk, it does not contain certain very specific substances necessary to protect the infant.
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Evolutionists claim that human intelligence began to develop when early man invented language. Genesis tells us that human language began when Adam named the animals. Names – that is, nouns – are the first requirement for language, but this must be preceded by intelligence. Creationists have always viewed both language and intelligence as gifts from God.
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The largest flower in the world is a bright red-orange color and, according to its DNA, is related to the poinsettia. That relationship might make you suspect that the world’s largest flower would be beautiful. But you probably wouldn’t want the flower, called the rafflesia, growing in your garden.
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Try using superglue in wet conditions, and you’ll find that the glue is not so super. Even epoxy doesn’t work well in water. Scientists finally decided to turn to the lowly mussel to learn how to make better glues for use in wet environments.
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In past Creation Moments we have told how certain plants release aromatics known as pheromones when attacked. By this means they communicate to others of its species or even to animals. These discoveries led more researchers to enter this field, and a great deal is now known about what can only be called plant communication.
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How long does it take for large mineral formations to form? While evolutionists say millions of years, creationists assume that most of the rock formations we see formed relatively quickly as the waters of the Genesis flood receded.
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Many people like to have a nice perfume around the house. They brew a potpourri of mint, citronella, lavender and similar fragrant plants to make home smell more like home. But humans aren’t the only creatures that appreciate a nice smell around their house.
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When we read biology textbooks or watch television programs about science and discovery we are led to believe that evolution is not a theory but a scientifically established fact. We are told with great confidence how life first arose on the ancient Earth or when each species first evolved and the precise evolutionary relationships between different creatures.
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Laughing is good for you even if it does begin with the release of adrenaline and other stress hormones.
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According to modern thinking, intelligence is a product of several factors. Of course, the most important requirement is that the creature must be high on the evolutionary tree. Intelligence is also related to life span, the longer the better, and the fact that they are social creatures.
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The dodder is a very unusual plant and is known as one of the ten worst weeds found in the United States. A newly sprouted dodder seed does not bother to grow roots. Rather, it sprouts a tendril that grows out, looking for other plants. It has, at most, a week to find a plant from which to steal water and nutrients.
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A new bacterium that grows at depths of over 8,000 feet below the ocean’s surface has been discovered. This discovery wouldn’t normally be very noteworthy except for the fact that none of the sun’s light reaches that depth, yet the bacterium makes its living through photosynthesis.
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Domesticated honeybees in China are preyed upon by a native wasp. A single wasp can wipe out a nest of 6,000 bees before carrying off the larvae to feed its own young. The wasp does this by stationing itself at the entrance to the nest and killing the guards one by one as they come out to defend the hive.
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Airport security is a major concern these days. There are many ways for those who don’t have good intentions to hide things beneath their clothes. Now, thanks to a design they borrowed from our Creator God, scientists have come up with a way to make that virtually impossible,
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The concave-eared torrent frog of China sings like a bird with a wide assortment of whistles and chirps. They live where streams and rivers splash down rocky mountainsides.
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The brown ghost knifefish, popular in many aquariums, generates a weak electric signal that it uses for navigation and communication. The electric field they generate is too weak to stun prey. However, the electric organs that run along the sides of their bodies can pick up any changes in the field when the field encounters something with a conductivity that is different than water.
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Scientists recently examined a well-preserved spider web encased in amber. It is the oldest example of a spider web in existence and was declared to be 110 million years old.
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The spiny lobster is a social creature. Lobsters like to congregate in groups in crevices and cooperate in defending their home against danger. When they migrate, they walk head to tail in single-file groups.
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When you remember something that happened and where and when it happened, you are using what scientists call episodic memory. Scientists have traditionally thought that such memory was unique to man.
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Evolutionists regularly announce that they have scientifically proven that this creature evolved from that creature. Or they say that science proves that this creature or that one has been extinct for millions of years. Further, such claims are not to be questioned because they have been proven by science.
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The Bible teaches us that our physical life is in our blood. It also teaches us that our spiritual and eternal life is dependent upon the blood of Jesus Christ.
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Regular listeners to Creation Moments are familiar with the many examples we have described of plants protecting themselves from insects.
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“The most perfect design I’ve ever seen.” Those words were uttered by a materials engineer after studying a deep sea sponge from the Pacific Ocean. And, indeed, the Euplectella aspergillun, claimed to be an early and primitive sponge, can teach modern materials engineers a number of useful things.
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Many plants give ants special protection and, in return, the ants protect these plants from other insects. In itself, this widespread arrangement offers evidence of design. However, sometimes these arrangements are even more complex than they at first appear.
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The Genesis creation account tells us that in the perfect world that God created there was no death. This means that there were no predators. In fact, Genesis 1:30 specifically states that God gave all the beasts and birds every green herb for food. And, yes, this would include all the dinosaurs. Some discoveries made in 2005 now add strong scientific evidence to support the Genesis account that in the beginning all the beasts ate the green herbs for food.
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Here on Creation Moments we have often mentioned the gecko’s amazing ability to walk up or even upside down on surfaces as smooth as glass. We have pointed out that the gecko can grip even a glass surface as it walks with microscopic hairs on its feet. These minute hairs actually grip the surface at the molecular level.
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It defies gravity, walking up walls and across ceilings; it is harmless and only an inch-and-a-half long if you include its tail. It’s the gecko.
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Today, let’s talk about the tremendous power in water.
Perhaps the first thing that you think of when the power of water is mentioned is the way it has cut and eroded the rocks of the Earth. But I am thinking of a power much more subtle than that. Some of the most impressive power of water is seen when it powers one of the water engines that God has created.
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Sure, we know that birds usually take very good care of the material needs of their young. But there is much more to it than that, as Scripture suggests – and science now confirms.
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The 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park were the worst ever recorded there. But researchers who studied the fires and their effects now say that it is normal for such huge fires to occur every couple of centuries in Yellowstone. And while fires burned about 20 percent of the park, less than 1 percent was so devastated by fire that the soil was made lifeless.
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Everyone and, it seems, nearly everything in the creation, wants to be safe. If threatened, we want to have protection.
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Reptiles are cold-blooded and like to live in warm places. However, there are exceptions to every rule. Turtles are reptiles but live in places like the northern United States where temperatures drop far below freezing.
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It has long been known that an African bird known as the honeyguide leads badgers to bees’ nests, where the badger tears the nest apart to eat the honey. The badger always leaves more than enough for the honeyguide.
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It was the largest bird that ever lived. It stood 10-12 feet tall and could easily outrun a horse. Being a meat-eater, this fossil bird, which has been nicknamed “terror bird,” possibly did chase horses and bring them down with its sharp talons. The only thing that limited this creature’s terrible abilities was its inability to fly.
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When King Saul pursued David to kill him, David compared himself to a flea by asking whether the king had come out with soldiers to kill a flea. But just because a flea is small, it doesn’t mean that God treated it as unimportant when He designed it.
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Isn’t it true that when we are very young we think our parents know everything? Then, when we become teenagers, we decide that our parents know virtually nothing. Finally, when we become parents ourselves, we discover how wise our parents really were! Learning and wisdom are supposed to be products of human evolution and for this reason textbooks usually speak of instinct when referring to animals.
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Everything in the world is running down – nothing will last forever. It would be quite depressing if we didn’t know the reason for it and what God has done about it.
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Christians have often been accused of being naïve when they claim to see the evidence of intelligent design in nature. But sometimes even those who believe in evolution concede that we can learn a lot by studying nature.
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Modern medicine has increasingly returned to study how nature accomplishes medical miracles to bring the benefits of what they learn to mankind. Man has dreamed for thousands of years of being able to restore a severed spinal cord. Once the nerves running inside our backbones are severed, we permanently lose the use of our limbs below the point of damage.
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Most people are aware that it is only the female mosquito that feeds on blood. The male feeds on plant juices. It is also easy to see the difference between males and females in most species. The male has a distinctive pair of antennae. While the female mosquito’s antennae are difficult to see, the male’s looks like a pair of branched feathers coming out of its head.
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The human brain is the most complex arrangement of matter in the universe, and modern brain research is adding to this wonder.
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One of the most difficult problems for those who believe in evolution is to explain the origin of life without reference to God.
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When you look at a tall tree with good green leaves on the topmost branches and it hasn’t rained in a week, did you ever wonder how those leaves get their water in order to stay green?
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While science has yet to find a human mother with eyes in the back of her head, it turns out that there is a species of shrimp that comes pretty close ... with extra eyes on its back.
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Let’s take a moment today to look at your body’s incredible system for repairing itself. Suppose you accidentally cut your finger. Almost instantly, a series of precisely ordered steps begins to repair your finger.
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God created this world, but He did not then stand back and let it and all life on it spin off into space. No, He supervises this world, and He is concerned with every day-to-day detail.
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Some creatures can see forms of light that are invisible to us; others have built-in binoculars. The rattlesnake has two sets of eyes – one set for light that is visible to us and another set for infrared radiation. But one thing that creatures with vision all have in common is that sight requires some form of light.
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Many people still believe that as we developed from the fertilized egg in our mother’s womb, we went through all the earlier evolutionary stages. That is, we had gills like a fish, then our heart developed from two-stage to four-stage, and at one point we even had a tail like a monkey. Unfortunately this myth, based upon fraudulent work done in 1866, can still be found as evidence for evolution in some school textbooks.
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Fish are typical of the elegant designs found in the creation. Both function and form are united with the mechanical and biological needs of the fish to produce intelligent, beautiful, yet simple solutions for their needs.
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Can trees communicate with each other? Psalm 96 speaks about the “trees of the woods rejoicing”, and Isaiah 55 speaks about the trees “clapping their hands.” Is this just figurative language or can trees really have emotions and even praise God?
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According to the Bible, God created the land-living insects, and that would include the bees, on day six of creation. This was just three days after He created the flowering plants. According to evolution, bees evolved from a simpler insect after the pollen-bearing plants had developed. The specialized bee and its complex social structure was thought to have taken a long time to evolve.
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You don’t have to watch a drama very long or read too far into a book before you find what is hidden being revealed. The Bible often talks about truths that are hidden because of unbelief.
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Does the Bible mention fossils? Before you answer too quickly, you need to know that fossils are not a modern discovery.
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Nova, the TV Science program aired on public broadcasting stations, presented an argument that human evolution is proven by the fact that, chemically, humans and apes are 99 percent alike. That argument has appeared many times, although very seldom in print. Dr.
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Blood is one of the most miraculous of all creations. It carries oxygen and energy to our cells, and carries off wastes. It is also a communications pipeline, using powerful hormones to provide communication between various parts of the body.
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Does oil really take millions of years to form from buried dead matter? Many people believe that because that’s what they have been taught. On the other hand, creationists believe that oil was either created by God at the formation of the Earth, or that it was formed after the burial of living things during the Genesis Flood only a few thousand years ago.
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Several years ago, the Southern Medical Journal reported that prayers can help sick hospital patients, even if they don't know they are being prayed for. However, some of the scientists involved said they would not accept the findings unless there was a certifiable miracle.
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It seems that when it came to designing the millions of different creatures in the sea, God used an additional measure of imagination. Part of the reason might be that creatures that live in the near weightlessness of water can be designed with more variation in the shape of their bodies and in the ways they can move. But another factor seems to be that God set out to create certain features that cannot be explained by any human theory.
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One of the most important differences between man's word and God's Word is that man's word can sometimes be true, while God's Word is always true.
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Two thousand years ago parchment or papyrus pages of written works were all stitched together end to end into a long roll wound around a wooden or metal bar. It was called a scroll. The problem in reading it was that you had to spin through the entire roll if you wanted to read, say, a passage on the last page. Just like the old video or audiotapes.
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Everyone has seen pictures of the planet Saturn and its beautiful rings. Well, it is now known that many of our solar system's outer planets have rings. However, these rings are a problem for those astronomers who think that the universe is billions of years old. You see, the rings, which encircle the outer planets, would not be around today if the universe really was billions of years old.
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As we learn more about God's creation, we find that a number of things we learned in school aren't really true, and never were. We learned in school that plants are plants and animals are animals, and there are always distinct differences between them. We also learned that complex things like eyes are found only in higher, more evolved creatures.
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Sometimes incredible wonders pass right before our eyes, but we are not equipped to see them. Take the hummingbird, for an example.
Did you know that like the woodpecker, the hummingbird has a tongue that wraps all the way around its head just under the skin? This feature is not really evident when you look at the hummingbird. Nor is the wonderful way in which its wings move, so that it can hover, fly forwards or fly backwards.
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The first Good Friday was the day in which the hand of God was more evident on Earth than on any other day since the Great Flood. God's hand was especially evident to those who knew the Old Testament Scriptures, while even the Roman centurion could see it.
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You are the pilot of a Boeing 767 airliner, bringing the great ship in for a landing. Approaching the airport, you extend the slat on the leading edge of each wing so that you have more lift as your speed slows. As the runway nears, you raise the nose of the plane to catch more air. In the final moments of landing, you bring the feathers, which act as air brakes, out of the wing to reduce your lift and settle easily onto the runway.
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Is it silly to speak of plants anticipating a good watering or is it naive to think of a plant anticipating spring? Scientists are learning that although plants do not have a nervous system, they do use electrical signals to respond to their surroundings – and sometimes they respond just like human beings!
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One of the areas in which modern technology is advancing most rapidly is fiber optics. Crystal clear telephone messages are carried on cables of special fibers that conduct messages in digital form, using laser light. Offices and industries now use computer systems in which processors are linked with fiber optic cables in order to increase speed.
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Almost every creature seeks companionship with others. This universal, basic need gives us additional insight into the mind of the Creator.
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It was once thought that language was a relatively late development in the evolution of man. Language among the lower animals was dismissed as a fantasy. So when the Bible speaks of the whole creation praising God, these same people said that this was just a figurative expression. Now modern science has shown that many creatures do have a language of their own – language which, we point out, can also be used to praise the Creator.
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In man's way of thinking, a small animal – especially one that lives in the ocean – tends to be regarded as unimportant. However, in God's view, all living things are His creation, and not one is ever unimportant. A good example is the smallest of the sea turtles. While most mature sea turtles weigh hundreds of pounds, the Kemp's Ridley weighs only 60 to 100 pounds.
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One of the mysteries of ancient Egypt is that it appears to have begun as a high civilization. The very first pharaoh of Egypt is known as Narmer, and his name simply means "Catfish." From what we can tell, King Catfish, who lived around five hundred years after the Great Flood, is helping to prove the truth of the Bible's history.
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Life depends on what chemists call one of the most complex substances in the universe. This stuff refuses to act like other materials – and because it does, we are alive.
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Few deserts are more inhospitable than the Sonoran Desert of North America. Life is so hard there that even the Couch's Spadefoot toad must lie dormant for 11 out of 12 months.
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As modern science has learned more about molecular biology, it has also learned that life could not have arisen on Earth from non-life. This fact is so clear that even many evolutionists now admit this truth and are now looking to space for an answer to their problem.
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The exotic Venus flytrap is an insect-catching plant and a wonder of God's engineering. For example, these meat-eating plants usually live in mineral-poor soils, but by catching their own lunch, they actually provide their own fertilizer.
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There is a universe of difference between saying that man was created by God, in the image of God, and saying that man is nothing more than a hairless ape. And the fact that man is not covered with hair like the ape has led to a weird, new twist in the theory of evolution.
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Bones can tell stories. An interesting story of man's relationship with the horse is told by the fossilized teeth of ancient horses. You see, domesticated horses have a habit called crib biting – biting the rails in their corral. Wild horses don't do this. Crib biting creates a specific pattern of wear. So, when scientists find horses' teeth that have this pattern, they know that it comes from a domesticated horse.
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A few years ago there was a lot of publicity about people who claimed that their house plants did better when they were talked to. Many experts thought that this was a silly idea since plants are very low, comparatively speaking, on the (imaginary) evolutionary scale. Research eventually proved that plants which were treated to music, especially classical music, did indeed seem healthier.
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According to Genesis, the first men were even building cities, inventing musical instruments, crafting in bronze and iron, and keeping calendars. Calendars are among the very earliest forms of writing found by archaeologists today.
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In 1912 Charles Dawson announced the discovery of Piltdown man to the world. Piltdown man was a half-human, half ape-like creature which was offered as proof that man was nothing more than a glorified ape. Today, everyone knows that Piltdown man was a fraud.
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Evolutionary theory says that man only developed farming recently in his history. Besides going against common sense, this evolutionary idea is beginning to cause problems with the greatly inflated evolutionary dating system.
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Evolution has given people today the idea that there are "higher" and "lower" animals. As a result, many people have come to think, for example, that the so-called "lower" animals don't feel pain. Some people even fault the Bible for using language which speaks of animals experiencing life as humans do.
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People who live in climates where there is ice and snow are used to seeing the activity of warm-blooded creatures even in winter. However, reptiles and amphibians, because they are cold-blooded, seem to disappear in the winter. But did you know that many kinds of insects continue to be active in the winter?
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The assassin bug uses a combination of camouflage and baiting which is totally unknown to any other creature.
The assassin bug glues bits of termite nest to himself using fluid from special glands in his body. This termite nest material is his camouflage as he performs his work at the nest. By the time he is done, no part of his body will be showing.
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One of the most unusual arrangements that fish use to keep themselves clean is found on the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. That's where fish known as the cleaner wrasse offer a cleaning service for other fish. Each cleaning station is made up of one male and a harem of females. Other fish come and wait in line for their turn to be cleaned.
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When God designed the mistletoe, He brought the design of the plant and the feeding habits of birds together into a wonderfully designed working system. Then He made one amazing exception to the design.
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When God made fish and told them to be fruitful and multiply, He gave some of them very special abilities so that they could do this. Some 23 families of fish actually change from females to males, or from males to females, to help their species reproduce.
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There is a family of brightly colored fish called wrasse. God’s creativity in this particular family had biologists puzzled for a long time. Evolution could provide no explanation.
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All of us remember hearing about how many of the stars and other objects in space are millions and even billions of light-years away. Since the light from those objects is slightly redder than expected, scientists say that they are moving away from the earth at tremendous speeds. So the redder the light, the more distant they are. But is the red-shift really proof that there are objects millions of light years away?
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Mankind has been teaching birds to talk for thousands of years. Man has also been using birds to deliver messages for just as long. But new research on the intelligence of birds suggests that they might be more intelligent than we suspect.
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You wouldn’t guess that a 36-hour-old infant would be able to teach grown scientists about the Creator – especially by making faces. But that is exactly what has happened! The Bible teaches that each of us is an individual, made by God, and known to Him even before we are born. However, those who have tried to promote the idea of chance and natural law have portrayed the newborn as a blank slate upon which experience writes.
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There are a wide variety of decorative and ornamental plants that go by the popular name “elephant ears” because of their very large leaves. Elephant ears are among the 2,500 known species of plants that generate heat in much the same way as warm-blooded animals. Some flowering elephant ears actually raise their temperatures close to human body temperatures while in bloom!
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In Psalm 19:1, we read, “The heavens declare the glory of God.” When we read this, we should be reminded of more than the witness of the beauty of the skies. The material creation bears witness to God’s glory in many different ways.
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At the end of winter, when so many of us become weary of winter and look forward to spring, it might seem a little early to be talking about flowers blooming. You might like to know, however, that man is not the only one of God’s creatures who would like to welcome spring a little early. There are some 2,500 species of plants that actually generate heat when they flower, and many of them are heating up beneath northern snows.
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Christians are often portrayed as foolish and superstitious. Various writers and commentators talk about Christianity as an outdated, pre-scientific faith. Creationism has often been called pseudo or false science. But is it true that Christians are more given to superstition and pseudo-science than others in society?
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Today, we want to tell you more about the cheetah. From a human standpoint, Daniel would have been a whole lot safer if he had been thrown into a den of cheetahs rather than a den of lions.
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Many scientists have rejected the idea that man has a spirit – that we are no more than simply material organisms. After all, they reason, man evolved, but a non-material thing like a spirit cannot evolve.
Evolution is completely materialistic in its outlook. Nineteenth-century promoters of evolution admitted that they devised the idea of naturalistic evolution to get rid of the idea of a non-material, spiritual dimension.
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Bee bread is a highly nutritional derivative, made from pollen by bees. Scientists have understood for some time that worker bees who have just emerged from the comb must eat bee bread so that their glands produce food for the queen and developing larvae. However, older worker bees get by on honey alone. So scientists suspected that bee bread must have a higher nutritional value than honey.
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The rattlesnake has little pits in its face, under its eyes. Amazingly, these pits are a second pair of eyes that actually see what eyes cannot see! Researchers have learned that there is a membrane stretched over the back of each pit, a thousandth of an inch thick, which is crammed with sensors which pick up the infrared radiation, or heat, given off by all warm-blooded creatures.
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Just recently we spoke about the Cheetah. No other cat has such speed, and as a result, the cheetah’s tactics are unique, especially since the cheetah will not eat anything it has not freshly killed.
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It is difficult to find creationists who are not also pro-life. This is because creationists tend to be more aware than most of how God is intimately involved in our world. There are countless examples of how God has taken special care of each of His millions of species of creatures.
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Of 41 species of cats around the world, the cheetah is one of the most unusual. Unlike other great cats, the cheetah cannot roar, but it can purr like a house cat or emit high-pitched chirps. Beautiful in form, the cheetah is the world’s fastest land animal, reaching a speed of 40 miles per hour from a standstill within two seconds, and can momentarily reach speeds of 70 miles per hour.
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When a rattlesnake strikes, it is so fast that high-speed photography is necessary to study it.
Those famous fangs of the rattlesnake are mounted on hinges so that they can fold up along the roof of the snake’s mouth when not in use. Each fang is a hollow needle, with a canal on the side of the end of the fang through which venom is injected. After only a couple of uses, the fang drops out, to be replaced by another.
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In 1980, Mount St. Helens exploded with incredible force, leaving a sterile, barren scar on the face of the earth. Basing their expectations upon the slow pace of evolution, the scientific establishment said it would be generations before life would return to the area. Yet, the US Forest Service has reported that virtually every species that lived in the area before the eruption had already returned after only five years!
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Just when was the “beginning” when God created the heavens and the earth, as spoken of in Genesis 1:1? In these days when scientists talk about “billions” of years, the question of what the Bible says on the matter of origins becomes even more important.
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The rattlesnake is a dangerous creature, but surprisingly vulnerable. Believe it or not, rodents, rather than being easy victims of the rattlesnake, are one of the rattlesnake’s greatest enemies. Ground squirrels will sometimes attack rattlers, lunging and biting them. Ground squirrels can inflict wounds that become infected and cause the snake’s death. They often get away with this because their reflexes are so much faster than the snake’s.
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The rattlesnake is a dangerous creature, but surprisingly vulnerable. Believe it or not, rodents, rather than being easy victims of the rattlesnake, are one of the rattlesnake’s greatest enemies. Ground squirrels will sometimes attack rattlers, lunging and biting them. Ground squirrels can inflict wounds that become infected and cause the snake’s death. They often get away with this because their reflexes are so much faster than the snake’s.
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Imagine – countless tons of diamonds, virtually free for the taking. Such wealth is the stuff of legends. But now it might be for real. The only catch is that these diamonds, if they exist, are under an atmospheric pressure as high as six million times that on earth, and the temperature could be more than a balmy 12,000 degrees (F). Those are the conditions thought to exist on the planets Uranus and Neptune.
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Researchers have learned that some fish have an absolutely amazing ability – a specialty that is of considerable help to fish and to man as well. This remarkable gift is the capacity to change sex after they are hatched!
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The rattlesnake is one of the greater wonders of God’s creation. The eyes of the rattlesnake are different from all other back-boned animals. Rattlesnakes have no eyelids, but their eyes are protected by clear cover-plates. Their yellow lenses slide in and out like binoculars – and, like built-in binoculars, provide detailed magnification of distant objects.
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Did you know that the phrase “according to its kind” appears 10 times in the first chapter of Genesis? Not only is the fact that plants and animals reproduce according to their kind an important principle in the Bible, it is central to modern agriculture and husbandry. What’s more, there is no evidence in the fossil record that any creature ever existed that was in the process of changing from one kind into another.
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Before the Kurds took over the mountains of Ararat, creationists would eagerly await the latest word from the late summer expeditions looking for the possible remains of Noah’s Ark. In 1988, one team was allowed to survey a part of Mt. Ararat by air but found nothing.
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When the Bible talks about things in the material world that are part of our experience, we find that the Bible is always faithfully true. But there are many things in the creation which contradict the theory of evolution.
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According to evolution, some explanation for the sun, stars and planets must be found which does not include God as Creator.
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The intelligence of the interrelationships between three unrelated desert creatures gives witness to the fact that there is a single, all-wise Creator of all things. Today we want to tell you about the sidewinder snake.
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Did you ever notice how your photographs sometimes turn out showing different colors than you remember seeing when you took the picture? Fluorescent lights might make faces look a little green. A tungsten lamp will make everything in a photograph look pinkish. Even though you did not see those colors when you took the picture, they were there and could be measured by the right equipment.
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It's rather interesting that evolutionists believe that snakes once had legs and lost them. This sounds very much like the Genesis account of the serpent in the Garden of Eden.
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Members of the animal kingdom generally have similar parts. For example, the radius bone in the forelimbs of the bat, the horse and the human look similar but this is because they have similar functions. Listeners will recall the illustration in their high school biology textbook where this similarity of parts is called "homology". Similarity is said to be the result of descent from a common ancestor and, thus, is evidence of evolution.
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The glass knifefish, popular in home aquariums, has been the subject of study by two University of California researchers. They have concluded that this unusual looking fish has such a complex nervous system that it is basically a computer with fins.
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People ask, "Why is there death and suffering in the world? Is this the way God wants it?" The Bible's clear answer is an emphatic "No!" The world God created in the beginning had no death, suffering or disease. When God created mankind, man knew God with a perfect knowledge and was happy with that knowledge. God and man communicated with each other more simply and easily than we can between ourselves today.
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When penicillin was first used as an antibiotic, it was considered a wonder drug. Infections which had been fatal for thousands of years were all of a sudden curable.
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Many species of birds live in communities that are quite complex and even resemble human communities.
In the Amazon rainforests of Peru, 20 or more mixed species of birds will flock together in the lower levels of the rainforest canopy. Each flock has a leader and organizer – the bluish-slate ant-shrike. Each morning the ant-shrike will assemble its flock with loud calls.
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The theory of evolution did not begin with Charles Darwin. The Greek philosophers who chose not to believe that there is a Creator God tried to explain the origin of everything by time and chance.
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As bees go about their business of gathering nectar, they also pollinate the flower, making possible the next generation of flowers. Now, there is a certain crafty fungus that doesn't have flowers, nectar or pollen but makes use of the bees to reproduce itself.
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What is warm blooded, sits on its eggs like a hen, but flies much better than a hen, and has six legs? It's the bumblebee.
The amazing fact that bumblebees are warm blooded was discovered after a scientist saw a bumblebee out gathering nectar one frosty cold morning. As it turned out, even with air temperatures near freezing, a bumblebee can maintain a body temperature of 95 degrees (F).
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Evolutionists tell us that life is an ever-ascending ladder of increasing complexity as new forms of life develop. For proof, they claim that the fossil record shows this kind of development of life. But is this really what the fossil record shows?
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Australia is known for its unusual animals. But not only are there animals which are found only in Australia, many animals commonly found elsewhere in the world are not found in Australia.
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What is a Christian to think when we are told so often that the "facts of science" prove evolution – and disprove the Bible's story of man's history?
Not all "facts" are created equal. For example, the fact that Jesus Christ was a real person is not open to interpretation. He is mentioned in the Bible and by other writings of the time. That's a fact. Evolutionists use a different meaning for the word "fact".
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Although a bumblebee's life to us may seem relaxing, the fact is that the pace for the bumblebee is as hectic as for any human sitting in rush hour traffic. This is largely because, like humans, bumblebees are warm blooded.
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The narwhal is a small whale, reaching perhaps 10 feet in length, which has an eight-foot spiral tusk coming out of its head. While a whale with a tusk nearly as long as its body might be a dramatic sight, it must be difficult for the narwhal to hunt down its food. The strap-toothed whale would seem to have an even more difficult time catching its prey. You see, this whale has two long teeth growing out of its lower jaw which curve over its upper jaw, preventing it from opening its mouth very wide.
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How old is the moon? Evolutionary scientists talk about the craters on the moon being sixty-five or a hundred million years old or even billions of years old. But since we have learned what kind of rock the moon is made of, we now know that these ages are impossibly old.
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It was about 50 years ago that Chinese immigrants to the United States brought some freshwater clams with them. It is known that today the clam is found in at least 35 states. That's an amazing amount of territory to cover in only 50 years for a creature that only has one foot.
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It's not exactly a plant, but it's not completely an animal either. It crawls like an animal and then grows fruits and sows seed like a plant on colorful stalks. Sometimes it acts like a single-celled creature with a refined social order. And sometimes all those single living cells fuse into one giant organism.
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What was man like as originally created – before sin started taking its toll on his mind, body and the world in which he lives?
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In many ways, a plant is like a machine that changes the energy of sunlight into food energy that is needed by the rest of the living world. The energy which runs the plant is light.
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In grade school we were taught how temperature, dew point and moisture in a cloud could condense around a tiny ice crystal to form a drop of rain. But scientists are not really all that sure how raindrops form.
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If you live in a large city, especially one that is surrounded by other large cities, you know that the radio dial can become very crowded. To prevent the radio dial from turning into incomprehensible gibberish, radio stations are assigned a frequency on which to operate.
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The diamondback caterpillar is the number-one pest of plants in the cabbage family. But scientists are finding that this caterpillar isn't as guilty of causing low yields in cabbage family plots as has been thought.
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High drama takes place even among the tiny, almost unnoticeable creatures in the most remote parts of the world. In the frigid waters of Antarctica, for example, there's a tiny plankton which kidnaps even tinier chemists for its protection.
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Perhaps you have read one of the many news articles about an amazing new process for making diamonds. The new process uses simple heat to make diamonds out of anything that has carbon in it.
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The leatherback is the most massive living reptile. The largest individual ever recorded weighed over 2,000 pounds.
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Picture in your mind the sight and sounds of popcorn popping. As you picture the popping becoming more frantic as the popper fills up, do you begin to smell the popcorn? That's part of the wonder of the brain. The brain can not only store words and ideas, but sights, sounds and even smells.
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The entire creation is woven together on an invisible cloth of mathematics. Since mathematics is also the basis of music, the creation is often more filled with music than we think. In fact, Christians ought to think twice before dismissing as figurative those Bible passages about the whole creation praising its Creator.
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Blood is made up of many components. Red blood cells carry oxygen to all parts of the body. And even though hemoglobin is based on iron, the healthy body, protected by rust inhibitors, doesn't rust. White cells and other blood components fight infection. It's difficult to decide which of the components of blood are more amazing in their design.
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What's the biggest wave you've ever seen on a lake or the ocean? Some scientists are now saying that there is evidence that in ancient times a wave over 1,000 feet tall swept over parts of the Earth, creating some of its geological features.
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Scientists who study language are learning that language is far more complex than they had expected. Some linguists have even suggested that children already have some principles of language embedded in their brains when they are born.
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The stars are among the most beautiful and powerful evidences for our Creator. While there are billions of them, no two seem to be identical. Even so, they can be classified into groups.
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According to evolution, human language began to develop when ape-like creatures started to grunt and make other noises at each other. Eventually they agreed on meanings for these sounds and language was born. According to the Bible, language is a gift of our Creator, Who is the source of all language. He made us to have fellowship with Him. He gave us language as an important part of our relationship with God.
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How is coal made? How long does it take? Scientists did not know the answers to these questions until the last few years. Despite this lack of knowledge, textbooks have taught for generations that it takes millions of years to make coal. This was another supposed proof that the Bible’s view of history is wrong.
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What do professional meteorologists think about claims that the Earth is undergoing a greenhouse effect because of man’s activities? Scientific opinion is growing that there is nothing to the idea that the Earth is either warming or in danger of warming under the proposed influence of the greenhouse effect. More in the scientific community are also becoming increasingly outspoken in their opposition to the false science used to support the idea that man’s activities are causing the Earth to become warmer.
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Sometimes information can be so simplified that it becomes deceiving. All of us have heard that the human body is made up of only a few dollars worth of chemicals. However, that commonly repeated statement doesn’t reflect what’s really in the human body.
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The mechanism God designed to protect the fruit of the pawpaw tree from being eaten before its seeds are ripe may provide powerful, new anti-cancer drugs and a powerful, safe insecticide. The pawpaw tree, with its custard-like fruit, is common all over the eastern United States.
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We hear a lot about “self-esteem” today. The “self-esteem movement,” made up of some religious teachers and psychologists, seeks to make people feel better about themselves without making any reference to sin or the need for forgiveness. Some religious teachers have even said that Christianity should stop talking about sin. Because the movement is associated with psychology, many mistakenly believe that the claims of the “self-esteem movement” have a scientific basis. They do not.
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The Bible tells us that the entire universe is decaying and dying because of the burden of sin. We know from Scripture that the entire heavens and Earth as we know it will someday be destroyed by fire to make way for a new creation. The Bible also indicates that the entire creation is young.
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Your eyes are quicker than anyone ever thought.
For you to see an image, a huge number of chemical and electrical reactions must take place in sequence. Science still does not fully understand all the reactions. Science does know that each set of chemical or electrical reactions must take place in a sequence that leads to the next set of reactions. Obviously, each of these reactions in the chain must take place extremely rapidly for us to see what is happening while it is still happening.
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Are we programmed to die? Scientists who have been studying the aging process hold one of two positions.
One school of thought says that death takes place when too many of our body’s parts simply wear out from use. The other school says that death is programmed into our genes. As a result, they believe that there are built-in limits to how long we can live.
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We hear many claims that all life on Earth could someday be wiped out in a catastrophic collision with a giant asteroid.
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A rare Australian aquatic frog has one of the most amazing systems for rearing its young to be found in the animal kingdom. If any other creature tried the same method, the result would be fatal to its young.
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The eye is a chemical and technological wonder. It would take thousands of carefully directed mutations for an eyeless creature to develop sight. And since a partial eye doesn’t provide sight, each of these thousands of mutations would offer no advantage to the creature.
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Creation Scientists have often complained that evolutionists seem unscientifically eager to turn any ancient fossil into proof of human evolution. In the past, bones from pigs, monkeys, alligators, horses and even an elephant have been “reconstructed” into missing links between humans and ape-like creatures.
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Your heart will beat some 100,000 times today. That’s over 36 million heartbeats a year and over 2.5 billion times in a 70-year life span.
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So complex is the human brain that even some of today’s most visionary scientists have commented that they doubt science will ever fully understand how the brain works. To better understand the brain, scientists have been studying the brains of so-called simple creatures like the garden slug.
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The world originally created by God was perfect in every respect. However, among the consequences of sin mentioned in Genesis 3 are the thorns and thistles, which make man’s agriculture more difficult. We could certainly classify insect pests in the same category as noxious weeds.
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Does the belief in evolution adversely affect the medical and the social sciences? It sure does.
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It’s an armed and dangerous fungus with a hair trigger. The fungus known as Haptoglossa uses high-velocity projectiles fired from automatic cannons built into its body. Thankfully, the fungus’s impressive weaponry is aimed at other microscopic creatures.
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Pastors or clergymen are sometimes called upon to stand with saddened families by the bedside of a loved one who is in a coma. The coma is usually the result of a serious injury and some have wondered if it is really the brain’s strategy for healing itself. Now both experience and science are beginning to suggest that a coma is indeed part of the brain’s strategy to heal itself.
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A century before the birth of Christ, a Roman named Lucretius suggested that since life evolved on earth, one might expect that there are other planets like earth where life also evolved. Modern scientists who believe in evolution also feel that if life could be found on other planets, their arguments for evolution would be stronger. They even persuaded the United States Congress to approve millions of dollars to search for radio signals that might come from other planets. The centerpiece of their effort was a radio receiver linked to a computer.
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I’m sure everyone has noticed that whenever one of those interesting nature programs on television show an especially clever design in nature, the program is always quick to explain how this came about by evolution.
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There are numerous sites where evidence that people once lived in caves has been studied. It’s an ancient idea that the first primitive human beings, on their way from becoming apes to humans, lived in caves. Greek and Roman evolutionists wrote about it over 2,000 years ago. However, we need to ask whether people who lived in caves are truly less human than we are today.
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He lived in the last half of the nineteenth century. He was a strong believer in the Creator God, and that made him very unpopular in some circles. As he pursued his scientific studies in Paris, he became a thorn in the side of his contemporaries, the followers of Charles Darwin. They argued that life arose spontaneously long ago from non-living material, but Louis Pasteur believed that life was created by God. He decided to apply his scientific expertise to Darwin’s claims.
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Every second, our sun casts energy equaling over four-and-a-half million horsepower on every square mile of earth. Yet the earth receives less than one-tenth of one percent of the sun’s energy.
Our galaxy contains 100 billion stars, of which our sun is only about average. Truly God’s power is so great that we cannot even measure the relatively small amount of power He has used to energize the cosmos!
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The largest community of mammals in one space spends the summer in Bracken Cave, outside San Antonio, Texas. Here, 20 million female Mexican free-tailed bats raise their 20 million pups, gulping down 150 tons of insects every night!
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The evidence continues to mount that human beings, unlike any other creature on earth, are born with language ability. We even begin learning the unique characteristics of our own languages at a young age.
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The bola spider is said to have evolved its amazing abilities all by itself. Why, then, is it smarter and why does it have more abilities than mankind?
The bola spider’s favorite food is moths, but it doesn’t weave a web. The bola spider produces the same scent produced by a female moth. Male moths are attracted to this scent, and the spider waits for the inevitable appearance of a male moth.
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Humans have a relatively large brain cortex, and the evolutionary argument has always been: larger brain cortex, more intelligence. In an attempt to prove this theory, researchers at the National Institutes of Mental Health gave pregnant rats a drug that reduced the amount of cortex tissue in the next generation. The researchers expected the offspring to be less intelligent, but this was not the case.
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It appears that all animals have the ability to learn. This is because they need information about their surroundings that will help them predict other things about their surroundings. For example, honeybees know which types of flowers offer pollen at any given time. They don’t waste their time checking out flowers that have nothing to offer.
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The clover family of plants is a large family with members all over the world. Members of this family have many forms, from the white and purple clovers that grow in the lawn to the impressive acacia and mimosa trees. However, most types of clovers live in North America.
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All green plants need light to make the food. Different plants need differing amounts of light. However, scientists have discovered a plant that is a champion at growing in dark conditions. That plant is red algae. It was discovered growing 268 meters below the surface of the ocean. So little light penetrates that deep that it would look absolutely dark to us. Scientists estimate that the light intensity at that depth is 0.0005 as much as at the surface!
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The male white-lipped frog of Puerto Rico communicates using more than a variety of sounds. The frog also sends seismic signals through the ground. Researchers studying the frog have learned that it is more sensitive to seismic signals than any other creature.
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How long does it take to make a fossil? Would you believe that when the correct natural conditions are duplicated in the laboratory, the process only takes a few days to get underway?
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Man has always treasured his ability to see. And since man was created as a highly intelligent creature, rather than a simple primitive, it seems that man has practiced eye surgery as far back as we have records.
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Do you know that you have something in your head besides bone, soft tissue and blood? You have rocks in your head! Well, sort of, anyway.
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Nearly everyone has heard of the giant fungus in Michigan’s Iron County, near the Wisconsin border. The 38-acre fungus weighs as much as a blue whale. Scientists estimate that it is about 1,500 years old, based on its current rate of growth.
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The environmental movement has rightfully shown concern about the South American rainforest. While it is true that the entire rainforest system is a delicately balanced harmony of thousands of subsystems, it is generally believed that it has taken millions of years to evolve. After all, each living thing forms part of the environment for other living things so that adaptation is a dynamic process seemingly taking much longer than might be imagined. This is why the rainforest is spoken of as being a fragile ecosystem.
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The painted lady butterfly gets its name from the beautiful design in orange, black and white on its wings, which average about two and a half inches in full span. Every year, millions of these little creatures are seen in full migration. The painted lady is the most widespread of all species of butterfly. It is found in Asia, Africa and South America.
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Have you ever been to a farm that grows plastic? In just a few years this scenario may become a common reality. Most plastics today are made from petroleum. Plastics made from petroleum are not considered biodegradable. Researchers have been searching for a way to get plants to produce plastic resin. Such plant-produced resin could be used to make biodegradable plastics. The few biodegradable plastics now on the market are made by mixing starch or other plant material with petroleum products.
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We are all familiar with the fact that plants can sense light. They depend upon light to make their living, so it’s logical that plants have been designed with the ability to sense light. If plants could move, would they be able to see?
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Your high school biology textbook may have given you the idea that modern science understands how hearing works. While science understands the general principles, researchers are still trying to understand the details.
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The life cycle of a star is supposed to be millions of years; thus, human observers should not be able to see the birth and death of an individual star. Now a star that first became visible in the year 1600 is causing some astronomers to rethink their theories about the time it takes for stars to evolve.
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Celery is an old Asian folk remedy for mild cases of high blood pressure. In one unscientific test, the father of a University of Chicago medical student lowered his mild hypertension simply by adding a quarter pound of celery to his diet every day for a week.
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Through Moses, God commanded the Israelites to dye the tassels on the corners of their garments blue. The secret to making this blue dye appears to have been lost about 500 years after the birth of Christ.
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The potato beetle is one of the most noxious pests that can attack a farmer’s crop. It is resistant to insecticides. As a result, it has been America’s most effective destroyer of potato, tomato and eggplant crops. A tiny surgeon from South America, however, has shown promise in combating the potato beetle.
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God designed and made the universe from nothing. That’s creation. Man takes what God has made and simply rearranges it to make things that help him. That’s building. The wonderful abilities that God built into plants and animals come from the genetic information that God built into them. Man has now started to use the genetic information created by God to build harmless creatures that better serve our needs.
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Scripture warns us that how we occupy our minds affects our behavior. Unfortunately, modern voices have said something else. They oppose the public expression of Christianity and decency because they say that it may have a negative effect upon people. At the same time, they tell us that when children study New Age religions, homosexuality and situation ethics at school or see violence on television, these influences will not have a negative effect upon them!
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European blackbirds love southern Germany so much that many of them stay for the winter. Some of the blackbirds migrate to North Africa, Spain or southern France to escape the cold. Like the robin in North America, however, some European blackbirds don’t migrate.
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The lead article and front cover picture of the July 23, 2001, issue of Time magazine promised its readers that a recent discovery in Ethiopia has brought science tantalizingly close to solving the puzzle: “How Apes Became Human.”
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We have for so long been led to believe that early man evolved from the animal kingdom and, thus, began with little intelligence. But is our mental capacity today really the result of evolution from brute beginnings?
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It would seem almost ludicrous to ask the question, has mankind made progress since his appearance on this planet? Many would answer that it should be perfectly obvious that man has come a long way from primitive beginnings in the cave.
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Can an octopus be as smart as a dolphin or even a human? The octopus is thought by those who believe in evolution to be an early, primitive form of life. They certainly look primitive, but that’s a subjective opinion based upon the many imaginative illustrations we have all seen in books and films. And we might also say that they do not appear to be very intelligent, but again, do we really know for sure?
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School biology textbooks offer students good facts but often bad interpretation of those facts. For example, when explaining how fish evolved into air-breathing land animals, students are usually offered a great deal of misinformation about living and extinct fish.
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As a child, Isao Kubo’s grandmother always told him to drink green tea after he ate something sweet. Later, as a University of California chemist, Kubo has shown that his grandmother’s advice was scientifically sound.
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Many uses have been found for the intestines of pigs. Some astonishing test grafts now suggest that a portion of the pig’s intestine may provide doctors with an almost universal graft. Tests show that the grafted intestine can be used for several types of repairs and offers no problems with rejection.
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The ancient Greeks called it the “queen of all herbs.” The earliest mention of this common shrub refers to its medicinal value.
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A professor of medical ethics used an old evolutionary myth to support the removal of organs from a baby born without a brain. The girl’s parents wanted to donate her organs for transplant while she was still alive so that the organs would be healthy and usable. A circuit court judge, however, noting that the child was still alive, refused to allow the taking of any of the child’s organs vital for life.
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Throughout the open markets of Kenya, shopkeepers sell leaves and strips of bark from the warburgia bush. The leaves and bark are used to relieve toothaches, fevers, constipation, and the taste of meat gone slightly sour. Medical researchers have been examining extracts from the bush for use with antibiotics.
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Scientists are learning that there is much more going on among those moths that flutter around your yard light than they ever expected.
Scientists have long known that moths communicate with each other, using hormones called pheromones. A female moth who is ready to mate will send a pheromone into the air. Males who sense the pheromone will seek out the female. Research now shows that the moths’ system is much more elegant than this.
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The ancient, yet beautiful, paintings in the Lascaux cave in France were discovered more than 80 years ago. The paintings are thousands of years old and there seems to be no other record of the painters. In those 80 years, researchers studying the paintings have deepened their admiration for the intelligence and skill of the artists.
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Scientists have been studying the safety line used by the common garden spider to save itself when falling. This safety line is as strong as nylon and has twice as much stretch.
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Today’s program will help you make better souffle or meringue. Though many people never think about it, cooking involves chemistry. Good cooks have a knowledge of chemistry, even if they have never studied the subject in a classroom.
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For over a century it was a bee of legend. The native people on the Indonesian island where it lives call it the “king bee.” The king bee was first described by a scientist in the 1800s. Then, despite a century of looking, the largest bee in the world was not seen again until the 1980s.
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The black madrone butterfly is one of the strangest butterflies in the world. It also has a highly unusual relationship with man.
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According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the earth in a perfect condition – without disease or death. However, when man did his own will instead of God’s will, death became a reality, just as God had warned. On the other hand, evolution says that death has nothing to do with man’s disobedience to his Creator. Evolution also says that our genetic information has developed over the years to help us survive. Can these opposite claims be tested?
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The tiny insect called ice plant scale has no wings. That’s why scientists were surprised to learn that the creature uses sophisticated preflight and flight strategies to move from one ice plant to the next.
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When we think of science and kites, we usually think of Ben Franklin flying his kite in the thunderstorm. Ben Franklin was not the first to use kites to study the weather. Nor was he the last. The U.S. Weather Bureau began using kites to study the weather after the invention of the box kite in 1893. Kites became important weather station tools for the next 30 years. As balloons were improved, the Weather Bureau’s use of kites stopped.
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Those who truly believe that the Bible is the Word of God consider its moral instruction as being God’s absolutes. Others think it is a book of ancient myths, while a third group thinks its teachings are generally good but not absolute.
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Ever since Charles Darwin first visited the Galapagos Islands, the creatures of these islands have been presented to the public as classic examples of evolution. Yet, evolutionists have long known that their claims could not possibly be true.
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Scientists who believe in evolution will argue that similarities between different species are the result of evolution. They say that similarities between humans and apes show that we are closely related. The fact that we are so unlike sponges or microbes, says this argument, shows that we have evolved much further.
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“Name the five senses.” Every school child is asked that question. However, now the question is outdated because a sixth sense has been discovered.
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The debate has raged for years. Some have said that as we grow up, we are seeking rules by which life is lived. Others have said that rules are bad and cause young people to rebel.
An eight-year national study of 2,000 adolescents should help settle the debate. Researchers studied the influence of family, community and peer values among teenagers. Teens were selected from urban, suburban and rural settings.
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Can you teach an old insect, or even a young insect for that matter, any tricks at all? Science long assumed that insects were too stupid to learn even simple things. However, researchers have now proven that insects can not only learn, they can generalize knowledge into long-term lessons for life.
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He sits on his eggs to protect them until they hatch, but he’s no rooster. He’s a good swimmer, but he’s no duck or swan.
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Scientists describe the creatures as mean, greedy and anti-social. They are also impressive chemists. That’s some reputation for a creature whose lifespan is only four hours. The short form of this microscopic creature’s name is simply bdella.
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It’s a widely accepted modern myth in our computer-driven, technological age that people today are in some way more advanced than people of thousands of years ago.
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We’ve all seen a misty halo around the sun or the moon. The halo is caused when light from the sun or the moon shines through ice, high in the atmosphere. Ice crystals, of course, are hexagonal, or six-sided. And for this reason, the halo always appears at an angle of 22 degrees away from the sun or moon.
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On the first morning of the time change to daylight savings, it’s a little harder to get up. That night it might be a little more difficult to feel sleepy at bedtime. This is because our bodies need a little time to adjust to the time change.
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It’s not news when a dog bites a man. However, it is news when a man bites a dog. Likewise, it’s not news when a toad eats a fly. But news about a fly that eats toads should get our attention.
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At Creation Moments, we are often asked about the safety of hypnosis. Some law enforcement agencies regularly make use of hypnosis. It has been widely believed that hypnosis helps people remember details about an incident that they don’t naturally remember. Some judges even accept memories said to be enhanced by hypnosis as evidence in court. However, the claims made for the powers of hypnosis have seldom been tested scientifically.
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While debate continues about whether chimps can actually learn to communicate with language, there is little question that they understand simple sentences. However, this doesn’t prove any relationship between man and apes. Research shows that dolphins and sea lions can also learn language. Researchers used the same methods to get people and pigeons to memorize a string of numbers.
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God has created us with a strong desire to know the purpose of things. Evolutionists generally believe that if a feature doesn’t serve a purpose, it should not have evolved. On the other hand, the Bible tells us that purpose is given by God. He gives the woodpecker its incredible tongue because it helps the woodpecker to make its living. In addition, this wondrous design glorifies its Creator.
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Most Christians have been told, “Creation isn’t scientific because it comes from the Bible!” Does the source of an idea make the idea unworthy of science?
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The parting of the Red Sea as the Israelites escaped Egypt is one of the most attacked miracles in the Bible. Much of scholarly opinion says that the Israelites didn’t really escape through the sea. They simply went through a nearby marsh, called the Reed Sea. In the first place, how could the Israelites, loaded down with their own possessions plus the spoils of Egypt, have traveled through a marsh? Second, how could an entire army drown in a swamp?
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We usually identify plants by their appearance. Palm trees can be identified because the many different kinds of palms have some common identifying characteristics. Pine trees, likewise, have common features that help us identify them. However, one plant has become a master at looking like many other plants. It has a good reason for doing this.
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More than a quarter of our drugs come from wild plants. Traditionally, researchers in search of new drugs would ask local folk healers about plants that might be helpful. However, that isn’t always the best approach. In some societies, plants are thought to have healing powers simply because they look like a disease.
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The hard-driving, powerful executive who’s in charge at all times is one of the most common images of success in the modern world. There is no end to the books and videos that are designed to help people rise above those around them by gaining power.
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Have you ever wondered how you could get cut by a blade of grass or the edge of a palm leaf? Plants have a nasty secret. They absorb silica, the same stuff of which glass is made, and store it in their cells.
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Before birth, a developing baby breathes amniotic fluid, which delivers dissolved oxygen to the lungs. When very premature babies are born, they often have difficulty breathing because their lungs lack a substance that enables them to get oxygen from the air. The result is often chronic lung disease or other permanent damage.
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Because the vast open seas were largely unknown to so many in the ancient world, early explorers were filled with great fear about monsters that might live in unknown regions. After centuries of exploration on and under the sea, we have learned that the seas hold far more beauty than beasts.
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Europe was introduced to Australia's duckbill platypus in 1798. Because of the difficulties of travel in those days, scientists didn't send a live platypus from Australia to the British Museum in London. They sent only a platypus skin. Scientists in London looked at the duck bill, the beaver tail and the webbed feet of this egg laying mammal and immediately denounced the creature as a hoax.
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We have often pointed out that the ability to communicate is not what separates humans from animals. In previous programs we have marveled at the range of animal communication and how it reflects the intelligence and genius of the Creator. Researchers in animal communication have been no less amazed as they have now begun to learn that many animals actually have languages and that they can invent new words to communicate new dangers to each other and to their young.
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In many ways, lobster interaction seems almost human. Lobsters' mating ritual seems, by human standards, to be especially touching.
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It is not unusual to hear humans being referred to as animals. Many people are insulted by that. But few people know what separates humans from animals.
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Live things in Antarctica's Victoria Land arctic desert must be very special indeed. The 2,000 square mile arctic desert appears to be home to no living things. There is neither soil nor plants. All that seems to exist there is lifeless, windswept, glacier scoured rock.
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There is a huge difference between computers and the human brain. While the computer transmits information using electricity, the brain communicates its information using powerful chemicals. Let's say that you accidentally touch a hot pan on the stove. In less than two tenths of a second, millions of reactions take place while your brain performs a huge number of operations. As a result, you pull your hand away from the hot pan – very quickly!
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The lobster, with its external shell, is classified as a crustacean and is considered by evolutionists to be among the earlier evolved creatures. But recent study of the habits and abilities of lobsters are showing that these creatures are unexpectedly complex; their abilities are equal to the supposedly more-evolved creatures.
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Wells are usually dug by people in order to get water. Why, then, would a fish dig a well?
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One could say that the South American Hoatzin is truly a strange bird. It makes a striking sight with its blue skin and red eyes, sporting a four inch crest of spiky feathers on its head. Young Hoatzin have claws on their wings, allowing them to climb trees just like a monkey. This bird becomes an expert underwater swimmer before if can even fly.
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The infamous Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion on demand was made in 1973. Today, "Creation Moments" will look at what science knows about the miracle God performs as He forms a new human being within a mother's womb.
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According to the Bible, God completed creation in six days and rested on the seventh, thus setting the pattern for humans to follow. If the Bible's account of creation is just a myth, or if the days of Genesis 1 are figurative, why is the very fabric of human existence tied to the seven day week?
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For years scientists have thought that lobsters were loners. Intensive study of the lifestyle of lobsters now shows that lobsters have their own very complex, bustling society.
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On previous "Creation Moments" we have talked about some of the wonderful designs that help make the giraffe possible. The giraffe has a strong heart to pump blood all the way up to its head and strong arteries to withstand the high blood pressure needed to carry the blood to its head.
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If you've ever watched movies that take place in the middle ages, you've probably witnessed scenes set in a huge castle. Some movie makers have tried to be true to life, showing dogs and sometimes even other animals scampering about inside the castle. Now and again Henry VIII or Richard IV tosses a bone onto the floor. In short, those old castles were not too clean, and there were plenty of unpleasant odors around.
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Dr. Wernher von Braun was considered one of the 20th century's greatest scientists. After pioneering work in rocketry, von Braun developed the Saturn V rocket, which successfully powered the first manned moon landing. In 1972, this great scientist was asked to comment on the case for design as a scientific theory for the origin of the universe. Aside from my brief comment at the end of this program, the rest of today's "Creation Moment" is in Dr. von Braun's words:
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Did you ever wonder why you don't rust? Before you laugh, remember – iron is not only a major part of your blood, it is used to attract the oxygen that is carried by your blood to the rest of your body. And you know what happens when oxygen meets the iron in your car or a tool that is left outside overnight – rust! So, why don't we rust?
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Computer engineers are learning how to speed up computers and make them more efficient by using a number of processors instead of just one. They have also learned that designing computers that process some results and then send those results to another, larger processor for more complicated processing, helps them solve even more complicated problems.
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Many people mistakenly believe that dinosaurs prove evolution. After all, dinosaurs are strange creatures and seem to represent a very different world from the one we know today. But several years ago, the discovery of the most ancient dinosaur challenges this.
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Around Christmastime it is common to hear some authority trying to explain the star that the wise men followed to find the infant Jesus. It is commonly explained as a comet or the conjunction of two or more planets or stars. The question is, are these and similar theories possible?
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Language is an important part of culture. As the theory of evolution was being developed, evolutionists were quite successful in convincing people that language, education and culture separated humans, whom they described as animals, from other animals. After all, they reasoned, we are evolutionarily much more advanced than animals, and that's why we have language and traditions.
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Over the centuries humans have tried different strategies to protect themselves from sharks. But it's no secret that most shark repellents simply don't work. But scientists have learned, from a lowly fish no less, that repelling a shark is as simple as washing his mouth out with soap – released from a squirt gun, of course.
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Sometimes God's imagination is so creative that even the scientists are stumped by the results. One such example is the colugo, an animal that scientists tried to place in three different families before they finally gave up and designated a whole new family just for that one strange creature.
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Deep in the Venezuelan jungle, 60 miles from the nearest settlement, it appears as if God decided to plant a very special garden. That garden grows on a mountain that rises 7,000 feet on sheer cliffs above the jungle. The mountain, rising eventually to 9,000 feet, is the highest mountain in South America outside the Andean mountain chain.
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The story of Christmas begins with the beginning of the work of the Son of God. And His first work is recorded in Genesis chapter 1. The story of His love for us that led Him to give up the glory, beauty and perfection of heaven to come to our dirty, dusty, pain-filled world begins not in Bethlehem, or in the Old Testament prophets.
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The Choco Indians of Panama and Colombia use the poison from the skin of the beautiful poison dart frog to make their lethal darts. The bright orange and deep blue skin of this frog serves to warn predators that it is best left alone and its poisonous skin untouched.
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Christians, especially those who believe in creation, hear this question often, "If God created the world perfectly, why are there germs that cause disease? Why did He make them?"
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Today we're going to a school of fish to learn about the wisdom that God built into some 20,000 different species of fish.
First of all, fish don't learn how to school; they know how to school instinctively at birth. Schooling has advantages for fish, and some schools can have over a million fish in them! You see, schools offer a lot of protection from predators.
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Christians around the world believe that Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary. To those who don't believe in a Creator, the virgin birth of God in human flesh is beyond human comprehension. However, why should science deny what it can never understand?
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We've been hearing a lot about how science scores are dropping among American high school students. Many creationists believe that the dogmatic teaching of evolution is one important reason why science scores are dropping.
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It's not at all true that penguins are flightless birds. They are perfectly designed to fly. However, when a penguin goes flying in search of its food, it doesn't search in the air, but in the water.
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Do you believe in a recent, special creation by God? Those of us who do are often ridiculed as being on the fringe. The suggestion is that only a small minority of people believe in a recent, special creation by God. A recent Gallup Poll, however, shows that those of us who believe in a recent, special creation actually outnumber those who believe in atheistic evolution or even those who believe that evolution was directed by God.
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Not a week goes by that we don't hear of some plant or animal threatened with extinction. Is such a rapid rate of extinction natural, or is it caused by the activities of modern technological man?
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Scientists who believe in creation have always said that evolutionary methods for dating the ages of rocks give ages that are too old. There are many examples of how those who believe in evolutionary long ages exaggerate the abilities of their dating methods. Several years ago, scientists at the Institute for Creation Research published another example of how evolutionary dating methods give wildly exaggerated ages.
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The bird of paradise is among the strangest and most beautiful birds in the world. They are so unusual that evolutionary scientists are having difficulty explaining how such creatures could have evolved.
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On television's nature programs we often hear that the principle of survival of the fittest rules in nature. The most aggressive flourish at the expense of those who don't kill or steal quite as quickly.
This principle has even been applied to humans. Some would say that in business it's the most aggressive and the most merciless to enemies who prosper. Is this a fair picture of nature or man?
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Your grocery store has a produce section. Recent discoveries suggest that your brain has a produce section, too.
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The water pressure around a human diver increases as he goes into deeper water. As the pressure increases, his blood is able to hold more dissolved oxygen. Our blood also absorbs the nitrogen in the air around us. If a diver were to move toward the surface too quickly, the nitrogen would start to bubble out of his blood. These bubbles can block the flow of blood to muscles, organs, and even the brain, leading to death. This painful condition is called the bends.
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Even a small household must have some organization to keep enough food and supplies on hand for the family. Yet, the thousands of members in an ant colony never run short of supplies even though there is no central organization and not one shopping list. Modern science is discovering how the ant's astonishing system works.
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Did you know that a tree is aerodynamically more sleek than the smoothest jet plane? As the wind blows, the leaves and branches of tree move, allowing the wind to pass. As a result, the tree has less aerodynamic drag than a jet plane.
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Four or five centuries ago people thought that small animals simply froze solid in the winter and, in the spring, thawed out and resumed life. These ideas were later thought of as a foolish fiction of a previous, ignorant age.
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We've all heard the old saying, "God helps those who help themselves." It's usually offered to encourage someone to put in more effort. While there are benefits to hard work, it's not exactly accurate to say that God helps those who help themselves.
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When we think of major geological changes in the Earth we usually think of events that happen too slowly to notice. Certainly no one would notice major geological shifts in the space of one lifetime, or even the lifetime of a civilization. Yet, if the biblical history is true, major geological changes have taken place within the lifetimes of civilizations.
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God did not allow man to eat meat before the Great Flood but gave us permission to do so after the flood. At the same time, God placed the fear of man into the animals so that they would know that they needed to protect themselves.
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We can all understand why spiders like to live alone rather than with other spiders. Spiders consider any living creature of eating size appropriate to eat, even if that other creature is a spider. Since spiders are aggressive about eating, they are usually smart enough not to live too close to another spider.
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Many of God's creatures are beautiful. However, some of them, like the appropriately named hagfish, strike us as ugly. Not only does the hagfish look like something out of a science fiction movie, it has bad habits.
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When we think of Mount Ararat, we usually think of the search for Noah's Ark. While the Ark has not been definitely located in modern times, the mountain has many other discovered mysteries. What is very likely the world's oldest city sits in ruins on the southern slopes of Mount Ararat. Tradition and evidence seem to support the idea that this was the first city built after the flood.
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Creationists are often asked whether there are only two possible choices in the origins debate – creation or evolution.
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One of the most common questions Christians ask is "What about the dinosaurs?" Are dinosaurs proof that the Earth is countless ages old and that life must have evolved?
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How did we get all of the different races on earth if we are all descended from Adam and Noah and his family?
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One question we are often asked is why more human fossils are not found in older rocks. In order to become a fossil, a creature must be buried rapidly in sediment so that it does not decay. Aquatic animals would be much more likely to produce fossils in, say, a worldwide flood than land animals, and, indeed, geologists universally use small marine creatures as their "index fossils."
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The fact that man is by nature a religious creature was underscored with the discovery of the oldest known religious sanctuary in the world. The shrine was discovered in northern Spain. Evolutionists say that the shrine was built by early Stone Age man. In terms of biblical history, the sanctuary was probably built by some of the first post-flood settlers in Spain.
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If you haven't been feeling cheerful lately, maybe you should have more "negativity" in your life.
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Many people think that man's intelligence is what sets him apart from the animals. This idea is built on the evolutionary theory that as the most recently evolved creature, man is the most intelligent. It is also built on the evolutionary idea that man has no such thing as a soul.
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We don't often associate aggressive behavior and the need to fight with butterflies. Rather we think of bright, beautiful creatures that decorate nature and always seem to cheer people up.
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When we hear about the "cave man" and the "Stone Age", most people think of Neandertal man. Popularly called "Neanderthal," the preferred usage today is Neandertal. When we think of Neandertal, most people think of a large, brutish, hairy, bent-over creature that looks like a cross between an ape and a human. Who, in fact, was Neandertal?
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Bowerbirds are found only in New Guinea and Australia. There are many types of bowerbirds, each with unique habits. However, bowerbirds are best known for their love of bright colors and the great care they use in decorating their constructions. All this activity is carried out to attract a mate. Scientists say that the brighter a bowerbird's feathers, the less elaborate its constructions.
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The modern, educated person often tends to look down on previous generations. Many people seem convinced that if we look back 1,000 or 2,000 years, some measurable evolutionary improvement in man must have taken place over so much time.
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The first scientific studies that showed essential differences between males and females were not well received by some. Many Christians have resisted the teachings that men and women are by nature the same. Christians have traditionally understood the Bible to teach that males and females each have essential, honorable, but different roles to play.
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According to the story of life offered by evolution, dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years before man ever set foot on Earth. According to the Bible, all living things were made during a six-day period of time. This means that humans and dinosaurs walked the Earth at the same time. If evidence that they lived together could be found, evolutionary history would be very seriously challenged.
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When little or no oxygen is dissolved in the blood of most animals or humans, death quickly follows. The chemistry by which our cells generate energy to stay alive needs oxygen. When oxygen runs short, a second, temporary, energy-producing system kicks in. This system doesn't need oxygen, but it produces lactic acid that can kill living cells. Therefore, this second energy system is an emergency measure, used only when seriously starved for oxygen.
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Because it is sometimes connected to New Age religion, acupuncture is often seen as something negative. However, stripped of its pagan mumbo-jumbo, acupuncture has a sound medical basis.
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We are all familiar with evolution's battle cry of survival of the fittest. Another way of putting it is that evolution favors the selfish.
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Many who reject the Creator work hard to try to prove that He doesn't exist. Creationists argue that the creation is so well designed that it must have a Designer. After all, a watch is much simpler than a bumblebee. If a watch needs a Designer and builder, so does a bumblebee.
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Scientists who are working on newer and better materials out of which to make things are concentrating their attention on ceramics. Ceramics do not break or wear as easily as other materials, including metals. High temperatures don't cause them to weaken. Some ceramics have even shown the promise of bringing about another revolution in electronics. Ceramics have one major problem, though. They are difficult to form into usable parts.
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The human brain is like a network in which each brain cell is connected to thousands of other brain cells. Scientists have long suspected that this unique design helps give the human brain its intellectual power.
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Today, people regularly travel a thousand miles in modern airliners. A thousand miles is a long day's drive, but it can be done. We would never think of walking or riding a horse that far.
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The White-fronted bee-eater is an East African bird that lives in clans of up to fourteen members.
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The painted turtle is found farther north than any other turtle in North America. During their first year of life, painted turtles survive temperatures as cold as 18 degrees Fahrenheit.
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One would not think that a brightly colored, relatively slow butterfly has much of a chance against a bird moving in for lunch. But you would be surprised. Scientists were.
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When they flower, some plants actually generate their own heat. The voodoo lily can raise its temperature by 25 degrees. As it does so, it releases a scent that attracts the beetles that pollinate it.
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Do you think that people are generally out to benefit themselves at your expense? Or are you someone who usually makes sure that you get what you feel is your share, even if it's at someone else's expense? Research shows that our mental attitudes can shorten our lives.
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A spider's venom paralyzes its victim, keeping the victim fresh, yet immobile. Spider venom does this by slowing or stopping the work of a chemical called glutamate, which controls muscle movement in insects. Glutamate is also an important messenger chemical in the human brain.
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How does the brain remember what it learns? What happens when you think? Is your mind the same as your brain?
As modern science learns more about the wonders of the brain, it also learns that it is farther than ever from learning how the brain works. Some former materialists are beginning to ask whether man has a non-material, spiritual part.
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Scientists have been studying the different ways in which insects move, hoping to discover a better way to design mobile robots. In doing this they have inadvertently recognized the wisdom and creativity of the Creator, even though they may not care to admit His existence.
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According to evolution, dinosaurs developed tens of millions of years before horses and were extinct long before the first horse galloped across the countryside. According to the Bible, however, horses and the land dinosaurs were made on the same day. This means that it should be possible to find evidence of horses in the same rocks as we find dinosaurs. Such a discovery would be a challenge to evolution!
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During the mid-1980s, the residents at the north end of San Francisco Bay began complaining about a strange droning noise coming from the Bay. During the months of July and August, the odd noise started after sunset and continued until sunrise. People living on houseboats found that the noise disrupted their sleep.
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There is a blind spot where the optic nerve enters the retina of your eye. Yet, we don't see a hole in our field of vision. Scientists always thought that this was because our brain simply ignores the ever-present blind spot. Research has shown that an even more complex system erases that blind spot.
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Insects use a vast array of chemical strategies to defend themselves from predators. Some of their strategies are so ingenious that they could only have been made by an all-wise Creator, Who knows how everything in the creation works. One of the world's greatest experts on insects has noted that insects are far more complex creatures than biologists had ever imagined.
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The nervous system of an insect is almost infinitely more complex than our most sophisticated computer-driven robots. Robots can only solve the simplest problems. While an insect has no difficulty walking, a walking robot is limited to an uncluttered flat floor where it clumsily clanks about until something goes wrong.
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The world is a fearful place for those who don't fear, love or trust the Lord. Such a world is filled with demons of our own creation. Those demons might inhabit a jungle bush or the sky above a skyscraper. They are found in cultures that cook with campfires and those that cook with microwaves. Wherever these demons are found, they demand man's fear and must be appeased.
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Whether we look at the plant world, animals or spiritual matters, predators often seek to disguise themselves as harmless to their victims. This is an effective strategy, often leaving victims unaware of danger until they are consumed by it.
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All of us learned in school that the fierce Tyrannosaurus Rex was the largest of the meat eaters. He was large enough to reach into a second story window with his five-foot-long head and grab a person with his six-inch-long teeth. Longer than a railroad boxcar, he probably weighed about ten tons!
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When human beings think that they have found mistakes in the Bible, they are eventually judged by their own words. Beneath old Jerusalem lies a complex, ancient water supply system. However, archaeologists have long considered it to be poorly designed. Worse, they said that the biblical account of David's capture of Jerusalem was in error since it mentioned water tunnels that didn't exist in his time.
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I remember reading in grade school that the human appendix is a useless organ. My textbook said that scientists thought that the appendix was once used to help digest the tree bark that our supposed ape-like ancestors ate. Does the human body have "extra" parts? Do we have organs that we no longer use because we have evolved away from needing them?
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Would the early Indian settlers in North America have been able to understand modern twentieth-century America? Beneath the peat deposits of Windover Pond in Titusville, Florida, scientists are finding the bodies and possessions of Indians who lived in Florida thousands of years ago.
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We've all been taught that fish are cold-blooded. In many people's thinking, perhaps the most cold-blooded of all is the shark. However, scientists have discovered that four types of sharks can raise their internal body temperatures. Why and how they do this offers a powerful witness to the love and provision of the Creator.
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A large, sophisticated concrete floor has recently been discovered in China. The floor dates to a period that, not long ago, evolutionists called the "Stone Age."
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Fireflies in southeast Asia regularly put on a show like that seldom seen from fireflies in the rest of the world. These fireflies have an ability found only among humans.
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There is no room in the harsh realities of evolution for selflessness. For example, evolution says if I help you, I do so because I'm going to get something for myself. Likewise, what appears to be friendly behavior among animals is said to be only an evolutionary adaptation designed to preserve an animal's genetic code. But research is leading some to question this harsh materialism.
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Mammoths and mastodons were distant relatives to the elephant. There is a great deal of debate over when they became extinct and why.
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Many kinds of birds collect and store food for later use. However, scientists recently reported that the female red-cockaded woodpecker collects, stores and appropriately uses a dietary mineral supplement as well.
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Popular folk wisdom, heavily promoted by groups like Planned Parenthood, says that it is pointless to teach teenagers that premarital sex is wrong. They claim that young people will experiment with sex no matter what they are told. About 20 years ago, the first broad-based, long-range study of this folk wisdom proved it to be a myth.
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When talking about a baby's expected time of birth, we have all heard someone say, "The baby will come when it's ready." While that might not sound very scientific, new research shows that the statement is probably scientifically accurate. The infant, not the mother, seems to control the start of the birth process for mother and infant.
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In Deuteronomy 27:2-8, we read of how Moses instructed Joshua to build an altar on Mt. Ebal after the Israelites had entered the Promised Land. There, the people were to sacrifice and give thanks to the Lord.
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All of us are familiar with using bait to lure prey. Both live and artificial bait are used to catch fish. Stores lure shoppers with sale prices. The use of both bait and camouflage is an even more sophisticated activity. The duck hunter not only hides in a blind, disguised to look like the natural surroundings, but he sets decoys around him to make it look as if the area is safe for ducks.
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If you are like most people, you may not care whether spiders feel pain. However, because of the way spiders are designed, their ability to feel pain has implications for many other creatures.
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Many creatures have complex and beautiful mating rituals. However, few are more wondrous or dramatic than the firefleas' ritual.
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Ouch! You've just gotten a paper cut on your finger. What's the first thing you do? If you're like most people, you'll probably put your finger in your mouth. If you think about it, you probably have no idea why you put your finger into your mouth. Actually, when a dog licks its wounds or you put your paper cut ravaged finger in your mouth, you are beginning medical treatment.
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The monarch caterpillar feeds on milkweed. Milkweed manufactures a powerful toxin that can, in most cases, stop the heart of any creature who eats enough of it. However, the monarch caterpillar itself is unharmed by this poison. In fact, the caterpillar stores the poison in its body, and this poison remains even after the caterpillar has turned into a butterfly.
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We are all aware of migrating birds' amazing abilities to navigate thousands of miles to a specific forest or tree. However, do migrating birds ever make mistakes in navigation? The answer is, "Yes." Those mistakes help us understand how birds navigate.
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The accidental discovery of a frog's secret may provide a giant leap for medical science.
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Despite modern medical advancements, pain management remains a difficult problem today. Man has used various forms of aspirin to manage pain for thousands of years. While more potent drugs can be used today, our primary approach to pain has changed little over the millennia. Recent advancements now promise to show us how to deal directly with many forms of pain.
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According to the claims of evolutionists, the dawn redwood trees lived from the time of the dinosaurs until about two million years ago. Then they became extinct. At the very same time this was the official scientific teaching, Chinese rice farmers were planting the tree because it was a good indicator of fertile rice fields.
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It can be forty feet long. It can have many mouths and just as many stomachs. It swims along in the darkness more than 1,500 feet beneath the sea, reaching out for food with its lethal tentacles.
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How long does it take to petrify wood? Scientists who believe in those millions and billions of years that evolutionists are always talking about have never tested the answer to this question. They simply assumed that it must take hundreds or thousands of years to petrify wood. It wasn't until the 1970s that scientists bothered to explore this question.
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It is always as dark as night 2,000 feet beneath the ocean's surface. Yet, a rich variety of life thrives in the darkness. The strategies for life, however, are quite different far beneath the waves.
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When a gazelle sees a creature that threatens, it springs straight up into the air. If you have a house cat, you've probably seen your pet do something similar when someone tries to sneak up on it. This strange behavior is called stotting.
Scientists are well aware that features found in nature have purpose. This is not to say, however, that all scientists necessarily believe in a Creator.
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Back in the 1990s, new fossil discoveries in China were greeted by evolutionists as among the most spectacular of the century. The fossils, said evolutionists, represented some of the earliest multicelled creatures. Evolutionists publicized these fossils as evidence for evolution. However, it's not difficult to see how these fossils support creation rather than evolution.
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The relationships between two or more creatures are sometimes so well-designed and complex that there is no conceivable way that they could have evolved. Sacculina carcini is a microscopic crustacean that begins life as a free-swimming larva. The female first seeks out a crab for a host then she searches for a tiny hole in the crab's leg joint.
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Research is showing that we can forget just about everything we ever learned about how we taste food. To begin with, we don't taste with our tongues but with our brains. Remember those tongue maps that we all learned about in school? They show that we taste sweet on the tips of our tongues, salt and sour flavors on the sides, and bitter tastes at the back of our tongues.
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The ocean is filled with animals that can generate their own light. Even Charles Darwin admitted that his theory of evolution could not explain how this bioluminescence might have evolved. As modern evolutionists try to explain how it might have evolved, they are making some interesting practical discoveries.
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Evolutionary scientists are often hard-pressed to explain human or even superhuman-like intelligence in animals. For example, let's say that you last saw your child when she was four months old. It is now four years later. Are you certain you could pick out your child in a room full of a hundred four-year-old little girls?
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The Bible mentions "the fountains of the deep" several times. During the Flood, we are told, God opened the fountains of the deep, suggesting seismic activity. When God ended the flooding, we are told that God closed the fountains of the deep, suggesting that they continue to exist, albeit with less water than at creation. In 1997, scientists said that they may have found an astonishing reservoir of water deep in the earth.
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How big is the largest living organism on Earth? We all know that the giant Redwoods of California grow larger than any whale. However, there are other living organisms that dwarf even the Redwoods.
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Two of the most basic requirements of the scientific method are that scientific theories must be testable and able to predict future discoveries. Evolutionary scientists say that creationism is not scientific because it fails these requirements.
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New archaeological evidence supports the factuality of the Greek legend about the prophet, or oracle, of Delphi.
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Tropical passion vines have a unique defense against insects that would nibble on their leaves. Its leaves contain sealed packets of cyanide that are made active by being linked with sugar molecules. There are other sealed packets with an enzyme that releases the sugar molecules, activating the cyanide. When an insect chews on the leaves, both packets are broken, the cyanide is activated and another predator is gone.
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Many people have wondered at the abilities of idiot savants. These are people who have very low intelligence, yet they can do seemingly impossible mental tasks. Some idiot savants have been able to instantly name the day of the week when given any date within the last 6,000 years. Others have been able to instantly give a correct solution to tedious mathematical calculations. Could such abilities reflect a throwback to the mental abilities the human race once had?
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A couple of our radio listeners have written to ask us whether there really are black holes in space.
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The fact that they must breathe air would seem to limit sea creatures like whales, dolphins and sea turtles. But these creatures are so well designed that their abilities amaze even the most informed scientists.
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While many people think that the octopus is an ugly creature, the octopus is intelligent. The mother octopus puts a lot of love and effort into the care of her young.
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Bee-eaters are birds whose way of life and behavior are both intelligent and unusual. There are 24 species of bee-eaters.
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Several years ago, Canadian and U.S. papers were filled with the results of polls in both countries that tested members of the public by asking some scientific questions. The problem is, both polls were heavily stacked with questions that resulted in so called "wrong" answers if the respondent didn't believe in evolution. Since more than 10 percent of the questions dealt with evolution, we can assume that the real purpose of the "poll" was to make belief in evolution look the same as "scientific literacy."
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Do you and I think? Or do we just think that we think? If you believe that we were created by God, your answer to that question will be that we actually do think. But if you believe that life is just a chemical accident, you might agree with those evolutionists who actually believe that we do not think. We only think we think.
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The aspirin tablet has been hailed as the miracle drug of the twentieth century. Although it took the twentieth century to flavor, coat and stamp little letters on aspirin, people have been using aspirin for centuries. The most common form in which aspirin has been taken is as willow bark tea.
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Scientists have found that the usual explanation for lightning is not quite true. School children are taught that as a cloud moves through the air it picks up electrical charge because of turbulence. This eventually causes lightning.
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Inside your body there is a large and amazing family of chemical workers who, although they usually last less than a minute, make life possible. There are so many different kinds of these chemicals, called prostaglandins, that science is just beginning to learn how important they are to life.
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Only recently have botanists begun to appreciate the jack-in-the-pulpit. This common flowering plant, which lives from 15 to 20 years, is found throughout eastern North America.
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The surface of the Earth 50 to 150 feet below the great living canopy of the rainforest is a dark, humid, still world dominated by great columns of tree trunks. Within those trunks and some of the giant hollow branches extending from them lie the secret of the life of the canopy itself.
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Today, lasers do many important jobs in manufacturing and medicine in addition to serving in weapons that once existed only in the minds of science-fiction writers. But if our small imaginations can think of amazing things, we shouldn't be surprised to learn that our Creator's limitless imagination can think of even more incredible things. As science studies the handiwork of the Creator, we are learning about His imagination.
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Evolutionary scientists have been amazed by the discovery that the very oldest artifacts left by humans indicate written language and mathematical ability. Creationists, on the other hand, are as pleased as can be at the findings, since they predicted that it would be possible to find that humans have had language throughout their history on Earth. After all, they were created by the Word of God – who later took human flesh upon Himself.
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Can ants count? It seems so! When scout ants find an item of food, they take it back to the nest. If the food item is especially good but too big to carry, the scout will return to the nest to get help. Scientists have discovered that ants apparently size up the task ahead before getting help so they can return with enough help, but not too much.
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One big issue these days is acid rain falling in industrialized areas of the world. Much of the acid in rain comes from nitric acid and sulfuric acid, which are released as a result of automobile exhaust and factory smokestacks. While rainwater needs to be somewhat acidic to dissolve minerals so they can be taken up by plant roots, too much acid is damaging buildings, automobiles, forests and lakes in some areas of the world.
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When an engineer builds a building, a bridge or some other structure, he must build it so that it can withstand both stretching and compressing forces. In designing the structure to withstand both kinds of these forces, he must anticipate how much of each force the structure might face in its lifetime.
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In our rapidly modernizing world, engineers are kept busy solving problems. Take, for example, all of the various kinds of transportation. There are millions of problems in this area alone that keep engineers busy inventing better solutions.
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Proverbs 30:25 uses the word "people" in referring to ants. In the Hebrew, this word is the very same word commonly used throughout the Old Testament for people, including the people of Israel. While this might at first seem strange, it is true that in many respects ants do seem like tiny people.
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Do evolutionists believe that life always becomes more complex and sophisticated? Does evolution ever go backward?
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Have you ever noticed that many who believe in evolution depict early humans as so primitive that they had to live in caves while many kinds of animals build much more sophisticated shelters? This inconsistent thinking is built on the evolutionary assumption that intelligence, like everything else, has evolved. Creatures that evolutionists think evolved much earlier must be less intelligent.
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It may come as good news to learn that the bacteria that make us sick can get sick too. Somehow it seems only right that they get a little of their own medicine, so to speak. And it may well be that making disease causing bacteria sick is just the medicine we need.
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Judging by the number of newspapers that carry daily horoscope columns, astrology continues to be very popular. Unfortunately, even many Christians have more than a passing interest in astrology.
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The entire forty-first chapter of the book of Job describes a creature called "leviathan." As in his earlier description of "behemoth," the Lord is impressing Job with the wisdom and might of His creating power.
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Most of us have heard of plants like the Venus flytrap and the pitcher plant, which eat meat, even if we've never seen one. But did you know that there are mushrooms that also eat meat?
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Some Christians believe that God's words in Genesis 1:3, "Let there be light" are a biblical description of the Big Bang that some scientists say created the universe. But, perhaps, we Christians should be a little more careful about assuming that modern science knows very much about the origin of the universe.
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For generations it was a rule that reptiles were cold blooded. And turtles, being reptiles, were therefore called cold blooded as well. Being cold blooded, it was expected that the body temperature of turtles would be close to that of the surrounding water.
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We have all seen it many times. A mother walking in a crowd with a small child loses track of her child and begins calling and searching for the little one. But can you imagine a crowd of 70 million mothers and children all looking for each other?
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We all learned about photosynthesis at school. For this particular chemical reaction to take place, you need the chemical chlorophyll together with the essential ingredient, sunlight. For thousands of years, man has known that for green plants to prosper, they need the sunlight.
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While many creatures create structured music – shall we say, songs? – it was thought that only man makes use of objects in the environment to get specific tone qualities. In other words, it was thought only man makes musical instruments. That claim has now been challenged by a frog!
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Scientists have long known that ants lay down scent trails, using pheromones, to mark the trail to goodies for their nest mates. While this is an efficient method for food gathering, it has been found that when a food source is exhausted, the ants leave a "Do not enter" sign that saves fellow ants from wasting time on this trail.
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Scientists who reject the claim that God created the heavens and the earth usually say that the universe is the result of some huge explosion in space billions of years ago.
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All green plants, some algae, and even some bacteria are able to make food out of nothing more than air, water, light and a few minerals. The process is called photosynthesis, and without it we would run out of food to eat as well as oxygen to breathe.
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Scientists who study the brain have always believed that adult creatures have all the brain cells they're ever going to have. If this is the case for humans, with the most powerful and highly evolved brains, then, of course, it must be true for the "lower" animals as well.
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Each one of us can learn about God's way of working with us from a fresh water snail that is often preyed upon by crayfish.
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Scientists reported in November of 1989 that a satellite that was supposed to help them answer questions about how the universe got here gave them no answers at all. The satellite, called the Cosmic Background Explorer, worked fine. Scientists just didn't find the evidences they expected to support their explanation of how the Big Bang could have produced the present universe.
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Throughout the centuries, people have noticed, whether or not they believed in a Creator, that there is a mathematically precise structure to the universe and everything in it.
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If all life evolved from, and is related to, earlier forms of life, then closely related animals should also have similar kinds of chemicals in their bodies. As the science of biochemistry has grown, those who believe in evolution have held high hopes that creatures that look similar to each other would also have similar chemicals. For example, insulin from a shark should be more like insulin from other fish than insulin from mammals.
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Most of us have heard a few of the theories that are offered to explain how birds are able to migrate for thousands of miles to an exact spot. The arctic tern migrates 22,000 miles a year to winter in the same spot where it wintered the previous year. But most birds seem to have this amazing ability even if they don't use it as often or to travel as far.
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In the secular media we often hear spokespersons for evolution say that creationism would ruin science. But several years ago an evolutionist suggested in his paper that creationism may actually help correct science.
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On Creation Moments we regularly look at unusual plants and animals that show the unlimited inventiveness of our Creator. Unusual living things are also fascinating because, since they are clearly unrelated to any other living things, each one is a challenge to evolutionary theory, which says that every living thing is related to other living things.
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The eye, with its incredibly sensitive color vision, is increasingly being recognized as a marvel as we learn more about how it works. The eye is able to detect the smallest measure of light known to physicists. These units are called photons.
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We at Creation Moments are often asked, where do evolutionists get all those millions of years? It seems they are always finding rocks and fossils that are tens or hundreds of thousands or even millions of years old.
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Because we were created by God who values communication and has always desired to communicate with us, we are born with the natural ability to learn and to speak language. Those who believe in evolution usually disbelieve that humans have the natural mental ability to speak, since they think both the ability to speak and language itself evolved.
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There is a common sense saying in science that when anything can serve as an explanation to support a theory, the theory is not scientific.
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Can the dead come back to life? While many scientists assure us that they cannot, the empty grave of Christ assures us that in Him everyone who trusts in His saving work on the cross of Calvary will live bodily with Him forever. When modern science tries to raise doubts about the bodily resurrection of Christ, just keep in mind that science cannot even explain the miracle of the seed.
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Historical science is one branch of human knowledge that consistently supports the biblical record.
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Many of the features of the Earth's surface have been formed by the cutting and eroding action of moving water. When you think about how hard rock is compared to water, it's easy to believe that it must have taken hundreds of thousands or even millions of years for water to shape the land. This ignorance about how rapidly water cuts rock has cost people their lives.
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On Creation Moments, we often challenge evolution with examples that show that the creation is carefully and lovingly designed by the Creator. Many of these evidences leave evolutionists silent and unable to respond. But one evidence for design is so powerful, it almost seems unfair for creationists to mention it. Yet they do, as in one release from scientists at the Institute for Creation Research.
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Do you realize that the Bible's own arguments have been stolen by evolutionary scientists in their attempt to prove that there are no such things as miracles? It's past time that Christians reclaim those arguments in order to deflate the doubt that has been created.
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One mystery that has intrigued humans for thousands of years is the location of the Garden of Eden. Even Sunday school children stare at maps and carefully read Genesis 2:8 14, trying to locate it. But when we wonder where the Garden of Eden was, there are other passages in the Bible that we need to consider. Genesis 3:23 24 makes it very clear that God closed the Garden to humans – meaning no one could ever go back.
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Did you ever wonder why, while there are lots of round and cylindrical living things, there are almost no square plants or animals? Why isn't there any animal that has a skeleton made out of metal? And while there are so many ways for living things to move about, why do almost none of them have wheels?
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For generations we have heard that people become criminals and go to prison because of their parents, friends, poverty or society itself. Yet there has always been a majority of people who come from bad homes or poor neighborhoods who have lived responsible lives.
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As spring comes to the temperate areas of the northern hemisphere, one of the first signs of spring is the blossom of the Lion's Tooth. This bright yellow flower is also called the Irish daisy, priest's crown, peasant's cloak and yellow gowan. Its other name appears on the sides of bags of lawn care chemicals – the dandelion.
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The language is so logical and precisely structured that it is being used to create a programming language that a computer can understand. Unlike most languages of the world, this language has few irregular verbs, no prepositions and almost no exceptions to strict grammatical rules. What would take a long sentence to say in most languages can be said in only a few words in this language.
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How long have people been living on Earth? The evolutionist says millions of years. Bible believing Christians generally say only about 6,000 years. But the answer to this question is amazingly simple.
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It's weatherproof, as flexible as paper, can generate electricity, serve as a microphone or radio speaker, sense your presence, act like a sponge and has some abilities that are like human skin. What could this strange material be? It's a plastic called PVDF.
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The water flea fills one of the lowest spots on the food chain. What this means is that even though the water flea is concerned about little else than going about his business, just about everyone else in the pond is interested in eating him.
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Evolutionists say that human beings evolved from an ape like creature. And how do they claim to know this? Because they find various kinds of apes in the fossil record. As one would expect, some of these apes are a little – and I stress, a little – more like us than others. They are all more like apes than like us. But evolutionists will tell us that those apes that are a little more like humans are evidence for evolution. Is this a logical way to think?
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Despite the fact that most microorganisms are necessary and good, throughout our lifetimes each of us encounters tens of thousands of different infectious bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites.
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Listeners will know that fossil bones of some dinosaurs show that they were truly huge. In the same way, some of the flying reptiles, such as Pteranodon, were also truly huge, and this poses a problem. Bigger wings require bigger muscles, and eventually the creature is not going to get off the ground.
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What would the typical living cell look like if enlarged to the size of New York City? Let's take an imaginary journey through the cell.
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One of the most breathtaking sights any human being can experience is available for free. The night sky, especially away from city lights, is a sight that staggers the imagination.
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Some things don't have to be understood to be appreciated. You can enjoy the smell of dinner cooking or the scent of a rose without any idea of how your nose works. And believe it or not, you're doing just as well as the most brilliant biologist.
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While scientists often talk about how it takes millions of years to form oil and gas deposits, they say little about the fact that oil and natural gas are forming today in the ocean's sediments. The sediments of the Gulf of Mexico are well known examples of the rapid natural formation of petroleum deposits. In addition, oil and natural gas are seeping from petroleum deposits under the floor of the Gulf of Mexico.
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These days, we don't have to wait very long before we hear some nonsense about how flight or – more recently – space travel are but stages in human evolutionary development. As Christians, we know that when Adam, the first man, is described as perfect, he is perfect in every way – spiritually, morally and intellectually.
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One of the most studied but least understood organs in the human body is the brain. The human brain is the most complex arrangement of matter in the universe. There are many different theories about how the brain works, but one universally recognized fact is that the brain is more sensitive to damage than any other organ.
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Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species opened the modern era of evolutionary thinking. The very name of his book suggests that as we look back in time, we should see fewer kinds of animals. Darwin led many people to think that there should be a greater variety of plants and animals today than in the distant past. And those plants and animals should be more sophisticated today.
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What has three eyes, lives in the sea and can swim faster than most boats can travel? No, it's not a creature from another planet. It's the porpoise.
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How would you like to live in a neighborhood where garbage was never collected and taken away? What if there was no provision in the creation for getting rid of waste? By now the Earth would have become a filthy mess!
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While evolutionary historians refer to the ages of humanity before the birth of Christ with terms like the Stone, Bronze and Iron ages, it seems that human metal working technology was much more sophisticated than these names suggest. And that fits with what Genesis 4 tells us about human history.
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One interesting way in which to help young people gain an appreciation for God's creation is to ask them to solve certain problems that the Creator Himself had to solve.
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One of the most amazing things in our modern age is the scientist who thinks he can use science to judge the Bible. After all, many things accepted today as scientific fact were first taught in the Bible.
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Many different creatures, from mice to insects, eat seeds. The tropical forest offers the greatest variety of seeds found anywhere in the world. The problem is that among this great variety are seeds that are poisonous and others that are hard as rocks. Yet, even these seeds are used for food by some creatures.
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Relationships among creatures who are often very different from one another are so numerous – and so intelligent – that they witness to an overall design for living things. Even evolutionists recognize this when they talk about the "grand design" of the living world. And if design is that evident, there must be a designer. But there's even more to the matter than seeing a designer.
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According to the Bible's history, humans are – by nature, not by evolution – clever and inventive. In Genesis 4 we read that Jubal, of the eighth generation after Adam, was a master musician. His brother, Tubal Cain, was an instructor in metallurgy. Clearly these people were not any less intelligent than we are and, considering what they did, perhaps in some ways they were even smarter than we are.
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If we could harness all of the sun's energy that reaches the Earth, we would have more than enough energy to fill all our energy needs – even if the entire world became as industrialized as the west. Yet, less than 0.10% of all of the sun's energy output reaches the Earth! What is going on within the sun to create so much energy?
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Many airports around the world have a problem with birds interfering with takeoffs and landings. In 1985 birds caused over half a million dollars worth of damage to airplanes as they collided with the moving planes. But Japan's All Nippon Airways came up with a way to keep birds away from its planes.
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They are social creatures who live in a colony. Young workers in the colony gather food and keep the colony's living area clean. Older males breed. And the colony is ruled by a single female – a queen.
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Sociologists are treading more boldly on ground that once was the sacred domain of Christianity. In recent years sociologists have tried to explain why certain universals exist among human beings. They are puzzled, for example, by the fact that a smile or a look of grief looks the same in every culture in the world.
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The frogfish is yet another strange creature for which those who believe in evolution can find no history. Not only do evolutionists admit that frogfish are not related by evolution to any other creature, but also they can find no relationship among 35 of the 41 known species of frogfish!
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Nearly everyone is familiar with the way in which the whistle of a train moving toward them lowers in pitch as the train passes. The change in pitch is caused by the change in the movement of the train relative to the listener. First it is moving toward the listener, but after it passes it is moving away. This change in pitch is called Doppler shifting. Now let's apply this principle to the bat's echolocation system.
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Is language learned or is it a built in part of our very nature? If we were made by a Creator who values communication, we would expect to have some built in language skills and desires. In fact, common features among all languages would also support the Bible's historical account of how humans once had only one language.
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We hear it often: Christian values are to blame for most of the problems in society. Marriage is ridiculed as "just a piece of paper". Strongly held convictions of right and wrong are said to be to blame for arguments, fights and wars. And by all means, we must free ourselves from old fashioned attitudes about sex and marriage.
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In Psalm 148:3, the sun, moon and stars are specifically encouraged, along with the rest of creation, to praise God. And truly, God, as our Creator and our Savior through Jesus Christ, is worthy of all praise. But perhaps many Christians have been a little too ready to accept this biblical language as figurative.
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The number of different kinds of insects in the world seems almost endless. There are millions. The larva of many of these insects feed on trees and bushes at least until they develop into adults. One would think, then, that we wouldn't have any trees left, since they are so unfairly outnumbered by such hordes.
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Australia has many animals that are not found anywhere else in the world today. One of the most unique is the wombat, which looks like a small bear with brown fur. The wombat is a burrowing animal.
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While the origins debate is basically a religious debate, many people have been taught that evolution is science and creation is religion. But even according to the evolutionist's own rules of science, evolution is not good science. Let's look at the claims of evolution in light of what science knows today.
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Evolution says that life began with the simplest forms. It took over a billion years just to evolve algae and another billion years for living things to have more than one cell. It took half a billion years of slow development to generate today's creatures. And evolution says that this story comes from the fossil record.
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In 1805, when Lewis and Clark crossed the Continental Divide, they saw North American Indians preparing the large roots of a plant for cooking. Lewis writes that he asked to taste a sample of the root. It was probably with some sense of amusement that the Indians, who cook the root before eating it, handed Lewis the raw root – which immediately upon tasting he named the bitterroot.
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A young student once asked Martin Luther what God was doing before He made the creation. Luther is said to have responded by telling the young man, "He was making switches to use on children who ask foolish questions." Now some evolutionary physicists are asking what the universe was like before the big bang.
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Over the past several years, scientific studies of women have shown that those who have had abortions increase their risks of infertility, breast cancer and other problems. Now, a study released by the Population Research Institute reveals a whole new category of risks associated with abortion.
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Given the size of its brain, could a honeybee recognize a specific human face? And if a bee could recognize specific human faces, how would the evolutionist explain this kind of ability?
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If you enjoy keeping tropical fish, the Mantis shrimp is one creature you may not want to keep in your aquarium. While this creature is related to common shrimp, it has a very unusual and specialized feature.
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Those who fear global warming blame any climate changes upon man's activity, including the raising of cattle for food. The digestive system of all ruminants, including cows, produce methane gas as part of the digestive process. Methane is considered one of the greenhouse gases that change the Earth's climate. Some have even suggested ways of limiting the methane produced by cows.
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Could a plant devise a special growth for itself so that it becomes inviting to its only pollinator? If evolution were true, how could such a plant survive until it could learn enough about its pollinator, and about genetics, to evolve a special growth just for that pollinator.
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The Big Bang theory holds that in the very early stages of our universe, there were few galaxies, and they were small by today's standards. In this theory, no star can be older than its home galaxy.
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Most listeners have heard of the little "cleaner fish" or wrasse that clean the teeth of larger fishes. New research on the behavior of these fishes shows that they are not always honest-business fish. Other fish, including those who might ordinarily consider a meal of "cleaner fish", actually stand in line for their services. That's because they need to have parasites and diseased tissue removed.
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Chickens aren't the brightest creatures in the animal world, but the mother hen knows to protect her eggs and keep them warm. Many species of snakes also care for their young. Amazingly, scientists have learnt that even some plants have been designed with "motherly" instincts.
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You hear a bird sing. Can you tell by its dialect where it spends the winter? Birds, like some other creatures, do have different dialects, depending on where they live. However, for most of us, animal dialects are not easy to detect.
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The world that God created for us and intended us to live in had no wars and no death because there was no sin whatsoever. Once the first man, Adam, brought sin into the world, murder, wars and disease descended upon the entire creation, including the animal world.
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Can you imagine a plant that moves so fast that science didn't know what it was doing until recently? The plant is a forest wild flower found in North America and called the Bunchberry dogwood.
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Many listeners will recall the volcanic eruption that rocked Washington State as Mount St. Helens exploded in the May of 1980. Fortunately, there was plenty of warning and the event was recorded in detail. Since that time, many studies have been made by the Park service and by creationists, including Creation Moments, on the rate of recovery.
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Ask any evolutionist, and he will tell you that the Venus Flower Basket is one of the least-evolved animals. This animal is actually a sponge that is made up of a colony of creatures, and it does some amazing things.
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Scientists have shown that the so-called "Mozart effect" of music in young children is just a myth. This popular idea said that exposing young children to classical music improves their ability in non-verbal tasks. Nevertheless, researchers did find a more interesting effect of classical music on students.
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Homing pigeons are valued because of their highly developed sense of direction, and this includes the ability to read the Earth's magnetic field. Some other birds, turtles and even a few salamanders have also shown this same ability. However, bees, ants or people are not born with this ability.
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Ethicists who believe in evolution are trying to figure out an evolutionary explanation for why people universally have a sense of right and wrong. This line of study is so new that it doesn't yet have a name, although some have suggested "neuroethics" or "moral neuroscience".
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Years ago, evolutionary scientists labeled 180 human organs, such as the appendix, as vestiges left over from evolution. The fact is they did not know the function these organs actually served. Since that time, it has been learned that all of these organs have useful functions and have nothing to do with evolution.
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Listeners will know from our Creation Moments programs that the scientific establishment is firmly convinced that Man evolved from the higher apes millions of years ago. For this reason, rhesus monkeys have long been used not only for pharmaceutical trials but in psychological tests to determine how Man's intelligence evolved.
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Today, hummingbirds are found only in North, Central and South America. Of course, since Noah's Ark landed in the mountains of Ararat, they had to cross Europe and the Atlantic or Asia to get there. However, until now, there was no evidence for this migration.
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The last creature a rattlesnake wants to see is the California ground squirrel.
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If it weren't for mushrooms, there would be so many un-decayed dead trees that there would be no room on Earth for anything else to grow. But mushrooms don't just recycle dead trees. They help make the trees grow in the first place.
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How important is father to a child's religious growth? Due to the way in which census information is gathered in Switzerland, researchers were able to find out. And while their conclusions might shock modern sensitivities, they are really not too surprising.
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Millions of North Americans are familiar with the call of the Black-Capped chickadee: "Chicka-dee". However, most bird-watchers know that the little chickadee communicates danger with its "chickadee-dee-dee" call. Bird-watchers also know that chickens use different warnings for dangers from the air or from the ground.
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Over hundreds of years, science has learned a lot about manipulating light. And while lasers and liquid crystals might seem pretty sophisticated, some of God's creatures show us how much more there is to learn.
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The last few years have seen a good deal of excitement among astronomers over the possibility of discovering planets orbiting distant stars. Astronomers are looking at stars that are surrounded by disks of dust and debris.
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The long, cold winters of Scandinavia not only freeze the lakes, but pile so much snow on the lake ice that no light can penetrate to the cold, unfrozen water beneath. This means that the creatures below the ice can use up all the oxygen in the lake water.
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A real monster prowls the ocean floor from the Aleutian Islands to Southern California. It is a terror to even relatively large bottom dwellers. It eats many things, including hermit crabs, clams, sea cucumbers, sea urchins and even abalone. This monster goes by the seemingly innocent name of the Sunflower Star.
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The enemy prowls the night skies, searching. But its would-be victims may have sensitive sonar detectors, allowing them to flee before detection. If the prey is spotted on sonar, the prey has counter measures, even jamming the enemy's sonar.
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According to the evolutionary timetable, mankind has been on Earth for about 100,000 years. Archeologists and Paleo-archeologists claim that 100,000 years ago the earliest true men began to bury their dead, often with flowers and other trinkets, suggesting that he was capable of abstract thought. Paintings on cave walls and ceilings show that early man was capable of creating exquisite art.
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The piano you hear in the background was being played by Matt Savage. He wrote the music and called this piece "Ladybug Bounce". Matt is an autistic boy, does piano concerts and was then just twelve years old.
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When Pharaoh refused to let the Israelites leave Egypt, the eighth plague the Lord brought upon Egypt was locusts. Moses warned stubborn Pharaoh that the locusts would be so thick that no one would be able to see the ground (Ex. 10:4-6). Scripture also makes clear that there never had been, nor would there ever be again, such a great infestation.
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Evolutionary scientists studying the workings of the human brain are trying to find out what the human "mind" is. The problem is that everyone, including scientists, knows that human beings are conscious people with minds. Yet, strict, materialistic science says that there is no scientific evidence for the mind.
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The bowerbirds of New Guinea and Australia are among the most unusual birds in the world. The group of species known collectively as bowerbirds are named from the bowers, or small huts, that the males build in the hope of wooing a mate.
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The year of 1816 was called the "year without a summer." Weather records and newspaper clippings offer us a record of the unusual weather that struck all over the Earth in 1816.
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Scientists have known for some time that hummingbirds prefer bright-colored flowers. On the other hand, all of us know that white is most easily seen at night. That means that moths that pollinate flowers will more easily find white flowers. The question is: What is a flower to do when it is pollinated by hummingbirds during part of its flowering season and by night-flying moths later in its flowering season?
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Bats are among the most underappreciated creatures in the entire world. Yet, they are most worthy of our appreciation. Nearly all bats eat only insects or fruit. Only one tropical species feeds on blood – usually the blood of cattle.
There are thousands of bat species. Incredibly, bats make up one-fourth of all mammal species on Earth. One-half of all mammal species found in the tropics are bats.
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Many of us have heard the old legend about why Christopher Columbus was told he could not sail too far west. According to the legend, Columbus was repeatedly told that he could not sail west to India because the Earth was flat. If he sailed too far, he would fall off the edge. That story was a piece of fiction cooked up by Washington Irving in the 1830s.
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An adult human liver is about the size of a small football. It weighs about three pounds, making it the body's largest internal organ. Tucked neatly beneath the ribs, your liver performs more than 500 different tasks. It is a vital link between your heart, lungs and digestive system.
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The amazing structure of the honeycomb has fascinated scientists for thousands of years. In the third century, the astronomer and geometer Pappus of Alexandria became the first to offer an explanation for why the honeycomb has a hexagonal shape.
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How old did the Earth look five years after the creation? Geologists tell us that it takes hundreds of thousands of years to wear down new rock into sand and soil and for the sea to cut a beach. If this was true, one would not expect to see beaches or soil on an Earth that was only five years old. Or would we?
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Even though it's a mammal and not a fish, the Weddell seal of the Antarctic is one of the greatest deep-sea divers in the world. Weighing up to 1,200 pounds, the Weddell seal can cruise under water for up to 70 minutes. It is able to reach depths as great as 1,600 feet. For comparison, the record for a human being is a 13-minute, 43-second dive down to 282 feet.
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In Genesis chapter 5 we read that Adam lived to be 930 years old. One question often asked is, "Could Adam really have lived that long?"
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Those light flashes created by fireflies are actually a quite complex language. The more than 200 species of firefly each have their own language. Each species uses a different combination of color, intensity and flash intervals.
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There are more than 200 species of fireflies around the world. Almost everyone has seen these small insects flying about or sitting in the grass. On dark summer nights they can be seen flashing their lights like ships far out at sea. As they flash, they are communicating very specific messages to one another.
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There is nothing our Creator God does that is not intended to bring us closer to Him. Why? Because His purpose in making humans was to make someone to love. We exist because He wanted to love us and be loved by us.
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The ability to smell is one gift we often take for granted. That's probably because we usually identify things more quickly with one of our other senses. At the same time, Thanksgiving dinner wouldn't be the same without the smells.
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When Scripture talks about laughter, it most often speaks of laughter as a form of derision. God is described as laughing at the pride and plans of the wicked. However, that does not mean that God is against the right kind of humor.
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Gerbils are those friendly, furry little rodents that many children keep as pets. Gerbils are social animals. They value communication very highly. Researchers have found that those gerbils in a given community that can communicate most clearly have the highest social status.
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The discovery of tiny pollen grains in rock shows just how inflated the billions of years claimed by evolutionists really are. This discovery, by a creation scientist, has turned those pollen grains into tiny time bombs that continue to damage the theory of evolution.
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There are many methods of communication, some of which we human beings don't often think about. One of these is chemical communication.
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The loop-and-hook fastener called Velcro has come a long way since it first appeared. Velcro goes into space as a light, easy-to-use fastener. Here on Earth, it's replacing everything from laces in children's shoes to buttons and zippers on coats.
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It occurred to scientists only about 30 years ago that insect pests might be controlled through hormones. If, for example, a hormone that prevented a destructive insect from reaching maturity was applied to a crop, the interrupted lifecycle of the insect might prevent damage to the crop. Yet, the hormone would be a safe, natural substance.
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Every day, all over the Earth, plants engage in chemical warfare against insects and animals that would eat them. When this drama is described by evolutionary scientists, they usually talk about plants as though the plants were skilled chemists who developed their abilities on their own.
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The screech owl is one of the smaller and more inoffensive members of the owl family. While most owls have a large variety of calls and screeches, the screech owl is one that seldom screeches.
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In Genesis 1:28, God tells man to subdue the Earth. That command implies that He has placed within creation tools and knowledge that humans can learn to use for their own benefit.
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Did you ever wonder where frogs go in the winter? Yes, frogs hibernate, but there is much more to it than that.
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We have often pointed out the many plants and animals that are interrelated. Their lives depend upon one another. Very often they are interrelated in such a way that creation offers the only reasonable explanation for their special features. Evolution can call on "lucky coincidence" just so many times to explain these relationships. It makes far more sense to say that all living things were carefully planned and designed by an all-wise Master Designer.
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In showing how the Creator is intimately involved with His creation, Jesus Christ said that the very hairs of our heads are numbered by Him. This means that no detail is too small to escape His attention; no change misses His careful and loving eye.
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The surface of the Earth 50 to 150 feet below the great living canopy of the rainforest is a dark, humid, still world dominated by great columns of tree trunks. Within those trunks and some of the giant hollow branches extending from them lies the secret of the life of the canopy itself.
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Much of the world's surface is covered by rainforest. If you are unfamiliar with the rainforest, you may be tempted to compare it to forests you have seen. But really there is no comparison at all.
In a rainforest, the Earth's living surface is covered by a second living habitat some 50 to 150 feet in the air. Here, thousands of species of plants and animals live and breed for generations without ever touching the ground.
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According to evolutionists, coral is one of the earlier creatures on the evolutionary time line. If evolutionary theory were fact, one would expect the corals to be very simple. One would also expect them to have changed a lot in over half a billion years of life.
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Honeydew is one of the favorite foods of ants. There are a number of insects, including thorn bugs and aphids, who consume so much honeydew that they cannot digest it all. These insects are designed so that ants can milk them for the excess honeydew, just the way a farmer obtains milk from a cow.
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Today it is considered scholarly to reject the Bible's account of a worldwide flood. Some try to compromise by saying that the flood recorded in the Bible was only a local event. The problem with these scholarly claims is that there were too many witnesses who disagree with them.
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How many ants are there in the world? No one has actually counted them all or asked them to fill out little ant census forms. However, scientists have estimated that there are about 10 million billion ants in the world, waiting for you to have a picnic. That's more ants than there are mammals, reptiles, birds and amphibians combined.
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If your measuring stick is inaccurate, you could end up with too much wallpaper or too little. If your map tells you that your destination is 200 miles away when it's really only 50 miles away, you might drive right past it. If your map of the universe is inaccurate, and stars are a lot closer than you expect, you will arrive at the wrong age for the universe.
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Some people have the green thumb in their family. Others may complain that they fail with plants because plants don't tell them when they need care. Of course, most people can do well with family pets, who are enthusiastic about letting their needs be known.
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Most of us are familiar with the body's response to foreign tissue. Transplant patients must be carefully matched and then patients still must be given powerful drugs to prevent destruction of the transplanted tissue. Our bodies' immune system identifies tissue that's not its own and then tries to destroy that tissue.
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In a clever scheme of self-protection, the more poisonous the male rattlebox moth is, the more prized he is by the female rattlebox moth.
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Fireflies may help light the way to new medical breakthroughs. The gentle glow of a firefly on a summer evening is produced by the chemical luciferase. The firefly has a gene with the code that makes this chemical. When that gene is added to the genetic information of other plants or animals, the cells begin to glow harmlessly. Researchers have been using the firefly gene to test their ability to add genetic information to a cell.
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The world is a frightening place without God. This fear can be seen today in fears that modern people often confuse with science.
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Many textbooks tell young people today that birds are modified reptiles. Suppose, they say, that millions of years ago the scales on some reptiles began to fray along the edges. In time, they say, the frayed scales turned into feathers and birds were born.
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Excavations north of Baghdad, in Iraq, are helping us to understand one of the most famous Old Testament characters. The more than 4,000 ancient documents that have been found there shed detailed light on the life and times of Abraham. Abraham was from Haran, which was an important city in the Hurrian empire.
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Spider silk begins as a liquid protein made by silk glands on the spider's abdomen. Spiders make many kinds of silk for different uses. As the liquid silk is forced through the spider's spinnerets, it begins to dry. The spinnerets pull and stretch the silk, creating just the right kind of silk for the spider's use. Though the result seems thin and weak to us, ounce for ounce, spider silk is stronger than steel.
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The founders of modern science, on the whole, believed in the Creator. The methods they developed were based upon the truth that the creation is voluntary. This means that God was not confined to what we have later defined as "scientific laws." God could make anything He wanted in any way He wanted. Science cannot be done from the philosopher's easy chair. Scientists must go out into the field and study how nature works.
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The founders of modern science, on the whole, believed in the Creator. The methods they developed were based upon the truth that the creation is voluntary. This means that God was not confined to what we have later defined as "scientific laws." God could make anything He wanted in any way He wanted. Science cannot be done from the philosopher's easy chair. Scientists must go out into the field and study how nature works.
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It's a challenge, even for the Christian, to get along with lazy, selfish people. This is because they also tend to be quarrelsome, especially when their desires are not met. Now scientists have discovered that the phrase "industrious as an ant" does not apply to all ants. They report that they have found an entire ant society that is lazy, selfish and quarrelsome.
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It's a challenge, even for the Christian, to get along with lazy, selfish people. This is because they also tend to be quarrelsome, especially when their desires are not met. Now scientists have discovered that the phrase "industrious as an ant" does not apply to all ants. They report that they have found an entire ant society that is lazy, selfish and quarrelsome.
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"Where there's smoke, there's fire." We've all heard this familiar saying. In the case of the sun's fire, scientists expect to find not smoke but tiny particles called neutrinos. The problem is, most of those neutrinos are missing.
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"Where there's smoke, there's fire." We've all heard this familiar saying. In the case of the sun's fire, scientists expect to find not smoke but tiny particles called neutrinos. The problem is, most of those neutrinos are missing.
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The Old Testament mentions the worship of a "golden calf" several times. According to the Bible, the Israelites fashioned one of these idols after their exodus from Egypt. Later, king Jeroboam worshiped the golden calf idol.
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The Old Testament mentions the worship of a "golden calf" several times. According to the Bible, the Israelites fashioned one of these idols after their exodus from Egypt. Later, king Jeroboam worshiped the golden calf idol.
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Scientists have, for the first time, successfully communicated with honeybees in their own language! Scientists have for some time known how to interpret many of the elements of the bees' so-called "waggle dance." This dance is used by scouts to communicate the location of food sources to the food gatherers in the hive.
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Scientists have, for the first time, successfully communicated with honeybees in their own language! Scientists have for some time known how to interpret many of the elements of the bees' so-called "waggle dance." This dance is used by scouts to communicate the location of food sources to the food gatherers in the hive.
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We have long known that the community within a honeybee hive divides the labor among specialized workers. There are scouts who search for food. Nurses tend the young. Some bees specialized in cleaning. There are even undertaker bees who remove and dispose of dead members of the hive.
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We have long known that the community within a honeybee hive divides the labor among specialized workers. There are scouts who search for food. Nurses tend the young. Some bees specialized in cleaning. There are even undertaker bees who remove and dispose of dead members of the hive.
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How many different scents do you think your nose is able to smell? The answer is about 10,000. How does your nose tell the difference between a rose and a skunk? Until only recently, scientists really weren't sure.
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How many different scents do you think your nose is able to smell? The answer is about 10,000. How does your nose tell the difference between a rose and a skunk? Until only recently, scientists really weren't sure.
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Mastodons were distant relatives of the elephant. Modern science says that one of the main parts of their diet was conifer needles. Supposedly, they died out at the end of the Ice Age because conifers became scarce as the world warmed.
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Mastodons were distant relatives of the elephant. Modern science says that one of the main parts of their diet was conifer needles. Supposedly, they died out at the end of the Ice Age because conifers became scarce as the world warmed.
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Could the giant flying fox be a primate? In the 18th century, scientists weren't quite sure what to do with bats. Some wanted to classify them as primates, while others thought they should have their own category. Since 1780, all 950 known species of bats have been classified in their own category. The bat order is divided into microbats and megabats. Microbats have an average wingspan of less than a foot. Megabats are larger.
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Could the giant flying fox be a primate? In the 18th century, scientists weren't quite sure what to do with bats. Some wanted to classify them as primates, while others thought they should have their own category. Since 1780, all 950 known species of bats have been classified in their own category. The bat order is divided into microbats and megabats. Microbats have an average wingspan of less than a foot. Megabats are larger.
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The Bible itself tells us that the first five books of the Bible were written by Moses. Jesus Himself calls Moses the author of the first five books of the Bible over a dozen times. Unfortunately, liberal biblical scholarship has rejected these claims. These scholars have tried to teach Christians that the first five books of the Bible were written over many generations and finally finished only five centuries before Christ's birth.
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The Bible itself tells us that the first five books of the Bible were written by Moses. Jesus Himself calls Moses the author of the first five books of the Bible over a dozen times. Unfortunately, liberal biblical scholarship has rejected these claims. These scholars have tried to teach Christians that the first five books of the Bible were written over many generations and finally finished only five centuries before Christ's birth.
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A family of fish that live in the depths of the sea actually go fishing – pole, dangling bait and all. This is only natural, since they, like people who go fishing, like to eat fish.
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A family of fish that live in the depths of the sea actually go fishing – pole, dangling bait and all. This is only natural, since they, like people who go fishing, like to eat fish.
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A revolutionary design in metal-cutting blades is changing the metal-working industry. These blades don't cut like a knife. Instead, the blade is fixed in one position while the metal to be shaped spins on a lathe. This new-style blade stays sharp six times longer than the old blade design. And where titanium used to make the old-style cutting blades dull almost the second they were used, the new blades last up to 30 minutes.
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A revolutionary design in metal-cutting blades is changing the metal-working industry. These blades don't cut like a knife. Instead, the blade is fixed in one position while the metal to be shaped spins on a lathe. This new-style blade stays sharp six times longer than the old blade design. And where titanium used to make the old-style cutting blades dull almost the second they were used, the new blades last up to 30 minutes.
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Evolutionary naturalism paints the picture of life as if it were a haphazard series of accidents that just barely resulted in a range of living things that just manage to survive. This fanciful picture destroys our sense of wonder over the sophisticated engineering designs in nature.
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Evolutionary naturalism paints the picture of life as if it were a haphazard series of accidents that just barely resulted in a range of living things that just manage to survive. This fanciful picture destroys our sense of wonder over the sophisticated engineering designs in nature.
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It seems like science fiction to suggest that if someone typed your name into a computer, misspelling your name, the computer would find it and correct it.
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It seems like science fiction to suggest that if someone typed your name into a computer, misspelling your name, the computer would find it and correct it.
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Late at night, in hundreds of thousands of homes around the country, people are watching a bewildering array of monster movies. In these films, shadowy and not-so-shadowy monsters attack, possess or inhabit their victims. These stories are make-believe. However, in our real world, there is a fungus that does all these things.
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Late at night, in hundreds of thousands of homes around the country, people are watching a bewildering array of monster movies. In these films, shadowy and not-so-shadowy monsters attack, possess or inhabit their victims. These stories are make-believe. However, in our real world, there is a fungus that does all these things.
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Roman Vishniac is a renowned photographer of microscopic scenes. One of his favorite subjects is one of the so-called simplest forms of life. This "simple" life, the protozoan, is supposedly the ancestor of all living things. However, Vishniac has noted that the protozoan is neither simple nor archaic in character.
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Roman Vishniac is a renowned photographer of microscopic scenes. One of his favorite subjects is one of the so-called simplest forms of life. This "simple" life, the protozoan, is supposedly the ancestor of all living things. However, Vishniac has noted that the protozoan is neither simple nor archaic in character.
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Have you ever watched ducks out on an icy lake paddling around in the near-freezing water? They will spend much of the day in that one spot with the temperature well below freezing, and yet the cold doesn't seem to bother them. Perhaps on shore there are some sparrows hopping around in the snow. One wonders: Why don't birds need shoes and socks?
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Have you ever watched ducks out on an icy lake paddling around in the near-freezing water? They will spend much of the day in that one spot with the temperature well below freezing, and yet the cold doesn't seem to bother them. Perhaps on shore there are some sparrows hopping around in the snow. One wonders: Why don't birds need shoes and socks?
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The Venus flytrap is one of the most fascinating plants you will ever find. In college, I had a Venus flytrap that I would now and again feed with a morsel of hamburger from the college lunchroom. One day a classmate saw me carefully wrapping up the morsel and asked what I was going to do with it. I explained that I was taking it back for my plant. He refused to believe that a plant would eat meat.
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The Venus flytrap is one of the most fascinating plants you will ever find. In college, I had a Venus flytrap that I would now and again feed with a morsel of hamburger from the college lunchroom. One day a classmate saw me carefully wrapping up the morsel and asked what I was going to do with it. I explained that I was taking it back for my plant. He refused to believe that a plant would eat meat.
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The bombardier beetle has a powerful and complex system for protecting himself from enemies. Glands within the beetle produce a mixture of two hydroquinone compounds and hydrogen peroxide. These chemicals must be held in separate chambers because when they come into contact with each other, they react.
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The bombardier beetle has a powerful and complex system for protecting himself from enemies. Glands within the beetle produce a mixture of two hydroquinone compounds and hydrogen peroxide. These chemicals must be held in separate chambers because when they come into contact with each other, they react.
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Perhaps to get evolutionists to rethink their beliefs, the Creator has provided many inventive and unique structures. There are so many of these that even the longest evolutionary timescale could not account for their evolution.
Let's focus on a few examples among frogs for a moment. Frogs need to keep their eggs moist. Water must be available for their tadpoles. Frogs have many different ways of doing this.
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Perhaps to get evolutionists to rethink their beliefs, the Creator has provided many inventive and unique structures. There are so many of these that even the longest evolutionary timescale could not account for their evolution.
Let's focus on a few examples among frogs for a moment. Frogs need to keep their eggs moist. Water must be available for their tadpoles. Frogs have many different ways of doing this.
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Beavers are widely known for their huge constructions. However, beavers build more than just dams.
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Beavers are widely known for their huge constructions. However, beavers build more than just dams.
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Imagine a beetle that can move across the surface of water without any body movement. Some creatures have been given such ability and skill that it should be clear to even the most skeptical person that their Maker and Teacher is greater than any human being.
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Imagine a beetle that can move across the surface of water without any body movement. Some creatures have been given such ability and skill that it should be clear to even the most skeptical person that their Maker and Teacher is greater than any human being.
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Intelligence – as much as is needed and no more – is generously found throughout the creation. So we cannot say that intelligence alone makes humans special.
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Intelligence – as much as is needed and no more – is generously found throughout the creation. So we cannot say that intelligence alone makes humans special.
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What is the most complex structure in the universe? I'll give you a hint: it weighs only a few pounds, and you own one.
The most complex structure in the universe is the human brain. It has so many interconnections within it that if it evolved, its evolution – even over billions of years – would be easy to measure. The fact that there is no hint that the brain is evolving is a good argument against evolution.
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What is the most complex structure in the universe? I'll give you a hint: it weighs only a few pounds, and you own one.
The most complex structure in the universe is the human brain. It has so many interconnections within it that if it evolved, its evolution – even over billions of years – would be easy to measure. The fact that there is no hint that the brain is evolving is a good argument against evolution.
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Those of us who accept our creation as the work of the Creator find many examples of what seems to be His wonderful creativity – creativity just for the sake of creativity! These add to our appreciation of the creation and stir us to learn more of the wonders of His creative thought.
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Those of us who accept our creation as the work of the Creator find many examples of what seems to be His wonderful creativity – creativity just for the sake of creativity! These add to our appreciation of the creation and stir us to learn more of the wonders of His creative thought.
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When we compare ourselves with many of the other living things on this Earth, our abilities are not very impressive.
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When we compare ourselves with many of the other living things on this Earth, our abilities are not very impressive.
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Evolution devalues humanity. It tries to find the most unflattering way to describe human beings to try to counter the Bible's claim that they were created in God's image.
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Evolution devalues humanity. It tries to find the most unflattering way to describe human beings to try to counter the Bible's claim that they were created in God's image.
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We are told by evolutionists that the whale evolved from a cow-like creature that originally lived on land. Let's look at that claim. First, the whale can hear what direction a sound is coming from under water. Neither cows nor humans can do this. Nor is the whale's ear damaged by the pressures deep in the sea.
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We are told by evolutionists that the whale evolved from a cow-like creature that originally lived on land. Let's look at that claim. First, the whale can hear what direction a sound is coming from under water. Neither cows nor humans can do this. Nor is the whale's ear damaged by the pressures deep in the sea.
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Scientists are learning that even the lowly bacteria have mind and memory. New research is showing that mind, memory, brain, and personality did not evolve. These can be found in the lowliest of creatures, including the bacteria.
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Scientists are learning that even the lowly bacteria have mind and memory. New research is showing that mind, memory, brain, and personality did not evolve. These can be found in the lowliest of creatures, including the bacteria.
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Many plants reproduce simply by cloning. The most obvious example of cloning that comes to mind is the dandelion. Unless you get all of the main dandelion root out of the ground, each piece of the root can sprout another dandelion, identical to the parent.
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Many plants reproduce simply by cloning. The most obvious example of cloning that comes to mind is the dandelion. Unless you get all of the main dandelion root out of the ground, each piece of the root can sprout another dandelion, identical to the parent.
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Many plants, especially orchids, offer different ploys to fool insects into pollinating them. Each of these ploys shows planning, design and the ability to create the design that will work. That there are so many examples makes it impossible for any rational person to believe that mindless, impersonal forces could have made these plants.
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The largest known beetle in the world is the aptly named goliath beetle. This African beetle can become almost as large as a mouse. Dinosaurs were not the largest animals ever to live. The great blue whale holds that honor. The smallest mammal in the world is smaller than many insects. A newly discovered species of bat in Thailand weighs only six one-hundredths of an ounce.
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Researchers are learning that bacteria have senses similar to our hearing and sight. Bacteria even have a brain that receives information from their senses. They can make decisions. However, all of this is not enough to explain how bacteria can make the decision to swim toward food.
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There are at least four known types of orchids that effectively pretend to be female insects. They are so good at this ruse that they attract the attentions of male pollinators. That there are four different varieties that do this makes it clear that this trickery isn't due to chance. The Creator does not want us to make the mistake of thinking that He doesn't exist.
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Two groups of tropical vines rely for reproduction on the world's only known species of pollen-eating butterfly. Neither vine has very showy flowers, nor do their flowers have any scent. However, they don't need to attract pollinators because the Heliconius butterfly depends on the pollen produced by the vines for its food. So the butterflies don't go far from their food source.
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When lost in the forest with no clues to where to go, humans tend to go in circles. And we have brains. Amoebas, which don't have brains, somehow manage not to end up going in circles when they have no clues where to go.
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Bees depend on a good memory of their surroundings to make the thousands of trips necessary to keep their hive in operation. Each day a single bee must make trips to hundreds of flowers, some as far as a mile from the hive. Scientists have long wondered how the tiny bee can remember what may be dozens of square miles of territory.
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One good test of whether a theory is scientific is whether the theory can accurately predict new and surprising findings. If you have a barometer, you may do this all the time. The sky may be clear, but the barometer is falling fast. No matter how nice the weather looks, you know that rain is likely.
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Modern researchers are learning that bacteria are not a simple form of life. Rather, a bacterium is a tremendously complex creature that thinks. Scientists have discovered that bacteria actually have molecule-sized sensors. Some of these sensors act as eyes, while others act as ears.
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According to evolution, life began in the sea. However, because the land was better for life, evolution developed land life from sea life. It was on land that mammals evolved, according to evolution. Here, though, evolution has painted itself into a corner. Or perhaps it is better to say that evolutionists have fallen into one of the traps set for them by the Creator.
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There are five known groups of orchids that throw their pollen. These flowers are designed with mechanical flower structures that work as triggers. Some types use a bee's back to trigger the pollen discharge. Another uses, yes, the bee's knees.
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Even though many frogs live much of their lives out of the water, they need water to reproduce. This can be a problem since some frogs live in trees and some even live in the desert!
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Hydraulic machines are part of our everyday lives. When you step on the brakes in your car, brake fluid, which cannot be compressed, is forced from a cylinder into the braking mechanism attached to your wheels. Hydraulic mechanisms work because fluid cannot expand, but it will easily flow to areas where there is less pressure.
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There are between 10,000 and 15,000 species of orchids. While you surely are not familiar with all of them, it sounds strange to talk about orchid behavior. This huge variety of orchids offers a multitude of different flower shapes, colors and sizes. Each unique shape, color and size is perfectly suited to the bees, butterflies, bats, moths, flies and birds that are involved in that orchid's pollination.
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It sounds silly to ask whether bacteria can think. However, science has known for more than 100 years that the little guys can indeed think. Experiments in 1883 conducted by Wilhelm Pfeffer showed that bacteria will swim toward good food like chicken soup and away from poisons such as mop disinfectant.
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While the Bible teaches us that sex is a wonderful gift of God, evolutionists believe that sexual reproduction should not have evolved. According to evolutionists, if sexual reproduction were to develop, evolution is supposed to get rid of it.
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When the piranha is mentioned, nearly everyone thinks of a picture of a herd of cattle crossing the Amazon – and splish, splash – nothing is left but bones. Actually, the piranha is a rather interesting fish. It certainly seems to be the bearer of a few tricks the Creator wanted to play on those who want to explain the world without Him.
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Modern skeptics of the Bible, including skeptics within the church, often deny the Bible's description of God's actions in the ten plagues against Egypt. However, our growing knowledge of ancient Egypt tells us that the plagues described in the Bible were exactly what God Himself said that they were. They were indeed the true God's judgment against the false gods of Egypt.
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Some creatures are so bizarre that they suggest a lesson to us. Yet, even in their strangeness, we see that they have been perfectly provided for by their Creator.
One such example is the three-toed sloth. It rarely moves, spending about 18 hours a day sleeping upside down in a tree. When it does bother to move, it is in ultra-slow motion. It is not unusual for the three-toed sloth to take 30 seconds to shift one leg a few inches.
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Back in 1836, well-known astronomer Sir John Herschel wrote a series of articles for the New York Sun, reporting his discovery of life on the moon. He told of how he saw buffalo, goats, cranes, pelicans, beaches, forests and even winged batmen. The Sun finally admitted that the whole story had been a prank, and most of the public was amused.
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You might not think of the crocodile as a particularly loving creature. In reality, the crocodile is among the most gentle and loving of parents. Mama crocodile lays between 40 and 80 eggs in a large nest. For the 90 days they take to hatch, she will keep close watch over them, even foregoing food so as not to leave the nest unattended. Even the father stays close to guard the eggs that are a delicacy to many animals.
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Imagine a huge living creature covering about one square mile and made up of almost a third of a billion cells. Imagine each of those living cells being able to move about independently of the others.
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How would you like to be a dental hygienist for a crocodile? That's how the crocodile bird makes his living.
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The yellow-and-black-striped archer fish shops among the insects that land on branches overhanging his pond in the peaceful waters of the East Indies. Sometimes he will wait under a branch until something that would make a good lunch lands on it.
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Our Creator's work reflects some of His incredible inventive creativity. In Matthew 6:30, Jesus reminds us how God provides for all the needs of all His creatures. Each creature is perfectly suited for its life, even if that requires special creativity from God.
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How certain are evolutionists of evolution? Of course, no believer in evolution is going to go on national television and say that he is not sure of evolution. However, within the scientific community, those who really know the facts don't always sound so convinced of their arguments.
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If God created, but He did so by evolution, it means that there were many generations and billions of deaths before the first man appeared on the scene. Does Scripture say anything about this?
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Many Christians are willing to accept what Genesis has to say about creation with one exception. They don't want to accept the six days as literal, natural, approximately 24-hour days. Did you know that there are other important portions of Scripture that depend on those six days being literal and normal days?
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Many, if not most, of the leaders of the creationist movement today were once evolutionists. Most of them once believed that God created, but that He created through evolution. When they accepted evolution, they were considered objective by many. But as soon as they rejected evolution, they were considered biased by those who still accepted evolution.
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Let's be honest. If you believe God created, but that He used evolution to do so, you have to answer a difficult question. Does evolution allow the supernatural to take place?
What is the difference between the scientific evidence needed to accept that evolution occurred without God and that needed to accept theistic evolution? Practically speaking, the physical evidence for both positions should be identical.
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Nearly 50 percent of the people in the United States, including many Christians, believe that God did indeed create all things. Unfortunately, they believe He used evolution as His instrument of creation.
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How old is the universe? Evolutionary scientists talk about how radiometric dating methods prove the universe and the Earth are billions of years old. Let's look at all the methods scientists could use. There are well over 100 methods available! There are thousands of scientists who prefer other methods that offer younger ages for our world and universe.
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Nearly everyone just "knows" that if enough monkeys were allowed to pound away at typewriters for enough time, they would eventually produce all the great works of literature. But there are some fundamental laws of science and some very simple common-sense facts that show this claim to be nonsense.
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It has been said that if you take a frog and turn it into a man by adding a kiss, you have a fairy tale. But if you take a frog and turn it into a man by adding millions of years, you have science. It seems that many people think if you add millions of years, the impossible becomes possible.
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You have no doubt noticed that the pitch of a train whistle changes from the time the train is moving toward you to the time it passes you. This lowering of pitch is an example of the Doppler effect.
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Let's say that you drop by a friend's house, and you find her at one end of the kitchen with a sponge mop in her hands. Three-quarters of the kitchen floor is wet. That picture provides you with a type of clock. You know that she has been mopping the kitchen floor for awhile and is nearly done.
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In recent years, a number of news articles have announced that our sun is shrinking. Scientists have been examining records kept since 1750 at the British Royal Observatory. They have concluded that the sun appears to be shrinking at the rate of one-tenth of one percent per century.
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Space is full of mysteries. Those who think that the universe is millions or billions of years old have more mysteries to solve than Bible-believing Christians do.
One of these is the mystery of a star named Sirius B. This mystery is so great for evolutionists that it was one of the main topics of discussion at a scientific symposium at Louisiana State University in 1978.
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How old is the Earth? If we rule out scriptural history, we are limited to determining the age of the Earth from appearances. Appearances can be deceptive.
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Are all human beings descended from one woman? That subject has been a popular ongoing topic in news reports and magazine articles. Research supposedly shows that science has proved that all humans living today are descended from one woman. Could this be the Eve of Genesis?
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Could it be true that we have unwittingly been telling our young people that Christianity is irrelevant?
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Is ignorance really bliss? There are many painful facts in our world today. We have all had times when we just wanted to turn off the evening news and not hear any more about the ways that people found to do each other in.
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What is a religion? You might be tempted to answer that it is any kind of belief about a god or some gods. However, that's not complete enough to cover all religions. There are many old religions – not to mention the new ones – that don't believe in any gods at all in the traditional sense!
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Christianity is not the only religion in the world that starts with origins. While Genesis begins the Bible with the words "In the beginning ...", Humanist Manifesto I also begins its affirmation of faith with the humanist version of origins.
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It's behind your refrigerator and under your bed. It's part of the air you breathe. While dust is common, it's not commonplace at all.
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It was first discovered in 1855, but many scientists debated its existence for another 50 years. Once its existence was finally proven to everyone's satisfaction, it was another 50 years before science had any tools to begin studying it. Finally, in the late 1980s, scientists began to learn a little about the secrets of one of the tiniest, yet most amazing structures in the body.
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Who would have thought that squirrels would tell us how old the Grand Canyon is? Yet, creation scientists tell us that the tassel-eared squirrel, who lives near the rim of the canyon in Arizona, has done just that.
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Jellyfish and their cousins are often described as the simplest animals without nervous systems. Because evolutionary scientists have thought jellyfish were such simple creatures, and because many of them show up early in the fossil record, jellyfish were said to be among the earliest animals to evolve.
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It is difficult to imagine what things would be like had we not fallen into sin. We have never known the perfect world that God created for us.
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Scientists and manufacturers are studying a new technique that could lead to more durable fibers. This technique manufactures liquid crystals to produce stronger, longer-lasting fibers. The process uses sulfuric acid, temperatures well above the boiling point of water and a high-pressure atmosphere.
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What did God have in mind when He created the human male? The world around us offers many images of what it means to be a "real man." The world offers us the breadwinner, the tough-guy and the workaholic's unending push for success. Also, it's becoming increasingly universal that it is the woman who holds the family together. We can be sure that none of these images capture what God had in mind.
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Why did the Creator bring together so many precise specifications and high intelligence in the honeybee? To glorify Himself and because bees are crucial to the reproductive cycles of so many plants as well as the food chain.
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Picture yourself sitting in a friend's living room. Can you picture in your mind where the door is located? Scientists call this a thought map. Thought maps are mental pictures of the arrangement of objects relative to one another.
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The jellyfish almost seems like a creature from a bad science fiction movie. Around 500 species of jellyfish, ranging in size from small marbles to several feet across, inhabit the world's oceans. Jellyfish have several mouths and will try to eat anything, including each other. Thankfully, the stings of most jellyfish have no effect on human beings.
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Before we had detailed knowledge of the daily lives of many animals, it was easy for scientists to dismiss signs of animal intelligence as instinct. After all, to the evolutionist, intelligence can only evolve in the highest creatures – like humans.
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If, as we are continually told, evolution is a fact, why is it that human technology improves when we copy designs found in nature? If nature is really a giant trial-and-error experiment, we should not only find evidence of less-sophisticated designs in the distant past, but humans today should be able to improve on designs found in nature.
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We have all looked in wonder at the amazing transformation of a caterpillar into a moth. However, did you realize that a moth needs an entirely different kind of brain than a caterpillar? We can truly say that here we have an insect with two brains!
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Creationists are often objects of scorn because they take the Bible's account of history literally. If the Bible's history is accurate, humans were on the Earth at the same time as many animals that are extinct today. Creationist arguments are often dismissed without answer by skeptics. Often they do this only because creationists believe that the entire creation is only about 6,000 years old.
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They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. While that is often true, they also say that it takes a highly evolved brain to picture objects and remember them. Science is learning that this bit of evolutionary myth is indeed fiction.
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At first glance, jellyfish may not look like much of a creation. Many are quite beautiful. However, most jellyfish simply look like blobs of jelly, so fragile that what might be a minor blow to one of us could prove fatal to them.
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Some creatures simply try to look uninteresting to hungry predators. Others take their role-playing so seriously that they actually fulfill some of the same roles as their models.
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Many people have been taught that evolution is science and creation is religion. However, the origins debate is really a debate between two religions. According to the evolutionist's own rules of science, evolution is not good science. Consider the claims of evolution in view of what science knows today.
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Biologists have recently discovered a gene that suggests that God may not be above playing a practical joke on those who reject what His Word says.
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Do you know how to handle a sailboat? If you had to sail to a destination that was not exactly downwind, would you be able to do it?
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One would never expect to find any insect sharing living arrangements with a spider. That's why scientists were amazed to find a tiny fly in the rain forests of Central America who shares both room and board with a spider!
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Respect for the name Thomas Jefferson reaches far beyond the United States and far beyond the English language.
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As our knowledge about the universe grows, the big bang theory looks increasingly unlikely. Deep space X-ray observations in 1990, along with other observations, showed that the universe is "lumpy." These "lumps" – such as huge structures like quasars and galactic clusters – already existed early in its history. This contradicts one of the primary so-called "proofs" for the big bang: the background microwave radiation.
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Language requires some very special designs that are rare in nature and found together only in humans. First, human language requires vocal cords, which none of the apes have. The only animals with vocal tracts are birds, but no one is suggesting that we evolved from birds.
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Which body structure is a powerful generator of emotions, gives you a sense of direction, and serves as a cannon all at the same time? It's your nose, of course! It is common knowledge that without our noses the scent of a rose could not give us joy, nor would our food taste like very much. Less well known is the fact that our noses are directly hooked into the brain's limbic system.
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We have looked at many plants and animals that use different forms of camouflage to keep from being noticed. Some don't wish to be noticed so that they can surprise their prey, while others don't want to be noticed so they can avoid becoming prey. However, what happens when both predator and prey encounter each other in full camouflage?
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Squirrels often seem to run about without any purpose. However, a naturalist in the State of Maine recently discovered that the squirrel's activities are well planned and efficient.
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We tend to associate being warm-blooded with mammals and human beings. However, past Creation Moments programs have dealt with "warm-blooded" plants, reptiles and bumblebees. There is also a warm-blooded moth.
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Our senses link us to the world around us and enable us to interact with the world. While most people believe that our sense of sight is the highest of the senses and the most marvelous in design, our sense of hearing is no less marvelous.
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Many plants and animals disguise themselves as something they are not in the hope of protecting themselves. However, a true master of disguise must have many disguises. The tiger swallowtail offers no less than three disguises as it grows through its various stages toward adulthood.
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The strange and nasty plant called witchweed is found mainly in Africa and Asia, but some has been reported in North America as well. This parasitic plant can prevent crop plants from producing yields and is said to be responsible for intensifying the results of famine in Ethiopia.
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Not only is the human brain the most complex structure in the universe, it is also one of the busiest. In fact, during intense concentration, your brain can burn as many calories as your muscles do during exercise! Intense thinking can literally be as exhausting as a physical workout! More than 100,000 chemical reactions go on in your brain every second.
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If, of all the millions of living things on Earth, a few creatures happened to look like something they are not and this helped protect them, we might put it down to chance. However, the creation is filled with too many creatures who practice look-alike deception to put it down to chance.
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Infants will often look ever so serious as they babble away, as if they're actually saying something of great importance. Most of us have assumed that they do this because they see others talking and they want to join in.
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For centuries, Asian cooks have wrapped meat, sushi and candy in bamboo bark. Though the reason for this practice seems to have been forgotten, humans evidently once knew what modern science is rediscovering about bamboo.
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Some of the most fascinating discoveries in recent years have to do with our growing knowledge of plant communication. New research continues to reveal even more amazing facts about the exquisite intricacy of God's marvelous work.
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Everybody knows that the universe has been expanding ever since it was created by the big bang, right? Of course the big bang theory of the creation of the universe doesn't necessarily agree with the Bible's account of the creation of the universe.
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The strange partnership between the snapping shrimp and the goby is absolutely necessary if both creatures are to survive. The nearly blind shrimp relies on the goby, a small fish, in the same way a blind person relies on his Seeing Eye dog. The goby relies on the safety of the complex tunnel system the shrimp digs.
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There's an old saying that people seldom remember how rapidly the job was done, but they do appreciate good workmanship. However, the staggering variety and number of things created by God did not limit the elegance of His fine workmanship.
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Which of your five senses is most important? Which sense could be lost with the least threat to your life?
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If you had painful skin, one of the last things you would apply to it would be hot peppers. Not only do hot peppers burn the mouth, some can even blister the skin.
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Plants make cellulose. Cellulose is a type of natural plastic made of many sugar molecules linked together. Scientists have known for years how to use the natural plastic qualities of cellulose to make things like cellophane and rayon.
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Many cultures around the world have legends about creation and a great Flood that have been handed down from generations in the distant past. Most of these creation and Flood stories support the biblical story of creation and the Flood.
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For many people, bats bring to mind words like "creepy," "fangs," "rabies," and even "ugly." However, over 450 years ago, Martin Luther marveled at the delicate beauty of the bat. He pronounced the creature an excellent witness to the skill and wisdom of the Creator.
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Some people talk to their plants. But what do you say to a bacterium? Evidently the soybean plant knows just what to say to make bacteria its close friend and helper.
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Contrary to what the theory of evolution says, the history of life found in the fossil record does not show simpler kinds of living things gradually becoming more complex. Nor does the fossil record show a few kinds of life gradually becoming more kinds of life. The fossil record doesn't even show one example of either of these claims that are universally accepted by evolutionists.
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Garlic. Even say the word and some people move away to give you some distance. Others gather around because, to them, garlic helps make the meal. Garlic has begun to attract the attention of medical researchers as well.
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Our eyes do more work and tell more about us than many people realize. These amazing organs are so closely tied in to the brain that they have been referred to as part of the brain.
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"Dog bites man" is not an unusual headline. However, "Man bites dog" would usually get people's attention. If that's true, the headline "Leeches teach physicians" should capture everyone's attention.
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They are the only cells in the human body that repeatedly die and self-regenerate throughout life. They are probably the only cells in the body that inspired a Broadway play named after them. And science considers them so interesting that several branches of science are studying them. I am talking about hair cells.
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The entire universe and all its forces were planned and created out of the mind of God. Since He is God, He was not forced to make anything in a certain way.
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We don't often think about our sense of smell. While our noses are on the job all the time, we note an odor only when it is unusual. Most of the time, the scents around us contribute, unnoticed, to our overall impression of our surroundings.
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When you are ill, you need sleep. And when you are sick you are usually sleepy. Medical researchers are now learning that it's not accidental that illness and sleepiness go together. In fact, the relationship is one of God's ingenious designs.
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Roses have fascinated people for thousands of years. While modern rose strains are the result of two centuries of breeding, the Greek naturalist Theophrastus wrote about the hundred-petaled rose 2,400 years ago. The Autumn Damask rose, which blossoms in both spring and fall, was nurtured and cultivated by the ancient Romans. The first settlers in China began to cultivate roses over 4,000 years ago.
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Do your eyes ever play tricks on you? Our eyes regularly play tricks on us with the help of our brains.
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One of the spider's virtues is that it loves to eat flies. However, not all spiders catch flies in their webs.
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Over the last couple of centuries, many Bible scholars have developed a skeptical approach to the Bible. Their treatment of the Bible as nothing more than a human document stems from their belief in evolution. According to them, Christianity has evolved from earlier religions just as humans evolved.
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Why is the sky dark at night? There's more to the answer to this question than the fact that the stars do not appear as bright as the sun from Earth.
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In 1981 it was only a theory – one that seemed to go against all logic. The theory said that if you have a signal – say, a sound that was too weak to be heard – adding a little noise would make it easier to hear. If you added too much noise, you would drown out the weak signal. Add too little noise and it wouldn't help at all. But when you add just the right amount of noise, a sound signal too weak to be heard could be heard.
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Many people know that, despite its appearance, coral is actually a tiny animal. Even a small coral growth may be made up of billions of tiny animals, each living inside its limestone skeleton.
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One unusual argument that the universe is the work of the Creator rather than aimless chance goes like this: Only with the highest quality research and work, often over many years, can humans begin to approach the excellence of things in nature.
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Which is more likely to last buried in the ground for a few thousand years: a wooden spoon or a stone hammer? Since the hammer will last long after the wood has decayed, the further back we go in human history, the more likely we are to find only the most durable things humans left behind.
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Some types of bacteria are able to go into a state of suspended animation when living conditions become too harsh. Not only do they change their form and appearance, they are amazingly able to change their DNA structure to avoid damage from harmful types of light!
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Nothing is more frustrating than glue that refuses to stick. And nothing is harder on an adhesive's ability to stick than water. Water can prevent adhesives from solidly touching the surfaces that are to adhere. Freezing and thawing temperatures can force glued surfaces apart. Yet, biological adhesives constantly work without fail in continual contact with water.
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The ability to predict new discoveries is an important test of whether someone is being scientific in their approach to knowledge. In science, it is especially desirable to predict correctly an unexpected discovery. Many theories that were rejected by almost all of science became accepted because they correctly predicted unexpected discoveries.
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New research shows that, when attacked, many plants make chemicals that will give munching insects a bad case of indigestion. They also seem to warn their neighbors about the attack so that they, too, start up their defenses. Some plants even call in air defenses.
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The study of plants' abilities to protect themselves from insect attackers is a fairly new and rapidly growing area of research. It seems that new and even more amazing discoveries are appearing every month.
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How much salt should there be in the ocean? We know how much salt rivers carry into the sea each year. And we know how much salt is already in the ocean. So the question is: How long has salt been building up in the ocean?
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Have you ever wondered how, over thousands of years, the population balance between males and females remains roughly even?
Science has learned that there seems to be several mechanisms working together to keep things balanced, providing a fail-safe system. Many species have gene transfer systems that always produce a one-to-one ratio in the next generation.
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Are you sure you know what you believe? Do you know why you believe what you do? New research suggests that people generally do not know how they came to believe what they believe. Neither do they know why they believe certain things. This research confirms the truth of a biblical lesson.
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There are a number of species of bacteria that possess tiny chains of crystal particles called magnetosomes. Magnetosomes, as the name suggests, have iron in them to help the bacteria sense magnetic fields for navigation. They can also help the bacteria find food.
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After suffering a stroke, a man in Baltimore suddenly began speaking with a Scandinavian accent. Though he had no experience with languages other than English, he suddenly sounded Nordic and appeared unfamiliar with English! In the weeks after the stroke, his speech gradually returned to normal. After three and one-half months, he again spoke with no trace of accent.
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It's not very pretty, nor is it graceful, but Colombia's rock-climbing catfish has a unique ability among fish. Perhaps there are days when a salmon, trying to make it up a waterfall, wishes that it could simply climb the rocks.
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How smart is the smartest tree you ever met? Does it sound silly to speak of trees as being smart? Botanists are learning that some trees have elaborate defenses against insect pests.
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Why can't Johnny read? Why can't he do simple math or find North America on a globe? In fact, why do Johnny and Jane reject education today? While parents and education officials in Washington are asking these questions, one of the authors of the current mess is taking responsibility for his mistake. He is also offering solutions.
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One good method of avoiding attack in nature is to pretend that you are somebody who should not be attacked. In the insect world, one of the most feared creatures is the ant. Not only are ants ferocious, they also taste bad.
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Since the days of Charles Darwin, over a century ago, naturalists have generally classified living things by their appearance. A zebra and a horse are said to be more closely related than a zebra and a whale. This has been the foundation of all those evolutionary trees that claim to show that all living things have supposedly come from older, simpler living things.
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Genesis uses only a few words and simple language to describe the creation of trees. That hardly seems fair, considering the importance, variety and complexity of the largest and longest-living things on Earth.
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It's a warm day on the Amazon River. A small fish swims near the surface, looking among the natural floating river debris for some food. As he looks among the occasional leaf or twig in the water, he sees no danger. At the same time, one of the floating "leaves" is waiting for the little fish to move just a bit closer. Then, without warning, the floating "leaf" comes to life, grabs the fish and eats it!
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Are you a musician? From the standpoint of evolution, human musical ability serves no purpose. Assuming that the laws of nature could even invent musical ability, they would have no reason to do so. However, from the standpoint of creation, music serves to praise our Creator.
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A gypsy moth caterpillar infestation can strip the leaves from large numbers of trees, threatening the trees' lives. Since they don't have a means of escape, it doesn't seem as if the poor trees have much of a chance.
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Some creatures seem more wise and powerful in dealing with the problems of living than seems reasonable.
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Many people today think it's unusual for someone to interpret the Genesis account of creation literally. For example, many in the church seem unsure of whether Adam was a real person. How are we to understand Genesis?
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You're not feeling well, and you have a fever. Is your increased body temperature good for you or should you try to lower it?
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When it comes to designing the sea horse, God showed that there are no limits to His creativity.
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The creation is filled with a remarkable number of creatures that are able to fool their enemies into thinking they are something else. They provide us with examples of God's attention to details in the creation.
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We live in a world – indeed, a universe – that is in continual change. Things have been designed that way for a very important reason. Unfortunately, some people choose to define evolution as simply change. However, that's not the kind of continuous change that surrounds us.
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A growing number of scientists, some of them with worldwide reputations, are changing their minds about evolution. While many of these scientists are recognizing that evolution is in trouble, they are not necessarily becoming Christians or creationists.
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Though God created the entire living kingdom in only a few days, the variety and creativity of what He made seems nearly unlimited by our standards. One of the more unusual creatures He made was thought extinct until it was rediscovered in 1958.
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The coelacanth is a rather strange-looking fish that was supposed to have become extinct 70 million years ago with the dinosaurs. That's what scientists thought, anyway. After all, they argued, the fish looks so primitive. Its fleshy fins are obviously the first step in the evolution of legs. Meanwhile, fishermen off the east cost of Africa were familiar with the creatures because the fish were turning up in their nets.
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One of the most frequently asked questions when I appear on a radio phone-in program is whether there is a gap between the second and third verses of Genesis chapter 1. Some people have been taught that a gap of millions of years between the original creation of the Earth and the Earth we know today can explain the fossil record and the millions of years proposed by evolution.
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It is unfortunate that we so often have the sense that nothing technologically important has happened in human history until modern times. This helps maintain the illusion that humans are indeed progressing and evolving upward.
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The instruments that scientists are using to develop fusion energy continue to become more complex and powerful. They are trying to generate the energies needed to cause hydrogen to fuse into helium. This is the same process thought to be going on in the sun. Once the fusion process is started, it will continue on its own as long as hydrogen is available, quickly generating much more energy than was used to start the process.
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Is it possible that your pharmacist could be a chimpanzee? That's not such a silly question. Naturalists are discovering that many animals use a variety of plants and other items to treat their illnesses. Animals often know about the medicinal properties of plants when modern medicine has yet to learn about them.
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For thousands of years, theories that reject the Word of God have followed cultural fashion. It was inevitable, then, that some "biblical scholar" would invent a theory that a woman wrote some important part of Scripture that has been traditionally assigned to a man.
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Today the Bible is often accused of giving answers that don't add up to reality as we know it. Many Christian students have been told that evolution gives answers that do make sense. Is this really true? These are questions that we Christians can and should ask when we are told that evolution fits the world as we know it.
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"God created them male and female." That simple phrase heaps a world of problems on those who believe in evolution.
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If God created the world and everything in it in perfection, where did disease, sickness and death come from? It's clear from the Bible that God did not intend for humans to suffer disease and death. However, when humans withdrew their love from God by disobeying Him, they caused the nature of creation to be changed.
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If I were to ask you whether you are left-handed or right-handed, you would probably answer with most people that you are right-handed. While that may be true, you are also left-handed … and your life depends on it.
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The relatively rare bucket orchid, Coryanthes, behaves almost like an animal at pollination time. This remarkable ability is essential to its survival.
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How does your nose work? Medical researchers admit that they don't know. Your nose performs an extremely unlikely job. It senses invisible molecules in the air and turns each molecule into a unique sensation that is sent to the brain. If the fact that molecules floating in the air could be detected was a modern discovery, it would be hailed as the scientific discovery of the century!
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A few years ago, archaeologists discovered a water well that is the oldest they've ever seen. Because of the well's sophisticated design, they immediately concluded that ancient humans were much smarter than they ever expected.
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Blessings can become curses. For example, a painkiller may be used to cover up an injury that needs immediate treatment. Pain is unpleasant. However, when pain tells us to move our hand from the hot stovetop, it helps us prevent worse injury.
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Much of the world's water pollution is the result of biological aging and overloading. If, for example, too many nutrients encourage too much growth in the upper layers of the lake, eventually the systems at the lake bottom that dispose of the dead creatures from the upper layers will overload.
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We all have a number of clocks within us that help keep life constant in changing surroundings. The pineal gland is one clock that helps us adjust to our surroundings like the changing lengths of daylight through the year.
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The swiftly moving bat cuts almost invisibly through the darkness, silent to all but those who can hear its ultrasonic radar. What chance does a poor night-flying cricket – prized as a tasty bat snack – have?
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Both archaeology and the Bible suggest that the world was once quite different from the world we know today. Each agrees that the Earth's climate was once much more uniform than it is today.
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What keeps the big-bodied bumblebee with those little, stubby wings in the air? Scientists are still trying to learn the secret of bumblebee flight. And while they are learning some astonishing things about the bumblebee, they still don't know how he does it.
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The silk produced by spiders is very different from the silk produced by silkworms in some very important ways. While silkworm silk is strong yet not prone to stretching, spiders make silk that is both strong and stretchy. They also make several different kinds of silk, each with its own purpose.
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For centuries the Chinese were the world's greatest scientists and engineers. Many people know that the Chinese invented the compass and gunpowder, but these are only the beginning. Over 1,000 years ago, Chinese astronomer Su Song built the first planetarium. He even tilted it at a precise 23.5 to match the Earth's tilt.
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Parasites, especially fungi, are usually written off by evolutionary biologists as simple, primitive organisms. However, whether they choose to recognize the Creator or not, biologists are learning that nothing in God's creation is simple or primitive. Parasites seem to display some of the most clever planning or scheming – depending on your point of view – in all creation.
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Several years ago a book was published that tried to answer the "watchmaker" argument for a Creator. Simply put, the argument says that if you find a watch, you know that the watch didn't just happen. There had to be a watchmaker. This book, titled The Blind Watchmaker, tried to show that the design we see in the creation is simply an illusion – there is no Watchmaker.
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A grass like plant called the grasshopper's cypress specializes in manufacturing an animal hormone. Plants make many kinds of chemicals. However, the chemical production of the grasshopper's cypress is too specialized to be dismissed as accidental.
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All insects that hear, except one, have two ears. Some insects have ears on their legs, thorax or abdomen. However, they all follow the same principle. Their ears are separated so that they can locate the source of the sound – except in one insect.
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January 22, 1973 marks the disastrous turn in American law that granted women the so called right to kill their unborn babies. The Bible makes it abundantly clear that the unborn child is a human being who is known and loved by God as He knits it together in the womb. Science knows that even when it is a single fertilized cell, the unborn child is uniquely human.
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It's commonly known that many animals are able to detect extraordinarily weak odors. The real mystery is how they can smell scents that are 1,000 times too weak to produce the chemical reactions necessary to make a scent signal.
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It's commonly known that many animals are able to detect extraordinarily weak odors. The real mystery is how they can smell scents that are 1,000 times too weak to produce the chemical reactions necessary to make a scent signal.
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The unusual discovery of the most ancient termite nest ever found sheds light not only on termites but also on their social behavior. The nest dates back to the time of the dinosaurs.
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Tropical beauty has inspired many Hawaiian love songs. However, none is more unusual than the love song of Hawaiian fruit flies.
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Algae are among the world's premier plants. Scientists never expected to find an alga that feeds like a Venus flytrap. So biologists were surprised to discover that a common type of lake alga not only feeds itself through photosynthesis, it also eats bacteria.
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Normally they bother no one. The creatures, called protozoan ciliates, quietly go about their business in water filled tree holes, eating other microorganisms. The protozoans themselves are an important food for mosquito larvae.
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Many ethnic cooking traditions have their origin in health considerations. Some of those traditions are so old their origin is unknown, which strongly suggests that the ancients had a very sophisticated knowledge of food and health, some of which is only being rediscovered today.
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A remarkable discovery in Israel is shedding new light on life on Bible times. The discovery is also allowing scientists and the rest of us to get to know an important New Testament character.
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You're driving down the road and all of a sudden traffic slows to a crawl. Finally, you get to the cause of the slowdown – a big pothole in the road that causes people to slow down and drive around.
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There are many incredible designs around us that are unlikely to exist if everything is the result of mindless chance. Many birds eat insects through the summer. While such high protein diets like this are good in mating and reproductive season, they do not prepare the birds to survive the cold weather of winter.
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One of the biggest headlines in planetary exploration in recent years was the confirmation that at one time Mars had water. Further exploration and study reveals evidence that there was once quite a lot of moving water on the surface of Mars.
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The venus flytrap senses a fly and, in less than a second, its trap springs shut. It will eat today. A new area of science is plant behavior. Plant behaviorists point out that plants, like the venus flytrap that interact with animals, have to move on an animal scale. We have traditionally thought of plants as inactive living things that just sit there.
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Did you know that there are salamanders that can grow spines? They do this by forcing their ribs to grow through their skin. But a frog nicknamed the "horror frog" is even stranger.
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The southern pine beetle is a real problem in southeastern North America. They burrow into pine trees that could be harvested for lumber, often killing them. Those that aren't killed are left, stained an unattractive blue tint by a fungus they leave behind.
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A robot that can move about on its own must be programmed in great detail. Instructions must be given to each moving part. These instructions must also be able to direct the robot under all anticipated conditions. If there is any error in the instructions or an encounter with unexpected conditions, the robot will probably just freeze in place. Even slime mold can do better than this.
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While modern computers can do increasingly amazing things, they would not compete well on even a simple task with an animal.
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Ask any scientist and he'll tell you that blades designed to operate in fluids, like air or water, are best designed to have smooth edges. It only makes sense that a smooth leading edge is more efficient.
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Many types of insects make silk. Among them, they make many types of silk. But many of the multitude of species of the caddisfly make a very unique silk even among silk-makers.
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There are three ways to make mountains. The movement of two crustal plates running into one another will push up mountains. Likewise, volcanic activity will produce mountains. Finally, massive erosion of soft strata from harder strata can also create mountains.
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Australia has many unique creatures that people find fascinating. One example is the floodplain death adder and its habit of eating dangerous frogs.
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We are often asked why, if the Bible's account of creation is true, don't dinosaurs appear in any historical documentation. After all, according to the Bible, both the great land creatures and humans were created on day six of creation week.
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Almost all sighted animals that aren't insects see with eyeballs. But that is not true of a fish named barreleyes, and that's for a good reason.
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There is a school of biblical interpretation that does not consider the Bible divinely inspired. For example, they say that the Bible's description of David's conquests and Solomon's wealth and greatness were written down many centuries after they lived. The stories had been verbally passed down, getting wildly exaggerated through the years. When they lived, Israel and Edom were little more than a few small, insignificant tribal villages.
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If an octopus thinks you have found him in his lair, he will squirt ink in your face and hope, in your surprise, you don't see him fleeing. On the other hand, challenge a bull, and you will have more fight on your hands than you want. Other creatures will evaluate the situation to determine whether fight or flight is the best response.
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A new science called biomimetics is making news. In the past we have talked about how some of man's designs are often similar to God's which do the same job. However, in biomimetics, researchers actively seek to study the creation to learn of designs that will solve engineering problems.
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Charles Darwin once wrote of the fossil record, "No organism wholly soft can be preserved." That's because evolutionary orthodoxy says that fossils are buried and formed by slow, natural processes. In reality, there are many fossils of soft-bodied animals like jellyfish and squid. That is evidence, of course, of rapid, catastrophic burial at the time of the flood. Darwin rejected the flood and therefore got the science wrong.
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With the early morning dew on the leaves, a vegetable garden may seem a very peaceful place. Actually, though, it's a war zone.
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Evolutionary naturalists have predicted that a given creature should have pretty much the same strategy for dealing with any of the predators that seek it out. As our knowledge of the animal world grows, they are beginning to realize that they may have to reexamine their prediction.
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While even many Christians feel obligated to accept millions of evolutionary years, evidence continues to build for a young creation. The evidence has mounted to the point that even many evolutionists feel they must find some explanation for it.
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It has often been said the music is the universal language. That now appears to be a scientific fact.
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A surprising number of living things mimic other living things. We have done a number of programs on these wonders of God's creativity. However, evolutionary biologists discount such mimicry as any sort of wonder because in many cases the mimicry is imperfect. The biological term is "flawed mimicry."
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The peace and serenity of North America's spruce forests is occasionally broken by little other than the rustle of a deer passing by. At least that's what most people think. In truth, there are things going on which would cause us profound wonder.
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Studies show that it takes about a second to decide whether a person will do A or B. That's much too slow to make a successful typist or pianist. Good typists execute one key stroke every 60 thousands of a second. A pianist can play 30 notes with each hand about every 40 thousands of a second. How do they do it?
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While the development of a new science is helping mankind, it says something that many scientists did not intend to say. The science is called biomimetics. As the name suggests, biomimetics is based on the idea that if we copy designs found in nature, we can often improve our own technology.
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The fact that dinosaur fossils are found in the Arctic suggests that there have been catastrophic changes on this Earth since those dinosaurs lived. Some of the changes, like the worldwide flood, are even described in the Bible.
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Even life that exists where sunlight never reaches nevertheless gets its nutrients as a result of photosynthesis. Furthermore, no matter what the organism, it always lives in some sort of community with other organisms.
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With no backbone and not much of a brain, the lobster is usually depicted as pretty low on the evolutionary scale. It follows that lobsters are also intellectually pretty dim.
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You look up a telephone number and dial it. You didn’t write it down, you simply remembered it. But an hour later, you will probably not be able to remember the number. That kind of memory is known as “working memory.”
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Some people worry about global warming, but if you think about it, we once had an Ice Age and now we don’t … so warming is not new. Other people argue we are merely seeing the normal cycles of heating and cooling.
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It’s a dark, moonless night. A barn owl perches, silently as a shadow, in a tree. A hundred feet away, a deer mouse scampers over a dry leaf, producing a slight rustling sound. Within seconds, the owl’s talons grab the mouse.
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Charles Darwin’s natural selection as the driving force for evolution was abandoned almost a century ago and replaced by random mutations. Every textbook since then has therefore claimed that all the varieties of extinct and living plants and animals have been the result of random mutations. However, the Bible teaches us that plants and animals reproduce “after their kind.” Plant biologists at Purdue University recently made a startling discovery that supports the Bible’s teaching.
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There are about 300 species of a delicate creature known as Fairy shrimp. Unlike the shrimp that might end up on your plate for dinner, Fairy shrimp are typically very small.
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According to evolution theory, there were no four-limbed creatures living on land until 360 million years ago. That is supposedly when Lungfish appear in the fossil record. Lungfish can breathe air, have four fins arranged rather like legs and can even climb trees. Long ago, evolutionists declared that all four-limbed creatures that live on land, including man, evolved from the Lungfish.
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Like human society, many social insects have laws, lawbreakers and law enforcement. Researchers have now established that at least 15 species employ law enforcement.
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It took medicine thousands of years to discover antibiotics and learn how to use them. Now it appears that a wasp called the European Beewolf has been using an antibiotic all along.
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A short while ago, Creation Moments reported the case of blood cells being discovered in a fossilized T. rex bone. Today, we report on another case. While most fossil bones have lithified, or turned to stone, occasionally identifiable bones are found that are only partially lithified.
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A stroke – sometimes called a brain attack – happens when a blood clot prevents blood circulation in the brain. Unless the clot is quickly dissolved, the brain cells will die. There is currently only one approved drug to dissolve these clots, but it must be given within three hours of the stroke. Unfortunately, most stroke victims don’t get to the hospital that quickly.
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Burmese pythons have been described as “your basic couch-potato hunter.” Most of the time they are not very active and don’t need to eat for weeks or even months. But when the need to eat arises, they can eat whole wild pigs or any animal that weighs as much as the python does.
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Most of the world’s 17,000 species of butterflies are delicate, colorful creatures. Geneticists have been studying the various patterns found on their wings, hoping to relate their findings to evolution. But so far, all their findings have failed to support evolution, and some even contradict evolution.
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The Fire Ant can be aggressive and deliver dangerous venom, but in the perfect world originally created by God, insects such as this would not be expected to be so troublesome.
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The Bible most frequently associates the idea of secret communications with something evil. But sometimes, God uses secret communication for His purpose, as He did when Joseph of Arimathea secretly went to Pilate to secure the body of Jesus.
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We have long been led to believe that the automobile and the power stations are the primary source of hydrocarbons and nitrous oxide pollutants in our atmosphere. On the other hand, the trees clean up the air. Now – surprise, surprise – the oak trees in California’s Sierra Nevada have been found to release hydrocarbons into the air!
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When a conversation turns to Stone Age people, we tend to think of technologically clueless cave-dwellers. On the other hand, the Bible describes the first people as creative city-dwellers.
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In previous Creation Moments programs we have told you about frogs that produce antifreeze in the winter. But the Wood Frog is the absolute champion at surviving below-freezing temperatures.
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The mother-of-pearl found in abalone shells is both beautiful and exceptionally strong. Scientists wanted to find out how the shell formed in the hope that they could discover the secret of the shell’s strength.
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The male bower bird is not the only creature who decorates his nest to attract a female mate. Biologists have discovered that male three-spined sticklebacks decorate their nests to attract females. What’s more, the females appear to like a well-decorated nest.
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Deep beneath the waves of many of our oceans, superheated water gushes from the ocean floor. The water is so loaded with minerals, especially with black iron sulfide, that it looks like black smoke.
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One doesn’t have to study the history of science very long before one learns of the Roman Catholic Church’s persecution of Galileo when he publicly declared that the Earth revolves about the sun. However, the Church of that day was not as ignorant as we have been led to believe. In fact, many churches of Rome in Galileo’s day had long had their own astronomical observatories.
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Scientists are beginning to get a better picture of how digestion works and have identified 500 to 1,000 different kinds of bacteria that live in our large intestine. The human body actually works in a symbiotic relationship with these bacteria – we are their host and provide them with a warm environment while they work to benefit us, including digestion of our food.
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Researchers spent every day of four breeding seasons in a Canadian marsh watching the behavior of nesting American coots – a bird that looks very much like a duck. They concluded that coots can count.
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Many creatures have been found that use sticks, leaves and other items as tools. Chimpanzee parents teach their youngsters to poke sticks in termite holes to get termites. However, no animal has shown an instinctive tendency to make and use tools, until now.
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There is a lot more to bird song than meets the ear. Digital recording and computer technology have enabled researchers to study, in detail, various song-birds’ reactions to neighboring birds’ songs.
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Evolutionary scientists have long maintained that it takes several million years for wood to become petrified or turned to stone as in the famous “Petrified forest.” In 1995 the creationist magazine Creation published research to show that wood can petrify in a relatively short time. Now a scientific journal, Sedimentary Geology, has published a new study that agrees.
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In a previous Creation Moments program we talked about the amazing ability of the gecko to walk up walls and across the ceiling. The gecko can do this because it has tiny hairs, called setae, on its feet. These hairs are so tiny that they actually grip the molecules in the surface of the material upon which the gecko is walking.
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Some of the strangest creatures you can possibly imagine live around undersea hydrothermal vents known as “smokers” that spew out volcanically heated water and minerals. One of the most unusual creatures is an armor-plated snail that never needs to eat!
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We have long been told that a child with high self-esteem will do better in school, get into less trouble and is less likely to smoke or get into drugs. However, after examining the results of a large number of scientific studies that made such claims, independent researchers have come to a very different conclusion.
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Colonies of Paper Wasps consist entirely of female wasps who are ordered according to a strict hierarchy. After mating, the females fight each other for dominance in the colony. Those who prove to be better fighters have more dominance. This means that they can spend more time laying eggs and less time working.
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A strange alga that has muscle-like tissue illustrates that there are no simple life forms. Protein muscle fibers, say evolutionists, are a later and more advanced development in living things. Yet, these scientists also claim that alga are among the first of the living things to have evolved.
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What two things are most important to someone lost in the desert? Why, a compass and, of course, some water. If you are lost in the desert and find a compass barrel cactus, you have both in this amazing plant.
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When it comes to wasps, you can just forget everything you learned about sexual reproduction in Biology 101. There are male and female wasps. But that has very little to do with wasp reproduction.
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As we learn more about the history of our planet, it's becoming increasingly obvious that the Earth has had many faces over its history. Remains of tropical forests have been found within 400 miles of the North Pole. Dinosaurs once lived in the tropical lushness of Alaska. At one time, you could even walk to Australia from Asia.
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Does a five-month-old infant know that three is more than two? Impressive new evidence strongly supports the idea that infants have natural mathematical reasoning skills.
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The beautiful wing of the butterfly has a lesson to teach everyone who believes living things were created by chance. The design of the butterfly wing involves much more than just intricate complexity. In addition to showing a knowledge of flight, each wing design is the product of very precise specifications built around the specific wavelengths of visible light.
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The great Flood at the time of Noah was more than simply the world's biggest rainstorm. Scripture paints the picture of an upheaval across the face of the Earth that combined floods, landslides, volcanoes and earthquakes. As the ground literally danced with earthquakes of unimaginable intensity, hills and mountains would have flowed like pudding.
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In Genesis 2:19 we read that God brought to Adam the animals He'd made to see what Adam would call them. It's been noted for generations that this task showed Adam's great intellectual abilities.
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The rainforest offers a rich variety of living things. Part of that richness can be seen in the flocks of birds that cooperate in the canopy, even though the flocks are made up of several species.
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The fossil record shows us examples of God's great creativity in designing living things. It also shows that life appeared suddenly on Earth, in finished form. The fossil record shows us that Earth originally had a much greater variety of life. Finally, the fossil record doesn't show any evidence of creatures evolving from one type into another.
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If a plant could see, what would it look at? Amazed scientists have learned that plants can indeed see and react to their environments just as do animals!
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It's a quiet, cool, overcast morning at the lake. There's a hint of fog in the air and a fine, lightly falling drizzle. Then you notice the sound. It's almost a musical note, and it's coming from the lake. It's almost as if the lake were singing.
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It's a quiet, cool, overcast morning at the lake. There's a hint of fog in the air and a fine, lightly falling drizzle. Then you notice the sound. It's almost a musical note, and it's coming from the lake. It's almost as if the lake were singing.
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Is there any such thing as chance or luck? Does anything ever happen randomly? Many people don't realize that the Bible speaks to these questions.
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Is there any such thing as chance or luck? Does anything ever happen randomly? Many people don't realize that the Bible speaks to these questions.
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Parables are a good way to teach. Jesus often used parables to teach a lesson. Parables can even be a good way to teach science. However, parables cannot be used to establish scientific fact.
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Parables are a good way to teach. Jesus often used parables to teach a lesson. Parables can even be a good way to teach science. However, parables cannot be used to establish scientific fact.
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That infant in the manger is God's voice to mankind. And despite appearances, He is the King of the universe.
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That infant in the manger is God's voice to mankind. And despite appearances, He is the King of the universe.
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What was the star the wise men followed to find the infant Jesus? About this time of year, articles appear in magazines and newspapers offering many opinions. Some suggest that it was a comet. Others say it was the conjunction of two or more planets or stars. Do any of these theories offer possible explanations?
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What was the star the wise men followed to find the infant Jesus? About this time of year, articles appear in magazines and newspapers offering many opinions. Some suggest that it was a comet. Others say it was the conjunction of two or more planets or stars. Do any of these theories offer possible explanations?
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Skeptics are forever trying to find errors in the Bible so that they can discredit it as God's Word. When a faithful Bible scholar discovers some puzzle in Scripture, he never assumes that he has found an error. He assumes that he doesn't have all the information necessary to resolve the question.
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Skeptics are forever trying to find errors in the Bible so that they can discredit it as God's Word. When a faithful Bible scholar discovers some puzzle in Scripture, he never assumes that he has found an error. He assumes that he doesn't have all the information necessary to resolve the question.
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The environment naturally produces hazardous waste without human help. Ashes from a wood fire can contain enough naturally occurring radioactivity to merit a hazardous waste classification. Uranium and other radioactive elements occur naturally in the environment and can be dissolved in ground water. Chloro fluorocarbons, manufactured for refrigeration, are also spewed from volcanoes. Also called CFCs, these chemicals are thought by some scientists to degrade the Earth's ozone layer. The fact is, nature produces more hazardous waste than man does.
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The environment naturally produces hazardous waste without human help. Ashes from a wood fire can contain enough naturally occurring radioactivity to merit a hazardous waste classification. Uranium and other radioactive elements occur naturally in the environment and can be dissolved in ground water. Chloro fluorocarbons, manufactured for refrigeration, are also spewed from volcanoes. Also called CFCs, these chemicals are thought by some scientists to degrade the Earth's ozone layer. The fact is, nature produces more hazardous waste than man does.
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Did someone engrave the Ten Commandments, in ancient Hebrew, on a New Mexico rock 2,000 years ago?
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Did someone engrave the Ten Commandments, in ancient Hebrew, on a New Mexico rock 2,000 years ago?
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Between 70% and 90% of the calories in nuts come from fat. That's why they have traditionally been on the list of foods to avoid for those who want to avoid heart disease.
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Between 70% and 90% of the calories in nuts come from fat. That's why they have traditionally been on the list of foods to avoid for those who want to avoid heart disease.
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Did you know that you have three eyes? In fact, someday your third eye may provide spare parts that might be necessary to repair the two eyes you normally think about.
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Did you know that you have three eyes? In fact, someday your third eye may provide spare parts that might be necessary to repair the two eyes you normally think about.
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How many hornets does it take to power a digital watch? In the case of the Oriental hornet, six hornets can generate enough electricity to run the watch.
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How many hornets does it take to power a digital watch? In the case of the Oriental hornet, six hornets can generate enough electricity to run the watch.
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Back pain is one of humanity's most common complaints. And the most common explanation one hears for back pain is that our backs hurt because we stand and walk erect.
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Back pain is one of humanity's most common complaints. And the most common explanation one hears for back pain is that our backs hurt because we stand and walk erect.
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Our moon is moving away from the Earth at the rate of four centimeters per year. That might not seem like much. However, that rate of movement away from the Earth presents problems for those who believe the Earth and moon have been around for 4.5 billion years.
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Our moon is moving away from the Earth at the rate of four centimeters per year. That might not seem like much. However, that rate of movement away from the Earth presents problems for those who believe the Earth and moon have been around for 4.5 billion years.
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Two rocks float through silent space, unaware that they will soon cause a scientific debate millions of miles away on Earth. On Earth, these two small asteroids added together may weigh only a few hundred pounds. However, the conclusions that can be drawn from them might be weighty enough to overthrow a powerful theory.
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Two rocks float through silent space, unaware that they will soon cause a scientific debate millions of miles away on Earth. On Earth, these two small asteroids added together may weigh only a few hundred pounds. However, the conclusions that can be drawn from them might be weighty enough to overthrow a powerful theory.
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One of the best strategies for overcoming an opponent is to fool the opponent into thinking you do not exist. Then you infiltrate your opponent and make him think that you are on his side.
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One of the best strategies for overcoming an opponent is to fool the opponent into thinking you do not exist. Then you infiltrate your opponent and make him think that you are on his side.
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A debate has broken out over the image of the Messiah that's presented in one of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Two American scholars have claimed that one of the scrolls talks about the leader of the religious community being put to death.
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A debate has broken out over the image of the Messiah that's presented in one of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Two American scholars have claimed that one of the scrolls talks about the leader of the religious community being put to death.
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Can your ear talk to you? New research seems to show that your ear actually generates sound that echoes whatever you hear.
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Can your ear talk to you? New research seems to show that your ear actually generates sound that echoes whatever you hear.
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Whales can maneuver precisely through the world's oceans and ice floes and among each other. Herman Melville noted this when he wrote in Moby Dick that whales seem to be guided by a "secret intelligence from the Deity."
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Whales can maneuver precisely through the world's oceans and ice floes and among each other. Herman Melville noted this when he wrote in Moby Dick that whales seem to be guided by a "secret intelligence from the Deity."
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Does a sea lion make a good scientist? Human scientists say that sea lions show a good understanding of complex relationships between variables.
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Does a sea lion make a good scientist? Human scientists say that sea lions show a good understanding of complex relationships between variables.
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Its long, slender, scale-covered body glides along the ground on four short legs, each of which has sharp claws. Its slender head has no teeth. It will not seek to hurt you, but if it feels threatened it will lash out with that scale-armored tail.
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Its long, slender, scale-covered body glides along the ground on four short legs, each of which has sharp claws. Its slender head has no teeth. It will not seek to hurt you, but if it feels threatened it will lash out with that scale-armored tail.
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Ever since Old Testament times, midwives have been helping mothers during the birthing process. They are especially valuable should there be difficulties since they not only offer an extra set of hands, but experience in dealing with common problems. Some of the scientists who were studying amoeba behavior observed some very strange behavior which suggests that some amoebas, too, employ midwives.
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Ever since Old Testament times, midwives have been helping mothers during the birthing process. They are especially valuable should there be difficulties since they not only offer an extra set of hands, but experience in dealing with common problems. Some of the scientists who were studying amoeba behavior observed some very strange behavior which suggests that some amoebas, too, employ midwives.
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A series of unlikely discoveries has scientists shaking their heads. They have discovered the smallest creatures ever seen three miles below the Earth's surface, happily living where the temperatures go as high as 338 degrees.
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A series of unlikely discoveries has scientists shaking their heads. They have discovered the smallest creatures ever seen three miles below the Earth's surface, happily living where the temperatures go as high as 338 degrees.
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It has long been argued that animals do not make friendships. According to evolutionary thinking, animals only make friends among relatives because it benefits another creature that shares the same gene pool. Survival of their gene pool is said to be the driving force for every living creature, although animal knowledge of gene pools is still a mystery!
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It has long been argued that animals do not make friendships. According to evolutionary thinking, animals only make friends among relatives because it benefits another creature that shares the same gene pool. Survival of their gene pool is said to be the driving force for every living creature, although animal knowledge of gene pools is still a mystery!
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Noah saved a pair of each kind of unclean creature, and seven pairs of every kind of clean creature on the Ark. Generally speaking, the classification of "kind" is broader than today's species. Creationists believe that today's species developed from those creatures, staying within the kind. For example, while there are many species of fruit flies, they are all of the same kind.
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Noah saved a pair of each kind of unclean creature, and seven pairs of every kind of clean creature on the Ark. Generally speaking, the classification of "kind" is broader than today's species. Creationists believe that today's species developed from those creatures, staying within the kind. For example, while there are many species of fruit flies, they are all of the same kind.
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God cares about all of the creatures He has made – even ants. God has invented such incredible ways to provide for them that Bible skeptics often get caught in their own traps!
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God cares about all of the creatures He has made – even ants. God has invented such incredible ways to provide for them that Bible skeptics often get caught in their own traps!
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Did you ever stand up a little too quickly and get dizzy? That happens because by standing you may have temporarily lowered the blood pressure in your brain. Can you imagine what can happen when the giraffe swings his head from the ground to the treetop?
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Did you ever stand up a little too quickly and get dizzy? That happens because by standing you may have temporarily lowered the blood pressure in your brain. Can you imagine what can happen when the giraffe swings his head from the ground to the treetop?
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If you wake up when it's still dark, you know how overwhelming it can be to turn on the light. Your eyes may even hurt at first. If you've had this experience, you can understand one of the problems that had to be solved when radar was developed.
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If you wake up when it's still dark, you know how overwhelming it can be to turn on the light. Your eyes may even hurt at first. If you've had this experience, you can understand one of the problems that had to be solved when radar was developed.
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One of the things the Hawaiian Islands have been famous for is that they have no snakes. But although there are no friends or relatives for them to visit, increasing numbers of brown tree snakes are catching the next plane to Hawaii.
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One of the things the Hawaiian Islands have been famous for is that they have no snakes. But although there are no friends or relatives for them to visit, increasing numbers of brown tree snakes are catching the next plane to Hawaii.
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Like dinosaurs, whales are huge and wondrous creatures whose sheer size and majesty glorify the Creator. Some whales are even larger than were any of the dinosaurs.
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Like dinosaurs, whales are huge and wondrous creatures whose sheer size and majesty glorify the Creator. Some whales are even larger than were any of the dinosaurs.
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It was only a few years ago that excited supporters of the big bang theory for the origin of the universe announced that their theory had apparently been proven. Now their unverified conclusions are being seriously questioned on several fronts.
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It was only a few years ago that excited supporters of the big bang theory for the origin of the universe announced that their theory had apparently been proven. Now their unverified conclusions are being seriously questioned on several fronts.
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In creation, things aren't always as simple as they seem. Even before Charles Darwin, scientists who believed in evolution classified plants and animals by appearance. A story about the creature's evolutionary history would be invented, based on its appearance and, sometimes, its habits. However, God is too creative for this kind of attempt to write Him out of history.
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Some frogs are regular little drug factories. Their skins produce a wide range of powerful alkaloids, which are a large family of chemicals usually produced by plants. Familiar alkaloids include quinine, caffeine and morphine. Different alkaloids have different effects, usually on the nervous system.
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Many people promote meditation as harmless and healthful. Of course, growing interest in meditation cannot be separated from the increased popularity of Eastern and New Age religion.
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Love is one of the necessities of life that is both physical and spiritual. While it doesn't fit with a strictly materialistic view of life, love and touch – or lack of love and touch – can determine our health and sometimes even life and death.
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According to evolutionary thought, humans came from ape-like creatures. These ape-like creatures came from reptiles through many steps. Likewise, reptiles ultimately came from fish, through many steps. Evolutionists say that with each major stage, more parts were added to the brain. The final development, and the greatest of all, is the cerebral cortex.
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In has a bulky, humped body like a bear. Its hindquarters slope downward like a hyena. It has legs like a cow. Its tail looks as if it were borrowed from a goat. It has the horns of a wildebeest and a face like a moose with mumps. Some scientists think the golden fleece Jason brought to Greece in classical times was from a takin. One scientist commented that if the camel was designed by committee, the same committee designed the takin from the parts that were left over.
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When you go into the desert, it's always a good idea to take a canteen of water with you. Our Creator applied that same simple wisdom when he designed the Yarrow's spiny lizard.
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They work silently and in the dark. While most of Earth's inhabitants need oxygen for life, they merely tolerate it. They prefer to build their own environments where there's no oxygen. Then they go to work. And they love metal. Using complex chemistry, they begin dissolving metal. The can make a sixteenth-of-an-inch hole through an inch-thick pipe in six months. Stainless steel isn't so tough – it doesn't slow them down a bit. Even modern space age metals like titanium can't stand up to them.
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On previous "Creation Moments" programs we've talked about wasps that control crop pests. Natural controls – such as these wasps – show the Creator's hand in designing the creation. New facts about how wasps control pests make our Creator's hand even more evident.
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We live in a day and age when God has allowed men and women more freedom than He has allowed previous generations. That freedom can be used for worse evil than the world has ever known, or it can be used for more good than the world has ever known. Christians will make the difference.
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The Earth's magnetic field makes compasses work so that Boy Scouts don't get lost in the woods and ships arrive at the correct port. It actually moves over time. This means that navigators periodically need updated information on the position of the pole for their charts.
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Traditional approaches to early childhood development have relied heavily on the claims of those who don't believe in the Creator. As a result, these approaches see human beings as simply another animal. Along with this, they usually think that humans are born into the world as a blank slate with no knowledge. As a result, the traditional view has assumed that everything an infant does is based on instinct.
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After more than a century of digging Earth's hills, valleys and plains, paleontologists have uncovered and catalogued more than a billion fossils. Evidence has been found of many plants and animals that are extinct today. However, no evidence has ever been found showing new plants or animals developing.
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When it was introduced, some people thought that it was against God's will. After all, since the human body was made in God's image, it is wrong to put something into the human body that was made from a cow. An artist of the day even drew a cartoon showing people receiving the vaccine that was made from a cow. It showed cows emerging from the leg of someone who had been vaccinated. The vaccine was smallpox vaccine, and the year was 1796.
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Several years ago Koko the gorilla amazed scientists and the public by apparently learning enough of the rudiments of the English language to communicate simple thoughts. Now, studies on wild vervet monkeys suggest that Koko's achievement might be nothing more than a normal, God-given ability.
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Have you ever noticed that we can usually sense whether an animal is hostile or friendly, simply by its sound? Did you ever wonder about the universal features that allow for important basic information to be shared between animals and humans?
None of us ever had to be taught that a dog, growling deeply and showing its teeth, was trying to threaten us. We're all familiar with the high-pitched yips that same dog makes to welcome its owner home. Research shows that the motivations expressed by high-pitched and low-pitched sounds are universal among most creatures.
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What's green, has three eyes and is one of the rarest animals on Earth?
The answer: the tuatara. This reptile is found today only on a few small islands off New Zealand. Its home on the islands in the Bay of Plenty and Cook Strait has no mammals at all. The tuatara was once also found in New Zealand. However, when settlers introduced mammals, the tuatara became extinct, probably because it could not compete with the mammals.
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More than 75 percent of all women in their first trimester of pregnancy suffer some form of morning sickness. More than half become physically sick. While it may not help a woman with morning sickness feel better, it might help to know that morning sickness may serve a good purpose.
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Imagine being at a party that's all packed into one room and everyone is talking. Under these conditions it's often difficult to hear, or at least understand, what others around you are saying. Now imagine that all of these people look nearly identical. No one has any noticeable distinguishing features that make him different from anyone else in the room. Now, to make matters worse, you have been informed that you are to find the person in the room who was not invited to the party.
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Opals are precious multicolored gemstones made primarily of silica. How do they form? Scientists admit that much of the chemistry is not well understood. However, according to the traditional explanation, their formation begins as water filters through silica-rich rock, dissolving some of the silica. When that water passes through a cavity in a suitable rock, the silica precipitates as a film on the wall of the cavity. After tens of millions of years, say the scientists, you will have an opal.
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Presumably, before the fall into sin, we didn't have any bad cholesterol, or at least it didn't do any damage in our bloodstream. The so-called "bad cholesterol" is low-density-lipoprotein. It's called bad because it tends to cause our arteries to clog unless countered by the so-called "good cholesterol" or high-density-lipoprotein.
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If you live in a temperate climate, you have probably heard your home pop and crack on cold days. Those sounds are caused by the different materials that make up your house contracting at different rates as the temperature falls. At some point, the growing tensions are released and you hear the result. If you live in a warm climate that is subject to hurricanes, you know that a building is likely to fail at the point where different parts of the house, like the roof and wall, meet together.
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Evolutionists often claim that language and music evolved independently of each other. However, new research along several lines is showing that there is a close connection between music and language.
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According to the theory of evolution, all life is related. There is claimed to be a hierarchy of rising complexity from the earliest simple organisms to man. The earliest organisms are said to include corals, sea anemones and jellyfish that thrived 500 million years ago. These early creatures eventually led to the first creatures to move onto land, and worms were among them.
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One commonly heralded claim to the evolution of man from the animal kingdom is the statement that humans and chimpanzees are more than 98 percent genetically identical. Many people think this claim has been proven, but it has always been an assumption made by believers in evolution.
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About 300 years after the Genesis Flood, when all people spoke the same language, they decided to work together to build a great city. Working together for a common goal is called "social intelligence." Do animals practice social intelligence? Of course, there are the bees, the ants and the beavers, but even bacteria – among the lowliest of all creatures – also show social intelligence!
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We are surrounded by sounds, some of which can be louder than an airliner taking off. Yet, we never hear these sounds. It's called infrasound. It's real sound that can be recorded if you have the right equipment.
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Most people have seen the beautiful colors of reef fish. However, all those bright colors would be expected to make them attractive to predators.
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A flower called the dead-horse arum has a problem. The individual flowers are able to receive pollen for only one day. To make matters worse, its male parts are not mature that day. The next day, the male parts of the flower produce pollen, but the female parts of the flower have shriveled up and cannot receive it.
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Until recently, it was thought that, excluding mankind, only a few insects, beetles, ants and termites actually farmed crops for their food supply. Then an amazing snail was found.
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Speaking, singing, writing and body language are all familiar ways of communicating. Science has now learned of another means of communication that has been going on all around us, yet we are not even aware of it.
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Does the mother's body or the unborn baby's body trigger the birth process? Those who advise that the baby will come when it's ready may be correct.
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The shy bird called Clark's nutcracker collects food during the growing season and stores it for the cold winter months. In one year, a bird will store between 22,000 and 33,000 seeds in as many as 2,500 locations, which can be more than ten miles apart. But does the little bird remember where he put all those seeds?
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The shy bird called Clark's nutcracker collects food during the growing season and stores it for the cold winter months. In one year, a bird will store between 22,000 and 33,000 seeds in as many as 2,500 locations, which can be more than ten miles apart. But does the little bird remember where he put all those seeds?
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People and mammals have a multi-pronged immune system. When a bacterial infection is detected, cells begin to release nitric oxide, which kills bacteria, and they begin a cascade of other defense strategies. Ultimately, antibodies that directly attack any invader are produced.
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People and mammals have a multi-pronged immune system. When a bacterial infection is detected, cells begin to release nitric oxide, which kills bacteria, and they begin a cascade of other defense strategies. Ultimately, antibodies that directly attack any invader are produced.
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Visitors to the Grand Canyon will recall the Park Rangers saying that it took millions of years for water to carve out the Canyon. We have looked at examples of rapid canyon formation in previous programs, and today we have one more example.
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Visitors to the Grand Canyon will recall the Park Rangers saying that it took millions of years for water to carve out the Canyon. We have looked at examples of rapid canyon formation in previous programs, and today we have one more example.
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Normally, the desert locusts mentioned in the Bible are shy and reclusive and are green in color. What turns them into the multi-colored army that sweeps across the land, eating every leaf in sight?
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Normally, the desert locusts mentioned in the Bible are shy and reclusive and are green in color. What turns them into the multi-colored army that sweeps across the land, eating every leaf in sight?
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As science learns more about the universe, some are suggesting that they see basic mathematical principles that underlie everything. This principle, which one scientist has called "cellular automata", might be at the root of everything from astronomy to zoology.
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As science learns more about the universe, some are suggesting that they see basic mathematical principles that underlie everything. This principle, which one scientist has called "cellular automata", might be at the root of everything from astronomy to zoology.
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With the exception of basic messages such as aggression, communication between two entirely different species has seldom been observed among animals in the wild. We know that many animals among the same species give each other specific warnings about an impending danger. However, scientists have never noted one species recognizing the specific warning given by a second species.
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With the exception of basic messages such as aggression, communication between two entirely different species has seldom been observed among animals in the wild. We know that many animals among the same species give each other specific warnings about an impending danger. However, scientists have never noted one species recognizing the specific warning given by a second species.
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Everyone will remember those school textbook diagrams showing the ever-upward progression of living organisms, including man. We recall the horse series, found in textbooks and the museum displays showing the evolution of the horse – the first stage as a small mammal and, after several transitions, the modern horse. The claim that fossils in the rock layers show a progression from simple life in the lowest layers to the most complex life at the top accompanies these diagrams.
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Everyone will remember those school textbook diagrams showing the ever-upward progression of living organisms, including man. We recall the horse series, found in textbooks and the museum displays showing the evolution of the horse – the first stage as a small mammal and, after several transitions, the modern horse. The claim that fossils in the rock layers show a progression from simple life in the lowest layers to the most complex life at the top accompanies these diagrams.
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How do you get the water you need in a desert in which it almost never rains? We have often looked here at how God's designs in nature show us practical designs we may never think of. The water-hoarding beetle provides us with one more such example.
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How do you get the water you need in a desert in which it almost never rains? We have often looked here at how God's designs in nature show us practical designs we may never think of. The water-hoarding beetle provides us with one more such example.
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Mention snakes or other crawly reptiles, and people usually shy away. Typically, snakes have a reputation for being dangerous or, at best, completely unable to show affection. New research shows us that in many cases this isn't true at all.
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Mention snakes or other crawly reptiles, and people usually shy away. Typically, snakes have a reputation for being dangerous or, at best, completely unable to show affection. New research shows us that in many cases this isn't true at all.
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The history of science, supposedly supporting evolution, shows the power of expecting to find something, whether it exists or not.
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The history of science, supposedly supporting evolution, shows the power of expecting to find something, whether it exists or not.
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There are countless scientific studies designed to find out how diet, environment and our habits influence our health. These studies urged us to eat this, not eat that and generally give up bad habits.
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There are countless scientific studies designed to find out how diet, environment and our habits influence our health. These studies urged us to eat this, not eat that and generally give up bad habits.
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Most listeners to these programs will at sometime have visited a museum to see the dinosaurs. Of course, the tangible remains consist of fossil skeletons and, if one is allowed to touch the bones, they are as hard as rock. Sometimes they are actually cement or plaster since they are copies. However, we are told that over the millions of years, the original bone had been replaced by minerals. Except for the millions of years, this is often true but not always. Fence posts, for example, have been found mineralized at one end and plain wood at the other.
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Most listeners to these programs will at sometime have visited a museum to see the dinosaurs. Of course, the tangible remains consist of fossil skeletons and, if one is allowed to touch the bones, they are as hard as rock. Sometimes they are actually cement or plaster since they are copies. However, we are told that over the millions of years, the original bone had been replaced by minerals. Except for the millions of years, this is often true but not always. Fence posts, for example, have been found mineralized at one end and plain wood at the other.
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The lancet fluke is a parasite that accomplishes its life cycle in a most complicated, Rube Goldberg, manner.
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The lancet fluke is a parasite that accomplishes its life cycle in a most complicated, Rube Goldberg, manner.
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For thousands of years salt has been considered valuable as a seasoning, a preservative and even as a means of payment. But could salt preserve bacteria alive for thousands or even millions of years?
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For thousands of years salt has been considered valuable as a seasoning, a preservative and even as a means of payment. But could salt preserve bacteria alive for thousands or even millions of years?
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Living fossils are creatures believed to be extinct and known only through the fossil record. The most famous living fossil is the Coelacanth. It is a fish, and textbooks claim it has been extinct for 70 million years according to the evolutionary timetable. Now we know that schools of them live in the Indian Ocean.
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Living fossils are creatures believed to be extinct and known only through the fossil record. The most famous living fossil is the Coelacanth. It is a fish, and textbooks claim it has been extinct for 70 million years according to the evolutionary timetable. Now we know that schools of them live in the Indian Ocean.
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An unusual example of a design in nature that runs counter to human common sense is found in the pectoral flippers of the humpback whale. The leading edge of these flippers, which one would intuitively expect to be smooth, actually sport evenly spaced bumps.
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An unusual example of a design in nature that runs counter to human common sense is found in the pectoral flippers of the humpback whale. The leading edge of these flippers, which one would intuitively expect to be smooth, actually sport evenly spaced bumps.
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Almost everyone in the world today knows of the terrible disaster that struck the coasts of South East Asia. The North American news media gave daily body counts, reported human tragedy and inflicted damage yet, as far as is known, none mentioned the animals.
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Almost everyone in the world today knows of the terrible disaster that struck the coasts of South East Asia. The North American news media gave daily body counts, reported human tragedy and inflicted damage yet, as far as is known, none mentioned the animals.
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While the call of the cicada sounds like raucous chaos to us, researchers have only just learned that these amazing creatures have a complicated system of communication. Cicada beetles live underground for 13 to 17 years before emerging to live a few brief weeks to sing and mate before they die.
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The Bible teaches that marriage is one man and one woman, united into one flesh for life. Traditional morality has reflected this view. However, modern Western culture has viewed divorce as a freedom that should be available to everyone. The popular term "no fault divorce" attempts to give the impression that divorce has few consequences. Two recent studies, however, clearly show the real cost of divorce.
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Everyone knows the answer to the old question: Which is heavier, a pound of feathers or a pound of lead? Yet the first time most of us were asked, we wanted to answer that it was the pound of lead. Researchers may have discovered why we naturally think the pound of lead is heavier.
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For over a century, textbooks have used the Galapagos Island finches as an example of evolution in action. The facts are that the differences between these finches are less than the differences in the human population – and nobody claims that we are evolving! A lesser-known example of evolution in action was recently challenged in the scientific literature concerning certain hummingbirds found on the island of St. Lucia in the Caribbean. For a long time it was claimed that one species of hummingbird was diverging and becoming another species.
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Dutch researchers have concluded that you can indeed eat your way to a better mood. It's not how much you eat, and in some cases the secret is what you don't eat. But if you are easily frustrated and stressed, you may be able to avoid these moods.
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Siberian chipmunks are pretty low on the food chain. Everything from snakes to foxes seek out a chipmunk meal. However, Siberian chipmunks are very clever at using one of their enemies to defend themselves. If a Siberian chipmunk discovers a dead snake, it will be understandably careful in making sure that it is dead. Once it is certain, the chipmunk will chew on the dead snake's skin. Then, in behavior naturalists call "self anointing," the chipmunk applies the chewed snake skin to its coat. The chipmunks will also self anoint with snake urine and feces.
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Most of us were amazed when we first learned that physicians in ancient Egypt did brain surgery. Even more amazing is that the skulls of their patients showed healing: they accomplished such complicated surgery without killing their patients. That physicians had the knowledge to do such delicate operations thousands of years ago challenges the modern, evolutionary view that humans began as primitives.
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It should be obvious that attentive parents are a blessing to their children. However, as we look around us, we see too many examples of inattentive parenting. Now scientists in Canada have experimentally demonstrated one of the benefits of attentive parenting.
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For 75 years, scientists have been trying to figure out how the gecko can walk across a ceiling. Scientists ruled out suction or glue. Then it was thought that perhaps the tiny hairs on its feet were able to grasp microscopic imperfections in the surface in which it walks. However, the gecko can not only walk across a polished glass ceiling, it can even hang by just one toe.
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We are all familiar with the evolutionary tree of life. It is supposed to depict how life began as a single celled organism and over immense periods of time mutated into all the various forms of life we see today. We have offered several Creation Moments programs recently that explained how new genetic studies simply don't support this evolutionary tree.
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Malaria is caused by infection by parasites called plasmodia. It is still a serious disease, killing over one million people in 1998. Malaria is most serious in developing countries where modern drugs that fight malaria are often hard to get. Now a biologist at the University of Washington may have come up with a simple, inexpensive solution.
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According to the Bible, Noah's Ark was 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. It was built of a type of wood called "gopher wood." This may have been laminated wood, but it was wood. However, skeptics claim that even today wooden boats cannot be made that large simply because wood is not strong enough to endure the huge stresses generated by such a large structure; they say only iron can endure these stresses.
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Our sun, though remarkably stable as stars go, follows an eleven year cycle of activity. Every eleven years the sun's surface is torn by solar storms. These storms can send a hot blast of particles at the earth at a million miles per hour. When they hit the Earth, these particles can disrupt radio communications and electrical systems. During this peak, the sun's magnetic field is at its strongest.
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The evolutionary view of human history is that ancient man was so primitive that it took him over a million years to figure out farming. The problem with this view is that even the lowly leaf cutting ant has figured out how to grow, fertilize and harvest its own crops. Evolutionists respond by insisting that intelligence evolved in these creatures because they are social creatures that developed intelligence to cope with social situations.
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In 1637, Rene Descartes published a groundbreaking treatise on optics. His breakthrough was the discovery that an aspherical lens works better than a spherical lens. A spherical lens cannot focus the parallel rays of light into a single point. However, an aspherical lens can focus light on a single point. Unfortunately, Descartes did not have the necessary equipment to make such a lens.
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On past Creation Moments programs we have reported on individual studies that link good health to religious commitment. It's always easy to find individual studies to prove almost any point. So researchers did a statistical analysis of 42 different studies made since 1977.
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The shell of the giant pink queen conch is made of such remarkable material that scientists speak of its design, even while they say that it is a product of evolutionary chance. The beautiful shell is made of a form of calcium carbonate called aragonite. Yet it is structured in such a way that it resists fractures 100 to 1,000 times better than aragonite ordinarily would.
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Virtually every culture in the world has stories and legends about dragons. Amazingly, these serpents resemble each other from culture to culture. They also resemble what we call dinosaurs. The universality and uniformity of these stories strongly suggests that dinosaurs could not have died out 65 million years ago as evolutionists claim.
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By the time she had returned from her adventures in Oz, Dorothy had learned that "There's no place like home." As we discover more planets outside the solar system, we are learning that there's no place like Earth or even the solar system.
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Genes carry the biological information to make specific living things. Evolution says that simpler living things evolved first and more complex life evolved later. This would lead us to believe that more complex living things would have developed more genes. The creation approach suggests that each creature was designed with the genetic material necessary for its survival in its intended environment. As a result, the genetic complexity of living things would be related to the way it lives, not to its place in a supposed evolutionary hierarchy.
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Researchers in the 1950s and '60s established that the octopus is quite intelligent and can learn different visual patterns. Octopi have very large brains with large areas reserved for storing information. New research has shown that they are even more intelligent than earlier studies revealed. These findings run counter to evolutionary theory, which says that intelligence evolves in social species to help them deal with social relationships. The octopus is not a social animal and operates alone.
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New research is revealing the health benefits of eating nuts. While eating peanuts has been shown to reduce heart disease risks by lowering triglycerides, tree nuts offer many more benefits.
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John Stevens Henslow was a highly respected scientist of the 19th century. He taught both botany and mineralogy at England's Cambridge University. In addition to being a scientist and professor, he was also a devout Christian and ordained into the Anglican clergy.
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Did you know that most animals and humans have two noses? Most animals and humans have two very separate systems for detecting scents that work very differently from one another. These two sensory systems even detect very different types of scents.
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Do men and women differ from each other because God gave them different natures or because their environment caused them to be men or women? In short, is it our nature (our genes) or our nurture (our environment) that determines whether we become men or women?
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The Bible teaches that until several centuries after the Flood all people on Earth spoke the same language. The fact that many supposedly unrelated languages have similar sounding words with the same or similar meanings supports this teaching. Some language researchers say that this is simply due to chance. Now some language researchers say that they have developed another line of research that supports the belief that all humans once spoke the same language.
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While most people know that several ancient cultures built pyramids, which culture built the most? Most people would answer "Egypt", but they would be wrong. However, they did inspire the culture that built the most pyramids.
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The animal we feature on today's Creation Moments is so new to science it hasn't even been classified according to genus as this is written. Yet the mimic octopus is the talk of the scientific world.
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Often the most productive science is done when scientists, as one founder of modern science put it, "Think God's thoughts after Him." For example, while antibiotics have saved millions of lives, they have proven to be only a temporary solution. In addition, there are some bacterial infections that move too fast for antibiotics to be effective.
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Let's go back to the very first moment that the supposed Big Bang took place. Evolutionists say that at that very first moment, everything was up to chance. The size and charge of electrons, protons, the structure of atoms or whether they would even exist could have been anything.
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All the textbooks inform us that the speed of light is about 186,000 miles per second. This is the absolute speed limit of the universe, according to Einstein's theory of relativity, we have always been told. Should anything travel faster than that, Einstein's theory falls.
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When bees are threatened by some diseases or predators, they act like sick children – they get a fever. More specifically, they give their nest a fever, sometimes raising its temperature to levels nearly fatal to themselves.
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Siberia's Lake Baikal provides many mysteries for those who believe that naturalistic evolution can account for today's biological world. Many of the unique plants and animals that call this fresh water lake home are similar to those found only hundreds of miles away in marine environments.
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Man has always been fascinated with the weather. Some of the effects of weather on health are obvious. Death rates rise in areas experiencing extreme heat waves or severe air pollution. Researchers also agree that too little sunlight can result in depression in many people. And a 1997 study by the University of Massachusetts Medical School found a correlation between falling barometric pressure and the onset of labor.
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Over 2,000 years ago, Aristotle wrote about red snow. Today, red, orange and even green snow has been found on every continent. It is typically found in deep mountain snows in the late spring. The snow color is caused by any of 350 species of strange snow algae.
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During his visit to the Galapagos Islands, Charles Darwin saw that each island was populated by a little finch. These birds were all very similar; yet, from one island to another there were some differences in the size and shape of the beak. Darwin reasonably concluded that in the distant past a pair of these birds had been blown 600 miles from the mainland and had since multiplied and spread. The environment on each island was slightly different, and the birds had developed specialized beaks to exploit the different food sources.
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Blister beetles of California's Mojave Desert depend on solitary bees for their life cycle. However, the beetles have nothing of interest to offer the bees.
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One of the early evidences for evolution, at one time found in almost every school textbook, was based upon the salt content of human blood plasma and the salt content of the sea. Professor Macallum of the University of Toronto began with the assumption that life on earth began in the sea and that the first land creatures had retained that sea salt concentration in their blood. This assumption was then turned and used as textbook evidence that evolution had, in fact, taken place.
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The Bible portrays Jerusalem as an established city of some importance even at the time of Abraham. Yet many biblical scholars describe Jerusalem as, at best, an unimportant settlement as late as the time of David in 1000 B.C. Now a biblical scholar may have found the evidence to settle the issue in favor of the biblical history.
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Did you know that if you stared at an object with absolutely no eye movement you would eventually go blind? Actually, it is impossible to stare at anything without some eye movement, and there is a good reason for this.
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A primary step in understanding how we think is realizing that our perception of the world around us is based upon unprovable beliefs. Those who do not believe in God will see no evidence of His working in the world.
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Social insects seldom, if ever, tolerate other species within their communities. Strangers are generally identified by their smell, rather than by their appearance, since those insects that aren't actually blind have very poor eyesight. It is common for social insects to unite to destroy even one stranger who invades their nest.
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The conventional understanding has always been that North America was populated by people who crossed from Asia to Alaska via the Bering Strait and then migrated down the West Coast. Eventually, some of them crossed as far as the eastern coasts of North and South America. Known as the Clovis culture, their descendants produced all the North and South American Indian tribes and nations. The Clovis sites that have been excavated so far have produced distinctive spear points that have become known as Clovis points.
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