Psalm 119:154 “Plead my cause and redeem me; revive me according to Your word.” 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...
Continue ReadingJob 9:10 “He does great things past finding out, yes, wonders without number.” The relatively rare bucket orchid, Coryanthes, behaves almost like an animal at pollination time. This remarkable ability is essential to its survival. Coryanthes has a ste...
Continue ReadingJohn 14:6 “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.’” Is it possible that your pharmacist could be a chimpanzee? That’s not such a silly question. Naturalists are discovering th...
Continue ReadingProverbs 30:28 “The spider skillfully grasps with its hands, and it is in kings’ palaces. 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 ...
Continue ReadingLuke 15:15-16 “And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.” People love pigs or ha...
Continue Reading1 John 4:6 “We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.” The coelacanth is a rather strange-looking fish that was supposed to have become extinct 70 ...
Continue ReadingPsalm 40:5 “Many, O LORD my God, [are] thy wonderful works [which] thou hast done, and thy thoughts [which are] to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: [if] I would declare and speak [of them], they are more than can be numbered.” T...
Continue Reading2 Peter 3:10 “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.” We ...
Continue ReadingMatthew 10:29 “Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.” The creation is filled with a remarkable number of creatures that are able to fool their enemies into thinking they are somethi...
Continue Reading1 Corinthians 6:20 “For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” Some creatures seem more wise and powerful in dealing with the problems of living than seems reasonable. For example, when ...
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