Genesis 7:2 “Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.” Christians and non-Christians alike sometimes assume that natural selection is an inevitab...
Continue ReadingActs 17:29 “Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising.” Nearly everyone just “knows” that if enough monkeys were allowed...
Continue ReadingIsaiah 55:8-9 “‘For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,’ says the Lord. ‘For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.’” Our Creator’s work r...
Continue ReadingJob 12:7-8 “But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you; and the birds of the air, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; and the fish of the sea will explain to you.” The yellow-and-black striped archer fish shops a...
Continue Reading1 John 4:19 “We love Him because He first loved us.” 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 other...
Continue Reading1 John 4:16 “And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.” You might not think of the crocodile as a particularly loving creature. In reality, the crocodile is among...
Continue ReadingJohn 9:4 “I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work.” 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 ...
Continue ReadingPsalm 50:10 “For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.” 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 bu...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:31 “And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” Antibiotic resistance is one of the most troubling properties of certain strains of bacteria. If a strain of bac...
Continue ReadingMatthew 6:26 “Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?” The Willow Warbler is a fascinating little bird. It weighs less than ha...
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- Cyanide for Breakfast?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 […]
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