Psalm 104:24 “O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.” Deep inside an ant colony, perhaps in a decaying log in northern Idaho or even the north woods of Minnesota, there are ants who th...
Continue ReadingPsalm 50:11 “I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.” 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 ...
Continue ReadingLeviticus 3:5 “And Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.” What determines the sort of smells that we like an...
Continue ReadingPsalm 145:15 “The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.” 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 ...
Continue ReadingJob 12:7 8 “But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.” A number of species of fish live, ap...
Continue ReadingJob 28:24-25 “For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven; To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.” The bacterium Bacillus cereus likes to live in soil that would kill most other bacteria....
Continue ReadingPsalm 146:8 “The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous….” You get up early. The illumination isn’t very good, you put on your socks anyway, only to find out, in the light o...
Continue ReadingPsalm 18:28 “For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.” Many marine creatures reflect surrounding light. They can do so because of tiny light-reflecting platelets. Typically, these crystalline platelets are made of p...
Continue ReadingMatthew 13:4 “And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up….” Episodic memory, the ability to remember something that happened in the past is called mental time travel. It has long been thought that...
Continue ReadingRomans 6:23 “ For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Human bridegrooms are not the only males who give gifts to their intended. The birds and the flies do it, too. We talked about ho...
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