Exodus 15:2 “The LORD [is] my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he [is] my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.” Modern researchers are learning that bacteria are not a simple ...
Continue ReadingDeuteronomy 6:5 “And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.” Bees depend on a good memory of their surroundings to make the thousands of trips necessary to keep their hive in opera...
Continue ReadingPsalm 119:105 “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” When lost in the forest with no clue 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...
Continue ReadingJohn 15:5 “I am the vine, ye [are] the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.” Two groups of tropical vines rely for reproduction on the world’s only known spe...
Continue ReadingExodus 15:11 “Who [is] like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who [is] like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful [in] praises, doing wonders?” There are at least four known types of orchids that effectively pretend to be female insects. They a...
Continue ReadingPsalm 119:130 “The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.” Researchers are learning that bacteria have senses similar to our hearing and sight. Bacteria even have a brain that receives information from the...
Continue ReadingRomans 12:1 “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.” The largest known beetle in the world is the aptly named gol...
Continue Reading1 Thessalonians 5:8 “But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.” Many plants, especially orchids, offer different ploys to fool insects into pollinating the...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:24 “And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.” Few animals are as adorable in appearance as the guinea pig. They are found in...
Continue ReadingPsalm 144:9 “I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.” King David, in praise to God, declared “I will sing a new song to you, O God; upon a ten-stringed harp I will play...
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