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Psalm 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...

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 Psalm 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...

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Matthew 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...

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Romans 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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Proverbs 12:24 “The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.” Wasp colonies in temperate zones usually wait until the end of summer to raise male young. That’s because male wasps are typically useles...

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James 4:7 “Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” 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. Many predators smell chem...

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Job 9:10 “Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.” 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 ...

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Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” 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 su...

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Psalm 50:11 “I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.” 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 A...

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Genesis 7:23a “And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven;.” According to evolution theory, birds should not have been around at the...

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