Matthew 13:22 “‘Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.'” Some frogs are regular little drug factories. Th...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:21 “And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.” It was Charles Darwin’s assumption...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:20 “And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.” Like so many children over the last century, I was given a book about dinosau...
Continue ReadingGenesis 49:9 “Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?” All cats seem to consume a very high fat meat diet. Unlike other carnivores, cats...
Continue ReadingGenesis 17:8 “Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.” Social insects seldom, if ever, tolerate other species within their c...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:21 “So God created . . . every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. “ During his visit to the Galapagos Islands Charles Darwin saw that each island was populated by a little finch. These birds were all very simila...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:25 “And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.” An article in the Los Angeles Times about a recent fossil find...
Continue ReadingJoshua 4:6 “That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?” How old is the world’s oldest fossil? The problem is that the term “oldest” implies a timesc...
Continue ReadingProverbs 18:14 “The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?” When bees are threatened by some diseases or predators, they act like sick children – they get a fever. More specifically, they give their nest a...
Continue ReadingPsalm 92:5-6 “O Lord, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep. A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.” Researchers in the 1950s and ’60s established that the octopus is quite intelligent and can learn dif...
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