Animals – Creation Moments

Mice Who Farm

Many different creatures, from mice to insects, eat seeds. The tropical forest offers the greatest variety of seeds found anywhere in the world. The problem is that among this great variety are seeds that are poisonous and others that are hard as rocks. Y...

Natural Insect Repellent

One interesting way in which to help young people gain an appreciation for God’s creation is to ask them to solve certain problems that the Creator Himself had to solve. Let’s use the examples of seeds. Plants need seeds to produce the ...

Eating Pollution

How would you like to live in a neighborhood where garbage was never collected and taken away? What if there was no provision in the creation for getting rid of waste? By now the Earth would have become a filthy mess! Our sewage and other waste does not b...

The Three Eyed Porpoise

What has three eyes, lives in the sea and can swim faster than most boats can travel? No, it’s not a creature from another planet. It’s the porpoise. Science has long known that the porpoise navigates using sonar. Now they have learned ...

100 Foot Ferns

Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species opened the modern era of evolutionary thinking. The very name of his book suggests that as we look back in time, we should see fewer kinds of animals. Darwin led many people to think that there should be a g...

A Diet of Oil

While scientists often talk about how it takes millions of years to form oil and gas deposits, they say little about the fact that oil and natural gas are forming today in the ocean’s sediments. The sediments of the Gulf of Mexico are well known exa...

The Crafty Flea

The water flea fills one of the lowest spots on the food chain. What this means is that even though the water flea is concerned about little else than going about his business, just about everyone else in the pond is interested in eating him. Not much lar...

Magnetic Birds?

Most of us have heard a few of the theories that are offered to explain how birds are able to migrate for thousands of miles to an exact spot. The arctic tern migrates 22,000 miles a year to winter in the same spot where it wintered the previous year. But...

Is the Shark Related to the Pig?

If all life evolved from, and is related to, earlier forms of life, then closely related animals should also have similar kinds of chemicals in their bodies. As the science of biochemistry has grown, those who believe in evolution have held high hopes tha...

Well Designed Snails

Each one of us can learn about God’s way of working with us from a fresh water snail that is often preyed upon by crayfish. When life is easy and there are no crayfish around to threaten the snail, it usually lives only three to five months and grow...