Many of God’s creatures are beautiful. However, some of them, like the appropriately named hagfish, strike us as ugly. Not only does the hagfish look like something out of a science fiction movie, it has bad habits. The hagfish looks like an eel wit...
Continue ReadingGod did not allow man to eat meat before the Great Flood but gave us permission to do so after the flood. At the same time, God placed the fear of man into the animals so that they would know that they needed to protect themselves. However, those animals ...
Continue ReadingWe’ve all heard the old saying, “God helps those who help themselves.” It’s usually offered to encourage someone to put in more effort. While there are benefits to hard work, it’s not exactly accurate to say that God helps th...
Continue ReadingFour or five centuries ago people thought that small animals simply froze solid in the winter and, in the spring, thawed out and resumed life. These ideas were later thought of as a foolish fiction of a previous, ignorant age. Today, science has a growing...
Continue ReadingEven a small household must have some organization to keep enough food and supplies on hand for the family. Yet, the thousands of members in an ant colony never run short of supplies even though there is no central organization and not one shopping list. ...
Continue ReadingThe water pressure around a human diver increases as he goes into deeper water. As the pressure increases, his blood is able to hold more dissolved oxygen. Our blood also absorbs the nitrogen in the air around us. If a diver were to move toward the surfac...
Continue ReadingThe bird of paradise is among the strangest and most beautiful birds in the world. They are so unusual that evolutionary scientists are having difficulty explaining how such creatures could have evolved. It was not until 1824 that the first European saw a...
Continue ReadingNot a week goes by that we don’t hear of some plant or animal threatened with extinction. Is such a rapid rate of extinction natural, or is it caused by the activities of modern technological man? It is popularly thought that the extinctions of vari...
Continue ReadingIt’s not at all true that penguins are flightless birds. They are perfectly designed to fly. However, when a penguin goes flying in search of its food, it doesn’t search in the air, but in the water. The king penguin is one of the world’...
Continue ReadingToday we’re going to a school of fish to learn about the wisdom that God built into some 20,000 different species of fish. First of all, fish don’t learn how to school; they know how to school instinctively at birth. Schooling has advantages f...
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