Ecclesiastes 3:21Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? I loved the zoo, when I was a boy. How we used to laugh at the antics of the chimpanzees at their “tea parties”! We...
Continue ReadingMark 7:37And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak. Why are chimps so similar to humans? They have five fingers on each hand, like we do, and five toes on each foot. Th...
Continue ReadingJob 12:7But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: One of the many delights of moving to the Pacific North West of the United States has been getting acquainted with hummingbirds. Watching wildli...
Continue ReadingGenesis 8:21-22 “And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any mo...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:20aAnd God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life. Lampreys are very odd creatures. They are fish, and hence are vertebrates. However, they have no jaw, so many species of lamprey are parasitic, burrowing ...
Continue ReadingGenesis 2:16-17And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Brit...
Continue ReadingRomans 13:13Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. Like an ancient empire, there is a species of ant whose entire society is built on slavery. In fact, raids to cap...
Continue Reading1 Corinthians 7:10And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: Most water fowl are faithful to one mate over long periods of time. The swan, in particular, champions marital fidelity. In North America ...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:21And 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. Leatherback turtles make use of far more of t...
Continue ReadingIsaiah 40:28Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. Though they are only insects, stick insects seem to...
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