Genesis 1:28 “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the ear...
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.” Most mammals in Australia are marsupials. That is one of the thi...
Continue ReadingHebrews 13:6 “So we may boldly say: ‘The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?” “Survival of the fittest” is an essential principle of evolution. This principle has not only been applied to animals, but also to h...
Continue ReadingPsalm 147:2-3 “The LORD builds up Jerusalem; He gathers together the outcasts of Israel. He heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds.” Dinosaur fossil hunters and paleontologists have long debated whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded ...
Continue ReadingIsaiah 45:18 “For thus says the LORD. Who formed the earth and made it. Who formed it to be inhabited: ‘I am the LORD, and there is no other.” The Aye-Aye is one of the strangest little monkeys on earth. Its peculiar features bear witness that i...
Continue ReadingEcclesiastes 3:20-21 “All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?” A recent report in the journal Science has re...
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 t...
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?” Only two members of the cat family are mentioned in the Bible: lions and leopards...
Continue ReadingProverbs 6:6 “Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:” There are certain occasions in the Bible when we are directed to look at the behavior or traits of an animal and are asked to learn an important lesson from them, behavioral ...
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...
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