Psalm 104:30 “Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.” Living fossils are creatures believed to be extinct and known only through the fossil record. The most famous living fossil is the Coelaca...
Continue ReadingGenesis 3:17b “…cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life….” The lancet fluke is a parasite that accomplishes its life cycle in a most complicated, Rube Goldberg, manner. Mature lanc...
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.” Tyrannosaurus was so named because it was terrifying. As a chi...
Continue ReadingJob 39:26-27 “Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south? Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?” I remember buying a foot pump to inflate the tires on my first car. My choice was between two pu...
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.” The Encyclopaedia Britannica describes feathers as “the component structure...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:24 “And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And it was so. “ Douglas Adams, in his comic masterpiece The Hitchhikers’ Gui...
Continue Reading1 Corinthians 14:33a “For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace… “ Erwin Schrödinger had a cat. Or perhaps he didn’t. At any rate, we don’t know whether it is alive or dead. Or still in the box. Confused? Let me explain. Physicist Er...
Continue ReadingJob 26:13 “By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.” Mention snakes or other crawly reptiles, and people usually shy away. Typically, snakes have a reputation for being dangerous or, at best, compl...
Continue ReadingJob 38:26 “To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man….” How do you get the water you need in a desert in which it almost never rains? We have often looked here at how God’s design...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:24 “And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.” Everyone will remember those school textbook diagrams showing the ever...
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