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Leviticus 17:11 “For the life [nephesh] of the flesh is in the blood:” Some people find insects, such as butterflies, fascinating. But there are also those who cannot stand the sight of other insects. Wasps and leather jackets are not particularly l...

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Genesis 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.”  I always had a bit of sympathy for Dr. Alan Grant in that in...

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Genesis 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.” The teacher looked at his students as they hung on his words. ...

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Genesis 1:21a “And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind….” An unusual example of a design in nature that runs counter to human common sense is found ...

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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...

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Genesis 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...

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Genesis 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...

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Job 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...

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Genesis 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...

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Genesis 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...

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