Psalm 36:6 “Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.” The red panda has to be one of the world’s most attractive animals, with a cute white face and a ginger red body. ...
Continue ReadingIsaiah 13:22 “And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.” British comedian Milton Jones once claimed he had been rais...
Continue ReadingLeviticus 11:3-6 “Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he chewet...
Continue ReadingColossians 2:8 “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” If you look up an animal in an encyclopedia, whether that animal is extant or exti...
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.” Whalebone was used for all sorts of or...
Continue ReadingIsaiah 59:5 “They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.” Not every spider can kill you if it bites you! But I have never really warmed t...
Continue ReadingMatthew 13:22 “‘Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.'” Some frogs are regular little drug factories. Th...
Continue ReadingRomans 1:24-25 “Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who i...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:26 “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let then have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creep...
Continue ReadingIsaiah 13:22a “And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces” Large dinosaurs could conceivably have had a heat problem. If they were able to generate their own body temperature, like bird...
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