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...
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...
Continue ReadingColossians 1:28 “Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus….” With the exception of basic messages such as aggression, communication between two entirel...
Continue ReadingProverbs 30:27 “The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands….” Normally, the desert locusts mentioned in the Bible are shy and reclusive and are green in color. What turns them into the multi-colored army that sweeps...
Continue ReadingEcclesiastes 3:21 “Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?” When it is a slow news day, the news agencies usually find a new story about human evolution. Another such article app...
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