Genesis 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.” The late evolutionary biologis...
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.” I have had a very irritating song floa...
Continue ReadingGenesis1:21 “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.” As a boy, I was always taught that it i...
Continue ReadingMatthew 10:29 “Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.” I remember my mother taking me into the fishmonger’s store. She was particularly interested in buying plaice. The store h...
Continue ReadingPsalm 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...
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