Genesis 1:1-2 “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” Many people are aware that evolutio...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:31 “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” If you want to learn a new subject, find a master at the subject and copy them. If you want to lose weight, find...
Continue ReadingPsalm 119:105 “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” There has been a tendency among some evangelicals to worry about scientific opinion. For example, there has been a drive to reinterpret Genesis in the light of evolutionary the...
Continue ReadingGenesis 12:3 “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” Genesis is one book. That might seem pretty obvious to many of you, and yet sometimes we have given the impr...
Continue ReadingGenesis 2:1 “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.” An article in the New Scientist magazine suggests that the Reformation was a spur to scientific development. In their minds, Luther was a rebel, and it was this atti...
Continue ReadingHebrews 13:6 So we may boldly say: ‘The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me? “Survival of the fittest” is an essential principle of evolution. This principle has not only been applied to animals, but also to human b...
Continue ReadingIsaiah 45:18 “For thus says the LORD. Who formed the earth and made it. Who formed it to be inhabited: ‘I am the LORD, and there is no other.” The Aye-Aye is one of the strangest little monkeys on earth. Its peculiar features bear witness that i...
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 far as we know, the blue whale is th...
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...
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