Genesis 1:5b “And the evening and the morning were the first day.” Less than an hour’s drive from where I live is the large city of Portland, Oregon. At the Oregon Convention Center in that city is the world’s largest Foucault’s Pendulum. Many m...
Continue ReadingMatthew 6:28-29 “And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” The purpose of a...
Continue ReadingHebrews 12:1-2 “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus t...
Continue ReadingIsaiah 61:1-3 “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them tha...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:11b “Then God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth’; and it was so.” The chempedak tree is found in Malaysia. It is closely related...
Continue ReadingSong of Solomon 2:12 “The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.” The Bible speaks of bird calls as songs, as most of us do. However, evolutionary theory has led some sc...
Continue ReadingPsalm 148:7 “Praise the LORD from the earth, you great sea creatures and all the depths…” Scientists have long wondered how deep‑diving creatures such as the whale and the dolphin can dive so deeply on one breath. It takes a great deal of ...
Continue ReadingGenesis 7:11-12 “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the e...
Continue ReadingGenesis 6:14 “Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.” The Ark was made of wood, so it had to be waterproofed. The most suitable type of waterproofing would be a hydrophobic...
Continue ReadingJeremiah 10:11 “Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.” One of the fundamental lessons we learn from Scripture is that there is only one...
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- Do Spiders Feel Pain?If you are like most people, you may not care whether spiders feel pain. However, because of the way spiders are designed, their ability to feel pain has implications for many other creatures. Like crabs and lizards, spiders are able to drop a leg when attacked. Spiders, too, have enemies. Among them is the poisonous […]
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