Romans 11:34 “For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?” All the textbooks inform us that the speed of light is about 186,000 miles per second. This is the absolute speed limit of the universe, according to EinsteinR...
Continue ReadingProverbs 2:6 “For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.” John Stevens Henslow was a highly respected scientist of the 19th century. He taught both botany and mineralogy at England’s Cambridge University. In...
Continue ReadingGenesis 43:11 “And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:” New ...
Continue ReadingPsalm 92:5-6 “O Lord, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep. A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.” Researchers in the 1950s and ’60s established that the octopus is quite intelligent and can learn dif...
Continue ReadingPsalm 19:1 “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.” There has been a considerable amount of interest over exoplanets recently. This is due, in large part, to information gleaned from the Kepler spacecraft, which...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:8 “And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.” We take the sky for granted. It is just there. Yet, whether it is covered with cloud, or clear, we do not consider the fact that, during the dayt...
Continue ReadingEcclesiastes 4:4 “Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit..” In 1637 Rene Descartes published a ground-breaking treatise on optics. His breakthro...
Continue ReadingEphesians 2:8-9 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” As creationists, we spend a lot of time working on our models about how we think the Flood could hav...
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.” As a child, I was a big fan of the TV ...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:12 “And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.” My parents did not want dandelions in our garden. They are cl...
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