Genesis 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.” Like so many children over the last century, I was given a book about dinosau...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:25 “And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.” An article in the Los Angeles Times about a recent fossil find...
Continue ReadingJoshua 4:6 “That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?” How old is the world’s oldest fossil? The problem is that the term “oldest” implies a timesc...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:27 “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” What would it have been like walking with Lucy? Of course, I am not just referring to any girl called Lucy. I am referring to th...
Continue ReadingJoshua 24:15b “But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” Mastodons were distant relatives of the elephant. Modern science says that one of the main parts of their diet was conifer needles. Supposedly, they died out at the end of the...
Continue ReadingColossians 1:16 “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.” The dis...
Continue ReadingEvolution says that life began with the simplest forms. It took over a billion years just to evolve algae and another billion years for living things to have more than one cell. It took half a billion years of slow development to generate today’s cr...
Continue ReadingCharles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species opened the modern era of evolutionary thinking. The very name of his book suggests that as we look back in time, we should see fewer kinds of animals. Darwin led many people to think that there should be a g...
Continue ReadingOne mystery that has intrigued humans for thousands of years is the location of the Garden of Eden. Even Sunday school children stare at maps and carefully read Genesis 2:8 14, trying to locate it. But when we wonder where the Garden of Eden was, there ar...
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