Genesis 8:22 “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” A recent science article in the UK’s Telegraph newspaper suggested that grizzly bears may have dropped their...
Continue ReadingGenesis 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 14:25 “And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.” What happens if a man tries to walk on water? The answer is that his feet would sink into the water. Of course, it is possible for people to float. This is ...
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 1:24 “And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.” God made animals according to their kind. We refer to these kinds as baramins ...
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 ReadingGenesis 6:8 “But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.” Genesis 1:1 is pretty cool. It tells us that God made the world, the universe, and everything from nothing. It is a verse that gives the lie to all the great philosophies of the modern age. Y...
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