Esther 1:11 “To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.” In Italian, its name means beautiful woman. The belladonna plant first received this name...
Continue Reading1 John 1:7 “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” “Leaves of three, let them be.” “One, two, three … don...
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.” I’m not much of a coffee drinker, but after hea...
Continue ReadingRevelation 21:4“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.” Bacteria and fungi form biofilms on ...
Continue ReadingEcclesiastes 4:9“Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.” We all know that there is strength in numbers. Many animals have even discovered this and, for example, migrate in large herds. However, one would nev...
Continue ReadingEzekiel 47:12b“…and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.” When they have a headache or perhaps a toothache, many people take an aspirin. It turns out that many plants do almost the same thing when they ...
Continue Reading1 John 1:9“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” Perhaps you have a self-cleaning oven in your kitchen, and if you have small children in your house, you’ve p...
Continue ReadingExodus 37:29“And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.” Plant seeds are distributed by a number of ingenious methods, including wind, water, mammals and birds. Plants tha...
Continue ReadingMatthew 6:28“And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin…” The peace and serenity of North America’s spruce forests is occasionally broken by little othe...
Continue ReadingGenesis 8:17“Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh … that they may breed abundantly in the earth…” A surprising number of living things mimic other living things. We have done a number of program...
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