John 15:5 “I am the vine, ye [are] the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.” Two groups of tropical vines rely for reproduction on the world’s only known spe...
Continue ReadingExodus 15:11 “Who [is] like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who [is] like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful [in] praises, doing wonders?” There are at least four known types of orchids that effectively pretend to be female insects. They a...
Continue Reading1 Thessalonians 5:8 “But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.” Many plants, especially orchids, offer different ploys to fool insects into pollinating the...
Continue ReadingJudges 13:18 “And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it [is] secret?” Many plants reproduce simply by cloning. The most obvious example of cloning that comes to mind is the dandelion. Unless you get...
Continue ReadingJob 12:9-11 “Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this? In whose hand [is] the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?” The Venus flytr...
Continue ReadingMatthew 6:11 “Give us this day our daily bread.” Late at night, in hundreds of thousands of homes around the country, people are watching a bewildering array of monster movies. In these films, shadowy and not-so-shadowy monsters attack, posses...
Continue ReadingGenesis 2:10 “And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.” Some people have the green thumb in their family. Others may complain that they fail with plants because plants donR...
Continue ReadingPsalm 148:7, 9-10 “Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars: Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl.” Much of the world’s surface is covered by ...
Continue ReadingJob 38:4 “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.” Every day, all over the Earth, plants engage in chemical warfare against insects and animals that would eat them. When this drama is desc...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:11 “And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.” It occurred to scientists only about 30 years a...
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