Song of Solomon 2:11-12“For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over [and] gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing [of birds] is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land…” At the end of winter, when ...

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Psalm 103:15“[As for] man, his days [are] as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.” There are a wide variety of decorative and ornamental plants that go by the popular name “elephant ears” because of their very large ...

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Genesis 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.” When God designed the mistletoe, He brought the ...

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Psalm 1:1, 3“Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit ...

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Psalm 104:24a “O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all…” The exotic Venus flytrap is an insect-catching plant and a wonder of God’s engineering. For example, these meat-eating plants usually live in mi...

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Job 14:7, 9 “For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. [Yet] through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.” Is it silly to speak...

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Psalm 72:18 “Blessed [be] the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.” The Norfolk Island Pine Tree is an example of God’s imaginative creativity. The Norfolk Island Pine is a member of a family called “monkey ...

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Psalm 93:5 “Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.” As we learn more about God’s creation, we find that a number of things we learned in school aren’t really true, and never were. We learned...

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Psalm 96:12-13a“Let the field be joyful, and all that [is] therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord.” Can trees communicate with each other? Psalm 96 speaks about the “trees of the woods rejoicing”, and...

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Psalm 148:7-8 “Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word…” God created this world, but He did not then stand back and let it and all life on it spin off into spac...

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  • The Unique Bdellas
    Scientists describe the creatures as mean, greedy and anti-social. They are also impressive chemists. That’s some reputation for a creature whose lifespan is only four hours. The short form of this microscopic creature’s name is simply bdella. Bdellas are predatory bacteria that live in fresh and salt water as well as in sewage. In the […]

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