Matthew 6:26“Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them.” Most people know that if they are stranded at sea without fresh water they should not drink sea wa...
Continue ReadingGenesis 27:27a“And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him….” Can mammals that spend time in the water smell odors under water? Of course they can, but no researcher is going to take a big s...
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 ReadingGenesis 3:15“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” We were once told that tool use is what separates man from the animals. Then it was di...
Continue Reading2 Corinthians 11:14“And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.” When one thinks of clever creatures, moths are probably not the first creature that come to mind – in fact, they probably don’t come to mi...
Continue ReadingGenesis 9:3“Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.” “You are what you eat.” We’ve all heard the saying. It doesn’t mean that if you eat a lot of chicken...
Continue ReadingRomans 8:21“Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.” There is a species of ant that, although quite small, makes slaves of yet smaller ants. This slav...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:21“And God created … every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.” Countless television programs, museums, textbooks, and popular articles tell us that the birds evolved from dinosaurs. It now appears that th...
Continue ReadingJob 7:17“What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?” We have all heard the claims – and school textbooks love to include it – that humans and chimpanzees are about 99 percent gen...
Continue ReadingJob 9:10“Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.” A peregrine falcon diving toward its prey reaches a relative speed of 200 body- lengths per second. This is close to the 207 body-lengths that the space shut...
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