Genesis 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 en...
Continue ReadingPsalm 20:1 “May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble; may the name of the God of Jacob defend you…” You may not think of plants as being intelligent on any level since it appears that they just sort of sit in the soil and grow. However,...
Continue Reading2 Timothy 1:13 “Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.” A poll conducted by George Gallup reveals some alarming trends in Americans’ religious thinking. First, the ...
Continue ReadingHebrews 10:23 “Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;” A lot of our difficulties with the text in Genesis could be resolved if we would only have confidence in God’s word. For example, I...
Continue Reading1 Corinthians 3:19 “For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.” The Cassini-Huygens Mission, which ended in 2017, was, by any stretch of the imagination, a remarkable human achi...
Continue ReadingPsalm 104:6 “Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.” Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of the large dinosaur book that I had as a child was the large number of pictures showing large sauropods walkin...
Continue ReadingGenesis 7:11-12 “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the ear...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:7 “And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.” The Scripture tells us that “God made the expanse and separated the waters that were u...
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