2 Samuel 5:7 “Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion that is, the City of David.“ The Bible portrays Jerusalem as an established city of some importance even at the time of Abraham. Yet many Biblical scholars describe Jerusalem as, at best, an...
Continue ReadingEphesians 2:13 “But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been made near by the blood of Christ.” One of the early evidences for evolution, at one time found in almost every school textbook, was based upon the salt content of human blood ...
Continue Reading2 Corinthians 1:11 “…you also helping together in prayer for us, that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the gift granted to us through many.” Blister beetles of California’s Mojave Desert depend on solitary bees for the...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:21 “So God created . . . every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. “ During his visit to the Galapagos Islands Charles Darwin saw that each island was populated by a little finch. These birds were all very simila...
Continue ReadingPsalm 147:16-17 “He gives snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes; He casts out His hail like morsels; who can stand before His cold?” Over 2,000 years ago, Aristotle wrote about red snow. Today, red, orange and even green snow has been found...
Continue Reading1 Timothy 6:20 “O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called.”. During a radio interview on the BBC, Richard Dawkins once said, “The view that all living orga...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:25 “And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.” An article in the Los Angeles Times about a recent fossil find...
Continue ReadingJoshua 4:6 “That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?” How old is the world’s oldest fossil? The problem is that the term “oldest” implies a...
Continue ReadingGenesis 8:22 “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” Every year, more and more articles appear in print and on the web concerning the effects of climate cha...
Continue ReadingPsalm 8:3-4 “When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?” Astronomers have apparently witnessed a...
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