Psalm 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?” Comets are fascinating objects. At their best,...
Continue ReadingPsalm 119:105 “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” There has been a tendency among some evangelicals to worry about scientific opinion. For example, there has been a drive to reinterpret Genesis in the light of evolutionary the...
Continue ReadingGenesis 12:3 “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” Genesis is one book. That might seem pretty obvious to many of you, and yet sometimes we have given the impr...
Continue ReadingGenesis 2:1 “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.” An article in the New Scientist magazine suggests that the Reformation was a spur to scientific development. In their minds, Luther was a rebel, and it was this atti...
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.” Most mammals in Australia are marsupials. That is one of the t...
Continue ReadingGenesis 7:11a “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up…” For generations cave guides have been telling cave visitor...
Continue ReadingHebrews 13:6 So we may boldly say: ‘The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me? “Survival of the fittest” is an essential principle of evolution. This principle has not only been applied to animals, but also to human b...
Continue ReadingPsalm 147:2-3 “The LORD builds up Jerusalem; He gathers together the outcasts of Israel. He heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds.” Dinosaur fossil hunters and paleontologists have long debated whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded ...
Continue ReadingIsaiah 45:18 “For thus says the LORD. Who formed the earth and made it. Who formed it to be inhabited: ‘I am the LORD, and there is no other.” The Aye-Aye is one of the strangest little monkeys on earth. Its peculiar features bear witness that i...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:28 “Then God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth…” The conventional understanding has always been that North America was populated by people who crossed from Asia to Alaska via the Bering...
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