Volume 156 – Creation Moments

"The Strange Berry"

Psalm 71:17“O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.” Sometimes it seems as if God made some creatures just to show us He could do the impossible. Many of these creatures, by their strange natu...

A Noisy, Bird Brained Harem

Job 28:20-21“Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.” Scripture frequently makes reference to the fact that birds are not very ...

This Flower Is a Real Stinker

Isaiah 40:28“Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.” Dung beetles may not be a very pleasa...

Surprising News about Your Great Grandfather

Genesis 5:2 “Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.” Has your great great-grandfather been born yet? If he hasn’t, he’s not your great great-grandfather! Th...

Not So Bird-Brained

Genesis 1:21 “And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.” How do you take a much needed ...

Unnatural Selection?

Luke 12:33“Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.” Just about every public school textbook once included the...

One Smelly Amoeba

Job 9:25-26“Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.” Not all dangerous predators can be seen. One of the most dangerous predators in...

The Importance of Good Parents

Ephesians 6:1“Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.” Do good parents undo their best efforts when they place a child in day care? Who has more influence on a child’s development when that child must be placed in day...

Glow, Little Octopus

John 8:12“Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” The deep, dark depths of the ocean are filled with many varieties of luminesce...

"Too Many Notes"

1 Chronicles 13:8“And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.” Perhaps you remember the line from the film Amad...