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Job 12:8“Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.” It was a nice day on a tropical reef in what is now Western Australia when an armored fish began to give birth. Before she could finis...

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Psalm 20:1“The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee….” The potter wasp is a solitary wasp that makes a mud nest with several rooms in it. At egg-laying time, the wasp lays one egg in each cavity ...

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Psalm 147:4“He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.” Homer, the blind Greek poet, spoke of Odysseus’s return to Ithaca and describes some astronomical events that seldom happen in the order he describes. Y...

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John 3:14“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up….” The Tiger Keelback snake has a bite that delivers slow-acting venom and prevents the victim’s blood from clotting. An adult...

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Revelation 21:4“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.” Bacteria and fungi form biofilms on ...

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Psalm 94:9“He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see?” It turns out that not all creatures need eyes to see light. It all depends on what the creatures were designed to do. The roundworm, C. elegans, ...

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Ecclesiastes 4:9“Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.” We all know that there is strength in numbers. Many animals have even discovered this and, for example, migrate in large herds. However, one would nev...

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1 Kings 19:9“And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him….” Cavemen. The very word conjures images of bearskin clothing, wooden clubs and perhaps some simple stone tools. We think of t...

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Psalm 104:27“These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.” It was once thought that only man used tools. However, scientists have learned that some monkeys and even some birds use “tools.” Now we c...

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Matthew 22:37“Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.” Without a doubt the brain is a marvelous organ, although there is still a great deal to learn about how it w...

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