Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools… Michael Ruse famously told Ben Stein that complex lifeforms could have begun as “molecules on the backs of crystals”. The reason for his comments was that Stein was questioning Ruse on...

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Ephesians 5:6aLet no man deceive you with vain words… In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, there is a famous scene where Hamlet is talking to Polonius. Hamlet – for various reasons too complicated to go into now – is feigning madness. Poloniu...

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Proverbs 8:19My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver. Gold is a chemical element, with the symbol Au. It has an atomic mass of 197 and an atomic number of 79. It is a yellow-colored metal, highly malleable, duc...

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Psalm 8:3When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; Comets are fascinating things. Although there are a lot of them out there in our night sky, the overwhelming majority of them are insufficient...

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Isaiah 40:22 “It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:” A number of Christians have, in the...

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Genesis 11:9Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. Those of us with a Western-centric background often c...

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Genesis 25:7-8And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years. Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people. A...

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Job 12:7But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: One of the many delights of moving to the Pacific North West of the United States has been getting acquainted with hummingbirds. Watching wildli...

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  • The Unique Bdellas
    Scientists describe the creatures as mean, greedy and anti-social. They are also impressive chemists. That’s some reputation for a creature whose lifespan is only four hours. The short form of this microscopic creature’s name is simply bdella. Bdellas are predatory bacteria that live in fresh and salt water as well as in sewage. In the […]

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