Volume 181 – Creation Moments

A Lesson from an Hourglass

Genesis 5:5,8Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died….Thus all the days of Seth were 912 years, and he died…. Calculating the age of the earth, from empirical data, requires presuppositions. The scientists, who calculat...

Lamech

1 John 3:12We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous. Lamech was the great great great grandson of Cain, the world’s fir...

The World Before the Flood

Genesis 4:20-22And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle. And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instru...

Climate Change and the Bible

Genesis 8:21-22 “And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any mo...

Does Global Warming Cause Animals to Shrink?

The Northwest Passage

Genesis 8:22 “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” The Northwest Passage is, in many ways, the stuff of legends. It is the idea that there could be a shi...

Thoroughly Modern Lamprey

Genesis 1:20aAnd God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life. Lampreys are very odd creatures. They are fish, and hence are vertebrates. However, they have no jaw, so many species of lamprey are parasitic, burrowing ...

Did Apes Evolve to Eat More Fruit?

Genesis 2:16-17And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Brit...

Something New Under the Sun

Ecclesiastes 1:9The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. There are some who think that the book of Ecclesiastes is a depressing book. The writer&mdash...

Focus on This

Proverbs 20:12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them. I need to wear my glasses for distance vision. I read books just with my eyes, but I cannot see things far away clearly. Inside your eye, there is a lens, which focus...