Volume 185 – Creation Moments

Does It Look Old?

Deuteronomy 33:15 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills. One lady who approached me after one of my presentations said, “God made the Earth 10,000 years ago, but he made it look like it was m...

Counting Lead Atom by Atom

Psalm 77:5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. Suppose your friend has a bag of M&Ms. She is counting each color separately. You have five orange M&Ms, and you add them to her mix. But this stops her being able to count ...

The Stars Died

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? The atheist physicist Lawrence Krauss believes he ha...

Abandoned at Coldwater

Psalm 23:1-2 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. Coldwater Lake in Washington State looks so pretty, nestled between the mountains. This scene of tranquility is very...

Gold Revisited

Psalm 119:72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. Gold must be one of the most remarkable elements in the Periodic Table. Its chemical symbol is Au, its atomic number is 79, and its atomic mass is 196.967. It is a lust...

Good Old CO2

Matthew 5:45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Carbon dioxide is a wonderful gas. It occurs in the atmosphere at an ave...

James Ussher’s Education

Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it James Ussher is famous, or infamous, depending on your point of view, for his work on creation. It was Ussher who calculated that the Earth was created ...

James Ussher’s Legacy

2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. The years between 1639 and 1651 were times of great turbulence in the British Isles as a series of deadly conflicts were ...

Frankincense

Matthew 2:11 And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. As a child, ...

Why Do We Get New Species?

Genesis 1:24-25 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, ...