Genesis 1:20 “And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.” Like so many children over the last century, I was given a book about dinosau...
Continue ReadingGenesis 49:9 “Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?” Only two members of the cat family are mentioned in the Bible: lions and leopards...
Continue ReadingProverbs 6:6 “Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:” There are certain occasions in the Bible when we are directed to look at the behavior or traits of an animal and are asked to learn an important lesson from them, behavioral ...
Continue ReadingGenesis 17:8 “Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.” Social insects seldom, if ever, tolerate other species within their c...
Continue ReadingProverbs 20:12 “The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the LORD has made both of them.” Did you know that if you stared at an object with absolutely no eye movement you would eventually go blind? Actually, it is impossible to stare at anything without so...
Continue Reading2 Samuel 5:7 “Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion that is, the City of David.“ The Bible portrays Jerusalem as an established city of some importance even at the time of Abraham. Yet many Biblical scholars describe Jerusalem as, at best, an...
Continue ReadingEphesians 2:13 “But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been made near by the blood of Christ.” One of the early evidences for evolution, at one time found in almost every school textbook, was based upon the salt content of human blood ...
Continue Reading2 Corinthians 1:11 “…you also helping together in prayer for us, that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the gift granted to us through many.” Blister beetles of California’s Mojave Desert depend on solitary bees for the...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:21 “So God created . . . every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. “ During his visit to the Galapagos Islands Charles Darwin saw that each island was populated by a little finch. These birds were all very simila...
Continue ReadingPsalm 147:16-17 “He gives snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes; He casts out His hail like morsels; who can stand before His cold?” Over 2,000 years ago, Aristotle wrote about red snow. Today, red, orange and even green snow has been found...
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