Volume 196 – Creation Moments

Clutching at Straws in Space

Genesis 1:16 “He made the stars also.” Let’s start positively. It is fascinating to think that there are earth-sized planets orbiting other stars and that some of these may be of similar size to the Earth. We need to temper this enthusiasm by remind...

Exoplanets and Evolution

Isaiah 45:18 “For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.” I understand the ex...

Did Birds’ Lungs Evolve?

Job 39:26-27 “Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south? Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?” I remember buying a foot pump to inflate the tires on my first car. My choice was between two pu...

Feathers

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.” The Encyclopaedia Britannica describes feathers as “the component structure...

Ashes, Dust and Entropy

Genesis 1:1-2 “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” An excellent article in the New Scien...

Stone Age Monkeys

Genesis 1:24 “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 it was so. “ Douglas Adams, in his comic masterpiece The Hitchhikers’ Gui...

Does the Cat Exist?

1 Corinthians 14:33a “For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace… “ Erwin Schrödinger had a cat. Or perhaps he didn’t. At any rate, we don’t know whether it is alive or dead. Or still in the box. Confused? Let me explain. Physicist Er...

What Science?

Psalm 119:89 “For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.” When I taught science, I drilled into my students important aspects of scientific method. Take two tubes, each containing a different clear solution. We then mix the solutions, and they t...

Paul’s Adam

I Corinthians 15:21-22 “For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” I saw a video on the BioLogos website entitled Paul’s Adam. Even the title caused...

Two Creation Accounts or One?

Genesis 2:8-9 “And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the mid...