Psalm 104:1-2 “Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:” Most people have heard of red sh...
Continue ReadingJob 9:8 “Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.” In a number of places in the Bible, we learn that God has stretched the heavens. For example, in Isaiah 40:22, we read “[God] stretches out the heavens like a c...
Continue ReadingHebrews 6:11 “And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:” When I was a student at the University of Nottingham reading chemistry, there was some graffiti in a locker room adjacent to the ...
Continue ReadingHebrews 11:6 “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him” From an early age, Charles Darwin’s mother, Sukey, took him to church. Tha...
Continue ReadingExodus 20:16 “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.” One recent biography described Charles Darwin during his childhood as “a compulsive liar”. He continued thus: “The solipsism and the dishonesty would scarcely be worth menti...
Continue ReadingPsalm 62:6 “He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.” Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem Jabberwocky, in Alice through the Looking Glass, begins thus: Twas bryllyg, and the slythy toves Did gyre and gymble in the wab...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:3 “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” I am always fascinated by the ingenuity of early science experimenters who made amazing discoveries. For instance, in 1850, the French scientist Léon Foucault created an experiment ...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:5b “And the evening and the morning were the first day.” Less than an hour’s drive from where I live is the large city of Portland, Oregon. At the Oregon Convention Center in that city is the world’s largest Foucault’s Pendulum. Many m...
Continue ReadingEcclesiastes 10:18 “By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.” In Ecclesiastes 10:18, Qohelet, the book’s author, says: “Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through indolence the hou...
Continue ReadingIsaiah 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.” Have you heard of t...
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