Volume 210 – Creation Moments

A Fascinating Parasite

Genesis 1:31 “And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” Does anyone like the parasitic worm Schistosoma? It causes a disease called Schistosomiasis, which affects the ...

Creation and Fall

Romans 8:20-21 “For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the c...

Thunderstorm

Psalm 77:18 “The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.” When I was a boy, my bedroom was on the second floor of our family house and afforded me a magnificent view southwards across t...

Jupiter in Collision

Jude 1:13 “Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. “ In the previous few months as I write this script, the planet Jupiter has been featured heavily in items on sci...

Jupiter Weather Forecast

Psalm 107:29-30 “He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.” Here is the weather forecast for the surface of the planet Jupiter for today. It...

Galileo Galilei

Psalm 8:1 “O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.” “We don’t know much about Galileo,” quipped comedian Milton Jones, “except that he was a poor boy from a poor ...

Ganymede

Psalm 19:1 “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.” There are many strange worlds in the Solar System. Ganymede is one of Galileo’s moons – one of the four larger moons of Jupiter, discovered by pionee...

Playing Ducks with Drake

Isaiah 55:12 “For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.” In 1961, the astronomer Frank Drake invented the ...

Climate Change Is Good for British Birds

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.” Every day there seems to be a news story about climate change. Notice that they always call it climate change ...

Jupiter’s Moons: What’s in a Name?

Genesis 1:16b “He made the stars also…” Somewhere, hidden deep in a box in a storeroom, is a book about the planets, written and presented to me by a TV astronomer in Britain. In the section about Jupiter, it informs me that the Solar System’...