Volume 215 – Creation Moments

Voyage to Australia

Genesis 11:8-9 “So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from then...

Locusts

Joel 2:25 “And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.” It comes as quite a surprise to discover that the word locust does not actually ...

Eating Locusts

Leviticus 11:21-22 “Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his ki...

Reading Between the Lines

Proverbs 16:33 “The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.” In these Creation Moments, we have frequently advised reading between the lines to understand the presuppositions of scientific issues, as we will often fin...

Strange Water

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.” Have you ever thoug...

Neanderthal Grand Designs

Acts 17:26 “And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation.” We have often used our Creation Moments broadcast to talk about h...

With Stringed Instruments

Psalm 3:1 “[A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.] LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.” Several of the psalms begin with the instruction “with stringed instruments”. Although this ins...

For the Flutes

Matthew 11:17 “And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.” In the previous Creation Moment, we saw how many psalms began with an instruction to play the music on stringed instruments...

Hobbits Are People Too

Psalm 139:14 “I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.” A recent BBC website report suggested that 40,000 years ago, there were three or four species of humans in the w...

The Case of the Disappearing Galaxy

Psalm 19:1-2 “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.” Once upon a time, there was a large galaxy that rejoiced in the name XMM-2599. This gal...