- Series:God’s Design, Transcript English
Isaiah 44:24b
“I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;”
Number eleven in Science News magazine’s top 25 top stories of the year 2014 was the discovery of thousands of microbe varieties lurking in the rivers and lakes beneath Antarctica’s massive ice sheet.
Though research teams from Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States have been looking for life under Antarctica’s ice since 1999, it was the US team that eventually found and identified genetic traces of nearly four thousand microbial species or species groups.
According to a member of the US team, “The abundance of bacteria and single-celled organisms called archaea was a surprise.” Project scientist Bruce Christner said that the number of microbes they discovered was comparable to what you would expect to find in a typical surface lake or ocean.
At this point I must say that creationists have always expected to find many signs of life under the ice sheets of Antarctica. After all, creationists know that Antarctica had a more temperate climate before the worldwide flood of Noah’s time.
But to project scientist Bruce Christner, the abundance of life under Antarctica’s ice is proof of something else. He thinks it bolsters the idea that life exists elsewhere in the solar system such as under Mars’ polar ice caps or in a subsurface ocean on Jupiter’s frozen moon Europa!
Will scientists never stop this foolishness? When they fail to find life on Mars and Europa, will they finally admit that the Earth alone was created by God to support life? Not likely!
Prayer: Heavenly Father, I pray you will break the stony hearts of unbelievers so that they will see the Earth as Your special creation, teeming with life that You began on days five and six of Creation Week. Amen.
Ref :”Life thrives under Antarctica,” Science News, 12/27/14, p. 23. Photo: Archaea were first found in extreme environments, such as volcanic hot springs. (PD)
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