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Iguanas that Grow Larger and Smaller

Wed, Dec 9 Listen

Jeremiah 31:2: "Thus says the LORD: 'The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to give him rest.'" What do you do when food resources are scarcer than normal for an extended period of time? People not getting enough nutrition lose weight and eventually muscle mass. It would really make more sense to proportionately shrink your body size. After all, children require fewer calories than adults. It appears that this is just what marine iguanas and...

The Stinking Poison Bird

Tue, Dec 8 Listen

Acts 14:2: "But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brethren." The hooded pitohuis is an evil-smelling, blue jay-sized bird that is native to New Guinea. The bird has been known to science since 1827, but they held a secret that only began to be uncovered in 1989. An American graduate student made the discovery while studying another local bird -- the bird of paradise. Unfortunately, hooded pitohuis kept getting caught in his nets. As he released...

Poison-Eating Insects

Mon, Dec 7 Listen

Psalm 71:17: "O God, You have taught me from my youth; and to this day I declare Your wondrous works." St. John's-wort or Klamath weed is not native to North America. Until it was brought from Europe in colonial times, North American insects had never seen the plant. St. John's-wort quickly spread because it was poisonous and thus not eaten by most insects. The plant manufactures a poison called hypericin that is activated by light. This poison is powerful enough to kill even livestock that...

Australian Dinosaurs

Fri, Dec 4 Listen

Ezekiel 32:2b: "… you are like a monster in the seas, bursting forth in your rivers, troubling the waters with your feet, and fouling their rivers." If the biblical account of history is true, then man and dinosaurs lived at the same time. Some believe that this accounts for the almost universal legends of dragons. In many parts of the world, these legends were passed orally from generation to generation. Unfortunately, it takes only a few hundred years for such legends to become distorted....

Irish Indians?

Thu, Dec 3 Listen

Matthew 28:19: "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…" It has long been debated whether Christopher Columbus or Leif Eriksson was the first European explorer to discover America. But it's beginning to look as though this debate is beside the point. One surprising clue is found in inscriptions in West Virginia. These inscriptions are in a language called Ogam. Ogam is a written, alphabetical language...

Are Rocks Like Vaults or Sponges?

Wed, Dec 2 Listen

1 Corinthians 2:7: "But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory…" One of the common methods of finding the age of rocks, and ultimately the age of the Earth, measures the decay of radioactive uranium into lead -- the more lead, the older the rock. The method, however, makes some very big assumptions. First, scientists assume there was no lead in the rock when it first formed, but this is unprovable. Then, they assume that...

Batty Cologne

Tue, Dec 1 Listen

Psalm 141:2: "Let my prayer be set before You as incense, the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice." When a young man prepares himself to meet his young lady, he slaps on a little cologne, hoping to please her. It turns out that the males of at least some species of bats do the same thing. Researchers have recently discovered how a small North American tropical bat prepares to attract and keep his harem of up to eight females. In late afternoon the bat begins a ritual that takes...

Plants Are More Complex than Evolutionists Thought

Mon, Nov 30 Listen

Job 42:2: "I know that You can do everything, and that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You." According to those who believe that all living things are a result of evolution, life evolved from simple to complex. Plants, which are simpler than animals, are believed to have evolved before animals. When we started learning about the genetic codes of living things, it was expected that plants would have simpler genetic codes than complex living things. This is turning out not to be the...

The Myth of the Walking Whale

Fri, Nov 27 Listen

Psalm 148:7: "Praise the LORD from the earth, You great sea creatures and all the depths…" Whales pose some interesting problems for those who believe that all living things slowly evolved to their present forms over millions of years. According to evolution, sea creatures gradually adapted to life on land because they could make a better living there. That's where mammals supposedly evolved. Then, for some unknown reason, some of those mammals -- Darwin said it was the bear -- decided to...

God's Healing

Thu, Nov 26 Listen

Matthew 9:12: "But when Jesus heard that, He said to them, 'Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.'" The blessings of modern medicine have saved many lives. Unfortunately, modern medicine's accomplishments have led many people to believe that good medical treatment is more important than God's healing power when you are sick. Astounding medical discoveries are being made all the time. For example, 60 percent of those with diabetes suffer nerve damage. This...

Simple to Complex or Complex to Simple?

Wed, Nov 25 Listen

Proverbs 12:5: "The thoughts of the righteous are right, but the counsels of the wicked are deceitful." A strange and beautiful family of creatures known as ammonoids nicely illustrate the illogic and lack of scientific reasoning used by defenders of evolution. While the chambered nautilus is the only species of ammonoid that exists today, the fossil record reveals hundreds of extinct species. While some, like the chambered nautilus, had relatively simple shells, others had intricately...

Your quot;Little Angelquot; Isn't

Tue, Nov 24 Listen

Psalm 51:5: "Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me." Modern psychologists and social engineers generally hold that children are born innocent. Any evil they do is learned from those around them. Based upon this notion, they advise that children should not be spanked because that spanking only teaches violence. This modern teaching contradicts the biblical teaching that we are born in original sin, inherited from Adam. Belief in original sin is accepted in...

This Serpent Bears Witness to God's Greatness

Mon, Nov 23 Listen

Psalm 145:15: "The eyes of all look expectantly to You, and You give them their food in due season." When you are a small animal whose diet could injure or even kill you, eating can be positively dangerous. That danger increases if you belong to a family of animals that normally takes minutes or even hours to swallow a victim. An adult Texas threadsnake is only about six or eight inches long, a little thicker than a strand of spaghetti and has a jaw unlike any other creature. It eats ants --...

Where Is Your Hope?

Fri, Nov 20 Listen

Romans 15:4: "For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope." Where do you find hope? Christians find their hope outside themselves in the sure promises of God in Jesus Christ. These promises are found throughout the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. But what happens to our hope when we decide to be selective about what we want to believe of the Bible's teachings and/or when we add other...

Could the Legend of the Phoenix Be Based on Fact?

Thu, Nov 19 Listen

Acts 27:12a: "And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete…" The legend of the phoenix goes back thousands of years. According to that legend, the phoenix bird lived for hundreds of years in the Arabian Desert. Then, to renew itself, it burned itself up in its own funeral pyre. It would then rise from its own ashes, renewed for several hundred...

Has the World's Oldest Shoe Store Been Found?

Wed, Nov 18 Listen

Exodus 3:5: "And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground." While evolutionists portray early man as unskilled and primitive, the Bible portrays him as skilled and sophisticated, even by today's standards. Martin Luther, in describing Adam before the fall, said that we today would probably consider him to be a type of superman. The Bible's view of ancient man was supported when researchers found a collection of 18...

How Long Does it Take to Make a Fossil?

Tue, Nov 17 Listen

2 Samuel 22:47: "The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation!" How long does it take to make a fossil? Walk through just about any museum and you will find fossils with explanations saying that they are quot;millions of years old.quot; Many people find this claim plausible since the fossils are often from creatures very different from those we see today. And for many people, this is convincing evidence that the story of the evolution of life...

The Most Bitter Substances in the World

Mon, Nov 16 Listen

Proverbs 27:7: "The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet." At least one ninth of all 900 species of gourds produce chemicals known as cucurbiticins. The 10 cucurbiticins so far identified are the most bitter substances known to human taste. In tests, subjects were able reliably to identify amounts as diluted at one part per billion! Cucurbiticins are also poisonous. Livestock have been known to die from eating gourds containing the chemical. But...

Magnetic Monarchs

Fri, Nov 13 Listen

Psalm 89:12: "The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name." Scientists have always wondered whether monarch butterflies have built in compasses to help them in their fantastic migrations. After wintering in Mexico, monarchs head to their northern breeding ranges in the eastern United States and Canada. Flying 1,000 miles a day and never having seen their breeding range, they find it every year. By the time they begin their migration south, they...

How Do You Make Sweet?

Thu, Nov 12 Listen

Psalm 119:103: "How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!" How do you make something that is sweet? For that matter, how do you make any taste? We're not talking about adding sugar to a recipe. Let's say that God provided you with all the atoms of the various elements you needed to make a molecule that tastes sweet. If you were to make such a molecule, you would need to know the construction of the sweet taste receptors on your tongue. You would need to...

Trilobite Eyes

Wed, Nov 11 Listen

Romans 1:20a: "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made…" A tiny parasitic insect has eyes and a lifestyle that are unique among living things. Actually, only the male members of the species Xenos peckii have eyes. The females spend their short lives inside the paper wasps they infest and don't have eyes. After a male hatches inside a wasp, it emerges from the wasp and uses its entire two hour adult...

Research Challenges quot;Survival of the Fittestquot;

Tue, Nov 10 Listen

Jeremiah 31:2: "Thus saith the LORD: The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest." Charles Darwin popularized the phrase quot;survival of the fittest.quot; Ever since, this idea that evolutionary change is driven by the necessity of survival has been essential to the idea of evolution. Evolutionists examine each feature of a plant or animal to try to determine why that feature evolved to help the creature survive....

The Ancients Could Have Moved the Saturn V Rocket!

Fri, Nov 6 Listen

Job 38:36: "Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?" We look at Egypt's pyramids and wonder how the ancients built these great structures. Such questions are really about the source of man's intelligence and creativity. Were intelligence and creativity created within us by an ultimately intelligent and creative God, or are these a result of blind evolutionary forces? In the ancient city that the Greeks called Heliopolis, the Romans converted...

A Brain to See God's Handiwork

Thu, Nov 5 Listen

Acts 17:29: "Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device." One of the most difficult problems for those who believe that we are the product of millions of years of evolution is the human brain. The human brain has ten billion times 25,000 neural connections. If you work it out, this means that a miracle would have to take place if we evolved from an ape like creature on the time...

We Live in a Puff of Smoke

Wed, Nov 4 Listen

Matthew 24:30a: "And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn…" Classical evolutionary cosmology has the universe coming into being through a giant explosion of matter and energy called the Big Bang. The question that modern physics has struggled with for years asks whether there is enough mass in the universe to cause it to stop expanding at some point. Would the universe begin to collapse in on itself at some time in the...

The Amazing Leaf Miner

Tue, Nov 3 Listen

Mark 13:28: "Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near." If you live in a climate where fall brings colors to the leaves before they fall, you've probably noticed something strange. Once the leaves start to fall, the ground is littered with their color. But among all those fading leaves, you might find a perfectly healthy looking green leaf. That green leaf is probably the work of one of God's more amazing tiny...

The Secular Benefits of Christianity

Mon, Nov 2 Listen

Proverbs 11:11: "By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked." The Bible teaches that believers bring God's blessings to even the unbelievers who live around them. For example, the Lord blessed Potiphar's entire household because Joseph was placed in charge of it. Yet, enemies of Christianity, especially secular humanists, almost never grant that Christians bring blessings to those among whom they live. Recently, Guenter Lewy of the...

The Largest Plant Cell Ever?

Sun, Nov 1 Listen

Genesis 1:28a: "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it…" One wouldn't think that algae would be very interesting. We've all seen the stuff wherever there is water. But researchers have recently discovered an algae that would make a good star in a horror movie. The algae known as Caulerpa taxifolia was first seen in 1984 off the coast of Monaco. It covered only about a square yard of sea bottom, but it covered it...

The Red Eyed Sniper Fish

Fri, Oct 30

Genesis 1:20a: "And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life…" The fish known as the loose jaw or dragon fish has been found to have some remarkable abilities. At most 10 inches long, this deep-sea fish lives at depths between 1,500 and 4,500 feet. At these depths, the only light that gets through the water is a dim blue light. As a result, sighted creatures that live at those depths can see well in dim blue light, but virtually none of them can...

Did Ancient Man Make Artificial Basalt?

Thu, Oct 29 Listen

Genesis 4:22a: "And Zillah, she also bare Tubal cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron." The fertile land around the second millennium B.C. city of Mashkanshapir provided little stone for building. Excavators of the city, which is in modern Iraq, believe they have discovered the ancient Mesopotamians' ingenious solution to this problem. They made rock. Their conclusion is based on the nature of what researchers first thought was natural basalt, which was evidently used to...

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