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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...

The Role of Fungus in the Life of Orchids

Wed, Oct 28 Listen

Psalm 96:3: "Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people." Orchid seeds typically cannot begin life without a good fungal infection. The tiny, hard seeds cannot begin to sprout until fungal threads grow into the tiny embryo inside. This prompts sprouting because the fungus converts the nutrients stored in the seed to a form the embryo needs. Without that conversion, the seed will never sprout. The embryo cannot even absorb the water it needs without the help of the...

The Probability of Evolution

Tue, Oct 27 Listen

Job 10:12: "Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit." Evolutionists explain that life started from non-living matter in some sort of quot;primeval soup.quot; Over the years, they have presented several scenarios of how this might have happened. They have suggested isolated ponds, pools of water on the sides of volcanoes, and in the oceans. Let's consider the general mathematical principles involved in any of these scenarios. In science, the person...

Magnetic Turtles

Mon, Oct 26

Job 38:4: "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding." When it comes to sailing the seas, the compass is one of man's greatest inventions. That's why researchers were surprised to discover that some bacteria have tiny, built in compasses. But these compasses are simple affairs based on tiny bits of iron within the bacteria. Now it has been discovered that loggerhead turtles not only have a built in compass, but also use it to pinpoint...

The Miatsos' Good Memory Supports the Bible

Fri, Oct 23 Listen

Genesis 10:1: "Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood." Some people think that Noah's Flood was a local event in the ancient Near East rather than the worldwide catastrophe described in the Bible. Besides the fact that the local flood view rejects the Bible as the Word of God, there are many other problems with it as well. At least 138 cultures around the world have legends of a giant flood in which only a few...

Loving Plant Mothers

Thu, Oct 22 Listen

Genesis 1:11: "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so." Different kinds of creatures have different ways of taking care of their children. It is the father seahorse who carries the eggs until they hatch. Mother ostriches totally ignore their eggs and hatchlings, leaving all the care to father ostrich. While these examples may be odd, we would normally...

Evolving View of Neanderthal Doesn't Help Evolution

Wed, Oct 21 Listen

Genesis 4:20: "And Adah bore Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle." The first Neanderthal was discovered in 1856. Evolutionists quickly embraced it as evidence of human evolution. To promote Neanderthal as proof of human evolution, they reconstructed him to look like a human-ape cross. As more evidence accumulated over the years, Neanderthal began looking more human. His posture began to straighten, and his hair started disappearing. The look on...

Is the Earth Praising the Lord?

Tue, Oct 20 Listen

Psalm 96:11: "Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof." Every bell made has its own tone, depending on its size, shape and composition. It turns out that the Earth, too, rings like a bell. This ringing, called free oscillation, is caused by earthquakes. A powerful earthquake in Chile in 1960 with a magnitude of 9.5 left the entire Earth ringing for days afterward. As the Earth rang, its entire surface rose and fell by a centimeter every...

Chaco Canyon Mysteries and Biblical History

Mon, Oct 19 Listen

2 Timothy 3:16: "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness." What do we really know about human history? Much of ancient history was recorded by scribes who worked for the king. Their job was not necessarily to record history as it took place, but to make the king look good. Much of the West's history has, for over a century, viewed man as traveling from a primitive state to a much more...

The Molecular Computer

Fri, Oct 16 Listen

Isaiah 40:12a: "Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure?" Scientists are recognizing the similarities between the workings of the DNA code and computer science. DNA is, after all, a complex information storage system. But comparing DNA as an information storage system to our largest and fastest computers is like comparing the Space Shuttle with a bow and arrow. Harvard biologists have...

Church Attendance Can Result in a Long, Happy Life

Thu, Oct 15 Listen

Hebrews 10:25: "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." Studies show that people who attend church regularly tend to be healthier than those who don't go to church. Now, another study shows that those who attend church regularly also live longer than those who don't. Regular church attendance, as in the other studies, was defined as going to church at least once a week....

The Armored Virus

Wed, Oct 14 Listen

Ephesians 6:11: "Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." In Darwin's day, everyone thought that single celled microbes were simply bags filled with some kind of jelly. Today, of course, we know that even a single celled creature is a complex living system that contains miniaturized organs to carry on all the business of life. A new discovery now shows us that some viruses are even more elegantly complex than we thought. Viruses that...

Are You Growing New Brain Cells?

Tue, Oct 13 Listen

Psalm 107:8: "Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!" It appears that we are made even better than we thought. The human body and its systems are engineering wonders. The human brain is the most complex arrangement of matter in the universe. Now, research shows that your brain is even more wonderfully made than anyone thought. It used to be believed that the brain cells you were born with were all the brain cells you would...

B. C. - Before Columbus

Mon, Oct 12 Listen

1 Kings 9:26: "And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom." Normally, it would not be unusual to find a stone with engraving on it in South America. But a stone found in 1872 in Brazil is unusual, since Aztec, Mayan and Incan civilizations never lived in that region. Besides, the engraving on the stone was in Phoenician. Its discoverer, who did not know Phoenician, sent it to authorities who gave it to the...

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