Today's Creation Moment

In our rapidly modernizing world, engineers are kept busy solving problems. Take, for example, all of the various kinds of transportation. There are millions of problems in this area alone that keep engineers busy inventing better solutions. Illustration: Sagittal section of right knee joint. (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Ants love to work and live in sunlight. They will spend hours clearing their little backyards of leaves and even plants and shrubs. Ants are also known to wander far from their local area. One scientist from the University of California tagged ants with colored dyes and then watched their meanderings. No matter how far they wandered, they didn't seem to get lost. Photo: Leaf-cutter ant by Charles Sharp CC BY SA 4.0 © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Do evolutionists believe that life always becomes more complex and sophisticated? Does evolution ever go backward? Photo: French-born Belgian paleontologist Louis Dollo (1857-1931). © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Have you ever noticed that many who believe in evolution depict early humans as so primitive that they had to live in caves while many kinds of animals build much more sophisticated shelters? This inconsistent thinking is built on the evolutionary assumption that intelligence, like everything else, has evolved. Creatures that evolutionists think evolved much earlier must be less intelligent. Ref: Timm, Robert M., and Barbara L. Clauson. 1990. "A roof over their feet." Natural History, Mar. p. 55. Photo: Common tent-making bats (Uroderma bilobatum) in the gardens of the Arenal Nayara Hotel, Costa Rica by Charles Sharp CC By SA 3.0 © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

The entire forty-first chapter of the book of Job describes a creature called "leviathan." As in his earlier description of "behemoth," the Lord is impressing Job with the wisdom and might of His creating power. Photo: Restoration of Tylosaurus proriger with a tail fluke by Dmitry Bogdanov CCA 3.0 © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Most of us have heard of plants like the Venus flytrap and the pitcher plant, which eat meat, even if we've never seen one. But did you know that there are mushrooms that also eat meat? Photo: Courtesy of Jean-Pol Grandmont, Sept. 2006_CCA BY SA 3.0. © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Some Christians believe that God's words in Genesis 1:3, "Let there be light" are a biblical description of the Big Bang that some scientists say created the universe. But, perhaps, we Christians should be a little more careful about assuming that modern science knows very much about the origin of the universe. Ref: "Galaxy clumps may shed light on cosmic creation." Minneapolis Star Tribune, Feb. 23, 1990. Photo: Sloan Great Wall courtesy of Willem Schaap and licensed under GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2. © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

For generations it was a rule that reptiles were cold-blooded. And turtles, being reptiles, were therefore called cold-blooded as well. Being cold-blooded, it was expected that the body temperature of turtles would be close to that of the surrounding water. Ref: Discovery. Bible Science Newsletter, Apr. 1973, p. 2. Image; Leatherback turtle. (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

We have all seen it many times. A mother walking in a crowd with a small child loses track of her child and begins calling and searching for the little one. But can you imagine a crowd of 70 million mothers and children all looking for each other? Ref: "Some mothers don't forget their children." Science 84, June. p. 8. Image: Mexican Free-tailed bat (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

We all learned about photosynthesis at school. For this particular chemical reaction to take place, you need the chemical chlorophyll together with the essential ingredient, sunlight. For thousands of years, man has known that for green plants to prosper, they need the sunlight. Ref: Discover, 1/06, p. 36, Anne Sasso, "Photosynthesizing Life-Form Exists Without Sunlight." Image: White smokers at Champagne Vent, Eifuku, Japan . (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

While many creatures create structured music – shall we say, songs? – it was thought that only man makes use of objects in the environment to get specific tone qualities. In other words, it was thought only man makes musical instruments. That claim has now been challenged by a frog! Ref: Science News, 12/7/02, p. 356, S. Milius, "Frogs Play Tree." Photo: Bornean Tree-Hold Frog by Arshiya Urveeja Bose CCA 2.0 (Wikipedia) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Scientists have long known that ants lay down scent trails, using pheromones, to mark the trail to goodies for their nest mates. While this is an efficient method for food gathering, it has been found that when a food source is exhausted, the ants leave a "Do not enter" sign that saves fellow ants from wasting time on this trail. Ref: Science News, 11/26/05, pp. 340-342, S. Milius, "Unway Sign." Illustration: Leaf cutter ans by Pjt56 (Wikimedia CC BySA 4.0) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

All green plants, some algae, and even some bacteria are able to make food out of nothing more than air, water, light and a few minerals. The process is called photosynthesis, and without it we would run out of food to eat as well as oxygen to breathe. Image: Ivy on trellis. Courtesy of R.J. Michaud © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Each one of us can learn about God's way of working with us from a fresh water snail that is often preyed upon by crayfish. Ref: "Snail's pace picks up if hunted; it gets bigger and lives longer." Minneapolis Star Tribune, Feb. 24, 1990. Photo: Fresh water snails by Jess Van Dyke CCA 3.0 US © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Throughout the centuries, people have noticed, whether or not they believed in a Creator, that there is a mathematically precise structure to the universe and everything in it. Ref: Murchie, Guy. 1979. "The exquisite mathematics of nature." Science Digest, Apr. p. 48. Photo: Oak tree foliage and acorns. Courtesy of Nick Shaforostoff. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

If all life evolved from, and is related to, earlier forms of life, then closely related animals should also have similar kinds of chemicals in their bodies. As the science of biochemistry has grown, those who believe in evolution have held high hopes that creatures that look similar to each other would also have similar chemicals. For example, insulin from a shark should be more like insulin from other fish than insulin from mammals. Notes: Illustration: Relaxin 1 protein hormone. (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Most of us have heard a few of the theories that are offered to explain how birds are able to migrate for thousands of miles to an exact spot. The arctic tern migrates 22,000 miles a year to winter in the same spot where it wintered the previous year. But most birds seem to have this amazing ability even if they don't use it as often or to travel as far. Ref: Cook, Patrick. "How do birds find where they're going?" Science 84. p. 26. Image: P puffinus griseus (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

On Creation Moments we regularly look at unusual plants and animals that show the unlimited inventiveness of our Creator. Unusual living things are also fascinating because, since they are clearly unrelated to any other living things, each one is a challenge to evolutionary theory, which says that every living thing is related to other living things. Ref: "Very small flower found in Mexican jungle has its sex orientation reversed." Minneapolis Star Tribune, Feb. 4, 1990. p. 5E. Image: Photo: Diagram of a typical mature flower. (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

The eye, with its incredibly sensitive color vision, is increasingly being recognized as a marvel as we learn more about how it works. The eye is able to detect the smallest measure of light known to physicists. These units are called photons. Notes: Discover, 1/06, p. 36, Anne Sasso, "Photosynthesizing Life-Form Exists Without Sunlight." Image: White smokers at Champagne Vent, Eifuku, Japan. (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

We at Creation Moments are often asked, where do evolutionists get all those millions of years? It seems they are always finding rocks and fossils that are tens or hundreds of thousands or even millions of years old. Notes: Jackson, Wayne. 1990. "Scientific red faces." Reasoning from Revelation, v. II, n. 1, Jan. p. 3. Image: US Army Star emblem. (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Because we were created by God who values communication and has always desired to communicate with us, we are born with the natural ability to learn and to speak language. Those who believe in evolution usually disbelieve that humans have the natural mental ability to speak, since they think both the ability to speak and language itself evolved. Ref: Kobren, Gerri. 1990. "Tots assemble building blocks of language." Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jan. 20. p. 1E. Image: Baby with toys (Pixabay.com) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

There is a common sense saying in science that when anything can serve as an explanation to support a theory, the theory is not scientific. Image: Pink elephant (Pixabay.com) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Can the dead come back to life? While many scientists assure us that they cannot, the empty grave of Christ assures us that in Him everyone who trusts in His saving work on the cross of Calvary will live bodily with Him forever. When modern science tries to raise doubts about the bodily resurrection of Christ, just keep in mind that science cannot even explain the miracle of the seed. Ref: Pope, Jon Cedar. 1979. "Carrying an immature plant through time and space." Science Digest, May. p. 60. Photo: Lotus seeds. (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Historical science is one branch of human knowledge that consistently supports the biblical record. Notes: Corliss, William R. 1983. "Tornados, Dark Days, Anomalous Precipitation, and Related Weather Phenomena." Glen Arm, MD: The Sourcebook Project. p. 31. Photo: "The Crucifixion" by Simon Vouet (1590-1649). © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Many of the features of the Earth's surface have been formed by the cutting and eroding action of moving water. When you think about how hard rock is compared to water, it's easy to believe that it must have taken hundreds of thousands or even millions of years for water to shape the land. This ignorance about how rapidly water cuts rock has cost people their lives. Notes: Photo: Memorial in the memory of all who died in 2004 Tsunami at the Kanyakumari Beach, India. © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

On Creation Moments, we often challenge evolution with examples that show that the creation is carefully and lovingly designed by the Creator. Many of these evidences leave evolutionists silent and unable to respond. But one evidence for design is so powerful, it almost seems unfair for creationists to mention it. Yet they do, as in one release from scientists at the Institute for Creation Research. Ref: DeYoung, Don, and Richard Bliss. 1990. "Thinking about the brain." ICR Impact. Feb. p. 1. . Photo: Portrait of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913). © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Do you realize that the Bible's own arguments have been stolen by evolutionary scientists in their attempt to prove that there are no such things as miracles? It's past time that Christians reclaim those arguments in order to deflate the doubt that has been created. Notes: Bartz, Paul A. 1990. “The Bible teaches a predictable world – but not naturalism.” Bible Science Newsletter, Mar. p. 10. Painting: “Elijah Resuscitating the Son of the Widow of Zarephath” by Louis Hersent (1777-1862) (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

One mystery that has intrigued humans for thousands of years is the location of the Garden of Eden. Even Sunday school children stare at maps and carefully read Genesis 2:814, trying to locate it. But when we wonder where the Garden of Eden was, there are other passages in the Bible that we need to consider. Genesis 3:2324 makes it very clear that God closed the Garden to humans – meaning no one could ever go back. Image: Painting – The Garden of Eden by Thomas Cole (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Did you ever wonder why, while there are lots of round and cylindrical living things, there are almost no square plants or animals? Why isn't there any animal that has a skeleton made out of metal? And while there are so many ways for living things to move about, why do almost none of them have wheels? Ref: Wickelgren, Ingrid. 1989. "The mechanics of natural success." Science News, v. 135, June 17. p. 376. Image: A composite of the skeletons of a Human and a Horse arranged into a lifelike pose, at an exhibit in the Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia. (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

For generations we have heard that people become criminals and go to prison because of their parents, friends, poverty or society itself. Yet there has always been a majority of people who come from bad homes or poor neighborhoods who have lived responsible lives. Notes: "Exposing the criminal mind." Science 84, Sept. 1984. p. 84. Image: US Disciplinary barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

As spring comes to the temperate areas of the northern hemisphere, one of the first signs of spring is the blossom of the Lion's Tooth. This bright yellow flower is also called the Irish daisy, priest's crown, peasant's cloak and yellow gowan. Its other name appears on the sides of bags of lawn care chemicals – the dandelion. Notes: "A weed by any other name." Science 83, Apr. 1983. p. 82. Image: Dandelion (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

The language is so logical and precisely structured that it is being used to create a programming language that a computer can understand. Unlike most languages of the world, this language has few irregular verbs, no prepositions and almost no exceptions to strict grammatical rules. What would take a long sentence to say in most languages can be said in only a few words in this language. Ref: "Computer application helps save an ancient language." Minneapolis Star Tribune, Feb. 24, 1990. p. 9A. Photo: Literacy class in El Alto, Bolivia.(PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

How long have people been living on Earth? The evolutionist says millions of years. Bible believing Christians generally say only about 6,000 years. But the answer to this question is amazingly simple. Ref: Weigand, Cleone H. 1985. "Morality remains the best way to stem population growth." Milwaukee Journal, Apr. 14. Map: World map (Pixabay.com) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

The water flea fills one of the lowest spots on the food chain. What this means is that even though the water flea is concerned about little else than going about his business, just about everyone else in the pond is interested in eating him. Ref: Fellman, Bruce. "Quickchange flea." Science 84. p. 76. Image: Evadne spinifera (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Evolutionists say that human beings evolved from an ape like creature. And how do they claim to know this? Because they find various kinds of apes in the fossil record. As one would expect, some of these apes are a little – and I stress, a little – more like us than others. They are all more like apes than like us. But evolutionists will tell us that those apes that are a little more like humans are evidence for evolution. Is this a logical way to think? Image: Illustrations from the Manuscript of Baburnama (Memoirs of Babur) - Late 16th Century (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Despite the fact that most microorganisms are necessary and good, throughout our lifetimes each of us encounters tens of thousands of different infectious bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites. Ref: "MIT researchers isolate masterbuilder' diseasefighting gene." Minneapolis StarTribune, Dec. 22, 1989. p. 2. Image: T-cell dependent b-cell activation, showing TH2-cell (left) B-cell (right) and several interaction molecules. (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

What would the typical living cell look like if enlarged to the size of New York City? Let's take an imaginary journey through the cell. Notes: Image: HeLa cells stained with Hoechst (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Some things don't have to be understood to be appreciated. You can enjoy the smell of dinner cooking or the scent of a rose without any idea of how your nose works. And believe it or not, you're doing just as well as the most brilliant biologist. REF.: Reyneri, Adriana. 1984. The nose knows, but science doesn't. Science 84, September. p. 26. Notes: Image: HeLa cells stained with Hoechst (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

While scientists often talk about how it takes millions of years to form oil and gas deposits, they say little about the fact that oil and natural gas are forming today in the ocean's sediments. The sediments of the Gulf of Mexico are well known examples of the rapid natural formation of petroleum deposits. In addition, oil and natural gas are seeping from petroleum deposits under the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. REF: Ocean depths harbor an ecosystem of creatures who dine on oil, natural gas.Star Tribune (Minneapolis), Dec. 31, 1989. p. 15A. Image: Oil spill clean up NOAA (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

These days we don't have to wait very long before we hear some nonsense about how flight or—more recently—space travel are but stages in human evolutionary development. As Christians we know that when Adam, the first man, is described as perfect, he is perfect in every way—spiritually, morally and intellectually. This probably explains why Scripture says that within the first few generations of human existence on earth the arts and sciences were flourishing. Notes: Photo: Courtesy of Dawoudk and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

One of the most studied but least understood organs in the human body is the brain. The human brain is the most complex arrangement of matter in the universe. There are many different theories about how the brain works, but one universally recognized fact is that the brain is more sensitive to damage than any other organ. REF.: Sobel, David. 1983. Brain selfrepair. Omni, v. 55, February. p. 39. Image: Drawing showing several important brain structures. (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species opened the modern era of evolutionary thinking. The very name of his book suggests that as we look back in time, we should see fewer kinds of animals. Darwin led many people to think that there should be a greater variety of plants and animals today than in the distant past. And, those plants and animals should be more sophisticated today. Image: Image: Palm tree by Ernst Haeckel (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

What has three eyes, lives in the sea and can swim faster than most boats can travel? No, it's not a creature from another planet. It's the porpoise. REF.: Schwarz, Joel. 1984. Porpoise secrets. Omni, v. 6:6, March. p. 37. Image: Two Dalls Porpoises (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

How would you like to live in a neighborhood where garbage was never collected and taken away? What if there was no provision in the creation for getting rid of waste? By now the earth would have become a filthy mess! REF.: Minute diners love our waste. The Province, July,12, 1989. Image: Trash can with trash (Pixabay.com) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

While evolutionary historians refer to the ages of humanity before the birth of Christ with terms like the Stone, Bronze and Iron ages, it seems that human metal working technology was much more sophisticated than these names suggest. And that fits with what Genesis 4 tells us about human history. Notes: Illustration: Drawing of Baghdad battery parts by Ironie CC BY SA 2.5 © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

One interesting way in which to help young people gain an appreciation for God's creation is to ask them to solve certain problems that the Creator Himself had to solve. REF.: Science 84, April 1984, p. 65. Image: Sunflower Seed (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

One of the most amazing things in our modern age is the scientist who thinks he can use science to judge the Bible. After all, many things accepted today as scientific fact were first taught in the Bible. Notes: Illustration: Earth's water cycle (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Many different creatures, from mice to insects, eat seeds. The tropical forest offers the greatest variety of seeds found anywhere in the world. The problem is that among this great variety are seeds that are poisonous and others that are hard as rocks. Yet even these seeds are used for food by some creatures. REF: Science 84, April 1984, p. 65. Image: Hymenaea courbaril (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Relationships among creatures who are often very different from one another are so numerous—and so intelligent—that they witness to an overall design for living things. Even evolutionists recognize this when they talk about the "grand design" of the living world. And if design is that evident, there must be a designer. But there's even more to the matter than seeing a designer. REF.: Science 84, April 1984, p. 65. Image: Kayedid (Pixabay.com) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

If we could harness all of the sun's energy that reaches the earth, we would have more than enough energy to fill all our energy needs—even if the entire world became as industrialized as the west. Yet less than .10% of all of the sun's energy output reaches the earth! What is going on within the sun to create so much energy? REF.: DeYoung, Don B., and David E. Rush. 1989. Is the sun an age indicator? Creation Research Society, Quarterly, v. 26, September. p.49. Photo: Surface of the sub – pixabay.com