Today's Creation Moment

Many plants reproduce simply by cloning. The most obvious example of cloning that comes to mind is the dandelion. Unless you get all of the main dandelion root out of the ground, each piece of the root can sprout another dandelion, identical to the parent. Ref: Batten, Mary. 1983. "Sex & plants." Science Digest, Oct. p. 61. Photo: Bamboo-Pixabay.com © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Many plants, especially orchids, offer different ploys to fool insects into pollinating them. Each of these ploys shows planning, design and the ability to create the design that will work. That there are so many examples makes it impossible for any rational person to believe that mindless, impersonal forces could have made these plants. Ref: Batten, Mary. 1983. "Sex & plants." Science Digest, Oct. Photo: Orchid (ophrys speculum)by Han Braxmeyier CC0_ Pixabay.com © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

The largest known beetle in the world is the aptly named goliath beetle. This African beetle can become almost as large as a mouse. Dinosaurs were not the largest animals ever to live. The great blue whale holds that honor. The smallest mammal in the world is smaller than many insects. A newly discovered species of bat in Thailand weighs only six one-hundredths of an ounce. Ref: Wilder, Rachel. 1983. "Secrets of size." Science Digest, Sept. p. 112. Photo: Spider by Martin Winkler CC0_Pixabay.com © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Researchers are learning that bacteria have senses similar to our hearing and sight. Bacteria even have a brain that receives information from their senses. They can make decisions. However, all of this is not enough to explain how bacteria can make the decision to swim toward food. Ref: Pietsch, Paul. 1983. "The mind of a microbe." Science Digest, Oct. p. 103. Image: Bacteria by Arek Sochia CC0- -Pixabay.com © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

There are at least four known types of orchids that effectively pretend to be female insects. They are so good at this ruse that they attract the attentions of male pollinators. That there are four different varieties that do this makes it clear that this trickery isn't due to chance. The Creator does not want us to make the mistake of thinking that He doesn't exist. Ref: Batten, Mary. 1983. "Sex & plants." Science Digest, Oct. Photo: Hammer Orchid by Mark Brundett CC BY SA 3.0 © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Two groups of tropical vines rely for reproduction on the world's only known species of pollen-eating butterfly. Neither vine has very showy flowers, nor do their flowers have any scent. However, they don't need to attract pollinators because the Heliconius butterfly depends on the pollen produced by the vines for its food. So the butterflies don't go far from their food source. Ref: Batten, Mary. 1983. "Sex & plants." Science Digest, Oct. p. 61. Photo: Zebra butterfly PD © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

When lost in the forest with no clues to where to go, humans tend to go in circles. And we have brains. Amoebas, which don't have brains, somehow manage not to end up going in circles when they have no clues where to go. Ref: Science News, 3/31/07, p. 205, D.C., "How smart are amoebas?" Photo: "Amoeba Proteus, an animal consisting of a single naked cell. (PD) © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Bees depend on a good memory of their surroundings to make the thousands of trips necessary to keep their hive in operation. Each day a single bee must make trips to hundreds of flowers, some as far as a mile from the hive. Scientists have long wondered how the tiny bee can remember what may be dozens of square miles of territory. Ref: Horton, Elizabeth. 1983. "Bees as mapmakers." Science Digest, Sept. p. 90 Photo: Honey bee wiggle dance - Emmanuel Boutet CCBy SA 2.5. © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

One good test of whether a theory is scientific is whether the theory can accurately predict new and surprising findings. If you have a barometer, you may do this all the time. The sky may be clear, but the barometer is falling fast. No matter how nice the weather looks, you know that rain is likely. Photo: Barometer from Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira _CC By 4.0 © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Modern researchers are learning that bacteria are not a simple form of life. Rather, a bacterium is a tremendously complex creature that thinks. Scientists have discovered that bacteria actually have molecule-sized sensors. Some of these sensors act as eyes, while others act as ears. A dozen other proteins have been discovered that receive the information gathered by the bacteria's "eyes" and "ears." The collected information is then processed the same way your brain gathers and makes sense of information. Ref: Pietsch, Paul. 1983. "The mind of a microbe." Science Digest, Oct. p. 69. Photo: The structure of a bacterial cell (PD) © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

According to evolution, life began in the sea. However, because the land was better for life, evolution developed land life from sea life. It was on land that mammals evolved, according to evolution. Here, though, evolution has painted itself into a corner. Or perhaps it is better to say that evolutionists have fallen into one of the traps set for them by the Creator. You see, the largest creatures on Earth live in the sea – and they are mammals! Ref: Bartz, Paul A. 1984. "It takes more than this to make a whale transition." Bible-Science Newsletter, Feb. p. 1. Photo: Whale – Pexels – Pixabay.com © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

There are five known groups of orchids that throw their pollen. These flowers are designed with mechanical flower structures that work as triggers. Some types use a bee's back to trigger the pollen discharge. Another uses, yes, the bee's knees. Ref: Batten, Mary. 1983. "Sex & plants." Science Digest, Oct. p. 61. Photo courtesy of Larsen Twin Orchids. © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Even though many frogs live much of their lives out of the water, they need water to reproduce. This can be a problem since some frogs live in trees and some even live in the desert! Ref: Wilder, Rachel. 1983. "Flying frogs." Science Digest, Nov. p. 120. Photo: Tree Frog – Pixabay.com © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Hydraulic machines are part of our everyday lives. When you step on the brakes in your car, brake fluid, which cannot be compressed, is forced from a cylinder into the braking mechanism attached to your wheels. Hydraulic mechanisms work because fluid cannot expand, but it will easily flow to areas where there is less pressure. Ref: Tributsch, Helmut. 1983. "How spiders stretch." Science Digest, Oct. p. 74. Photo: Spider by Marjon Besteman – Pixabay.com © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

There are between 10,000 and 15,000 species of orchids. While you surely are not familiar with all of them, it sounds strange to talk about orchid behavior. This huge variety of orchids offers a multitude of different flower shapes, colors and sizes. Each unique shape, color and size is perfectly suited to the bees, butterflies, bats, moths, flies and birds that are involved in that orchid's pollination. Ref: Batten, Mary. 1983. "Sex & plants." Science Digest, Oct. p. 59. Photo: Bee Orchid by Ian Lindsay – Pixabay.com © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

It sounds silly to ask whether bacteria can think. However, science has known for more than 100 years that the little guys can indeed think. Experiments in 1883 conducted by Wilhelm Pfeffer showed that bacteria will swim toward good food like chicken soup and away from poisons such as mop disinfectant. Ref: Pietsch, Paul. 1983. "The mind of a microbe." Science Digest, Oct. p. 69. Photo: Chicken noodle soup by Cajsa Lilliehook CC By SA 2.0 © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

While the Bible teaches us that sex is a wonderful gift of God, evolutionists believe that sexual reproduction should not have evolved. According to evolutionists, if sexual reproduction were to develop, evolution is supposed to get rid of it. Ref: Batten, Mary. 1983. "Sex & plants." Science Digest, Oct. p. 59. Photo: Black Calla by Sean O’Hara - CC By 2.0 © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

When the piranha is mentioned, nearly everyone thinks of a picture of a herd of cattle crossing the Amazon – and splish, splash – nothing is left but bones. Actually, the piranha is a rather interesting fish. It certainly seems to be the bearer of a few tricks the Creator wanted to play on those who want to explain the world without Him. Ref: "The piranha's fishy feeding habits." Science Digest, Oct. 1983. p. 29. Photo: Piranha – Pixabay.com © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Modern skeptics of the Bible, including skeptics within the church, often deny the Bible's description of God's actions in the ten plagues against Egypt. However, our growing knowledge of ancient Egypt tells us that the plagues described in the Bible were exactly what God Himself said that they were. Image: Seventh Plague of Egypt painting by John Martin (PD) © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Some creatures are so bizarre that they suggest a lesson to us. Yet even in their strangeness we see that they have been perfectly provided for by their Creator. Photo: Sloth in tree – Pixabay.com

Back in 1836, well-known astronomer Sir John Herschel wrote a series of articles for the New York Sun reporting his discovery of life on the moon. Image: Rough image of the lithograph of the “ruby amphitheater” described in The Sun (New York City) newspaper (August 28, 1835) (PD)

You might not think of the crocodile as a particularly loving creature. In reality, the crocodile is among the most gentle and loving of parents. Photo: Crocodile – Pixabay.com

Imagine a huge living creature covering about one square mile and made up of almost a third of a billion cells. Imagine each of those living cells being able to move about independently of the others. Note: Photo: Wood ant mound by Hans – Pixabay.com

How would you like to be a dental hygienist for a crocodile? That’s how the crocodile bird makes his living. Photo: Crocodile bird by Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland – Egyptian Plover (Pluvianus aegyptius), CC BY-SA 2.0,

This archer fish is testimony to a wise and skillful Creator. Image: Illustration of an archerfish shooting water at a bug on a hanging branch, (PD)

Our Creator’s work reflects some of His incredible inventive creativity. Note: Firefly captured in eastern Canada – the top picture is taken with a flash, the bottom with only the self-emitted light by Emmanuelm – CC BY 3.0

How certain are evolutionists of evolution? Of course, no believer in evolution is going to go on national television and say that he is not sure of evolution. However, within the scientific community, those who really know the facts don’t always sound so convinced of their arguments. Notes: Photo – Karl Popper (PD)

If God created, but He did so by evolution, it means that there were many generations and billions of deaths before the first man appeared on the scene. Does Scripture say anything about this? Photo: Gravestone – Pixabay.com

Many Christians are willing to accept what Genesis has to say about creation with one exception. They don’t want to accept the six days as literal, natural, approximately 24-hour days. Photo: Stained glass window of Moses with the ten commandments – Pixabay.com

Many, if not most, of the leaders of the creationist movement today were once evolutionists. Most of them once believed that God created, but that He created through evolution. Image: Sign post.

Let’s be honest. If you believe God created, but that He used evolution to do so, you have to answer a difficult question. Does evolution allow the supernatural to take place? Photo: Bible on table – Pixabay.com

Nearly 50% of the people in the United States, including many Christians, believe that God did indeed create all things. Unfortunately, they believe He used evolution as His instrument of creation. Photo: Man kneeling at cross – Pixabay.com

How old is the universe? Evolutionary scientists talk about how radiometric dating methods prove the universe and the earth are billions of years old. Let’s look at all the methods scientists could use. Image: Stars – Pixabay.com

Nearly everyone just “knows” that if enough monkeys were allowed to pound away at typewriters for enough time, they would eventually produce all the great works of literature. But there are some fundamental laws of science and some very simple commonsense facts that show this claim to be nonsense. Photo: Antique typewriter -Pixabay.com

It has been said that if you take a frog and turn it into a man by adding a kiss, you have a fairy tale. But if you take a frog and turn it into a man by adding millions of years, you have science. Photo: Frog on lily pad – Pixabay.co

There is a great deal of dust in between the earth, the moon, all the other planets, and the sun. However, you won’t need to send your friend with the mop to clean it up, because the sun and planets slowly sweep this dust from space. Photo: Comet trail – Pixabay.com

If the sun is shrinking at this rate, it would have been twice as large as it is now only 100,000 years ago. And 20 million years ago the surface of the sun would have touched the surface of the earth! The dinosaurs, or more accurately their descendants, would have been cooked, to say the least. No life would have been possible on earth! This obviously poses a huge problem for evolutionists. Photo: Volcanic lava flow – Pixabay.com

Space is full of mysteries. Those who think that the universe is millions or billions of years old have more mysteries to solve than Bible-believing Christians do. . Photo: The brightest star – Hubble telescope CCA 3.0 unported.

What is a religion? You might be tempted to answer that it is any kind of belief about a god or some gods. However, that’s not complete enough to cover all religions. There are many old religions—not to mention the new ones—that don’t believe in any gods at all in the traditional sense! Blank book with ink blot – Pixabay.com

Christianity is not the only religion in the world that starts with origins. While Genesis begins the Bible by Steve Buissinne – Pixabay.com

It’s behind your refrigerator and under your bed. It’s part of the air you breathe. Photo: Dust in the sunlight – Pixabay.com

It was first discovered in 1855, but many scientists debated its existence for another 50 years.

Who would have thought that squirrels would tell us how old the Grand Canyon is? Photo: Tassel-eared squirrel – Pixabay.com

Marine biologists have been surprised to learn that the modern populations of jellyfish are actually much more complex than they ever suspected. Photo: Jellyfish – Pixabay.com

It is difficult to imagine what things would be like had we not fallen into sin. We have never known the perfect world that God created for us. Tomatoes on vine by KieKer – Pixabay.com

Scientists and manufacturers are studying a new technique that could lead to more durable fibers. This technique manufactures liquid crystals to produce stronger, longer-lasting fibers. Photo: Spider web – Claudia Wollesen – Pixabay.com

The remarkable structure of the honeycomb has amazed scientists for thousands of years. Photo: Bees and honeycomb – Pixabay.com

Thought maps help us remember where to find a water glass, the gas or brake pedal, and home. Thought maps require intelligence. Photo: Bee – Pixabay.com.

The jellyfish lives two very different lives, each with different lifestyles and methods of reproduction. Photo: Jelly fish - Pixabay

Before we had detailed knowledge of the daily lives of many animals, it was easy for scientists to dismiss signs of animal intelligence as instinct. After all, to the evolutionist, intelligence can only evolve in the highest creatures – like humans. Photo: Bees and Hive – Pixabay.com © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.