Today's Creation Moment

It is unfortunate that we so often have the sense that nothing technologically important has happened in human history until modern times. REF.: Patton, Robert. 1982. Ooparts. Omni, v. 4. p. 53. Photo: The Gate of the Sun - PD © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

All insects that hear, except one, have two ears. Some insects have ears on their legs, thorax, or abdomen. However, they all follow the same principle. Their ears are separated so that they can locate the source of the sound - except in one insect. REF.: Miller, Julie Ann. 1986. Sensory surprises in platypus, mantis. Science News, v. 129. p. 104. Photo: Praying Mantis– Pixabay.com © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Research is confirming that even before birth children in the womb are learning about the world. The child in the womb does much more than simply hear sounds, including its mother's voice. REF.: Recollections from the womb. Science 84, Dec. 1984. p. 84. Photo: Smiling baby – Pixabay.com © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

PRIVATE It's commonly known that many animals are able to detect extraordinarily weak odors. The real mystery is how they can smell scents that are 1,000 times too weak to produce the chemical reactions necessary to make a scent signal. REF.: Vaughan, Christopher. 1990. Molecular odor‑eaters. Science News, v. 133. p. 348. Photo: Diagram of olfactory senses. (PD) © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Tropical beauty has inspired many Hawaiian love songs. However, none is more unusual than the love song of Hawaiian fruit flies. REF.: Edwards, D.D. 1990. Unique island love songs attract flies. Science News, v. 133. p. 244. Photo: Drosophila_setosimentum by Karl Magnacca. CC By SA 3.0 unported © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Algae are among the world's premier plants. Scientists never expected to find an alga that feeds like a Venus flytrap. REF.: Miller, Julie Ann.1986. Lake algae dine on bacteria. Science News, v. 129, Feb. 1. p. 71. Photo: Venus fly trap by Lynn B. Pixabay.com © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

PRIVATE Normally they bother no one. The creatures, called protozoan ciliates, quietly go about their business in water‑filled tree holes, eating other microorganisms. REF.: Revenge of the placid protozoan. Science News, v. 131, June 4, 1988. p. 363. Photo: Scanning electron microscope view of Oxytricha trifallax. (PD) © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

The ancients had a very sophisticated knowledge of food and health, some of which is only being rediscovered today. REF.: Season gingerly to retard rancidity. Science News, v. 129, Mar. 1, 1986. p. 137. Photo: Ginger Spice by Andrea (Ajale) – pixabay.com © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

A remarkable discovery in Israel is shedding new light on life in Bible times. The discovery is also allowing scientists and the rest of us to get to know an important New Testament character. REF.: Greenhut, Zvi. 1992. Burial cave of the Caiaphas family. Biblical Archaeology Review, Sept./Oct. p. 29. Image: Christ Before Caiaphas by Matthias Stom (PD) © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Some types of bacteria are able to go into a state of suspended animation when living conditions become too harsh. Not only do they change their form and appearance, they are amazingly able to change their DNA structure to avoid damage from harmful types of light! Image: God Appears to Moses in Burning Bush. Painting from Saint Isaac's Cathedral, Saint Petersburg. (PD) © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Nothing is more frustrating than glue that refuses to stick. And nothing is harder on an adhesive’s ability to stick than water. Water can prevent adhesives from solidly touching the surfaces that are to adhere. Freezing and thawing temperatures can force glued surfaces apart. Photo: mussels – Pixabay.com © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

New research shows that, when attacked, many plants make chemicals that will give munching insects a bad case of indigestion. They also seem to warn their neighbors about the attack so that they, too, start up their defenses. Some plants even call in air defenses. Photo: Parasitoid wasp by Ian Alexander - CC BY-SA 4.0 © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

The study of plants’ abilities to protect themselves from insect attackers is a fairly new and rapidly growing area of research. It seems that new and even more amazing discoveries are appearing about plants. Photo: Tomatoes on vine Pixabay.com © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Have you ever wondered how, over thousands of years, the population balance between males and females remains roughly even? Photo: Atlantic Silverside – Smithsonian Environmental Research- CCA 2.0 © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

There are a number of species of bacteria that possess tiny chains of crystal particles called magnetosomes. Magnetosomes, as the name suggests, have iron in them to help the bacteria sense magnetic fields for navigation. They can also help the bacteria find food. Image: The magnetic field of a bar magnetic - Newton Henry Black (PD) © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

After suffering a stroke, a man in Baltimore suddenly began speaking with a Scandinavian accent. Though he had no experience with languages other than English, he suddenly sounded Nordic and appeared unfamiliar with English! In the weeks after the stroke his speech gradually returned to normal. Image; Tower of Babel by Gustove Dore (PD) © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

It’s not very pretty, nor is it graceful, but Colombia’s rock-climbing catfish has a unique ability among fish. Photo: Catfish - Photo: Courtesy S. Schaefer/AMNH. © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

How smart is the smartest tree you ever met? Does it sound silly to speak of trees as being smart? Botanists are learning that some trees have elaborate defenses against insect pests. Photo: Eastern tent caterpillar by Katja Schultz CC 2.0 © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

One good method of avoiding attack in nature is to pretend that you are somebody who should not be attacked. In the insect world one of the most feared creatures is the ant. Photo: Jumping Spider mimicking an ant by Yogendra Joshi CC 2.0 © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Genesis uses only a few words and simple language to describe the creation of trees. That hardly seems fair, considering the importance, variety and complexity of the largest and longest-living things on earth. Photo: Bristlecone Pine (PD) © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

It’s a warm day on the Amazon River. A small fish swims near the surface looking among the natural floating river debris for some food. As he looks among the occasional leaf or twig in the water he sees no danger . . . just a nearby leaf. Photo: Leaf fish (PD) © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Are you a musician? From the standpoint of evolution, human musical ability serves no purpose. Photo: Peruvian playing a zampoña. (PD) © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Some creatures seem more wise and powerful in dealing with the problems of living than seems reasonable. Photo: New Zealand mud snail (PD) © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Many people today think it’s unusual for someone to interpret the Genesis account of creation literally. For example, many in the church seem unsure of whether Adam was a real person. How are we to understand Genesis? Image: Genesis Factor book cover by Ron J. Bigalke. © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Medical researchers are learning what happens in the body when we develop a fever. They say that the body’s fever response is usually a very important part of our body’s defense against disease. Image: Brain illustration by LeevanJackson_ CC By SA 4.0 © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

We live in a world—indeed a universe—that is in continual change. Things have been designed that way for a very important reason. Unfortunately, some people choose to define evolution as simply change. However, that’s not the kind of continuous change that surrounds us. Photo: Swan family – cob, pen and cygnets by Suzanna Jutzeler_Pixabay.com © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Naturalists are discovering that many animals use a variety of plants and other items to treat their illnesses. Animals often know about the medicinal properties of plants when modern medicine has yet to learn about them. Photo: Bear (PD) © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

According to evolution’s history of life, the male and female sexes must have developed in different kinds of creatures dozens of times. Photo: Male and Female – Pixabay.com © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

If I were to ask you whether you are left-handed or right-handed, you would probably answer with most people that you are right-handed. While that may be true, you are also left-handed, and your life depends on it. Photo: Handshake – (PD) © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

The relatively rare bucket orchid, Coryanthes, behaves almost like an animal at pollination time. This remarkable ability is essential to its survival. Photo: Coryanthes and bee by Alex Popovkin_CC 2.0.JPG © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Your nose performs an extremely unlikely job. It senses invisible molecules in the air and turns each molecule into a unique sensation that is sent to the brain. Photo: Mona Lisa details (PD) © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Archaeologists discovered a water well that is the oldest they’ve ever seen. Because of the well’s sophisticated design, they immediately concluded that ancient humans were much smarter than they ever expected. Photo: Mediterranean Sea illustration. (PD) © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved. Photo:

In His wisdom, God filled the creation with chemical factories that could provide temporary help for pain and disease. Photo: Foxglove illustration (PD) © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Our bodies are a network of complex control systems and chemical factories—a complex union of systems that go beyond the abilities of the best human designers, but which testify to the wisdom of the Creator! Photo; Pineal illustration (PD) © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

The swiftly moving bat cuts almost invisibly through the darkness, silent to all but those who can hear its ultrasonic radar. What chance does a poor night-flying cricket—prized as a tasty bat snack—have? Photo: Crickets – (PD) © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

At one time the tropics may have extended into what are today polar regions. However, the Bible and evolutionary geology don’t agree on how long ago that was. Bible-believing geologists, on the other hand, are reporting evidence to support the Bible’s story of history. Photo: Arctic fox in sunglasses by RJM Sanpdragon from Pixabay.com photo elements. © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

What keeps the big-bodied bumblebee with those little stubby wings in the air? REF: Cowen, R. 1990. Bumblebee energy: What’s the buzz? Science News, v. 138, Oct. 6. p. 215. Photo: Bumblebee (PD) © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

The silk produced by spiders is very different from the silk produced by silkworms in some very important ways. While silkworm silk is strong yet not prone to stretching, spiders make silk that is both strong and stretchy. They also make several different kinds of silk, each with its own purpose. REF: Amato, I. 1990. Unraveling the biochemistry of spider silk. Science News, v. 138, Oct. 6. p. 214. Photo: Spider Web by Albrecht Fietz – Pixabay.com. © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

The book, entitled The Blind Watchmaker, tried to show that the design we see in the creation is simply an illusion.

Most of us were amazed when we first learned that physicians in ancient Egypt did brain surgery. Even more amazing is that the skulls of their patients showed healing: they accomplished such complicated surgery without killing their patients. That physicians had the knowledge to do such delicate operations thousands of years ago challenges the modern, evolutionary view that humans began as primitives. Photo: Courtesy of Pixabay. (PD)

It should be obvious that attentive parents are a blessing to their children. However, as we look around us, we see too many examples of inattentive parenting. Scientists in Canada have experimentally demonstrated one of the benefits of attentive parenting. Photo: Courtesy of Pixabay. (PD)

According to the Bible, Noah's Ark was 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. It was built of a type of wood called "gopher wood." This may have been laminated wood, but it was wood. However, skeptics claim that even today wooden boats cannot be made that large simply because wood is not strong enough to endure the huge stresses generated by such a large structure; they say only iron can endure these stresses. Photo: Gold octadrachm issued by Ptolemy IV Philopator, British Museum. (PD)

Many people do not want dandelions in our garden because thye are classed as weeds, and they have a tendency to take over large areas, But, did you know pretty much every part of a dandelion plant can be put to some useful purpose?

"One day, long long ago, before the white man came to America, a party of Sioux Indian warriors were out hunting. They had left their village far behind. Before they realized it, the group of braves found themselves alone in the bare and rocky badlands of the West. Suddenly the sky darkened…. There was a clap of thunder that shook the earth. Looking up in terror, the Indians thought they saw the shape of a giant bird falling to earth…." Image: A thunderbird totem pole from Victoria, BC, Canada. License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported.

What is the Troutdale Formation and what dose the great flood have to do with it? . Image: Quartzite, and other Troutdale stones, photographed by author.

Evolustionists appears to have lost millions of years . . . where did it go? . Image: Troutdale Formation, photographed by author.

Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. . Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.

The Moon is covered with craters. Other bodies in the Solar System are also covered with craters. If you look at an unlabeled photograph of Mercury, it is likely that you would simply assume it was the Moon because the cratering is so similar. Such craters have only been discovered since the advent of spacecraft to view the planets close up, so it was not until 1965, when the Mariner 4 craft flew by Mars, that craters other than on Earth or Moon were seen. Image: Far Side of the Moon, Public Domain (NASA).

What makes a hero? Is it a particular character trait? Are some personalities better suited to being heroes than others? Or could anyone be a hero, given the right circumstances? Image: Kigali Genocide Memorial Center, Rwanda; Public Domain image.

“The toolmaking techniques mastered by prehistoric humans there were more sophisticated than previously thought,” Image: Public Domain.