Today's Creation Moment

Could the Icelandic epic poem, the Vǫluspá, which told of the eruption of Eldgjá, in the south of the island, in 939, been the reminder that encourage the viking people to turn from their worship of pagan gods? Image: Andreas Tille, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International.

How could a 1,000-year-old lens is equal in quality with modern lenses? Notes: Discovering Archaeology Online, 3-4/00, "Medieval Craftsmen Rivaled Descartes." Painting: Portrait of Rene Descartes by André Hatala. (PD)

Like burning embers removed from the fire, when believers fail to be a regular part of their faith community, believers' faith, too, cools to the temperature around it. Notes: Science News, 6/3/00, p. 359, "Religious commitment linked to longer life." Courtesy: Pixabay

The shell of the giant pink queen conch is made of such remarkable material that scientists speak of its design, even while they say that it is a product of evolutionary chance. Photo: Shell of the queen conch Lobatus gigas. Courtesy of cheesy42. (CC BY 2.0)

What are "homeless" planets? Photo: Orion Nebula. Courtesy of NASA. (PD)

Genes carry the biological information to make specific living things. Evolution says that simpler living things evolved first, and more complex life evolved later. This would lead us to believe that more complex living things would have developed more genes. Photo: Side view of fruit fly. Courtesy of Karl Magnacca. (CC BY-SA 2.5)

We take the sky for granted. It is just there. Yet, whether it is covered with cloud, or clear, we do not consider the fact that, during the daytime, all of the sky is somewhat light. In particular, on a clear day, the sky appears blue. The blueness itself is remarkable, given that the sun is yellow, but why is the sky any color at all? . Image: PiccoloNamek at En.Wikipedia, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported.

Curiously, the bones of the famous "Lucy" are always mounted in such a way as to give the impression of a creature looking much like a human being. However, this presentation is extremely deceptive since, apart from the shape of the pelvis, knee, and ankle joints, the bodily proportions are distinctly ape-like. Image: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported.

It is generally assumed by schoolteachers and the media that fossilization is a painfully slow process. In fact, there are many contemporary evolutionists who know that fossilization can be much more rapid.

What is an exoplanet? An exoplanet is a planet orbiting a star other than our own sun. You might suppose that they were discovered by peering through a telescope in the same way that planets like Uranus and Neptune and the dwarf planet Pluto were discovered. However, this is not the case. Image: NASA, Public Domain

The oldest radio-carbon dates, of between 50,000 and 100,000 years, are notoriously problematic, even by evolutionary standards. Image: Derby Museum Viking Display, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic.

Unlike other animals, octopi use a variety of strategies to solve the same problem. They can use their eight powerful arms to open clams, or they can drill through the shell and inject a fast-acting poison. In the laboratory, octopi kept in isolation were given a floating plastic bottle. The bored octopuses quickly devised a variety of games to play with the bottle - a sure sign of intelligence. Photo: Pixabay.com (PD)

People often worry about the fat in nuts. However, most of that fat is the good kind that protects hearts, while at the same time satisfying the body's need for fat. Photo: Pixabay.com (PD)

John Stevens Henslow was a highly respected scientist of the 19th century. He taught both botany and mineralogy at England's Cambridge University. In addition to being a scientist and professor, he was also a devout Christian and ordained into the Anglican clergy. Lithograph: John Stevens Henslow. (PD)

All the textbooks inform us that the speed of light is about 186,000 miles per second. This is the absolute speed limit of the universe, according to Einstein's theory of relativity, we have always been told. Should anything travel faster than that, Einstein's theory falls. Photo: Einstein portrait. -Pixabay.com (PD)

When bees are threatened by some diseases or predators, they act like sick children - they get a fever. More specifically, they give their nest a fever, sometimes raising its temperature to levels nearly fatal to themselves. Photo: Pixabay.com (PD)

There are some pastors and teachers who tell me that it does not matter what we believe about Genesis. It does not matter if there were really six 24-hour days, or millions of years. It does not matter if there was death before Adam’s sin. It does not matter if Adam were not a real person, but an allegory. Ref: Taylor, P.F. (2007), The Six Days of Genesis Chapter 1. Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.

Everyone knows Charles Darwin . . . but do you know there was another evolutionist who isn't quite as well known. Ref: Encyclopaedia Britannica, , accessed 1/31/2018. Image: Public Domain.

A discovery at Scarborough – a seaside resort in northern England – has shed some new light on the art abilities of ancient humans. Image: Cave Painting, French Ministry of Culture, Public Domain.

Evidence speaks for itself, we are told. But, that is not the case. The one thing that evidence cannot do is to speak for itself. Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.

In 1814, Thomas Chalmers was a young Scottish clergyman with an interest in geology. He had grown up with the deep-time views of James Hutton, and the work of more contemporary geologists seems to have caused Chalmers difficulties in accepting these ideas along with the book of Genesis. So it was that in 1814, Chalmers wrote a review of Georges Cuvier’s book Theory of the Earth. Cuvier was a catastrophist. Image: Public Domain.

The ideas of deep-time geology are actually older than Darwin’s theory of evolution. In many ways, it was the deep-time ideas that gave birth to Darwinism, not the other way around. Image: portrait of Georges Cuvier, Public Domain.

The idea of plate tectonics is today such a deeply ingrained idea that many people assume the concept is completely proved and is the only obvious way to explain the Earth’s crust. Many creationists – and I include myself – would suggest that plate tectonics is indeed the best explanation, though we would not accept the evolutionary timescale, suggesting that tectonic movement must have been rapid and catastrophic in the early days of the Flood. Image: Public Domain (over 100 years after author’s death).

There is an upper layer to the Earth’s Mantle called the Asthenosphere. This comprises of semi-molten rock. Crustal rocks of the Earth’s tectonic plates seem to almost float on this. The heavier rocks of the ocean crust float lower than the less dense rocks of the continental crust. This suggests that the rocks of the ocean floor would be older than the rocks of the continent. However, this is not the case. Image: Subduction-en.svg, Wikimedia Commons, author: KDS4444, license: CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Westminster Confession of Faith and showed that the statement in chapter 4 it is very clear on the necessity of believing that God made the world in six literal 24-hour days. The same statement also appears at chapter 4 of the 1689 London Baptist Confession. Image: Claes Janszoon Visscher II (1587–1652), license: Public Domain (more than 100 years after artist’s death).

When scientific ideas seem to disagree with the Bible, Christians should hold firm. The Bible is God’s word, and oftentimes changes in those scientific ideas create renewed alignment with the Bible. Image: A natural arch produced by erosion of differentially weathered rock in Jebel Kharaz, license: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported.

The Bible teaches that until several centuries after the Flood all people on Earth spoke the same language. The fact that many supposedly unrelated languages have similar sounding words with the same or similar meanings supports this teaching. Some language researchers say that this is simply due to chance. Now some language researchers say that they have developed another line of research that supports the belief that all humans once spoke the same language. Photo: Baby – Pixabay.com

While most people know that several ancient cultures built pyramids, which culture built the most? Most people would answer "Egypt", but they would be wrong. However, they did inspire the culture that built the most pyramids. Photo: Aerial view of the Nubian pyramids at Meroe. CC By SA 1.0 .

Often the most productive science is done when scientists, as one founder of modern science put it, "Think God's thoughts after Him." For example, while antibiotics have saved millions of lives, they have proven to be only a temporary solution. In addition, there are some bacterial infections that move too fast for antibiotics to be effective. Photo: Micrograph of ''Vibrio vulnificus'' bacteria. (PD)

Let's go back to the very first moment that the supposed Big Bang took place. Evolutionists say that at that very first moment, everything was up to chance. The size and charge of electrons, protons, the structure of atoms or whether they would even exist could have been anything. Photo: Space-filling model of the oxygen molecule. (PD)

One of the most beautiful and famous passages in the Bible, concerning unborn children, is found in Psalm 139. Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.

The Bible does not directly refer to abortion. Of course, there are many other issues on which the Bible does not give a specific comment. However, in many cases, it is clear what the biblical position is. I believe the same is true with the subject of abortion. Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.

Four words refute all naturalistic explanations of the universe. They refute evolution because they make clear that there was a planning intelligence behind the universe rather than blind, random chance. Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.

Did the complexity of the photosynthesis process evolved by chance. Evolutionary scientists like to point to what they refer to as simple systems from which more complex systems might have evolved, and so a recent scientific article discusses the earliest known organisms that use photosynthesis. Evolutionists assume that more complex plants could have evolved from single-celled algae, many of which use photosynthesis. Image: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2.5 Generic.

Green plants are green, mostly because of a green pigment called chlorophyll. Many of us learned in high school that this green pigment is what causes photosynthesis. Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.

Climate Change Denier” is a derogatory term, used against those who are skeptical about changes in global climate having been caused by human industrial activity. The term is, however, used to imply that such skeptics deliberately deny obvious facts about changes in climate. This is not so. Image: Public Domain (NASA).

How old is the world’s oldest fossil? The problem is that the term “oldest” implies a timescale, and we may not agree on the nature of that timescale. For example, deep-time evolutionists assume that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, whereas creationists show that the age of the Earth given in the Bible is about 6,000 years. Image: Public Domain.

An article in the Los Angeles Times about a recent fossil find began: "If it walks like a duck and swims like a duck, it might be a dinosaur." The writer was referring to a fossil called Halszkaraptor escuilliei, which the paleontologists think shows traits of both therapod and aquatic bird – a sort of dinogoose. Image: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Imported.

During a radio interview on the BBC, Richard Dawkins once said, “The view that all living organisms have a common ancestor, from which they have evolved, is the correct one.” Statements like these often intimidate the layman into thinking that certain ideas in science, such as evolution, must have been proven beyond all reasonable doubt. Image: Public Domain.

Over 2,000 years ago, Aristotle wrote about red snow. Today, red, orange and even green snow has been found on every continent. It is typically found in deep mountain snows in the late spring. Photo: Green algal cell (Chlamydomonas nivalis) responsible for red coloration of mountain snow packs. (PD)

During his visit to the Galapagos Islands Charles Darwin saw that each island was populated by finches. These birds were all very similar, yet from one island to another there were some differences in the size and shape of the beak. Darwin concluded that in the past a pair of these birds had been blown 600 miles from the mainland and the off-springs "evolved" into all the other types he saw. Illustration: Darwin’s finches. (PD)

One of the early evidences for evolution, at one time found in almost every school textbook, was based upon the salt content of human blood plasma and the salt content of the sea. Photo: A unit of fresh frozen blood plasma by DriverDave CC BY SA 3.0 Unported.

Like most social insects, termites don't tolerate strangers. However, the Trichopsenius frosti beetle likes to make its living within the nest of just one species of termite. Photo: Trichopsenius. Copyright © 2012 Jeff Gruber & UW-Madison Dept. of Entomology. (Fair Use)

All cats seem to consume a very high fat meat diet. Unlike other carnivores, cats cannot manufacture their own taurine, so their diet is almost perfectly carnivorous, with very little in the way of plant material. Image: Little Jerry, license Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International.

The word ichthyosaur means fish lizard. The animal looked like a fish but appeared to be reptilian in nature. Image: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Unported.

For many people studying the early chapters of Genesis, the account of Babel is a troubling interlude. Image: Bruegel’s Tower of Babel, Public Domain.

The Apostle Peter reminds us in 2 Peter 1:20 that “no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation.” Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.

Anthropology is the study of human beings and where they came from. As a scientific discipline, it has been led for decades by people with evolutionary presuppositions. Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.

It was Charles Darwin’s assumption that new species arose from previous ones by a process of natural selection. Darwin famously illustrated this point by reference to the various species of finch living on the Galapagos Islands. (Image: Female resident finch from Daphne Major, License: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Unported.)

Some frogs are regular little drug factories. Their skins produce a wide range of powerful alkaloids, are a large family of chemicals usually produced by plants. Familiar alkaloids include quinine, caffeine and morphine. Different alkaloids have different effects, usually on the nervous system. Photo: Blue Poison Dart frog (PD)