Today's Creation Moment

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.

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.