Today's Creation Moment

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.

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