Today's Creation Moment

There are those that claim that Evolution is a scientific theory. Scientific theories can be subject to the scientific method. If the same test or experiment is carried out under the same conditions, on different days or locations, the results should still be the same. Evolution is not testable, and is therefore not Operational Science. Ref: Two Kinds of Science?, , accessed 05/26/2017. Image: Adobe Stock Images, licensed to author.

Science has an elevated position in Western society. There are those who would try to put Christians down, by saying “You have faith, but I have science”. Ref: Scientific Method, Encyclopædia Britannica, , accessed 05/26/2017. Image: Archon Magnus, license: Creative Commons Share-Alike, 4.0 International.

C.S. Lewis was right to allude to the marvelous construction abilities of the beaver. Ref: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver, accessed 05/23/2017. Image: Laszlo Ilyes, license: Creative Commons Share-Alike Attribution, 2.0 Generic.

God has provided humanity with resources in the world, for which we are responsible, and over which we have dominion. Image: Jonathan Zander, released under Creative Commons Attribution, 3.0 Unported.

Many secular cosmologists believe that the universe came into existence in a singularity, as a result of a quantum event about 14.7 billion years ago. However, this so-called Big Bang theory is not without its problems. Ref: Faulkner, D.R. (2014), Has Cosmic Inflation Been Proved?, , accessed 05/17/2017. Image: representation of Big Bang and Inflation, by Yinweichen, License: Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike 2.0 Unported.

The so-called Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (or CMB) has been known about since 1965. It is assumed to be an echo of the Big Bang, and is offered in High School textbooks as a proof of the Big Bang. Yet, it is actually problematic for Big Bang cosmologists. Ref: Faulkner, D. (2016), Created Cosmos, (Green Forest, AR: Master Books), p53-54. Image: The binary star system Rho Ophiuchi, by Rogelio Bernal Andreo; released to Public Domain.

Wood will get waterlogged, if it is left in water for too long. And yet wood has often been used throughout history to build boats and ships. The city of Pensacola, Florida, was, in many ways, the birthplace of the US Navy, because of the deep harbor, and the abundance of live oaks, from which to build ships. To prevent water-logging, the wood must be treated, to make it waterproof. Ref: Taylor, P.F. (2013), Don’t Miss the Boat, (Green River, AR: Master Books). Image: Adobe Stock Photos, licensed to author.

In 2 Peter 2:5, the apostle remarks, almost parenthetically, that “[God] did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly.” Noah was a herald of righteousness—someone proclaiming the Good News! Ref: Taylor, P.F. (2013), Don’t Miss the Boat, (Green River, AR: Master Books), Appendix. Image: Adobe Stock Photos, licensed to author.

C.S. Lewis suggested that those who deny the supernatural can still believe in a god of sorts. Ref: Lewis, C.S. (1947), Miracles, (New York: Macmillan Collins), p12. Image: Adobe Stock photos, licensed to author.

Out of more than 30,000 species of spiders, there are three species that make their living through thievery. That number was recently raised from two with the discovery of a tiny, thieving species on the island of Taiwan. S. Milius, New spider: Unusual suspect steals web, Science News, v.154, p.53. More than 30,000 species, “Spiders” Grolier, 1995, Multimedia Encyclopedia. Image: Diagram of the internal anatomy of a female two-lunged spider. Courtesy of John Henry Comstock. (CC BY 3.0)

The basilisk lizard is yet another tribute to God's unlimited creativity, knowledge and power. Basilisk are found from Mexico to Ecuador and are equally at home in the trees, on the ground and in and on the water. Photo: Brown basilisk, basking in the sun on the Osa Peninsual, Costa Rica. Courtesy of Benjamint. (GFDL 1.2)

The idea of different races, as distinct from different religions, was not much of an issue until 1859 when Charles Darwin published his famous book, On the Origin of Species.

Besides demonstrating variety in God's creation, the Komodo dragon may eventually save more lives than it has ever taken.

Isaac Newton wrote more Bible commentaries than he did scientific books.

According to evolution theory, birds should not have been around at the time of the dinosaurs, especially the parrot, which by evolution beliefs is supposed to be a more highly-evolved bird. The rock in which the beak was found was dated as coming from the Cretaceous period. But it is not just one parrot's beak that was found but Loons, frigate‑birds and other shore bird fossils were found in rock that was supposedly laid down during the time of the dinosaurs!

In late 1999, Russian and American scientists excavated a buried, frozen mammoth in Northern Siberia. Once excavated, the mammoth was airlifted, using Russia's largest helicopter, to Siberian ice caves that were fashioned into a laboratory. There the frozen mammoth was studied to see if either sperm, or DNA could be extracted from it.

When we started out ll in our mother's womb, how did all those our new cells know to hook up to each other to knit together our nerve connections? How did other cells know to hook up with each other to make our circulatory system, or form the heart? A fascinating new theory has now been proposed, based on the fact that every cell in your body has the same active genes that your nose uses to enable you to smell.

Evolutionary scientists tell us that mutations were central to the production of the great variety of creatures on Earth today from the first living cell. At the same time, biologists admit that 99 percent of all mutations are harmful.

Aspirin works by disabling the chemicals that cause our pain. Now scientists have discovered that aspirin also works to shut down a plant's response to injury. Aspirin shuts off the plant's production of jasmonic acid, even though jasmonic acid is not at all similar to human pain‑causing chemicals.

Two strange species of orchids are among the rarest flowers in the world. These unconventional plants live their entire lives underground, even flowering underground. Most often, their flowers never break the surface of the ground.

The creation is filled with plants and animals which use deception to survive. The glow‑in‑the‑dark cookie-cutter shark is a master at such deception.

For thousands of years the Bible has taught that there is a link between spiritual health and physical health. When rationalism came along, many sought to deny the spiritual aspect of humans. For them, the spiritual and the material have nothing to do with each other.

Saliva is an amazing fluid. Besides helping us moisten and digest food, saliva is able to speed healing and fight bacteria, fungi and viruses. Saliva is chemically almost identical to the clear part of your blood.

How small can a living thing be and still be considered alive. Viruses are not considered living things because they cannot reproduce on their own. But now scientists have confirmed the existence of bacterai that are smaller than the largest viruses and yet can reproduce on their own.

The hunted are smart to stay upwind of the hunter. Many predators hunt using scent, at least in part. The same principle works in water.

The Bible teaches that proper authority is respected when it comes from a spirit of servanthood. This pattern seems to extend even to wasps.

When we look at the size of the universe, it sometimes becomes easier to see evolution as credible. But, in truth, the immensity of space is really not so friendly to evolution's claim that the universe, and the earth, are billions of years old.

Human bridegrooms are not the only males who give gifts to their intended. The birds and the flies do it, too.

A study conducted by researchers from the State University of New York at Stony Brook examined the effect of a mother's stress on the birth weight of her baby.

Episodic memory, the ability to remember something that happened in the past is called mental time travel. It has long been thought that only humans are capable of episodic memory. New research suggests that some birds are also capable of mental time travel. Photo: Western_scrub_jay._Courtesy_of_Minette_Layne._CC_BY-SA_2.0.

There are many plants that have effective defenses against the insects that attack them. Photo: Bursera_simaruba_Permission_granted_to_use_under_GFDL_by_Kurt_Stueber__CCo_By_SA_3.0

Before the Flood people were living hundreds of years. As man grew more evil, God declared that man’s lifespan would be reduced to 120 years. Modern biology has learned that we do indeed have built-in timers in each of our cells that limit the number of times they can divide. Photo: Human chromosomes (grey) capped by telomeres (white). Courtesy of U.S. Department of Energy Human Genome Program. (PD)

The Hawaiian bobtail squid needs to be able to reflect different levels of light because of its unique lifestyle. This squid glides through moonlit waters but without its special reflective tissue its shadow would be seen as it passes over the bottom. Photo: Adult Hawaiian bobtail squid. Margaret McFall-Ngai. (CC BY 4.0)

You get up early. The illumination isn’t very good, you put on your socks anyway, only to find out, in the light of day, that you have one blue and one gray sock on. That’s because our eyes have cone cells to detect color, as well as rod cells that are sensitive to light, but cannot see color. Photo: Gecko (not the hooded gecko). (PD)

On the evolutionary side of things, musical ability would seem to provide no survival advantage. Yet, the human brain devotes considerable resources to the processing of music. Photo: Courtesy of Pixabay. (PD)

A debate about the definition of “species” may remove Homo erectus from the human evolutionary tree. Photo: Skeletons by Stux_ Pixabay.jpg

The first book that urged us to take good care of the earth was the Bible. The Bible also reminds those who would be careless about their responsibilities that there is a Creator who is going to hold us accountable for how we carry out our responsibilities. Why, then, does Christianity always seem to be taking the blame for destruction of the environment? Photo: The sunflower. Courtesy of RS3. (CC BY-SA 3.0)

The news has again been filled with stories about the search for planets orbiting nearby stars. All these stories assume that our Earth was not formed by God. They perpetuate the idea that the Earth and other planets in the solar system formed when dust around the young sun began to collect into lumps. Image: Artist’s impression of dust around Beta Pictoris. Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC). (PD)

The bacterium Bacillus cereus likes to live in soil that would kill most other bacteria. It’s bothered neither by lethal concentrations of metal nor natural antibiotics. How can cereus survive under conditions that would kill any other known bacteria? Photo: Bacillus cereus by Loes Van Damme –CCO - Pixabay.com

It is often forgotten how much energy a plant uses, in producing flowers and blossoms. Though cherry blossoms are small, there are a lot of them. The colors they reflect, and the aromas released, are attractive to the insects necessary for pollination. Photo: Cherry Blossom by Chiem Seherin_Pixabay.com

“What is the place of art in the Christian life?”, asked Francis Schaeffer. Many people have pondered the same question. Image: Adobe Stock Photos, licensed to author.

One study has suggested that caffeine production must have evolved independently at least three times. Not only that, but plants contain at least two different biosynthetic routes for its production. Yet evolutionists claim that caffeine production fulfills just one main evolutionary purpose – to modify the behavior of other organisms. Image: Julius Schworzman. License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic.

While Bach wrote theological notes in the margins of his manuscripts, and his well-thumbed Bible also contained comments, Beethoven’s music is honest in its skepticism. There is power and passion in it, as well as a great deal of anger. Image: Josef Karl Steiler, 1820 – Public Domain, due to age.

Is there life on other ocean covered worlds? Image: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Public Domain.

Could the stuff of science fiction be a reality in the outer reaches of our Solar System? Image: NASA, Public Domain

Technology is looking at the way nature folds things to copy the natural designs, to produce better robotic algorithms, for packaging fragile objects. Image: Andreas Bauer. License: Creative Commons Share-Alike 2.5 Generic.

Wisdom is demonstrably not the same as intelligence. It is possible – and, I would submit, common – for a highly intelligent scientist to be foolish. Image: Adobe Stock Photos, licensed to author.

Haeckel’s famous embryos drawings of 1874, were deliberately shaped, to support his recapitulation theory, even though actual embryos do not show such similarities. The drawings were debunked in 1965 and yet some science curriculum still included this false concept. Image: G.J. Romanes (1892), Public Domain (due to age).

Many materials in nature give an appearance of design. Consider just a small number of properties of water. It freezes from the top down. We are so used to this, that we forget how unusual it is. Image: Adobe Stock photos, licensed to author.

Several different animals communicate on a limited basis with one another. But human speech is unique, leaving those who believe in evolution perplexed. Image: Head and Neck view by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(PD)