Today's Creation Moment

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…

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 …

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 …

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…

“What is the place of art in the Christian life?”, asked Francis Schaeffer. Many people have pondered the same question.

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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.…

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 …

Is there life on other ocean covered worlds?

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Could the stuff of science fiction be a reality in the outer reaches of our Solar System?

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Technology is looking at  the way nature folds things to copy the  natural designs, to produce better robotic algorithms, for packaging fragile objects.

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Wisdom is demonstrably not the same as intelligence. It is possible – and, I would submit, common – for a highly intelligent scientist to be foolish.

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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 19…

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.

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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 Dise…

“The family that prays together, stays together.” A survey by the Barna Research Group indicates that this old saying is still true.

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A number of species of fish live, apparently comfortably, in Antarctic waters as cold as the freezing temperature of seawater, which is a couple of degrees colder than fresh water. This presents us w…

Aerodynamics, the science of flight, is a highly complex science. This is because many complex forces are acting on anything in flight. One critical force that has been under recent study is the turb…

Shore birds like the oystercatcher search for buried mollusks by touch. They poke around in the sand, hoping to find a hard shelled mollusk. But if you have ever tried to find something that was hidi…

Could pizza be good for you? Research has shown that tomatoes, especially cooked, have powerful health benefits.

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What determines the sort of smells that we like and dislike? Is it nature or nurture? Do we like the smells of the environment, in which we were brought up, or are our likes and dislikes inherited fr…