Many birds migrate in flocks, traveling south for the winter and north for summer, as they follow warm weather and better feeding conditions. The Arctic Tern travels an estimated 45,000 miles EACH YEAR! Hummingbirds are known to migrate up to several thousand miles each year, and are only found in the Americas. One unique feature … Read More
Hummingbirds are remarkable creatures, with their ability to hover, fly backwards, and extract nectar with their amazing tongue. A long thin beak houses that tiny tongue, which the hummer inserts into flowers and laps up the nectar. However, that is no ordinary tongue. Their tongue consists of two separating parts that enclose around the nectar, … Read More
The tiny hummingbird has a two-step lung system that allows it to utilize all of the oxygen it breathes. This efficient design might not be necessary for life, but for a bird who is flapping its wings at up to 80 times a second, it certainly is a helpful feature! The hummingbird can fly through … Read More
Hummingbirds. Even though they are the smallest birds on earth, and the smallest of all warm-blooded creatures, they can still fly over 30 MPH, fly backward, and at birth, weigh less than a post-it note! These amazing creatures flap their wings up to 80 times a SECOND, allowing them to hover over flowers filled with … Read More
Saturn. Named after the god of agriculture worshipped in Rome at grand temples on (Capitol-line) Capitoline Hill, this gas giant is second only to Jupiter in size. Because of its dazzling system of rings encompassing the planet, Saturn has been the favorite of many a young astronomer. The rings are easily seen with even a … Read More
Many of the ancients believed that the Earth was a flat disk or plane, sitting on the back of a giant turtle who floated in a giant pool of water. Quite a fanciful story. It sounds like a fairy tale… But still quite a complex and detailed idea! There’s another fanciful story, a complex and … Read More
Have you ever looked back on your work, or a project that you’ve been a part of, and said “It’s finished”? Many times, we look back and think “If only I’d done this or that a little different…” Not so with our Savior on the cross. In the Greek, it tells us He exclaimed (teTEL-a-st-iy) … Read More
Genesis 1:1 tells us that “In the beginning God created the heaven and the Earth.” Genesis 1:2 goes on to tell us that “the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” Some people have suggested that there is a gap, containing eons of time, in between Genesis … Read More
In Exodus chapter 20, we’re informed that “in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day” If we take the Bible at its word, as literal truth, then God decided to stretch the creation of the Universe over a 6 day span. … Read More
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Recently, while researching examples of flood geology, I heard about a particular fossilized tree in northern TN. After several weeks of trying to track it down, I was finally able to visit the site. The side of a mountain had been blasted away to uncover a coal seam, and what was discovered there was a … Read More
Let’s look at an example of simple to complex evolution in the modern day: The sequence of evolution for a Bicycle, car, and motorcycle might look something like this, if we were looking at it from an evolutionary perspective: The Bicycle evolves from a unicycle, then comes the motorcycle… then 2 wheels evolve into 4, … Read More
Not long ago, I participated in a paleontological excavation that was taking place in western Kansas. This area is known as the Niobrara Formation, and contains hundreds of thousands of fossilized fish and other aquatic creatures. Besides many fossilized clams, the team found very large fish vertebrae, and dinosaur fossils including what appeared to be … Read More
Geological folding is found all over the earth. Extreme folds and bends in the sedimentary strata, like those pictured here, are not uncommon, and many times can give us clues as to their origin. The first consideration is that many times, bends appear smooth along the fold. Take a piece of plywood. Grab it with … Read More
Look at the simple mousetrap. Designed to perform a specific function, the mousetrap is only made of a few basic components. A wooden base, a lever, a spring, a thin metal hammer, and a catch. Definitely much simpler than, say, the eardrum, or the process of photosynthesis. Then again, the function of catching a mouse … Read More
Today, botanists estimate that there are over 300 thousand species of plants, ranging from Lycopods like the tiny club moss, conifers like pine and the mighty cedar, and angiosperms like the beautiful rose or the wheat that makes a loaf of bread. It’s safe to say that we would be in big trouble without these … Read More
Also known as the ‘Dog Star’, Sirius is thought to be 8.6 light years away. It is actually a binary or double-star system, composed of the primary star, Sirius A, and the faint Sirius B beside it. Some observers refer to these two as Sirius and his pup. The hottest part of the year, known … Read More
What a stunning sight… To look up in the night sky, and see the full moon shining brightly…That’s not its own light you’re seeing. The moon can’t generate light. But its surface DOES reflect the light of the Sun – 93 million miles away. The Moon is, on average, 239,000 miles from Earth; it’s just … Read More
God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the … Read More
Most people have been taught that we as humans are nothing more than a product of evolution—-that millions of years ago, you and I were only tiny organisms swimming in a pond. Some would lead us to believe that over time, we began to hang by our tails from trees and eat ants out of … Read More
When we look at the universe in all its vastness, it is easy to think of the Earth as small, and insignificant. However, Earth has some extraordinary characteristics that enable it to survive in a universe that is – for the most part – hostile to life. The Galactic Habitable Zone is an area of … Read More
Mars, known as the red planet is the outermost of the rocky planets. It has a diameter of approximately 4 thousand miles – about half the size of the Earth. Even though it IS much smaller, Mars – a terrestrial planet – has about the same total land area as the Earth because it does … Read More
Every star we see is a burning mass of plasma, similar to the sun. Even so, our Sun is not just any old star. It is a main sequence G2 Here on Earth, we’re about 93 million miles from the Sun. That might sound trivial, but it’s a very important distance. We are situated in … Read More
Genesis 1:16 tells us that the moon was created by God as a light to rule the night. However, some astronomers have taken God out of the picture, and come up with many theories on how the moon could have originated through cosmic evolution. To name a few, The Fission Theory, The Capture Theory, The … Read More
Sir William Herschel was a prominent astronomer of the late 18th and early 19th century. His discovery of Uranus in 1781 brought the number of known planets in our solar system to seven. Totaling over 400 in his lifetime, Herschel’s telescopes became his ultimate passion, and most were designed at his home. He was known … Read More
The German astronomer, Sir William Herschel, would explore the night skies in great detail over the course of his lifetime. The majesty of our Creator’s heavenly handiwork was increasingly revealed through his important discoveries. Quite a grand description of the planet Saturn was expressed by Herschel after careful observations through his telescope: “There is not … Read More
Sir Frederick William Herschel was born in Hanover Germany, in 1738. His father was a musician who encouraged the young Herschel in the art of music, as well as mathematics. Aside from his native tongue of German, he also quickly picked up French, English, and Latin, and at 15, entered military service. With a self-professed … Read More
The practice of astrology involves using stars, planets, and constellations for signs. According to the Biblical record, the sun, moon and stars were to be for signs, seasons, days and years. So, does this make astrology Biblically acceptable? Actually, quite the contrary. One major difference between scriptural signs and the pagan practices of astrology is … Read More
Today, there is a growing trend to elevate nature to the level of the authority of the Holy Bible. Some even reference “The Bible” and “The Book of Nature” as if they were equal. Galileo speaks poetically of the “book of nature”, and indeed, all of God’s creation is like an open book, full of … Read More
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