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Why Are There So Many Kinds Of Rocks? | David Rives

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I was studying some geological formations not long ago, and started wondering why we have so many different types of rocks and soils. Surely God could have created the Earth with a few basic minerals? Why so much variety? That got me to thinking: why do I have a red sweater and a blue one? … Read More

Too Much Helium? Geology and the Bible | David Rives

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Why should you believe in creation, and not evolution? I mean, scientifically speaking. Haven’t we proven that evolution is a fact? The foundation for evolutionary ideas about the past is millions of years. Without the millions of years, it’s utterly impossible for evolution to have happened. Now, most people just take for granted that the … Read More

Why Is There Beauty In Design? | David Rives

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Think about it: There’s great functionality in design. Take, for instance, a skyscraper or an ice cream cone. Both are designed to efficiently contain some element. One allows a scoop of ice cream to be held in an edible container, while the other design allows a relatively small footprint on the ground to hold thousands … Read More

Why Is The Sky Blue? | David Rives

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Have you ever looked up at an almost cloudless blue sky and wondered at the expanse above you? The air around us is transparent—so invisible it’s easy to forget it’s even there—but somehow in the sunshine it turns blue. What’s going on? And, why blue? Physics gives us some fascinating answers! If we were standing … Read More

Orion: The Great Hunter | David rives

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According to Greek mythology, – Orion, – the son of Poseidon, was blinded by OnOpion, – afterwards seeking Helios the sun god to be healed. During the course of his hunting expeditions, – he threatened to kill all the living animals, and was subsequently killed himself by a giant scorpion. After his death we’re told … Read More

Charles Messier: The Catalog of Space | DAvid Rives

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Picking up an astronomy magazine, one might find a photo of the gorgeous Messier 42 or come across the spectacular Messier 13. Search the web for galaxies, and you might see Messier 101, or come across Messier 51. But what is this Messier, and what does it mean? Charles Messier was a Frenchman who lived … Read More

The Pleiades: Seven Sisters | David Rives

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Everyone’s familiar with the Trojan horse, but you might be asking: “what does the Trojan horse have to do with astronomy”. Well, Virgil wrote of the Trojan horse and the Trojan wars and Homer did also, in 750 B.C., in the Iliad and Odyssey. Both Homer and Virgil also wrote of the Pleiades or the … Read More

The Whirlpool Galaxy | David Rives

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Situated in the constellation Canes Venatici, we find the breathtaking Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as M51. This stunning object in the night sky appears as one large spiral galaxy feeding into another much smaller one. The primary galaxy was discovered by Charles Messier in 1774, however, its companion galaxy was not discovered until 1781 by … Read More

How To Wash Your Hands | David Rives

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The Bible speaks of health practices including a reference to bathing in running water. Today, we realize that still water is less efficient at washing away germs and microbes. That’s the reason we wash our hands under a faucet of running water. But this knowledge of germs is fairly recent within the scientific community. Through … Read More

DRM Entering 11th year In Ministry

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Hello friends,I want to say Thank You for remembering David Rives Ministries in the 2018 year end giving season! Without the prayers and financial support of precious people like you we could not continue this important work. We were so humbled by the outpouring of prayers and financial support received during the Thanksgiving holiday and … Read More

The Crab Nebula | David Rives

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The Crab Nebula, also known as Messier 1, was the very first of 110 objects to be catalogued by the French astronomer Charles Messier. He mistook this nebula for a comet upon first observation, and thus began the famous Messier catalogue. This colorful nebula is quite bright, and fairly easy to spot using a moderately … Read More

The Lion: King Of The Jungle – David Rives

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The male lion proudly bears the name “king of the jungle.” But, while they are apex predators and deserve the title “king,” most lions don’t live in the jungle. Instead, they live and hunt on the sub-Saharan savannahs in Africa. But, like so many of the animals we automatically associate with Africa, there is a … Read More

Human Population Problem | David Rives

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Why should you believe in creation, and not evolution? I mean, scientifically speaking. Haven’t we proven that evolution is a fact? Over one million years ago modern humans arrived on the planet, or so the evolutionary story goes. Now have you ever wondered where all the people are if humans have been around for over … Read More

What is a Quark? | David Rives

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To discover what a quark is, you’ve got to think small. Really, really small. So everything in the universe is made up of atoms. Your body, your dinner, your driveway, all the stars in the night sky—they’re all made of atoms. And atoms are made of three tiny subatomic particles; protons, neutrons, and electrons. We’re … Read More

The Four Fundamental Forces | David Rives

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There are four fundamental forces of nature that govern the way things operate. Many scientists think that perhaps, one day, a unified field theory will be developed that will bring all four forces together but that hasn’t happened yet. So here are the four fundamental forces: The gravitational force. This is the one you’re probably … Read More

Don’t Self-Feed The Ducks | David Rives

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? The atheist Richard Dawkins once proposed a very interesting idea. He said that he believed that ducks and hawks evolved quickly through a self-feeding mechanism of necessity. Let me explain what self-feeding is: Okay, so an easy example of this would be an arms race or the space race. If someone develops an advanced … Read More

What is a Black Hole? | David Rives

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How do you detect something out in space that’s invisible? Well, you observe how the objects near it behave. This gives you clues about the nature of the invisible body. And that’s exactly how scientists have discovered and described black holes. Black holes are not visible through standard technology or telescopes, even though they’ve been … Read More

What is a Quasar? | David Rives

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In the 1950s astronomers were using radio telescopes to learn more about the heavens and they discovered something very strange. These objects, which they named “quasi-stellar objects” (Quasars for short), were small but extremely bright despite being very, very, very far away. What were they? Well, future research revealed Quasars are feeding black holes or … Read More

What is Antimatter? | David Rives

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One of the greatest mysteries in secular physics is why there isn’t much antimatter to be found anywhere in our universe. What is antimatter? Well, it’s particles that share the same mass as matter but with opposite qualities. That means if matter has a positive charge, antimatter will have a negative charge. Basically, antimatter is … Read More

Nature's Sport's Car | David Rives

Nature’s Sports Car | David Rives

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The fastest land animal in the world makes its home on the Savannahs in Africa alongside elephants, hippos, and rhinos. A very small population of a sub-species also lives in eastern Iran. That mammal, of course, is the Cheetah. This big cat is famous for its speed. While hunting it can reach top speeds of … Read More

The Eye: A Masterpiece of God | David Rives

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Eyes have been called the “windows to the soul” because we use them to express emotion and they are quite beautiful. These are secondary functions but still very important. Our eye’s most important function, of course, is giving us vision. So how does this work? We have two lenses, called the cornea and lens proper, … Read More

What is a Pulsar? | David Rives

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If you ask the average person to name some things found in “outer space” they’ll probably name the moon, stars, planets, and maybe asteroids and comets. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg of the incredible diversity found throughout the cosmos. Today let’s look at pulsars. We’ve only known about pulsars since the 1960’s, … Read More