Can Christians Believe In Dinosaurs?

Can Christians Believe In Dinosaurs? | David Rives

Can I be a Bible-believing Christian and believe in dinosaurs? You know, the kind of dinosaurs we see in the movies? Right, you know those scary ones that lived millions of years ago, killed everything in sight, and then inexplicably turned into birds after all dying in a meteor explosion? Well, maybe not those… See, … Read More

Metamorphosis: Life Lessons From A Butterfly?

What can a butterfly tell you about your life? When you see a butterfly fluttering from flower to flower in your backyard, you probably don’t stop to marvel at how that butterfly got there, but you should! Butterflies don’t start out very elegantly. They begin as a tiny caterpillar hatching out of an egg on … Read More

Erasmus Darwin – The Evolution of Evolution | David Rives

Evolutionary ideas are all around us. Every time you turn on the TV, watch the news, or read a science magazine you will more than likely find evolutionary content. How did this philosophy become so popular that it literally took over science? Most people picture Charles Darwin as an unbiased naturalist who discovered evolutionary ideas … Read More

The Pantheon of Atheism

Atheism Is A Religion | david Rives

The intellectual atheist claims that he has no need for God. But in reality, he has created himself a Pantheon of gods. The three supreme deities being the god of natural selection, the god of time, and the god of spontaneous generation. It seems like it is the atheist’s religion. Where do you place your … Read More

Mount St. Helens: Young Earth Proof

Mount St. Helens: Young Earth Proof | David Rives

May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted and the blast flattens the forest for a radius of up to 7 miles long. Some trees were sheared off and landed in Spirit Lake. When these trees became waterlogged they sank upright into mud and debris. This is exactly what we are told takes millions of years … Read More

The Most Complex Computer in the World | David Rives

The most complex computer ever designed and developed is the human brain! It is more sophisticated than the world wide web put together. We are not the result of accidents over millions of years, we were designed intelligently. We were wonderfully and fearfully made!

Matthew Fontaine Maury – Inspired by God | David Rives

After becoming ill, Matthew Fontaine Maury’s daughter read him a passage of the Bible. This passage, Psalm 8, stuck in his mind: ‘ … whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas’. Matthew Maury knew if the Bible said there were paths of the sea then there must be paths of the sea. And, he … Read More

Human Population Problem | David Rives

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

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

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

? 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

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 Antimatter? | David Rives

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

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

Your Microbiome and You | David RIves

Your Microbiome and You | David Rives

God designed His creation to work together. Just think about how many systems in nature involve multiple parts or a variety of organisms functioning together; photosynthesis requires the sun and the plant; the water cycle needs the sun, water vapor, and liquid water; decomposition involves plants or dead animals, scavengers, fungi, and microbes. Each part … Read More

The Incredible Design of the Human Foot | David Rives

Did you know you were designed to run around barefoot? Genesis tells us that originally Adam and Eve were created naked. It wasn’t until after sin that clothes—and eventually shoes—came into being. But when we shed our shoes we see that God’s design is the best. An incredible 25% of the bones in your body … Read More

Could All Of The Animals Fit On Noah’s Ark? | David Rives

Many skeptics of the Bible, and even fellow Christians, have wondered how Noah could’ve fit all the millions of modern animal species on the Ark. He would have needed a fleet of cargo ships! But Noah didn’t take all the species on the Ark! Noah was only commanded to take every kind of land-dwelling, air-breathing … Read More

The Marvel of Taste | David Rives

The richness and variety of foods, flavors, and combinations of those flavors is perhaps one of our Creator’s greatest gifts to us. He didn’t just give us foods that contain the basic nutrients for life so that we could stay alive. He gave us thousands of different fruit, vegetable, grain, and meat options, spices and … Read More

Is Genesis History? | David Rives

Here at David Rives Ministries, we talk a lot about Genesis and how easy it is to read and understand the first book of the Bible. Now, Christians have many different ways that they look at Genesis and a part of our ministry is encouraging them that we don’t have to relegate Genesis to mere … Read More

The Origin of Languages | David Rives

After Noah and his family got off the Ark God gave them a simple command, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.” But just two chapters later we read the response of Noah’s descendants, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a … Read More

Exploring The Nose | David Rives

Has a vague scent in the air ever caught your attention? You know you’ve smelled it somewhere before but you just don’t know where? Well, our sense of smell is incredible and many scents are strongly linked with memories. The average adult can distinguish 10,000 different scents from baking bread, to a favorite perfume, to … Read More