Today's Creation Moment

The fact that man is by nature a religious creature was underscored with the discovery of the oldest known religious sanctuary in the world. The shrine was discovered in northern Spain. Evolutionists say that the shrine was built by early Stone Age man. In terms of biblical history, the sanctuary was probably built by some of the first post-flood settlers in Spain.    REF.: C. Simon. 1981. Stone-a...

We don't often associate aggressive behavior and the need to fight with butterflies. Rather we think of bright, beautiful creatures that decorate nature and always seem to cheer people up.    REF.: L. Langley. Butterfly Colors: Alluring or Alarming? Science News , Vol. 121. P. 38.   Photo: Swallowtail, taken by creationist and photographer Robert Zuvich. Used by permission.   © 2024 Creation Momen...

When we hear about the "cave man" and the "Stone Age" most people think of Neandertal man. Popularly called "Neanderthal," the preferred usage today is Neandertal. When we think of Neandertal, most people think of a large, brutish, hairy, bent-over creature that looks like a cross between an ape and a human. Who, in fact, was Neandertal?    Photo:   Neanderthal man reconstruction – Werner Ustorf C...

The modern, educated person often tends to look down on previous generations. Many people seem convinced that if we look back 1,000 or 2,000 years, some measurable evolutionary improvement in man must have taken place over so much time.    REF.: A New Old Remedy. Discover , August 1985. Photo: 19th-century illustration of Cinchona calisaya, the plant from which we get Quinine. (PD)   © 2024 Creati...

When little or no oxygen is dissolved in the blood of most animals or humans, death quickly follows. The chemistry by which our cells generate energy to stay alive needs oxygen. When oxygen runs short, a second, temporary, energy-producing system kicks in. This system doesn't need oxygen, but it produces lactic acid that can kill living cells. Therefore, this second energy system is an emergency m...

Because it is sometimes connected to New Age religion, acupuncture is often seen as something negative. However, stripped of its pagan mumbo-jumbo, acupuncture has a sound medical basis.    Ref: "It's Nature's Way of Saying, Whoa!" Science 84 , Dec., p. 6. Photo: Acupuncture chart from the Ming Dynasty. (PD)   © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.    

  We are all familiar with evolution's battle cry of survival of the fittest. Another way of putting it is that evolution favors the selfish. Ref: Bruce Fellman. 1992. "Looking Out for Number One." Natural Wildlife , Dec.-Jan., pp. 46-49. Photo: Acorn woodpecker with hoard, taken by Johnath and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.   © 2024 Creation Mome...

    Many who reject the Creator work hard to try to prove that He doesn't exist. Creationists argue that the creation is so well designed that it must have a Designer. After all, a watch is much simpler than a bumblebee. If a watch needs a Designer and builder, so does a bumblebee.    Ref: Bert Thompson, Ph. D. 1991. "Evolution's 'New' Argument- Suboptimality." Reason and Revelation , Vol. XI, No....

Scientists who are working on newer and better materials out of which to make things are concentrating their attention on ceramics. Ceramics do not break or wear as easily as other materials, including metals. High temperatures don't cause them to weaken. Some ceramics have even shown the promise of bringing about another revolution in electronics. Ceramics have one major problem, though. They are...

The human brain is like a network in which each brain cell is connected to thousands of other brain cells. Scientists have long suspected that this unique design helps give the human brain its intellectual power.  Ref: E. Pennisi. 1992. "Neural-net Neighbors Learn From Each Other." Science News , Jan. 11, p. 23, Paula Rooney. 1990. "Neural Nets Breed Applications-But Not EE Employment." EDN , Oct....

Today, people regularly travel a thousand miles in modern airliners. A thousand miles is a long day's drive, but it can be done. We would never think of walking or riding a horse that far.    Ref: Wayne Jackson. 1991. "Archaeology and Abraham's Journey." Reasoning From Revelation , Vol. III, No. 11. Nov., p. 22. Photo: The  Standard of Ur  mosaic depicts peacetime, from the royal tombs of Ur. (PD)...

The White-fronted bee-eater is an East African bird that lives in clans of up to fourteen members.  Ref: Bruce Fellman. 1992. "Looking Out for Number One." National Wildlife , Dec.-Jan., pp. 46-49. Photo used by permission of Luc Viatour. Licensed under the  GNU Free Documentation License , Version 1.2. © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.    

The painted turtle is found farther north than any other turtle in North America. During their first year of life, painted turtles survive temperatures as cold as 18 degrees Fahrenheit.   Ref: Janet M. Storey and Kenneth B. Storey. "Out Cold." Natural History . January, 1992, pp. 23-25.   Photo: Frontal shot of painted turtle. (PD)   © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.    

One would not think that a brightly colored, relatively slow butterfly has much of a chance against a bird moving in for lunch. But you would be surprised. Scientists were.    Ref: James H. Marden. "Newton's Second Law Of Butterflies." Natural History 1/92, pp. 54-60. Photo: Butterfly (PD)   © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.  

When they flower, some plants actually generate their own heat. The voodoo lily can raise its temperature by 25 degrees. As it does so, it releases a scent that attracts the beetles that pollinate it.    Ref: "Do Do That Voodoo That You Do So Well." Discover , Feb. 1988, p. 10. Photo: Corpse Flower by Sailing Moose – CC BY SA 4.0 Wikipedia.   © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.  

Do you think that people are generally out to benefit themselves at your expense? Or are you someone who usually makes sure that you get what you feel is your share, even if it's at someone else's expense? Research shows that our mental attitudes can shorten our lives.  Ref: "Only the Hostile Die Young." Discover , February 1988, p. 15. Image; Question Marks – Pixabay (PD)   © 2024 Creation Moment...

A spider's venom paralyzes its victim, keeping the victim fresh, yet immobile. Spider venom does this by slowing or stopping the work of a chemical called glutamate, which controls muscle movement in insects. Glutamate is also an important messenger chemical in the human brain.    Ref: Elizabeth Pennisi. "Spider Toxins May Take Bite Out of Strokes." Science News , Vol. 139, p. 270. Illustration: H...

How does the brain remember what it learns? What happens when you think? Is your mind the same as your brain?    Ref: Paul D. Ackerman. 1990. In God's Image After All: How Psychology Supports Biblical Creationism , pp. 68-73. Image: Brain – Pixabay (PD)   © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.    

Scientists have been studying the different ways in which insects move, hoping to discover a better way to design mobile robots. In doing this they have inadvertently recognized the wisdom and creativity of the Creator, even though they may not care to admit His existence.    Ref: E. Pennisi. 1991. "Scoot Scramble and Roll." Science News, Vol. 140, Nov. 30, p. 363. Photo: Cockroach shortly after m...

According to evolution, dinosaurs developed tens of millions of years before horses and were extinct long before the first horse galloped across the countryside. According to the Bible, however, horses and the land dinosaurs were made on the same day. This means that it should be possible to find evidence of horses in the same rocks as we find dinosaurs. Such a discovery would be a challenge to ev...

During the mid-1980s, the residents at the north end of San Francisco Bay began complaining about a strange droning noise coming from the Bay. During the months of July and August, the odd noise started after sunset and continued until sunrise. People living on houseboats found that the noise disrupted their sleep.    Ref: John E. McC. 1986. "In Sum, it was Some Hum." Discover , June, pp. 67-71. P...

There is a blind spot where the optic nerve enters the retina of your eye. Yet, we don't see a hole in our field of vision. Scientists always thought that this was because our brain simply ignores the ever-present blind spot. Research has shown that an even more complex system erases that blind spot.  Ref: B. Bower. "Vision System Puts Eyesight in Blind Spots."  Science News , Vol. 139, p. 262. Ph...

    All of us learned in school that the fierce Tyrannosaurus Rex was the largest of the meat eaters. He was large enough to reach into a second story window with his five-foot-long head and grab a person with his six-inch-long teeth. Longer than a railroad boxcar, he probably weighed about ten tons!   Ref: Richard Monasters Key. 1991. "A Tyrannosaurus' Troubled Past." Science News , November 9, p...

When human beings think that they have found mistakes in the Bible, they are eventually judged by their own words. Beneath old Jerusalem lies a complex, ancient water supply system. However, archaeologists have long considered it to be poorly designed. Worse, they said that the biblical account of David's capture of Jerusalem was in error since it mentioned water tunnels that didn't exist in his t...

I remember reading in grade school that the human appendix is a useless organ. My textbook said that scientists thought that the appendix was once used to help digest the tree bark that our supposed ape-like ancestors ate. Does the human body have "extra" parts? Do we have organs that we no longer use because we have evolved away from needing them? Ref: Jerry Bergman, Ph. D. Vestigial Organs – A B...