Today's Creation Moment

We've all been taught that fish are cold-blooded. In many people's thinking, perhaps the most cold-blooded of all is the shark. However, scientists have discovered that four types of sharks can raise their internal body temperatures. Why and how they do this offers a powerful witness to the love and provision of the Creator.    Note; "The Fire in the Belly of the Beast." Discover, Feb. 1988, p. 8....

A large, sophisticated concrete floor has recently been discovered in China. The floor dates to a period that, not long ago, evolutionists called the "Stone Age."  Notes: L. Smart. 1986. "Scientists find ancient concrete." The Herald (New Britain, CT), January 25, p. 11. Photo: Boston City Hall, completed in 1968, was constructed largely of concrete. (PD).   © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights res...

Fireflies in southeast Asia regularly put on a show like that seldom seen from fireflies in the rest of the world. These fireflies have an ability found only among humans.    Notes: Ivars Peterson. 1991. "Step in time." Science News, Vol. 140. August 31, pp. 136-137. Photo: Photinus pyralis, common eastern USA firefly by PhotoFramer CC BY SA 2.0.   © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.  

There is no room in the harsh realities of evolution for selflessness. For example, evolution says if I help you, I do so because I'm going to get something for myself. Likewise, what appears to be friendly behavior among animals is said to be only an evolutionary adaptation designed to preserve an animal's genetic code. But research is leading some to question this harsh materialism.    Ref: "Ant...

Mammoths and mastodons were distant relatives to the elephant. There is a great deal of debate over when they became extinct and why.    Ref: "What Is a Fossil?"  The Rich, Rich Desert . Student Handout. Photo: Skeleton of Columbian mammoth, Mammuthus columbi , in the George C. Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, California. Taken by WolfmanSF and licensed under the Creative Commons...

Many kinds of birds collect and store food for later use. However, scientists recently reported that the female red-cockaded woodpecker collects, stores and appropriately uses a dietary mineral supplement as well.  Ref: "Red-cockaded Woodpeckers Stash Bone." Science News , August 31, 1991. P. 143. Painting: Female red-cockaded woodpecker on right. (PD)   © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserve...

When talking about a baby's expected time of birth, we have all heard someone say, "The baby will come when it's ready." While that might not sound very scientific, new research shows that the statement is probably scientifically accurate. The infant, not the mother, seems to control the start of the birth process for mother and infant.  Ref: Fackelmann, K. "A Fetus Tells Mother: It's Time for Lab...

In Deuteronomy 27:2-8, we read of how Moses instructed Joshua to build an altar on Mt. Ebal after the Israelites had entered the Promised Land. There, the people were to sacrifice and give thanks to the Lord.   Ref: Machlin, Milt. "Joshua and the Archaeologist." Reader's Digest, Sept. p. 135-138.   Image: Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal map. (PD)   © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.      

All of us are familiar with using bait to lure prey. Both live and artificial bait are used to catch fish. Stores lure shoppers with sale prices. The use of both bait and camouflage is an even more sophisticated activity. The duck hunter not only hides in a blind, disguised to look like the natural surroundings, but he sets decoys around him to make it look as if the area is safe for ducks.  Ref:...

If you are like most people, you may not care whether spiders feel pain. However, because of the way spiders are designed, their ability to feel pain has implications for many other creatures.  Ref: "The Sensitive Spider."  Science 83 . P. 6. Photo: Ambush bug, taken by Iron Chris, licensed under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2.   © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Many creatures have complex and beautiful mating rituals. However, few are more wondrous or dramatic than the firefleas' ritual.    Ref: "Romantic Lighting."  Discover , Feb. 1988. P. 16. See also http://books.google.com/books?id=DNrTfH5PcWoC&pg=PA49. Illustration: Cypridina   mediterranea. (PD)   © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.  

Ouch! You've just gotten a paper cut on your finger. What's the first thing you do? If you're like most people, you'll probably put your finger in your mouth. If you think about it, you probably have no idea why you put your finger into your mouth. Actually, when a dog licks its wounds or you put your paper cut ravaged finger in your mouth, you are beginning medical treatment.   Ref: "An Aid to He...

  The monarch caterpillar feeds on milkweed. Milkweed manufactures a powerful toxin that can, in most cases, stop the heart of any creature who eats enough of it. However, the monarch caterpillar itself is unharmed by this poison. In fact, the caterpillar stores the poison in its body, and this poison remains even after the caterpillar has turned into a butterfly.  Ref: Walker, Tim. "Butterflies a...

Despite modern medical advancements, pain management remains a difficult problem today. Man has used various forms of aspirin to manage pain for thousands of years. While more potent drugs can be used today, our primary approach to pain has changed little over the millennia. Recent advancements now promise to show us how to deal directly with many forms of pain.                                    ...

According to the claims of evolutionists, the dawn redwood trees lived from the time of the dinosaurs until about two million years ago. Then they became extinct. At the very same time this was the official scientific teaching, Chinese rice farmers were planting the tree because it was a good indicator of fertile rice fields.    Ref: Wolf, Thomas H. "The Object at Hand." Smithsonian , Sept. 1990....

It can be forty feet long. It can have many mouths and just as many stomachs. It swims along in the darkness more than 1,500 feet beneath the sea, reaching out for food with its lethal tentacles.      Ref: Discover , February, 1986.   Illustration: Siphonophore (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.    

How long does it take to petrify wood? Scientists who believe in those millions and billions of years that evolutionists are always talking about have never tested the answer to this question. They simply assumed that it must take hundreds or thousands of years to petrify wood. It wasn't until the 1970s that scientists bothered to explore this question.    Ref: Chittick, Donald E. The Controversy...

It is always as dark as night 2,000 feet beneath the ocean's surface. Yet, a rich variety of life thrives in the darkness. The strategies for life, however, are quite different far beneath the waves.  Ref: Discover , February, 1986. P. 67.   Picture: Jellyfish by Pexel (Pixabay.com)   © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.    

Back in the 1990s, new fossil discoveries in China were greeted by evolutionists as among the most spectacular of the century. The fossils, said evolutionists, represented some of the earliest multicelled creatures. Evolutionists publicized these fossils as evidence for evolution. However, it's not difficult to see how these fossils support creation rather than evolution. Evolutionists admit that...

The relationships between two or more creatures are sometimes so well-designed and complex that there is no conceivable way that they could have evolved.  Sacculina carcini is a microscopic crustacean that begins life as a free-swimming larva. The female first seeks out a crab for a host then she searches for a tiny hole in the crab's leg joint. Finding one, she inserts a hollow tube through the h...

Research is showing that we can forget just about everything we ever learned about how we taste food. To begin with, we don't taste with our tongues but with our brains. Remember those tongue maps that we all learned about in school? They show that we taste sweet on the tips of our tongues, salt and sour flavors on the sides, and bitter tastes at the back of our tongues. In truth, research shows t...

Evolutionary scientists are often hard‑pressed to explain human or even superhuman-like intelligence in animals. For example, let's say that you last saw your child when she was four months old. It is now four years later. Are you certain you could pick out your child in a room full of a hundred four‑year‑old little girls?  Ref:  Science News, 7/29/00, p. 69, "Mom, is that you? Seals show family r...

The Bible mentions "the fountains of the deep" several times. During the Flood, we are told, God opened the fountains of the deep, suggesting seismic activity. When God ended the flooding, we are told that God closed the fountains of the deep, suggesting that they continue to exist, albeit with less water than at creation. In 1997, scientists said that they may have found an astonishing reservoir...

How big is the largest living organism on Earth? We all know that the giant Redwoods of California grow larger than any whale. However, there are other living organisms that dwarf even the Redwoods. Ref: Minneapolis Star Tribune , 8/5/00, p. A17, "2,400‑year‑old Oregon fungus is largest living organism." Photo: Strawberry Lake in Malheur National Forest, Oregon. (PD)   © 2024 Creation Moments. All...

New archaeological evidence supports the factuality of the Greek legend about the prophet, or oracle, of Delphi.   Ref: National Post Online , "The oracle of Delphi – high on ethylene?" Photo: View of Delphi, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.   © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.