Today's Creation Moment

Tropical passion vines have a unique defense against insects that would nibble on their leaves. Its leaves contain sealed packets of cyanide that are made inactive by being linked with sugar molecules. There are other sealed packets with an enzyme that releases the sugar molecules, activating the cyanide. When an insect chews on the leaves, both packets are broken, the cyanide is activated and ano...

Many people have wondered at the abilities of savants. These are people who have very low intelligence, yet they can do seemingly impossible mental tasks. Some savants have been able to instantly name the day of the week when given any date within the last 6,000 years. Others have been able to instantly give a correct solution to tedious mathematical calculations. Could such abilities reflect a th...

The fact that they must breathe air would seem to limit sea creatures like whales, dolphins and sea turtles. But these creatures are so well designed that their abilities amaze even the most informed scientists.  Ref: "Yertle:1, Orca: 0." Discover , Sept. 1987. p. 14.   Photo: Leatherback turtle at Sandy Point National Wildlife Reserve (NWR) (PD)   © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.    

While many people think that the octopus is an ugly creature, the octopus is intelligent. The mother octopus puts a lot of love and effort into the care of her young.   Ref: Ruggieri, George D., with Norman David Rosenberg. 1978. "The healing sea." Science Digest , Aug. p. 18.    Photo: A Pacific Giant Octopus (PD)   © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.                

Bee-eaters are birds whose way of life and behavior are both intelligent and unusual. Bee-eaters make their living catching and eating bees and wasps with stingers. The poison in many of these stinging insects is powerful enough to kill bee-eaters, but the birds are not only skilled at avoiding stings, they know how to remove the poison from the bee when they eat it.  Ref: Clanbake.  Natural Histo...

Several years ago, Canadian and U.S. papers were filled with the results of polls in both countries that tested members of the public by asking some scientific questions. The problem is, both polls were heavily stacked with questions that resulted in so-called "wrong" answers if the respondent didn't believe in evolution. Since more than 10 percent of the questions dealt with evolution, we can ass...

Do you and I think? Or do we just  think that we think? If you believe that we were created by God, your answer to that question will be that we actually do think. But if you believe that life is just a chemical accident, you might agree with those evolutionists who actually believe that we do not think. We only think we think.   Ref: Hoffman, Paul. 1987. "Your mindless brain." Discover , Sept. p....

The aspirin tablet has been hailed as the miracle drug of the twentieth century. Although it took the twentieth century to flavor, coat and stamp little letters on aspirin, people have been using aspirin for centuries. The most common form in which aspirin has been taken is as willow bark tea.   Ref: Shodell, Michael. 1983. "The prostaglandin connection."  Science 83 . p. 78. Photo: Aspirin (Pixab...

Scientists have found that the usual explanation for lightning is not quite true. School children are taught that as a cloud moves through the air it picks up electrical charge because of turbulence. This eventually causes lightning.   Ref: Lampe, David. 1978. "Lightning research strikes a windfall." Science Digest , Apr. p. 25. Photo: Lightning strikes during the eruption of the Galunggung volcan...

Inside your body there is a large and amazing family of chemical workers who, although they usually last less than a minute, make life possible. There are so many different kinds of these chemicals, called prostaglandins, that science is just beginning to learn how important they are to life. Ref: Shodell, Michael. 1983. "The prostaglandin connection." Science 83 . p. 78. Photo: Scanning electron...

The surface of the Earth 50 to 150 feet below the great living canopy of the rainforest is a dark, humid, still world dominated by great columns of tree trunks. Within those trunks and some of the giant hollow branches extending from them lie the secret of the life of the canopy itself.   Ref: Perry, Donald. "Life in the treetops." 1978. Science Digest , Oct. p. 26. Photo: Rodrigues fruit bat. Pix...

Today, lasers do many important jobs in manufacturing and medicine in addition to serving in weapons that once existed only in the minds of science-fiction writers. But if our small imaginations can think of amazing things, we shouldn't be surprised to learn that our Creator's limitless imagination can think of even more incredible things. As science studies the handiwork of the Creator, we are le...

Evolutionary scientists have been amazed by the discovery that the very oldest artifacts left by humans indicate written language and mathematical ability. Creationists, on the other hand, are as pleased as can be at the findings, since they predicted that it would be possible to find that humans have had language throughout their history on Earth. After all, they were created by the Word of God –...

Can ants count? It seems so! When scout ants find an item of food, they take it back to the nest. If the food item is especially good but too big to carry, the scout will return to the nest to get help. Scientists have discovered that ants apparently size up the task ahead before getting help so they can return with enough help, but not too much.   Photo: Fire Ants (PD)   © 2024 Creation Moments....

When an engineer builds a building, a bridge, or some other structure, he must build it so that it can withstand both stretching and compressing forces. In designing the structure to withstand both kinds of these forces, he must anticipate how much of each force the structure might face in its lifetime. Photo: Study of Skeletons , c. 1510, by Leonardo da Vinci.   © 2024 Creation Moments. All right...

In our rapidly modernizing world, engineers are kept busy solving problems. Take, for example, all of the various kinds of transportation. There are millions of problems in this area alone that keep engineers busy inventing better solutions.   Illustration: Sagittal section of right knee joint. (PD)   © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Ants love to work and live in sunlight. They will spend hours clearing their little backyards of leaves and even plants and shrubs. Ants are also known to wander far from their local area. One scientist from the University of California tagged ants with colored dyes and then watched their meanderings. No matter how far they wandered, they didn't seem to get lost.    Photo: Leaf-cutter ant by Charl...

Do evolutionists believe that life always becomes more complex and sophisticated? Does evolution ever go backward? Photo: French-born Belgian paleontologist Louis Dollo (1857-1931).   © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Have you ever noticed that many who believe in evolution depict early humans as so primitive that they had to live in caves while many kinds of animals build much more sophisticated shelters? This inconsistent thinking is built on the evolutionary assumption that intelligence, like everything else, has evolved. Creatures that evolutionists think evolved much earlier must be less intelligent. Ref:...

The entire forty-first chapter of the book of Job describes a creature called "leviathan." As in his earlier description of "behemoth," the Lord is impressing Job with the wisdom and might of His creating power. Photo: Restoration of Tylosaurus proriger with a tail fluke by Dmitry Bogdanov   CCA 3.0   © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Most of us have heard of plants like the Venus flytrap and the pitcher plant, which eat meat, even if we've never seen one. But did you know that there are mushrooms that also eat meat?   Photo: Courtesy of Jean-Pol Grandmont, Sept. 2006_CCA BY SA 3.0.   © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Some Christians believe that God's words in Genesis 1:3, "Let there be light" are a biblical description of the Big Bang that some scientists say created the universe. But, perhaps, we Christians should be a little more careful about assuming that modern science knows very much about the origin of the universe.   Ref: "Galaxy clumps may shed light on cosmic creation." Minneapolis Star Tribune, Feb...

For generations it was a rule that reptiles were cold-blooded. And turtles, being reptiles, were therefore called cold-blooded as well. Being cold-blooded, it was expected that the body temperature of turtles would be close to that of the surrounding water. Ref: Discovery. Bible Science Newsletter , Apr. 1973, p. 2. Image; Leatherback turtle. (PD)   © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

We have all seen it many times. A mother walking in a crowd with a small child loses track of her child and begins calling and searching for the little one. But can you imagine a crowd of 70 million mothers and children all looking for each other? Ref: "Some mothers don't forget their children." Science 84 , June. p. 8. Image: Mexican Free-tailed bat (PD)   © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights rese...

We all learned about photosynthesis at school. For this particular chemical reaction to take place, you need the chemical chlorophyll together with the essential ingredient, sunlight. For thousands of years, man has known that for green plants to prosper, they need the sunlight.   Ref: Discover , 1/06, p. 36, Anne Sasso, "Photosynthesizing Life-Form Exists Without Sunlight." Image: White smokers a...