Today's Creation Moment

While many creatures create structured music – shall we say, songs? – it was thought that only man makes use of objects in the environment to get specific tone qualities. In other words, it was thought only man makes musical instruments. That claim has now been challenged by a frog! Ref: Science News , 12/7/02, p. 356, S. Milius, "Frogs Play Tree."    Photo: Bornean Tree-Hold Frog by Arshiya Urvee...

Scientists have long known that ants lay down scent trails, using pheromones, to mark the trail to goodies for their nest mates. While this is an efficient method for food gathering, it has been found that when a food source is exhausted, the ants leave a "Do not enter" sign that saves fellow ants from wasting time on this trail.   Ref: Science News , 11/26/05, pp. 340-342, S. Milius, "Unway Sign....

All green plants, some algae, and even some bacteria are able to make food out of nothing more than air, water, light and a few minerals. The process is called photosynthesis, and without it we would run out of food to eat as well as oxygen to breathe. Image: Ivy on trellis. Courtesy of R.J. Michaud © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Each one of us can learn about God's way of working with us from a fresh water snail that is often preyed upon by crayfish.  Ref: "Snail's pace picks up if hunted; it gets bigger and lives longer." Minneapolis Star Tribune , Feb. 24, 1990. Photo: Fresh water snails by Jess Van Dyke CCA 3.0 US   © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.  

Throughout the centuries, people have noticed, whether or not they believed in a Creator, that there is a mathematically precise structure to the universe and everything in it.   Ref: Murchie, Guy. 1979. "The exquisite mathematics of nature." Science Digest , Apr. p. 48. Photo: Oak tree foliage and acorns. Courtesy of Nick Shaforostoff. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3...

If all life evolved from, and is related to, earlier forms of life, then closely related animals should also have similar kinds of chemicals in their bodies. As the science of biochemistry has grown, those who believe in evolution have held high hopes that creatures that look similar to each other would also have similar chemicals. For example, insulin from a shark should be more like insulin from...

Most of us have heard a few of the theories that are offered to explain how birds are able to migrate for thousands of miles to an exact spot. The arctic tern migrates 22,000 miles a year to winter in the same spot where it wintered the previous year. But most birds seem to have this amazing ability even if they don't use it as often or to travel as far.   Ref: Cook, Patrick. "How do birds find wh...

  On Creation Moments we regularly look at unusual plants and animals that show the unlimited inventiveness of our Creator. Unusual living things are also fascinating because, since they are clearly unrelated to any other living things, each one is a challenge to evolutionary theory, which says that every living thing is related to other living things. Ref: "Very small flower found in Mexican jung...

  The eye, with its incredibly sensitive color vision, is increasingly being recognized as a marvel as we learn more about how it works. The eye is able to detect the smallest measure of light known to physicists. These units are called photons.   Notes: Discover, 1/06, p. 36, Anne Sasso, "Photosynthesizing Life-Form Exists Without Sunlight."   Image: White smokers at Champagne Vent, Eifuku , Japa...

We at Creation Moments are often asked, where do evolutionists get all those millions of years? It seems they are always finding rocks and fossils that are tens or hundreds of thousands or even millions of years old. Notes: Jackson, Wayne. 1990. "Scientific red faces." Reasoning from Revelation, v. II, n. 1, Jan. p. 3. Image: US Army Star emblem. (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved....

Because we were created by God who values communication and has always desired to communicate with us, we are born with the natural ability to learn and to speak language. Those who believe in evolution usually disbelieve that humans have the natural mental ability to speak, since they think both the ability to speak and language itself evolved. Ref: Kobren, Gerri. 1990. "Tots assemble building bl...

There is a common sense saying in science that when anything can serve as an explanation to support a theory, the theory is not scientific. Image: Pink elephant (Pixabay.com) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Can the dead come back to life? While many scientists assure us that they cannot, the empty grave of Christ assures us that in Him everyone who trusts in His saving work on the cross of Calvary will live bodily with Him forever. When modern science tries to raise doubts about the bodily resurrection of Christ, just keep in mind that science cannot even explain the miracle of the seed. Ref: Pope, J...

Historical science is one branch of human knowledge that consistently supports the biblical record. Notes: Corliss, William R. 1983. "Tornados, Dark Days, Anomalous Precipitation, and Related Weather Phenomena." Glen Arm, MD: The Sourcebook Project. p. 31. Photo: "The Crucifixion" by Simon Vouet (1590-1649). © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.  

Many of the features of the Earth's surface have been formed by the cutting and eroding action of moving water. When you think about how hard rock is compared to water, it's easy to believe that it must have taken hundreds of thousands or even millions of years for water to shape the land. This ignorance about how rapidly water cuts rock has cost people their lives. Notes: Photo: Memorial in the m...

On Creation Moments, we often challenge evolution with examples that show that the creation is carefully and lovingly designed by the Creator. Many of these evidences leave evolutionists silent and unable to respond. But one evidence for design is so powerful, it almost seems unfair for creationists to mention it. Yet they do, as in one release from scientists at the Institute for Creation Researc...

Do you realize that the Bible's own arguments have been stolen by evolutionary scientists in their attempt to prove that there are no such things as miracles? It's past time that Christians reclaim those arguments in order to deflate the doubt that has been created. Notes: Bartz, Paul A. 1990. “The Bible teaches a predictable world – but not naturalism.” Bible Science Newsletter, Mar. p. 10. Paint...

One mystery that has intrigued humans for thousands of years is the location of the Garden of Eden. Even Sunday school children stare at maps and carefully read Genesis 2:814, trying to locate it. But when we wonder where the Garden of Eden was, there are other passages in the Bible that we need to consider. Genesis 3:2324 makes it very clear that God closed the Garden to humans – meaning no one c...

Did you ever wonder why, while there are lots of round and cylindrical living things, there are almost no square plants or animals? Why isn't there any animal that has a skeleton made out of metal? And while there are so many ways for living things to move about, why do almost none of them have wheels? Ref: Wickelgren, Ingrid. 1989. "The mechanics of natural success." Science News, v. 135, June 17...

For generations we have heard that people become criminals and go to prison because of their parents, friends, poverty or society itself. Yet there has always been a majority of people who come from bad homes or poor neighborhoods who have lived responsible lives. Notes: "Exposing the criminal mind." Science 84, Sept. 1984. p. 84. Image: US Disciplinary barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. © 2024 C...

As spring comes to the temperate areas of the northern hemisphere, one of the first signs of spring is the blossom of the Lion's Tooth. This bright yellow flower is also called the Irish daisy, priest's crown, peasant's cloak and yellow gowan. Its other name appears on the sides of bags of lawn care chemicals – the dandelion. Notes: "A weed by any other name." Science 83, Apr. 1983. p. 82. Image:...

The language is so logical and precisely structured that it is being used to create a programming language that a computer can understand. Unlike most languages of the world, this language has few irregular verbs, no prepositions and almost no exceptions to strict grammatical rules. What would take a long sentence to say in most languages can be said in only a few words in this language. Ref: "Com...

How long have people been living on Earth? The evolutionist says millions of years. Bible believing Christians generally say only about 6,000 years. But the answer to this question is amazingly simple. Ref: Weigand, Cleone H. 1985. "Morality remains the best way to stem population growth." Milwaukee Journal ,  Apr. 14. Map: World map (Pixabay.com)   © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

The water flea fills one of the lowest spots on the food chain. What this means is that even though the water flea is concerned about little else than going about his business, just about everyone else in the pond is interested in eating him. Ref: Fellman, Bruce. "Quickchange flea." Science 84. p. 76. Image: Evadne spinifera (PD) © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Evolutionists say that human beings evolved from an ape like creature. And how do they claim to know this? Because they find various kinds of apes in the fossil record. As one would expect, some of these apes are a little – and I stress, a little – more like us than others. They are all more like apes than like us. But evolutionists will tell us that those apes that are a little more like humans a...