Today's Creation Moment

Scientists have known for some time that hummingbirds prefer bright-colored flowers. On the other hand, all of us know that white is most easily seen at night. That means that moths that pollinate flowers will more easily find white flowers. The question is: What is a flower to do when it is pollinated by hummingbirds during part of its flowering season and by night-flying moths later in its flowe...

Bats are among the most underappreciated and misunderstood creatures in the entire world. Yet, they are most worthy of our appreciation. Nearly all of the 1,400 species of  bats eat either insects or fruit, only three type of Central and South American bats feeds on blood – usually the blood of cattle.

Many of us have heard the old legend about why Christopher Columbus was told he could not sail too far west. According to the legend, Columbus was repeatedly told that he could not sail west to India because the Earth was flat. If he sailed too far, he would fall off the edge. That story was a piece of fiction cooked up by Washington Irving in the 1830s.

Tucked neatly beneath the ribs, your liver performs more than 500 different tasks. It is a vital link between your heart, lungs and digestive system.

The amazing structure of the honeycomb has fascinated scientists for thousands of years. In the third century, the astronomer and geometer Pappus of Alexandria became the first to offer an explanation for why the honeycomb has a hexagonal shape. Photo: Honeycomb with eggs and larvae. Courtesy of Waugsberg. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2.

How old did the Earth look five years after the creation? Geologists tell us that it takes hundreds of thousands of years to wear down new rock into sand and soil and for the sea to cut a beach. If this was true, one would not expect to see beaches or soil on an Earth that was only five years old. Or would we?

Even though it's a mammal and not a fish, the Weddell seal of the Antarctic is one of the greatest deep-sea divers in the world. Weighing up to 1,200 pounds, the Weddell seal can cruise under water for up to 70 minutes. It is able to reach depths as great as 1,600 feet. For comparison, the record for a human being is a 13-minute, 43-second dive down to 282 feet.

Most of the effects of aging are due to genetic mistakes that accumulate over generations. This is in addition to the age limitations God imposed on human beings after the Genesis Flood. These early generations, so close to Adam and Eve, would have accumulated comparatively few genetic mistakes.

Those light flashes created by fireflies are actually a quite complex language. The more than 200 species of firefly each have their own language. Each species uses a different combination of color, intensity and flash intervals.   Photo: Firefly by Bruce Marlin_CC By SA 2.5.J

Fireflies are able to read the light signals of other fireflies. These signals may contain several messages.   Photo: Eastern Firefly by art farmer – CCO By SA 2.0.

There is nothing our Creator God does that is not intended to bring us closer to Him. Why? Because His purpose in making humans was to make someone to love. We exist because He wanted to love us and be loved by us.

The ability to smell is one gift we often take for granted. That's probably because we usually identify things more quickly with one of our other senses. At the same time, dinner wouldn't be the same without the smells.

Medical researchers are finding out just what a wonderful gift laughter is. Laughter, it has been found, is excellent exercise for the lungs. It clears the respiratory system and is emotionally healthy. Laughter relaxes muscles. It is a proven reliever of emotional tension. Research also suggests that laughter has healing effects, possibly boosting the immune system.

For a long time, researchers were confused about the sounds gerbils make because they were only hearing a small part of the communication. This is because our human ears hear sounds that go up to about 20,000 cycles per second. However, gerbils do most of their talking at as high as 32,000 cycles per second. Their talk is too high-pitched for us to hear.

The discovery of tiny pollen grains in rock shows just how inflated the billions of years claimed by evolutionists really are.

There are many methods of communication, some of which we human beings don't often think about. One of these is chemical communication. Photo: Silkworm moth by CSIRO – CCA 3.0 Unported

Humans were not the inventors of the hook-and-loop fastener. The plants which God made were the first to use this principle.

It occurred to scientists only about 30 years ago that insect pests might be controlled through hormones.

Every day, all over the Earth, plants engage in chemical warfare against insects and animals that would eat them.

Did you ever wonder where frogs go in the winter?

We have often pointed out the many plants and animals that are interrelated. Their lives depend upon one another. Very often they are interrelated in such a way that creation offers the only reasonable explanation for their special features. Evolution can call on "lucky coincidence" just so many times to explain these relationships. It makes far more sense to say that all living things were carefu...

In showing how the Creator is intimately involved with His creation, Jesus Christ said that the very hairs of our heads are numbered by Him.

Fruit bats are the collection and transport system for the raw materials that make possible the tropical rain forest.

According to evolutionists, coral is one of the earlier creatures on the evolutionary time line. If evolutionary theory were fact, one would expect the corals to be very simple. One would also expect them to have changed a lot in over half a billion years of life.   However, corals are not at all simple creatures.    REF.: What’s in a name.  Science Digest , Feb., 1985. p. 87. Photo: Pillar coral....