Today's Creation Moment

Honeydew is one of the favorite foods of ants. There are a number of insects, including thorn bugs and aphids, who consume so much honeydew that they cannot digest it all. These insects are designed so that ants can milk them for the excess honeydew, just the way a farmer obtains milk from a cow.     REF.: Thorn bug. Science Digest , Jan., 1985. p. 81.   Photo: Ants and Aphids by Agrinberg - CC 2....

If the Bible’s account of a worldwide flood is true, it was witnessed by every person on earth, but only Noah and his family, who survived in the ark, were able to pass down the story of this event to their descendants, who spread across the whole face of the earth. Researchers have catalogued some 270 stories of an ancient destructive flood in various cultures around the world. A large majority o...

Like bees, ants have a sophisticated society, which includes workers, nurses, soldiers, hunters, farmers, and even builders. Each of these different classes have specialized organs for their work.  REF.: Wilson, Edward O. 1990. Stalking the mighty ant.  Discover , March.    Photo: Ant by Josch – Pixabay.com © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

  If your measuring stick is inaccurate, you could end up with too much wallpaper or too little. If your map tells you that your destination is 200 miles away when it’s really only 50 miles away, you might drive right past it. If your map of the universe is inaccurate and stars are a lot closer than you expect, you will arrive at the wrong age for the universe.   REF.: Virgo images suggest smaller...

Some people have the green thumb in their family. Others may complain that they fail with plants because plants don’t tell them when they need care. Of course, most people can do well with family pets, who are enthusiastic about letting their needs be known.   Now scientists have learned that plants do indeed cry out when they need attention. We just haven’t heard them because the sounds made by a...

Most of us are familiar with the body’s response to foreign tissue. Transplant patients must be carefully matched and then patients still must be given powerful drugs to prevent destruction of the transplanted tissue. Our bodies’ immune system identifies tissue that’s not its own and then tries to destroy that tissue.     REF.: Wechsler, Rob. 1988. Hostile womb. Discover , Mar. p. 83. Photo: Baby...

In a clever scheme of self-protection, the more poisonous the male rattlebox moth is, the more prized he is by the female rattlebox moth.   R EF.: Different strokes for six-legged folks. Discover , June 1988. p. 12.    Photo: Rattlebox moth by Judy Gallaghe CC 2.0 © 2024 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.    

  Fireflies may help light the way to new medical break-throughs. The gentle glow of a firefly on a summer evening is produced by the chemical luciferase . The firefly has a gene with the code that makes this chemical. When that gene is added to the genetic information of other plants or animals, the cells begin to glow harmlessly. Researchers have been using the firefly gene to test their ability...

Knowing the elegance with which God designed everything in creation, creationists suspected that God probably designed the earth with built-in thermostats that help keep it from warming up too much. When the Pacific Ocean warms more than normal, it sends increasing amounts of water vapor into the air. If heating continues, the water vapor will actually cause the heating to increase until vapor is...

Many textbooks tell young people today that birds are modified reptiles. Suppose, they say, that millions of years ago the scales on some reptiles began to fray along the edges. In time, they say, the frayed scales turned into feathers and birds were born.   REF.: Vandeman, George. 1991. The miracle of flight. Signs of the Times , May. p. 25. Photo: Dove – Pixabay.com   © 2023 Creation Moments. Al...

Excavations north of Baghdad, in Iraq, are helping us to understand one of the most famous Old Testament characters. The more than 4,000 ancient documents that have been found there shed detailed light on the life and times of Abraham. Abraham was from Haran, which was an important city in the Hurrian empire. REF.: West, Stuart A. 1981. The Nuzi tablets.  Bible and Spade , v. 10, n. 3-4. p. 65. Ph...

Spider silk begins as a liquid protein made by silk glands on the spider’s abdomen. Spiders make many kinds of silk for different uses. As the liquid silk is forced through the spider’s spinnerets, it begins to dry. The spinnerets pull and stretch the silk, creating just the right kind of silk for the spider’s use. Though the result seems thin and weak to us, ounce for ounce, spider silk is strong...

  The founders of modern science, on the whole, believed in the Creator. The methods they developed were based upon the truth that the creation is voluntary. This means that God was not confined to what we have later defined as “scientific laws.” God could make anything He wanted in any way He wanted. Science cannot be done from the philosopher’s easy chair. Scientists must go out into the field a...

  It’s a challenge, even for the Christian, to get along with lazy, selfish people. This is because they also tend to be quarrelsome, especially when their desires are not met. Now scientists have discovered that the phrase “industrious as an ant” does not apply to all ants. They report that they have found an entire ant society that is lazy, selfish and quarrelsome. REF.: Antagonistic ants. Disco...

  “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” We’ve all heard this familiar saying. In the case of the sun’s fire, scientists expect to find not smoke but tiny particles called neutrinos. The problem is, most of those neutrinos are missing. REF.: Peterson, Ivars. 1989. Making sunshine. Science News , v. 136, Oct. p. 280. Image: Sun – Pixabay.com   © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Scientists have, for the first time, successfully communicated with honeybees in their own language! Scientists have for some time known how to interpret many of the elements of the bees’ so-called “waggle dance.” This dance is used by scouts to communicate the location of food sources to the food gatherers in the hive. REF.: Weiss, Rick. 1989. New dancer in the hive.  Science News , v. 136, Oct....

We have long known that the community within a honeybee hive divides the labor among specialized workers. There are scouts who search for food. Nurses tend the young. Some bees specialized in cleaning. There are even undertaker bees who remove and dispose of dead members of the hive.   Scientists have now discovered that honeybee colonies also have brigades of specialized “soldiers.” These bees of...

How many different scents do you think your nose is able to smell? The answer is about 10,000. How does your nose tell the difference between a rose and a skunk? Until only recently, scientists really weren’t sure. REF.: Scientists find genes that let nose make scents of what it smells. Minneapolis Star-Tribune . Apr. 5, 1991. p. 7A. Photo: Baby skunk by Vicky Roberts – Pixabay.com   © 2023 Creati...

Mastodons were distant relatives of the elephant. Modern science says that one of the main parts of their diet was conifer needles. Supposedly they died out at the end of the Ice Age because conifers became scarce as the world warmed. Now the discovery of the last meal of one mastodon calls this theory into question. Living bacteria have been found in a mastodon that died during the Ice Age. The b...

Could the giant flying fox be a primate? In the 18th century, scientists weren’t quite sure what to do with bats. Some wanted to classify them as primates, while others thought they should have their own category. Since 1780, all 950 known species of bats have been classified in their own category. The bat order is divided into microbats and megabats. Microbats have an average wingspan of less tha...

The Bible itself tells us that the first five books of the Bible were written by Moses. Jesus Himself calls Moses the author of the first five books of the Bible over a dozen times. Unfortunately, liberal biblical scholarship has rejected these claims. These scholars have tried to teach Christians that the first five books of the Bible were written over many generations and finally finished only f...

A family of fish that live in the depths of the sea actually go fishing—pole, dangling bait, and all. This is only natural, since they, like people who go fishing, like to eat fish.   This group of fish is collectively called the angler fish. The front dorsal spine in the female angler is located on her head. It is much longer than any of the other dorsal fins and has a fleshy bait on the end. Whe...

  A revolutionary design in metal-cutting blades is changing the metal-working industry. These blades don’t cut like a knife. Instead, the blade is fixed in one position while the metal to be shaped spins on a lathe. This new-style blade stays sharp six times longer than the old blade design. And where titanium used to make the old-style cutting blades dull almost the second they were used, the ne...

Consider the mystery of flight, for example. Some evolutionists suggest that perhaps birds are descended from lizards that fell out of trees a lot. Other evolutionists say that birds came from lizards who grew wings—not for flight, but to chase down and catch insects. Yet, they have little to say about the fact that we humans have come by most of our sophisticated knowledge about flight from study...

It seems like science fiction to suggest that if someone typed your name into a computer, misspelling your name, the computer would find it and correct it.   Yet the genetic code within each of your cells is an even more sophisticated information storage and transmission system. REF: Fersht, A.R. 1980.  Trends in Biochemical Scienc e, v. 5. p. 282. Lambert, G.R. 1984. Journal of Theoretical Biolog...