Today's Creation Moment

Late at night, in hundreds of thousands of homes around the country, people are watching a bewildering array of monster movies. In these films, shadowy and not-so-shadowy monsters attack, possess or inhabit their victims. These stories are make-believe. However, in our real world, there is a fungus that does all these things.   REF.: Perry, Donald R. 1984. The creeping killers. Science Digest , Fe...

Roman Vishniac is a renowned photographer of microscopic scenes. One of his favorite subjects is one of the so-called simplest forms of life. This “simple” life, the protozoan, is supposedly the ancestor of all living things. However, Vishniac has noted that the protozoan is neither simple nor archaic in character. This creature carries out all the functions of life that we require millions of cel...

Have you ever watched ducks out on an icy lake paddling around in the near-freezing water. They will spend much of the day in that one spot with the temperature well below freezing, and yet the cold doesn’t seem to bother them. Perhaps on shore there are some sparrows hopping around in the snow. One wonders: why don’t birds need shoes and socks? REF.: Why don’t duck’s feet freeze? Science Digest ,...

The exotic Venus flytrap is an insect-catching plant and a wonder of God’s engineering. Notes: Ref: David Dreier, “Venus’s-Flytrap Case Closed,” OMNI. Vol.5-10, July1983, p.42.. Photo: Courtesy of Picasa 2.0. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

The bombardier beetle has a powerful and complex system for protecting himself from enemies.    If this system is missing any of its parts, it is more than worthless to the beetle; the chemicals alone are very dangerous.    Ref: Science Digest , Aug., 1983. p. 74. Photo by Patrick Coin (cc-by-sa-2.5).   © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.  

  Perhaps to get evolutionists to rethink their beliefs, the Creator has provided many inventive and unique structures. There are so many of these that even the longest evolutionary timescale could not account for their evolution. Ref: Wilder, Rachel. 1983. "Flying frogs."  Science Digest , Nov. p. 120. Photo: female marsupial frog by Mauricio Rivera Correa -CC By SA 2.5.jpg   © 2023 Creation Mome...

Beavers are widely known for their huge constructions. However, beavers build more than just dams.  The beaver is quite an engineer.    Ref: Science Digest , Aug. 1983. p. 73.   © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

  Imagine a beetle that can move across the surface of water without any body movement. Some creatures have been given such ability and skill that it should be clear to even the most skeptical person that their Maker and Teacher is greater than any human being.   Ref: Science Digest , Aug., 1983. p. 74. Photo courtesy of © Entomart.   © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.      

Intelligence – as much as is needed and no more – is generously found throughout the creation. So we cannot say that intelligence alone makes humans special.   Ref: Science Digest , Aug. 1983. p. 73.   Photo: Weaverbird and its nest in northern India. Courtesy of Ashish Aitian. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.   © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights r...

What is the most complex structure in the universe? I'll give you a hint: it weighs only a few pounds, and you own one. Ref: Finn, Robert. 1983. "Amnesia: case of a fragmented past."  Science Digest , Nov. p. 72.   Photo: A pyramidal neuron from the hippocampus, stained for green fluorescent protein. PLoS Biology Vol. 4, No. 2, e29. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic licen...

Those of us who accept our creation as the work of the Creator find many examples of what seems to be His wonderful creativity – creativity just for the sake of creativity! These add to our appreciation of the creation and stir us to learn more of the wonders of His creative thought. Ref: Sitwell, Nigel. 1983. "The ruffed-rabbit mystery."  Science Digest , Aug. p. 20.    Photo: Rabbit – Pixabay.co...

When we compare ourselves with many of the other living things on this Earth, our abilities are not very impressive.   Ref: "Animal athletes." Science Digest , Dec., 1983. p. 20. Photo: Camel caravan by Simon - Pixabay.com   © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Evolution devalues humanity. It tries to find the most unflattering way to describe human beings to try to counter the Bible's claim that they were created in God's image.   Ref: "Tool-wielding beasts." Science Digest , Aug. 1983. p. 107.   Photo:   Bonobo fishing for termites with stick – Mike Richey -CC By SA 3.0   © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.      

We are told by evolutionists that the whale evolved from a cow-like creature that originally lived on land. Let's look at that claim. First, the whale can hear what direction a sound is coming from under water. Neither cows nor humans can do this. Nor is the whale's ear damaged by the pressures deep in the sea. The whale also has other, very complex differences from land-living mammals that allow...

Scientists are learning that even the lowly bacteria have mind and memory. New research is showing that mind, memory, brain, and personality did not evolve. These can be found in the lowliest of creatures, including the bacteria. Ref: Pietsch, Paul. 1983. "The mind of a microbe." Science Digest , Oct. p. 103.   Photo: Bacteria – Pixabay.com © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.  

Many plants reproduce simply by cloning. The most obvious example of cloning that comes to mind is the dandelion. Unless you get all of the main dandelion root out of the ground, each piece of the root can sprout another dandelion, identical to the parent. Ref: Batten, Mary. 1983. "Sex & plants." Science Digest , Oct. p. 61.   Photo: Bamboo-Pixabay.com   © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserve...

  Many plants, especially orchids, offer different ploys to fool insects into pollinating them. Each of these ploys shows planning, design and the ability to create the design that will work. That there are so many examples makes it impossible for any rational person to believe that mindless, impersonal forces could have made these plants.   Ref: Batten, Mary. 1983. "Sex & plants." Science Digest...

The largest known beetle in the world is the aptly named goliath beetle. This African beetle can become almost as large as a mouse. Dinosaurs were not the largest animals ever to live. The great blue whale holds that honor. The smallest mammal in the world is smaller than many insects. A newly discovered species of bat in Thailand weighs only six one-hundredths of an ounce.   Ref: Wilder, Rachel....

Researchers are learning that bacteria have senses similar to our hearing and sight. Bacteria even have a brain that receives information from their senses. They can make decisions. However, all of this is not enough to explain how bacteria can make the decision to swim toward food.   Ref: Pietsch, Paul. 1983. "The mind of a microbe." Science Digest , Oct. p. 103.   Image: Bacteria by Arek Sochia...

  There are at least four known types of orchids that effectively pretend to be female insects. They are so good at this ruse that they attract the attentions of male pollinators. That there are  four different varieties that do this makes it clear that this trickery isn't due to chance. The Creator does not want us to make the mistake of thinking that He doesn't exist.   Ref: Batten, Mary. 1983....

Two groups of tropical vines rely for reproduction on the world's only known species of pollen-eating butterfly. Neither vine has very showy flowers, nor do their flowers have any scent. However, they don't need to attract pollinators because the Heliconius butterfly depends on the pollen produced by the vines for its food. So the butterflies don't go far from their food source.   Ref: Batten, Mar...

When lost in the forest with no clues to where to go, humans tend to go in circles. And we have brains. Amoebas, which don't have brains, somehow manage not to end up going in circles when they have no clues where to go. Ref:  Science News , 3/31/07, p. 205, D.C., "How smart are amoebas?"    Photo: "Amoeba Proteus, an animal consisting of a single naked cell. (PD)   © 2023 Creation Moments. All ri...

Bees depend on a good memory of their surroundings to make the thousands of trips necessary to keep their hive in operation. Each day a single bee must make trips to hundreds of flowers, some as far as a mile from the hive. Scientists have long wondered how the tiny bee can remember what may be dozens of square miles of territory.   Ref: Horton, Elizabeth. 1983. "Bees as mapmakers." Science Digest...

One good test of whether a theory is scientific is whether the theory can accurately predict new and surprising findings. If you have a barometer, you may do this all the time. The sky may be clear, but the barometer is falling fast. No matter how nice the weather looks, you know that rain is likely.   Photo: Barometer from Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira _CC By 4.0   © 2023 Creat...

Modern researchers are learning that bacteria are not a simple form of life. Rather, a bacterium is a tremendously complex creature that thinks. Scientists have discovered that bacteria actually have molecule-sized sensors. Some of these sensors act as eyes, while others act as ears. A dozen other proteins have been discovered that receive the information gathered by the bacteria's "eyes" and "ear...