Today's Creation Moment

Science has shown that touching is necessary for life. Newborn animals that are licked by their mothers have a higher resistance to disease. They are also more likely to live to adulthood than newborns who are untouched by their mothers. Lambs will die after birth if their mothers do not lick and nuzzle them. Even human infants who are not lovingly touched enough will suffer from depression, poor...

In South America ground hot peppers have been used for centuries to help relieve pain. Scientists have discovered the active ingredient in peppers that relieves skin pain. This sub-stance blocks the pain signals that come from the nerves just under the surface of the skin.  REF: Check, William A. Hot peppers for pain. Los Angeles Times (Repr. in Reader’s Digest)  Photo: Peppers _ Pixabay.com   © 2...

Scientists have also known that animals generate a similar natural plastic called chitin. Like cellulose, chitin is a carbohydrate made of long chains of sugar molecules. Chitin is found in the shells of all insects and crustaceans, like crabs. Each year the crabmeat industry had thrown away thousands of tons of chitin because scientists couldn’t figure out how to extract chitin from the shells in...

Many cultures around the world have legends about creation and a great Flood that have been handed down from generations in the distant past. Most of these creation and Flood stories sup-port the biblical story of creation and the Flood.   REF: Branscome, Gary R. 1991. The Delaware Indians and the creator. Bible-Science Newsletter, May. p. 1. : Photo: Ark_in_Dordrecht_ by Ceinturion _CCA BySA 3.0...

  For many people bats bring to mind words like “creepy,” “fangs,” “rabies,” and even “ugly.” However, over 450 years ago Martin Luther marveled at the delicate beauty of the bat. He pronounced the creature an excellent witness to the skill and wisdom of the Creator. REF: Givens, K.T. 1990. Going batty. Modern Maturity, Oct.-Nov. p. 60. Photo:  Big-eared Townsend bat – (PD)   © 2023 Creation Momen...

Some people talk to their plants. But what do you say to a bacterium? Evidently the soybean plant knows just what to say to make bacteria its close friend and helper. REF: Pennisi, E. 1991. Intimate chemistry of a symbiotic odd couple. Science News, v. 139, Mar. 9. p. 151. Photo: Soybean plants – (PD)   © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.  

Life appears suddenly in the fossil record. And the living things found in the earliest rocks are completely developed and well equipped for life. Trilobites had fully formed eyes that were apparently more sophisticated than many creatures today. They appear without ancestors.   REF: When life got hard. Science News, v. 138, Aug. 25, 1990. p. 120.   Photo: Trilobite – (PD)   © 2023 Creation Moment...

Garlic. Even say the word and some people move away to give you some distance. Others gather around, because to them, garlic helps make the meal. Garlic has begun to attract the attention of medical researchers as well. REF: Garlic medicine: cures in cloves? Science News, v. 138, Sept. 8, 1990. p. 157.   Photo: Garlic – Pixabay.com   © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

They are the only cells in the human body that repeatedly die and self-regenerate throughout life.. And science considers them so interesting that several branches of science are studying them. I am talking about hair cells.   REF: Weiss, R. 1991. Fuzzy science. Science News, v. 139, Mar. 16. p. 169.   Photo: Strand of human hair at 200x magnification (PD)   © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights res...

We don’t often think about our sense of smell. While our noses are on the job all the time, we note an odor only when it is unusual. Most of the time the scents around us contribute, unnoticed, to our overall impression of our surroundings. REF: McCutcheon, M. 1989. The Compass in Your Nose . . . . Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher. p. 99.   Photo: Beach   dunes_ Pixabay.com   © 2023 Creation Moments...

When you are ill, you need sleep. And when you are sick you are usually sleepy. Medical researchers are now learning that it’s not accidental that illness and sleepiness go together. In fact, the relationship is one of God’s ingenious designs. REF: Feeling sleepy? Shhh! Bacteria at work.  Discover , April 1987. p. 12.   Photo: Sleeping baby - Pixabay.com © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserve...

Roses have fascinated people for thousands of years. Rose breeding is one of the oldest human experiments in the science of genetics. Roses are bred for variations in size, color, frequency of bloom, and scent. More than 25 distinct scents have been identified in roses. By the mid-19th century, breeders had developed some 4,000 varieties of roses.   REF: Mohs, M. 1987. Where has all the fragrance...

A growing number of scientists, some of them with worldwide reputations, are changing their minds about evolution.   The world famous astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle announced that there is so much information within higher forms of life that they could not have evolved. Dr. Hoyle said that he could not understand why so many biologists deny this obvious fact and accept evolution.   REF.: Sunderland, Lu...

One of the more unusual creatures God made was thought extinct until it was rediscovered in 1958.   The kakapo parrot lives in New Zealand and, perhaps not surprisingly, the world’s only non-flying parrot.     REF.: Discover , Mar. 1985. p. 36. Photo: Kakapo by Chris Birmingham CCA 2.0.xcf   © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.    

      The coelacanth is a rather strange looking fish that was supposed to have become extinct 70 million years ago with the dinosaurs. That’s what scientists thought anyway.  REF.: No stinking fish in my taxi!  Discover , Mar. 1985. p. 40. Photo: Ccoelacanth-fish (PD) © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

  It is unfortunate that we so often have the sense that nothing technologically important has happened in human history until modern times.  REF.: Patton, Robert. 1982. Ooparts. Omni , v. 4. p. 53. Photo: The Gate of the Sun - PD   © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.    

  All insects that hear, except one, have two ears. Some insects have ears on their legs, thorax, or abdomen. However, they all follow the same principle. Their ears are separated so that they can locate the source of the sound - except in one insect. REF.: Miller, Julie Ann. 1986. Sensory surprises in platypus, mantis. Science News, v. 129. p. 104. Photo: Praying Mantis– Pixabay.com © 2023 Creati...

Research is confirming that even before birth children in the womb are learning about the world. The child in the womb does much more than simply hear sounds, including its mother's voice.   REF.: Recollections from the womb. Science 84, Dec. 1984. p. 84. Photo: Smiling baby – Pixabay.com   © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

  It's commonly known that many animals are able to detect extraordinarily weak odors. The real mystery is how they can smell scents that are 1,000 times too weak to produce the chemical reactions necessary to make a scent signal.   REF.: Vaughan, Christopher. 1990. Molecular odor‑eaters. Science News, v. 133. p. 348. Photo: Diagram of olfactory senses. (PD)   © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights r...

Tropical beauty has inspired many Hawaiian love songs. However, none is more unusual than the love song of Hawaiian fruit flies.  REF.: Edwards, D.D. 1990. Unique island love songs attract flies. Science News, v. 133. p. 244. Photo: Drosophila_setosimentum by Karl Magnacca. CC By SA 3.0 unported © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

Algae are among the world's premier plants. Scientists never expected to find an alga that feeds like a Venus flytrap.  REF.: Miller, Julie Ann.1986. Lake algae dine on bacteria. Science News, v. 129, Feb. 1. p. 71. Photo: Venus fly trap by Lynn B. Pixabay.com   © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.      

  Normally they bother no one. The creatures, called protozoan ciliates, quietly go about their business in water‑filled tree holes, eating other microorganisms. REF.: Revenge of the placid protozoan. Science News, v. 131, June 4, 1988. p. 363. Photo: Scanning electron microscope view of Oxytricha trifallax. (PD)   © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.  

The ancients had a very sophisticated knowledge of food and health, some of which is only being rediscovered today.   REF.: Season gingerly to retard rancidity. Science News, v. 129, Mar. 1, 1986. p. 137. Photo: Ginger Spice by Andrea (Ajale) – pixabay.com   © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserved.

A remarkable discovery in Israel is shedding new light on life in Bible times. The discovery is also allowing scientists and the rest of us to get to know an important New Testament character. REF.: Greenhut, Zvi. 1992. Burial cave of the Caiaphas family. Biblical Archaeology Review, Sept./Oct. p. 29. Image: Christ Before Caiaphas by Matthias Stom  (PD)   © 2023 Creation Moments. All rights reserv...

Some types of bacteria are able to go into a state of suspended animation when living conditions become too harsh. Not only do they change their form and appearance, they are amazingly able to change their DNA structure to avoid damage from harmful types of light! Image:  God Appears to Moses in Burning Bush. Painting from  Saint Isaac's Cathedral , Saint Petersburg. (PD)   © 2023 Creation Moments...