Today's Creation Moment

The basilisk lizard is yet another tribute to God's unlimited creativity, knowledge and power.  Basilisk are found from Mexico to Ecuador and are equally at home in the trees, on the ground and in and on the water.   Photo: Brown basilisk, basking in the sun on the Osa Peninsual, Costa Rica. Courtesy of Benjamint. (GFDL 1.2)

The idea of different races, as distinct from different religions, was not much of an issue until 1859 when Charles Darwin published his famous book, On the Origin of Species . 

Besides demonstrating variety in God's creation, the Komodo dragon may eventually save more lives than it has ever taken.

Isaac Newton wrote more Bible commentaries than he did scientific books.

According to evolution theory, birds should not have been around at the time of the dinosaurs, especially the parrot, which by evolution beliefs is supposed to be a more highly-evolved bird. The rock in which the beak was found was dated as  coming from the Cretaceous period. But it is not just one parrot's beak that was found but Loons, frigate‑birds and other shore bird fossils were found in roc...

In late 1999, Russian and American scientists excavated a buried, frozen mammoth in Northern Siberia.  Once excavated, the mammoth was airlifted, using Russia's largest helicopter, to Siberian ice caves that were fashioned into a laboratory. There the frozen mammoth was studied to see if either sperm, or DNA could be extracted from it.

When we started out ll in our mother's womb, how did all those our new cells know to hook up to each other to knit together our nerve connections? How did other cells know to hook up with each other to make our circulatory system, or form the heart? A fascinating new theory has now been proposed, based on the fact that every cell in your body has the same active genes that your nose uses to enable...

Evolutionary scientists tell us that mutations were central to the production of the great variety of creatures on Earth today from the first living cell. At the same time, biologists admit that 99 percent of all mutations are harmful. 

Aspirin works by disabling the chemicals that cause our pain. Now scientists have discovered that aspirin also works to shut down a plant's response to injury. Aspirin shuts off the plant's production of jasmonic acid, even though jasmonic acid is not at all similar to human pain‑causing chemicals.

Two strange species of orchids are among the rarest flowers in the world. These unconventional plants live their entire lives underground, even flowering underground. Most often, their flowers never break the surface of the ground.

The creation is filled with plants and animals which use deception to survive.  The glow‑in‑the‑dark cookie-cutter shark is a master at such deception.

For thousands of years the Bible has taught that there is a link between spiritual health and physical health. When rationalism came along, many sought to deny the spiritual aspect of humans.  For them, the spiritual and the material have nothing to do with each other.

Saliva is an amazing fluid. Besides helping us moisten and digest food, saliva is able to speed healing and fight bacteria, fungi and viruses. Saliva is chemically almost identical to the clear part of your blood.

How small can a living thing be and still be considered alive. Viruses are not considered living things because they cannot reproduce on their own. But now scientists have confirmed the existence of bacterai that are smaller than the largest viruses and yet can reproduce on their own.

The hunted are smart to stay upwind of the hunter. Many predators hunt using scent, at least in part. The same principle works in water.

The Bible teaches that proper authority is respected when it comes from a spirit of servanthood. This pattern seems to extend even to wasps.

When we look at the size of the universe, it sometimes becomes easier to see evolution as credible. But, in truth, the immensity of space is really not so friendly to evolution's claim that the universe, and the earth, are billions of years old.

Human bridegrooms are not the only males who give gifts to their intended. The birds and the flies do it, too.

A study conducted by researchers from the State University of New York at Stony Brook examined the effect of a mother's stress on the birth weight of her baby.

Episodic memory, the ability to remember something that happened in the past is called mental time travel. It has long been thought that only humans are capable of episodic memory. New research suggests that some birds are also capable of mental time travel. Photo: Western_scrub_jay._Courtesy_of_Minette_Layne._CC_BY-SA_2.0.

There are many plants that have effective defenses against the insects that attack them.   Photo: Bursera_simaruba_Permission_granted_to_use_under_GFDL_by_Kurt_Stueber__CCo_By_SA_3.0

Before the Flood people were living hundreds of years. As man grew more evil, God declared that man’s lifespan would be reduced to 120 years. Modern biology has learned that we do indeed have built-in timers in each of our cells that limit the number of times they can divide. Photo: Human chromosomes (grey) capped by telomeres (white). Courtesy of U.S. Department of Energy Human Genome Program. (P...

The Hawaiian bobtail squid needs to be able to reflect different levels of light because of its unique lifestyle. This squid glides through moonlit waters but without its special reflective tissue its shadow would be seen as it passes over the bottom.   Photo: Adult Hawaiian bobtail squid. Margaret McFall-Ngai. (CC BY 4.0)

You get up early. The illumination isn’t very good, you put on your socks anyway, only to find out, in the light of day, that you have one blue and one gray sock on. That’s because our eyes have cone cells to detect color, as well as rod cells that are sensitive to light, but cannot see color. Photo: Gecko (not the hooded gecko). (PD)

 On the evolutionary side of things, musical ability would seem to provide no survival advantage. Yet, the human brain devotes considerable resources to the processing of music.   Photo: Courtesy of Pixabay. (PD)