Today's Creation Moment

A debate about the definition of “species” may remove Homo erectus from the human evolutionary tree.   Photo: Skeletons by Stux_ Pixabay.jpg

The first book that urged us to take good care of the earth was the Bible. The Bible also reminds those who would be careless about their responsibilities that there is a Creator who is going to hold us accountable for how we carry out our responsibilities. Why, then, does Christianity always seem to be taking the blame for destruction of the environment?   Photo: The sunflower.  Courtesy of RS3....

The news has again been filled with stories about the search for planets orbiting nearby stars. All these stories assume that our Earth was not formed by God. They perpetuate the idea that the Earth and other planets in the solar system formed when dust around the young sun began to collect into lumps.   Image: Artist’s impression of dust around Beta Pictoris. Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle...

The bacterium Bacillus cereus likes to live in soil that would kill most other bacteria. It’s bothered neither by lethal concentrations of metal nor natural antibiotics. How can cereus survive under conditions that would kill any other known bacteria?   Photo: Bacillus cereus by Loes Van Damme –CCO - Pixabay.com

It is often forgotten how much energy a plant uses, in producing flowers and blossoms. Though cherry blossoms are small, there are a lot of them. The colors they reflect, and the aromas released, are attractive to the insects necessary for pollination.   Photo: Cherry Blossom by Chiem Seherin_Pixabay.com

“What is the place of art in the Christian life?”, asked Francis Schaeffer. Many people have pondered the same question.   Image: Adobe Stock Photos, licensed to author.

One study has suggested that caffeine production must have evolved independently at least three times. Not only that, but plants contain at least two different biosynthetic routes for its production. Yet evolutionists claim that caffeine production fulfills just one main evolutionary purpose – to modify the behavior of other organisms. Image: Julius Schworzman. License: Creative Commons Attributio...

While Bach wrote theological notes in the margins of his manuscripts, and his well-thumbed Bible also contained comments, Beethoven’s music is honest in its skepticism. There is power and passion in it, as well as a great deal of anger.   Image: Josef Karl Steiler, 1820 – Public Domain, due to age .

Is there life on other ocean covered worlds? Image: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Public Domain.

Could the stuff of science fiction be a reality in the outer reaches of our Solar System?   Image: NASA, Public Domain

Technology is looking at  the way nature folds things to copy the  natural designs, to produce better robotic algorithms, for packaging fragile objects.   Image: Andreas Bauer. License: Creative Commons Share-Alike 2.5 Generic.

Wisdom is demonstrably not the same as intelligence. It is possible – and, I would submit, common – for a highly intelligent scientist to be foolish. Image: Adobe Stock Photos, licensed to author.

Haeckel’s famous embryos drawings of 1874, were deliberately shaped, to support his recapitulation theory, even though  actual  embryos do not show such similarities. The drawings were debunked in 1965 and  yet some science curriculum still included this false concept. Image: G.J. Romanes (1892), Public Domain (due to age).

Many materials in nature give an appearance of design. Consider just a small number of properties of water. It freezes from the top down. We are so used to this, that we forget how unusual it is. Image: Adobe Stock photos, licensed to author.

Several different animals communicate on a limited basis with one another. But human speech is unique, leaving those who believe in evolution perplexed. Image: Head and Neck  view by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(PD)  

“The family that prays together, stays together.” A survey by the Barna Research Group indicates that this old saying is still true. Photo: Prayer by CongerDesign_Pixabay.com CCO

A number of species of fish live, apparently comfortably, in Antarctic waters as cold as the freezing temperature of seawater, which is a couple of degrees colder than fresh water. This presents us with several mysteries. First, cold slows down the chemistry necessary for life.  At these temperatures, life's chemistry all but stops. Photo: Ocellated Icefish by NOAA (PD)   

Aerodynamics, the science of flight, is a highly complex science. This is because many complex forces are acting on anything in flight. One critical force that has been under recent study is the turbulence that forms at the tips of the wings.  Photo:  Bombardier_Learjet_60 by Allen Wilson-CCA BY SA 2.0

Shore birds like the oystercatcher search for buried mollusks by touch. They poke around in the sand, hoping to find a hard shelled mollusk. But if you have ever tried to find something that was hiding where you couldn't see it? Photo: Red Knot by Hans Hillewaert  CC BY-SA 4.0

Could pizza be good for you? Research has shown that tomatoes, especially cooked, have powerful health benefits. Photo:  Pizza by DesignDrawArtes_ Pixabay.com CCO

What determines the sort of smells that we like and dislike? Is it nature or nurture? Do we like the smells of the environment, in which we were brought up, or are our likes and dislikes inherited from previous generations? Image: Laboratory Mouse, author: Rama, license: Creative Commons Share-alike 2.0

Have you ever tried to get a bottle in a baby's mouth in a dark room? It would be handy if the baby had a glowing target on its mouth. God has given the Gouldian finch, a native of Australia, a unique solution to this problem.   Photo: Male Goulding finch by Martin Pot - CCA By SA 3.0

Deep inside an ant colony, perhaps in a decaying log is an "ant" that is really an impostor!  Learn about this insect imposter  on today's program. Photo: Microdon mutabilis by PaulT CCA By SA 3.0

How is it that an unborn baby isn't rejected by the mother's body as something that is foreign?  Learn the answer on today's program.   Image: Fetus in utero_Wellcome Trust_CCA 4.0

God gave fireflies a complex chemical factory that lets them generate flashes of light we love to watch on warm summer nights. But on today’s program, you’ll see the main reason why God gave fireflies this unique ability. Photo: Eastern Firefly by art farmer – CCO By SA 2.0.