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How did animals spread across the world after they left Noah’s Ark? How did the kangaroos get from the Middle East to Australia? After the Flood, the animals left Noah’s Ark, spreading out and filling the Earth. Flying creatures could fly, but what about those that...

Did you know the weather patterns of North and South America have been periodically affected by El Niños for thousands of years?   The ancient farmers of the Andean mountains were very much aware of them. These farmers could predict if an El Niño was present and...

What is so amazing about grass?  Grass is a seemingly unimportant plant that is often ignored and taken for granted. When examined we observe that the stem is round and mostly hollow except at the joint or node. This stem lies in the sheath that is open part of the...

Why don’t the chickadee’s feet freeze when it is minus 30oF and how can ducks spend the whole day in icy water and not get frostbite?  It seems that birds are never bothered by cold feet. If we were to run outside in the winter with bare feet, we would have...

What do we truly know about our universe?  Mankind has entire libraries filled with books about the stars, however there is not an adequate explanation of how one could form! The Bible is not a textbook on astronomy, although when it references scientific subjects, it...

Have you considered the timber beetle larva?  This thumb-sized insect eats trees by slicing through wood fiber with its mandibles, or jaws. That’s what Oregon logger Joseph Buford Cox (1905 - 2002) realized when he was taking a rest break from chopping wood. He...

How complex are microscopic organisms? Scientists have discovered a bacterium called the Rhodoferax ferrireducens that is capable of producing an electric current as it transforms natural sugars into other complex biological products. It does this by transferring...

  What are Fibonacci numbers? Fibonacci numbers are one of many pieces of evidence for God’s existence. They are a patterned sequence that can be found everywhere throughout nature: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 and so on. Every number in the pattern is the sum of...

  Our month is based on the moon, our year on the sun, but what about a week? The seven day week is based on God’s creation week.   Atheist dictator Stalin tried to erase God from the Soviet Union by instituting a 10 day week. People would work nine days and then rest...

  What evidence is there for a recently formed Grand Canyon?   The Redwall Limestone layer in the Grand Canyon is one of the most distinct sediment layers in the mile-deep canyon. Of the nine major layers making up Grand Canyon strata, this 600 foot thick layer covers...

Did you know the DNA of all domestic dogs has been shown to be traceable back to a single pair of grey wolves from the past? There are several revealing implications in support of the dog kind discovery.  First, it means that the unbelievable variety of modern dogs...

How do we explain the supernatural? The Bible claims that during Jesus’ crucifixion, “the sun stopped shining”. Darkness was upon the Earth from 12 noon to 3pm. Some people claim that the darkness was no supernatural event, only a solar eclipse. Let’s examine this...

Did planet Mars have water? Mars is a dry, frigid world, yet recent discoveries of enormous erosion patterns suggest the possibility that the planet experienced huge floods in the past. Mars was created on Day 4 of creation week, three days after Earth. As we read in...

  Have you thanked God for your kidneys lately? These two fist-sized organs located in your abdominal cavity perform many tasks. Here are a few amazing responsibilities of your kidneys. Filtering out waste products from your blood. Regulating the bloodstream to be 51%...

Why has DNA been called the most mysterious molecule in the universe?  The information that it contains cannot be explained by any natural process. The sequence of chemicals on the DNA molecule is used to construct every other molecule in the human body and neither...