Educate For Life Blog

  Did you know the bamboo plant takes about five years to mature?   The plant shows little to no “above ground” activity during the first 2-4 years. Meanwhile, an extensive root system is developing underground. On the surface, the plant is not very productive. After...

On March 17 people all around the world celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with parties, parades, four leaf clovers and the color green. So who was St. Patty and where did we get these celebratory traditions? St. Patrick was born to Christian parents around AD 387. His birth...

  What is science? When science comes to mind, you may think of white lab coats, microscopes and colorful glass vials of steaming chemicals. These portrayals do not define science. The definition of science is the study of the universe based on evidence that is...

Did you know coal mines serve as vivid reminders of Noah’s Flood? Inside a coal mine are the remains of buried leaves, trees, shells and sometimes fish. Going underground is like traveling into a long lost world. Coalminers frequently uncover carbonized branches and...

Who loves to work? Work is considered by many as a necessary evil, a curse, something to be avoided at all costs. Yet, work was given to mankind before people rebelled against their maker, and God allowed death, disease, and hard toil to enter into all of creation....

  Whose legacy will last: Lincoln’s or Darwin’s? These two men had many similar upbringings but journeyed down to different paths. Both were born on February 12, 1809, they had religious family influences, they both lost their mothers at a young age, they encountered...

Do aliens and UFOs exist? The notion of life on other planets has intrigued people for years and has sparked current interest with the latest UFO news. Hollywood has often depicted weird creatures from far-away planets. Unfortunately these ideas are not confined to...

How can we continue to extend God’s love throughout the year?  God created us to love, to express that love to others and to receive love. He set the greatest example of love, giving up his only son for us. As a parent, I can’t imagine doing that. In Romans 5:8, we...

Did you know that a starfish is really not a fish? Many may call a sea star a starfish, however the sea stars do not have scales or swim so they are not technically a fish and the proper name is sea star. There are more than 2,000 different types of sea stars in the...

How does one choose between the most popular ideas concerning the formation of the universe? Ideas such as the Big Bang Expansion, the Steady State Universe, the Forever Expanding Universe or the Cyclic Universe. Some current evidence indicates that the universe is...

Do you know where the least rainy place on earth is? You might think it's desert, but it's not. It's actually Antarctica, which is one of the driest places on earth, getting about two inches of rain or snow each year. On the other hand, the most rainy area in the...

Did you know it is within the nature of mankind to lie? The problem with lying to ourselves is that we actually know we are lying, so we must pile layer after layer of more absurd lies in a futile attempt to suppress the original lie. Debating moral topics on an...

Have you considered how barbed wired came to be?  As the settlers moved out West, there was the need to keep their animals from wandering too far. Throughout time people have used stone or wood to contain animals, but the plains were in short supply of both. East...

Did you know that science confirms the biblical record, that all humans originated from two people?  In 2003 the human genome project was completed and the three billion letters on the human genome DNA code were mapped in a massive, coordinated effort by genetic...

  Did you know we are all different shades of brown, due to a pigment called melanin? If you have lots of melanin, you’ll have darker brown skin and if you have a little melanin you’ll have lighter skin. So, we’re all shades of brown, not black and white.   Monday is...