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How do butterflies survive freezing winters?  We often see butterflies early in the spring that could not have come from caterpillars. Why don’t the butterflies freeze and die? The Mourning Cloak butterfly hibernates in holes or behind loose bark and before it goes to...

Have you ever considered that most of the time, pain is a good thing?   Pain notifies us of sickness or injury. If you feel intense pain, you may seek medical attention. Without the warning indication of pain, you would rarely slow down. In a life-threatening...

Did you know that even raindrops are designed with purpose?  Raindrops are made when water molecules begin to stick to tiny condensation nuclei such as smoke, pollen, salt grains, or dust within clouds. The droplets grow as they collide with more and more water...

  Did you know the koala feeds on eucalyptus leaves, which happen to be poisonous?   Koalas make their homes in these toxic trees, solely eating the poisonous leaves for nourishment and water. When koalas are placed into zoos, large quantities of poisonous leaves must...

Have you ever considered the Grand Canyon's formation and its odd location?  Interestingly, the Colorado River travels across the flat plains, upstream of the Grand Canyon and encounters a vertical plateau of rock rising 3,000 feet above the river. Instead of flowing...

  Does it take millions of years to make petrified wood, or just a short period of time and the right conditions?  Scientific research reveals that the right conditions will transform wood into stone. Biblical geologists have claimed this for years, and it has been...

How do bees know if there is nectar in a flower? Many flowers provide a visible sign on their petals. Consider the small desert lupine flower; it would take a bee hundreds of visits to get enough nectar to make honey from this small flower. As the bee flies along, it...

Who discovered the peanut's many uses?   After the Civil War, the Southern soils were worn out from planting only cotton, which depleted the soil of many minerals and necessary nutrients. Farming was terrible, and farmers could barely make a living. That was the sad...

Did you know that evolutionists believe that birds evolved from reptiles? We can observe that birds have many distinct features that are completely different in structure from land-dwelling animals. For example, the shape of a bird’s wing is only functional when fully...

Who authored the DNA language? A language is a series of non-repeating symbols that carry a meaning. DNA is a series of non-repeating chemicals that carry information. A language causes a response by those receiving the message. DNA causes responses to happen...

How have dogs been man’s best friend since the beginning? Scientific research has revealed that dogs have at least six distinctly different barks that communicate their feelings to humans. Ranging from playful to sad, threatened to contented, angry to pleading, the...

How does the dinosaur diet confirm Biblical Creation? Scientists recently discovered that many dinosaurs ate grass. They came to this conclusion by analyzing coprolite (fossilized feces). This should be a problem for evolutionists because for decades we have been...

What can we learn from the dating of minerals that testifies to a young earth? Recently, a team of scientists wanted to test carbon-14 in coal and diamonds. Carbon 14 has a half life of 5,730 years. This means that in 5,730 years, half the radioactive carbon-14 decays...

How do tiny flatworms called monogeneans testify to creation? They are parasites that live on the skin, fins, and gills of fish. They first take hold of the fish with hooks. But in order to feed off the fish, they glue their mouths onto the fish with superglue. This...

How do scientific observations confirm the Bible? On a clear night we can observe nearly 3,000 stars.  In Jeremiah 33:22 it states, “As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sands of the sea measured.” Jeremiah wrote that no one would be able to count the...