THE SOUTH-POINTING CARRIAGE
1 Samuel 17:22
"And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren."
Numerous Chinese legends refer to a mysterious carriage on which a mechanical rider rode. Its arm was outstretched and continuously pointed south no matter which way the carriage turned. How did it accomplish such a feat? If you're guessing that magnets had something to do with it, you'd be wrong. Actually, the south-pointing chariot was invented about 800 years before the first navigational use of a magnetic compass.
In the 1960s, Dr. Joseph Needham discovered that the carriage dated back to the third century AD. He also learned that the device did not use magnets. The carriage was actually a highly sophisticated automaton that has since been described as the world's "first cybernetic machine."
So how did the figure know how to keep pointing south? It used a complex grouping of gears similar to the differential gears found in modern cars. This system of interconnected gears allows the wheels of a car turning a corner to move at different speeds, with the "outer" wheel traveling farther than the other. The arm of the figure on the carriage was aimed southward by hand at the start of a journey. After that, whenever the carriage turned, the mechanism automatically rotated the arm to keep it pointed to the south.
Over the years, we have told you about many such ancient devices, revealing that ancient man was much more intelligent than modern man gives them credit for. This should come as no surprise to those of us who believe the Bible.
Heavenly Father, though evolutionists want us to believe that humans developed slowly over millions of years, the Bible tells us that mankind was intelligent and skilled right from the beginning. Amen.
P. James and N. Thorpe, Ancient Inventions, pp 140-142 (Ballantine Books, 1994). For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South-pointing_chariot. Photo: South-pointing chariot exhibit in the Science Museum, London. Courtesy of Andy Dingley. (CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported)
1 Samuel 17:22
"And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren."
Numerous Chinese legends refer to a mysterious carriage on which a mechanical rider rode. Its arm was outstretched and continuously pointed south no matter which way the carriage turned. How did it accomplish such a feat? If you're guessing that magnets had something to do with it, you'd be wrong. Actually, the south-pointing chariot was invented about 800 years before the first navigational use of a magnetic compass.
In the 1960s, Dr. Joseph Needham discovered that the carriage dated back to the third century AD. He also learned that the device did not use magnets. The carriage was actually a highly sophisticated automaton that has since been described as the world's "first cybernetic machine."
So how did the figure know how to keep pointing south? It used a complex grouping of gears similar to the differential gears found in modern cars. This system of interconnected gears allows the wheels of a car turning a corner to move at different speeds, with the "outer" wheel traveling farther than the other. The arm of the figure on the carriage was aimed southward by hand at the start of a journey. After that, whenever the carriage turned, the mechanism automatically rotated the arm to keep it pointed to the south.
Over the years, we have told you about many such ancient devices, revealing that ancient man was much more intelligent than modern man gives them credit for. This should come as no surprise to those of us who believe the Bible.
Heavenly Father, though evolutionists want us to believe that humans developed slowly over millions of years, the Bible tells us that mankind was intelligent and skilled right from the beginning. Amen.
P. James and N. Thorpe, Ancient Inventions, pp 140-142 (Ballantine Books, 1994). For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South-pointing_chariot. Photo: South-pointing chariot exhibit in the Science Museum, London. Courtesy of Andy Dingley. (CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported)
TALL, FAT AND UPSIDE-DOWN
Luke 6:44
"For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes."
If you want to snack on fruit from a 10-story-high Grandidier's baobab tree, you'd better bring a very tall ladder. That's because there are no branches to climb until you get to near the very top of the tree. And you can forget about wrapping your arms and legs around the trunk. The baobab's massive cylindrical trunks measure up to 10 feet across, and are quite smooth.
The Grandidier's baobob is probably the strangest and most magnificent of the eight species of baobab, and it is found nowhere else on earth than Madagascar. Lack of water can sometimes be a problem for plants in Madagascar, so the baobab overcomes this by storing water within the fibrous wood of the trunk. It is so effective at storing water, the tree's diameter actually fluctuates with rainfall. Though the tree trunks look solid, elephants know they can gouge into the wood with their tusks to enjoy a nice drink of water.
Other species of baobab tree - like the ones in Africa - look as if they were built upside down - with their roots at the top of the tree. African baobabs are also the fattest trees in the world. Some have a "waist size" of more than 165 feet, which is bigger around than their height. Baobabs can also grow to a great age - some are said to have been alive at the time of Christ.
Baobab trees look very different than any other trees on our planet and demonstrate that there is no end to the creativity of God.
Heavenly Father, there is no limit to Your creative power! Even the trees lift up their branches in praise to You! Amen.
"Overweight and Upside Down," 1000 Wonders of Nature, p. 243 (Readers Digest Assn., 2001). Adansonia grandidieri, Wikipedia. Grandidier's baobab, http://www.arkive.org/grandidiers-baobab/adansonia-grandidieri/. Photo: Adansonia grandidieri, baobab from Madagascar. Courtesy of Bernard Gagnon. (CC-BY-SA 3.0)
Luke 6:44
"For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes."
If you want to snack on fruit from a 10-story-high Grandidier's baobab tree, you'd better bring a very tall ladder. That's because there are no branches to climb until you get to near the very top of the tree. And you can forget about wrapping your arms and legs around the trunk. The baobab's massive cylindrical trunks measure up to 10 feet across, and are quite smooth.
The Grandidier's baobob is probably the strangest and most magnificent of the eight species of baobab, and it is found nowhere else on earth than Madagascar. Lack of water can sometimes be a problem for plants in Madagascar, so the baobab overcomes this by storing water within the fibrous wood of the trunk. It is so effective at storing water, the tree's diameter actually fluctuates with rainfall. Though the tree trunks look solid, elephants know they can gouge into the wood with their tusks to enjoy a nice drink of water.
Other species of baobab tree - like the ones in Africa - look as if they were built upside down - with their roots at the top of the tree. African baobabs are also the fattest trees in the world. Some have a "waist size" of more than 165 feet, which is bigger around than their height. Baobabs can also grow to a great age - some are said to have been alive at the time of Christ.
Baobab trees look very different than any other trees on our planet and demonstrate that there is no end to the creativity of God.
Heavenly Father, there is no limit to Your creative power! Even the trees lift up their branches in praise to You! Amen.
"Overweight and Upside Down," 1000 Wonders of Nature, p. 243 (Readers Digest Assn., 2001). Adansonia grandidieri, Wikipedia. Grandidier's baobab, http://www.arkive.org/grandidiers-baobab/adansonia-grandidieri/. Photo: Adansonia grandidieri, baobab from Madagascar. Courtesy of Bernard Gagnon. (CC-BY-SA 3.0)
THERE'S SOMETHING FISHY ABOUT THIS CAR
Isaiah 53:2b
"He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him."
Why in the world would engineers at Mercedes-Benz and DaimlerChrysler turn to a fish built like a box for inspiration on automotive design? After all, automakers want their vehicles to travel just as efficiently through air as sharks swim through water. But the boxfish is anything but streamlined.
The fact is - the cube-shaped boxfish slips through water with unparalleled efficiency. As the journal Science put it, "One look at the aptly named boxfish, and you might expect it to swim as well as a barn would fly." Creationist Donald DeYoung points out in his book Discovery of Design, "Observations show that the boxfish swims easily and safely, even in turbulent water. Self-correcting vortices of current develop around its body and effectively cancel out the buffeting forces of surging water."
DeYoung pointed out that though the automotive engineers had gone to the aquarium to design a car patterned after the sleek shark, the vehicles DaimlerChrysler ended up basing their automobile designs on was the boxfish. And it wasn't just the fish's shape that they copied. By patterning the door panels after the hexagonal skin pattern of the fish, the cars were found to excel in safety, comfort, maneuverability and environmental friendliness. The compact cars even boasted excellent gas mileage to as high as 70 miles per gallon!
Only our glorious Creator could have designed a clunky-looking fish that can help automobile designers develop safer and more fuel-efficient cars!
Lord Jesus, thank You for creating a world filled with magnificent creatures that not only help mankind but also bring glory to You! Amen.
Discovery of Design, Donald DeYoung, pp. 74-75. Master Books, 2009. Photo: Humpback turretfish, a type of boxfish. Courtesy of Bernd, posted to Flickr. (CC-BY-SA 2.0)
Isaiah 53:2b
"He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him."
Why in the world would engineers at Mercedes-Benz and DaimlerChrysler turn to a fish built like a box for inspiration on automotive design? After all, automakers want their vehicles to travel just as efficiently through air as sharks swim through water. But the boxfish is anything but streamlined.
The fact is - the cube-shaped boxfish slips through water with unparalleled efficiency. As the journal Science put it, "One look at the aptly named boxfish, and you might expect it to swim as well as a barn would fly." Creationist Donald DeYoung points out in his book Discovery of Design, "Observations show that the boxfish swims easily and safely, even in turbulent water. Self-correcting vortices of current develop around its body and effectively cancel out the buffeting forces of surging water."
DeYoung pointed out that though the automotive engineers had gone to the aquarium to design a car patterned after the sleek shark, the vehicles DaimlerChrysler ended up basing their automobile designs on was the boxfish. And it wasn't just the fish's shape that they copied. By patterning the door panels after the hexagonal skin pattern of the fish, the cars were found to excel in safety, comfort, maneuverability and environmental friendliness. The compact cars even boasted excellent gas mileage to as high as 70 miles per gallon!
Only our glorious Creator could have designed a clunky-looking fish that can help automobile designers develop safer and more fuel-efficient cars!
Lord Jesus, thank You for creating a world filled with magnificent creatures that not only help mankind but also bring glory to You! Amen.
Discovery of Design, Donald DeYoung, pp. 74-75. Master Books, 2009. Photo: Humpback turretfish, a type of boxfish. Courtesy of Bernd, posted to Flickr. (CC-BY-SA 2.0)
DON'T HAVE A COW, MAN!
Jeremiah 13:23
"Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil."
Many yhousands of people have visited the Creation Moments website after seeing a photo we posted at the popular WorldNetDaily website. The photo shows a cow with spots on its hide that look exactly like a map of the world. We asked readers if they thought the map on the cow was just a lucky arrangement of spots or if the photo was the product of a Photoshop artist.
Obviously, everyone knows that the cow's spots were put there by a designer. But we asked evolutionists to answer this question: If you agree that the cow's spots were designed, why do you say that the actual cow was not designed? After all, a living, breathing cow is infinitely more complex than the arrangement of spots on its hide.
Evolutionists and atheists, of course, acknowledge that the pattern of the cow's spots was designed, but they will never admit that the cow itself was designed. That's because they are held captive by their faith built on the premise that there is no Designer. Though they can see the complexities of nature all around them, they say that everything was the result of mindless, natural processes.
And that's why Darwinists have a cow whenever they hear a Bible-believing Christian say that things which appear to be designed actually were designed! If they weren't so biased against God, they'd know that the cow's spots in the photo reveal the incredibly huge blind spot in their own minds.
Heavenly Father, I pray that You will open the eyes of evolutionists to the truth that Your creation is so complex that it requires the existence of a Designer. Amen.
http://www.creationmoments.com/node/5205. Photo: Photoshop artist unknown.
Jeremiah 13:23
"Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil."
Many yhousands of people have visited the Creation Moments website after seeing a photo we posted at the popular WorldNetDaily website. The photo shows a cow with spots on its hide that look exactly like a map of the world. We asked readers if they thought the map on the cow was just a lucky arrangement of spots or if the photo was the product of a Photoshop artist.
Obviously, everyone knows that the cow's spots were put there by a designer. But we asked evolutionists to answer this question: If you agree that the cow's spots were designed, why do you say that the actual cow was not designed? After all, a living, breathing cow is infinitely more complex than the arrangement of spots on its hide.
Evolutionists and atheists, of course, acknowledge that the pattern of the cow's spots was designed, but they will never admit that the cow itself was designed. That's because they are held captive by their faith built on the premise that there is no Designer. Though they can see the complexities of nature all around them, they say that everything was the result of mindless, natural processes.
And that's why Darwinists have a cow whenever they hear a Bible-believing Christian say that things which appear to be designed actually were designed! If they weren't so biased against God, they'd know that the cow's spots in the photo reveal the incredibly huge blind spot in their own minds.
Heavenly Father, I pray that You will open the eyes of evolutionists to the truth that Your creation is so complex that it requires the existence of a Designer. Amen.
http://www.creationmoments.com/node/5205. Photo: Photoshop artist unknown.
IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE
Proverbs 20:12
"The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them."
Did you know that the intermittent windshield wiper on your car was discovered in the blink of an eye? According to the book Inspired Evidence: Only One Reality, here's the story of how it came about.
Drivers today take the intermittent windshield wiper for granted. After all, every car has them. But before 1969, drivers weren't so lucky. Their wipers had just two speeds - fast and slow. And most of the time, neither speed was exactly what the driver wanted.
Back in the early 1960s, Robert Kearns, an engineering professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, was having trouble seeing as he was driving his car on a misty night. He had nearly been blinded on his wedding night a decade earlier when the cork from a bottle of champagne shot into his left eye. With his limited vision and the mist on his windshield, he started thinking about the human eye which has its own kind of wiper, the eyelid, that automatically closes and opens every few seconds.
In 1963, Kearns built his first intermittent wiper system using off-the-shelf electronic components. In his design, the interval between wipes was determined by the rate of current flow into a capacitor. When the charge in the capacitor reached a certain voltage, the capacitor was discharged, activating the wiper motor for one cycle. Ford incorporated intermittent wipers on the company's Mercury line, beginning with the 1969 models.
The intermittent windshield wiper - like many other practical inventions - was inspired by the designs God put into His creation.
Lord Jesus, Your creation is filled with so many examples of ingenious design, I can't even begin to count them all! I praise Your most holy name! Amen.
J.V. Vette and B. Malone, Inspired Evidence: Only One Reality, June 24 (Search for the Truth Publications, 2011).
Proverbs 20:12
"The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them."
Did you know that the intermittent windshield wiper on your car was discovered in the blink of an eye? According to the book Inspired Evidence: Only One Reality, here's the story of how it came about.
Drivers today take the intermittent windshield wiper for granted. After all, every car has them. But before 1969, drivers weren't so lucky. Their wipers had just two speeds - fast and slow. And most of the time, neither speed was exactly what the driver wanted.
Back in the early 1960s, Robert Kearns, an engineering professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, was having trouble seeing as he was driving his car on a misty night. He had nearly been blinded on his wedding night a decade earlier when the cork from a bottle of champagne shot into his left eye. With his limited vision and the mist on his windshield, he started thinking about the human eye which has its own kind of wiper, the eyelid, that automatically closes and opens every few seconds.
In 1963, Kearns built his first intermittent wiper system using off-the-shelf electronic components. In his design, the interval between wipes was determined by the rate of current flow into a capacitor. When the charge in the capacitor reached a certain voltage, the capacitor was discharged, activating the wiper motor for one cycle. Ford incorporated intermittent wipers on the company's Mercury line, beginning with the 1969 models.
The intermittent windshield wiper - like many other practical inventions - was inspired by the designs God put into His creation.
Lord Jesus, Your creation is filled with so many examples of ingenious design, I can't even begin to count them all! I praise Your most holy name! Amen.
J.V. Vette and B. Malone, Inspired Evidence: Only One Reality, June 24 (Search for the Truth Publications, 2011).
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