WHY DID GOD GIVE US FINGERPRINTS?
Genesis 27:21
"And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not."
Criminals who have been linked to a crime through their fingerprints may not be happy that they were born with a unique pattern of "wrinkles" on their fingertips. But we can all be glad that God gave us fingerprints because they greatly improve our sense of touch.
Scientists in France performed a series of experiments with artificial fingertips made of rubber-like sensors. They then compared the sensitivity between these grooved artificial fingertips and a smooth skin-like material to see if the grooved fingertips made a difference in the sense of touch. What they discovered surprised them. The grooved fingertips produced vibrations up to 100 times stronger than the smooth material when sliding against a slightly rough surface.
The researchers concluded that these increased vibrations provide us with a greater ability to detect textures. When rubbing your fingers across a textured surface, your fingerprints amplify vibrations that stimulate the nerve endings in your skin. This then allows us to identify objects by touch.
Knowing that we need our sense of touch to work from every direction, our Creator designed our fingerprints to appear in elliptical swirls. This loop design ensures that some ridges are always brushing perpendicular to a surface, no matter the orientation of our fingertips.
Such research may help scientists design prosthetic hands with enhanced tactile feedback. Once again, when science copies designs found in living things, it is copying the designs put in living things by their Creator, whether they recognize that fact or not!
Lord Jesus, thank You for all of my senses, including the sense of touch. Amen.
L. Zyga, "Why Do We Have Fingerprints?", PhysOrg, 4/4/09. http://phys.org/news158088270.html. "The Role of Fingerprints in the Coding of Tactile Information Probed with a Biomimetic Sensor." J. Scheibert, S. Leurent, A. Prevost, and G. Debregeas (13 March 2009) Science 323 (5920), 1503. DOI: 10.1126/science.1166467.
Genesis 27:21
"And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not."
Criminals who have been linked to a crime through their fingerprints may not be happy that they were born with a unique pattern of "wrinkles" on their fingertips. But we can all be glad that God gave us fingerprints because they greatly improve our sense of touch.
Scientists in France performed a series of experiments with artificial fingertips made of rubber-like sensors. They then compared the sensitivity between these grooved artificial fingertips and a smooth skin-like material to see if the grooved fingertips made a difference in the sense of touch. What they discovered surprised them. The grooved fingertips produced vibrations up to 100 times stronger than the smooth material when sliding against a slightly rough surface.
The researchers concluded that these increased vibrations provide us with a greater ability to detect textures. When rubbing your fingers across a textured surface, your fingerprints amplify vibrations that stimulate the nerve endings in your skin. This then allows us to identify objects by touch.
Knowing that we need our sense of touch to work from every direction, our Creator designed our fingerprints to appear in elliptical swirls. This loop design ensures that some ridges are always brushing perpendicular to a surface, no matter the orientation of our fingertips.
Such research may help scientists design prosthetic hands with enhanced tactile feedback. Once again, when science copies designs found in living things, it is copying the designs put in living things by their Creator, whether they recognize that fact or not!
Lord Jesus, thank You for all of my senses, including the sense of touch. Amen.
L. Zyga, "Why Do We Have Fingerprints?", PhysOrg, 4/4/09. http://phys.org/news158088270.html. "The Role of Fingerprints in the Coding of Tactile Information Probed with a Biomimetic Sensor." J. Scheibert, S. Leurent, A. Prevost, and G. Debregeas (13 March 2009) Science 323 (5920), 1503. DOI: 10.1126/science.1166467.
YOU DON'T USE SCIENCE TO TEST SCRIPTURE!
Matthew 24:35
"Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away."
How often have you seen people say that the Bible must be wrong because science disagrees with it? That attitude certainly isn't new. It was common in 1932 when Dr. Harry Rimmer wrote his classic book, The Harmony of Science and Scripture. Even back then, Bible skeptics were using science to test Scripture. But as Dr. Rimmer pointed out, when science has matured to the point of infallibility, then and only then could it be used to test Scripture.
To emphasize that point, he mentioned a list of fifty-one scientific facts published by the French Academy of Sciences in1861, all of which contradicted some statement from Scripture. When Rimmer sat down to write his book some 70 years later, he noted that the Bible hadn't changed in all that time, but "the knowledge of science has so vastly increased that there is not a living man of science today who holds one of those fifty-one so-called facts that were at one time advanced in refutation of the inspiration of the Scripture."
The modern craze to test Scripture by science reverses the natural order, he said. "After twenty-five years of research on this subject, we are willing to admit that where science and the Bible are in utter harmony, that agreement establishes the certainty of that science."
To Dr. Rimmer, using science to test Scripture was like a seven-year-old boy telling a seventy-year-old man how to grow up. How right he was! You just don't use science to test Scripture!
Heavenly Father, unlike science textbooks that are constantly being revised, Your Word never needs to be updated. Amen.
Harry Rimmer, The Harmony of Science and Scripture, pp. 58-59 (Eerdmans Publishing, 22nd printing, 1973). Photo: Harry Rimmer (1890-1952).
Matthew 24:35
"Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away."
How often have you seen people say that the Bible must be wrong because science disagrees with it? That attitude certainly isn't new. It was common in 1932 when Dr. Harry Rimmer wrote his classic book, The Harmony of Science and Scripture. Even back then, Bible skeptics were using science to test Scripture. But as Dr. Rimmer pointed out, when science has matured to the point of infallibility, then and only then could it be used to test Scripture.
To emphasize that point, he mentioned a list of fifty-one scientific facts published by the French Academy of Sciences in1861, all of which contradicted some statement from Scripture. When Rimmer sat down to write his book some 70 years later, he noted that the Bible hadn't changed in all that time, but "the knowledge of science has so vastly increased that there is not a living man of science today who holds one of those fifty-one so-called facts that were at one time advanced in refutation of the inspiration of the Scripture."
The modern craze to test Scripture by science reverses the natural order, he said. "After twenty-five years of research on this subject, we are willing to admit that where science and the Bible are in utter harmony, that agreement establishes the certainty of that science."
To Dr. Rimmer, using science to test Scripture was like a seven-year-old boy telling a seventy-year-old man how to grow up. How right he was! You just don't use science to test Scripture!
Heavenly Father, unlike science textbooks that are constantly being revised, Your Word never needs to be updated. Amen.
Harry Rimmer, The Harmony of Science and Scripture, pp. 58-59 (Eerdmans Publishing, 22nd printing, 1973). Photo: Harry Rimmer (1890-1952).
THE SILENCE OF THE OWLS
Isaiah 34:15a
"There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow:"
What makes owls so good at catching prey as they fly through the night sky? Part of the credit obviously goes to their amazing eyes that are able to see with such clarity in low-light conditions. But owls also have another design feature that allows them to sneak up on their prey without being noticed. Owls, you see, were designed to fly in virtual silence.
The authors of the book Discovery of Design point out that owls have an uneven forward fringe on their wings. Unlike the sharp, well-defined edge on most birds, the uneven fringe decreases air turbulence and produces less noise. In addition, the feathers covering the owl's wings, body and legs are velvety soft. This helps to dampen and absorb the sound of rushing air.
Airplane designers are now exploring these features to create quieter military and commercial aircraft. Thanks to the owl, engineers are looking into a retractable brush-like fringe for airplane wings and a velvety coating on the landing gear.
In the book's introduction, the authors point out that inventors and design engineers frequently look to nature for inspiration. But as creationists, they emphasize that the designs found in nature are not the product of evolution. Rather, the designs were embedded in the material universe by supernatural acts of creation. The purpose of these designs was not only for the benefit of living things but also so they could be discovered and put to use for the welfare of mankind.
Heavenly Father, the creation not only inspires designs that benefit mankind, they inspire us to worship our Creator! I am filled with awe as I learn more about Your creation. Amen.
D. DeYoung and D. Hobbs, Discovery of Design: Searching Out the Creator's Secrets, pp. 9-10, 66-67 (Master Books, 2012).
Isaiah 34:15a
"There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow:"
What makes owls so good at catching prey as they fly through the night sky? Part of the credit obviously goes to their amazing eyes that are able to see with such clarity in low-light conditions. But owls also have another design feature that allows them to sneak up on their prey without being noticed. Owls, you see, were designed to fly in virtual silence.
The authors of the book Discovery of Design point out that owls have an uneven forward fringe on their wings. Unlike the sharp, well-defined edge on most birds, the uneven fringe decreases air turbulence and produces less noise. In addition, the feathers covering the owl's wings, body and legs are velvety soft. This helps to dampen and absorb the sound of rushing air.
Airplane designers are now exploring these features to create quieter military and commercial aircraft. Thanks to the owl, engineers are looking into a retractable brush-like fringe for airplane wings and a velvety coating on the landing gear.
In the book's introduction, the authors point out that inventors and design engineers frequently look to nature for inspiration. But as creationists, they emphasize that the designs found in nature are not the product of evolution. Rather, the designs were embedded in the material universe by supernatural acts of creation. The purpose of these designs was not only for the benefit of living things but also so they could be discovered and put to use for the welfare of mankind.
Heavenly Father, the creation not only inspires designs that benefit mankind, they inspire us to worship our Creator! I am filled with awe as I learn more about Your creation. Amen.
D. DeYoung and D. Hobbs, Discovery of Design: Searching Out the Creator's Secrets, pp. 9-10, 66-67 (Master Books, 2012).
FOSSIL JAW NOT EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION
2 Thessalonians 2:11
"And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:"
Evolutionists are rejoicing over a fossil jaw found in the Ledi-Geraru research area of Ethiopia. They say it pushes back evidence for early humans to 2.8 million years ago and predates all previously known fossils of mankind's lineage by about 400,000 years. The fossil which has caused such excitement consists only of the left side of a lower jaw and five teeth.
Research team member William Kimbel would have us believe that "the Ledi jaw helps narrow the evolutionary gap between Australopithecus and early Homo. It's an excellent case of a transitional fossil in a critical time period in human evolution."
But biochemist and creation scientist Dr. Donald Clark strongly disagrees. "You would think that they've got definitive proof that this is in the human line. It just amazes me that they can jump to conclusions based on very minimal evidence." Dr. Clark also said, "Everything that [the research team] would say about an ape or a chimp lower jaw bone . this particular specimen has. The jaw is U-shaped like an ape's would be. The teeth are very flat; they are not sharp and pointed like our teeth would be. The reason why they say [the fossil is in the human lineage] is because the flattened teeth are a little bit smaller than what you would find on a normal ape today. That, to me, is not definitive."
How true! If anything, this fossilized jaw only shows how weak the case for ape-to-human evolution really is.
Heavenly Father, I pray that You will awaken many of those who are now caught in the delusion of evolution. Amen.
"Discovery of 2.8-million-year-old jaw sheds light on early humans," ScienceDaily, 3/4/15. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150304141454.htm. Dr. Donald Clark interview on Broken Road Radio, 3/10/15. http://brokenroadradio.com/morning-show-march-10-2015-found-our-oldest-known-human-fossil/. Photo: Close up view of the fossil sighted by Arizona State University graduate student Chalachew Seyoum. Courtesy of Brian A. Villmoare. (FAIR USE)
2 Thessalonians 2:11
"And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:"
Evolutionists are rejoicing over a fossil jaw found in the Ledi-Geraru research area of Ethiopia. They say it pushes back evidence for early humans to 2.8 million years ago and predates all previously known fossils of mankind's lineage by about 400,000 years. The fossil which has caused such excitement consists only of the left side of a lower jaw and five teeth.
Research team member William Kimbel would have us believe that "the Ledi jaw helps narrow the evolutionary gap between Australopithecus and early Homo. It's an excellent case of a transitional fossil in a critical time period in human evolution."
But biochemist and creation scientist Dr. Donald Clark strongly disagrees. "You would think that they've got definitive proof that this is in the human line. It just amazes me that they can jump to conclusions based on very minimal evidence." Dr. Clark also said, "Everything that [the research team] would say about an ape or a chimp lower jaw bone . this particular specimen has. The jaw is U-shaped like an ape's would be. The teeth are very flat; they are not sharp and pointed like our teeth would be. The reason why they say [the fossil is in the human lineage] is because the flattened teeth are a little bit smaller than what you would find on a normal ape today. That, to me, is not definitive."
How true! If anything, this fossilized jaw only shows how weak the case for ape-to-human evolution really is.
Heavenly Father, I pray that You will awaken many of those who are now caught in the delusion of evolution. Amen.
"Discovery of 2.8-million-year-old jaw sheds light on early humans," ScienceDaily, 3/4/15. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150304141454.htm. Dr. Donald Clark interview on Broken Road Radio, 3/10/15. http://brokenroadradio.com/morning-show-march-10-2015-found-our-oldest-known-human-fossil/. Photo: Close up view of the fossil sighted by Arizona State University graduate student Chalachew Seyoum. Courtesy of Brian A. Villmoare. (FAIR USE)
COSMOLOGIST PAUL DAVIES ON FAITH
Colossians 4:6
"Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man."
I could easily fill up today's entire Creation Moments broadcast by listing the scientific accomplishments and affiliations of Paul Davies. His research interests span the fields of cosmology, quantum field theory and astrobiology.
An opinion piece he wrote in 2010 for the New York Times angered many evolutionists when he argued that the faith scientists have in the immutability of physical laws has origins in Christian theology. Davies responded to their criticisms by saying, "I was dismayed at how many of my detractors completely misunderstood what I had written. Indeed, their responses bore the hallmarks of a superficial knee-jerk reaction to the sight of the words 'science' and 'faith' juxtaposed."
Well, what Davies wrote in London's Guardian newspaper in 1982 would have angered them even more. "Something strange is happening to the universe," he wrote. "In the words of the astronomer Fred Hoyle, it is as though somebody has been monkeying with the laws of nature. A once-popular argument with theologians was to point out how astonishingly well ordered the universe is, how harmoniously its components dovetail together. All this, it was reasoned, must be the result of design, and therefore evidence of a Great Designer. Yesterday's theologians would have been delighted with today's discovery of just how delicately balanced the cosmic order turns out to be."
Though Davies freely admits he is "not a religious man," he brings a calm and mature voice to the debate over origins that other evolutionists would be wise to follow.
Heavenly Father, I pray that the debate over origins would take place in a dialog that is free from emotional outbursts and namecalling. Let our discussions kindle more light and less heat. Amen.
A. "The Great Conundrum in the Sky", The Guardian, 9/2/82, p. 17. "Taking Science on Faith". New York Times. 10/2/10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Davies. Photo: Paul Davies in 2006. (PD)
Colossians 4:6
"Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man."
I could easily fill up today's entire Creation Moments broadcast by listing the scientific accomplishments and affiliations of Paul Davies. His research interests span the fields of cosmology, quantum field theory and astrobiology.
An opinion piece he wrote in 2010 for the New York Times angered many evolutionists when he argued that the faith scientists have in the immutability of physical laws has origins in Christian theology. Davies responded to their criticisms by saying, "I was dismayed at how many of my detractors completely misunderstood what I had written. Indeed, their responses bore the hallmarks of a superficial knee-jerk reaction to the sight of the words 'science' and 'faith' juxtaposed."
Well, what Davies wrote in London's Guardian newspaper in 1982 would have angered them even more. "Something strange is happening to the universe," he wrote. "In the words of the astronomer Fred Hoyle, it is as though somebody has been monkeying with the laws of nature. A once-popular argument with theologians was to point out how astonishingly well ordered the universe is, how harmoniously its components dovetail together. All this, it was reasoned, must be the result of design, and therefore evidence of a Great Designer. Yesterday's theologians would have been delighted with today's discovery of just how delicately balanced the cosmic order turns out to be."
Though Davies freely admits he is "not a religious man," he brings a calm and mature voice to the debate over origins that other evolutionists would be wise to follow.
Heavenly Father, I pray that the debate over origins would take place in a dialog that is free from emotional outbursts and namecalling. Let our discussions kindle more light and less heat. Amen.
A. "The Great Conundrum in the Sky", The Guardian, 9/2/82, p. 17. "Taking Science on Faith". New York Times. 10/2/10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Davies. Photo: Paul Davies in 2006. (PD)
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