FISHERMAN'S DREAM
Jonah 1:17
"Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights."
For me, catching a fish of any size is a great accomplishment … but can you imagine what it would be like to find a gigantic Mola mola at the end of your fishing line? Also known as the ocean sunray, the Mola mola is the world's largest bony fish, weighing as much as 5,000 pounds and measuring up to 14 feet from top to bottom!
Scientists aboard Exploration Vessel Nautilus recently spotted and photographed one of these gigantic fish in the eastern Pacific ocean. One researcher told Live Science, "They fascinate me because there is so little known about them despite their large size."
Another researcher agrees. Rich Bell, a fisheries scientist aboard the research vessel, said: "Their actual biology is relatively little known. Mating, their growth, migration patterns, are not particularly well-known."
And yet, Live Science wasted no time in saying that the fish – which scientists know so little about – "is considered to be evolutionarily advanced as they are thought to be one of the most recent fish families."
Now, as I'm sure you recognize, this isn't a scientific statement at all. It is a statement of faith. By their faith in Darwinism, they simply assume that evolution gave rise to this enormous fish. Creationists, too, exercise faith but it is faith in the never-failing Word of God. And that's why we say with full assurance that the Mola mola comes from the hand of our Creator.
Today's "Creation Moment" is one of almost 300 you'll find in "Letting God Create Your Day, Volume 8" - the biggest collection of scripts we've ever published.
Heavenly Father, I know that all living things have their origin in Your Son. From land creatures to fish that live in the sea, He created them all! In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Kacey Deamer, "Holy Mola: Scientists Spot World's Largest Bony Fish," Live Science, 8/1/16. Photo: Mola mola at Monterey Bay Aquarium. Courtesy of Fred Hsu. (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Jonah 1:17
"Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights."
For me, catching a fish of any size is a great accomplishment … but can you imagine what it would be like to find a gigantic Mola mola at the end of your fishing line? Also known as the ocean sunray, the Mola mola is the world's largest bony fish, weighing as much as 5,000 pounds and measuring up to 14 feet from top to bottom!
Scientists aboard Exploration Vessel Nautilus recently spotted and photographed one of these gigantic fish in the eastern Pacific ocean. One researcher told Live Science, "They fascinate me because there is so little known about them despite their large size."
Another researcher agrees. Rich Bell, a fisheries scientist aboard the research vessel, said: "Their actual biology is relatively little known. Mating, their growth, migration patterns, are not particularly well-known."
And yet, Live Science wasted no time in saying that the fish – which scientists know so little about – "is considered to be evolutionarily advanced as they are thought to be one of the most recent fish families."
Now, as I'm sure you recognize, this isn't a scientific statement at all. It is a statement of faith. By their faith in Darwinism, they simply assume that evolution gave rise to this enormous fish. Creationists, too, exercise faith but it is faith in the never-failing Word of God. And that's why we say with full assurance that the Mola mola comes from the hand of our Creator.
Today's "Creation Moment" is one of almost 300 you'll find in "Letting God Create Your Day, Volume 8" - the biggest collection of scripts we've ever published.
Heavenly Father, I know that all living things have their origin in Your Son. From land creatures to fish that live in the sea, He created them all! In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Kacey Deamer, "Holy Mola: Scientists Spot World's Largest Bony Fish," Live Science, 8/1/16. Photo: Mola mola at Monterey Bay Aquarium. Courtesy of Fred Hsu. (CC BY-SA 3.0)
WHAT'S THE SMALLEST THING YOU CAN SEE?
Psalm 94:9
"He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?"
Evolutionists never get tired of mocking the supposedly poor design of the human eye. They are attempting to poke a finger into the eye of the Christian's Creator God when they say, "If God is such a good designer, why did he do such a sloppy job with the eye?"
On previous broadcasts, we have provided many reasons why the human eye is one of God's most magnificent creations. On today's broadcast, we'll take a look at new research showing that the human eye can detect the tiniest speck of light there is – a single photon.
Previous experiments have shown that humans can see blips of light made up of just a few photons. But according to new research published in Nature Communications, the subjects were able to detect a single photon – something the researchers never expected.
Physicist Alipasha Vaziri of Rockefeller University in New York City says, "If you are somewhere outside of a city in nature and on a moonless light and you have only stars to navigate, on average the number of photons that get into your eye is approaching the single photon regime." This is why he feels that having eyes sensitive enough to see single photons "may have some evolutionary advantage."
It's not surprising that evolution gets all the credit. However, whether they think the eye was poorly or beautifully designed, evolutionists must recognize that the eye was designed … and this implies a Designer!
Today's "Creation Moment" is one of almost 300 you'll find in "Letting God Create Your Day, Volume 8" - the biggest collection of scripts we've ever published.
Oh Lord, thank You for opening my eyes to see so many wondrous things in the Scriptures and in the universe You created! Amen.
Emily Conover, "Human eye spots single photons," ScienceNews, 7/28/16. J.N. Tinsley et al. Direct detection of a single photon by humans. Nature Communications. Vol. 7, 7/19/16. doi: 10.1038/ncomms12172. Photo: Pixabay. (PD)
Psalm 94:9
"He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?"
Evolutionists never get tired of mocking the supposedly poor design of the human eye. They are attempting to poke a finger into the eye of the Christian's Creator God when they say, "If God is such a good designer, why did he do such a sloppy job with the eye?"
On previous broadcasts, we have provided many reasons why the human eye is one of God's most magnificent creations. On today's broadcast, we'll take a look at new research showing that the human eye can detect the tiniest speck of light there is – a single photon.
Previous experiments have shown that humans can see blips of light made up of just a few photons. But according to new research published in Nature Communications, the subjects were able to detect a single photon – something the researchers never expected.
Physicist Alipasha Vaziri of Rockefeller University in New York City says, "If you are somewhere outside of a city in nature and on a moonless light and you have only stars to navigate, on average the number of photons that get into your eye is approaching the single photon regime." This is why he feels that having eyes sensitive enough to see single photons "may have some evolutionary advantage."
It's not surprising that evolution gets all the credit. However, whether they think the eye was poorly or beautifully designed, evolutionists must recognize that the eye was designed … and this implies a Designer!
Today's "Creation Moment" is one of almost 300 you'll find in "Letting God Create Your Day, Volume 8" - the biggest collection of scripts we've ever published.
Oh Lord, thank You for opening my eyes to see so many wondrous things in the Scriptures and in the universe You created! Amen.
Emily Conover, "Human eye spots single photons," ScienceNews, 7/28/16. J.N. Tinsley et al. Direct detection of a single photon by humans. Nature Communications. Vol. 7, 7/19/16. doi: 10.1038/ncomms12172. Photo: Pixabay. (PD)
DID DINOSAURS STOP TO SMELL THE ROSES?
Isaiah 40:8
"The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever."
For years, evolutionists have told the public that during the time of the dinosaurs, plants were only of the non-flowering kind. According to these experts – including the most famous evolutionist of his time, Carl Sagan – flowering plants had not evolved yet. Dinosaurs only saw non-flowering cone trees and cycads.
When Dr. Carl Werner heard Carl Sagan say that "dinosaurs perished around the time of the first flower" on his Cosmos television series, he reasoned that if plants are, indeed, evolving, then evolution must be a fact.
To verify the accuracy of what he and 500 million television watchers had been told, Dr. Werner began his own investigation, eventually taking him and his wife to museums and dig sites all over the world. In his travels, he discovered abundant evidence of perfectly preserved flowering plants in the same rocks where dinosaurs are found. As he describes it in his book and DVD Living Fossils, his first reaction was: "What? Rhododendrons living with dinosaurs? Debbie and I have these growing in our backyard!"
Over time, he found poppies, lily pads, leaves from sassafras, sweetgum and poplar trees as well as many other flowering plants in Cretaceous rocks that looked exactly like modern-day plants. His investigation shows that dinosaurs walked among the rhododendrons and flowering poppies just as the Bible's account of creation suggests. For all we know, the fearsome T. Rex might have even stopped to smell the roses!
Today's "Creation Moment" is one of almost 300 you'll find in "Letting God Create Your Day, Volume 8" - the biggest collection of scripts we've ever published.
Heavenly Father, make it clear to Your people that much of what they have been taught by evolutionists is simply not supported by the evidence. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Living Fossils, Vol. 2 of Evolution: The Grand Experiment, pp. 210ff (2008, New Leaf Press). Living Fossils, Vol. 2 of Evolution: The Grand Experiment DVD (2011, New Leaf Press). Photo: Dinosaur-era flowers preserved in charcoal, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Science and Natural History. Used with permission of Dr. Carl Werner.
Isaiah 40:8
"The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever."
For years, evolutionists have told the public that during the time of the dinosaurs, plants were only of the non-flowering kind. According to these experts – including the most famous evolutionist of his time, Carl Sagan – flowering plants had not evolved yet. Dinosaurs only saw non-flowering cone trees and cycads.
When Dr. Carl Werner heard Carl Sagan say that "dinosaurs perished around the time of the first flower" on his Cosmos television series, he reasoned that if plants are, indeed, evolving, then evolution must be a fact.
To verify the accuracy of what he and 500 million television watchers had been told, Dr. Werner began his own investigation, eventually taking him and his wife to museums and dig sites all over the world. In his travels, he discovered abundant evidence of perfectly preserved flowering plants in the same rocks where dinosaurs are found. As he describes it in his book and DVD Living Fossils, his first reaction was: "What? Rhododendrons living with dinosaurs? Debbie and I have these growing in our backyard!"
Over time, he found poppies, lily pads, leaves from sassafras, sweetgum and poplar trees as well as many other flowering plants in Cretaceous rocks that looked exactly like modern-day plants. His investigation shows that dinosaurs walked among the rhododendrons and flowering poppies just as the Bible's account of creation suggests. For all we know, the fearsome T. Rex might have even stopped to smell the roses!
Today's "Creation Moment" is one of almost 300 you'll find in "Letting God Create Your Day, Volume 8" - the biggest collection of scripts we've ever published.
Heavenly Father, make it clear to Your people that much of what they have been taught by evolutionists is simply not supported by the evidence. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Living Fossils, Vol. 2 of Evolution: The Grand Experiment, pp. 210ff (2008, New Leaf Press). Living Fossils, Vol. 2 of Evolution: The Grand Experiment DVD (2011, New Leaf Press). Photo: Dinosaur-era flowers preserved in charcoal, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Science and Natural History. Used with permission of Dr. Carl Werner.
THE FATHER OF ENTOMOLOGY
Isaiah 7:18
"And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria."
More than 150 years after his death in 1850, William Kirby is still known as one of the first scientists to devote his life to the study of insects. But let me add that he was also devoted to something else. Shortly before publishing his first major work on the bees of England, Kirby wrote the following:
"The author of Scripture is also the author of Nature: and this visible world, by types indeed, and by symbols, declares the same truths as the Bible does by words. To make the naturalist a religious man – to turn his attention to the glory of God, that he may declare his works, and in the study of his creatures may see the loving-kindness of the Lord – may this in some measure be the fruit of my work…"
Between 1815 and 1826, Kirby and fellow British entomologist William Spence coauthored the four-volume An Introduction to Entomology: or Elements of the Natural History of Insects. These books are still regarded as the foundational work in the field of entomology. In 1835, Kirby wrote The History, Habits and Instincts of Animals. In the first chapter – titled "Creation of Animals" – he writes that the existence of animals testify to the existence of their Creator.
If William Kirby, the founder of entomology, had lived nine years longer to see the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, I'm quite sure he would have been an outspoken opponent.
Today's "Creation Moment" is one of almost 300 you'll find in "Letting God Create Your Day, Volume 8" - the biggest collection of scripts we've ever published.
Oh Lord, though evolutionists want us to believe that all true scientists are evolutionists, I thank You for the many scientists – both living and dead – who recognize that You are the Creator! Amen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kirby_(entomologist). Lithograph: William Kirby. (PD)
Isaiah 7:18
"And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria."
More than 150 years after his death in 1850, William Kirby is still known as one of the first scientists to devote his life to the study of insects. But let me add that he was also devoted to something else. Shortly before publishing his first major work on the bees of England, Kirby wrote the following:
"The author of Scripture is also the author of Nature: and this visible world, by types indeed, and by symbols, declares the same truths as the Bible does by words. To make the naturalist a religious man – to turn his attention to the glory of God, that he may declare his works, and in the study of his creatures may see the loving-kindness of the Lord – may this in some measure be the fruit of my work…"
Between 1815 and 1826, Kirby and fellow British entomologist William Spence coauthored the four-volume An Introduction to Entomology: or Elements of the Natural History of Insects. These books are still regarded as the foundational work in the field of entomology. In 1835, Kirby wrote The History, Habits and Instincts of Animals. In the first chapter – titled "Creation of Animals" – he writes that the existence of animals testify to the existence of their Creator.
If William Kirby, the founder of entomology, had lived nine years longer to see the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, I'm quite sure he would have been an outspoken opponent.
Today's "Creation Moment" is one of almost 300 you'll find in "Letting God Create Your Day, Volume 8" - the biggest collection of scripts we've ever published.
Oh Lord, though evolutionists want us to believe that all true scientists are evolutionists, I thank You for the many scientists – both living and dead – who recognize that You are the Creator! Amen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kirby_(entomologist). Lithograph: William Kirby. (PD)
NEW ANTIBIOTIC DISCOVERED INSIDE YOUR NOSE!
3 John 1:2
"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth."
According to researchers from the University of Tübingen and the German Center for Infection Research, there's a bacterium in your nose that may have already saved your life numerous times in the past and will likely save your life many times more in the future. That bacterium – Staphylococcus lugdunensis – is well known for inhabiting your nose. But now it has come to light that the bacterium produces a previously unknown antibiotic named Lugdunin.
The antibiotic is said to be "able to combat multi-resistant pathogens, where many classic antibiotics have become ineffective." According to the research team, infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus ranks as one of the leading causes of death worldwide. However, the researchers found that the deadly strain of Staph is rarely found when Staphylococcus lugdunensis is present in the nose.
According to Professor Andreas Peschel, "Normally, antibiotics are formed only by soil bacteria and fungi. The notion that human microflora may also be a source of antimicrobial agents is a new discovery." The discovery is good news in itself. Even better, it may open up new ways to develop strategies for infection protection and to find new antibiotics within the human body.
Who could have thought that microscopic bacteria produced in our noses could protect us from deadly microbes that swarm all over our skin? There's no question in my mind that our Creator thought of it because He cares so much about us!
Today's "Creation Moment" is one of almost 300 you'll find in "Letting God Create Your Day, Volume 8" - the biggest collection of scripts we've ever published.
Heavenly Father, I praise You for providing me with life, breath and protection from deadly diseases. I praise You most of all for sending Your Son to Earth to die in my place for the forgiveness of my sin. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
University of Tübingen. "Human nose holds novel antibiotic effective against multiresistant pathogens." ScienceDaily, 7/29/16. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160729093039.htm>. Photo: Staphylococcus aureus bacteria are a leading cause of death worldwide. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library. (PD)
3 John 1:2
"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth."
According to researchers from the University of Tübingen and the German Center for Infection Research, there's a bacterium in your nose that may have already saved your life numerous times in the past and will likely save your life many times more in the future. That bacterium – Staphylococcus lugdunensis – is well known for inhabiting your nose. But now it has come to light that the bacterium produces a previously unknown antibiotic named Lugdunin.
The antibiotic is said to be "able to combat multi-resistant pathogens, where many classic antibiotics have become ineffective." According to the research team, infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus ranks as one of the leading causes of death worldwide. However, the researchers found that the deadly strain of Staph is rarely found when Staphylococcus lugdunensis is present in the nose.
According to Professor Andreas Peschel, "Normally, antibiotics are formed only by soil bacteria and fungi. The notion that human microflora may also be a source of antimicrobial agents is a new discovery." The discovery is good news in itself. Even better, it may open up new ways to develop strategies for infection protection and to find new antibiotics within the human body.
Who could have thought that microscopic bacteria produced in our noses could protect us from deadly microbes that swarm all over our skin? There's no question in my mind that our Creator thought of it because He cares so much about us!
Today's "Creation Moment" is one of almost 300 you'll find in "Letting God Create Your Day, Volume 8" - the biggest collection of scripts we've ever published.
Heavenly Father, I praise You for providing me with life, breath and protection from deadly diseases. I praise You most of all for sending Your Son to Earth to die in my place for the forgiveness of my sin. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
University of Tübingen. "Human nose holds novel antibiotic effective against multiresistant pathogens." ScienceDaily, 7/29/16. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160729093039.htm>. Photo: Staphylococcus aureus bacteria are a leading cause of death worldwide. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library. (PD)
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