My wife does not like spiders. In fact, she is so against spiders, that she does not even allow them in our house. Whenever she sees a cobweb, she whisks it away with her extendable ceiling duster. But what she does not realize is that every time she removes a spider’s web, […]
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Psalm 77:18 (King James Version) — The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. ******************************** In that wonderful hymn “How Great Thou Art” we sing “I hear the rolling thunder, Thy power throughout the universe displayed.” While most of us want to be in
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Georgia preacher Fred Craddock describes how his ancestors used to go out walking, usually on a Sunday afternoon back when the stores were closed that day; and they called it “going marveling.” Marveling. They would look for unusual rocks, pretty little wild flowers, shells, four-leafed clovers, brightly colored bird feathers, maybe even a
The Nikon Small World in Motion competition brings together talented microscopists from all over the world. What they have been able to capture will likely astound you, even though sometimes what you’re seeing is pond scum. This video is from the Scientific American website (watch 0:00 – 2:30). ————————————– ————————————- When the Psalmist wanted to express
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Allan Rex Sandage (1926-2010), the greatest observational cosmologist in the world (see Wikipedia for list of accomplishments)—who deciphered the secrets of the stars, plumbed the mysteries of quasars, revealed the age of globular clusters, pinpointed the distances of remote galaxies, and quantified the universe’s expansion through his work at the Mount Wilson and
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Many people have the mistaken notion that all the facts point to ‘no God,’ and only by mustering up all sorts of blind faith can we believe in a God who we do not see and whose existence we cannot prove. But it would be no less logical to ask the question of God’s existence in an entirely
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Earth seen rising above the moon on December 24, 1968. As Apollo 8 orbited the moon that day, in their broadcast back to earth, the astronauts took turns reading from the first chapter of Genesis. **************************************** (…continued) Now, it must be said that in order for the scientists to do much of their
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(…continued) When in John chapter 10 Jesus says to his disciples, “I am the gate,” Peter doesn’t jump up and say, ‘Don’t try to fool us, Jesus, we don’t see any hinges or latches on you.” No, they knew, and we know, Jesus was using a gate as an image of the way to
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The book A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson is a fascinating overview of what scientists have learned about our earth and the whole universe. It covers everything, from the very beginnings 14.5 billion years ago (give or take a couple months) right on up to the present time. Bryson describes
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Creatio Ex Nihilo (Latin) = “Creation Out of Nothing.” ——————– I Believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth. –First Article of the Apostle’s Creed ——————— Nothing can be made from nothing; once we see that’s so, Already we are on the way to what we want to know. –Lucretis, Roman poet and philosopher (First century,
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