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Eyes in the Back of Their Backs

 

On today’s Creation Moments Minute, a creature with extra eyes on its back!

 

The shrimp with extra eyes on its back lives beneath two miles of water near geological formations called black smokers. Black smokers continuously shoot out thick black clouds of water at a temperature of 660 degrees Fahrenheit. No trace of sunlight ever penetrates to such depths. So why do these shrimp need eyes at all?

 

Scientists learned that the super-heated water coming out of black smokers is so hot that it actually glows. The glow isn’t all that bright, which is why these shrimp need such large eyes that they will fit only on the shrimp’s back.

 

Nothing escapes the Creator’s notice – not these shrimp nor a life that is in trouble due to sin. God sent His Son to die on the cross, so that, believing in Him, you can have eternal life!

 

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Ref: Richard Monastersky. “Deep-Sea Shrimp.” Science News, vol. 135. Feb. 11, 1989, pp. 90-93.

 

 

 

 

 

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The Efficient Firefly

 

On today’s Creation Moments Minute, we’ll look at how fireflies produce their light.

 

To make a flash, fireflies must make and mix a chemical called luciferin with oxygen and an enzyme called luciferase. This mixture is combined with a catalyst to create the flashes of light.

 

Firefly flashes are used for finding a mate. Fireflies are able to read the light signals of other fireflies. These signals may contain several messages. Some flashes can tell a firefly whether the sender is one of his species. Light flashes are used to identify whether the sender is a male or female. If it's a female, the flashes can identify whether she has already mated.

 

This is another example of the unlimited creativity and extravagance of our Creator God. The same beauty of the firefly that creates wonder in the child should also fill us with wonder at the limitless imagination of God.

 

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Complex – But No Evolution

 

Evolutionists are all wet when they say that coral is one of the earlier creatures on the evolutionary time line. This is the Creation Moments Minute.

 

If evolution were fact, you would expect the corals to be very simple. You’d also expect them to have changed a lot in over half a billion evolutionary years.

 

However, corals are not simple creatures. The stinger they use to immobilize prey is very complex. At one end of the stinging capsule is a poker, covered by a protective cap. At the other end is a hollow tube, coiled like a rope. The capsule itself is filled with a powerful poison.

 

Coral is "surprisingly" complex to be so near the bottom of the evolutionary ladder. In addition, the earliest corals in the fossil record are the same as those found today! So again, the scientific evidence fits well with the biblical story of creation.

 

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Ref: What's in a name. Science Digest, Feb., 1985. p. 87.

 

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Evolutionary Medical Ethics

 

A professor of medical ethics used an old evolutionary myth to support the removal of organs from a baby born with only a brain stem.  This is the Creation Moments Minute.

 

A Yale professor of medical ethics said that the child had “more in common with a fish than a person.” These comments reflect a discredited evolutionary theory. The theory holds that in passing from fertilized egg to birth, the child goes through the evolutionary steps that led up to humans.

 

The truth is that while the unfortunate infant had only a brain stem, every bit of genetic information in that tissue was fully human. That brain tissue operated human organs within a human body. No fish brain in the world has either of those characteristics.

 

Does what you believe about origins matter? Fraudulent evolutionary science leads us to a steep and slippery slope that cheapens human life, which has been created by God.

 

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Ref: “Parents Fought to Donate Organs of Anencephalic Newborn.” Minneapolis Citizens Concerned for Life Newsletter, April, 1992, p. 2.

 

 

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Ever-Curious Man

 

They say that curiosity killed the cat. But on today's Creation Moments Minute, we’ll see that curiosity made the man.

 

According to Genesis, the first men were even building cities, inventing musical instruments, crafting in bronze and iron, and keeping calendars.

 

The Bible's picture of advanced, intelligent and ever-curious man is further supported by the discovery all over the world of ancient observatories. Some of these observatories, such as Stonehenge, are so ancient that little is known about the builders. Several years ago, 60 additional observatories were positively identified in the American Southwest. The first, and most famous, is the so-called "sun dagger" in New Mexico.

 

The creation itself declares the glory of the Creator. Man's own activities provide a strong witness to the fact that the Bible's story of the special creation of intelligent, inquisitive man is completely reliable.

 

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Electric Bushes and Trees

 

Is it silly to speak of plants anticipating a good watering or is it naive to think of a plant anticipating spring? Find out on today's Creation Moments Minute.

 

Scientists are learning that although plants do not have a nervous system, they do use electrical signals to respond to their surroundings in a similar way that our nervous system behaves. Such responses are very unexpected in what evolutionists consider simple plants. You can see it, for example, in how the Venus flytrap responds very quickly when its trigger hairs are touched by an insect.

 

However, if we see the creation as the work of a caring Creator Who endowed all of His creation with its own form of emotional sense, then even these limited plant responses are not unreasonable reflections of their Creator. The fact that we can recognize emotional response will hopefully enable us to see the importance of His love.

 

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Ref: “Earthly sprites,” October, Science 82, pp. 88 & 90.

 

 

 

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Educated Slugs (Part 2 of 2)

 

What can we learn about the magnificent human brain by looking at the lowly garden slug? Find out on today’s Creation Moments Minute.

 

How much more simple are a garden slug’s brains than ours? To their surprise, researchers discovered that the slugs’ brains use some of the same chemical methods to learn and store information as do mammals. In other words, the slugs’ brains don’t use a simpler method to learn and remember than do a cat’s or a dog’s brain. Mammal brains and slug brains are based on the same design.

 

This finding came as a surprise and erases evolutionary distinctions between simpler and supposedly more evolved creatures. It reveals the Creator’s pattern. He used the same design when He equipped the slug’s brain to learn as He used when He made a dog able to learn. Life is evidence of a perfect Creator, not accidental improvements!

 

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Ref: Robert Pollie. 1983. “The Educated Nervous System.” Science News, Vol. 123. Jan. 29, pp. 74-75.

 

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Educated Slugs (Part 1 of 2)

 

How is our brain and a garden slug’s brain similar? Find out on today’s Creation Moments Minute.

 

So complex is the human brain that even some of today’s most visionary scientists have commented that they doubt science will ever fully understand how the brain works. To better understand the brain, scientists have been studying the brains of so-called simple creatures like the garden slug.

 

But how similar is the brain of a garden slug to the human brain? Researchers have been amazed at the unexpected similarities and abilities shared by both the garden slug and man. Researchers have found that garden slugs can be trained, using unpleasant flavorings, to avoid potatoes, their favorite food. Eventually slugs will avoid potatoes that have not been made to taste bad. Slugs, and even garden snails, can learn a sequence of events.

 

But there’s more … as we’ll discover on our next program.

 

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Ref: Robert Pollie. 1983. “The Educated Nervous System.” Science News, Vol. 123. Jan. 29, pp. 74-75.