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Blister beetle larvae use solitary bees to reach their food source and later gather into a formation that resembles a female bee. The beetles also produce a mating scent and use the interaction to transfer between bees, creating an intricate survival strategy. Image: Triungulin on a butterfly (5739202307), Gilles San Martin from Namur, Belgium, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. For more creation resources, visit https://creationmoments.com/ Download the Creation Moments app at https://subsplash.com/creationmoments/app  

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Human blood plasma differs substantially from seawater in several mineral components. The comparison is evidence that blood composition does not demonstrate an ancient marine origin for land animals. For more creation resources, visit https://creationmoments.com/ Download the Creation Moments app at https://subsplash.com/creationmoments/app  

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Neanderthals share the human skeletal framework while displaying differences in body proportions, behavior, toolmaking, and burial practices. These characteristics are placing Neanderthals within the range of human variation rather than establishing that they were nonhuman. For more creation resources, visit https://creationmoments.com/ Download the Creation Moments app at https://subsplash.com/creationmoments/app  

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Human DNA research has been used to estimate the number of harmful mutations entering the gene pool through each generation. The reported mutation rate is presented as a problem for claims of an extremely long period of human biological history. Image: Simple Example for Accumulation of Genetic Mutations, Angelahartsock, CC0, Wikimedia Commons, image improved by AI. For more creation resources, visit https://creationmoments.com/ Download the Creation Moments app at https://subsplash.com/creationmoments/app

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The chempedak tree depends on a fungus to attract the insects that pollinate its flowers. The tree, fungus, and pollinators form a tightly interconnected system in which each part contributes to reproduction.Image: Owoce Chempedak, Agnieszka Kwiecień (Nova)., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.For more creation resources, visit https://creationmoments.com/Download the Creation Moments app at https://subsplash.com/creationmoments/app

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Our topics today include: The Fossils Show Creation, Creation Makes Better Science, Did Job Have a Weather Satellite?, 100-Foot Ferns, and A Journey Through Inner Space. Listen and discover the evidence for our Creator that is all around us!

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Three-spined sticklebacks in the Chehalis River display breeding coloration that differs from other populations. Experiments showed that the black coloration was not necessary for territorial success, weakening the interpretation that had used the behavior to illustrate an evolutionary principle. Image: Three-spined stickleback 2 Gordon, W. J., CC0, Wikimedia Commons. For more creation resources, visit https://creationmoments.com/ Download the Creation Moments app at https://subsplash.com/creationmoments/app  

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We have all heard evolutionists claim certain rocks and fossils to be millions of years old. They claim to arrive at these long ages using index fossils. Index fossils are creatures that supposedly lived during specific ages. We are told that these ages are independently verified using radiometric-dating methods. But is all of this as neat and certain as evolutionists say it is?A rock formation in England yielded more than just rocks. This rock layer is said to be 189 million years old, based on its index fossils. The index fossils, ammonites and belemnites, were bottom-living deep-sea creatures. Along with these deep-sea creatures, however, partially petrified wood was also found. One piece was found immediately adjacent to a deep-sea fossil. Scientists who believe in young earth creationism sent samples of the wood to three different radiocarbon dating laboratories. If the index fossil was really as old as evolutionists say, it is almost 4,000 times too old to give a radiocarbon date. Yet all the samples dated at the three laboratories showed consistent young dates. Adjusted by Biblical considerations, they date to the time of Noah's Flood.We would expect to find land-based life mixed with deep-sea creatures in any rocks that are a result of the violence of the Flood. This find illustrates and supports the Biblical account of a worldwide Flood.II Corinthians 11:3“But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.”Prayer: Lord, the earth witnesses Your Truth. Help me to do the same. Amen.Ref: Creation, "Geological Conflict"

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For over a century, scientists have wondered about the embellishments that at least 78 species of spiders weave into their webs. The extra bars and X's seem to have no obvious purpose. Some have suggested that they might be hiding spots, sun shields, bird warnings or insect lures. Now a researcher at the University of Kyoto may have discovered the purpose of these designs. If he is right, evolutionary theory may be the victim of these spiders' webs.The Asian spider the researcher studied builds two different types of webs. When it is well fed, this spider adds silk bands along the web spokes. However, when this spider is hungry it arranges these bands so that they spiral toward the center of the web. After testing the tension in both web types, he discovered that the webs with the spiral bands are much more sensitive to even the smallest insect than the banded webs. In other words, the hungry spider is looking for any insect it might eat. The full spider is only interested in larger insects.The question is, how could mindless evolution give these spiders the knowledge of structural engineering needed to create these designs? In addition, according to the evolutionary tree for spiders, this knowledge would have to have evolved at least nine times! A much more logical and straightforward explanation is that the Creator gave spiders this knowledge when He made them.Job 8:13-14“So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish: Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.”Prayer: Help me, Lord, to do all things excellently, as You have done. Amen.Ref: Science News, "Hungry spiders tune up web jiggliness"

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It wasn't until 1839 that cell theory was first described by Theodore Schwann in basically its modern form. By 1858, researcher Rudolf Virchow had learned enough about the cell to conclude that every cell must come from a preexisting cell. But Charles Darwin wasn't paying attention. The very next year he published a book, On the Origin of Species, which theorized that the first cell was formed from non-living matter.In Darwin's day, the cell was thought to be just a simple sac filled with jellied carbon. This concept is the origin of the term protoplasm. However, nearly 150 years of cell research has shown us that even protozoan and fungi cells are hugely complex. Today we know that even the simplest of these cells, prokaryotes, have an estimated 100,000 parts. Many thousands of different operations are taking place continuously within each of the cell's many parts, called organelles. Furthermore, the cell cannot live until all these parts are working properly. Even the simple E. coli bacterium has 4,000 genes. If we were able to magnify the DNA of the E. coli to the thickness of a clothesline, it would be five miles long!There is no such thing as a "simple cell." The fact that a cell cannot live without all these thousands of parts shows that cells were created in their finished form, just as the Bible says. Even bacteria declare the glory of our Creator!Psalm 96:3“Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people.”Prayer: Lord, I glorify You, for even the simplest cell testifies to Your glory. Amen.REF.: CRSQ, "The Putative Evolution of the Animal Eukaryote Cell Ultrastructure"

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