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Dung beetles may not be a very pleasant subject, but after all, someone has to do the housekeeping. So God created what man has classified into 30,000 species of dung beetle. Many will form their finds into a ball about the size of a croquet ball and roll it home for the wife and kids. Others tunnel beneath a find and set up housekeeping there.A purple flower in Borneo, however, cuts into the productivity of one of the tunneling species without giving it anything in return. This flower smells, not like a rose, but like dung. It relies primarily on this dung beetle for pollination. Studies show that most other pollinators will examine the flower, but perhaps put off by the smell, won't attempt to pollinate it. But the dung beetle is a successful pollinator as it searches the flower for food. The flower's unpleasant odor seems designed to do nothing other than fool the beetle into pollinating it. It apparently offers the beetle nothing.It would be nonsense to say that this flower designed this strategy to attract a beetle able to pollinate it. It would be just as silly to say that the impersonal forces of evolution designed this deceptive plant. Only an all-powerful, all-wise Creator could have designed this relationship, which intricately weaves together needs and abilities to make the whole creation work!Isaiah 40:28"Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.”Prayer: Dear Father in heaven, give us more wisdom and understanding, that we may be more like You. In Jesus' Name. Amen.Ref: S. Milius, “Stinking beauty betrays dung beetles,” Science News.

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Did you know that if you stared at an object with absolutely no eye movement you would eventually go blind? Actually, it is impossible to stare at anything without some eye movement, and there is a good reason for this.You may be aware that each eyeball has a blind spot where the optic nerve is attached. Normally, we don't notice it because the other eye fills in the missing portion of the image in our brain. But there is much more than this going on to make vision possible. Suppose that you are talking with someone, nodding your head in agreement. Despite the movement, your eyes stay focused on his face. You can do that because of an organ in your ear called the vestibular sensory organ. It senses the motion of your nodding head, and sends the information to your eyes, enabling them to stay focused while your head moves.More amazing is what you don't see. Your retina is crisscrossed with blood vessels that cast shadows into your field of vision. You just don't see them because the shadows never move. This explains why, if you were able to stare perfectly at something, you would go blind. Your brain automatically filters out perfectly non-moving images. If it didn't, you would constantly see the web of blood vessels on your retina. So, when you stare intently at something, the muscles of the eye send microscopic tremors to the eyeball making it vibrate so that you won't go blind.The ability to see is the result of several precision-designed systems all working together to give us reliable vision. God, not chance, creates such precise integration.Proverbs 20:12"The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them.”Prayer: I rejoice, Lord, for You have not left my design to chance. Amen.Ref: Discover, "Your Steadicam".

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Those who believe that the universe, the earth and everything on it are the result of mindless evolution are hard-pressed to explain the origin of intelligence. Some even try to argue that there is no such thing as intelligence, saying that we only think that certain things reflect intelligence. As we learn more about the world, it takes an even greater faith to believe in evolution.The incredible structure of DNA and how it works is one example. Scientists have now demonstrated, though they did not intend to do so, that DNA is itself infused with intelligence. In 1994, it was discovered that DNA could be used as a computer. Since then, much has been learned about the computing power of DNA.For example, how can DNA be used to solve the problem of finding a flight path between seven cities so that each city is visited only once? To solve the problem, researchers assign a numerical value to individual strands of DNA. Through a series of steps, they allow the strands of DNA to interact with each other, saving the results after each step. An electronic computer can solve a math problem with 30 clauses and fifty variables in 1.6 million steps. A DNA computer can solve the same problem in only 91 steps!DNA computers would not be possible unless intelligence was built into the very fabric of the creation. Only our all-wise Creator could have been responsible for this.Psalm 104:24"O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.”Prayer: Dear Father, help me use the intelligence You have given me. Amen.Ref: Nature, "DNA computing on surfaces". 

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Researchers studying genetics have concluded that the evolutionary tree of life does not reflect the facts of biochemistry.By the 1960s, biochemists had concluded that living things could be grouped into two distinct types based on their basic structures and genetic information. Eukaryotes have one or more cells and a true nucleus. Prokaryotes have smaller cells with no true nucleus. They are so different from eukaryotes that researchers concluded that they must have developed separately from non- living matter. By the late 1970s, a third type of life was recognized, the archaea. Archaea favor extreme environments such as undersea vents. Their biochemistry is unlike prokaryotes or eukaryotes.According to evolutionists, life may have had to develop from non-living material three times. Further, to explain the biochemistry of these three types of creatures, biochemists have to assume that at points these separate types had to exchange genetic material with each other, and with a fourth, unknown and extinct type of living thing!One logical conclusion of this new evolutionary approach is that life had to arise from non-life many times. Yet, modern biochemistry still has not explained how life could arise from non-life even once. And, this is exactly the pattern we might expect if all living things are the product of a wise Creator Who used similar designs to solve similar problems.John 1:3"All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”Prayer: Dear Father, great and glorious is the work of Your hands! Amen.Ref: Scientific American, "Uprooting the Tree of Life".

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If you live in a climate where fall brings colors to the leaves before they fall, you've probably noticed something strange. Once the leaves start to fall, the ground is littered with their color. But among all those fading leaves, you might find a perfectly healthy looking green leaf. That green leaf is probably the work of one of God's more amazing tiny insects.Several species of beetles, flies and moths go through a larval stage in which the larvae burrow into leaves. These leaf-miners gain their nutrition from the leaf. But when fall comes, and the leaves lose their green chlorophyll, they stop making food for the larvae. So the larvae secrete a hormone that prevents the leaf from losing its chlorophyll and shutting down to die. This hormone enables a leaf to stay green and produce food for the larvae even long after the leaf would normally have turned color and dried up on the ground.Leaf-miners present several problems for those who think that mindless evolution produced the variety of life that we see around us today. How did the larvae learn to make just the right hormone to preserve the leaf on which it depends? Are we to believe that these larvae kept evolving from something else until one of them figured out the chemistry of the leaf? And finally, are we to believe that this unlikely evolutionary event happened in several species?Just as the sprouting of new leaves in the spring means that summer is near, so the cleverness of the leaf-miner should tell us that the hand of God created this insect. And we can reliably conclude that God made the entire creation.Mark 13:28"Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near…”Prayer: Dear Father, I thank You for the witness of Your wonders. Amen.Ref: Joachim Scheven, “Green Islands,” Origins.

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Evolutionists explain that life started from non-living matter in some sort of "primeval soup." Over the years, they have presented several scenarios of how this might have happened. They have suggested isolated ponds, pools of water on the sides of volcanoes, and in the oceans. Let’s consider the general mathematical principles involved in any of these scenarios.In science, the person who proposes a theory is supposed to present the evidence for that theory. Yet, for the incredible claim that life sprang into being out of non-living materials, no evidence is offered. Just how incredible are evolution's claims about the origin of life? Given the conditions evolutionists claim existed at the origin of life, the chance of evolving the simple, common, iso -1-cytochrome "c" protein is one chance out of one followed by 75 zeros. But that's not a living, reproducing thing. Given the same conditions, the chance of getting a DNA molecule with the ability to reproduce is 100 billion, billion to one. The chance of getting a minimal cell works out to one chance out of a 1 followed by 4,478,296 zeros!Rigorous examination of evolution's claims about the origin of life shows that every evolutionary claim about how life started is just as fanciful. As every believer has testified, God is the source of all life, including yours and mine. It has always been so and will always be so.Job 10:12"Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.”Prayer: Dear Father in heaven, I thank You for the gift of life and eternal life. Amen.Ref: Joseph Mastropaolo, “Evolution Is Biologically Impossible,” Impact #137.

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Most people know that the most important molecule in our bodies is DNA. But another large molecule called ATP is what keeps you and your DNA alive. ATP is the primary energy system within your body. It generates the electricity in your nerves, making it possible to move your muscles. ATP's operation should remove any doubt that it is a product of a wise and intelligent Creator.ATP converts the energy in the food you eat to just the right level needed most of the time by your cells. When ATP delivers its energy within your cell, it loses a group of phosphate atoms and becomes ADP. ADP is immediately recycled back into ATP within your mitochondria to again deliver its energy. On the average, each ATP is recycled like this three times per second. Despite the fact that each of your one hundred trillion cells have one billion ATP molecules, you would die within a few minutes if anything interfered with this recycling. During the course of a day, your body will recycle 400 pounds of ATP! Within your mitochondria are what have been described as molecular "water wheels." When working at its peak, this "water wheel" spins as fast as 200 revolutions per second, generating 600 ATP molecules during that second!The Psalmist was right when he praised God because he recognized that he was fearfully and wonderfully made.Psalm 139:14"I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.”Prayer: Lord, I thank You that I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Amen.Ref: Jerry Bergman,” ATP: The Perfect Energy Currency for the Cell,” Creation Research Society Quarterly. Image: Cell division, Envato.

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How did life get started? We all know that the Bible tells us that life got started when God created it. But we have also learned, perhaps in school, or reading the news, that evolutionists believe that life could have started in the distant past all by itself if the conditions were right. Perhaps you have read that scientists can form amino acids in the laboratory.Besides the fact that amino acids are a long way from life, the amino acids made in the laboratory are the wrong kind for life. The idea that life can form spontaneously under the right conditions places modern evolutionary scientists in a very precarious position.One assumption of evolutionary scientists is that the early earth had no oxygen. Oxygen destroys amino acids. Yet geologists tell us that oxidation even in the oldest rocks proves that the earth has always had an oxygen atmosphere. Besides, if the earth didn't have an oxygen atmosphere when the first amino acids formed, that means there was no ozone, a form of oxygen, to protect those amino acids. Amino acids are quickly destroyed by ultraviolet light from the sun. So, you see, with or without oxygen, amino acids can't begin to form. The truth is that the Bible offers the only sensible explanation for the origin of life. As the great scientist Louis Pasteur said, "Life can only come from life." And the Bible tells us that eternal life can only come from the eternal life-giver, Jesus Christ.Psalm 14:1"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.”Prayer: Father, in Your wisdom, You have put to shame those who would deny You. Thank You for salvation in Jesus. Amen.Ref: David Rosevear, “The Myth of Chemical Evolution,” ICR, Impact #313.

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We often hear evolutionary scientists talking about this or that fossil that is, they say, "millions" or "billions" of years old. On the other hand, the Bible preserves ancient calendars from the time of Adam, such as in Genesis 5, which allow us to place the creation at only a few thousand years ago. How do evolutionists arrive at those millions of years?All dating systems in use are based on the supposed evolutionary progression of life. Some people think that there are radioactive dating methods that are independent of the evolutionary tree, but the technical literature admits that this is not the case. Rock samples are dated by what are called index fossils. If a given rock sample has a certain shell in it, and the evolutionary tree says that creature lived 55 million years ago, the rock is dated at 55 million evolutionary years.This dating system, however, doesn't always work the way scientists expect it to. The rock sample, from a layer previously dated from other samples, was said to be 1.1 billion years old. Yet it had worm burrows in it. Evolutionist history says that worms didn't evolve until half a billion years ago. Another evolutionist examined the rock and said he found shells in it that date it at 545 million years ago. Yet other scientists looked at the rock and said that the shells weren't really shells. So they are now stuck with dates that conflict with each other by more that 100 percent.Rocks will continue to be found which don't fit into the evolutionary timetable because they, and all life, were formed by God not millions but only thousands of years ago.Genesis 5:5"And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.”Prayer: I thank You, Father, that You have made everything and told us about it in Your perfect Word. In Jesus' Name. Amen.Ref: R.M. “A rock that lies about its age,” Science News.

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Physicians have been mystified by and are in the process of studying GOD. But in this case, the acronym "GOD" stands for "generation of diversity." The diversity that amazes them is the diversity found in our immune system. While we have fewer than 100,000 genes, our immune system is able to generate tens of millions of distinct antibodies to defend and protect itself from disease. How can only 100,000 genes produce thousands of times that many antibodies?Actually, we have two immune systems. The first is called the innate system. This rapid response system relies on common characteristics found in most microbes to bind and conquer them. The second immune system is called the combinatorial immune system. It is this second immune system that generates tens of millions of different and very specific antibodies. Its response is slower than the innate system because it responds to an infection by making and sending a variety of antibodies at invaders. Depending on which antibodies recognize the invader, the combinatorial system then begins to manufacture more specific antibodies until the invader is conquered.Researchers studying the details of the immune system are astonished at how evolution could design such a complex, ingenious and precise system. Even from a scientific standpoint, the simpler explanation is that our immune system, like everything else, was created by an all-wise, all-powerful Creator!John 11:11-12"These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well."Prayer: I thank You, Father, for providing us with immune systems, and I ask You for good health. In Jesus' Name. Amen.Ref: John Travis, “The Accidental Immune System,” Science News. 

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