The first book that urged us to take good care of the earth was the Bible. The Bible also reminds those who would be careless about their responsibilities that there is a Creator who is going to hold us accountable for how we carry out our responsibilities. Why, then, does Christianity always seem to be taking the blame for destruction of the environment?

Photo: The sunflower.  Courtesy of RS3. (CC BY-SA 3.0)

The news has again been filled with stories about the search for planets orbiting nearby stars. All these stories assume that our Earth was not formed by God. They perpetuate the idea that the Earth and other planets in the solar system formed when dust around the young sun began to collect into lumps.

Image: Artist’s impression of dust around Beta Pictoris. Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC). (PD)

The bacterium Bacillus cereus likes to live in soil that would kill most other bacteria. It’s bothered neither by lethal concentrations of metal nor natural antibiotics.

How can cereus survive under conditions that would kill any other known bacteria?

Photo: Bacillus cereus by Loes Van Damme –CCO - Pixabay.com

It is often forgotten how much energy a plant uses, in producing flowers and blossoms. Though cherry blossoms are small, there are a lot of them. The colors they reflect, and the aromas released, are attractive to the insects necessary for pollination.

Photo: Cherry Blossom by Chiem Seherin_Pixabay.com

“What is the place of art in the Christian life?”, asked Francis Schaeffer. Many people have pondered the same question.

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One study has suggested that caffeine production must have evolved independently at least three times. Not only that, but plants contain at least two different biosynthetic routes for its production. Yet evolutionists claim that caffeine production fulfills just one main evolutionary purpose – to modify the behavior of other organisms.

Image: Julius Schworzman. License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic.

While Bach wrote theological notes in the margins of his manuscripts, and his well-thumbed Bible also contained comments, Beethoven’s music is honest in its skepticism. There is power and passion in it, as well as a great deal of anger.

Image: Josef Karl Steiler, 1820 – Public Domain, due to age.

Is there life on other ocean covered worlds?

Image: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Public Domain.

Could the stuff of science fiction be a reality in the outer reaches of our Solar System?

Image: NASA, Public Domain

Technology is looking at  the way nature folds things to copy the  natural designs, to produce better robotic algorithms, for packaging fragile objects.

Image: Andreas Bauer. License: Creative Commons Share-Alike 2.5 Generic.