Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

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The Moon is covered with craters. Other bodies in the Solar System are also covered with craters. If you look at an unlabeled photograph of Mercury, it is likely that you would simply assume it was the Moon because the cratering is so similar. Such craters have only been discovered since the advent of spacecraft to view the planets close up, so it was not until 1965, when the Mariner 4 craft flew by Mars, that craters other than on Earth or Moon were seen.

Image: Far Side of the Moon, Public Domain (NASA).

 What makes a hero? Is it a particular character trait? Are some personalities better suited to being heroes than others? Or could anyone be a hero, given the right circumstances?

Image: Kigali Genocide Memorial Center, Rwanda; Public Domain image.

“The toolmaking techniques mastered by prehistoric humans there were more sophisticated than previously thought,”

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Could the Icelandic epic poem, the Vǫluspá, which told of the eruption of Eldgjá, in the south of the island, in 939,  been the reminder that encourage the viking people to turn from their worship of pagan gods?

Image: Andreas Tille, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International. 

How could a 1,000-year-old lens is equal in quality with modern lenses?

Notes: Discovering Archaeology Online, 3-4/00, "Medieval Craftsmen Rivaled Descartes." Painting: Portrait of Rene Descartes by André Hatala. (PD)

Like burning embers removed from the fire, when believers fail to be a regular part of their faith community, believers' faith, too, cools to the temperature around it.

Notes: Science News, 6/3/00, p. 359, "Religious commitment linked to longer life." Courtesy: Pixabay

The shell of the giant pink queen conch is made of such remarkable material that scientists speak of its design, even while they say that it is a product of evolutionary chance.

Photo: Shell of the queen conch Lobatus gigas. Courtesy of cheesy42. (CC BY 2.0)

What are "homeless" planets?

Photo: Orion Nebula. Courtesy of NASA. (PD)

Genes carry the biological information to make specific living things. Evolution says that simpler living things evolved first, and more complex life evolved later. This would lead us to believe that more complex living things would have developed more genes.

Photo: Side view of fruit fly. Courtesy of Karl Magnacca. (CC BY-SA 2.5)