Evidence From Biology – January 6 The Couch’s spadefoot toad of the Sonoran Desert is an example of how God takes care of creatures under extreme conditions. This toad lies dormant in the hot desert eleven out of twelve months each year. It has built-in sensors that tell it when a violent desert rainstorm occurs. … Continue reading
When I Consider! – Snowshoe Rabbit
Evidence From Biology – January 2 Although the original world was created perfect and without death, our fallen world requires creatures to adapt to difficult situations in order to survive. Even in the current world full of death and competition, the smallest of creatures exhibit amazing capabilities for survival in harsh environments. The female snowshoe … Continue reading
Ian’s Bird of the Week – Rufous-banded Honeyeater
Here’s a small tropical Honeyeater that we encountered frequently in the Top End of the Northern Territory in September: the Rufous-banded. It’s appeal is subtle rather than spectacular, but I think it looks rather smart with its grey head, white-throat, rufous breast band and brown and yellow wings and tail. It has a restricted range, … Continue reading
Birds of the Bible – Fatted Fowl
Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl. (1 Kings 4:23 KJV) While doing a search with my e-Sword Bible program, I came across I Kings 4:23. It is in the midst of the daily provisions needed by Solomon for … Continue reading
Thanksgiving Turkey
Tomorrow, many of us here in the United States will be eating turkey on Thanksgiving Day. Luckily, many turkeys will survive our holiday and continue to roam around. Here locally in Polk County, Florida, I see a “rafter” of turkeys (name for a group of turkeys – incorrectly called a “gobble” or “flock”) from time … Continue reading
Birds of the Bible – Cuckoo II
And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, (Leviticus 11:16 KJV) and (Deuteronomy 14:15) The verses above are interesting because the cuckow (cuckoo) is taken from the Hebrew word, ” שחף or shachaph” (H7828), and is only used in those two verses. Some translate it as “cuckow” … Continue reading
Ian’s Bird of the Week – White-throated Needletail
My (Ian’s) apologies for a late bird of the week – this should have gone out last week. The White-throated Needletail is a large swift, length 20cm/8in, that visits eastern Australia in the southern summer. It’s main claim to fame is that, in level flight, it is one of the fastest, perhaps the fastest, bird … Continue reading
Birds of the Bible – Singing Birds
By them the birds of the heavens have their home; They sing among the branches. (Psalms 104:12 NKJV) Many birds do their singing to either claim their territory, their partner, or sing because of their new young babies. Many just sing because God put a song in their heart. According to R. A. Torrey’s New … Continue reading
When I Consider! – Dinosaur and Bee DNA
Evidence From Microbiology – October 17 Science News, Nov. 18, 1994, reported that dinosaur DNA had been identified within unfossilized dinosaur bones found 2,000 feet below the surface of the earth in a Utah coal mine. The DNA did not match any known creature currently alive on Earth. The find was disputed on the grounds … Continue reading
Ian’s Bird of the Week – Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Newsletter – 11/5/2009 This one should perhaps be called Book of the Week, as my choice of species is to mark the release by Dorling Kindersley Australia of ‘BIRD Australia’ and I’m celebrating because they used more than 200 of my photos. Dorling Kindersley is part of Penguin Group and specializes in richly illustrated reference … Continue reading
Birds of the Bible – Wayside Sower Birds
Have your ever listened to someone talking, but you really didn’t hear them? Maybe your mind was on something else. Have you ever listened to someone, you were hearing them, but you just didn’t get what they were saying? It just didn’t make sense to you. Well, that is where our Bird of the Bible … Continue reading
When I Consider! – Complexity
Evidence From Biology – October 15 The more we learn about life, the greater the complexity we find. There were no sophisticated microscopes 150 years ago. Consequently, the leap of complexity from single-to-multiple-call organisms was greatly underestimated. The development of the computer has given us an even greater appreciation for the enormous complexity, extreme miniaturization, … Continue reading
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