It is generally regarded that Columbus (1451-1506) was among the first to establish the fact of our earth's roundness, yet centuries before, the Hebrew prophet announced--"It is He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth" (Isa. 40:22) Moreover, when our Lord spoke of His second coming He referred to a night scene (in bed), a morning scene (grinding), and a midday happening (men in the field), and showed that all these things would be witnessed simultaneously when He appeared, which of course is an indirect reference to the rotundity of the earth.

It was recently discovered that the moon had an influence on plant life. But in the Bible it has been foretold--"For the precious things put forth by the moon" (Deut. 33.13,14), which gives evidence of the fact that the writer knew of the power of the moon to affect plant life thousands of years ago.

The law of transmission of light is vividly described in these passages--"Let there be light and there was light" (Gen. 1.3) and --"By what way is the light parted" (Job. 38. 24).
It has been truly said by Sir John Herschel, the famous astronomer, " All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truth contained in the sacred Scriptures." (1 Pet. 1.25)

Hornets and wasps were the world's first manufacturers of paper. The manner in which they enlarge a little nest smaller than a hen egg into one as large as a half-bushel measure without disturbing its symmetry or opening up its interior, is a masterpiece in building. The katydid and crickets hear with their front legs, in which are located the ears that catch the music of their sweetheart's songs. Among short-horned grasshoppers, their ears are in their ,immediately back of and above the point where the hind legs emerge from their bodies.
All of these give evidence of design and an omniscient Designer, of law and an omniscient Lawmaker.

Sometime ago, a female moth of a rare species was placed in a room. Four miles away a male moth of the same species was released. In spite of the din and smoke of the city, in spite of the distance, and in spite of the fact that the female was in a closed room, in a few hours the male moth was found beating its wings against the window of the room in which the female was confined!

The adult May flies of some species have no mouths and stomachs because their mature lives are too short to need them. The plant lice under laboratory tests, have produced ninety-four generations without the interposition or birth of a single male. Carpet beetles have lived two years in a corked bottle with nothing whatever to eat save the cast-off skins of their own transformations.

 

In 1833 Charles Darwin went to the South Sea Islands looking for the so-called "missing link." As he studied the cannibals who lived there, he concluded that no creatures anywhere were more primitive, and he was convinced that nothing on earth could possibly lift them to a higher level. He thought he had indeed found a lower stratum of humanity that would fit his theory of evolution.
Thirty-four years later he returned to the same islands. To his amazement he discovered churches, schools, and homes occupied by some of those former cannibals. In fact, many of them wore clothes and frequently gathered to sing hymns. The reason was soon learned: Missionary John G. Paton had been there proclaiming the truths of salvation! Darwin was so moved by their transformation that he made a generous contribution to the London Missionary Society. Darwin's "missing link" thus remained missing.

The Bible-Science News Letter reports that research chemists at the Interior Department's Coal research Center in Pittsburgh have developed a process of waste conversion that produces just over a barrel of crude oil from each ton of garbage. The chemists mix wet, ground garbage with carbon monoxide and steam under pressure at about 700 degrees for 20 minutes to form a substance which is 40 percent crude oil and 60 percent water. Since science has discovered that man can make oil in 20 minutes, perhaps scientists will be willing to believe that God did not need 50 million years to do the same thing.

Dr. Harvey (1578-1657) was the first scientist who discovered that the life of the flesh is in the blood. But thousands of years ago Moses wrote--"the life of flesh is in the blood" (Lev. 17. 11). Scientists have analyzed the body of man and discovered it is made up of 14 elements. They have also analyzed the dust of the earth, and found it also is composed of 14 elements. "God formed man," Moses tells us, "of the dust of the ground" (Gen. 2.7)

Sir Isaac Newton, father of physics, established the law of gravitation in the seventeenth century. But thirty centuries before the advent of Newton, Job wrote--"He stretcheth out the north over the empty place and hangeth the earth upon nothing. (Job. 26.7). In the year 1643 Torricelli invented the barometer and hence discovered air has weight. But centuries before, in the sacred book it was written that "God makes weight for the winds" (Job. 28. 25). Galileo was the first to discover that the number of stars is uncountable. But 2,200 years before Galileo, Jeremiah said that the host of heaven cannot be numbered " (Jer. 33. 22)

If the earth were as small as the moon, the power of gravity would be too weak to retain sufficient atmosphere for man's needs; but if it were as large as Jupiter, Saturn, or Uranus, extreme gravitation would make human movement almost impossible.
If we were as near to the sun as Venus, the heat would be unbearable; if we were as far away as Mars, we would experience snow and ice every night even in the war-mest regions. If the oceans were half their present dimensions, we would receive only one-fourth the rainfall we do now. If they were one-eighth larger, our annual precipitation would increase fourfold, and this earth would become a vast, uninhabitable swamp!
Water solidifies at 32 degrees above zero [0 degrees centigrade]. It would be disastrous if the oceans were subject to that law, however, for then the amount of thawing in the polar regions would not balance out, and ice would accumulate throughout the centuries! To prevent such a catastrophe, the Lord put salt in the sea to alter its freezing point! (Psalm 104:24)

Half a century ago, Professor Williams of Franklin College, Ohio, published a book demonstrating The Evolution of Man Mathematically Disproved. He showed by the most careful calculation that if the first human pair had lived 100,000 years ago--some evolutionist say 2,000,000 years ago, or longer--the present population of the world (at only one-tenth the rate of present net increase) would now be 4,660,210,253,138,204,000; or two and one-half billion times as many people as at present!

Consider the "small, blackish deep-sea fish" popularly known as the "black swallower." It sometimes swallows fish much larger than itself. Some have been caught distended with fish inside them two or three times their own size. Their stomach, mouth and throat are distensible, and their teeth can be pressed backwards. Their throat and stomach stretch like a rubber balloon. This monstrosity did not evolve; it was made that way as a unique creation, to show the versatility of our God.

Astronaut James A. McDivitt, who orbited the earth 62 times with Edward H. White II aboard Gemini 4, said in a talk at the Foreign Press Club in Rome: "I did not see God looking into my space-cabin window, as I do not see God looking into my car's windshield on earth. But I could recognize His work in the stars as well as when walking among flowers in a garden. If you can be with God on earth, you can be with God in space as well."

For more than forty years the Piltdown man was an honored member of the society of "earliest humans." Then a startling discovery proved him to be an enormous fraud.
In early 1912 fossil hunter Charles Dawson brought the first finds of the Piltdown man to the British Museum. Immediately the finder became famous, and soon other fragments of the "Missing link" began coming in from Dawson. The find was even named "Eoanthropus Dawsone, Dawson's Dawn Man."
However, forty years later scientists fond that Dawson had deceived them. The jaw had come from a modern ape, with the faker "fossilizing" it by staining it mahogany with iron salt and Bichromate. An oil paint, probably red sienna, had stained the chewing surfaces of the teeth. Further tests revealed every fragment of the Piltdown a forgery. It was probably the greatest hoax perpetrated on the scientific community in history.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Genesis 1:1,2

The more I study nature, the more I am amazed at the Creator.--Louis Pasteur.

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Psalms 19:1

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