Archives for August 2019

By Dr. Kaia Kloster

As I go into the jail to “Proclaim the Gospel with evidence,” I never know who will choose to come to Bible study—or why. One day, a woman shared with me why she had decided to come. Although her mom had been raised in the church, they hadn’t been taken as kids because her mom didn’t want to “force her beliefs on them.” So while not raised as a Christian, she was aware of “them.” In her daily encounters with people she was quite certain she could identify them. 

There was something different—it seemed there was a “glow” about them. She and her boyfriend came to call them “shiny faces.” Upon leaving a gas station, for example, she might turn to him and say, “She was a ‘shiny face,’ wasn’t she!” It was as if there was a light from within, she said. The difference was undeniable, and always desirable.

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What’s a “Scutoid”?

Consider these statements:

• Scientists know everything about cells because they have been studying them for 500 years. 
• You learned every possible geometric shape in school.

Neither statement is true! 

While carefully examining the epithelial (skin) cells of zebra fish, researchers from the University of Seville in Spain discovered a “scutoid,” a shape previously unknown in geometry. 

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“Blind as a bat.” Really?

That’s a myth. 

Most bats can see as well as humans—and are even adapted to low-light like cats—and in color. 

Where did the myth come from? Perhaps from the observation of their navigation at break-neck speed through total darkness. 

Their unique echolocation ability is literally thousands of times more efficient than any similar system built by humans. 

But now ask the beasts, and let them teach you…who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this…?
— (Job 12:7-9).   

Source: Answers Magazine, March-April, 2019, Vol. 14, No. 2, p. 30