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. 

[Read more…]

“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

“One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary.” —Francis A. Schaeffer, The Church at the End of the 20th Century

A minister waited in line to have his car filled with gas just before a long holiday weekend. The attendant worked quickly, but there were many cars ahead of him. 

Finally, the attendant motioned him toward a vacant pump. “Reverend,” said the young man. “I’m so sorry about the delay. It seems as if everyone waits until the last minute to get ready for a long trip.” 

The minister chuckled, “I know what you mean. It’s exactly the same in my business.”  

King David: For Real? 

What has never been in doubt to Christians who believe in the inspiration of Scripture, can no longer be in doubt to the general public either. 

At Tel Dan in northern Israel, a stela (stone slab) has been discovered containing a reference to the “king of the House of David.” Dating from the mid-eighth century B.C., it is the first extra-biblical, historical evidence for the existence of the King David of the Bible. David is believed to have lived about 1000 B.C.

[Read more…]