It is He who made the earth by His power, Who established the world by His wisdom. And by His understanding He has stretched out the heavens (Jeremiah 10:12, NASB20).
The earth is diverse with extremes of temperature, aridity, pressure, and toxicity since the fall as recorded in Genesis. God in His power, wisdom, and understanding designed life to inhabit the entire earth. Life forms living in extreme environments are referred to by scientists as “extremophiles.”
An Oklahoma toddler, Bennett, found and used an abandoned cell phone which had only the 911 service still functioning. The dispatcher who answered the “emergency” call could barely understand the toddler’s request. Finally, he recognized that Bennett wanted doughnuts!
Instead of ignoring, scolding – or something worse – the next day the dispatcher had a police officer drop off a fresh batch of doughnuts at Bennett’s house. Oklahoma good will!
Source: “Pastry Emergency,” World Magazine, April 2025, p. 31.
And God created the great sea monsters, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind, and God saw that it was good (Genesis 1:21).
Is the account in the Bible of God creating animal giants historical fact? When reading this, many people would say, “Of course–look at the elephant and the hippo.” Those were just starters for God! How do we know? The bones don’t lie and neither does the eye!
The mile markers along our interstate highways today are not a modern innovation. The idea goes back at least 2,000 years. There is substantial archaeological evidence of mile markers (miliarium) on ancient Roman roads, beginning with the Via Appia, which goes from Rome to southern Italy.
This Roman mile marker was seen in 2013 on the Camino Portuguese in Spain. (Public domain.)
Many of the originally six-foot-high milestones are still visible along preserved sections of the 75,000-mile network of roads throughout the Roman empire. Ancient Romans determined the distance between markers as 1,000 paces (Latin: mille passuum) by a soldier, from which we derived the English “mile.” Since a double step (pace) was about 4.85 feet (4,850 feet between markers), it was a little short of our current definition of the measured mile (5,280 feet).
