Three dimensional (3D) printing, or additive manufacturing, is a process of making solid, three-dimensional objects from a digital file. Using metals, plastics, acrylic, sandstone, etc., an object is created by laying down successive micrometer layers of materials until the object is complete. 

Hailed by some as the advent of the third industrial revolution, 3D printers may eventually be standard household equipment to manufacture your own shoes, dresses, glasses frames, doorknobs, functional clocks—the list is seemingly endless.  [Read more…]

By Dr. Don Bierle, FaithSearch President

I was returning to the Seattle airport from a weekend of ministry when the pastor of the church I had just left called and said my wife was desperately trying to get in touch with me. I called and heard her sobbing. “What’s wrong?” I asked. “Steve’s dead!” was her heartbreaking response.

It was a message no parent ever wants to hear. I was speechless in disbelief. Steve is the younger of our two sons: he was forty-four years old, with a wife, Sandy, and three sons of his own. Longer story short, Steve drowned while successfully rescuing his middle son, Benjamin, from certain death in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of northern California. [Read more…]

There is a current craze for people to discover more about their heritage by DNA testing. Typically, these tests reveal ancestry by detecting mutations in nuclear DNA. 

One American family had this test done for themselves. Not surprisingly to them, results confirmed that the parents were of European descent; their adoptive daughter and son from China were East Asian. [Read more…]

In Reference to Job 12:7-10

The hummingbird hawk-moth’s…

• …internal thorax temperature exceeds 113º F at peak activity (humans die at 109º F)
• …high energy demands require that they visit 100-500 flowers every day
• …wings beat 70-80 times per second (compared to 53 times for hummingbirds)

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What an Incredible Design!

God made seeds to replenish the earth, even after forest fires or other destructive forces. Pit cherry seeds (North America) can be viable after 50-150 years. A seed of the sacred lotus found in China (a flowing aquatic herb of tropical Asia) was viable after 1,300 years.  [Read more…]

“…even to the remotest part of the earth.” (Acts 1:8)

As of 2016, the Bible has been translated into 3,200 languages with active translation taking place in an additional 2,400. It is estimated that about 1,800 more languages still await translation to begin.

Source:  Decision Magazine (September 2017 or Vol. 58, No. 9), p. 25.