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It's not "Jack's" fault he thinks he's a dog. He was but a wee lamb when the kind lady brought him home from the shelter and hand-fed him. He was loved! And all those playmates around him were his brothers and sisters. It never occurred to "Jack" that he was a sheep! No, he, too, was a dog just like all his playmates!
For centuries, man has debated whether NATURE or NURTURE that played the most important role in child development. Well, "Jack" is not a human child. But he IS a sheep who thinks he's a dog. He shakes hands, barks (or tries to), rolls over when commanded, and even herds sheep! But he doesn't like dog food. No, he grazes like those stupid sheep do.
This video says it all, so here we go!
I believe NURTURE is even more important than NATURE, and "Jack" proves it.
2011 Christian Nature
You will never clean up all the dust. It's impossible! It's a dusty world we live in. It's behind your refrigerator and under your bed. It's part of the air you breathe. While dust is common, it's not commonplace at all. Such is it's nature!
Much of the dust in our everyday lives is nothing more than tiny particles of skin, clothing, carpeting – just pieces of everyday life floating in the air. Studies of dust particles reveal that most Dustdust is soil.
However, a second common dust – even a thousand miles from the sea – is salt, driven into the wind by the waves. This salt helps form the clouds that bring us rain.
The next most common forms of natural dust are volcanic eruptions and forest fires. Transatlantic winds pick up the dust of the Sahara and sweep it across the ocean where enough of it lands in Miami to sometimes give the rain a light pink color.
Not only does your home have dust from all over the world, there's probably also some from outer space. Ten thousand tons of disintegrating meteorites and comets rain down on the Earth every year. You can even identify some of this dust by running a magnet through the dust in a rain gutter. Most of the magnetic particles that stick to the magnet are probably from space.
In addition, some dust is alive, made up of pollen, fungus spores and even dormant bacteria, hoping to land on a good place to grow.
Dust reminds us that the world is smaller than we think and that it won't last forever. Are you ready for the next world?
Notes: Discover
2011 Christian Nature
"And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." Genesis 2:7
Who would ever think spiders could benefit mankind? But they can! They produce durable fibers!
Scientists and manufacturers are studying a new technique that could lead to more durable fibers. This technique manufactures liquid crystals (photo) to produce stronger, longer-lasting fibers. The process uses sulfuric acid, temperatures well above the boiling point of water and a high-pressure atmosphere.
Meanwhile, another team of researchers finally discovered how orb weaving spiders and silkworms manufacture their silk. Scientists had theorized that silk from spiders and silkworms was stronger by weight than steel because proteins in the silk cross-linked with each other. But after watching silk production and drying in careful lighting under magnification, astonished scientists actually saw what happens.
Silk is produced in the silk gland as a thin, watery liquid. Once the protein-rich liquid is released from the gland, the liquid begins to concentrate because of evaporation.
As the liquid concentrates, it changes into a liquid crystal state. Scientists have been trying to create fibers in the lab from liquid crystals. They would love to know how the spider does it, using only water at normal temperatures and pressures.
This is another example of how God has already solved an engineering problem that we were trying to solve. It is especially interesting that He allowed scientists to discover His solution at the same time that others were trying to solve the problem. This allows us to reemphasize that our world is the work of a Creator and not mindless, natural accidents.
2011 Christian Nature
How about taking your children to an excellent movie this weekend about a Dolphin who gets a prosthetic tail? This is a true story of the marvels of science. And it has some excellent stars, too! (Plus your children get to wear 3-D glasses!) Share the marvels of science with your children!
Let's review the movie.
Sawyer’s life is an unhappy and lonely one until he finds a friend in an injured dolphin he helps to rescue. Taken to the Clearwater Marine Hospital, the dolphin, soon named Winter, struggles to survive. The prognosis is dire, especially after the hospital’s lead marine biologist Dr. Clay Haskett (played by Harry Connick, Jr.) amputates her tail.
Sawyer (Nathan Gamble) and the rest of the CMH team work around the clock, hoping for a turnaround. Desperate for a miracle, Sawyer reaches out to Dr. McCarthy (Morgan Freeman), a prosthetic specialist, to create a groundbreaking contraption that will allow Winter to swim, in effect, saving her life.
Starring Harry Connick, Jr., Ashley Judd (as Sawyer’s mom), Morgan Freeman, and Kris Kristofferson, Dolphin Tale has a good cast telling a remarkably true story of restoration. The film’s youngest stars, Nathan Gamble and Cozi Zuehlsdorff, pull their weight as well. In fact, these two notable actors prove their skill in the story’s dramatic and comedic scenes.
What’s even more moving than the film itself are the videos shown during the ending credits of the amateur video of Winter being rescued from the beach and the disabled men, women, and children who have visited Winter in Florida, and left inspired and filled with hope for their futures.
2011 Christian Nature
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We are hearing much dialogue about life in space now, especially this week. It is causing quite a controversy! Is there life out there somewhere? Helllo?
Back in 1836, well-known astronomer Sir John Herschel wrote a series of articles for the New York Sun, reporting his discovery of life on the moon. He told of how he saw buffalo, goats, cranes, pelicans, beaches, forests and even winged batmen. The Sun finally admitted that the whole story had been a prank, and most of the public was amused.
There is as much evidence today for life on the moon or other planets as there was in 1836. As we explore those other planets of the solar system, the evidence grows that there is little hope that other life will be found in space.
Evolutionists, of course, expect life to be found in space. They feel that if life evolved on Earth, it certainly should have evolved elsewhere, too. At a popular conference on whether there is life in space, one of today's most famous astronomers, Dr. Robert Jastrow, stated that the question was "essentially a religious controversy."
That the question of life in space is a religious question is an important insight. Many evolutionists see the discovery of life in space as the final nail in the coffin of Christianity and proof of their religion of evolution. It would not be, of course.
The Bible does not offer any clear statements on the matter, although most Bible-believing scholars conclude that the Bible implies that material life exists only on Earth. However, our exploration of space has taught us that our Earth is a very special place, carefully designed just for life.
Notes: "The great moon hoax." Science Digest, Nov. 1985. p. 80. DeGarmo, S. 1984. A religious controversy. Science Digest, Jan. p. 8.
2011 Christian Nature
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As a cancer survivor, I am so grateful for this clear major breakthrough and giant leap towards better cancer treatment!
In a new project, researchers from LIFE—the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Copenhagen—document that the vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) plays a previously unknown dual role in the prevention of a number of cancers. The new findings show that the virus both kills cancer cells and stops the expression of the molecules which certain types of cancer cells produce to hide from the immune system.
Certain types of cancer cells express far too many liquid immunostimulatory molecules, blocking the immune system's ability to recognize them, and enabling them to continue the development of cancer.
"The over expression seen in cancer types such as melanoma, testicular cancer, ovarian cancer and certain types of leukemia significantly impairs the immune system, thereby reducing the patient's chance of recovery," says Associate Professor in immunology Søren Skov from LIFE.
Søren Skov is heading a research team which has just launched a major EU project to study the potential for improving cancer treatment by strengthening the immune system. "We were able to demonstrate that the virus kills cancer cells. The results also show that VSV effectively blocks the production of the immunostimulatory molecules which certain types of cancer over expression to destroy the immune system and thus the chances of survival," Associate Professor Skov says.
This is a clear breakthrough and a giant leap towards better cancer treatment. The immune system will be able to more effectively stop the development of cancer when not sidelined. In addition, it is possible to mutate the virus and thus adapt it to the relevant type of cancer. There is thus a potential for a future alternative to chemotherapy, tailored to the individual patient, says Associate Professor Søren Skov.
"The next step will be clinical trials in humans. Such trials are already being conducted in the USA," says Helle Jensen, who has carried out the research project at LIFE in collaboration with the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Copenhagen and the National Veterinary Institute at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).
Thank God for those who persevere in the search for healthier human beings!
2011 Christian Nature
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Have you ever laid down on the dirt and observed the shocking life of ants? I did when I was a curious child. Even then, I recognized ants seemed to have different functions. I couldn't define them yet, but I knew several ants did the same functions over and over.
Let's picture a huge living creature covering about one square mile and made up of almost a third of a billion cells. Imagine each of those living cells being able to move about independently of the others.
No, it's not the plot of a new science fiction movie. Some scientists have suggested that ant colonies may be thought of as one large living organism. They suggest this because of the way individual members within ant colonies behave.
Ant colonies have many kinds of members, each with its own specific task. The soldier ants in a colony have extra large heads and heavy-duty jaws for fighting. Other ants are concerned only about finding and returning food. Still other workers do nothing but process and store food.
Within the colony another caste of ants does nothing but tend the eggs. Others prepare the food for the larvae and deliver it to other specialized ants who do nothing but feed the next generation.
If this sounds shocking, imagine the largest known ant colony. This Japanese ant colony has an estimated 306 million worker ants and more than a million queens.
The colony occupies 45,000 interconnected underground nests that range over about a square mile!
There is obviously intelligent design and control behind ant society – intelligence not found in ants or in nature itself. This intelligence comes from outside nature. Here is yet another witness that no concern of any living thing is too small for God's complete attention!
Maybe there's a reason the Bible has so much to say about ants!
2011 Christian Nature
I cannot say "Awesome Creator" enough! Maybe you don't know the details of some of His creations to make you feel the same. Let's fix that and then we'll watch a great video!
Our Creator's work reflects some of His incredible inventive creativity. In Matthew 6:30, Jesus reminds us how God provides for all the needs of all His creatures. Each creature is perfectly suited for its life, even if that requires special creativity from God.
Many of the creatures that live in the deepest and darkest parts of the sea are equipped with lights. One has a very bright headlamp to light its way.
Others have lights on their tails, jaws or sides. The light they produce, as the light produced by the firefly, is a cold light. The light is generated when chemicals manufactured by the creatures are mixed together.
Or consider the small bird that has an "engine" powerful enough to allow it to fly for 10,000 or more miles. The construction of the bird's heart differs from yours and mine in important ways. However, we couldn't get by with the bird's heart just as it couldn't get by with ours.
While it seems strange to think of the penguin as a bird that flies under water, that's exactly what it does. The penguin can reach speeds of 30 miles per hour underwater, as fast as the fastest marine mammal, the dolphin.
All of us would benefit from looking at the creatures around us a little more closely. If we do, we will learn a little more about the magnificent creativity of our God. As we learn about their lives and how they are provided for, we will, as one early scientist put it, learn to think God's thoughts about the natural world after Him!
Then you can sing with me, "Our God is an awesome God!"
2011 Christian Nature
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Are you a dental hygienist? Do you work on crocodiles? I'll bet not! But that's how the crocodile bird makes his living.
Of course, you do need to know that the crocodile bird doesn't show up to do his work with any drills or needles. He and the crocodile are on good terms with each other. After eating, the crocodile climbs the river bank and relaxes with his mouth open.
The little crocodile bird enters the crocodile's mouth to 
clean up the scraps that are left. While the crocodile bird makes most of his living as sort of a crocodile dental hygienist, he also helps keep the crocodile free of pesky insects that lodge in his skin.
The crocodile also receives one other service from the crocodile bird. Whenever the bird senses approaching danger, he gives his sharp warning call and flies off. The crocodile, now warned, can quickly roll over into the water where virtually no animal can get the best of him.
This is but one of many unlikely cooperative arrangements that we find in the plant and animal kingdoms. Every one of these relationships speaks for a Creator and against the idea that either these creatures, or their cooperation, evolved naturally.
Evolutionists have written whole books on the subject. Yet they don't seem satisfied that they have explained how these relationships could develop through evolution. We agree that they have no explanation. Nor are they likely to find one as long as they deny a Creator who cares for His creation.
Source: Creation Moments
2011 Christian Nature
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What a wonderful invention this is!A personal escape harness inspired by the victims who jumped from the World Trade Center was available in time for the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11 attacks.
The device, called Rescue Reel, retails for around $2,000. To escape, people strap themselves into the harness, lock the reel to a stationary point like a door frame and gently propel themselves backward down the outside of a building.
The inventor, a San Francisco orthopedic surgeon named Kevin R. Stone, said the idea for the device came to him as he watched live coverage of people leaping to their deaths from the burning towers.
“I was shocked,” Dr. Stone, who holds 50 patents in the orthopedic field, said by phone. “I was appalled that those people can’t get out. My immediate thought was, ‘I can reel in a 400-pound fish. Why can’t I reel out a 400-pound person?’ ” Fire department rescue ladders usually do not reach beyond six or seven stories, he noted.
Using the fishing reel as a base concept, Dr. Stone hired Think2Build, a San Francisco design company, to help him create the device. Dr. Stone said the biggest engineering challenge was finding a way that people of differing weights could fall at a speed that would not injure them when they hit the ground — no faster than two seconds per story (which means it would have taken about four minutes to flee the upper floors of the twin towers). Ultimately, the designers incorporated a centripetal braking system, which produces more friction at higher weights.
The device, which uses Kevlar ropes, will be available in 30-, 60- and 100-story lengths. For taller buildings, such as those in Dubai, Dr. Stone said custom lengths could be created.
While the $2,000 price tag is considerable, Dr. Stone said he hoped that the harnesses, like life jackets, could become standard safety equipment. He said he hoped that building codes could potentially be adjusted so that fewer stairwells would be needed if individual escape devices were provided. Alternatively, he said he could see insurance rates being reduced in buildings where the devices were available.
Orders for the device, which will be manufactured in Indianapolis, can be placed at rescuereel.com, and the first thousand were available Sept. 1.
Dr. Stone said that the Rescue Reel had drawn interest from Ferris wheel operators and from American military officials interested in using the device to lower soldiers from helicopters, as well as from the Fire Department in Vallejo, California.
2011 Christian Nature
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Did you know a wasp could be cooked by bees? Sounds crazy, doesn't it? But it's true!
Domesticated honeybees in China are preyed upon by a native Chinese wasp. A single wasp can wipe out a nest of 6,000 bees before carrying off the larvae to feed its own young.
The wasp does this by stationing itself at the entrance to the nest and killing the guards one by one as they come out to defend the hive.
However, the Chinese honeybees are not defenseless. If enough of them can get to a wasp they will literally coat the wasp. Research shows that they are doing something even more effective than stinging it. They are cooking the wasp to death.
Bees generate heat by shivering their flight muscles. Both European and Chinese honeybees use this strategy to heat their nest when it gets cold.
Researchers found that a wasp, fully encased in honeybees, will be heated to 113 degrees (F), in five minutes, enough to kill the wasp.
European and Asian honeybees can stand temperatures over 120 degrees. However, the Asian bees must muster half again as many bees to cook the wasp.
In God’s foreknowledge, He knew that man’s eventual sin would affect the entire creation. So He gave the creatures of His creation the ability to defend themselves - even bees!
Now that's a Creator Who cares about His Creation!
Notes: Science News
2011 Christian Nature
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'Six REAL days?' Many Christians are willing to accept what Genesis has to say about creation with one exception. They don't want to accept the six days as literal, natural, approximately 24-hour days. Did you know that there are other important portions of Scripture that depend on those six days being literal and normal days?
In Exodus 20:11 the Lord is giving the Ten Commandments to Moses. The Lord is explaining the principle of the Sabbath in this verse. God's explanation says that man shall work six days and rest on the seventh because God Himself made the heavens and the Earth in six days and rested on the seventh. Therefore, He blessed the seventh day. This truth is repeated in Deuteronomy 5:13.
Surely no Christian would argue that the Ten Commandments are poetry to be taken figuratively. The Lord is confirming here that His work of creation really occupied six normal days and that He rested on the seventh normal day. If these days were actually long ages, then we should work for six long ages before we take some rest. We can be sure that this is not what the Lord has in mind.
If the Ten Commandments should not be interpreted literally because of this connection with creation, where does that leave us? Surely the creation days, by the Lord's own confirmation and commandment to us, are literal, natural, approximately 24-hour days!
For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Exodus 20:11
Notes: Creation's Tiny Mystery - Earth Science Associates
2011 Christian Nature
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Michael Hingson shares the incredible story of how his guide-dog Roselle got him down from the 78th floor of the North Tower in New York City on 9/11/01. Vote for Roselle at the bottom of this post.
The following is an excerpt from Hingson's book, Thunder Dog.
September 11, 2001: I can feel her body quivering. It’s twelve thirty in the morning and Roselle is afraid of the thunder. Again.
In my drowsiness, I prop myself up on one elbow and reach down to stroke her back, then touch her ears. I finger their velvety softness. She reaches up and noses my hand. Usually her nose feels cool and wet, but this time it feels warm. She’s panting, and her damp, foggy breath hangs in the air between us.
Roselle’s quivering becomes shaking, and I know I’ll have to get up. I lie back for a moment and listen. I hear the wind testing the windows but nothing else yet. Roselle knows a storm is brewing. She usually gets nervous about thirty minutes before the thunder rolls in.
As I follow Roselle down the stairs to my basement office, I begin to hear the first deep rumbles of the approaching thunderstorm. Roselle dives under my desk and begins panting again, this time faster and louder. She is one of the most easygoing dogs I’ve ever known, but thunder spooks her. It’s funny, though; Roselle has guided me during storms, and even though she doesn’t like it, her guide dog training prevails, and she guides well.
As we wait though the storm together in the dark, Roselle cocooned at my feet, I turn on my computer and do some work to pass the time. Between the noise of the radio, my fingers tapping on the keyboard, and the rhythmic mutter of my screen reader, Roselle stops shaking, and I can sense her body starting to relax.
I don’t mind having the extra time to finish preparing for my morning meeting. We’re expecting fifty guests for four sales training sessions, and as regional sales manager, I’m in charge of the presentation.
An hour and a half later, the thunderstorm has passed, and Roselle and I head back upstairs to bed. In fewer than six hours, we’ll be at the World Trade Center.
We have a big day ahead. (Watch Video)
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Roselle has been named one of eight finalists for 2011 American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards™. The awards ceremony, hosted by Betty White, will be broadcast as a 90-minute special on the Hallmark Channel, “American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards™,” on November 11, 2011.
2011 Christian Nature
Which mosquito do you dislike the most? Silly question? No. It is the female who lives on your blood, so, to me is the scariest. The male lives on plant juices! How can you tell which is which?
It is easy to see the difference between males and females in most species. The male has a distinctive pair of antennae. While the female mosquito's antennae are difficult to see, the male's looks like a pair of branched feathers coming out of its head. And if it weren't for a very special feature, these large, feathery antennae would make it difficult for him to fly.
Each antenna is planted in a socket, next to which there is a pad, made out of special protein. This pad is actually a water-powered engine. When flying, the mosquito's antennae are flattened against its head. But when he lands, he raises the antennae so that he can hear.
To raise the antennae, a small amount of water from his system is pumped into the pad which increases its size by 25 percent and causes the pad to unfold, raising the antennae.
Nature is full of so many wonders that it would be easy for us to get lost in them. But every one of these wonders is designed by God to lead us to desire to learn more about Him.
Notes: Princeton University Press
2011 Christian Nature
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Nature can be glorious and breathtakingly beautiful. Nature can also be ugly and destructive. Today my heart aches because of nature's ugliness in Bastrop, Texas.
My heart breaks for my many relatives in Bastrop, Texas. All of them are living in shelters in other cities, not knowing if they have anything left to come home to. They have called, crying, asking that we pray for them, and we are. Thank God, none of my many cousins have died, but several have already lost their homes and everything they own.
Everyone who reads my blog knows how passionately I love trees. I had a home, myself, in the Lost Pines area of Bastrop County, and it was Heaven-on-Earth.
And my favorite Highway in the world has always been the tree-lined Highway 21. Many a time, I stopped the car on the side of the highway and stood outside with my camera, photographing God's beauty. All of that is gone now, and mere embers remain.
Life is so unpredictable. Fires I'm well-acquainted with since I live in California. But somehow, I never dreamt the beauty of the Lost Pines would be burned to the ground.
I must say, I'm well pleased with Governor Rick Perry who is doing what a leader 
should do: being present, encouraging, and remaining calm. His press conference is below. But before you watch it, please consider giving $5 to the people who have lost everything.
American Red Cross
It's the least we can do to be good Americans.
Is there anything so mysterious as eyes? I'm thinking cat eyes are the most mysterious I have seen. Can they really see in the dark? If not, why are they so mysterious?
Some creatures can see forms of light that are invisible to us; others have built-in binoculars.
The rattlesnake has two sets of eyes, one set for light that is visible to us, and another set for infrared radiation.
But one thing that creatures with vision all have in common is that sight requires some form of light.
While some creatures, like cats, are supposed to be able to see in the dark, they cannot, in fact, see any better than we can in a room that is too dark. However, cats, and many other animals, are able to see more clearly than we can at light levels where our eyes become useless.
One of the main reasons for this is that their eyes have a reflective layer of cells below the light receptors. So, if a particle of light - called a photon - misses a light receptor on its way into the eye, it is reflected back through the light receptor cells and gets a second chance to register.
It is this reflective layer of cells which makes it look like your cat's eyes are glowing in the dark.
The great variety and abilities of sight that we find in different creatures perfectly fits each of their life styles and needs. But I'm not surprised. What my God does, He does well!
2011 Christian Nature
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I love mysteries! Even when I was a child, I ate up every new Nancy Drew book! And that's one of the things I appreciate the most about God's Creation - the mystery of it all!
The Bible often talks about truths that are hidden because of unbelief. Read I Corinthians 2:7 below.
A scientist was recently studying insect-eating birds in an oak tree that was in bloom. He was surrounded by male flowers called catkins. Suddenly, one of the catkins began walking away!
The surprise that he had discovered was a species of caterpillar that feeds on catkins, and ends up looking just like a catkin even having fake pollen sacks. In this way, it escapes the notice of feeding birds.
The scientist then found that the members of this caterpillar species that hatch in early spring and feed on catkins end up looking like catkins. But members of the same species that hatch later and feed in oak trees end up looking like oak twigs! This observation was a complete surprise because it means that it is the caterpillars' diet that causes the difference in appearance.
When things are hidden, reality is always different than we expect. While the Gospel is clear, Scripture often mentions that unbelief causes the clear to be hidden to the unbeliever. It is helpful for us to understand this as we see the popularity of belief in a godless beginning to this planet.
notes: Science News
2011 Christian Nature
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: 1 Corinthians 2:7
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Countless discussions involve the "real age" of the Earth. I sometimes want to scream, "Make up your minds!" So how do we know FOR SURE what the real age of the Earth is?
If we rule out scriptural history, we are limited to determining the age of the Earth from appearances. Appearances can be deceptive. (Come to Hollywood, and I'll prove that statement!)
Let's say I wanted to compare the amount of dissolved aluminum in the oceans with the rate at changing age of earth which it is being delivered to the oceans by rivers. Using this method, I could prove that the Earth is only about 100 years old!
You would doubt my results if I told you that. I could respond by checking how much iron is dissolved in the oceans and how long it would have taken the rivers to deliver it. This time I can prove that the Earth is 140 years old.
That's one of the problems with trying to work out the age of the Earth without a guide. There is no shortage of information and methods. In fact, there is so much information that you can't tell the sense from the nonsense!
Today, evolutionists say that they know the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old.
Back in 1900, they were sure that the Earth was between 400 and 500 million years old.
Fifty years before that, they were very sure that the Earth was between 400,000 and 500,000 years old.
In the last two centuries, scientists have been positive about ages for the Earth that differ by over 1,000%!
Does this sound confusing? It is. One cannot help reaping confusion when one rejects what the Bible says.
2011 Christian Nature
Astronomers discover new planet primarily made up of crystalline-carbon—diamond.
According to a recent Reuters article, a newly-discovered planet in our celestial "back yard" may be largely comprised of diamond, as its mostly carbon composition is so dense, scientists believe it to be in crystalline form.
As reported in the journal Science, the planet—some 4,000 light years from Earth—is said to have "slightly more mass than Jupiter, but is 20 times as dense."
Although the planet could be diamond in substance, it may not be in the glittery translucent form so familiar to us.
Ben Stappers of the University of Manchester noted, "In terms of what it would look like, I don't know I could even speculate. I don't imagine that a picture of a very shiny object is what we're looking at here."
But then again, a sparkling diamond planet may not be so far-fetched when you consider the beautiful city Believers will one day inherit….
"The construction of its wall was of jasper, and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrystoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst." -Rev. 21:18-20
Ben Hirschler – Reuters.com
2011 Christian Nature
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It's not "Jack's" fault he thinks he's a dog. He was but a wee lamb when the kind lady brought him home from the shelter and hand-fed him. He was loved! And all those playmates around him were his brothers and sisters. It never occurred to "Jack" that he was a sheep! No, he, too, was a dog just like all his playmates!
