Where do you find hope? Christians find their hope outside themselves in the sure promises of God in Jesus Christ. These promises are found throughout the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.But what happens to our hope when we decide to be selective about what we want to believe of the Bible's teachings and/or when we add other beliefs that are not from the Bible?One good example of what happens can be found in Jane Goodall's autobiography, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey.Goodall became f... Read Full Story

The legend of the phoenix goes back thousands of years. According to that legend, the phoenix bird lived for hundreds of years in the Arabian Desert. Then, to renew itself, it burned itself up in its own funeral pyre. It would then rise from its own ashes, renewed for several hundred years.Dr. Maurice Burton, a British naturalist, has suggested that this legend may have some basis in fact. He points out that some birds like to play with fire. The British rook is a bird that is a little large... Read Full Story

If you were to venture a guess, how long would you say shoes have been around? The answer may surprise you!While evolutionists portray early man as unskilled and primitive, the Bible portrays him as skilled and sophisticated, even by today's standards.Martin Luther, in describing Adam before the fall, said that we today would probably consider him to be a type of superman.The Bible's view of ancient man was supported when researchers found a collection of 18 shoes and sandals in the Arnold R... Read Full Story

How long does it take to make a fossil? Walk through just about any museum and you will find fossils with explanations saying that they are "millions of years old." Many people find this claim plausible since the fossils are often from creatures very different from those we see today. And for many people, this is convincing evidence that the story of the evolution of life over millions of years is true. These fossils convince many that young earth creationism is wrong.This line of evolutiona... Read Full Story

At least one ninth of all 900 species of gourds produce chemicals known as cucurbiticins. The 10 cucurbiticins so far identified are the most bitter substances known to human taste.In tests, subjects were able reliably to identify amounts as diluted at one part per billion! Cucurbiticins are also poisonous. Livestock have been known to die from eating gourds containing the chemical. But most plant eaters, including insects, know to stay away from the gourds that contain this chemical.Despite... Read Full Story

Scientists have always wondered whether monarch butterflies have built in compasses to help them in their fantastic migrations. After wintering in Mexico, monarchs head to their northern breeding ranges in the eastern United States and Canada. Flying 1,000 miles a day and never having seen their breeding range, they find it every year.By the time they begin their migration south, they are the great-great-grandchildren of the individuals who left Mexico the previous spring. Yet, never having ... Read Full Story

How do you make something that is sweet? For that matter, how do you make any taste? We're not talking about adding sugar to a recipe. Let's say that God provided you with all the atoms of the various elements you needed to make a molecule that tastes sweet.If you were to make such a molecule, you would need to know the construction of the sweet taste receptors on your tongue.You would need to know which molecular shapes would bind to those receptors.Then you would have to understand how all... Read Full Story

A tiny parasitic insect has eyes and a lifestyle that are unique among living things. Actually, only the male members of the species Xenos peckii have eyes. The females spend their short lives inside the paper wasps they infest and don't have eyes. After a male hatches inside a wasp, it emerges from the wasp and uses its entire two hour adult lifespan searching for a wasp infected with a female of its species.The males' eyes are unlike the eyes of any other living thing. Each faceted eye has... Read Full Story

Charles Darwin popularized the phrase "survival of the fittest." Ever since, this idea that evolutionary change is driven by the necessity of survival has been essential to the idea of evolution.Evolutionists examine each feature of a plant or animal to try to determine why that feature evolved to help the creature survive. Researchers have modeled survival using two creatures with different features. Each feature gave the two creatures advantages over each other in differing situations.When... Read Full Story

I look at Egypt's pyramids and wonder how the ancients built these great structures. Such questions are really about the source of man's intelligence and creativity. Were intelligence and creativity created within us by an ultimately intelligent and creative God, or are these a result of blind evolutionary forces?In the ancient city that the Greeks called Heliopolis, the Romans converted an ancient Greek temple into a temple for Jupiter. The original temple must have amazed even the Roman bu... Read Full Story