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God’s Creation – Deep Sea Sponges

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People are not often aware of how scientists frequently base their research on things already existing in the natural world that God created.  Until the invention of the electron microscope, cells were believed to be simple, consisting of nothing but indeterminate protoplasm.  Cells are now know to be anything but simple – each one a miracle of complexity.  Scientists are now adapting the structure of fascinating deep sea sponges – to achieve phenomenal strength – coupled with flexibility.  From Creation Moments:

Psalm 107:24

“These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.”

 “The most perfect design I’ve ever seen.” Those words were uttered by a materials engineer after studying a deep sea sponge from the Pacific Ocean. And, indeed, the Euplectella aspergillun, claimed to be an early and primitive sponge, can teach modern materials engineers a number of useful things.

Deep Sea SpongeThe sponge’s body is made up of a thin layer of cells over an intricate glass skeleton. The sponge grows into a cylindrical shape about 8 inches long and about an inch across. The wonder lies in the glass skeleton that is made up of vertical and horizontal beams of glass. Diagonal beams strengthen this grid. One-third of these beams are thicker than the others, adding the extra strength of ridges to the cylinder. What’s more, each of these glass beams is made up of small cylinders of glass glued together with more glass-like tree rings.  The result is a structure that spreads the pressures that might crush an ordinary glass structure this size. It is a delicate looking, but nearly unbreakable, glass structure.

In a less-than-scientific test, one researcher noted that one has to jump full weight on one of these cylinders to even produce any cracking, and such jumping will still not break it. “The most perfect design I’ve ever seen,” said the researcher. There’s little that we at Creation Moments can add to that.

http://www.creationmoments.com/radio/transcripts/most-perfect-design-i-ve-ever-seen

The more tech minded may enjoy this video showing the lab simulation of a deep sea sponge spicule (a slender pointed usually hard body; especially :  one of the minute calcareous or siliceous bodies that support the tissue of various invertebrates (as sponges)

PSALM 118:28)

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 Thou art my God, and I will praise Thee: Thou art my God, I will exalt Thee.    

Creation – Squirrel vs. Rattlesnake

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We all know it’s a tough world out there in the wild for little animals. I was delighted to find out this fascinating discovery about California ground squirrels. It seems they have surprising defense against rattle snakes.

When an adult ground squirrel finds a rattlesnake, it begins to taunt the snake. The squirrel dashes into striking range, whips its tail about, bites the snake’s tail and kicks sand on it. While a rattlesnake can strike with lightening speed, the little ground squirrel is even faster and well able to dart out of the way. Even if it was bitten, the venom wouldn’t kill it since these squirrels have proteins in their blood that detoxify the poison. Frustrated snakes have been known to simply retreat when faced with this treatment.

Researchers have learned that the squirrels’ bag of tricks is even deeper. Rattlesnakes can see heat as infrared light. When the ground squirrel is taunting the rattlesnake, it sends additional blood to its tail, causing it to heat up, producing a very obvious infrared image for the snake, further confusing it. Interestingly enough, when the ground squirrel taunts a gopher snake, which cannot detect the infrared, it does not heat its tail. {Creation Moments}

Looks like an evolutionary conundrum. How could a small creature, develop these defenses before being eaten? Considering the speed with which a rattlesnake can strike, there would hardly be enough time to make “adjustments.” Time to develop poison- neutralizing proteins in the blood, and the ability to turn on and off the heat in the tail. Nope. The perpetual fall-back of evolutionary biologists – “time, time, and more time” just won’t play here. There just isn’t enough time.

Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for Me?

Jeremiah 32:27

The Wonder of Hummingbirds

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It has long been believed that hummingbirds existed only in the New World. But, recently, fossils of hummingbirds were found in a clay pit in Germany.

Scientists have now discovered two hummingbird fossils in a clay pit in southwestern Germany. These tiny fossils are remarkable in many ways. Until now, evolutionists claimed the earliest hummingbird fossils to be one million years old. The new fossils are said to be 30 to 34 million years old. While we would not agree with the evolutionary dating, we would expect the hummingbird fossils in Europe or Asia to predate those in the New World. Even more interesting is that the fossils suggest that these older birds are fully functional hummingbirds. Their wing bones are like those of modern hummingbirds, which suggest that they could hover and fly backward just like the hummingbirds we know today. Their beaks were twice as long as their skulls, suggesting that they drank nectar just like modern hummingbirds. In other words, there is no sign of any evolutionary development, another fact we would expect.

While the evidence for the history of hummingbirds is what we would expect, we do not need scientific evidence to uphold scriptural truth. We have God’s Word on it.

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All things were made by Him;

and without Him was not any thing made that was made.

John 1: 3