The Scuba Bug

How to Make a "Bananatrode"

Just imagine a scientist going to the supermarket where he picks up a banana, an antenna from a blue crab and a whisker from a catfish. He takes them back to his lab, hooks them together and connects the whole thing to his computer. He calls it a “bananatrode” and uses it to detect chemicals from the human body called dopamine.While scientists don’t actually do that, the scene is not so far-fetched. The crab antenna can detect tiny traces of amino acids in salt water. You see, crabs find their lunch by sensing and tracing down amino acids in the water. The catfish whisker can detect equally small amounts of amino acids in fresh water and they both can do so extremely quickly. Scientists know that these natural sensors work much faster and are more sensitive than man’s rather cumbersome methods of laboratory analysis. For that reason they are being seriously studied for human medical use. One such application is a glucose sensor for an artificial pancreas. Oh, and the banana? That was for the scientist’s lunch.It is amazing to consider that while the crab and the catfish are pretty low on the evolutionary ladder yet they have these wonderful abilities not even matched by twenty-first century technology. Surely, this is more reasonably evidence of superb design in the beginning by our Creator.Psalm 147:5"Great is our Lord, and of great power; His understanding is infinite."Prayer: Dear Father in heaven, You have filled Your creation with wonderful miracles of design so that men would seek You Who made them all. Preserve me from the pagan sin of putting the creation over You, the Creator. In Jesus' Name. Amen.Ref: Kay Cahill, “Animal Sensors,” OMNI.  To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.elsitiocristiano.com/donate/1232/29

God's Chemistry Again Outpaces Man's

One of the greatest questions in biology asks how a single fertilized cell divides into many different cells - some become liver cells, skin cells, brain cells and bone cells. This is the ultimate way of asking the question, “Where do babies come from?”Human growth factor, a chemical produced by our body, is being studied to see if it is responsible for the development of all those different cells from a single cell. However, this is only one of thirty known chemicals that influence the development of new cells. Another powerful chemical, called GM-CSF for short, has now been synthesized as a drug and stimulates the development of white blood cells in the bone marrow. This drug has saved otherwise doomed patients who have lost virtually all of their bone marrow by exposure to radiation. Nerve growth factor is another being studied as a possible treatment for Alzheimer's disease and for use in re-attaching limbs.Do you notice where all of these incredible chemicals come from? They don't come from laboratories staffed with the best brains in science. They are produced by our bodies. Science should stand in awe at the evident wisdom behind those chemical structures and the way they work. And that's one of the best arguments that we were created by a wise and powerful Creator, not by mindless chemical accidents!Psalm 139:14"I will praise Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well."Prayer: Dear Lord, I am truly fearfully and wonderfully made. I ask that you would guide medical researchers so that they may learn how to use the substances You have created for the earthly betterment of our condition and that You would be glorified through this. Amen.Ref: Carol Kahn, “Tapping The Healers Within,” OMNI. Image: 1TGK Human Transforming Growth Factor Beta3 Crystallized From, Nevit Dilmen, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.elsitiocristiano.com/donate/1232/29

Created Male and Female

One of our Creation Moments listeners has written to ask how evolutionists explain the development of male and female. The problem is, if a mutation produced the first male, it isn't likely that another mutation would have produced the first female at the same time and in the same neighborhood. The writer further pointed out that studies now show that with the current genetic errors we all carry within us, one male and one female would not be enough to establish a new population of male and female creatures.The question is important. Evolutionists have admitted that their theory does not have a satisfactory explanation for how male and female could have developed. One evolutionist even noted that because evolutionists have no credible explanation, most textbooks simply ignore the question as obvious as it is.But evolutionists also point out that the problems in explaining the origins of male and female are even greater than those I've already mentioned. They now admit that their studies show that if creatures progress by evolution, creatures that reproduce sexually would be at a disadvantage. Even worse, sexual reproduction is, as one evolutionist put it, designed to weed out the very genetic variations that supposedly cause evolution!It is difficult to understand, then, how anyone could say that evolution offers a better explanation of life than the Bible’s creation account.Genesis 6:19"And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female."Prayer: Dear Father, I thank You that in Your wisdom You have made us male and female, and that You have done so in a way which confounds man’s rebellious wisdom. Help this fact be a witness to Your glory. In Jesus' Name. Amen.Ref: Kathleen McAuliffe, “Why we have sex,” OMNI. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.elsitiocristiano.com/donate/1232/29

Precise Blood

While most would agree that our circulatory system is vital to life, many of us don't fully appreciate the almost miraculous workings of that system.Your heart pumps about one hundred thousand times every day. That means that your heart pumps the equivalent of 10 tons of blood every day or 80 million gallons in a lifetime. Your circulatory system brings that blood to every cell in your body through a capillary network that is so large that the combined capillaries of only four people, stretched end to end, would reach from the Earth to the moon!But your circulatory system involves quality as well as quantity. The chemistry of your blood is monitored and adjusted to within incredibly fine limits to keep it in precise balance second by second, day by day, year in, year out. For example, the acidity of your blood is adjusted constantly to within one part in a hundred million.Our circulation system cannot be simply “good enough” it has to work perfectly. So if mindless evolution created us, it had to make the whole system perfect the first time. There is no room for millions of years or for a poorer circulation system to be improved by mutations. Here the facts clearly support Scripture strongly indicating that we were created in finished form, not developed slowly by trial and error.Genesis 9:4"But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat."Prayer: Dear Lord Jesus Christ, You Who created blood and everything else took our human form and nature and shed Your blood on the cross for my salvation. Take my life and let it be one of continuous thanks to You. AmenImage: Human Heart and Circulatory System, Bryan Brandenburg, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.elsitiocristiano.com/donate/1232/29

Was There Enough Room in the Ark?

One of the common arguments used by skeptics against the biblical account of the flood claims that Noah’s Ark could not possibly have accommodated all the millions of species of animals.The first problem with this argument lies in the word “species.” Species is a modern human classification. Genesis says that Noah was sent “kinds.” The biblical “kind” includes many species. For example, the dog kind includes: foxes, fennecs, wolves, jackals, colishé, and coyote as well as the domestic dog. All these can interbreed and have fertile offspring, meaning that they were originally one mating pair. This applies to all species and drastically reduces the number of animals on the Ark to a more reasonable figure. That figure is further reduced when we realize that one-third of all species of animals live in the sea and had no need to be taken on the Ark.But let's not forget that the Ark was the largest ship ever built until the 1860’s. It had a capacity of one and a third million cubic feet - about equal to a train made up of 522 railroad stock cars! So when the facts are all considered, even a generous estimation of the space needed on the Ark tells us that there was room not only for Noah and his family and all the animals, but also for plenty of food.Genesis 6:14-15"Make thee an ark of gopherwood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt cover it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits."Prayer: Dear Father, I ask that You would put to confusion all attempts to deny Your truth. Make Your people, including me, well armed with Your Word and how it applies to all parts of life. In Jesus' Name. Amen.Ref: Clifford Cunningham, “Noah’s ark couldn’t hold all 1.12 million species,” Record. Image: Ark, Noah, Flood, Roger Casco, Pixabay. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.elsitiocristiano.com/donate/1232/29