Raining Bacteria
Have you entered the treasury of snow? One spring a friend trekked with a gaggle of students in the Cherokee National Forest up above the Ocoee River in eastern Tennessee. They were a good day and a...
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Abundance
My cup overflows. While out for a stroll a friend asked his wife if she noticed how plants in our tiny area of the world seem to fill in every corner and available gap during our diminutive growing...
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Wheat Bread
These days, let us praise Him who creates bread possible. And such a gift it can be. It is a significant staple food. No doubt you love the particular aroma and preference of freshly baked homemade...
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Stale Bread
Don’t you just love the taste, smell, and feel of warm, fresh out-of-the oven bread? It is so incredibly good. The temptation is to savor it as soon as it is cool enough to touch. But wait! Most...
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Huge Hugs
At Andrews University the freshman biology course called Foundations of Biology has the reputation of being fairly challenging. Wait. Do I hear laughter? OK, students refer to it as a bloody killer...
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Good Things From Meditation
The June 2010 issue of Mind, Mood and Memory, a newsletter published by Massachusetts General Hospital, carries a lead article entitled “The Neuroscience of Meditation:’ Here the author reviews...
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Magnetic Attraction
Remember these little magnetic Scottish terriers popular years ago? Less than an inch long, they were black and white plastic dogs, each standing on a small bar magnet, I see that for just a couple...
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Talking to an Idiot
Writing devotional thoughts focused on the creatures, systems, and processes that God has made is a daunting and scary task. Because God’s creations have endless variety, there is just so much to...
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Right Hand
Has anybody ever described you as dexterous, adroit, or skilled with your hands? I watch and listen in utter amazement as the flying fingers of a really skilled concert pianist blur while producing the...
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One Direction
Oh, there it is! Come, stand close, and look carefully. What do you see inside the pouch of this strange little yellow flower? See that tiny bright-metallic green bee struggling for life? Apparently...
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Tree Planting
It is more blessed to give than to receive. Acts 20:35, NKJV. That spring it seemed as if the rain would never stop. Creeks and rivers had overflowed their banks. The floodplains were doing what they...
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Threatened Endangered Species
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service is charged with watching out for threatened and endangered species. Scientists consider a plant or animal type as threatened when it is likely to become...
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Invisible
Have you heard about the oceangoing research vessels on the high seas gulping in huge quantities of seawater to learn what DNA it contains? Did you know that many scientists are processing tons of mud...
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Quick Exploration Trip
Let’s explore a different path together. Because of where we are going we will need to be very small, so in your mind’s eye, let’s shrink down to the size of a water molecule. Ready? Wait, how big is...
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Nanomachine
The word “nanomachine” simply means a tiny machine. How tiny? Nano, as in nanometer, means 109 meters, or a billionth of a meter. To understand how small that is, let’s start with a rough...
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Heart Transplant
I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. Are you a candidate for heart transplant surgery? According to the American Heart Association, a heart transplant...
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Decorah Eagles
As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreading out its wings. Taking them up, carrying them on its wings. Deut 32:11, NKJV Established as a nonprofit organization based in...
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Static Charge
Have you learned two or three new wonders of our Creator-God in reading these pages this year? If so, I praise God, because that was part of the plan. No doubt, you already knew much of what you read...
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Microsaccades
It takes two to do this experiment. Get in good light and move close so that you can carefully watch the eyes of your research partner. Then ask them look intently at a stationary object. If you’re a...
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Letter
I wasn’t expecting a letter from them, actually. But I recognized the return address. Our past several letter exchanges had all been about one topic of great concern to both of us, so I expected this...
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