“According to Carl Sagan, one of our best-known scientists, ‘The information content of a simple cell has been established as around one trillion bits, comparable to about 100 million pages of the Encyclopaedia Britannica’ [emphasis mine].1 What Sagan is talking about here is the information contained within the genetic code (DNA) of a microscopic Escherichia coli bacterium that lives in our intestines.” Read more here:...
Read MoreFeeling Lazy??
If you have experienced any lazy time during the holidays, don’t worry! Check out these amazing machines that are always working in your body. As one biological animator/researcher says “So no matter how lazy you feel, you’re not really intrinsically doing nothing.” (See video 2 below) Darwin thought cells were simply small blobs that were like the smallest building blocks (bricks) for the construction of the body. Scientists in his day had no idea about the...
Read MoreTwo Squirrels Separated by Time!!
Today, AOI Speaker Brian Mariani is at the Grand Canyon leading a Creation Tour for Jackson Hole Bible College! Be praying for students and staff for travel mercies and a blessed trip! Here is a Nugget – – The white-tailed Kaibab squirrel on the North Rim is a variation of the white-chested Abert Squirrel on the South Rim. “The Canyon acts as an effective barrier which separates the squirrel population of the north rim from that on the south and...
Read MoreEver Wonder Where Golf Ball Dimples Came From?
“Golf balls made during the 1800s were made with a smooth surface so it would fly farther. At some point, golfers noticed that older balls covered with nicks and grooves seemed to fly farther. By the 1930s, the standard golf ball was covered with dimples. Just as golf balls are designed with “dimples,” so is shark skin. To swim faster, a shark bristles with its denticles, causing tiny whirlpools to form within the cavities between the denticles. These tiny...
Read MoreDid Adam and Eve have Belly Buttons?
Since Adam and Eve were not born of a woman, it is possible that they may not have had belly buttons since they didn’t need an umbilical cord connecting them to a mother. This likely was yet another reminder and evidence to the people living in that day of the fact that God specially created Adam and Eve. Think of it, young children for hundreds of years could have gone to visit great-great-great Grandpa Adam and great-great-great Grandma Eve to ask “Can we see your...
Read MoreWhich came first, the Chicken or the Egg?
Answering Tuesday’s question: Which came first, the Chicken or the Egg? We see in Gen 2 that Adam was created with enough intelligence (and maturity) to name the animals, so he was probably older than a child. We also see that God created the trees with fruit and seed in them which means that these are mature plants – since we know it may take years for some plants or trees to be old enough to have food. So we can probably say God created the mature chicken first (possibly...
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“No Intelligent Designer Would Have…”
“No Intelligent Designer would have created the eye that way – it is wired backwards!” “Is there material at the front of the retina that limits some vision? Yes! If that material wasn’t there, could we be able to see farther and in dimly lit rooms? Yes! Therefore, since I could design it better, that means there can’t be a God. Wrong! That is merely the third stage of deception that students are subtly led into. First of all, this is an argument from perceived...
Read MoreSouthwest Geology Tour Sights- Upheaval Dome
On the college field trip that Mary Jo & I are leading, we see many great sites, several of which leave us with more questions than answers. One such example is: what caused the unusual formation called Upheaval Dome? Was it a meteor that slammed into the earth at this spot? Perhaps it was a fluid like bulge of a salt dome pushing it up from below? Is it a volcanic outburst? Perhaps there were giant gophers in the past that dug this immense mile wide hole? All of...
Read MoreData in Your DNA!
Scientists can now build practically any DNA sequence that they want which is allowing us to use it as a storage device. One research team has engineered DNA strands to store the information for an operating system, text, images, and a movie and they were able to successfully retrieve it. This technology could make huge strides in progress – think about it as they put it – “all your data in a drop of DNA.” Let’s not forget, though, that this is clearly the work of a...
Read MoreMinistry in El Salvador
Last week, I had the opportunity to speak at several churches (with groups ranging from 65 to around 200), a university with 25 in attendance, a public school group of about 50 teens and a Christian school of an estimated 125 to 150 high school and middle school students. All of this was in the country of El Salvador. (The sign at the right says: Dave Nutting Welcome to the City of God.) The churches had special services on Saturday night, and Sunday morning as well...
Read More“You have Anti-Freeze running through your veins, man!”
“In the frozen wastes of Siberia, an amazing salamander is able to survive in suspended animation for years, deep-frozen at temperatures as low as –50°C, only to thaw out and run off afterwards. Scientists are not yet sure of the exact mechanism, but, like some other animals, they almost certainly produce ‘anti-freeze’ chemicals to replace water in their tissues and cells. Some have been found buried in ice which is believed to be from the Pleistocene Age—12,000 years ago...
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