CHOCTAW AND ANAHUAC LEGENDSImpact #369 by Institute for Creation Research by Bill Johnson

WHICH CAME 1 ST? www/improb.com; Alice Shirrell Kaswell, AIR staff

The question has a reputation for being difficult, perhaps even impossible, to answer. Philosophers treat it as a conundrum. But in the hands of an experimental scientist, the question is simple and straightforward, and the answer is easily obtained. Which came first — the chicken of the egg? I tackled the question experimentally, using a chicken, an egg, and the United States Postal Service (USPS).I mailed the chicken and the egg, each in its own separate packaging, and kept careful track of when each shipment was sent from a post office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and when it subsequently arrived at its intended destination in New York City. I mailed both the chicken and the egg at 9:40 a.m., on a Monday morning, from the Harvard Square post office, in Cambridge. The staff there told me that this was the first chicken anyone had mailed from Harvard Square in recent memory, and perhaps ever. Nonetheless, the postal employees handled both the chicken and the egg deftly, with dispatch, and with courtesy. The intended destination for both packages was the James A. Farley General Post Office, which is located in Manhattan right next to the Penn Station train terminal. I took the subway from Harvard Square to the Boston train station, and from there boarded a train to New York City, a distance of approximately 200 miles, arriving that afternoon at Penn Station. I immediately went to the post office, to await the arrivals of the chicken and the egg. Results: The James A. Farley General Post Office is open 24 hours a day, so I was able to wait there until both items arrived. I inquired once per hour for both the chicken and the egg. That day, Monday, neither the chicken nor the egg arrived. The next day, Tuesday, neither the chicken nor the egg arrived. The chicken arrived at 10:31 a.m. Wednesday. The staff at the post office told me that this was the first chicken anyone had mailed to the James A. Farley General Post Office in recent memory, and perhaps ever.

The egg arrived that same day, at 9:37 p.m., eleven hours after the chicken

JUST MAKE A RABBIT God’s Power in Creation, Citation: Christianity Today (4-23-99), reprinted in "To Illustrate Plus," Leadership Journal (21.1), p. 69
Patrick O’Boyle recalls the late-1940s Hyde Park "Speakers’ Corner" appearances of Frank Sheed, the Catholic author and publisher: Sheed could be devastating with hecklers.
Once, after Sheed had described the extraordinary order and design to be seen in the universe, a persistent challenger retorted by pointing to all the world’s ills, and ended shouting, "I could make a better universe than your God!"
"I won’t ask you to make a universe," Sheed replied. "But would you make a rabbit—just to establish confidence?"

QUOTE: When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - Buckminster Fuller (scientist?)

CREATION POLL - On Mission, May-June 2003, p. 9
According to a new Gallup poll, more Americans believe in creationism than evolution. 
Only 28% believe in evolution while 48% believe in creationism. 

QUOTE: The human brain can hold 5 times as much information as is in the Encyclopedia Britannica

OBVIOUS: Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons

QUOTE: If God really made everything, I'd say he had a quality control problem. - George Carlin.

THE BEAUTY OF BONESUncle John's Legendary Lost Bathroom Reader

Our bones are a remarkable combination of strength and lightness. "In a 160 lb. Man, only about 29 pounds - less than 20% - represent bone weight. Steel bars of comparable size would weigh at least four or five times as much." (From Can Elephants Swim? Compiled by Robert M. Jones)

LESSONS FROM MICROSOFT From BreakPoint with Charles Colson
In one aisle, the local computer store sells a single CD for between $99 and $299. In the next aisle, they carry multi-pack CDs for less than a dollar per disc. Why the drastic price discrepancy? They're both made of the same plastic.
The difference is, of course, that the cheap compact discs are blank -- while the expensive ones are encoded with various versions of Microsoft's new Windows XP operating system.
The analogy for explaining the difference is the chemist who calculated the value of the chemicals in his body. Computing the cost of the carbon, iron, calcium, and the other elemental chemicals on the periodic table of the elements -- he found his body was worth ninety-seven cents.
But that's not the way the chemicals appear in living bodies. When he calculated the value of the hemoglobin, insulin, and other complex organic compounds that actually composed his body, he realized he was worth more than $6 million!
That's what the body's programming does. It's information technology from the DNA, which is why many scientists are now talking about Intelligent Design of the body.
When I was in high school, my science teacher said everything consisted of matter and energy. Now scientists know better. Caltech president and Nobel laureate David Baltimore says, "Modern biology is a science of information," noting that DNA is matter that is alive because it contains complex informational codes.
But Dr. Baltimore thinks the DNA software wrote itself. Last year, shortly before the White House announced completion of the preliminary mapping of the human genome, Baltimore wrote in the New York Times, "It will take many decades to fully comprehend the magnificence of the DNA edifice . . . held in the nucleus of each cell of the body . . ." Yet, he says, even our limited understanding confirms that human genes "look much like those of fruit flies, worms,
and even plants. . . . [W]e are all descended from the same humble beginnings . . . That should be, but won't be, the end of creationism."
Now let's think about that for a moment. Deciphering DNA and the human genome is very similar to what computer scientists call "reverse engineering." They take a software program and work backwards to find out how it was written.
Can you imagine anyone reverse engineering the new Microsoft software, and concluding that natural processes put it together? Does Windows XP somehow prove that Bill Gates or his engineers don't exist? I don't think so.
Yet some materialists explain the complexities of nature by ingenious intellectual headstands to avoid recognizing an Intelligent Designer. Former atheist Dr. J. Budziszewski remembers the efforts he expended in that direction, and summarizes, "There are certain forms of stupidity that one has to be highly intelligent and educated to commit."
The person who tries to dodge the conclusion of Intelligent Design, is like the customer who tries to convince himself that Windows XP wrote itself -- and therefore he needn't be concerned about copyright rules. If we have a Creator, we're accountable to him -- and some people prefer to avoid that conclusion.
The recent release of Windows XP illustrates the concept of intelligent design. If Windows XP points to Bill Gates, how much more do the marvelous complexities of DNA point directly to God, the great Intelligent Designer?
Copyright (c) 2001 Prison Fellowship Ministries

GET YOUR OWN DIRT R.Digest 7/2001, p. 125

The scientist approached God and said, "Listen, we've decided we no longer need you. Nowadays, we can clone people, transplant hearts and do all kinds of things that were once considered miraculous."

God patiently heard him out, and then said, "All right. To see whether or not you still need me, why don't we have a man making contest?"

"Okay, great!" the scientist said.

"Now we're going to do this just like I did back in the old days with Adam," God said.

"That's fine," replied the scientist, and bent to scoop up a handful of dirt.

"Whoa," God said, shaking his head in disapproval. "Not so fast, pal. You get your own dirt."

INSECTS WITH 4 LEGS? John d. Morris Ph.D. Back to Genesis No. 151

After my recent university lecture on scientific creationism, a student referenced a Bible passage in Leviticus regarding insects to imply that the Bible contained errors and that Christianity and creation thinking were false.

The passage? "Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing, that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; (including) the locust… the beetle… and the grasshopper after his kind" (Leviticus 11:21-22). Tucked within a list of dietary regulations for the people of Israel, it refers to a number of animals whose exact identification is obscured by antiquity. But let's look closely.

First, we must recognize that modern day taxonomic categories, like species, genus, family, etc., are not the same as the Biblical "kind." Even the term "creeping thing" finds wide application meaning, in general, small animals which exist in great numbers. In this chapter it is used for insects (vs. 21), various small mammals and reptiles (vs. 29-30) as well as animals which "move" in the ocean. (vs. 10)

In our modern classification system, all insects have at least six legs. They are members of the large and varied arthropod phyla, which includes also the 8 legged spiders and multi-legged centipedes, as well as crabs - anything with segmented legs. Some insects also have wings, but these don't count as legs.

Today, locusts are considered migratory grasshoppers. They all have two large hind legs, quite different in appearance, size and function from the front four legs. Their front legs are used for "crawling, clinging, and climbing," while the back legs rest "above" their front legs and feet, and are used for "jumping," Furthermore, the Hebrew word translated "beetle" actually comes from the verb "to leap," implying a similar leaping insect, not our modern beetle. Thus, the Biblical description of grasshoppers turns out to be exactly anatomically correct. Far from being an embarrassment to Bible believers, this passage bears sterling testimony to the accuracy and inspiration of Scripture. As always, arguments which claim that the Bible is wrong are themselves wrong, and the Bible stands.

WHY DO ZEBRAS HAVE STRIPES? Why do Cowboys wear High Heels? Jeff Rovin

It’s easy to understand why tigers have stripes. They live in regions where the grasses are tall, dry and tawny-colored. When a tiger moves, it’s difficult to tell the grass and shadows from the tiger’s stripes.

But Zebra graze in the open where the black and white stripes would seem to be the worst kind of camouflage there is! So why did nature (read "God") bother? Zoologists believe that nature gave zebras stripes for 2 reasons:

First, predators are most active during sunrise and sunset, when there’s sufficient light for the hunt, but heat is relatively low. At such times, the black and white stripes appear gray from a distance, helping the animals blend in with their dark surroundings. Second, if a herd is attacked, the moving stripes of many zebras create a jagged picture that confuses many predators.

So as camouflage goes, the distinctive stripes are not quite as useless as they seem!

QUOTE: The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly and mosquito come close.

A mother camel and a baby camel were talking one day when the baby camel asked, "Mom, why do we have these huge three-toed feet?"
The mother replied, "Well son, when we trek across the desert, our toes will help us stay on top of the soft sand."
Two minutes later the young camel asked, "Mom, why do we have these long eyelashes?"
They are there to keep the sand out of our eyes on the trips through the desert," the mother said.
"Mom, why have we got these great big humps on our back?"
"They are there to help us store water for our long treks across the desert, so we can go without drinking for long periods of time."
"So we have huge feet to stop us from sinking, long eyelashes to keep the sand out of our eyes, and these humps to store water."
"Yes dear."
"So what are we doing in the San Diego Zoo?"

THE MAGIC MACHINE Life Magazine 2/97 p34ff

There are 125,000 hairs grown in the scalp, with 45 lost a day. Each follicle is capable of producing 30 feet in a lifetime. Twenty One Thousand gallons of blood are pumped through 62,000 miles of blood vessels in a day. 8,000,000 Red Blood Cells are produced in the bone marrow every second. 45 miles of nerves send impulses as rapidly as 325 miles per hour. 6 pounds of skin cover the 20 square feet of surface on an average adult. The brain: this 3 pound organ stores 100 trillion bits of information over the course of 70 years, equal to 500,000 sets of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which stacked, would reach 442 miles. Breathing one pint of air 17 times a minute, we take in 78 million gallons in an average life span, enough to fill the Hindenburg airship one and a half times. The foot: the average person will take one billion steps in his life and walk about 77,000 miles landing on the 26 bones of each foot with a force triple his body weight.

HOW SENSITIVE ARE YOU? R.Digest 5/96 p. 91

If your senses are working normally, you can:

* Feel on your fingertips or face a pressure that depresses your skin a bare .00004 inch

* See a small candle flame from 30 miles away on a clear, dark night.

* Smell one drop of perfume diffused through a 3 room apartment.

* Taste .04 once of table salt dissolved in 530 quarts of water.

* Feel the weight of a bee's wing falling on your cheek from less than half an inch away.

* Distinguish among more than 300,000 different color variations

* Gauge the direction of a sound's origin based on a .00003 second difference in its arrival from one ear to the other. John D. McGervey and Bill Sones in Buffalo (N.Y.) News Magazine

CREATION STORY from Tales of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

In a few minutes Digory came to the edge of the wood

and there he stopped.

The Lion was still singing. But now the song had once more changed.

It was more like what we should call a tune,

But it was also far wilder

Can you imagine a stretch of grassy land bubbling like water in a pot?

For that is really the best description of what was happening.

In all directions the land was swelling into humps.

They were of very different sizes,

some no bigger than mole-hills,

some as big as wheel-barrows,,

two the size of cottages.

And the humps moved and swelled till they burst, and the

crumbled earth poured out of them,

and from each hump there came out an animal.

The moles came out - just as you would expect a mole to come out.

The dogs came out barking the moment their heads were free

and struggling as you've seen them do when they are getting through

a narrow hole in a hedge.

The stags were the queerest to watch,

for - of course - the antlers came up a long time before the rest of them,

so, at first, Digory thought they were trees.

The frogs, who all came up near the river went straight into it with a

plop-plop and a loud croaking.

The panthers, leopards and things of that sort,

sat down at once to wash the loose earth off of their hind quarters,

and then stood up against the trees to sharpen their front claws.

Showers of birds came out of the trees.

Butterflies fluttered.

Bees got to work on the flowers as if they hadn't a second to lose.

But the greatest moment of all

was when the biggest hump broke like a small earthquake

and out came the sloping back, the large wise head, and the

baggy trousered legs of an Elephant.

And now you could hardly hear the song of the Lion;

there was so much cawing

cooing

crowing

braying,

neighing

baying,

barking,

lowing

bleating

and trumpeting

In the darkness something was happening at last.

A voice had begun to sing.

It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what

direction it was coming.

Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once.

Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them.

Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself.

There were no words. There was hardly even a tune.

But it was - beyond comparison - the most beautiful noise he could have ever

heard.

It was so beautiful he could hardly bear it.

Then - two wonders happened at the same time.

One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices:

more voices than you could possibly count.

They were in harmony with it - but higher up the scale

cold) tingling, silvery/voices.

The second wonder was that the blackness overhead, all at once,

was blazing with stars.

The next moment a thousand, thousand points of light leaped out -

single stars, constellations, and planets

brighter and bigger than any in our world.

There were no clouds.

The new stars and the new voices began at exactly the same time.

If you had seen and heard it - as Digory did - you would have felt quite

certain that it was the stars themselves who were singing,

and that it was the First Voice - the deep one -

which had made them appear

and made them sing.

The Lion was pacing to and fro about that empty land

and singing his new song.

It was softer and more lilting than the song by which he had called up the

stars and the sun;

a gentle rippling music.

And as he walked and sang the valley grew green with grass.

It spread out from the Lion like a pool.

It ran up the sides of the little hills - like a wave.

In a few minutes it was creeping up the lower slopes of the distant mountains

making that young world every moment softer.

The light wind could now be heard ruffling the grass.

The higher slopes grew dark with heather.

Patches of rougher and more bristling green appeared in the valley.

Digory did not know what they were - until one began coming up quite close to

him.

It was a little, spikey thing that grew out dozens of arms covered with green

It was growing at the rate of about an inch every two seconds.

There were dozens of these things all round him now.

When they were nearly as tall as himself he saw what they were. "Trees"

he exclaimed.

Human skin is not only skin deep. In fact it is among the body's most complex organs. Of its three main layers, only the paper-thin epidermis is normally visible. Beneath the epidermis is the dermis, and below that is the subdermis. In a square inch of skin, you will find: 20 blood vessels; 65 hairs and muscles; 78 nerves; 78 sensors for heat, 13 for cold, 160-165 for pressure; 100 sebaceous glands; 650 sweat glands; 1300 nerve endings; and 19,500,000 cells.

The sweat glands do double duty, helping to eliminate wastes and cool the body. On a hot day, the skin can release up to 2500 calories of heat - enough to boil 6 gallons of water.

The body's largest organ, the skin measures about 21 square feet in an average adult. It accounts for 15 percent of total body weight and provides a protective shield against bacteria and viruses. It also absorbs shocks that might otherwise damage the bones and internal organs.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the Earth. Genesis 1:1

Creation is a marvel of design and order. Take, for instance, a snowflake- so fragile and light, yet with intricate beauty and perfect symmetry. Or consider the heavens,

teeming with planets and stars that spin with perfect precision through the trackless reaches of space. Who has not felt the pull of nature arousing his curiosity, exciting his imagination, and filling him with awe? Yes, everything points in one direction-upward, beyond, to an all-wise Creator and Sustainer.

One warm autumn day a man sat under a walnut tree observing his pumpkin vines. "How foolish God is!" he mused. "He puts a heavy pumpkin on a tiny vine that has no

strength, and hangs tiny walnuts on a tree whose branches can hold the weight of a man. If were God, I could do better than that!" Just then a breeze dislodged a walnut and it fell

on the man's head. Gently rubbing the point of impact, a sadder and wiser gentleman remarked, "Suppose there had been a pumpkin up there instead of a walnut! Never again

will I try to plan a world for God, but I shall thank Him that He has done so well."

GOD'S EXCITEMENT IN CREATING DAISIES Anthony Campolo in "Who Switched The Price Tags?"

Lord Chesterton suggested that God got a childlike excitement out of His work. As a matter of fact, he contended that God may be the only one left in the universe who has childlike emotions about work, while all the rest of us have grown old and cynical because of sin.

God never tires of what He does. He enjoys it all. If you take a five-year-old child, throw her into the air, catch her, bounce her off your knee, and then set her down on the floor, you can expect her to exclaim, "Do it again"- Every time you do it, she will shout with even more enthusiasm, "Do it again!" If you repeat the process a dozen times, the child will not tire of these antics.

Lord Chesterton believed that God may be that way about creating daisies. He asks us to imagine God creating the first daisy and enjoying it so much that something down inside Him exclaims, "Do it again!" And when He makes the second daisy, He is even more excited and shouts to Himself, "Do it again!" Imagine God continuing to create daisy after daisy, and after making the hundred-billionth daisy being even more filled with excitement than when He began. Obviously, this is an exaggeration but it makes no difference. The principle is what is valid - God is a God who delights in what He does.

If we are created in the image of a God who enjoys His work, then failing to delight in our work is a denial of part of what we are supposed to be. It is the responsibility of each of us to become more and more like God.

"Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect" (Matt. 5:48). Being like God implies deriving joy from our work.

JOB AND THE DUCKBILLED DINOSAUR Ark Foundation Newsletter 9/95 Dayton, OH

The straightforward description in Job (which was written after the flood) indicates that dinosaurs coexisted with man. There is also other intriguing evidence for this possibility. In the early 1900's on the Doheny expedition into the Grand Canyon, some Indian cave drawings were found. One of these drawings closely resembled a duck-billed dinosaur.

Indians had to have been aware of these living animals in order to draw them. Legends from ancient China to ancient England have recorded descriptions of dinosaur-like creatures. More evidence for the recent existence of dinosaurs comes from the carbon-14 daring of their bones. If dinosaurs died more than 65 million years ago there should be no carbon-14 left in their bones. Yet, careful work by a group of scientists in Columbus, Ohio, has shown that carbon-14 is still present. Russian and American creation scientists are currently working to isolate and confirm that significant amounts of carbon-14 are present in dinosaur bones. If confirmed, this is strong evidence that these animals were alive relatively recently.

BODY PARTS 3rd Bathroom Reader

Your brain weighs around three pounds. All but ten ounces is water.

It takes 200,000 frowns to make a permanent wrinkle.

While you're resting, the air you breathe passes through your nose at about four miles per hour. At this rate, you breathe over 400 gallons of air every hour.

If you stub your toe, your brain will register pain in 1/50 of a second.

It takes about 150 days for your fingernails to grow from your cuticles to your fingertips.

The cartilage in your nose doesn't stop growing. Expect it to grow 1/2 inch longer and wider as you age.

Bone is about four times stronger than steel. It can endure 24,000 pounds of pressure per square inch.

The average adult has about 18 square feet of skin.

To say one word, you use over 10 muscles.

Your brain uses less power than a 100-watt bulb.

Women have a more developed sense of smell than men do.

The average man shrinks a little more than one inch between the ages of 30 and 70. In the same period of time, the average woman shrinks two inches.

There are over 200 taste buds on each of the small bumps on your tongue.

QUOTE: "Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day. No, no, man was made for immortality." Abraham Lincoln

MYSTERY OF THE HAND Guideposts December 1993, p. 41-42

Here is a surgeon, Dr. Scott Karrison, speaking: "Have you ever looked at your own hands? I mean, have you ever really studied them as one of the most intricate and beautiful parts of the human body? Nineteen bones arranged to form a cup, an arch, a flat surface or a balled fist, each shape occurring on demand. Fingers able delicately to lift a needle from a table or twist open the stubborn cap of a fruit jar or distinguish between a penny and a dime merely by touch. No engineer designing robot hands has ever come close to such perfection."

Understanding AND accepting this next sentence will improve anyone's self-image. In A.D. 399 Saint Augustine said, "People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars -- and they pass by themselves without wondering."

SCIENTIFIC BIAS AGAINST GOD Chuck McCoy Message 1/95

National Academy of Sciences rejected "Creation science as science in a 1987 Louisiana "Creation" case arguing: "it fails to display the most basic characteristic of science: reliance upon naturalistic explanations."

Physical Anthropology a textbook by Kelso and Trevathan, rejects both Creation and Biogensis as "non-scientific" with this statement: "In any event, creation is an unacceptable explanation to science. It requires the invoking of a force outside of nature to account for natural events, thus violating one of the fundamental ground rules of science... science attempts to explain nature, or the materialistic world, in term of itself. When Creation is invoked, it implies something outside of nature - a supreme being - as the cause of the origin of life. Thus it is not a scientific explanation.

"DUNE BUGGIES BORROW FROM CAMELS R.Digest 4/77 p.94

You know those fat tires you see on dune buggies? They're designed like a camel's foot. Their predecessors first appeared on vehicles used on the sands of Saudi Arabia in the 1930s. An ingenious engineer, Richard Kerr of Aramco, thought about the "ship of the desert." He measured the spread of the camel's foot and the weight of the beast. From that he figured the shape and pressure of the tires needed for desert use.

The formula worked so well that it's still in use.

WHO PUT IT THERE? R.Digest 10/79 p. 201

John Haldane a scientist, once suggested to Monsignor Knox that in a universe containing millions of planets it was inevitable that life should appear by chance on one of them.

"Sir," said Knox, "if Scotland Yard found a body in your Saratoga trunk, would you tell them, 'There are millions of trunks in the world - surely one of them must contain a body?' I think They still would want to know who put it there."

PRESCIENT STATEMENTS FROM JOB by Walter Lang, Richfield, MN

Foundations: In Job 38:6, God asks Job where he was at the laying of the foundation sockets of the earth. The Hebrew word "'andaneah" is usually used for sockets that held up staves of the tabernacle. In 1964 after the Good Friday Alaskan earthquake, seismographs showed that mantel rock, foundation rock was 4 miles underneath the oceans but 300 miles under the continents, forming a socket under each continent. Science caught up with a 4000 year old Bible.

Springs in the Sea: Job 38:16 speaks of springs in the sea. 3000 years ago, Phoenicians of Aradus used a leather pipe to get fresh water out of the ocean from of the coast.

Catastrophe in Job: The night of Aug. 17, 1959 an earthquake at Yellowstone Park in 8 seconds caused a mountain to fall across the Madison River, start a new lake, burying 28 people.

In Job 9:8 its says the mountains are overturned and they do not know it, it happens so fast. This shows that not millions of years but catastrophe explains why our mountains and hills are as they are.

Paths in the sea: Matthew Fountaine Maury back around 1835 learned from Ps. 8:8 that oceans have paths and he found them. The eels from Europe and N. America follow these. But David learned of these paths from Job 9:8 where Job says God walks on the waves of the sea. God divides the sea, Job 26:12.

THE BEAUTY OF THE BEE R.Digest 5/75 p. 131

Consider the bee. He has 5 eyes: 3 simple ones on top of his head, 2 compound ones with thousands of lenses. And he has 5000 nostrils - nose enough to smell an apple tree 2 miles away. He has 2 sets of wings, which can be hooked together in flight so they flap as one, 16,000 times a minute. And no matter how he zigzags his dizzy dance of the flowers, he always beelines it back to his hive home and his job there. He may be a street cleaner, a water carrier, a nurse, a sentry, a mason, an engineer, or an air conditioner. If he is the last, he may fan 12 hours at a stretch in the hive, on top of 12 hours spent gathering nectar outside. Busy as a bee is no overstatement; he literally works himself to death, all for the single teaspoon of honey spread upon your breakfast toast, the entire quota of his few short weeks of life. A one pound jar of honey on your table represents 50,000 miles as the bee flies, or a girdling of our globe twice around.

Let us not take the bee so much for granted again. All his dipping into dandelions and daisies and snapdragons is no joyous game but an instinctual obedience to an ordinance of God that commands "while the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest shall not cease." There are 100,000 species of plants which could never properly form seeds without the bee. Without him, our bread would not be sweet; indeed there would be no bread or wine either. And so, in many churches, beeswax candles are used at the traditional service of bread breaking and wine drinking; it is a way of paying tribute to our good and faithful servant, the bee.

God made a poem, but not with words...

He wrote with oceans and flying birds.

He wrote with stars and suns and moons;

He left His penmarks on a thousand Junes!

In wild, tornadic winds, in lilac breath of Spring,

His rhythm sweeps and swells, or lilts with gentle swing.

He whirled His magic quill and phrase on shining phrase

He scrawled incredibly on the scroll of space

But when the majesty of His mind glittered on infinity's vast span

He wrote the last climactic verse - He made himself a man!