The Wonder

of Creation

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I wish I’d read this before my exams.” Sam 15 years.

“Mum, look at this amazing book I’ve found.” Theo 11 years. “It’s very clever...superb.” Charlie 17 years.

“This is a beautiful book explaining Creation”. Phillip Chapman,

Principal of Olivet Christian College, Victoria, Australia.

Index 3 Which came first; the chicken or the egg? 4 Were creatures grown-up straight away? 5 How did life begin? 6 Light - how could nothing explode? 7 We have two eyes - not one 8 Sleep - what is it? 9 Sky - it’s mechanisms 10 Water, water, everywhere 11 Land - plants before bugs? 12 Plant breathing 13 Which came first - seed or plant? 14 The gigantic Universe 15 Speeds in space 16 Precision in space 17 Fish 18 Whales 19 Evolve wings before they work? 20 Feathers are useless until complete

21 Reproductive methods don’t mix 22 How could the umbilical cord evolve? 23 We cannot live without Dad 24 Dragonflies - under water, above water 25 Butterflies: four stages for young 26 Frogs: three stages to reproduce 27 How could the genders evolve? 28 People are special 29 Our amazing bodies 30 Adapt existing parts - not making new 31 Why cross-breeding cannot work 32 Our complicated cells 33 Where does emotion come from? 34 What is natural selection? 35 Matching pairs needed planning 36 The Cross of Jesus. 37 Questions to keep you busy 38 / 39 Glossary and References

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Which came first – the chicken or the egg?

The chicken! Eggs are kept warm for twenty one days.

An egg on its own would not hatch. If they were allowed to get cold

wouldn’t birds be extinct?*

What about Dad? Didn’t there have to be a father too? If male and female had waited millions of years to evolve how could life have gone on?

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What is life? We all took our first breath. Living things eat, grow and breathe. Most make young with eggs or seeds. How could a chemical, gas or rock make an airway to breathe?

Were parents grown-up first time? Did laying eggs work first time? Did pregnancy work first time?

If not, how could we live?

Bees and trees – would we be alive without them?

Bees pollinate plants so all can eat. Trees clean the air so all can breathe.

Did they do their job at the start?

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“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth”. The Bible says that everything was ready to work at once.

How did life begin? Some people think it

started in a pond. How did it get there?

Others think it came from outer space.

How did it get there? Others think it came

from a hole in the earth. How did it get there?

Other people believe God made fathers and mothers grown-up

so they could have babies straight away.

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God said; “Let there be light” and there was light. God spoke and it was done.

Some people believe nothing exploded and made everything all by itself.

Nothing comes from nothing. Something can only come

from something else. The so-called big-bang defies common sense. How could something get bigger without something else already there to make it grow? Moses told us about Creation -*

perhaps using earlier records. Some say this is only poetry.

Six day creation is in the Ten Commandments.

That is not poetry.*

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To see light we need eyes.

Different sorts of eyes develop in different ways, Before birth, the eyes of backboned animals

grow from the brain outwards - some other eyes grow from

the skin inwards.

Light goes through the lens to the retina, taking the image down the optic nerve, to the brain. Each reptile eye has one optic nerve. Each human eye has one optic nerve. Each ape and monkey eye has two optic nerves. Human nerves go to the opposite side of the brain. Mammal nerves go to both sides of the brain. How could we be from the same source?

We all have two eyes - not one. Did the nerve join each side of the brain at once?

Which came first - the hole in the head or the optic nerve? Didn’t the optic nerve have to join the eye to the brain in one go?

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Imagine a world without sight While eyes were supposedly evolving was every creature blind? Eyes need: muscles, lenses, irises, fluid, sclera, pupils, corneas, retinas, optic nerves, and a heart, lungs and a brain.* Fossils in the lowest layer have complete eyes.

We close our eyes to sleep.

If the first living thing did not sleep, why invent it? It makes creatures easy to attack so does not help survival.

If the first living thing was asleep - how did wakefulness arrive?

Koalas

sleep a lot.

Babies - like jelly

beans - crawl up into their

mother’s pouch.

The

pouch opening is at the

bottom - a kangaroo’s

pouch opens at the

top.

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God said: “Let there be an expanse called sky.”

Our planet has delicately balanced systems - including air, water, gravity, different nuclear forces and the electric and magnetic fields. Take one away and there is no life.

Dating methods assume the atmosphere has roughly been the same.

Dramatic climate change could have happened at Noah’s flood. Oxygen in fossil amber bubbles has more oxygen than now.*

Fish-fossils and salt are in the middle of every continent.* Fossilized trees lie across more than one rock layer.*

Tree-rings could be from seasons - and the ice-layers from storms - not years.

Insect in amber

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God said: “Let the water be gath ered to one place...”

We appear

to be the only planet mostly

covered in water -

salt-water, river-water,

underground- water, rain,

steam, snow,

sleet, dew, hail, ice.

Melted icebergs do not raise the sea level - melted ice flowing from the land does.*

The moon's gravity is just the right strength to give us the moving tides.

Without the moon the sea would be stagnant and there would

be no plankton to put oxygen into our air.

Our moon moves away from us an inch a year.* Tides would have swamped the earth if the moon had been nearer the earth millions of years ago. Would we be here if there were no tides?

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God said: "...and let dry land appear." Each day was a miracle. Plants and trees had seeds. These copy only themselves.

Would we be here without worms? Beetles and ants scurry around. The soil needs the bugs. The bugs need the soil. Worms soften the soil with spit,

making a hole to push through. They pass it out as little heaps

of earth putting air in the soil. How could the soil have grown plants unless bugs were there?

What gave life to the first bug? Even if scientists could make life, it just shows that outside intelligence and equipment is needed to make it.

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Which came first - the plant or plant-breathing? Plants grow from light reacting on them. Didn't they have to be already there before this reaction could begin?

If plants evolved for new sites

why do they grapple for the same soil? Where did the scent of flowers come from?

If it was to attract insects, how did a plant know that an insect could smell?

Bees need plants for food. Plants need bees to reproduce. How could insect-pollinated plants live, if insects had not yet been made?

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How did an acorn get into its cup - or a conker into its prickly husk - or a walnut into its crinkly shell ? How could liquid get inside a coconut?

Didn't the whole cycle: seeds, seedlings, plants, buds, flowers, and fruit have

to happen in one complete go? If not, how did more

plants grow? People say flowers are beautiful to attract insects – but seeds and fruit are beautiful and they don’t need to attract insects.*

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God said: “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky….” We cannot comprehend the magnitude of endless space. Rolling planets, blazing suns and swirling orbs dazzle in design. The expanse, the sparkle, and sheer number blow our minds.

What is infinity? Isn’t it the biggest number you can think of, and then go on adding noughts?

What is true, and what is not? We can only see as far as

telescopes can take us. Science is observable, testable and repeatable. Ideas we cannot prove are not true science. Who knows what happens beyond the stars?

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“He made the stars also” Calendars reflect movement in space. We have our path round the sun for years, the circle of the moon round the earth for months, the tilt of our planet for seasons, and the spinning of the earth for night and day. Our week is from six day creation and not the stars.

We, on earth, move in three ways at once. We twirl around as it rotates on its axis.

We whizz as it swirls around the sun.* We hurtle with the sun as we gallop

around the centre of our galaxy.

People used to think the sun stood still - It travels at 135 miles per second around The Milky Way.

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There is precision in the universe. We launch rockets knowing they will reach their target. Astronomers can predict the eclipse of the sun by the moon. They can foretell the appearance of Halley’s Comet.*

The distance of the sun from us is just right. This means we do not freeze or fry.

There is order in the oceans too. Regular tides mean sailors

can depend on their predictability.

Venus and Uranus rotate in different ways to us.* Some planet moons travel one way - and others travel another way. How could different precise pathways happen by chance?

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God said: "Let the water teem with living creatures..." What beauty, what wonder, what

majesty beneath the waves. Fish have a watery paradise in which to swim and play.

They have an ease and freedom as they cruise and glide. Twisting and turning in shoals they never collide. They can swim at 30mph within a second from being still.

If fish really came out of water how could they breathe with gills in water

one day and breathe air with lungs the next? Why make a lung before knowing there was air?

Barnacles, limpets and mussels cling to rocks buffeted by the waves.

If their suction device had not been at full-strength straight away wouldn't they

have been smashed by the pounding surf?

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Whales migrate thousands of miles. Some go from Mexico to Alaska and back. Others go from the Antarctic to the Artic and back. They keep in touch by “singing songs” along the way.

Whale, dolphin and porpoise babies are the only sea mammals born tail first.

How did whale babies born under water know they had to go to

the surface to breathe at the first birth?

Whales have blubber, and ears that adapt to changing depths of water. Their tail-fluke muscles are differently placed. Only whales travel by moving their tail up and down. If this evolved, how could their muscles have moved around?

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God said: “ ...and let birds fly above the earth….”

Birds have hollow bones for lightness, and wings with feathers with a special oil.

Their breathing is different to other creatures - air goes round their body and not in and out.

It passes through open-ended lung tubes and connects with air-sacs near

the neck and wings.

Birds have beaks and storage crops, and some have grinding gizzards, and more red cells for height. Females go broody and sit on eggs. What gave birds the idea to fly? Why evolve wings before seeing flight?

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Feathers are a miracle of high tech engineering.

The quill is hollow for lightness. The sideways strands have hooks on one edge which latch onto the upturned edge of the next strand.

Oil is kept in glands near the tail.* It smoothes the strands allowing sliding movement up and down. Air is trapped giving lift in flight.

Until the ridges, hooks and oil all work - no flight.

Each feather,

when laid side by side,

exactly fits. They have differently

placed colours, shapes

and stripes.

Different, yet when

combined, they form

a perfect match.

If scales turned into feathers, how did the creature avoid attack? A half-scale would be useless for protection, and a half-feather useless for flight.*

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God said; “Let the land produce living creatures.” What variety!

Animals breathe in and out. Fish breathe straight through.

Birds breathe in a circular route.

Insect eggs turn into grubs. Frog spawn turns into tadpoles. Bird chicks hatch from warm shells. Reptile babies hatch from cold shells. Fish-eggs are fertilized outside the body. Mammal eggs are fertilized inside the body. Unless each way worked completely first time how could the baby live?

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Unless the umbilical cord was whole first time wouldn’t the baby be dead?

Mammals have an umbilical cord, a womb, placenta and milk glands.

The first umbilical cord had to take air and food to the child. The first placenta had to take blood to the child*.

The first water-bag had to be water-tight. The first milk-glands had to make milk.

If not, wouldn’t the baby die? How could pregnancy evolve? Didn’t each stage have to fully work, in the right order, first time?

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Dad’s reproductive input is as important as Mum’s.

It had to work first time. If just one stage was

faulty there could be no young.

Fathering is vital - without his support something in the child dies. His encouragement gives a platform from which to grow. Penguins sift salt out of sea-water

through glands under their eyes. The parent bond is so strong they

can leave the chicks and find them again in the crowd.

Penguin fathers keep the egg warm on their feet covered by a fold of fur. If the egg is on the ice for more than two minutes when Mum passes it to Dad the embryo inside gets cold and dies. Would penguins exist unless this change-over had worked at once?

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Did dragonflies evolve? No! They have three stages - egg, nymph. and dragonfly. The eggs hatch in water turning into shrimp-like nymphs. When grown, these climb a stalk, come up above water, and taking a deep breath, break open their skin. New bodies emerge - they discover wings - their muscles work - and away they fly. Did they need three stages first time? If not, how could they have young?

First they breathed with gills in water - then with tubes in air. First they ate plants in water - then they ate insects in air.

First they crawled in mud - then they flew in air.

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Did butterflies evolve? No! They have four stages -

egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and butterfly. Two caterpillars cannot make a butterfly. Two chrysalises cannot make a butterfly.

Unless all four stages had worked first time how could they grow

up enough to have young? The caterpillar inside a chrysalis turns into a mush. Why would it destroy itself? Is it because the plan for each stage is in the egg?

Unless one parent was immediately male, and the other immediately female, how could they reproduce?

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How could a fish turn into a frog? Bony fish don’t have tears - frogs do. If fish really came onto land wouldn’t their eyes have dried out before the tear-ducts were made?

Bony fish don’t have eyelids - frogs do. If fish really came onto land wouldn’t

their eyes be damaged before the lids were made?*

Frogs have three stages - egg, tadpole, frog. Two tadpoles cannot make a new frog. Unless each stage was completed first time how could they have made more frogs?

When tadpoles turn into frogs almost every tissue in their body is changed.

Their tails get re-absorbed into their body, and does not drop off.

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Why male and female had to be adult straight away.

The DNA tells body parts how to grow. It tells boys one way - girls another way.

These growth instructions are in the first cell. No more new information can be added later on.

The full DNA gender code had to be there at the start.

Cells that divide only clone - No new information is added in. Mutations alter what is there - No new information is added in. Natural selection has no mechanism inside the body for change.* No new information is added in. Sexual selection shuffles together existing genes. No new information is added in.

Some people think one gender evolved from two. Two-gender creatures usually pair, then both lay eggs.

If they had evolved they would have needed twice as many changes as a single-gender one.

Wouldn’t it have taken twice as long?

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God said: “Let us make man in our own image……” Human and ape cells

reject each other. In transplants

they cannot be joined. Ape cells have an acid part

that do not mix with human cells.* How could we come from the same source?

“God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them." We are told three times that people were created and not evolved. You are unique. Only you can be you.

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Our bodies are a wonder of mechanical design.

Like a bike, each part has to fit together before it will go.

Which came first - the blood or the heart?

The mouth or the stomach? The skin or the insides?

Knee-joint bones slide, twist and roll. If they don’t fit - ouch - it hurts! Was the oil ready at once?* Were the ligaments crossed-over and pulling together straight away?

Cats, sheep and humans have muscles apes don’t have. We can straighten the knee - apes cannot. How can we be from the same source? Don’t muscles, tendons, cartilage, oil, ligaments, nerves, and bones have to be fitted together in one go?

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Is evolution true? Yes and No. Small changes happen in a group but big changes have not been seen to make another group.

If bacteria mutate they are still bacteria.

If a foal is a different shape it is still a horse.

If a beak is a different shape it is still a bird. If a moth is a different colour it is still a moth.

When the next generation vary it does not mean

another group is made.

Elephant’s udders are between the front legs, horse’s and cow’s are between the back legs, and pig’s and dog’s are along the middle. If one place worked - why change?

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All female eggs have a protective membrane barrier called Zona Pelucida.* This stops healthy fertilisation between different groups. If it happens, within two generations, the young are sterile. The unnatural mixture becomes extinct.

DNA carries instructions –

it is not the information itself. Which came first - the information

or the carrier of the information? Each would be useless without

the other - so were they both made together at once?

We are not descended from one common ancestor, but from two - one male and one female.

If they had evolved separately wouldn’t they need two lines of evolution?

How could they have matched at each so-called change?

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All creatures are made of cells. A single cell is more complicated than a computer.

It is a moving, organised and changing machine. It has many interconnecting parts.

Cells have proteins, acids, a nucleus and DNA. Each bit is precise in order, function and place. The cell needed a whole outer cover at once. 200 pieces are needed for it not to die.

Each cell is organized for a different job. Organization needs outside intelligence.

Where did the intelligence come from?

Giraffes are the only land animal normally born back feet first. Their necks wrap around under their body and their front feet come out last. This stops them hitting their head on the ground.

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Jealousy, loyalty and love – do animals have emotions too?

Ponies pair, and crash through fences if one is taken away. Dogs stay loyal to humans and show anguish if parted.

Geese guard their siblings even if it means a fight. Hens form friendships - if separated they pine.

If reptiles changed to mammals, why develop young that need more care?

What is wrong with a perfectly adequate reptile egg? Why provide milk when baby reptiles can eat by themselves?

Mammals are warm-blooded. - reptiles are not. Crocodiles get energy from the sun and cannot attack when cold.

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What is the process of natural selection? No-one really knows. Mutations are mostly bad. They are like going one step sideways and a hundred back. How can one move ahead with that?

Mutations make nothing new. Cloning cells make nothing new.

Sexual selection makes nothing new. Natural selection comes from outside the body. It is enemies, weather, and where to get food.

No new DNA information is added in. Which came first – natural selection or male and female? Natural selection only happens after the young are already there. So how could two genders evolve? Weren’t they grown-up straight away? If not - how could they have reproduced? Didn’t male and female have to be parents before natural selection could even begin?

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Why evolve male and female before knowing they could pair? Did they match first time?

If not, how could they reproduce? What sparked the first baby’s breath?

What made the first heart begin to beat? Why make the different parts before

knowing if they could live? Surely only God, who can see the end from the beginning, could plan separate things to instantly fit?

Jesus said “….at the beginning the Creator made them male and female…..”

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Why does a donkey have a cross? Is it because Jesus rode one before he died? “God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.”

If we believe in Jesus we go to heaven.

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To keep you busy: What made the first breath to life? Explain in your own words: why a butterfly (p 25) or a mammal (p 22) could not have evolved from a different sort of creature.

Draw 5 rectangles next to each other with one side always touching another one. Rearrange them, to make 8 different shapes.* Make a list of things that make birds different to other creatures (page 19).

Draw a picture, or write a poem, about your favourite animal. Use your own words to describe the speed the sun is travelling around the Milky Way. (135 miles per second) Draw a chess board - 8 squares by 8 squares. Start on the 2nd box in on the left top-line. Move 2 squares forwards then 1 square sideways. Continue to do this, filling the chessboard, until you cannot move anymore, Hint: Fill the corners and outside edge first.*

Find a Bible and read Genesis Ch 1, and Job Ch 38. (The page numbers are in the Index) Read Psalms 33 v 6-9, 102 v 25, and 148 v 5.

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Collins English Dictionary meaning of some words.

P8 Eye parts: The iris controls the amount of light entering the eye. The lens focuses the light onto the

retina. The retina is a light-sensitive membrane…. The optic nerves…provide a sensory pathway from the

retina to the brain.

P22 Mammal parts: The umbilical cord is the long flexible tube-like structure connecting a foetus (unborn

baby) with the placenta. The placenta is the vascular organ formed in the uterus (womb) consisting of both

maternal and embryonic tissues and providing oxygen and nutrients for the foetus .….

P27 DNA …..is responsible for the transmission of hereditary characteristics from parents to offspring.

Natural selection is a process (we are not told what the process is) resulting in the survival of those

individuals…..best adapted to the prevailing environmental conditions.

Mutations: change, alteration.

Prof.Alan Linton M.Sc., Ph.D., D.Sc., FRCPath., Hon.A.R.C.V.S. has said: “For 150 years innumerable populations of bacteria have been cultured in laboratories, but despite possible mutations which naturally occur, new species of bacteria have never been observed. Mutations can cause variations in existing species but do not produce different species.”

The Law - despite local authority guidelines the law allows the teaching of special creation.

The U.K. 1988 Education Reform Act, Section 8. 3 tell us that: The agreed syllabus must…..”reflect the fact that

the religious traditions in Great Britain are in the main Christian, whilst taking account of the teachings and

practices of the other principle religions represented in Great Britain.”

The European Centre for Law and Justice says: ”to censor discussion and teaching of creationism would

violate the spirit as well as the letters of democracy enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights, the

Charter on the Fundamental Rights of the European Union, and the U N Convention on the rights of the Child”.…

It also says that censorship would hamper the “educational progress of students by restricting their

examination of competing scientific ideas and would necessarily violate the freedom of expression, including

academic freedom, as well as the right to the free exercise of religion”.

The USA Supreme Court said in 1987 (in Edwards v Aguillard): “Teaching a variety of scientific theories about the

origins of human kind to school children might be validly done with the clear secular intent of enhancing the

effectiveness of science instruction.”

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More material: www.creationresearch.net www.crt.org.uk www.npnvideos.co.uk

www.AnswersinGenesis.org www.creation.com onesmallspeck.com

Photos: Front cover Tiger by Nyree Kilmour. P3 Olivia Van Gruten (12 yrs)

P9, 11, 13, 38. Poppy Carter (14 yrs). P9 Amber Wikipedea by Mila Zinkiva

P10 K.Lawton P14, 15, 16, Reproduced courtesy of NASA - Absolute Earth.

P18 Planet-medien-A G www.clipart.com. P 20, 21, 23 NPN Videos,

P 25 Monarch caterpillar and chrysalis - Bill Powers USA.www pix controller.com

Appendices: P3 Most hen birds go broody and sit on eggs - some longer than 21 days.

Bush turkeys lay eggs in mounds of leaves, and if cold pile more leaves on top.

P9 Gas in amber has 30% oxygen compared to 21% now. Robert A Burner and Gary Landis of

Yale University published this in Science 18th March 1988. Saltpans are found in Poland, Israel,

Utah USA, Canada, India, Australia, Mongolia, Bolivia, Africa and elsewhere. Trees lying through

2 or 3 rock layers can be seen near Manchester, UK; Yellowstone Park USA; and Gympie, Qld.

Australia. (Book through Creationresearch.net to see this). Most fossils are in rock put there by

moving water. Rock cannot be carbon dated as it only works on things that have been alive.

P10 The bigger underwater ice also melts reducing the sea level. 1 inch=2.6cms.

P13 Insects see in ultra-violet so they see flowers in a different way to us.

P15 The earth spins on its axis at 1,044.75 mph (1,670 km/h), circling the sun at 66,975 mph

(107,160 km/h). Both circle our galaxy at 495,000 mph (792,000 km/h).

P16 Halley’s Comet comes each 76 yrs. The moon eclipses the sun every18 yrs 11 days.

Venus rotates in the opposite direction to us. Uranus has rings and rotates on its side.

P20 Pigeons use powder instead of oil. (How could oil evolve from powder?)

Penguin’s oil glands are near the beak. (How could this have moved from near the tail?)

Archaeopteryx feathers are whole and are not a half evolved scale.

P26 Fish made of cartilage have eye lids – some from both the top and the bottom of the rim.

P27 Natural selection is from weather, food-supply and enemies and is not in the body.

P28 Sialic acid is on mammal cells but is different on human cells.

P29 Joint oil = synovial fluid.

P31 Zona Pelucida used to be called ”The Genesis Barrier.”

P37 Games from Phillip Chapman, Olivet Christian College, 89 Main Road, Campbells Creek,

Victoria 3451, Australia.

Biblical References: Gen Ch 1, 2, 7 and 8. Exodus 20 v 11, Matthew 19 v 4. John Ch 3 v 16.

Author:Jennet Christie SRN.

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