“Israel ranked 8th most powerful country in the world”
Israel desperately wants to be accepted by the world community as it seeks to integrate itself into international life. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel’s “presence on the world stage,” acknowledged by US News & …
He that formed the eye, shall He not see? (Psalm 94:9)
The human eye is a very complex sensory organ with many parts working together to give us sight. The eyelids and lashes protect the eye from exposure to too much light, dust, dirt, bacteria, or other foreign objects. A film of tears, consisti…
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The cedar tree is the prince of the trees in the alpine forest and everyone who has seen these noble trees recognises their majestic imagery in the prophets. The Hebrew word ‘erez’ is derived from the idea of being ‘firm’—a reference to the tenacity of its root system. Hosea refers to this…
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The quotation from Psalm 94 at the head of this article is very clear; God formed the eye.
There is no suggestion that God allowed an eye to evolve, or that He introduced its complexities through a series of evolutionary gradations. God sees, and He has made man to see too.
The…
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There is a species of animal mentioned once in the Scriptures as the “pygarg.” The Hebrew name is “dishon” which the Jewish Bible leaves untranslated, whilst the Septuagint translates it by “pugargos”, or pygarg. The Greek word means “white-crouped” whilst the Hebrew word conveys the…
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As worshippers of the living God, it seems only right that we should appreciate the beauties and wonders of His Creation around us,” writes Brother David Burges on page 134 of his 202-page book Wonders of Creation — The Works of the Divine Designer published by The Testimony in 2017. He is righ…
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Ecbatana, located in the midst of the Zagros mountains and on the strategic Silk Road caravan route from Mesopotamia to the Persian plateau, was once the capital of the Median Empire. With its pleasant summer climate, it was known as a resort city but in early January we found it heavily covered in …
We can only live for a few minutes without oxygen, but the amount of oxygen our body needs is related to what we’re doing. The more active we are, the more oxygen our body needs. The respiratory centre in the brain-stem monitors the levels of oxygen, carbon dioxide (CO2), and hydrogen ions (H+), w…
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How do the complex activities in the various parts of the brain, the simple all-or-nothing rings of billions of interconnected neurons, and the various chemical systems within the body, work together to allow the body to engage in everyday behaviours? The answer lies in a remarkable combination of e…
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Just as a brick is the basic building block of a wall, the human cell is the basic functioning unit of the human body. Our body has about a hundred trillion of them and each one is a living organism protected by its own membrane. The main substance of the cell, which fills up the space within the p…
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