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Life at the extremes
You can freeze them, boil them, dry them, starve them and even put them in a vacuum—yet they still bounce back
by David Catchpoole
Bees outsmart supercomputers
Even the best supercomputers struggle to solve the ‘Travelling Salesman Problem’. Yet bees do it as a matter of course.
by Carl Wieland
Why a butterfly flutters by
Some might think that the butterfly, with its jerky fluttering flight, is a ‘primitive’ and inefficient flyer. Actually, their complicated wing movements generate more lift than simple flapping would do.
by David Catchpoole
Helpful animals
When creatures work together to help one other, it defies evolutionary predictions.
by Robert Doolan
Clarity and confusion
Behe shows that mutation and selection can accomplish little—nothing like the hugely complex machinery of life. But ignoring the Bible leads to confusion over a coherent explanation.
by Don Batten
Is the human pharynx poorly designed?
Evolutionists love to claim that our throat design is too poor for a creator. But its design is actually superior to the hypothetical alternatives.
by Jerry Bergman
Wings on the wind
How do migrating birds know exactly when, and where, to go?
by David Catchpoole
The bamboozling panda
China’s peaceful and solitary mountain dwellers—a puzzlement to evolution; a friendly reminder of Creation.
by David Catchpoole
Peacock ‘eyes’ that hypnotize
When the peacock vibrates its colourful fan of tail feathers, the ‘eyespots’ behave differently from the rest of the feathery background, leaving the peahen mesmerized.
by David Catchpoole
God’s webspinners give chemists free lessons
The production of man-made fibres that have bullet-stopping capabilities leaves behind dangerous chemicals and don’t match the wonders of a spiderweb.
by Jonathan Sarfati
Bats—sophistication in miniature
For the amazing echolocation ability of bats to function properly, both emitting and receiving organs must be present, and cooperate. (There are other problems too, to drive evolutionists ‘batty’.)
by Paula Weston
Beavers—aquatic architects
Famous for their dam-building, beavers have their own built-in ‘goggles’ to see clearly underwater.
by Denis Dreves