January – March 2012

How can we construct safer buildings? How can we clean up emissions from power plants? Increasingly, engineers are turning to God’s original designs in nature to solve difficult engineering problems. What a testimony to our wise and caring Creator! Also, learn how God is using Amish believers in the USA to help build a new full-size Ark. Plus, discover what the Bible says about those mysterious giants, the Nephilim.

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Features

• Magazine Article

  Four for One, One for All

  

  Jan. 1, 2012, pp. 26–29

  The terror of the high seas, the Portuguese man-of-war is not a single animal but a colony working together.

• Magazine Article

  My Bionic Ear

  

  Sept. 20, 2016, p. 32

  Truth or science fiction? It’s possible to bypass your ears and send electrical signals directly to the brain. True.

• Magazine Article

  God and Math

  

  March 14, 2020, pp. 34–36

  How God is the ultimate foundation for mathematics. Math has sometimes been revered as supreme and final truth...until a mathematician proved we must look higher.

• Magazine Article

  Flood Currents Frozen in Stone

  

  Jan. 1, 2012, pp. 37–39

  You can’t walk into Paria Canyon without being struck dumb. The bizarre landforms look just like waves of sand frozen in time.

• Magazine Article

  New Ideas That Just Don’t Work

  

  Jan. 1, 2012, pp. 40–45

  Ever since the Garden of Eden, people have sought to reinterpret God’s words.

• Magazine Article

  From One Flesh—Or Two?

  Dec. 11, 2011, pp. 41–43

  Were Adam and Eve human-like animals before God transformed them into His image?

• Magazine Article

  Real Time or “God’s Time”?

  

  July 28, 2019, pp. 44–45

  Was Genesis 1 written from the perspective of “God’s time,” unlike the rest of Scripture?

• Magazine Article

  God Invented It First

  Jan. 1, 2012, pp. 46–60

  The marvelous designs in the biological world have inspired a new field of science, called biomimicry.

• Magazine Article

  Bug Bots

  Jan. 1, 2012, pp. 49–50

  What if we could build light-weight flying machines that flap their wings and maneuver silently, without conventional airplane engines?

• Magazine Article

  Power Plants

  

  Sept. 1, 2019, pp. 50–53

  What if we could find an efficient process that extracted a pure source of power—hydrogen gas—directly out of water.

• Magazine Article

  Magnificent Motors

  

  Sept. 15, 2019, pp. 53–54

  What if we could design a super-small, versatile machine that could travel up blood vessels to deliver targeted medical aid?

• Magazine Article

  Self-Healing Concrete

  

  Sept. 8, 2019, pp. 55–57

  What if we could design a material for roads that would only get small cracks that resealed with chemical bonds as good as new?

• Magazine Article

  A Sticky Solution

  

  Aug. 4, 2019, pp. 56–58

  What if we could design tape and adhesives that automatically cleaned themselves every time they got dirty or wet?

• Magazine Article

  Butterflies on the Battlefield

  

  July 14, 2015, pp. 59–60

  What if badges could change color in an explosion, giving doctors vital information about the severity of the shock?

• Magazine Article

  Battle over the Nephilim

  

  Aug. 9, 2019, pp. 62–66

  Out of nowhere, the expression “giants on the earth” pops up in Genesis 6:4. What does it mean?

• Magazine Article

  Did Meteors Trigger Noah’s Flood?

  

  June 29, 2019, pp. 68–71

  Geologists are uncovering evidence that meteors struck the earth throughout the Flood. Could they even have played a role in starting the Flood?

• Magazine Article

  Ghost Craters—Evidence of a Young Moon

  

  July 17, 2013, pp. 72–75

  Sometime in its past, the earth’s moon was pounded with thousands upon thousands of meteors. Is it possible to reconstruct the sequence of these strikes?

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• Readers Respond

  p. 7

• Perspective

  pp. 9–13

• Impact

  pp. 15–18

• Resource Preview

  p. 20

• Created Creature

  pp. 22–25

• Parent’s Corner

  p. 78

• Get Answers

  p. 79

• Biblical Authority

  pp. 80–81

• Last Word

  p. 82

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