This book will describe designed structures and purposeful functions in microorganisms, explain the origin of disease, and showcase Bible-believing scientists.
There are many extraordinary examples of design in the microbial world. In this chapter, two examples are given.
Another example of design which can be seen in the microbial world is the production of a blood-red pigment made by Serratia marcescens.
Antibiotic resistance is one of the most important topics that a beginning biology student going into medicine should learn and understand.
Bacteria are prokaryotes and among the most abundant organisms on earth. The vast majority play a positive role in nature.
The basic elements of bacterial anatomy include (1) the cell wall and (2) the inner cell body, or cytoplasm.
In a pure culture growing in a liquid medium, we find that the development and decline of bacterial populations follow a definite, predictable course.
Pasteur and Lister had provided evidence that bacteria caused disease, but couldn't provide the conclusive evidence needed to prove the developing theory.
The scientific community was shocked in the late 1970s by the discovery of an entirely new group of organisms—the Archaea.
Putrefying meat with its disagreeable appearance and foul odor is disgusting, but realize the vital importance of the rotting process.
To think of the biblical unicorn as a fantasy animal is to demean God’s Word, which is true in every detail.
PDF DownloadIf God created everything good and with a purpose, why are there disease-causing bacteria and viruses in the world?
PDF DownloadThe young-earth creationist view has been so maligned in popular culture that many people think creationists deny basic facts of life.
The Bible reveals that creation was about 6,000 years ago, so how can we see stars that are millions of light-years away?
The most amazing thing about lightning bugs is their ability to produce light.
Researchers continue to unveil incredible complexities in a secondary DNA language, complicating efforts to explain life by evolution.
We’ve now unlocked some of our body’s incredible secrets for rapid response to the ever-changing threat from microbe invaders.
Arsenic contaminates water around the world. How’d it get here?
The high and deep landscapes of earth give insight into the Creator’s wise design of rocks.
Recent scientific studies claim that some people are born gay. Could this be?
Secular scientists see evidence of global catastrophe on Venus and Mars. So why can’t they admit the evidence on earth?
Conventional wisdom assumes the mud in earth’s mudrocks took millions of years to settle. What do new experiments suggest?
Even today you can touch rocks that date all the way back to God’s original creation. What do they tell us about that lost world?
How did disgusting parasites become part of God’s “very good” creation?
The eruption of Mount Saint Helens in the 1980s changed how we view catastrophe; on its thirty-fifth anniversary, we examine what we’ve learned since then.
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