Bible and Science
Let us look into the Creator’s record that goes ahead of science.
Skin, the Perfect Clothes
In summer, Ms. Stevens goes to the beach. She is dazzled with sunlight and sweat rolls down her face, but the blue sea and the sandy beach in front of her eyes is so refreshing. She gets her feet wet…
Homing Instinct
Heungbu and Nolbu, an old Korean novel, contains scientific knowledge of migratory birds. This novel is about a kind man named Heungbu, who takes care of a baby swallow that had its leg broken by falling to the ground from…
Symbiosis, Wisdom to Live Together
All living organisms are interacting with each other. As for relationships with other living organisms, there are some types of symbiosis: mutualism which is a relationship where two organisms of different species benefit each other, and parasitism which is a…
Light and All Creation
Seeing is a process to perceive the shapes and colors of objects with the eyes. This has been a great curiosity for many people since ancient times. Empedocles, an ancient Greek philosopher, thought that we can see objects as beams…
Soil, the Earth’s Skin
On August 1, 2013, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA] released images from the Mars rover Curiosity. Mars has a more Earth-like environment than any other planet in our solar system, so it is dubbed the second Earth and…
Protein, Material of Life
You grope around to turn off the loud alarm, and drag your feet to the bathroom. You brush your teeth, wash up with soap contained in various containers, and dry your hair with a hair dryer. After a quick breakfast,…
Dimensions
They say “Dimensions are different” when something goes beyond their expectancy or when something is not understandable. In such cases, a dimension means a particular aspect of something or a way of considering it. However, there is another definition of…
Plants’ Active and Intelligent Pollination Strategy
Black locust which spreads fragrance along the spring wind, pink royal azalea all over the mountains, and a bunch of red roses . . . The charming and colorful flowers attract people’s attention, giving out the taste of late spring.…
Laughter and Tears: Expressions of Joy, Anger, Sorrow, and Happiness
The movie Inside Out is an animation about an 11-year-old girl Riley’s five emotions that work in the emotion-controlling headquarters in her head; it’s about an adventure that her five emotions—Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust, and Fear—have to bring back happiness…
Amazing Animal Senses
How do animals see, hear, and feel the world? It is very difficult to imagine the world of animals on the basis of our senses. It is because various animals on the planet sense the world in different ways than…
Mom’s Scent, the Most Comfortable Scent in the World
To newborns, their mom is everything. There is nowhere they feel safer than in the arms of their mom. It is said that “kangaroo care” was developed in a public maternity of Bogota, Colombia, to make up for the lack…
The True Value of Sweat
There is something that always accompanies us when we run around with our friends, when we lie and feel guilty about it, when we take a bite out of a hot pepper, or when we have a bad cold with…
Breast Milk, the Food of Life
The Morin khuur is a traditional Mongolian instrument. A mother camel goes through much suffering when it gives birth to a calf, and because of that, it sometimes refuses its young though the young is very little and barely walks.…
Imprinting & Raising: Birds’ Love Towards Their Young (Ⅱ)
Cheep, cheep! When you were children, you might see yellow chicks chirping at a pet store and end up buying one of those cute and lovely creatures after staring at them for a while. Excited, you would do your best…
Egg Incubation: Birds’ Love Towards Their Young (І)
Thomas Edison, the king of invention, was curious since he was young. One day, Edison disappeared and his family got in commotion. It turned out that he fell asleep while curling up to brood goose eggs. Contrary to his expectation,…
Gravity, the Earth’s Safeguard
Mankind lives under the influence of gravity. Not only apples from the trees, but all objects fall down from above. We try to jump high up in the air, but we don’t stay there even for a few seconds; we…
Animals That Overcome the Cold
Whenever winter comes, people hesitate to go outside because of the biting wind, and prepare winter items for the cold weather. It is easy to see people walk in a hurry, hunching their shoulders, in down jackets or fur coats.…
Secrets Hidden in Eggs
Eggs are common food to us. However, since eggs are living cells, a chick gets born out of a fertile egg like magic when the hen sits on it for just three weeks. Out of an egg that showed no…
Art of Disguise: Insect Camouflage & Mimicry
A giant hole at the center and a log bridge over it looks perilous. The scene that chills your blood is a painting—a work of trick art. Making use of optical illusion caused by reflection of light, trick art makes…
Rediscovery of Human Hands
Charles Bell, a British surgeon, said, “We must confess that it is in this that we have the consummation of all perfection as an instrument.” Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher, regarded this as a visible part of brain, and Jacob…