Bible and Science
Let us look into the Creator’s record that goes ahead of science.
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…
Atmospheric Pressure, the Weight of Air
“I think it’s going to rain, ’cause my knees hurt.” Whenever my grandmother said her knees hurt, it rained without exception. When cloudy days continue, some people say they feel down or their bodies ache. It is not just their…
Amazing Perception of Plants
In Korea, you can sometimes see the expression, “The National Assembly in a vegetative state,” on the newspaper. It is a sarcastic expression indicating the National Assembly which causes a high social cost without doing its duty. A patient who…
The Umbilical Cord and Placenta Which Connect Mom and Baby
The umbilical cord and placenta which were once considered unsanitary and were treated as infectious waste are now receiving much attention in the medical world. The reason behind this is that they have discovered abundant stem cells in them that…
Photosynthesis, Natural Solar Energy Generation System
The Sun produces a tremendous amount of energy, and emits most of the energy into space in the form of light. Only 2.2 billionth of the sunlight that the Sun emits to all directions reaches Earth. 30% of it reflects…
Life Starts from Life
There was a lonely girl who liked painting and whose only joy was observing insects. The girl found a solid object on a tree branch, which looked like a stone or a seed. She observed the changes of that object…
Collective Intelligence, Wisdom Learned from Insects
An ant colony marches in an orderly manner, carrying crumbs. A line of ants quickly connects the starting and ending points as if they know the precise route. The sweets which are dozens of times bigger than the ants disappear…
DNA, the Blueprint of Life
“Today we are learning the language in which God created life. We are gaining ever more awe for the complexity, the beauty, the wonder of God’s most divine and sacred gift.” On June 26, 2000, an initial draft of the…
Apoptosis, Wisdom of Emptying
Autumn is a season of tinged leaves. The trees that boasted about their green leaves in midsummer and made dense forests change the color of their leaves one by one. Tinged leaves present the final magnificent view with all their…
Atomic Combination
The world is filled with matters. Just one quick look around us is enough to see how natural things such as water, air, and rocks, as well as artificial things such as plastic and vinyl are all made of matters.…
Ecological Balance Maintained by the Invisible Hand
A baby king penguin was under attack by a southern giant petrel. This is a scene from a documentary that brought suspense and broke the hearts of many viewers. When the giant petrel, which had been looking for an opportunity,…
Metamorphosis, the Beginning of a New Life
“Now you are merely underwater nymphs. When you become adults, you will have beautiful transparent wings so you can fly freely in the sky. With the wings you can freely fly, traveling from flower to flower.” The frog in the…
What a Strand of Hair Tells Us
Recently, the Center for Quantum Nanoscience of the Institute for Basic Science [IBS] swept the podium in related fields by inventing an atomic-scale storage medium. We are entering the 21st century nano age passing through the 20th century micro age.…
Eyes, the Window that Holds the World Within
The novel Blindness written by José Saramago, a Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, begins as a man suddenly goes blind while driving one ordinary afternoon. Soon after, his wife who nursed him, the patients of the clinic where the man…
Scent Contains Memories: The Mystery of Sense of Smell
Sometimes, the wonderful smell of fermented soybean paste stew summons up the memory of my hometown where the sunset glow spread out over the evening sky, and of my mother who used to cook me dinner in the blink of…