What is the Ort Cloud?
(Copyright 02-03-2025) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) Have you heard of the Oort Cloud? For years, cosmologists have discussed the possibility of some type of cloud or band that could explain the existence of long-period comets. Maybe a bit of background would be helpful, so let’s back it up a bit, and start with one of […]
David Hume – The Evolution of Evolution
(Copyright 11-06-2024) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) In the days before Darwin and naturalistic scientists like him, there were philosophers theorizing about God, the supernatural, and miracles. One such philosopher was David Hume, who lived during the eighteenth century. This Scottish thinker is best remembered for his influential system of thought that included empiricism, skepticism, […]
All About Mars: The Red Planet
(Copyright 10-16-2024) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) Mars, known as the red planet, is the outermost of the rocky planets. It has a diameter of approximately 4 thousand miles — about half the size of the Earth. Even though it is so much smaller, Mars — a terrestrial planet — has about the same total land […]
Spiral Galaxies Indicate A Young Universe
(Copyright 2022) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) The Bible tells us that “the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows His handiwork.” Astronomy is one of my passions. I love looking through telescopes and seeing the incredible and beautiful things God has made and placed throughout the universe for His glory. Researchers estimate […]
Does Earth’s Fate Rest on a Giant Turtle’s Back?
(Copyright 2022) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) Many of the ancients believed that the Earth was a flat disk or plane, sitting on a giant turtle’s back who floated in a giant pool of water. Quite a fanciful story. It sounds like a fairy tale… But still quite a complex and detailed idea! There’s another fanciful story, […]
Why we can’t marry close relatives (and the truth about human population)
(Copyright 2021) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) There are many instances in early Biblical history of people marrying closely related family. In fact, it doesn’t seem to be a big deal, and if we take the Bible literally at its word, this would have been necessary just after Adam and Eve were expelled from the […]
We can’t see the stars for the nebulae – it’s all just theoretical
(Copyright 2021) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) Why should you believe in creation, and not evolution? I mean, scientifically speaking. Haven’t we proven that Evolution is a fact? Evolution is a very loose term. It could refer to dozens of things, but today, let’s look at stellar nurseries, as stars are born into existence… You […]
This Was Found In Fin Whale’s Throat
(Copyright 2022) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) There are two main types of whales – baleen and toothed. Baleen whales feed by filtering enormous amounts of water through their baleen, or plates of bristle-like keratin rather than teeth. Evolutionary scientists have been curious for years as to how the whales can eat without choking or […]
Are We Blind to Design
(Copyright 2022) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) When we look into the night sky, we see a vast expanse too large to fathom. Through the use of telescopes and advanced optics, we have discovered magnificent galaxies and nebula, showing that the heavens declare the glory of God. As we look around on Earth below, we […]
The Church of Darwinism – A Religious Practice of Worshipping Man
(Copyright) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) Visiting a Buddhist Temple, you get a sampling of religions that hold man in high esteem… They idolize the teachings of Gautama Buddha, study him, and attempt to attain his level of perfection. A lot of people look at the jolly Budai that adorns American curio shops as a […]
Exploring the Human Nose
(Copyright 2022) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) Has a vague scent in the air ever caught your attention? You know you’ve smelled it somewhere before, but you just don’t know where? Well, our sense of smell is incredible, and many scents are strongly linked with memories. The average adult can distinguish 10,000 different scents from […]
3 Reasons You Shouldn’t Marry Them
(Copyright 2022) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) Yes, you read the title correctly. To introduce the topic of this discussion, I would like to begin by stating that there are many instances in early Biblical history of people marrying closely related family. Based on Biblical text it doesn’t seem to be a big deal. If we take […]