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Today's Creation Moment

Feb
11
Busy Mushrooms
Joel 1:17
"The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered."
If it weren't for mushrooms, there would be so many un-decayed dead trees that there would be no room on Earth for anything else to grow. But mushrooms don't just recycle dead trees. They help make...
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Dinosaurs Need Friends, Too

Proverbs 18:24
A man who has friends must himself be friendly, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Almost every creature seeks companionship with others. This universal, basic need, gives us additional insight into the mind of the Creator.

Those who believe in evolution have always thought that only warm-blooded creatures valued companionship and love. So for generations, dinosaurs, which are supposed to be much further down the evolutionary scale of living things, were seen as hard-hearted, dull-witted, uncaring creatures which didn't even care whether their own young lived or died. Now, many instances of the desire for companionship, even among dinosaurs, is being uncovered.

Scientists are learning that dinosaurs often lived together in communities, building nests, caring for their young, and traveling together, even when they had no need for protection. In some sites, huge dinosaur trackways show that various kinds of dinosaurs lived in groups, close to each other, and that the same kinds generally followed their own pathways. These discoveries, at several sites and involving many different kinds of dinosaurs, have convinced scientists that dinosaurs were very much like modern animals in their social habits. In other words, dinosaurs needed friends too.

That almost all of His creatures value companionship tells us a little about our Creator. Scripture reveals more details about this aspect of the Creator when it tells us that He created man because He wanted someone to love. Do you know His love for you through Jesus Christ?

Prayer: 
My loving heavenly Father, I thank You for my friends. Most especially, do I thank You for Your love for me in sending Your Son Jesus Christ to be my truest and best friend and brother. In His Name. Amen.
Notes: 
Gary Blonston, “Sociable Dinosaurs,” Science 83