A Collection Of Incredible Creations

In researching and writing for my next book, “Everything Speaks: Learning the Language of Creation”, I have been constantly amazed at the detail and design of the world God put us in. Even now, there are songbirds outside my window flying effortlessly on perfectly crafted wings. There are plants that began as tiny seeds, and they’re out there converting sunlight into energy and releasing oxygen for me to breathe. There are worms aerating the soil and clouds watering the forests and galaxies are spinning and molecules are bonding and King David was right when he wrote that:

“The heavens declare the glory of God;
    the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Day after day they pour forth speech;
    night after night they reveal knowledge.
They have no speech, they use no words;
    no sound is heard from them.
Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,
    their words to the ends of the world.” – Psalm 19:1-4

In the book, I want to explore how we can understand what God is saying to us through the things he has made. But for now, I’d like to share a few aspects of creation that I have found especially fascinating as I’ve researched. First of all, trees. Did you know that they can talk to each other? Research has shown that that there is much more going on in the forest than meets the eye:

And while the trees quietly communicate under our feet, the birds that inhabit them are a bit noisier. Like the lyre bird, which can imitate any sound it hears:

Another bird that surprised me recently is the tailor bird, who uses natural fibres and spider silk to sew a home in the leaves:

Have you ever wondered how geckos can climb basically anything and walk upside-down? The secret is in tiny hairs on their feet that can create atomic bonds with the surfaces they travel on:

Meanwhile, hidden away under the waves, there is a kind of jellyfish that doesn’t die of old age. It is known as the “immortal jellyfish” because it can choose to return to its juvenile state and start its lifecycle all over again as many times as it likes. How would you like to go back to being a baby?

There is still so much to discover. Many aspects of nature are still mysterious to us, like the yearly migration of monarch butterflies across North America. How do millions of tiny butterflies navigate flawlessly across thousands of miles of terrain they have never seen before to always end up on the exact same acres of mountains that their ancestors left the year before? This video is a clip from a fascinating full-length documentary on butterflies from Illustrations Media, called “Metamorphosis: The Beauty & Design of Butterflies.” I highly recommend it.

These are only a few examples of the many wonders God has made. Feel free to put more examples in the comments section, I’d love to see them!

“How many are your works, Lord!
    In wisdom you made them all;
    the earth is full of your creatures.” – Psalm 104:24