For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack

According to all we know today about physical matter, it is made up of atoms, and, even though you can't see them, these atoms make up everything you see, touch, smell, etc. Getting a basic understanding of radioactivity can begin with that of a useful model of the atom, the Bohr Model, named after Niels Bohr who proposed the structure in 1913, that most of us recall from high school or college. Looking much like a tiny solar system, this model consists of a central nucleus, composed of neutrons and protons, surrounded by electrons that "orbit��? around the nucleus. Protons carry a positive charge, neutrons (which are actually built from protons and electrons) are electrically “neutral��?, and the electron is negative.

For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack

Last couple of discussions about the beaver have been about its remarkable design, specialized for aquatic life, and its uncanny dam, food storage, den and canal building skills. The beaver is a capable builder. Its best-known structures, the dams, are built by beavers that need to enlarge the underwater habitat open to them in winter. The dam creates a pond deep enough not to freeze to the bottom, providing storage for winter food and year-round underwater access to the lodge secure from predators.

For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack

It seems to me obvious that the amazing structure and function of the humble chicken egg is carefully designed to house and facilitate the startling processes of a developing a chick embryo into, by a miraculous, 20 day chain of complex events, a baby chick. Now, it may be time to test the evolutionary belief taught to many of our children that tiny, graduated, beneficial mutations slowly could have resulted in the development of a chick embryo inside this ingenious egg. Indeed, a number of important questions come to mind.

For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack

Last time we were taking a closer look at the humble chicken egg. And humble it seems, as one casually takes this wondrous 2 inch-long package out of the frig and holds it between the thumb and forefinger. But, if this same egg had been fertilized by a rooster and allowed to be kept warm under a chicken, over the next 20 days of incubation, a remarkable and miraculous chain of events would occur. And, to exemplify the obvious pre-thought put into this design, the blood vessels to provide oxygen, and others to eliminate waste, attached to membrane lining, and still others growing out of the chick, connecting it to the yolk to provide nourishment, the development of an air sac, the chick's instinctive positioning of its head near that air cell, the directing and double bending of its neck, were enlisted last time.

For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack

No doubt kids and adults alike delight in the illustrations which take a closer look at animals that dramatically demonstrate intelligent design. Recently, for example, we've been exploring the apparent paradox "which came first, the chicken or the egg?��? as it applies to specific evolution-creation debates. So, over the next few discussions, let"s take a closer look at the chicken egg.

For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack

Last time we were looking at that amazing chemist, the Bombardier Beetle, who, though having a brain capacity smaller than the head of a pin, is able to safety mix caustic chemicals and deliver them to its attacker as a pressurized, boiling hot spray.

Another one I like is the woodpecker. The woodpecker has a specialized tongue in a tough beak with a sharp point; a shock absorbing tissue behind the bill; a tough, double reinforced skull; a stiff tail for bracing itself; strong leg muscles to hold on; and special four-clawed feet to give added support. The woodpecker can hammer at a tree with a force of over 1000 Gs; 300 times greater than the effect that pushes our astronauts on lift off. Each strike of the beak must be straight on or else the shear force could break the beak or smash its brain. As the beak strikes, the bird's eyelids close to prevent them from popping out.