God’s creation – Lee Duigon

God is Nigh REPRINT

leeduigon(patty)March 27, 2026

From April 16, 2017

Our ancient dogwood tree has just come into flower on this Easter morning. It always did have a fine sense of timing.

We’ve been here 40 years, but the tree was here first. Dogwoods can live up to 80 years, says Mr. Nature; but we don’t know when this tree was planted.

Even more remarkable, on the very same day, our ancient tulip has bloomed. Tulips live for 20 years, sometimes a little more. But this, too, was here when we moved in. It used to burst forth into one spectacular, bright red flower. Now it has four instead of one. We hope the squirrels don’t eat the flowers, as used to be their custom. They left it alone last year.

These (even the squirrels) are God’s handiwork. He imagined them, and then created them. They are here because He put them here. Their beauty is one of His countless gifts to us.

But even more than beauty, the dogwood and the tulip, and all the rest of God’s creation, have something important to tell us: God is nigh. Always.

Note: the dogwood is gone, but the tulip still blooms every year. PD

What Hath God Wrought! REPRINT

leeduigon(patty)February 19, 2026

From June 20, 2020

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I just can’t see how anyone can observe nature and not believe in its Creator.

Behold the ocean sunfish! I was totally intrigued by this creature, when I became old enough to page through books and magazines and at least look at the pictures. It didn’t look at all like any other fish! I mean, come on–it’s like a great big head without a body.

But look at it in its natural habitat. Here it works just fine. Here it moves gracefully.

And then a platoon of little fish come along to clean the parasites off its skin!

“Evolved by blind chance–” Uh-huh. But it’s not chance that’s blind.

The Battling ‘Roos of Suburbia

leeduigon(patty)December 11, 2025

From May 5, 2017

G’day, mate! Mr. Nature here, somewhere in the suburbs in Australia, just in time for an early-morning fight between two male kangaroos.

These guys can get up to eight feet tall when they stand on their hind legs; and with the sturdy tail available as a third leg, they can kick with both hind legs at once. Meanwhile, they punch and scratch with their clawed forepaws.

I don’t see anybody running outside to break this up.

Why did God make kangaroos so fierce?

He didn’t. It’s the fallen world that made them fierce. And anyway, the occasional ferocity of male kangaroos in mating season hardly holds a candle to the ferocity of human beings toward one another.

God is at work, even now, to restore His creation to its original state of purity. We wonder why it’s taking Him so long.

But I know one thing for sure: I’d rather He did it than us.

‘Good Grief! The Giant Baboon’ (2018)

leeduigon(patty)September 3, 2024

Dinopithecus, a huge baboon that may ...

Oh, that’s just too big!

Baboons are pretty tough customers just as they are; but imagine if they were as big as full-grown human beings.

Good Grief! The Giant Baboon

I was sick yesterday, I’m playing hooky from physical therapy today–because the weather’s nice and I want to sit outside and write–and I’m tired–so I will leave it to the readers to generate wisecracks involving baboons, regular or king-sized.

God’s Stuff: Pet Mice

leeduigon(patty)November 4, 2023

How to Train Your Mouse to Play with You

Mice can be found almost anywhere. Their high intelligence enables them to adapt to all sorts of unfamiliar conditions. And they make good pets, too. I’ve had many of them.

I used to take some of my mice downstairs, where I would lie down on the carpeted floor and release the mouse into the living room. I know, I know–what was I thinking? The mouse could have darted under the couch and somehow disappeared. But they never did.

Instead, the mouse would explore a little and then come scampering back to me. Always! Think about that. We humans never get to interact with living things that much bigger than ourselves. What must we look like, to a mouse? A blue whale with glasses?

Our creator also created mice–and for some reason, despite all our problems with wild mice, He created us to be compatible: pet mice can be very affectionate. For something that small to love and trust something that big–well, we never would have thought of it, would we?

I also had a mouse who used to groom my mustache. What that was like for her, I’ll never imagine.

A Flame That Won’t Burn?

leeduigon(patty)July 30, 2023

Cool Flames on the International Space Station – An Anatomy of Discovery – A Lab Aloft (International Space Station Research)

Flames respond to gravity? Another thing I ought to look into…

I woke up today wondering what was the lowest temperature at which a flame could exist. Don’t ask; I don’t know why I wanted to know this.

It turns out that the lowest temperature for “a cool flame” ranges from 200 to 300 degrees Celsius (https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/16664/what-is-the-lower-bound-to-the-temperature-at-which-a-fire-can-burn#:~:text=The%20lowest%20recorded%20cool%20flame,acetate%20as%20225%C2%B0C.). That “200” translates to 392 degrees Fahrenheit, which seems plenty hot to me. Water boils at 212 F, 100 C. So this “cool flame” is twice as hot as boiling water.

It’s only cool compared to many other flames.

We are also told that white phosphorus–repeat, white phosphorus only–flames at a low enough temperature that you can handle it with your bare hands, briefly, without getting burned. Any volunteers to demonstrate? It’d be a great gimmick for a magic act.

The thing is, God’s creation is orderly. We can study it and understand it. We don’t believe the universe could exist without this order: it could not have come into being by chance.

‘Sanity Break: the Woolly Mammoth’ (2018)

leeduigon(patty)June 11, 2023

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It’s one of my life’s major disappointments that I’ve never seen a woolly mammoth. Imagine looking out your bedroom window and seeing these crossing your back yard at night.

Sanity Break: the Woolly Mammoth

Yeah, I know, I know–“Someday we can bring them back by cloning!” Just like Jurassic Park. The end of the Ice Age put the mammoths out of business. In the regeneration of all things, the LORD will put them back in.

‘This Is My Father’s World’

leeduigon(patty)June 6, 2023

(Yes, Lee, you made a good pick today. Now hurry up and post it.)

When God finished His work of creation, He looked it over and knew it was good, very good.

This Is My Father’s World, sung by Fernando Ortega: background sets by God the Father.

By Request, ‘The Woodpecker Song’

leeduigon(patty)October 29, 2022

Elder Mike asked for this, The Woodpecker Song by Buddy Davis–all new to me, but really kind of cool. It’s a celebration of God’s creative power–and how creative it is! You’ve never seen so many different woodpeckers, have you?