Essays
The Marvel Of God's Creation
THE MARVEL OF GOD’S CREATION
Seeds may be dropped into the ground upside down or sideways, yet the plants come up to the surface……One grain of corn will produce a stalk on which there may be two ears, with perhaps 742 grains on each ear……A light crop of wheat will produce approximately thirty grains on each stalk;
a good crop of wheat will produce approximately sixty grains on each stalk. There will always be an even number of grains……Beans grow up on
a pole from right to left. If turned upside down, “twining” plants will uncoil and recircle their support. Guide a twiner in the “wrong” direction,
and the plant will rewind itself. The higher a twiner grows, the more tightly it clasps its support…..The dandelion will grow above its surroundings whether the grass be two, ten or twenty inches, for it must get up to the sunlight. After twenty-four inches, the weight of the flower causes the stalk to bend……An ordinary watermelon will have ten stripes on it. Larger ones may have twelve to sixteen stripes, but always an even number.
(Excerpted from God Made Life Interesting in “House To House / Heart To Heart”, Volume 23, Number 10).
