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The Barrel-eye Fish
HANDS POINT TO GOD
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SPOT THE DIFFERENCE:
1. Doctor’s tie colour.
2. Armchair colour.
3. Torch colour. 4. Clock time
changed. 5. Missing bottle.
6. Stool colour.
7. Wall chart changed.
8. Boy’s trousers colour.
9. Boy’s shirt colour.
10. Bottle and label colour.
WORD SQUARE:
The Spirit of God created me
(Job 33: 4)
OBOTS are machines designed to do work normally done by
humans, and are often used in factories. Some robots look
almost human, with head, arms and legs. Many are very cleverly
designed, but they are very different from us. They can’t decide
for themselves, or refuse to do work, and have to be controlled
by humans or by computer programmes designed by humans.
You are not a robot, because you can choose how to live and
behave. God could have created us like robots, so that we had
to love and obey Him, but He gave us the freedom to choose.
The first people on earth. Adam and Eve, had that choice, and
decided to disobey God. Ever since then, people have been choosing their own
way, rather than God’s way, and this has spoilt the perfect world that God
to
created. But God loves us so much that He sent His Son Jesus to bring us back
Himself. “God sent him to die in our place to take
away our sins.” (Romans 3: 25).
Jesus chose to die for us. When we choose to follow
GOD’S WAY
Him, God forgives all the wrong things we have
MY WAY
done, and sends His Spirit to live in us. Because
Jesus rose from the dead, “everyone who believes
in him can have eternal life.” (John 3: 15) Have you
decided to put your faith in Him?
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PUZZLE ANSWERS
YOU ARE NOT A ROBOT!
Our bodies are like amazing
machines, with all the parts
designed to work together
Some animals have hands, but human
hands are special, and can do many
things that animals are unable to. This
is because of the way our fingers and
thumbs are designed. Apes have
thumbs which help them grip things,
but human hands are different because
each finger can bend to meet our
thumb. This means we can do things
apes can never do, such as threading
a needle and playing musical instruments. There are about 27 bones and
joints, and 35 muscles in each of our
hands. These muscles are controlled by
our brain. In fact a quarter of our brain
is used for our hand movements.
Our special hands point to God, our
Creator.
THE
OF LIFE
The Bible tells us that God formed the
first man, Adam, from the dust, then
“The Lord breathed the breath of life
into the man’s nose. And the man
Windpipe
became a living person.” (Genesis 2:
7). None of us could live without “the
breath of life.”
Without lungs you wouldn’t be able
to breathe, and your lungs would not
work without your diaphragm, which
is below your lungs. It has special
in air from
muscles which open and close your lungs to draw
. Your
pipe
outside your body through your nose and wind
en to the
lungs contain lots of blood vessels which take oxyg
rest of your body (see next page).
the. They
We need all these parts to be able to live and brea
couldn’t
and
g,
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had to be working together from the begi
the right
have evolved gradually. God created a planet with
n us lungs
kind of atmosphere that we need, and He has give
it.
thing
and a diaphragm so that we can stay alive by brea
Theresa Knott: Wikipedia
This weird fish —sometimes known as a Spookfish — has a transparent head with two very unusual eyes. They are tubes, which point
upwards, and act rather like a pair of binoculars. There are green
domes at the top of each tube. Scientists believe these protect its
eyes, and filter the small amount of sunlight shining through the
water, so that the fish can easily spot jelly-fish, which are part of its
food. The Barrel-eye was discovered in 1939, but scientists have only
recently found that its eyes rotate inside its see-through head, just
as the pilot of a plane can tilt his head to look in different directions.
A Pacific Barrel-eye Fish. Its eyes are inside
the green domes. The two black spots
There is no other fish like the Barrel-eye, and it seems impossible
which
look like eyes are actually nostrils
that it could have evolved
from an “ordinary” fish. The
whole of its head would would it have been able to see and survive
have had to change into a while all these changes were happening?
transparent dome, and
We believe the Barrel-eye Fish is
special bones and muscles
another example of the work of a wise,
would need to form to move
and powerful Creator.
Barrel-eye fish side view
those special eyes. How
YOU!
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ITH a head that looks like the cockpit of a fighterplane, the Barrel-eye Fish, which spends most of
its time 2,000 feet (600 meters) beneath the surface of
the Pacific Ocean, is a strange sight.
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You were created to stand tall!
Many people believe that we are related to apes, but if we
compare the skeleton of a chimpanzee with a human
skeleton we soon see that there are lots of
important differences between us.
Although chimps sometimes walk upright,
their arms are much longer than ours and
they are more comfortable walking on all
fours. Our spine, legs and feet are all
designed for walking upright.
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
Although apes have hands with thumbs, our
hands can do many things they can’t do
Your heart just goes on beating . Nature Notes: How plants drink. Puzzle
Corner. Your Digestive System. Seeing inside your body. Weird and Wonderful:
The Barrel-eye Fish. You are not a Robot!
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We all know that plants and trees rely on water to live and
grow, but how does the water in the ground reach the top of
the tallest trees? The world’s tallest trees are the Giant
Redwoods, which sometimes grow as tall as 117 meters (380
feet), yet water somehow reaches the highest branches.
So, how does water defy the law of gravity to reach such a
height? These trees, like all other plants, get the water they
need by a process called capillary action. Water is made of
“sticky” particles called molecules. This not only makes water
hang together in drops, but also enables it to cling to other
things. To see this at work, dip a paper towel into a glass of
water. The water will creep up into the towel.
You can try an even better experiment with some white
flowers. Get some food colouring and add it to glasses of
water, then stand a white carnation in each glass. Slowly, the An experiment to show how
colour of the flowers will change as the coloured water is water rises in a plant: Place
white flowers in a glass of
drawn up into the flowers by capillary action.
food colouring, and see them
Plants don’t just need water, but all plant food that is in the
slowly change colour.
soil, and this is also drawn up into trees and plants by capillary
action, along with the water. God our Creator made a way for water to defy gravity,
A giant Redwood flowing upward to nourish branches and leaves that are a long way above the ground.
tree
—Geoff Chapman
Many homes have a machine called a food processor in the
kitchen. This is used to chop and prepare food before cooking
Saliva
or eating. Did you know that your body has a food processor
Epiglottis that is much cleverer than any made by humans? It’s called
your digestive system. Made up of several important parts, all
of them need to work together so that your food helps you live
and grow.
Stomach
A food processor
It all begins in your mouth, where your teeth chew your food
into small pieces. Then a special liquid called saliva begins the work even before you
Intestines
swallow your food and it makes its way to your stomach. A special flap in your throat
called the epiglottis closes when you swallow, to stop your food going “the wrong
way.” Once in your stomach, acid juices break down your food without harming the sides of your stomach.
Muscles in the wall of your stomach help digest your food by churning it around. Your food then passes through
a series of tubes called intestines, where the nutrients your body needs are taken into your bloodstream. If they
were uncoiled, a grown-up’s intestines would stretch to about 7 meters (23 feet) long! A normal meal is digested
in about 4 hours. The waste, which is of no use to you, is taken out of your body when you use the toilet.
All of this happens without your having to think about it, because it is all controlled by your brain. The only time
you would notice is when you have indigestion, maybe through eating too much, or if you have a tummy upset.
Your digestive system is a very important part of your body machine, designed and planned by God.
SEEING INSIDE YOUR BODY
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Anatomography
Adapted from WIkipedia
Your heart beats
around 70 times a
minute — and goes
on doing it all of your
life, which could be
80 years or more!
What an amazing
pump!
It’s very important for your blood to keep flowing around your body. But
what happens when you cut yourself? To stop you bleeding to death, your
body immediately acts to seal the cut. Special muscles squeeze the blood
vessel together, and chemical
messages are sent from the cut to
bring cells called platelets to seal
the wound. They have spikes,
which make them stick together
to form a clot which stops the bleeding. The clotting
stops when the cut is sealed. If it didn’t , then all the
blood in your body could stop flowing and you
would die! So we should be grateful to God that He
designed this system to work so perfectly.
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N 1616 a doctor called William Harvey (left) was the first person
to properly understand how our heart pumps the blood around
our bodies, carrying not just water and food, but also “the breath
of life” as it takes oxygen from our lungs to every cell in our bodies.
Yet, the importance of our blood was revealed in the Bible about
3,500 years ago: “The life of the body is in the blood.” (Leviticus
17: 11).
Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could
stretch out all a human’s blood vessels, they would be about
60,000 miles long. That’s enough to go around the world twice!
How your body digests food
In 1895 German scientist Wilhelm Rontgen (right) made an
amazing discovery quite by accident, while he was experimenting with electrical currents. He found that special
rays — which he called X-Rays — made it
possible to see through solid objects such
as skin and flesh. The first ever X-Ray photo
was of his wife’s hand (left). He won the
Nobel Prize for his discovery. X-Rays not only reveal how
wonderful our bodies really are, but are now used daily all
over the world to help doctors see broken bones and find
the causes of many illnesses.
Spot the difference
Can you find ten differences between the first and
second pictures?
Beginning with the red letter, move in
any direction to find a Bible verse.
Answers on back page.