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VOLUME 33:01
JANUARY 2022
SCRIPTURE AND
SCIENCE FOR KIDS
IN THIS ISSUE:
The BLUE WHALE
BLUE WHALE BLUE WHALES BLUE WHALE
SIZE & EVOLUTION DESIGN
BLUE WHALE THERE IS BIG—AND THEN THERE
IS THE BLUE WHALE.
Elephants are big, but they aren’t “blue whale big.”
(as long as 3
school buses) and weigh nearly
200 tons (or 400,000 pounds…
Even though Argentinosaurus—the
largest dinosaur man has ever or 15 school buses!).
discovered—was huge (an Blue whales have a fluke (tail) used to propel
estimated 100 tons or them forward under water. This powerful fluke is
200,000 pounds), it wider than a racquetball court.
still was only about half the Although the heart of an elephant is big (weigh-
size of the largest known ing as much as an average seven-year-old
blue whale. child—50 pounds!), the blue whale owns the
Blue whales are born big and then largest heart on Earth. Its heart is slow (beating only six or
become enormous. A baby blue seven times per minute), but it is huge—the size
whale (called a calf) is almost 25 feet of a small car, weighing nearly 1,300 pounds.
long at birth and weighs as much What’s more, the whale’s largest
as a small pick-up truck (6,000 blood vessel (called the aorta)
pounds). The calf feeds on its is so big that a Basset Hound
mother’s rich milk and gains a whopping 200 pounds could easily crawl through it.
every day during the first year of its life. By the time
The blue whale also owns the biggest tongue on the planet. It's
the baby becomes a full-grown whale, it can
tongue is so large that about 25 children could stand on it at one time. It
reach 100 feet in length
weighs over 5,000 pounds—as much as a medium-sized Asian elephant!
ARGENTINOSAURUS:
• 120 feet long • 100+ tons (over
• 29 feet tall 200,000 pounds) When a blue whale eats, it can fill its 20-foot-long mega mouth
(to the top
Krill
with over 13,000 gallons of water in one gulp. Hopefully a lot of
of its back)
its favorite food—krill, which are shrimp-like animals—are in these
13,000 gallons of water. The whale then uses its mighty tongue to push the water
BLUE WHALE 6 foot tall adult
through its baleen, which are like thousands of
[to show scale]
[largest found] • 194 tons (388,000 pounds) A blue whale feeding,
• 110 feet long bristles hanging from its upper jaw. The whale with pouch inflated
strains the water through its well-designed ba-
leen, while trapping the krill (and other crusta-
ceans, as well as fish). The whale then uses its
perfectly designed tongue to scrape the baleen
clean of all of its catch. (Have you ever licked
Measurements in feet your teeth “clean” and found a piece of food
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 left over from your last meal?)
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BLUE WHALE
A BLUE WHALE CAN EAT ABOUT 8,000 Where is the proof for such a
POUNDS OF SEAFOOD EVERY DAY. “whale of a story”?
Actually, there is no proof—there is only
That’s the equivalent of eating seven evolutionists’ interpretation of various
average-size cows…every day! fossils they have found in the ground.
The fact is, no one has ever proved (or will ever prove) that the
blue whale’s great-great-great…granddaddy was a wolf-like, land
Whales communicate with other whales using short and
animal—any more than this wolf-like animal had a great-great-
high-pitched “songs.” Whereas a noisy jackhammer can reach
great…granddaddy that was a fish.
100 decibels and a loud jet engine 140 decibels, scientists
have measured the sounds that whales make at up to 188
Whereas humans and most land animals
decibels. A whale’s communication ability is so powerful that
could survive for only a few minutes in the
researchers have recorded their songs from over 500 miles
frigid waters that marine mammals call
away. Yes, similar to how God gave Adam and Eve the ability
home, God designed whales perfectly
to speak and communicate on Day Six of Creation, God cre-
for life in the sea.
ated whales on Day Five with an amazing
“messaging system”—one that is so loud that it can be The blue whale is able to
heard underwater the distance that separates Washing-
ton, D.C. from Cincinnati, Ohio. withstand bitterly
cold water tempera-
Can you believe that evolutionists claim tures, because of the
that whales evolved from land animals? In
fact, the standard evolutionary explanation tens of thousands
is that a sea creature evolved (over millions of pounds of BLUBBER
of years) into a land animal, which millions
of years later went back into the water and in its body.
evolved into a blue whale. (Are we really
This blubber, which is made up mostly of fat, functions as insulation,
supposed to believe that?!)
helping keep the whale from freezing to death in chilly waters. What’s
more, when krill are scarce, blue whales can live off of the energy
Allegedly, a small, wolf-like animal began eating fish and stored in their blubber.
started living more and more of its life in the water. Over
Wikipedia.org (Nobu Tamura) 2022 CC-by-sa-3.0 millions of years, allegedly, this wolf-like creature began
living full-time in the oceans. Its front legs became flippers, while its back
legs became tiny and non-functional. The creature’s dog-like tail became a
fluke. It’s teeth disappeared and then perfectly designed baleen conveniently
evolved in just the right place.
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T I V I T Y
1
A C
Does it really make sense to believe that a wolf-like,
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land animal evolved into a whale over millions of
years? How did it evolve the many specialized features
of whales, such as the capability to WITHSTAND 2
FREEZING COLD TEMPERATURES? How did a 3
wolf-like animal’s nose move to the top of its head 4
and become a blowhole (as evolutionists assert)? How
5
did the mother whale (called a cow) evolve the neces-
6 7
sary ability to pump her rich milk into the mouth of her
baby, rather than 8
WANT MORE?
simply allow the SCAN THE QR
calf to suck in the CODE FOR 9 10
milk as land mam- MORE ACTIVITIES.
11
mals do? (If calves
Crossword 12
Challenge
had to try to suck 13
200 pounds of
14
milk a day, they would likely suck in a lot Across
15
of water and die.) How did the supposed 3. The first whales were specially cre-
ated by God and then (according to 2. Evolutionists foolishly believe that
wolf-like ancestor of whales evolve the Genesis 1:21) reproduced “according to their the ______ of a wolf-like animal
ability to endure the extreme water ___________.” 16 17
evolved into a whale’s fluke.
pressure that whales feel when they dive 4. Evolutionists wrongly believe that the front
3. Shrimp-like animals that blue whales
hundreds or thousands of feet below legs of a wolf-like animal evolved into 18 eat
whale ___________.
the surface? Such pressure would kill most 5. Bible book that magnifies the name
animals. 6. A whale’s communication ability is so
of God (in part) because of the “innu-
powerful that researchers have recorded their
merable teeming things, living things
songs from over 500 _________ away.
both small and great,” which He created in the
11. A blue whale weighs about the same as 15 of “great and wide sea”
these.
7. Blue whales use this to scrape their baleen clean
14. Bigger (by far) than even the largest dinosaurs of krill.
15. Evolutionists irrationally contend that whales 8. Day of Creation on which God made whales
evolved from a __________-like creature.
9. Largest blood vessel in the heart
16. Thousands of bristles hanging from the upper
10. Whale tail
jaw of a blue whale
12. Baby whale
18. Organ of the blue whale that is about the size of
a small car 13. Mother whale
Down 14. Whale “insulation” that helps them survive in
bitterly cold waters
1. Bible book that testifies to the fact that “God
created great sea creatures and every living 17. The name to be praised for creating everything,
thing that moves, with which the waters including the “great sea creatures”
abounded”
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NEITHER THE BLUE WHALE NOR ANY
OTHER WHALE EVOLVED THESE
SPECIALIZED FEATURES.
No wolf-like creature fathered these amazing animals. God designed
these wonderful whales to live in water. These magnificent creatures
are a reminder of their Creator’s majesty! The Bible says that on
the Fifth Day of Creation, “God created great sea creatures and
every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded,
according to their kind” (Genesis 1:21).
“Let them praise the name of the Lord, for
He commanded and they were created….
Praise the Lord from the earth, you
great sea creatures and all the depths….
Let them praise the name of the Lord, for
His name alone is exalted ” (Psalm 148:5,7,13).
“O Lord, how manifold are Your works! In
wisdom You have made them all. The earth
is full of your possessions—this great and wide
sea, in which are innumerable teeming things,
living things both small and great.”
Psalm 104:24-25
ANSWERS
ANSWERS
Down: 1. Genesis; 2, tail; 3. krill; 5. Psalms; 7. tongue; 8. five; 9. aorta; 10. fluke; 12. calf; 13. cow; 14. blubber; 17. Lord.
CROSSWORD CHALLENGE:. Across: 3. kind; 4. flippers; 6; miles; 11. school buses; 14. blue whale; 15. wolf; 16. baleen; 18. heart;
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