Zoology
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Animals — what they are, how they're grouped, what they do — appear throughout scripture in the categories of the ancient Near East. Modern zoology sorts them differently.
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Wolves and lambs will one day live peacefully together, and all predators will stop killing prey.
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Certain worms are immortal — they never die.
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Storks, doves, cranes, and swallows instinctively know the correct timing for their seasonal migrations.
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Dragons were real, river-dwelling creatures familiar enough to be used in everyday comparisons.
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A sea serpent at the bottom of the ocean obeys voice commands to bite specific people who try to hide underwater.
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All wild birds are reliably provided with food and never go hungry.
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No bird dies randomly — every individual sparrow death is deliberately directed by a conscious intelligence.
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There exists a species of worm that is biologically immortal and never dies.
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A 137-meter wooden boat once housed breeding pairs of every land animal species for a year.
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A person survived a venomous snake bite on the island of Malta without any ill effects — on an island that has no venomous snakes.
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Snakes once had the ability to speak human language and hold conversations with people.
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By the 1st century CE, humans had already tamed every species of animal on Earth — all mammals, birds, reptiles, and sea creatures.
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A large reptile can be killed by feeding it cakes made of pitch, fat, and hair, which cause it to explode.
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Partridges steal and sit on other birds' eggs, which then never hatch.