Creation Moments

Jonathan Cotton: Fleas are powered by springs. Learn about it next on today's Creation Moment. And now, here's our Creation Moments host, Ian Taylor.

Ian Taylor: When King Saul pursued David to kill him, David compared himself to a flea by asking whether the king had come out with soldiers to kill a flea. But just because a flea is small doesn't mean that God created it as unimportant when he designed it. The flea has an ability to jump many times its own length and is a miniature marvel of engineering. If you see a flea jump, and that's not easy to do, you will wonder whether the flea is actually powered by springs. The amazing truth is that the flea is powered by tiny springs.

When it jumps, the flea actually releases more than five and a half times as much energy as the most perfect muscle tissue can generate. The flea is able to do this unusual normal muscle output because he has small pads of natural protein rubber called resilin in his legs. As he slowly depresses the pads, he stores the energy that will be released in his next leap in 1/7 of the time he took to store it. To our Creator, nothing and no one is unimportant. This is because he is by nature a loving and caring creator. Do you know his love?

Do you know that he seeks a personal relationship with you through Jesus Christ?

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