Various water-striding insects use small body sizes, long legs, and fine hairs on their feet to skate on the surfaces of ponds and streams. But life on the open ocean presents tougher challenges than landlocked waterways. Waves, fishes, salt, and birds should spell disaster for such small striders.

About 3,000 years ago, the Bible taught that the “wonders in the deep” are the “works of the Lord.”¹ Now that truth has been illustrated with even greater depth by the documented sighting of a super-deep-sea octopus—about 21,000 feet deep at the ocean’s bottom, to be specific.^2,3

Should we murmur (whine, complain) about our presently inconvenient circumstances?¹ Or should we adjust to what happens around us, so we keep our proper distances as we ourselves move about, carrying on our daily activities,² many of which involve interacting with others?3

Nowadays, many folks experience “cabin fever,” but are banned from ordinary travel and social activities.¹ However, some get out of the house—yet stay home—by investing time and labor outdoors, doing yardwork and gardening.

A recent report in the journal Science mixed detailed archaeological finds with stories about human origins. As is typical, age assignments for fossils fit evolutionary time instead of the Bible’s much shorter timeline of thousands, not millions, of years.