Sermon Illustrations
God's Great Creation
God's creation is amazingly diverse and is completely overwhelming to man. Why? Only a tiny fraction of all the species on earth (animals, plants, insects) have been discovered and named. Biologists have cataloged a total of between 1.5 million and 1.8 million species. Estimates of the true number of living species range, according to the method employed, from 3.6 million to more than 100 million. What is more astonishing is that scientists estimate that more than 95 percent of all the species that have ever existed are extinct!
Two amazing examples of God's infinite creativity: In one 2.5 acre area of Brazil's rain forest, there are 425 kinds of trees. In one small corner of Peru's Manu National Park, there are 1,300 butterfly species.