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QUESTION OF THE WEEK: What makes bones so strong?

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Q: What makes bones so strong?

A: Bones of animals and humans normally contain just the right balance of hard and flexible parts. Minerals such as calcium and phosphorous combine to provide the hard and durable structure of bones. For children, diets rich in calcium help to build their growing bones.
But strong bones require more than the hardness that minerals provide, otherwise they would be too brittle. They also need the flexibility gained from tough fibers throughout the bone. The combination of these two materials produces a composite material that joins hardness and flexibility into a tremendously strong structure.
Read the whole article from Answers magazine and perform the two experiments to test the flexibility and brittleness of bones.

Get Equipped

Get EquippedBody of Evidence 2: The Skeletal System, Cartilage, and Bone DVD
Without bones you would be a lump of fleshy organs. Without cartilage you would have no nose, no fingernails, and folding your arm or straightening your leg would be extremely painful.
In disc 2 of the series Body of Evidence, Dr. David Menton focuses on the human skeletal system. Dr. Menton employs anatomical props, models, and microscopic images to teach about God's amazing designs for life.

Answers Mega Conference Review

Ken Ham Delivers a Powerful and Moving Talk on "Rescuing Our Kids": In his final talk at this year's Mega Conference, Ken Ham exhorted that we need to rescue our kids from the evil one, this evil age, churches that compromise, many Sunday schools, and compromising Christian institutions.
Holding to Biblical Principles in a Sin-Cursed World: The next four sessions on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning covered difficulties we face in a sin-cursed world and then applied biblical principles to these issues.
We Can Understand the World Around Us When We Start from Scripture: Hear from our keynote speakers about the intelligent design movement, the genetics of Adam and Eve, fossilization, fossil beds, and the Flood.
Who Defines Good and Bad? From the first day of the Answers Mega Conference, the presentations were hard-hitting and pointed. Read and watch the recent highlights in this Outreach Events blog post.
The Battle for the Truth at the Answers Mega Conference: The Answers Mega Conference has begun! Here are some excerpts and key thoughts from some of the speakers.

News to Know Quick Look

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Archaeologists Find Farming's Roots All Over the Fertile Crescent: Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of early cultivation and crop storage throughout the ancient Near East. The Bible documents that, from the beginning, God provided human intelligence, ingenuity, civilization, and the ability to tame and shape the environment to meet human needs.

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