21 Verses backed by Science

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David Reeves is He has a big reach and actually I have to confess that I'm kind of a David Reeves newbie. I've not really heard him speak before so That I think is more to my disadvantage because it seems to me from learning about him over these last few weeks.

So we've been preparing for tonight that he has quite a sphere of influence. So he has a weekly TV show on TV and Creation in the 21st century and he's hosted quite a number of great speakers, including some of the ones that we've had this summer, like Jason Lyle and Russ Miller and Some of the others that we have really appreciated.

He's David is a news columnist. He's also an author. He's written two books, although I think that the one that he's going to be talking to us tonight is actually also a book as well. And then he's also full of energy and he Is a worldwide traveler and adventurer and a musician.

I, I hear maybe he's going to share some of that with us tonight, too. So, but the, the greatest thing of all is that he loves the Lord and he sees God's design in the world around us. And it's his mission to tell people about the Lord and the science that supports the Bible.

And that's what he's here to tell us about tonight. So go ahead, David.

Why the Bible and Science Belong Together

Thank you so much. It's great to be here with you and to share some of this with you tonight. Listen, I know there's a lot going on in the world. And there's a lot of important things significant things going on in the world.

But I tell you what, there's This you always think that what you're doing is so significant and so important because it's personal to you. Right. I mean, everybody's that way. At the same time, this whole creation versus evolution debate is actually very, very important.

It's very crucial because The creation versus evolution debate or rather the lack of debate and seeing evolution pushed as fact seeing evolution put pushed as the only way to think Has having a serious impact on well our younger generation is having a serious impact on pretty much everybody because we all suffer as a result of this evolutionary thinking that we're nothing more than animals.

Right. But Over the past 13 years I've had the opportunities to see some extraordinary things to research, some things that I just want to share with you. And today I want to keep it really simple because we're talking about We're talking about a topic of science and the Bible.

Alright, so In my book 21 verses backed by science. This actually was a spinoff of a topic that I've been researching for a number of years. And I like to use an analogy. So let me just let me just throw it out here for you.

The Bible knows best. Okay, so there was an old TV series called Father Knows Best. There was a radio serial program that came before the TV series, same title Father Knows Best. But you see, I believe that the Bible.

Is God's inspired word that it is inspired by the Father himself. So if The Father Knows Best. Well then, by implication, the Bible should know best also. Alright, so what if we put it to the test. Okay, now have people come up to me all the time.

And they're like, like, David, you know, we're Christians, we We don't need this. We have faith. The Bible is true. All right. But here's where I have to stop for a second. And I have to, I have to point out we have faith.

That Jesus Christ lived, died, was raised again, payment for our sin. Right. But there are millions. That's, that's, that's a low estimate. Millions and millions and millions of people.

Who are.

Struggling and they're struggling, not necessarily with their Christianity. Do I believe that Christ died for my sins. But they're struggling with, do I believe the Bible is the inerrant inspired Word of God.

And frankly, that's a crucial issue because it undermines the gospel itself. So if the Bible knows best, then we should be able to look at certain verses that appear to have scientific implications. And we should be able to look empirically observably at the science behind those verses and see what we what we find.

So that's, that's the whole idea of 21 verses backed by science. It's a super quick read because we're just going through 21 verses and we're looking at how those verses are scientifically accurate. And by the time we're done, we'll see that those verses were scientifically accurate and written down thousands of years before science figured it all out.

Genesis 1:1 and the Origin of Time, Space, and Matter

Alright, so Let me start with a simple one. Most of you who are familiar with creation science have heard this before, but I'm hoping that this is reaching some ears that might be a little bit skeptical on YouTube.

So Genesis 1 .1 says, In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. Sounds pretty simple. In Hebrew, it says, Here's the thing, that simple verse holds some profound truths. Alright, so let's ask the question as we read these different verses and I'm going to read as many as I can have 21 until we run out of time.

Right. But let's read Genesis 1 .1. In the beginning, that's the creation, the very origin of time itself. God created the heavens. Well, there's space and the earth. That's matter. Okay, that's land.

Alright, so you've got the creation of time, space and matter in the very first verse of the Bible. Alright, that's the origin of time, space and matter in the scriptures. But what does science say? Alright, well, current atheistic science now says that, yeah, time, space and matter are the three basic components.

But we only know how to answer two of those. Alright, that's what atheistic science says and they point to the Big Bang. They'll say 14 billion years ago, all the matter in the universe started expanding rapidly and it created the universe, including space and time as it went, as it expanded.

But wait a second here. What did we just start with? 14 billion years ago, all the matter in the universe. Whoa, where did all the matter in the universe come from? Alright, so the matter has to have origin and the Big Bang theory doesn't attempt to give us the origin of the matter.

It only attempts, and I believe it's a poor attempt, to explain the origin of time and space. Matter is a complete mystery for those who don't understand the implications, the historical implications of the Word of God.

Okay, so we've already gotten off to a pretty good start and we're one verse into the Bible. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. Alright. As we go through this, I'm going to say the Bible knows best.

Every time we go to a scripture and we find that it's scientifically accurate. Let's look at another one. Jeremiah 8 -7 says, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed time and it also talks about the turtle dove and the crane and the sea swallow.

Alright, so is that poetic or does the Bible know best? Is this accurate science? Well, let's talk about the sea swallow for a second. You see, the Arctic tern is a seabird. It has a global population estimated of about a million Arctic terns.

They live about 20 to 30 years on average and they take a particular course that varies from year to year to take advantage of prevailing winds and so forth. Alright, so let's think about these birds for a second.

I'm going to put up a slide, if I can do this. Everybody see that? Yeah. Okay, so what you're looking at is a slide of the globe. Alright, and what you'll notice is the journey of these birds, these Arctic terns.

They may start in Greenland or the Netherlands. They'll travel southward along the the western coast of Africa there. Southern tip of Africa, they turn, they'll travel eastwards all the way to Australia, sometimes to New Zealand.

Before then, they turn southward again. They spend their summers, our winters, in Antarctica traveling around. And when it's time to move north again, what they do is they take an entirely different path, usually sometimes up the coast of the Americas in an S-shaped curve to find their way back to where they started.

Now, that in itself, how are they able to find their way? That's incredible along. But that was a global map right there. Alright, so these birds are traveling about 56 ,000 miles every year. And I just told you, how long do they exist?

How long do they live for? 20 or 30 years, right? So we're looking at a bird that travels about 1 .5 million miles in their lifetime. A million and a half miles. Those are frequent flyers. Alright, so does the sea swallow know what to do?

Does she know when to move out? Do they know where to go? Do they know how to find their way back? Does the hawk fly by our wisdom? Does the sea swallow know what to do, where to go? Absolutely. And you know what's so spectacular, I believe, is Jesus Christ in the New Testament talks about birds and he uses those as an analogy.

He's like, you know, if our Heavenly Father takes care of the birds, how much more does He care for us? You see, because yes, all of God's creation is special. It's designed but we are created in the image of God, fearfully and wonderfully made, which means that God has provided certain things for us and He will continue to provide certain things for us, even in the midst of viruses going across the globe, even in the midst of panic that is ensued because of a virus, even in the midst of all sorts of difficulties and trials.

And I know we've all been through our share of those. I certainly have. Even through all of that, He has it all in control. And so we need to remember that. Alright, so yes, the sea swallow knows where to go and what to do, travels 1 .5 million miles in its lifetime.

The Bible knows best. So let's look at another verse found in the scriptures and then ask the question, is this scientific? Now this one is Psalm 139. It says, Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect.

And in thy book, all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. Okay, so what does that mean? Alright, it's using some verbiage there that's pretty interesting.

It talks about substance, book, members, being written, and fashioned in continuance. Let's talk about DNA for a second. Deoxyribonucleic acid. DNA can be expressed as a written language that creates a blueprint, your book, that makes you who you are.

And Psalm 139 says that all of those components are written in the Lord's book from day one before you were ever formed. Okay, that's pretty special. So geneticists will tell us, they'll admit, you know, there are trillions upon trillions of combinations that make up human DNA.

But you see, if you were to calculate it all out, your DNA sequence, human DNA, would fill up about 1200 encyclopedia volumes. So that's a lot of information. Then you have to remember that that entire 1200 encyclopedia volumes worth of information can be found in nearly every cell of your body.

So what that means is that you actually don't have 1200 encyclopedia volumes of information in you right now. No, you actually have enough information to fill the entire Library of Congress. 35 million books.

That's just in you right now. I mean, think of the sheer. This is astounding. This points to complexity in design because you see language doesn't write itself. Information language system of DNA points to a designer and intelligence, and not just any intelligence.

Because again, we're seeing all of these clues all throughout the scriptures. That seems to point us back to scientific implications, including Psalm 139. Alright, so does the Bible know best? Absolutely.

We basically have a code, written code, it can be expressed as a written language that makes us who we are. We're 100 completely unique. Our iris and retina contain unique patterns not found anywhere else on planet Earth.

No two palm prints are alike. Every fingerprint is unique. And this is something I've been doing for years. I know it's a little bit corny, but I love anybody watching this right now. Look at your fingerprints.

Check out your fingerprints. Completely unique. Look at your thumbprint. Not another one like it on planet Earth. That makes you somebody. We're fearfully and wonderfully made. This is my point. The Bible knows best and it's pointing us back, not only to a designer, but we'll get to who that designer is in just a moment.

Blood, Pottery, and Quarantine Laws

Alright, so let's look at another one. Leviticus 17, I believe it is, says that the life of all flesh is the blood thereof. Okay. When I was researching for this book, I stumbled on this one for just a minute, because I couldn't figure it out.

I read this passage and I read it again. And I read it again. The life of all flesh is the blood thereof. The life is the blood. But see, I know that some life doesn't have blood, sea sponges, things like that.

I'm like, no, no, no, no, this can't be. The Bible knows best. There's something that I have to be missing because I know that God's Word is true. I kept rereading it and rereading it and I realized I was missing a very important word there.

The life of all flesh is the blood thereof. You know, yeah, there are creatures that don't have blood, but the creatures that don't have blood don't have flesh. So literally, the life of all flesh is the blood thereof.

Now let's ask a very scientific question here with a fairly recent example. Alright, because bloodletting was a common practice during the colonial times. People would take blood out of themselves to try to heal themselves or to try to become more healthy if they had a certain disease or if they weren't feeling good.

Okay, now the average adult human contains about 165, if my memory serves me, about 165 ounces of blood, average adult human. It's estimated that in the hours just before George Washington's death, they took out about 125 ounces of his blood.

In other words, they took out nearly all of his blood and they took out his life. So the life of all flesh is the blood thereof. That's quite scientific, if you ask me. It means that the Bible knows best.

But again, recent example, bloodletting tells us that we didn't even fully understand all of these implications for a very, very long time. So how did the Bible get it right? I mean, it's not like the authors of the Bible were these great scientists.

I think about it. Many of them were poets and kings and shepherds. So how could they have known? Well, let's keep on going. We'll get to that. Leviticus 11 .33 says, every earthen vessel where into a dead thing falls.

Break the pot. In other words, if you find a dead animal that has died in your earthenware pottery, break it. All right, let's think about this for a second. The Israelites, this was a command given to the Israelites.

Many people say, well, you know, your God is so oppressive. He was trying to create all of these oppressive rules, silly things, and just see if he could get his people to break those rules so he could punish them.

I did a TikTok recently on this very topic. Do we have a mean, vindictive God, right? Which, by the way, we've had about, we just hit 2 million views on TikTok as of last week. So a lot of people, a lot of young people are interested in that topic.

A lot of young people are saying, well, we've been told by our friends who are skeptics that, you know, God is a God of hate and we shouldn't be following him because he's either not real or he's just out to get us.

Okay, same thing going on. They'll tell you, well, why do you tell them to break the pot? These people are poor people. They're Israelites wandering in the desert. Why are you going to tell them to get rid of their good pottery?

So the very next verse says, if it's clothing or something that they're not going to be eating out of, wash it. Use it again. No reason to throw it away or break it. But if it's pottery that you're eating out of, break that pot.

Why would he say that? Does the Bible know best? Well, let's think about it for a second. It wasn't until the mid 1800s when Louis Pasteur, a Bible believing creationist, who through scientific research, experimentation, I'm talking about real science here, observable, repeatable, demonstrable, empirical science, he pioneered germ theory.

He did tests. He was initially mocked. Okay. But then people realize, yeah, there's microbes, there are germs. Well, the majority of the Israelites didn't have the money or the means to glaze their pottery, their earthenware jars.

Glazing seals off the pottery from germs and microbes. Okay. But if you don't glaze it, a dead thing falls in there. It might have had a disease. Why did it die? Why did it just fall in the pot and die?

The next person to eat out of that pottery may catch the disease, may catch whatever this animal had. Nobody would have known that. And God didn't have to explain it. He was giving it for their own good.

He was like, I don't have to explain myself. These things are for your own good. If a dead thing falls into a pot, break the pot. Guess what? I've been to the Holy Land about 12 times, I guess. I've dug in excavations with the Israeli Antiquities Authority.

I've been all over the world, but I've never seen more pottery, broken pottery, than in Israel. It's everywhere. It's everywhere. Everywhere you step, you're picking up shards and fragments of pottery.

Nine times out, no, 99 times out of 100, it's unglazed. So, was God caring for the Israelites by giving them these simple instructions? I believe so. I believe that the Bible knows best. It certainly is scientific in the command to break the pot.

And that's not all. We also see separating diseased people from camps. All right, wait a second. What have we got going on in the world today? All right. What we actually see are separating healthy people, are quarantining healthy people, keeping healthy people back.

Not quarantining just the diseased, but quarantining healthy people as well. And I think that that may be a grave mistake when it comes to our economy. I think it may be a grave mistake when it comes to the future of society.

And I think that has a lot of implications. We're seeing things playing out right now in the world, where if we just went back to the Bible, it says, okay, if somebody has a sickness, a disease, it's clear, separate them away from the healthy, keep them for an extended period of time, observe them, and if they get better, then they can return to society.

There's a lot of wisdom to be found in the Bible. Now, mind you, up until the 1800s, these people, Semmelweis, Louis Pasteur, they were mocked. This was during a time when doctors would take pride in wearing filthy operating gowns full of the blood and bodily fluids of their past patients, right, because it made them look like they had more experience.

And we know, now we know all of these, it's disgusting. They were passing along the diseases to their next patient and they had no clue. And yet the Bible said, wash in running water. The Bible said, break the pot.

The Bible said, separate the disease from without the camp. The Bible knows best. Again, scientific in every aspect. Alright, so this is a short read. We're just going through as many as we can today and we'll call it quits as soon as we run out of time.

But we've gone through a number of verses just so far. We've seen that it is scientifically accurate in every way. There's a good reason for that. Let's talk about Job 26. Job 26, these are all various verses found scattered throughout the scripture.

We're not talking about just Genesis. We're not talking about just one book of the Bible, verses scattered throughout, we've talked about. Jeremiah, we've done Job, we've done Leviticus, we've done Genesis.

Job says that God stretches out the north over the empty place and he hangs the earth upon nothing. Alright. Does the Bible know best? There are a lot of ancient cultures that believed that the earth was a flat disk.

Yeah, there's a big flat earth movement that went on a few years ago. It's died down a good bit, but I took the brunt of the force because of my interest in astronomy, of course. But I know all too well that these people are very, very sold on the idea of a flat earth.

The idea of a flat earth came from ancient Hindu belief. It was a pagan belief. And they believe that the earth was a flat disk, basically like a pancake, sitting on top of a bunch of giant elephants.

And these giant elephants were all standing on top of a giant turtle and that giant turtle is floating in a giant pool of water. Sounds fanciful. But again, this is what some ancient cultures believe.

They believed in a flat earth. What did Job say? He hangs the earth upon nothing. All right, I'm going to go to a slide here. What do we see? What do we see? What is science shown us? Science has actually shown us observable, repeatable data has been brought back from satellites and from spacecraft and all sorts of things, showing us that earth is suspended on nothing with the blackness of space all around.

I mean, think about the description. He hangs the earth upon nothing. And you look at this beautiful place perfectly positioned for life with the blackness of space all around. And he loves us so much.

He's given us an abundance of things on this planet for our own good. And so often we take those things for granted. So again, the Bible knows best. We've got good scientific data for all of these things taking place.

Now let's go to another one. This is in Job as well. Many of you who are familiar with creation writings will be familiar with this one. It talks about behemoth. It says, Behold, now behemoth, which I made with thee.

He eateth grass as an ox. His strength is in his loins. His force is in the navel of his belly. Many Bible commentators, they were trying to figure out what this animal was. So they said, well, maybe it's an elephant.

Maybe it's a hippopotamus. Again, most of these Bible commentators were writing these commentaries before modern scientific discovery. I'm going to be leading a paleontological tour in Kansas in the Niobrara Formation in a matter of weeks.

In fact, I know we've got some of the people watching with us who are going to participate on that and learn about digging up giant bones that actually points back to a global flood. Alright, so a lot of the Bible commentators had never seen a dinosaur before.

So they said, maybe it's got a lot of strength in its belly. Maybe it's an elephant. Maybe it's a hippo. Of course, completely ignoring the portion of the passage that says that this creature moves his tail like a cedar tree.

Alright, it's not an elephant. It's not a hippopotamus. So what is it? Well, even in the last, I would say, eight years, there have been astounding discoveries in Argentina. Dreadnoughtus, the titanosaurian sauropod.

Many specimens of these giant creatures have been found, some of them over 100 feet long from head to tail with giant, giant tails. Similar to this creature right here, a sauropod dinosaur. Could that have swayed its tail like a cedar tree?

Absolutely. Absolutely. So just because we don't see an animal alive today that sways its tail like a cedar tree, you don't automatically assume that the Bible is false. You don't automatically assume that it's some other creature that maybe the Bible just exaggerated a little bit.

No, the Bible has stood the test of time. God's Word has stood the test of time. So if it says that there was a creature, giant creature, behemoth, that had a ton of strength in his belly that swayed its tail like a cedar tree, you know what?

It's pretty safe to bet that there was a creature that was giant, had a lot of strength in his belly, and swayed its tail like a cedar tree. What do we find? We're finding these creatures just within the last hundred years in abundance, and the largest ones just within the last few years.

So in other words, paleontology, science, is observing things that the Bible already told us about. In other words, the Bible knows best. Just one more verse scientifically backed up. Now, let me point out, do we need these verses to be scientifically backed up for them to be true?

Absolutely not. The Word of God is true, no matter whether science decides to back it up or not. Science has to catch up to God's Word. What I'm showing you today, I'm hoping that you take little bits and pieces of these, that you share them with your co-workers, that you share them with a skeptic that you're trying to have a conversation with, because these little things, I call them faith builders, you can use these little faith builders to show people who are somewhat sitting on the fence or completely opposed to a biblical worldview that, listen, there is actually evidence all out there, and it's evidence in abundance.

All right, so 2 Peter talks about a world that was overflowed with water and perished, and this global flood account, you actually read details about it in Genesis 6 and the next few chapters. All right, if you look at Genesis 6 and you read it, the first thing you notice is it reads like a historical account.

You've got dates and times and ages, the ages of Noah. You've got the day when the water started. You've got all of these associations. You've got the dimensions of the ark. So many details that you don't find in fairy tales.

So many details that you don't find in most of the flood legends, and there are many, many flood legends, which is no accident. Those flood legends all are because it had a serious impact on people. People all took away and started spreading the word that there was a giant flood in the past.

But only one of those accounts holds the historical detail, and that's what we find in the Word of God. Okay, so it describes this global flood, a catastrophe, which literally reshaped the planet. So if there was a flood like this, well, there should be a lot of evidence.

Does the Bible know best? All right, that's the reason I love that phrase. Does the Bible know best? Yes, it does, because the Father knows best, and the Bible is the inspired Word of God, not written by mere men, but inspired to mere men so that they would write down what was entirely accurate scientifically, historically, prophetically, and when it comes to the gospel.

That's the reason this is so crucial and so important. All right, so small scale catastrophism has been observed to form geological formations really, really rapidly. I mean, you might talk about the miniature canyon that was formed after the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.

So in 1980 Mount St. Helens erupted. This is the 40th year anniversary right now. And two years after the initial eruption, which laid down layer after layer after layer of mud and volcanic debris and ash, right, there was a smaller eruption and it caused this mudslide to eat through all of those layers and form a canyon very quickly in a matter of hours at Mount St. Helens, observable, demonstrable, that we could see happen with our own eyes.

That we could measure with instruments. And it actually matches some of the patterns that we see in the rest of geology. Now that's evidence of catastrophic event with massive amounts of pressure, heat, and still pliable sedimentary layers.

Let me give you an example. All right, and I don't have it with me. I should have prepared for this, but one of my favorite things to tell people to do is take a little piece of plywood, just cut a little strip of plywood.

Plywood is like laminated wood. It's basically different layers of wood all glued together so it's hardened, solidified. All right, if those layers were not glued together, well, they would be somewhat pliable, but because they're all glued together like that, it makes them really, really hard.

All right, well, you find rock layers all over the earth with smooth bends and curves. Let me show you a picture of one. I was in British Columbia on a one week speaking tour a few years ago, and a man came up to me afterwards.

He said, there's an example of this right up the road, and he gave me this picture that he had taken along a road cut. Check this out. Look at this. It's so smooth. It's so, it's so fluid. And yet, if you were to take a piece of plywood, a little strip of plywood, same thing, instead of rock layers all cemented together, turned to stone, it's layers of hardened wood glued together, turned into a very solid piece.

All right, take that piece of plywood and start to bend it into the shape that you just saw. Before you're able to bend it that much, that plywood, and I do this example in front of audiences, thousands of people sometimes, and people laugh when they see how simple this is, right?

Take it, bend it into a smooth shape, just like you saw. Before it gets this far, it snaps, it splinters right down the middle. Boom. Okay. And then I tell people, let's do real science. Let's try it again.

So I take the half of the piece that I just cut off, and I start to try to bend that into the smooth, pliable shape that we see in rocks. Boom, it snaps right down the middle. Doesn't bend at all. And then I take that half of that piece, and I do it again.

You know what? We've just done a repeatable, observable, demonstrable experiment, real science, that shows that hardened layers, solidified like that, splinter, snap, crack, snap, crackle, pop. All right, they do not bend like we see rock layers bending in the geological record.

So how did the rock layers bend? Well, they were bent while they were still pliable. In other words, mud layers, layers of sediment, mud, sand, silt, and other debris, right, lay down very quickly, layer after layer after layer, sometimes in miles thick in some places.

And then they started to buckle and the earth started to move and push on these things before those layers hardened, to which an atheistic geologist will reply, ah, yes, David, you're right. You're right.

You see, these things do have to be, have an extreme amount of pressure before they bend. But if you thrust these layers several miles deep, well then the heat will heat these layers up, and then you can bend them.

And then over the next millions and millions of years, then the layers just re-expose themselves, and now we see them bent. The problem is, if you do that and exert those kinds of pressures and heat to these sedimentary water lane flood layers, I might add, they will not be sedimentary any longer.

They'll be metamorphic or igneous, right? They'll be fired up. They will be transformed by the tremendous amount of heat. They're not going to be sedimentary. They're not going to look like that. So the only way to get these types of layers that we see all throughout the world is to bend these layers while they are still soft and pliable before they lithify, before they harden.

Wonderful proofs of just what Second Peter was talking about, a flood. Not only a flood, a global flood, because we find these smooth layers in British Columbia, Canada, the picture I just showed you, we find them all over the earth.

It's also proof that Genesis 6 is a historical account of that flood, because we see all of the data there. It says that the fountains of the great deep broke open and tremendous amounts of mud, sand, and silt and sediments would have then been washed across the pre-flood continents in tsunami-like waves.

The mechanism is all there to produce exactly what we see in the geological record all around the earth. So again, the Bible knows best, even when it comes to a global flood. All right, let's look at another one.

So far, we're doing pretty good because everywhere we look, we're seeing these clues that point back to biblical authority and biblical inspiration, divine inspiration. Isaiah 27 talks about another dragon.

It's called Leviathan, and it lives in the sea. Job 41 says, Canst thou draw out Leviathan with an hook? None is so fierce that dare stir him up, his breath kindle with coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth, to which many people say, David, you've really lost it.

You had me up to this point. But you're talking about a fire-breathing dragon. We all know fire-breathing dragons are the things of fairy tales. They don't exist. So does the Bible know best? It does sound a bit like fantasy, because I've never seen a fire-breathing dragon.

That doesn't mean it didn't exist. Of course, the bombardier beetle is a modern day example of a creature still living that uses scalding hot chemicals to produce an explosive effect. All right, so basically it has multiple chambers inside of its abdomen, and in those chambers are different chemical components, hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide, usually.

And it's basically when the beetle feels attacked, what it does is it has a cannon in its backside that it can aim. And it aims that cannon at its attacker, whether it's an ant or a spider or something like that, aims it precisely in the correct location, shoots these two different chemical components into a third chamber with a catalyst, starts a chemical reaction, and it literally explodes scalding hot chemicals out of its backside and it repels the attacker.

The best way to show you that is to, I brought a little video. A friend of mine actually filmed one of these things firing. And let me see if I can make this work. Check this out. All right, so you see it?

Boom, right there. Just that quick. I'm going to do it one more time. Check this out. And it feels threatened and boom, right there. Precisely at the right point at the right time instantaneously. But that was 30 frames a second right there, what you just saw.