The Cockroach's Sweet Tooth

By David P. Everson

It has been discovered, much to the dismay of the homeowner whose dwelling has been infested by these disease carrying insects, that the roach can tell the difference between types of foods, specifically sugars. The roach shows definite preference for fructose over glucose. The source of food used to attract the roach to bait has normally been glucose and some of the roaches have shown no interest in falling for it! Glucose is a type of sugar produced by plants which is then converted into other sugar molecules. The sugar fructose is found in plants also, but is stored in fruits. It would appear that God has created the roach with a unique ability concerning its sense of taste - the ability to discriminate between the types of sugar. That something as lowly as the roach has such an ability is most incredible if God is left out of the explanation.

The presence of these fossilized tropical trees in Antarctica that were buried in a flood give proof to the biblical account. Indeed there is much about that world we can never know for sure, because "The world that then was . . . perished" (2 Peter 3:6). But, we do not have to sit by and accept the criticism from so-called "learned men" when they pronounce that their interpretation of the earth is right and our interpretation as taken from the Bible is so much myth. The Bible is again right when it says, "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools" (Romans 1:22). Let us not forsake our belief in the Bible because of those who say we have no evidence!