Troy L Callaway, MS, LMFT

02/28/2026

Walk into Carlisle Cathedral and you’ll find the tomb of Bishop Richard Bell, dated to the late 1400s. Set directly into the floor slab of the tomb is a detailed brass engraving. At first glance, it appears to show ordinary animals. But look closer. Alongside clearly recognizable creatures like fish, birds, and dogs are two that stand apart. Long necks. Long tails. Legs positioned directly beneath the body, not sprawled like a crocodile. These are structured, anatomical forms.

Incredibly, these carvings resemble high-hipped sauropods, not the high-shouldered versions often depicted. One even shows a tail tip with a k**b and spikes. That detail matters. Fossil experts didn’t formally identify sauropod tail clubs like this until 1989 with Shunosaurus in China. Yet this feature appears in a brass engraving made centuries earlier.

Keep in mind the same brass includes accurate carvings of modern known animals. Nothing childish. Nothing fanciful. The artist clearly knew how to represent real creatures. So why suddenly invent two oddly specific, anatomically consistent reptiles that match dinosaur features?

The answer is straightforward. Before the word “dinosaur” existed, people described what they saw. These were not myths pulled from imagination. They were observations recorded in the language available at the time.

This fits with a biblical worldview. God created land animals alongside man.

02/27/2026

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02/26/2026

📜🔥 LET’S TALK MANUSCRIPT EVIDENCE…

Historians base ancient history on surviving documents.

Now compare this:

⚔️ Genghis Khan — Fewer than 10 surviving manuscripts. Earliest accounts written about 13 years after his death, but the earliest surviving copy comes roughly 200 years later.

🏛️ Alexander the Great — Dozens of manuscripts. The earliest surviving copies date 300–500 years after his death.

🦅 Julius Caesar — Around 250 manuscripts. The earliest copies we have are about 900 years after his death.

✝️ Jesus Christ — Over 25,000 New Testament manuscripts in various languages. Some fragments are dated within 30–50 years of His resurrection.

Let that sink in.

The most documented person in the ancient world…
is the One people question the most.

If historians confidently accept the existence of emperors, conquerors, and kings based on far fewer and later documents…

Why is Jesus treated differently?

📖 The manuscript evidence for Christ is not weak.
It is unmatched in the ancient world.

02/24/2026

SANDSTONE PILLARS FROM THE FLOOD

Hidden deep within the canyon country of southern Utah lies a striking yet often overlooked treasure, Kodachrome Basin State Park. In the park within just two square miles stand 67 towering sandstone pillars, some rising only a few feet, others shooting up an astonishing 172 feet above the valley floor, silent monuments that demand an explanation.

For years, these formations were brushed aside as little more than geological curiosities. But that changed when similar structures around the world were found associated with oil deposits, forcing scientists to take a closer look. The evidence points to a dramatic process. Water-saturated sand layers buried deep underground suddenly became pressurized, liquefied, and forced their way upward through overlying rock. These sand injectites then hardened in place. Over time, the surrounding sediment eroded away, leaving behind the towering pillars we see today.

But step back and consider what that actually requires. Not slow, gradual change over ages, but immense volumes of water, rapid deposition, and sudden, forceful movement of sediment. These pillars are not whispers of deep time. They are fingerprints of catastrophe. A powerful, global event capable of laying down massive sediment layers in a short time. Exactly what Scripture records. The Flood of Noah stands as the consistent, coherent explanation for what we see carved into that basin today.

02/24/2026

SHOTS FIRED IN THE COW PASTURE

Every single day, in cow pastures across the world, shots are fired. Most people never see them. That’s because they come from a fungus barely half a foot tall called Pilobolus.

This remarkable fungus lives on fresh dung from grass eating animals like cows, horses, deer, and other grazers. Pilobolus plays a vital role by breaking down dead and decaying matter. It begins as tiny spores that grow into thin threads feeding on manure. As it matures, a stalk rises upward, and near the top a swollen bulb forms, shaped like a miniature cannon barrel. Inside that bulb sit the spores. When morning sunlight hits it, the bulb fills with water. Pressure builds. At just the right moment, it bursts, firing the spores with astonishing precision up to six feet away.

That distance is not accidental. Cows will not eat grass anywhere near their own manure. They avoid it instinctively. So the spores must land far enough away on clean blades of grass to be eaten. Once consumed, the spores survive the cow’s digestive system thanks to a protective coating, then pass through and are deposited in fresh dung. The cycle begins again, perfectly timed and perfectly balanced.

Now consider what would happen if even one part failed. If the spores did not launch far enough, they would never be eaten. If they lacked protection, digestion would destroy them. If the fungus did not exist to decompose manure, fields would be buried in waste. This system only works because every part depends on every other part. That is irreducible complexity. That is design.

This is not random. This is not accidental. This is God’s brilliance on display in what seems like a mundane problem. I can almost picture God smiling as we slowly discover how precisely He solved it, revealing layers of wisdom in a creation He spoke into existence just thousands of years ago.

“He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth.”
Psalm 104:14

02/24/2026

02/24/2026

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Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering how cells recycle themselves through a process called autophagy 😊

Autophagy, which means “self-eating,” is the body’s way of cleaning out damaged parts of cells and reusing them for energy, especially when food is scarce.

When the body doesn’t receive enough nutrients, cells break down and recycle their own worn-out components to survive.

Ohsumi identified the key genes that control this process by studying yeast cells, and his work helped scientists understand how autophagy affects diseases like cancer, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s.

His discovery changed how researchers view cell survival and health, proving that even at a microscopic level, the body has its own built-in recycling system.

02/22/2026

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