How Are Hermit Crabs Born? Exploring Crazy Creature Birth Stories
Nat Theo Nature Lessons Rooted in the Bible
Eryn Lynum
4.8 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Discover the incredible water birth of hermit crabs! Today we're exploring the many fascinating ways God's creatures have babies. We'll look at:
- How are hermit crabs born?
- What creature gives birth in a snow fort?
- What creature has its baby while hanging upside down?
- How are human babies different from creature babies?
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Our video of a monarch caterpillar creating its chrysalis
Video of a bat giving birth while hanging upside down
Scriptures Referenced in this Episode:
"You (God) saw my body as it was formed. All the days planned for me were written in your book before I was one day old. God, your thoughts are precious to me. They are so many!" Psalm 139:16-17
“So God created human beings in his image. In the image of God he created them. He created them male and female.” Genesis 1:27
“He has planted eternity in the human heart.” Ecclesiastes 3:11
“Everyone has sinned and fallen short of God’s glorious standard, and all need to be made right with God by his grace, which is a free gift. They need to be made free from sin through Jesus Christ.” Romans 3:23-24
“If you declare with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and if you believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, you will be saved. We believe with our hearts, and so we are made right with God. And we declare with our mouths that we believe, and so we are saved.” Romans 10:9-10
Terms introduced in this lesson:
Captivity: Creatures not living in the wild, usually kept as pets.
Soul: Who we are inside. We cannot see our touch our soul. It is eternal (lasts forever).
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| 0:00.0 | Have you downloaded the free coloring sheet for this lesson? |
| 0:03.9 | Click the link in our show notes to print and color along as you listen. |
| 0:08.0 | And join the Nat Theo Club at the link in our show notes to receive a full lesson and |
| 0:12.6 | activity guide and a bonus video of content every single week so you can dive deeper into |
| 0:18.6 | each lesson. You also get access to all of our back content |
| 0:22.6 | when you join. Explore God's wild and wonderful world in the Nat Theo Club at Aaron Linem.com |
| 0:29.0 | slash club or at the link in our show notes. Welcome to the Nat The Theo podcast, where we explore nature, the Bible, and what both of them show us about |
| 0:46.8 | our creator, God, who made this wild and wonderful world. I'm your host, Aaron Linum. I'm a certified master naturalist, |
| 0:58.8 | Bible teacher, and author. And I am so excited to explore God's word and his created world with you. |
| 1:09.8 | Hey listeners, we have a free coloring page to go along with today's lesson and you can |
| 1:15.8 | download that at the link in today's show notes. |
| 1:18.5 | And we have a full lesson guide available for Nat Theo Club members. |
| 1:24.0 | What is the Nat Theo Club? |
| 1:25.9 | It is a fun monthly subscription that supports our show and future episodes. |
| 1:31.3 | And when you join, you receive a full lesson and activity guide to go along with every episode when it airs. |
| 1:39.1 | Plus a fun welcome letter and Nat Theo sticker pack. |
| 1:43.2 | You can learn more about the Nat Theo Club and join at the link |
| 1:46.6 | in today's show notes. Before we get started with today's lesson, I want to share something really |
| 1:53.4 | neat with you. Do you remember in episode 10 when we answered the question if butterflies can |
| 2:00.3 | remember being caterpillars. |
| 2:02.8 | And we learned all about how a caterpillar enters a chrysalis and becomes a butterfly. |
| 2:09.3 | Well, my family got to watch this process this past weekend. |
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