The myth that science and the Bible are not congruent with each other is a thing of the past. The past couple of decades with new technologies science has been exploding and proving the validity of the Bible. Don’t believe me?
Let’s just look at…
1) A Mammal
2) A bird
3) A reptile
4) A fish
5) An insect
6) A type of flower
1) The Giraffe
If you know anything about me you know that I love talking about giraffes and how wonderfully they’ve been designed. This amazing animal truly has the fingerprint of our creator on it!
Check out this 3-minute video on the necessary safety features that giraffes have just so they can drink water!
https://answersingenesis.org/kids/videos/animals/giraffe/
2) The Woodpecker
Did you know that the woodpecker pecks wood at a rate of 15-16 times a second! This is a rate of fire twice as fast as a machine gun, meaning their heads travel twice the speed of a bullet. This force of stress on the woodpecker's head is equivalent to more than 250 times the force an astronaut experiences when taking off in a rocket.
So how does the woodpecker's brain and beak survive the pecking?
1) The woodpecker's skull is extra reinforced with bone.
2) the woodpecker's bill is stronger than most birds and this keeps its head and beak from being smashed to bits.
3) In most birds, the beak is joined to the cranium which surrounds the brain. But the woodpecker's beak is separated by a sponge-like tissue and this acts as a shock absorber which scientists say far better than anything man has ever created!
4) The woodpecker also has special muscles that pull the braincase away from its beak every time it pecks.
5) and finally for extra protection, the woodpecker also comes with neck muscles that keep its head perfectly straight. This is extremely important because if the woodpecker's head is even slightly off its brain would rip right off its skull.
5 safety features just so when the woodpecker pecks its beak, skull and brain aren't damaged.
Since evolution states that there is no intelligent design and small changes happened over large periods of time how could the woodpecker live to the next evolutionary stage without having all these safety features present and functioning at the same time?
How could this very complex system ever evolve?
3) The Gecko’s Feet
Gecko’s are not only cute but have been amazingly designed! Gecko’s can stick to almost any kind of surface and can run upside down on a ceiling of polished glass without ever falling off. Let’s find out how! 🙂
Using an electron microscope scientists magnified the gecko’s foot 35,000 times! What they found was that each toe had ridges with millions of tiny hairs, each with a tiny suction cup at the end. The hairs with suction cups were 1/10th of a millimeter long with 400-1000 branches on the end of each hair.
Then on the end of each branch is a spatula-like structure less than 1/50,000th of an inch totaling about 3 million per square inch. Researchers freely admit that this was “beyond the limits of human technology.
This amazing design of the gecko’s foot creates a sticking power so great, that the moment it put its foot down it wouldn’t be able to lift it up again. But it just so happens the gecko’s foot is also designed so that the toe joints curl up at the ends. This way he can gradually bend each toe up instead of trying to do it all at once and unsticks him allowing him to move.
It’s been estimated that one gecko lizard has at least 25 million tiny suction cups per toe, with some 500 million overall!
I gotta ask…if evolution is random than how could this very complex sticking power and toe joints ever evolve?
4) The Decoy Fish
There are billions of fish and thousands of different species in our oceans, rivers, lakes and even in our ponds. When looked at closely they all point to a Creator that’s left His fingerprint behind. The decoy fish is just one example:
The decoy fish lives off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii and has a dorsal fin that looks like a small fish. It even has a dot on it where the eye should be. The fin is notched between the 1st and 2nd spine resembling the mouth of a fish. The horizontal bottom of the fin is transparent so it doesn’t appear to be attached to the decoy fish at all.
The decoy fish knows how to use the fin as a lure to catch smaller fish. He does this by moving it in a specially designed routine to attract the fish:
STEP ONE: The decoys fish's dorsal fin goes up and displays the shape of a smaller fish.
STEP TWO: Immediately upon raising the lure to view, the fish stops its gill movements, and slows its breathing.
STEP THREE: The fin lure changes to a deep red color, and a small horizontal area at the base of that fin changes to a transparent see-through band.
STEP FOUR: While the decoy fish remains motionless, it now moves the decoy fin from side to side, and causes that slit (the "mouth") to open and shut!
STEP FIVE: The other fish draws near, curious to see that inviting small fish.
STEP SIX: Suddenly, the decoy fish snaps its prey in one quick movement.
STEP SEVEN: The fin color fades away and the fin is folded down onto the back of the decoy fish.
How could this complex hunting strategy ever evolve? If evolution is random and without intelligence how could the decoy fish have such a perfect “picture” of a fish on its own body?
5) The Large Blue Butterfly
The large blue butterfly probably has one of the most interesting life cycles…
- It starts off as a larva that eventually turns into a caterpillar (nothing special there) but unlike other butterflies, after the first 2 molts it becomes restless and leaves its food source which is the flower tissue and developing seeds from the Marsh Gentian plant.
- The adult butterfly always lays its eggs close to a red ant nest.
Check this out:
The caterpillar gets restless so leaves his food source and drops to the ground. Since the adults lay the eggs near a red ant nest you would think that the ants would jump at the chance to eat a plump caterpillar but they don’t!
When an ant finds it, it starts stoking the caterpillar and not just any spot but the 10th segment of the caterpillar. Somehow the red ants know that stoking there will ooze out a sweet kind of honeydew for the ants to eat.
When there are ants all over the caterpillar, the caterpillar then raises up his hind end and reaches up in the air. This is a signal to the first ant that found him, and for some reason, only the first ant, to gently seize and lift the caterpillar up signaling the other ants to come help carry the caterpillar to their underground nest.
Do the ants take the caterpillar to their nest to eat him? NOPE
The ants actually make a nest for the caterpillar and even feed it some of their own babies (grubs)!
Why do you ask? Well, in exchange for the housing and food the ants get to keep “milking” the caterpillar’s 10th segment for their own food. They are totally DESIGNED for each other. Scientists have tried to harvest this nectar themselves with no luck. Only the touch on an ant’s antenna or feet will yield the nectar.
Soon after the caterpillar makes a cocoon and ~3 weeks later it emerges as a butterfly. Again ants like to eat butterflies but for some reason the ants don’t touch him and he casually crawls out.
I gotta say it…how could this very complex relationship ever evolve? I mean really the first time the caterpillar went to the ground he would have been eaten. And the only way this relationship works is if the adult butterfly lays her eggs near a red ant nest? Evolution can’t explain this but having an intelligent designer does!
6) Let’s Talk Orchids
Orchids use 3 very fascinating strategies to make sure they get pollinated.
1) Sexy Smell
Orchids mimic the sex pheromones or aphrodisiacs of certain insects. They release an irresistible perfume that mimics that of a fertile female insect thereby luring the male insects to them. Overcome by the smell the male insect attempts to mate with the flower. Although they don’t succeed they do pick up quite a bit of pollen that will be used to pollinate the next flower they go to.
What is so amazing is the fact that they are specific in which insect they attract. For example, the Spider Orchid mimics the pheromones of solitary wasps. Although some older wasps have caught on to the ploy the ritual persists and the orchids are mainly pollinated by newly-emerged males.
2) Visual
Not all orchids just rely on smell but others also use visual lures to ensure success. Australia’s Hammer Orchid is a great example of this.
Again the Hammer Orchid targets a specific insect which is the thynnine wasp. In 2012 it was discovered that hammer orchids produce chemicals called pyrazines to lure the male wasps in.
But the Hammer Orchid doesn’t stop there. Each flower has a landing platform called a labellum or lip, which is a modified petal that is shaped like a hammer (hence the name). This labellum resembles the look of a female wasp.
The labellum’s shape also manipulates the male’s mating practice. How does it do this? Well, female thynnine wasps are flightless, so when ready to mate she crawls up a stick to release her pheromones. The male wasp flies down picks her up and they start to mate as he carries her to a food source. When a male goes to mate with the hammer orchid the labellum is mounted on a hinge so when the momentum of the male wasp to grab and fly away makes him swing over, flipping him upside down. He lands on the stigma, ensuring that his pollen load ends up exactly where the orchid needs it.
3) Entrapment
Some orchids go even farther than that…
The Banded Greenhood Orchid Pterostylis Sanguinea targets the fungus gnat. The fungus gnat is attracted to the flower by its scent but when he lands on the labellum to mate his movements cause the labellum to swing up like a drawbridge, shutting him inside a chamber.
It gets out the fungus gnat has to squeeze out which smears the pollen the gnat was carrying on to the orchid’s stigma, and then he picks up a new parcel of pollen for the next flower. To ensure that the orchid doesn’t get pollinated with its own pollen, the gnat’s temporary prison is precisely shaped and lined with angled bristles so the insect can only move in one direction.
Are not orchids amazingly designed or what!?!
Last time I checked, plants didn’t have intellect. And since evolution states everything is random how could this very complex pollinating system ever evolve? It’s just not possible without an intelligent designer behind it.
I hope this has piqued a new interest in the Creation story we are told in Genesis. I know there are a lot of Christians out there that believe in evolution or try to fit the Bible into evolution somehow. I hope you see that we need to view the world through the Bible and not try to see the Bible through the world.
Let’s be honest – if you can’t believe the first page of the Bible why would you read the second page not alone believe in anything else the Bible has to say.
Most kids leave the Church once evolution is taught. Why not teach them the truth before they hear the lies. My kids love when we sit down to talk about how wonderfully made we are as well as everything else on this earth. It’s a great pillar for kids and adults to have especially when they’re pressured to believe other things.
Be happy that God got it right the first time and didn’t need millions and millions of years to get it right!!!
Your Sister in Christ,
Angela
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