For the Birds: (A great time to appreciate them)
Ah another great study speaking of God’s great Creative Power. One of the most interesting points was equating His creative ability to one of his expressions of power! Anyway, today here are some more facts to help you marvel at the creative works and Power manifest in there creation.
Take the following facts:
Speaking of Birds: The Red Knot is a Bird which flies from Brazil to the Artic every year. During this flight, it will fly nonstop for a portion from Brazil to New Jersey. Flying for 130-190 hours nonstop. The only thing it eats in Jersey is Horseshoe crab eggs, which happens to be at the exact time, available. What an amazing arrangement (well except for unborn Horseshoe crabs).
Speaking of almost Birds (Butterflies) (And you know I'd be talkin about Butterflies): The Monarch spends the winter in the same wintering grounds in California and Mexico every year. Some travel 2000 miles in their life. But it is there life cycle that is amazing:
1) The butterfly spend the winter in trees in Mexico
2) This generation flies north, and lays eggs and dies very soon.
3) In 4 days the eggs hatch; caterpillar lives 9-14 days. Then in 15 days, transform to a butterfly. They only live a few weeks.
4) This swells the population, and the final summer generation will live 6-9 months (so if you are a monarch, you definitely want to be born late in the summer).
5) These then fly south, and wait at the gulf coast until a cold front comes through. They then fly non stop 500 miles across the Gulf Coast in one day.
Speaking of Whales: Some whales migrate over 6000 miles
Yes amazing is how precise and exact everything is. Its funny humans often don’t know what there purpose should be, or what they want to do or be. But not the rest of creation: I mean animals do specific jobs…. They instinctivly know what they are to do. We don’t’ have Bees with Identity crisis. Now what am I going to do… I think I’ll be a termite, no a fly… (and thank goodness). Yes what power of creative works!
Comments
I remember seeing a special about 3 years ago on migratory birds. It was very up to date and said scientists discovered that these migratory birds which travel so many miles know when/where to land to get their food at cruical times, even when clouds are obscuring the ground below and they can't see anything. The thing is, the ornithologist they interviewed said the information they need to get the food or where to land is not just instinct alone or learned, it is "programmed" somehow right into their DNA based on recent genetic studies. He said it's a "mystery" as to how the information which is so precise got encoded into the DNA. Also, a few weeks ago I was watching a dinosaur docu on the Discovery channel ("Dinosaur Planet" I believe, multipart), it was one of their computer animation recreation specials focusing on a saltasaurus (like a brontasaurus but from Brazil) following her life from birth to adulthood. In the part of the special where she hatches, the narrator said something to the effect of "After hatching, they are programmed to immediately...." and I thought to myself, "Really? Programmed by *who*?" Also I have always loved the chapter in Job that deals with leviathan (crocodile), the language Jah uses is really something. "It laughs at the rattling of a javelin." Best real life poetry ever. Also, look up the verse (wish I remembered it now at the office) dealing with the auroch (giant wild bull) from a few weeks ago. Jehovah basically says "Will you try to tame it for your service? It will furough (plow) low plains after you!" Almost humorous but really puts you in your place. -Dylan
Posted by: Dylan | May 18, 2004 09:33 AM
Yes there was this one time when me and my dad spent about an hour watching a spider on our back porch make a spider web, and the whole time we were of course thinking jehovah is too amazing.
Posted by: judi | May 18, 2004 11:14 AM
Birds navigation is amazing, there are various ways scientist have determined they can keep up with their location:
1 By Sun
2 By ultravilot radiation (if its cloudy)
3 by constolations at night
4 magnetic materials in the head of some birds (built in compase)
5 smell
6 sound (low frequency of oceans hundreds of miles away)
Really amazing
Posted by: itzjerm | May 18, 2004 11:37 AM
Yeah, the part about the Blue Whale was pretty cool. It really showed how powerful and intelligent Jehovah really is. It also shows how stupid humans can be, as evolutionists believe the Whale evolved from a dog.... well, actually, they believe a mammal (that was very similar to a whale but not a whale) that swam in the ocean decided it wanted to walk on land like all the "fish" that were suddenly migrating out of the ocean (and yes, I've heard this a hundred times, but this was the wierdest version of this story I ever got) and then, after millions of years of evolution and becoming a four-legged dog-like mammal it decided it missed the ocean and wanted to go back - which is, of course (according to evolutionists), a major reason for whales to beach themselves today, because now they decided they want to be back on land. Stupid people.....
Posted by: keats | May 18, 2004 11:44 AM
Yeah, I really enjoyed the bookstudy last night. I was really impressed about the bird with the 11ft wings!!! I was like WoW!
Posted by: Princess Shanae | May 18, 2004 01:52 PM
I'd like to second what keats said. I've thought the same thing many times. I mean, they always say "This animal had to gradually 'adapt' to its surroundings over millions of years so it could get more food/avoid predators" when what they're really trying to get us to believe is the animal's subsequent ancestors *were somehow able to gradually rewrite their DNA* which A)Isn't biologically possible since DNA is a strictly programmed code and mutations are never beneficial and B)if it's just "chance" then how are the animals able to ADAPT? Their surroundings which were no longer satisfactory just kind of subconsciously egged them on, huh? Makes your head spin.
Posted by: Dylan | May 18, 2004 03:41 PM
I wrote a little essay on that evolution/creation stuff a while ago for an old website. You guys may want to look into a book called Darwin's Black Box by Micheal J Behe. Very interesting with countless good points.
Posted by: Captain Jonathan!!! | May 19, 2004 06:24 AM