We drove through Quebec yesterday and into Ontario today. On the way we saw flocks of Canada Geese assembling in the northern skies and getting ready for the big move south. Some were landing in fields that had been recently harvested. Canada geese in quantities the likes of which we have never seen before, and may never see again. Hundreds upon hundreds of them -- perhaps thousands.
The coordinated flapping of their wings created a white flash effect as the morning sun caught the muscular, confident motion of their wings.
It was a wonder to behold.
The V-shaped progression of a flock of Canada geese is an amazing sight. How do they know to travel in a "V"? What drives them to go south for the winter, and then return north again in the spring? How do they know what route to take? How do they know that a collective approach to life is better than going it alone?
The collective behaviour of the Canada Geese has all the earmarks of planned intelligence. The book of Job talks about the wisdom that God used in creation, the intelligence that he built in to creatures. It should be read along side of Genesis.
The darwinist will say that this apparent intelligence is just an illusion; living creatures like geese just happened to evolve from slime, and geese that somehow became smart enough to travel in "V"s did better than geese that didn't; geese that learned to travel south did better than those who stayed in the frozen north, etc. I'm not sure what their answer would be as to why the geese then return north again in the spring, but I'm sure they would have one.
I find this kind of reductionist thinking unsatisfactory. It is an insufficient explanation and inadequate depiction of reality.
Intuitively I discern an intelligence at work in the design of geese to travel in patterns like they do. Just like I also see an intelligence at work in the encoding and transmission of genetic information in geese and other living creatures. This is an evidence of active intelligence that darwinists are forced to deny.
The heavens declare the glory of God.
And Canada Geese are doing their part.
So, to all of God's creatures out there, I would say, "honk if you love Jesus".
http://www.hww.ca/hww2.asp?id=35
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Branta_canadensis.html
Colossians 1:15-16.
3 comments:
The V-formation provides the optimum reduction in turbulence as each goose flies slightly behind its predecessor similar to bikers in the Tour de France and also provides each goose with optimum sight lines of the other geese in the formation. It can be emulated easily on a computer as a solution o these criteria. There is no god required.
There never is.
Also -- no God required to create the universe from nothing, no God required to create life from non-life, no God required to create consciousness from non-consciousness, no God required to create moral sense from atoms and molecules, no God required to set the sun and the moon in their places, provide oxygen, light, warmth, air, food, etc.
The universe is just one marvelous, uncreated wonder.
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