We could learn alot from the animals that people say just happened?

Question

Do you know the chances of things like this just happening?
god didn't just throw this planet out there he took great care to make it beautiful and fascinating.

Ingenious things: Bats that use sonar. Eels that make electricity. Gulls that desalt seawater. Wasps that make paper. Termites that install air conditioners. Octopuses that travel by jet propulsion. Birds that do weaving or build apartment houses. Ants that do gardening or sewing, or keep livestock. Fireflies with built-in flashlights. We marvel at such ingenuity. then we say it just happened by accident?

How many truly believe that all these things happened by accident?

Answer 1

If all these things happened by trial and error, where is the evidence of the errors? there must have been many more errors than success stories when it came to mutations leading to evolutionary change, yet in all the fossil record which is used to back up evolution there is no evidence for anything but perfectly formed creatures which appear suddenly.

Here are some more examples - gecko's feet which can stick to anything but teflon, scientists have found than the configuration of the patterns on their feet actually take advantage of electromagnetic forces to allow them to stick to surfaces. The fins of humpback whales which have special configurations of ridges on their leading edges which allow them to turn in tighter circles than their size should allow for. Fish which secrete millions of mirror crystals sandwiched between layers of scales which are spaced the perfect distance apart so that they reflect just the right amount of light to be able to blend in with the background of the ocean.The teeth of sharks which constantly get replaced by new ones so that they always have a fresh set. The ability of all sort of animals to migrate or home in on a place on the planet thousands of miles away. Symbiotic relationships between plants and instects, etc etc etc.

There is no excuse for believing these came about by anything but creation, if you really look into it.

Answer 2

There was no accident about it. I find it much harder to believe that god made each thing individually. It would make no sense to make two different organisms that do the exact thing but with a different body part (the panda's thumb).

All of the behaviors that you talk about make it seem that the animals are concious of their activities. They are all instinctual. The animal does not know why they are doing the activity. They just survive. Humans are the only animal with rationalizing and cognitive thought. We can think why and what if. Animals don't. They go on instinct and learned behavior.

We can never know the chances of things just happening because they only happen once. We will never what would have happend. Only what has happened.

Answer 3

Not by accident! By survival of the fittest - those traits you listed gave those animals some advantage in their environment, and they were more successful in producing offspring. So the ones who didn't have those traits didn't get the opportunity to pass their genes along. What we see today are the winners, and you are right - they are beautiful and fascinating!