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| Volume 26 Number 4 April 2024 |
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The Master Designer
Makes a Better Roof
David P. Everson
In the December 2002 National Geographic, Jennifer Steinberg in an article entitled “A Mist Opportunity,” details how architects learned from a bug how to build a better fog-collecting roof for houses in desert areas. In the article, she quotes Oxford biologist Andrew Parker who says, “Animals are master engineers, so we copy them.”
Now let me get this straight; “animals are master engineers,” even though according to most scientists, they evolved by natural selection or evolution. Therefore, they could not control what they turned out like; it was just environmental pressure causing mutations that brought about these changes! Yet, this recognized Oxford biologists says that “animals are master engineers.” How can animals that are just responding to random environmental pressure due to natural selection engineer their own structure?
What is the thing that has been noted by human engineers? Well, it is a beetle! After observing the Sterocara beetle of the deserts of Namibia, human engineers have built roofs that can collect water from fog. God created the Sterocara beetle with a bumpy shell that can collect water in this very dry environment from the frequent fogs that cover its desert home.
It appears that this scientist believes that this insect decided how to engineer and then built its own shell. How Absurd! It is especially absurd since, I’m sure, he believes the source of all changes in this beetle, as in all nature, is due to mindless organic evolution. Without God, none of this would be possible, but that answer is not acceptable to the scientific community. Therefore, it continues to take positions that make the scientific community seem less than rational or intellectual.
These scientists, like almost every scientist in the world today, would accept any answer that leaves God out the picture. It is certainly much easier to believe that a supernatural Creator, who is All Knowing, was able to engineer the best possible shell for the beetle to allow it to survive in its desert home. Let us be very careful to be thankful, amazed and humbled by the creative ability of the Master Designer.
