Hubble Reveals Creation by an Awe-Inspiring Power

Author:J. Paul Hutchins [Hutchins, J. Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Imagination Publishing-Orlando
Published: 2012-07-01T05:00:00+00:00

Learning From the Experts

As you gaze up at the sky, you notice an eagle high above with its wings spread wide as it glides effortlessly along the wind current; you dream of flying just like that. You think of how you could traverse the landscape from high above to get a better perspective of the countryside. You think of the exhilaration you would experience as you dive from high above, then glide down across the treestops before soaring up once again to breathtaking heights.

Perhaps your thoughts are not much different from those of Orville and Wilber Wright as their observations of birds’ aerodynamics braided with their imagination to discover the mechanics of the first airplane. Due to man’s superior mind and imagination, birds are no match for man’s modern-day flying machines, yet aeronautical engineers still study them to learn more secrets from their physiology and natural flying abilities.

If it were not for these intriguing creatures, the Hubble telescope most likely would not exist and you would not be witnessing the Grand Drama it is now recording. There is thought to be about 10,000 living species of birds, and over one million insects of every shape and form. Some are so strange and unique we have yet to discover their purpose. From his beginning, man has been the student of countless creatures that inhabit this Earth with us. They teach us how to do some of the things they do naturally, like flying!

When we look closely, it is amazing what we are learning from even very small creatures. Take, for example, the monarch butterfly which has a brain about the size of the tip of a ballpoint pen. Yet the monarch butterfly migrates as far as 1,800 miles from Canada to a small patch of forest in Mexico. How does it find its way?

We have discovered that monarch butterflies have a solar compass that is fixed to the position of the Sun. These insects also use a remarkably accurate circadian clock— a biological function based on the twenty-four-hour day—to make corrections for the Sun’s movement. As scientists study these tiny creatures’ inner timepiece, they hope to gain further insight into the circadian clocks of humans and animals. This may help us to better understand time and space.

The fastest of all flying animals is the peregrine falcon, which has been recorded flying at speeds in excess of 200 miles per hour when diving. Most flying animals need to travel forward at a minimum speed to stay aloft. However, some creatures can stay in the same spot, known as hovering, either by rapidly flapping the wings, as do hummingbirds, hoverflies, and dragonflies. The bar-headed goose, Anser indicus, is one of the world’s highest flying birds, having been seen at an altitude of 33,382 feet.

When you look at the beautifully colored macaw to the left, do you reason that it got its colors through chance or do you recognize that it was designed that way for its survival and for our pleasure to look

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