Preface

PREFACE

In the Bible, in the book of Job 12: 7 we are challenged to “ask the animals” with the promise that they will “teach us”. How can we do that? By either research or observation, we are essentially asking the animals how they are designed. We can let the animals tell us if they are purposefully created or the result of a random accident by noting how they look and studying how they live.

After researching a few facets of any animal, the animal “taught” me something far different than what the television was blaring day after day. For example, when I learned that the female emperor penguin abandons its egg for months, returning just in time to feed the newborn chick, the penguin was my teacher.  It told me to ask, “Who sets so precise a clock?” The Monarch Butterfly taught me to question: “Who could program a system so that an offspring four generations later knows to migrate to the same tree in Mexico?” I was even the student of a scarab beetle when I learned it navigates using the night stars as a compass. The beetle prompted me to inquire: “Who gave me eyes to the stars?” 

The elaborate design and astounding system of each animal poses a compelling question: Who made this? Job 12:9 states the animals will answer with a rhetorical question: “Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?”  

The purpose of this blog is to reveal some of what you may be taught if you are willing to be “schooled” by animals.