Job 11:18 "And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope;
yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety."
Over the years, Creation Moments has brought
you countless examples of plants and animals that appear to have been
designed because they really were designed! Nowhere is this easier to
see than in the design of bird eggs.
As
we mentioned on an earlier program, the shape and coloring of bird eggs
are no accident. God designed them that way for a specific purpose.
Today we're going to mention two other design features seen in some bird
eggs.
The first are the eggs of the African jacana.
These long-legged shorebirds build a flimsy nest that floats on water.
When the male jacana lands in the nest to incubate the eggs, the whole
nest sinks into the water. It's a good thing, then, that God created the
eggs to be waterproof. This is a design feature the eggs must have had
from the very beginning.
Or take the eggs of the common murre. According to BBC Earth,
"The eggshells have cone-like structures that make the eggs
'self-cleaning'." This is useful, they say, because murre colonies are
tightly packed and the eggs get showered in bird droppings. "When water
lands on an egg, its water-repelling shell causes the water to gather
into spherical drops" which then roll off the egg and clean it.
We could mention many other design features of
bird eggs, and we will share these with you in the future. But we close
today's program with praise to the God of creation who cares for all of
His creatures – especially you and me!
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