Such A Variety Of Instincts Among God’s Creatures
Posted: Tuesday, January 03, 2012
by Joel Hendon
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It seems odd that so many people who have decided to discount God in their lives can convince themselves of natural causes of instincts in insects and animals. Some so daedal, yet obscure, as to virtually eliminate any natural learning factors.
As the human newborn has a natural instinct to suckle without any training whatsoever, so the other mammal young have a ready knowledge of this also and even in most, where to find their feed source.
It is reported that the cabbage caterpillar can identify the Cruciferae plants with precision and even botanists sometimes cannot. The caterpillar will not lay eggs on any other. She apparently chooses them by their smell. We are told that by rubbing some mustard oil on any other plant leaf will fool her into laying eggs on them readily.
Migration of animals has always been a mystery to observers. Ancients once made up ridiculous tales as to what happened to the various species in their leaving before cold weather and returning home in the spring.
Pigeons depend upon vision even though they may be taken to a distant spot caged and then released to return home. They cannot do this when blinded. Consider that as compared to honey bees. Honey bees, regardless of where they may forage for nectar, they can return from there in a perfectly straight line to their hive. Provided, the hive has not been moved, even a few inches. If a new hive is placed in the exact old spot and the old one is set a short distance away, the bee will enter and start to work in the new hive as if nothing is amiss.
Salmon spawn in fresh-water streams, then mature in two to seven years at sea. Generation after generation, they return to the identical home rivulet to spawn in their turn. This seems to be due to a kind of "imprinting." If salmon eggs are switched to other waters, the adults return to the waters where they lived as fry. Hasler believes that fish remember the odors of their natal streams and so find their way back. They cannot do so if their organs of smell are destroyed. Two or three molecules of home water may orient the salmon. Indeed, they can detect a milliliter of beta-phenyl-alcohol in a body of water fifty-eight times as large as Lake Constance. (Instinct: Evan Shute-A Symposium on Creation Vol. IV)
One factor that has baffled scientist is the fact that cattle have been known to stampede in terror upon the arrival of some tiny burrel flies. These flies look much other flies, they do not bite, sting or draw blood. Yet, they lay their eggs on the cows and the eggs are licked off by them and penetrate through the cow’s body and cause boils or abscesses where they escape. This is torture for the cows and they have never seen the flies before. The unsolved question is, of course, how could they have possibly known of the trouble those tiny flies could bring upon them.
There are many, many more amazing instinct features which baffle the mind.
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Wonderful article. I love the research and the absolutely unbelievable aspects of creation. Thanks.Thank you Christofer, I always appreciate your kind comments.
Interesting and enjoyable article--thanksThanks Steve, for reading and commenting on my article. I appreciate it.
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