Humans are amazing creatures. Sure, we can be incredibly stupid, both individually and as a race. But many individuals down through history have been absolute geniuses. Humans have invented farming, incubators, thermometers, desalinization, paper, air conditioning, flight (at speeds faster than sound; even into space and back), jet propulsion, computers, compasses, underwater breathing and submarines, sonar, antifreeze, incredibly accurate clocks, electricity, lighting, and more.
Or should we say humans merely copied these innovations?
Lightning bugs
FARMING: Many insects utilize farming, from ants that keep aphids as livestock to marmots who cut and cure hay.
INCUBATORS: Birds obviously employed these long before humans.
THERMOMETERS: It’s well-known that cricket chirps can be decoded to arrive at the current temperature; a rattlesnake can detect temperature changes of 1/600 of a degree Fahrenheit.
DESALINIZATION: Coastal trees like mangroves do this, as do many sea birds and aquatic life, from gulls to sea turtles.
PAPER: Who doesn’t know that wasps and hornets make durable paper that doubles as effective insulation for their nests?
AIR CONDITIONING: Termite mounds are built by millions of blind workers, yet they exhibit an intricate and effective air cooling system.
FLIGHT: Airplanes are built on principles learned from the study of birds.
JET PROPULSION: Jellyfish, squid, octopus, plankton… these and more creatures move via jet propulsion.
COMPUTERS: The very scientists who compare computers to the human brain acknowledge that the comparison is an insult to the brain.
COMPASSES: Research has discovered that many birds navigate during their transcontinental (and sometimes transoceanic) migrations by sensing earth’s magnetic field.
UNDERWATER BREATHING: Beetles were doing this centuries before humans, grabbing a bubble of air and then diving, using the air supply to survive underwater.
SUBMARINES: Countless air-breathing creatures live in the water, regulating their buoyancy as needed to rise or descend.
SONAR: Bats and dolphins use sonar more effectively than any of man’s crude imitations.
ANTIFREEZE: Natural antifreeze is the means of survival for many life forms living in Arctic climates: trees, fish, birds, insects and more.
CLOCKS: Birds navigate by sun and stars, which change position constantly. They can only navigate as unerringly as they do by factoring in time and how it changes their celestial navigational “landmarks.”
ELECTRICITY: Many fish and eels – more than 500 varieties – generate electricity (as high as 866 volts) and have batteries.
LIGHTING: Brilliant scientists have been trying to copy the efficient cold light created by lightning bugs since the “invention” of electricity, but without success. Many other creatures besides fireflies have bioluminescence to varying degrees.
As you reflect on the complex abilities of living creatures, abilities which humans have attempted to copy with varying degrees of success, a fair question to ask is this: Does it seem reasonable to believe that all these (and countless more) developed accidentally? Does it make sense to call humans who “invent” these things geniuses, yet ascribe their appearance in nature (usually in much more advanced forms) as the product of blind chance and random accident?
Think about it.
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