- Series:Animals, Transcript English
Genesis 1:21
“And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.”
There is a chocolate-covered snack bar in the UK called a Penguin, with a picture of that bird on its wrapper, and for 40 years, TV commercials have urged us to “Pick up a Penguin”. Most of us would like to do just that, as these flightless birds are among our favorites. They seem to have charm in bucket loads, and, for many of us, the penguin enclosure is one of the first ports of call when we visit the zoo. They amuse and delight us with their awkward, waddling gait, but if their enclosure has an underwater viewing window, then their gracefulness enthralls us as they use their wings, appearing to fly through the water.
One British comedian remarked that penguins exist to show men what useless fathers we are. It is true that the males of many penguin species seem to be expert fathers, taking care of chicks and even incubating eggs for their mates.
Evolutionists struggle to understand penguins. The oldest known penguin fossil appears to be just like a modern penguin, despite being given an evolutionary age of 62 million years. They do not appear to be related to any other family of birds. Evolutionists also have no mechanism or explanation for why penguins are only seen in the Southern Hemisphere.
As usual, it makes far more sense to reason that the penguin kind was a separate creation by God, who gave them all their delightful qualities.
Prayer: Father God, we pray that You might encourage us to be good stewards of Your creation, for Your glory. Amen.
Author: Paul F. Taylor
Ref: Penguins—Perplexing and Proficient!, < https://answersingenesis.org/birds/2019/01/20/penguins-perplexing-and-proficient/ >, accessed 9/30/2019. Image: CC BY-SA 2.0 Generic.
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