Butterfly Eggs
When you hear the word EGG, you almost certainly will think of a chicken egg, as that is the egg we see most often. Out in the world of nature there are all sorts of eggs and each one is a shelter of protection for a growing animal of one kind or another.
If you were to design an egg, how would you do it?
An egg has to be able to allow air to pass through it without allowing water, bacteria and fungi to enter. It must be hard enough to protect the growing animal but not so hard that the animal can not break out when it is time to enter the real world. It may need some camouflage to help hide it from predators and of course it has to be large enough to house the growing animal until it is ready to be born. The most challenging thing will be packing everything into the egg that will be needed for the fertilized cell to to grow into a fully formed living organism. One more thing, there are no bathrooms in the egg so when you design it you need to figure out how to deal with waste products produced by the busily multiplying cells.
Now, if evolution is the creator, the egg is going to be designed by a whole lot of random mistakes with no thought given to the needs of the growing organism. Too bad for the poor little animal if one mutation is wrong because that will be the end of it for the organism and the species. Evolution has another problem. Mutations don’t all happen at once, so the poor creature is going to have to wait for thousands of generations to get all the right mutations so that it can survive and hatch out of it’s egg. Do you see the problem with that? If everything is not designed right the first time there is no second chance, no thousands of generations.
Given all the different kinds of animals that lay eggs, it would make sense to come up with one design that works for all and stay with that design, but that is not what we find in the natural world. Each species has it’s own amazingly designed egg to be the first home to it’s special kind of animal.
Like all insects, butterflies lay eggs, and their eggs are absolutely awesome, coming in an amazing array of shapes, colors and sizes. There are tiny round shiny pearl like eggs, and then long slender orange eggs, and some eggs that look like symmetrical jelly candies coming in reds, blues, greens etc. Each egg perfectly designed to support it’s growing organism. So perfect is the design that the egg shell itself, which is hard enough to be protective but soft enough to break out of is also edible. For most caterpillars, after eating their way out of the egg shell, they proceed to eat the rest of the shell. Such amazing design needs a highly creative designer. The Bible tells us in Genesis chapter 1 that in the beginning God created. Yes there is a creator who put a lot of thought into designing each kind of animal perfectly, beginning with the egg.
Just as God packaged into the egg everything that the growing animal will need to grow and hatch out, God has also planned for our lives, making sure every detail has been taken care of to ensure our rebirth as eternal son’s and daughters of God. So next time you watch a caterpillar emerge from it’s egg, remember it was designed by the same God that designed you and He has thought ahead and prepared everything you are going to need to be able to enter life eternal.