Eating it’s way out
Think of yourself as a caterpillar growing from a single cell into a fully developed caterpillar. Your life begins in a fertilized butterfly egg. Depending on what species you are, how big you will eventually grow, and the climate, will determine how long you spend in the egg. It could be as few as five days or if it is really cold, it could be months.
At some point in your rapid development in the egg you begin to have understanding of the environment around you, an environment that becomes increasingly tight fitting as your little caterpillar body develops inside the egg shell, also known as the Chorion.
Not before and not after, but just at the right time of your development, something that was pre-programmed into your brain says, ‘Eat your way out of the egg’. Even though you have never eaten before, somehow you know to use your tiny mandibles to break through the eggshell and literally eat your way out. Surprisingly enough the egg shell tastes pretty good, and once you have escaped from it, you turn around and continue to eat it, not realizing that it is made of proteins that will be beneficial to your continuing development.
Questions arising out of our imagining include;
How did the caterpillar know to eat it’s way out of the eggshell?
How did it know that the eggshell is a nutritious first food source?
How is it that the eggshell was not only perfectly designed to safely protect the growing caterpillar, but it was also the right thickness to be chewed through and it was nutritious as well?
I have observed Leopard Lacewing caterpillars emerging from their eggs. The female Leopard Lacewing butterfly often lays more than one hundred eggs on one leaf on the same day. All the caterpillars hatch out within an hour of each other. They all seem to have been given the same programming or knowledge. The only known thing that could carry this programming from one generation to another is the DNA, which carries all the genetic information. It seems that somehow this program encoded onto the DNA is then transferred to the brain of the caterpillar as knowledge. It takes some-one knowledgeable about coding to write a computer code that works. I believe the knowledgeable coder for the caterpillar is the Creator God of heaven. Others believe the coding happened by chance over hundreds or maybe thousands of generations as a result of the evolutionary process. The problems I see with this theory are, that if the code was wrong the first time, the caterpillar would not have known to eat his way out of the egg and would have died in it’s shell, no second chance for evolution. The second problem is that according to the mathematical law of probability, random chance could never write a specific code that works. A third problem is there needs to be a mechanism to transfer the code from the DNA and translate it into knowledge that the caterpillar brain can then use. If the evolutionary process was the programer, today there would be no caterpillars and no caterpillars means no butterflies.