Smart as a rock

The other night our TV was on one of the "nature" shows found on the "Animal Planet" channel. The host was showing off what he called, "amazing adaptations," which, he said, had occurred through evolution. Remember, evolution teaches, in all of its evolutions (for what it teaches changes every few years as true science disproves the current theory) that everything existing just happened through random fate and fortune. This host always displays a lot of intelligence as he describes the many animals he encounters, so let's say, he's smart. Let me tell you just a few of the animals he showed:

(1) The mud skipper fish actually leaves his water habitat and travels across mud and dirt to get to other water holes. To do this, he employs an inner "air-bag" to tide him over with oxygen until he can get back into the water. His eyes are on retractable stalks, like periscopes, which protects them from injury as he goes across land and allows him to see more as he searches for another water home. (2) There is a certain type of frog that lives in the colder climes of North America. When freezing weather arrives, this frog digs down into the dirt and literally begins to freeze, outside and in. Science fiction has long been depicting humans cryogenically prepared for long space flights, or, for preserving terminally ill patients until a cure can be found for their particular malady; so far, though, no one has been able to actually accomplish this so the person would be alive when thawed. This frog has been doing it successfully, year after year, for as long as we've recognized its existence. When its frozen body is slowly warmed, as in spring thaws, it returns to its daily life in normal health. (3)The well known camel, besides its ability to store and conserve water in the barren heat of the desert, also has hooves that are oversize for its legs and body, but perfect for carrying it across shifting, sinking sand. Its exceedingly long eyelashes enable it to travel through the blinding sandstorms without any injury to the delicate parts of its eyes.

Now these are just a few of the "amazing adaptations" this smart TV host cited. He knew these animals well; he could even quote the Latin names for each; he could eloquently describe their particular habitats, but this smart man kept using a certain word that was totally incongruous to his bragging on evolution. Almost every time he described one of these "adaptations, he used the word "design." For example, "Look at the amazing way this frog has been able to adapt to its surroundings. What design!!" I heard him say the word design so many times, I began to wonder, "does he know what 'design' means?" I also realized you don't have to be smart to be on TV.

This man is an example of what I call, "smart as a rock." He can remember Latin names, habitats, etc., etc. He displays a lot of "intelligence," but he can't "see the forest for the trees." If it evolved, there is no design. If it is designed, it didn't evolve. I think of Romans 1, where it says: "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools." (verse 22) and then 3 verses later says, "They changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, Who is blessed forever." I always think of what Paul told Timothy, "keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called." (1 Timothy 6:20)