The heavens declare the glory of God the skies proclaim the work of his hands'

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The heavens declare the glory of God the skies
proclaim the work of his hands. Ps 191-4
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The Monarchs begin life as tiny, off-white eggs
laid on milkweed plants. The eggs hatch after 4-5
days, and the caterpillars that emerge eat a diet
of milkweed leaves for 18-20 days.
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These caterpillars feed solely on milkweed and
eat enormous quantities as they grow. They will
grow to 2,700 times their original size in only
two weeks, molting five times in the process.
Once fully grown, the caterpillar rests for a day
then hangs upside down. In a few hours this
caterpillar miraculously turns into a green
chrysalis.
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In the chrysalis stage, the caterpillar spins a
silk pad on a twig, leaf, etc. and hangs upside
down in the shape of a 'J', and then molts,
leaving itself encased in an green exoskeleton.
For 10-12 days, hormonal changes occur, causing
it to metamorphose into something completely
different from what it was.
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The Monarch is one of the longest migrating
creatures on Earth. Beginning in August, millions
of eastern monarchs (those living from the
Rockies to the Atlantic Ocean) migrate from their
summer grounds to Mexico, where they spend the
winter before returning to the U. S. in late
February and March to begin the cycle of life
again.
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Each year aproximately 180-280 million Monarchs
start migrat-ing, mate, lay eggs along the way
and their children continue the round trip.
The life span of a Monarch is nor-mally 4 to 8
weeks, except for those that enter diapause
(delayed sexual maturity) and migrate to Mexico
to spend their winter vacation. Those can live up
to 8 or 9 months
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Some groups mi-grate over 2,000 mi. from
Aug.-Oct. flying from Canada and the U.S. to
winter in southern CA. and on down to central
Mexico. Females lay their eggs along the
migratory route. The migration takes up to 3
generations of Monarchs to complete.
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In the spring, they migrate north, each
generation going some hundreds of miles, as far
as Canada. In the fall, the 5-times-great-grandchi
ldren re-turn as much as 1,800 miles over land
theyve never seen to the very grove, perhaps the
very tree, from which the ancestors set forth.
This could reasonably be called impossible.
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On the N-American conti-nent, the monarchs living
west of the Rocky Mts. winter in California and
Mexico. Those living east of the Rockies winter
in Florida, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Mexico.
Those living around Ottawa, Canada, are known to
migrate to the area of Morelia, Mexico.
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The monarch butterfly is the only insect known to
migrate over long conti-nental distances. It is
equipped with a naviga-tional system that can
determine its position on the earth and navigate
to its migration site as far away as 3000 miles.
Monarchs have been transported 900 miles off
their normal migration course yet, when released,
still found their way to their wintering site
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The ability to navigate alone does not constitute
the abil-ity to successfully complete a migratory
journey. Navigation needs to be com-plemented
by the ability to plan the expedition. This
re-quires not only navigational information about
the desti-nation but also information on the
intermediate stops along the way. How this
data is determined and stored by the monarch is a
mystery.
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Little is understood about how the monarch has
access to information about the suns position at
different geographical locations at different
times of the year, or about the direction of the
earths magnetic field in different parts of a
continent. Nor is it known how a butter-fly can
plan its trip to obtain the navigational
information about its destination and its stops
along the way.
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Even more amazing is how the necessary
navigational data base could be passed from
generation to generation.
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If, as some suggest, butterfly navigation is
based primarily on the suns position, then a
minimum level of instrumentation is re-quired.
This includes the ability to accurately track the
time of day and to measure the angular position
of the sun both vertically horizontally.
It also would require astronomical information
about the path of the sun at different latitudes
and at different times of the year.
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If, as also is proposed, the monarch uses the
earths magnetic field for navigation, then it
also would need the ability to measure the
direction of that magnetic field together with
information about how the field varies with
latitude and longitude.
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Only the Creator knows how monarch butterflies
navigate. How He implements these complex
features into the design of the monarch butterfly
is unknown.
But it unreasonable to think that these abilities
could have come about by random chance.
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LETS LOOK AT A VIDEO OF ONE OF THE SYSTEMS OF
THE HUMAN BODY . . . WATCH CAREFULLY TO SEE IF
THE SYSTEM SHOWS COMPLEX, INTELLIGENT DESIGN.
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The heavens declare the glory of God the skies
proclaim the work of his hands. Ps 191-4
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