The world is an amazing place. We humans love to feel powerful by building
machines that do things. A beautiful jet airliner is evidence of how smart we
are and how well we can design things. In spite of our boasting, we really
can't do much compared to the plants and animals that are already here.
Every day we see plants and animals doing things we cannot do. No person can design and build a spider. It is smaller and more complex than any robot we can build. It can crawl around and build a web. Spider web silk is stronger than steel and can stretch 100 times as much as steel without breaking. Who was the designer who knew enough to create a spider and its silk?
The spider and its silk were not designed by any being. The process of evolution created the animals, both their bodies and their habits. Evolution is a very powerful process. Think of the great variety of wild plants and animals on the earth. All of them were created by evolution.
Created by Ted Kaehler, (Ted_Kaehler@atg.apple.com).
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