One of the most beautiful creatures in all of nature is the monarch butterfly. With its distinctive orange and black coloring and beautiful symmetrical lines on its wings this little creature is one of the most amazing wonders in all the universe. Within its brain, no bigger than the head of a pin, the monarch possesses a biological clock that can do things that defy the laws of nature. In fact, its ability to migrate is literally a miracle that science cannot explain.
As with bird migrations, monarch butterflies make an amazing migratory trip of thousand of miles flying over never before seen terrain and traveling to places they have never been to before. According to Kyle Butt: “Researchers at the University of Massachusetts, led by Dr. Steven Reppert, are paying close attention to the monarchs’ biological clock… Reppert and his team believe that the monarchs’ ‘unique circadian clocks, which regulate daily activities like sleep and hunger,’ contain special proteins that allow the monarchs to navigate by using the Sun as a compass.”1
Monarch butterflies are the only butterflies known to make this unique migration journey. They spend the winter hibernating in the warm mountains of Mexico before returning to the United States and Canada in the Spring. For a fascinating discussion of their migration story please see the six minute video below.2
What is truly amazing about this migration journey is the size of the biological clock that they use to guide them on this awesome trek. If the monarch butterfly’s brain is the size of a pin head its biological clock must be even smaller. Yet this tiny clock must not only have its own computer guidance system but it must also have advanced knowledge of the unknown. In other words, it must have foreknowledge of future unknown places. And the only way that this could be possible is if an all-knowing God placed this knowledge within their brains.
Could blind chance and random processes have created this amazing biological clock – not a chance! To possess this navigational system requires a computer system the likes of which our greatest scientists have not been able to construct. The objective observer of the monarch butterfly can either believe in blind chance or the blinding brilliance of an all-powerful Creator. I choose to cast my lot with the God of all creation!
me too, Curt!