Page 34 - The Miracle in the Spider

34 THE MIRACLE IN THE SPIDER

the spider waits for its prey, the web resembles a narrow cage built out of
straws. But this harmless appearance is in reality a deception. When the
spider goes into action to catch its prey, it uses its legs to turn the web
inside out, making it a death trap from which there can be no escape.
But how is the spider able to build a web of such perfect mechanical
planning and chemical construction? It is no simple matter to do tasks
which require planning, no matter how straight forward. Each one needs
a different plan and experience. We can demonstrate this as follows.
When describing spiders' webs we often use the expression "like lace." For
this reason it will not be incorrect to say that with their webs spiders
actually are making lace.
Let us imagine that the man in the street is given the implements
used to make lace (tatting shuttle, needles, thread, etc.) and the cotton.
Can we expect this person, who has no previous experience, to make
something in lace at the first attempt? Or can we imagine a lace table-cloth
emerging from knots made by coincidence? Of course not.
It is impossible for a plan to emerge by itself, because for a plan to
emerge, intelligence, skill, and a means of imparting information are
necessary. For a living creature to make plans, and if, furthermore, it
carries out these plans with no faults in their execution, this creature must
be "intelligent." However, it is not possible to accept that an insect can be
intelligent, that it can think, think of plans. This is a banal chain of logic
used to try to arrive at the truth, and does not reflect reality. For which
reason there must be a power which gave the insect its intelligence, or
rather which directs it, which taught it what it does, or rather makes it do
it. In other words the insect must have a Creator.
As we have seen, it is an obvious truth that these living creatures
were created by God. But evolutionists ignore this, and instead build
upon possibilities. Their wilful slavery to their theories makes them
incapable of understanding, seeing, or hearing. It has led them to a state
where they cannot see an obvious truth and cannot accept what they see
and understand.
According to evolutionists, Dinopis spun its web with the features we