When God created the animals he built into them marvellous instincts for their survival.
I was reminded of this sometime ago when I witnessed a squirrel at work.
I had a contract to cut the grass in a reasonably large garden. In part of the garden there were young trees and bushes growing. Among them were a few hazel bushes. I was looking forward to having some hazel nuts when they were ripe. I observed them growing and getting bigger each time I cut the grass and wondered if I would be able to collect any before the squirrel got them first.
No chance, the squirrel got there first . I searched the bushes carefully, surely he could have left me at least one or two? Sure enough I found one and I eagerly cracked open the shell only to find it was empty . I was disappointed but soon realised that when the squirrel dug up his stash of nuts in the winter he would not be disappointed they would all have nuts in the shells. They have some way of telling that the shells have nuts in them, maybe they tap or shake them to make sure.
They do not waste energy storing nuts that are empty. Evolutionists will be wondering how long it took them to develop their ability to know that a shell is empty or full.
John Rodgers
The Squirrel
