
I promise this is going to be my last owl shot, unless I get one flying with a rabbit. I had to share this one with you because of the intensity of the hunt and God’s amazing design in the wings and eyes of these creatures. So many inventions and designs created by humans were inspired by God‘s design in nature.
The wing tips, about midway up the wing, remind me of Winglets designed by NASA. The turned-up tips on airplane wings, winglets are vertical extensions of the wingtips that improve fuel efficiency and cruising range by reducing drag. The Wright brothers and Leonardo da Vinci studied birds in flight to understand the physics of flight, and a recent article in Nature Magazine (01/07/2016) describes the design of an engineered eyeball that mimics the iris, lens and cornea of a human eye. It’s probably nowhere near as good as this owl’s eye, but then the designers were only human, trying to duplicate God’s design.
Colossians 1:15-17 tells us that He (Jesus) is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”
Jesus, the one that we celebrate December 25, is the one who created biology, physics, chemistry, aeronautical engineering and light and love and beauty and the bridge that restores our broken relationship with God. Seek him as the Wisemen of old did.
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