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Have
you ever walked through the woods and suddenly come across a woodpecker
busy at work? Its machine-gun pecks can be heard hundreds of yards away.
The pecking might seem quite useless, but through it the woodpecker
obtains food, builds nests, rids trees of insects, pounds out territorial
markings and gives warnings to other males as well as mating calls
to females. Truly it is one of the marvels of nature. But it is also
a real headache for evolutionists!
Even Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, marveled at the incredible features of this bird. He asked in his book The Origin of Species, "Can a more striking instance of adaptation be given than that of a woodpecker for climbing trees and seizing insects in the chinks of the bark?" (p. 166).
At least four uniquely developed features make the common woodpecker so unusual.
The first is its amazing tongue. It can be three times as long as its beak! Normally, a bird's tongue is about the length of its bill, but a woodpecker needs this extra long tongue to reach the grubs inside the trunk of a tree.
Where does it have the room to store such a long tongue? In some woodpeckers the tongue structure actually forks in the throat, goes below the base of the jaw, wraps behind and over the top of the skull and inserts into the bird's right nostril or around the eye socket. How did it manage to go almost 360 degrees around its skull and still manage to work?
Evolutionists have a hard time explaining this wondrous "adaptation." They claim the woodpecker must have evolved from other birds with normal tongues that go straight out of the beak. Yet the idea that this all happened through small, gradual steps stretches the imagination.
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