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subtler form of masquerade. Sorne moths and Aies, for example, have the
coloration of wasps or bumblebees, thus bluffing would-be predators which
don't wish to risk getting stung. Similarly, the (good-tasting) viceroy but–
terfly mimics the (bad-tasting) monarch butterfly, thus escaping from birds
and other predators that don't like the taste of monarchs.
Did blind chance and random mutations produce the "evolution" of
such amazing patterns of imitation, countershading, and disruptive visual
patterns so necessary for concealment? Or was it a Higher Intelligence?
The fact is, modern evolutionary theory faces a most difficult- if not
impossible- task in trying to rationalize how processes of "evolution" could
have conjured up the exquisitely designed protective markings that many
plants and animals display. The overwhelming evidence is that such precise
patterns of protective coloration simply cannot be due to mere accident.
Little wonder, then, that the psalmist was inspired to write: "In wisdom
hast thou made them all; the earth is full of thy creatures" (Ps. 104:24). o