You Would Get a Headache of Phenomenal Proportions

Did you know that dental drills, of sorts, date way back to the Indus civilization a few thousand years ago?  (Not that you really need to know that for any practical purpose, except maybe when you one day take that class you’ve always dreamed of taking on the history of dentistry. You’ll be way ahead of the game.) Modern dentist drills rotate at speeds of 400,000 rpm and they have metal alloy burs of various sizes for different drilling jobs. Jaws aching yet?

Right now outside of my window there is a loud drilling sound occurring over and over. It’s fast, it’s powerful and it’s repetitive. It’s a woodpecker. Now, I’m not going to go all technical on you, but this woodpecker’s drill is fast, too. He’s not messing around as he destroys the fascia board on my house. And he does all of his precision drilling without any tools. He merely uses his maximum durability beak, his built-in shock absorber system, and his claws, which furnish him some super stability.

Just consider with me the extreme headache you would get if you hit your head just once against a tree—hard enough to penetrate the tree’s bark. That would be worse than your worst-ever migraine and you would find some medication pretty quickly. Yet my friend outside my window has already hit his cranium against my house and various trees out there hundreds of times this morning. David Juhasz says this about his amazing shock absorber system:

The forces involved in the woodpecker’s hammering away at trees are incredible, for the suddenness with which the head is brought to a halt during each peck results in a stress equivalent to 1,000 times the force of gravity. This is more than 250 times the force to which an astronaut is subjected in a rocket during liftoff…. In most birds, the bones of the beak are joined to the bones of the cranium—the part of the skull that surrounds the brain. But in the woodpecker the cranium and beak are separated by a sponge-like tissue that takes the shock each time the bird strikes its beak against a tree. The woodpecker’s shock-absorber is so good that scientists say it is far better than any that humans have invented.

And Darwinian evolutionists would like us to believe that this amazing phenomenon, combined with all the others that make the woodpecker outside my window the extraordinary creature that he is, just happened to evolve into a living power drill?

May I just agree with Dr. Juhasz when he further exposited that whenever the first “versions” of the woodpecker’s evolving drill system were used on real structures and trees, they would have beaten their brains out, long before their shock absorbers developed. (After all, they depend on their drills for food and if there was ever a time when they found their food elsewhere, then why would they have gotten busy “evolving” a shock absorber system in the first place?)

Now, I know I’m not a rocket scientist, and I know I tend to over-simplify. But simple people can observe nature all around them and figure out that the unanswered and unanswerable questions about the world and its amazing inhabitants—I say, the questions themselves—defy the theory of organic evolution.

For family Bible time tonight, have your kids search the word “woodpecker” on at Apologetics Press. Look at the pictures. Read the fun information and sing “Our God is so big, so strong and so mighty, there’s nothing our God cannot do!” Talk to this mighty God and praise him for the amazing world in which we live. Then feel free to come to my yard for the full experience!