As my readers know, I am a keen student of the Creation-Evolution controversy. In the course of my studies I have recently considered the remarkable Pelican bird. To my monkey eye it seems that the Pelican is a most unusual structural shape for expert aviation. The Pelican, however, is in fact a wonderful flyer. It even has a built in stall warning. It uses carefully located feathers, attached to nerves, that warn the bird when its airspeed is low, and it is about to drop out of the sky. An adult bird can weigh nearly 7 kg, so it is comforting to know that it has such a built-in warning device, in case it has a lapse of concentration. (You could receive a nasty injury from a falling 7kg bird, especially with such a beak!)

Your Social media pages are filled with self-appointed experts proclaiming that they, and everything else is here by chance. I cannot help wondering why the planet is not littered with the remains of “experimental” pelicans that crashed, owing to incomplete design. The evidence points to the fact that the designer got it right first time, and also encapsulated the design to be reproduced via an egg! You humans seem to have endless trouble getting various aircraft to fly properly and not crash into each other, or into the earth, (see above picture of a typical crash) while the Pelican soars serenely on its way, solo, or in formation, on land or water. An aircraft engineering masterpiece from the Master Designer!

Gibber! Gibber!

Chugley

The Aviation-Minded Chimp