friend. We notice white spots on Bambi’s brown back
and sides, which look like blotches of sunlight shining
through bushes. When he was a little younger, he did
not have the muscle strength or the longer legs that
would have allowed him to escape from predators
such as bears, coyotes, and bobcats. Those spots are
a camouflage, much like what fighting men wear in the
jungle, and together with his ability to lie still, they make
him very hard to see, and helps him to escape predators.
At this point, let us not rush to judgment against
our friends, the evolutionists. Let us hold our human
tendency to be prejudiced in check before hearing all
the evidence placed on a table before us. Let us talk to
Bambi’s father
When we ask him about the spots on his son, he tells us
the whole story.
“Oh!” he says, “He won’t have those for very long. When
he is about 5 months old, he will start losing his spots.
He won’t need them, because by then he can run fast
enough to escape most of his enemies. Funny thing is,
the spots then miraculously disappear. Don’t ask me
what happens to them! The Indians around here say,
‘The Great Spirit’ gave them to him to protect him when
he was young, but will take them away when he can run
fast enough to protect himself. Another thing is that
baby deer have no scent, so predators that may depend
on their sense of smell have difficulty finding the young
deer. All I know is, it’s a jolly smart arrangement, and
has worked for every deer as long as I can remember!
Besides, our history tells us that we’ve always been like
that from all the generations past!”
What do you think? The skillful arrangement of spots
on Bambi, the fawn, happened to turn up just when
he needed to protect himself from a predator? Was it
random occurrence of chance, left to the slow process
of time over millions of years, or the concern of a Wise
Creator, Who not only cares when a sparrow falls to the
ground injured, but designs ways in which all of His
creatures may protect themselves? Perhaps, we should
now ask the question, “Could evolution have provided
this protection on a temporary basis? Or could the
Creator have given spots to the fawn through natural law,
especially for a time when
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he would be vulnerable and
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