{"id":4292,"date":"2019-05-11T20:39:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T01:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=4292"},"modified":"2019-07-20T08:56:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T13:56:05","slug":"mite-god-be-our-creator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/mite-god-be-our-creator\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMite\u201d God Be Our Creator?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<p>by Larry Hafley<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4294\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Leucania-Moth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4294\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Leucania-Moth-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leucania Moth (False Wainscot Moth)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tiny mites infect and inhabit the ear of the Leucania moth. Yes, I said, \u201cthe ear,\u201d singular. In whichever ear the mites first locate, the other is left free. Hence, if the left ear of the moth is infested by mites, the right ear will remain clear of mite invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it so happens that bats love to feast on the Leucania moth, but the moth has an ultrasound detector in its ears which allows it to evade attacking bats. (Men put radar detectors in their cars &#8212; who puts ultrasound detectors in the ears of the moth?) When mites invade the moth\u2019s ear, the moth loses the service of its detector in that ear. However, with one ear still free of mites, it can successfully escape a preying bat. If the bat eats the moth, it will also eat the mites in the moth\u2019s ear; so, the mites only dwell in one ear and leave the other one free and clear. It is a nice, clever design. The mite has a home, and the moth maintains his security system.<\/p>\n<p>What keeps mites from using both ears? Do mites or moths have zoning laws, or what? Did blind, mindless, lifeless evolution design and implement such a system of housing and mutual protection as exists between the moth and the mite? Or, could it be that such a marvelous arrangement testifies to the existence of a Divine engineer, director, and builder (Psalms 19:1-4)?<\/p>\n\t<h3>Reference:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Asher E. Treat, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/25005617\">Unilaterality in Infestations of the Moth Ear Mite<\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0<cite>Journal of the New York Entomological Society\u00a0<\/cite>Vol. 65, No. 1\/2 (Mar. &#8211; Jun., 1957), pp. 41-50<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Larry Hafley Tiny mites infect and inhabit the ear of the Leucania moth. Yes, I said, \u201cthe ear,\u201d singular. In whichever ear the mites first locate, the other is left free. Hence, if the left ear of the moth is infested by mites, the right ear will remain clear of mite invasion. Now, it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[302,709],"class_list":["post-4292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-creation","tag-evidence"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21797,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/the-wonder-of-hearing\/","url_meta":{"origin":4292,"position":0},"title":"The Wonder of Hearing","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"April 23, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"by Whit Sasser God\u2019s design of hearing is such a wonder of the human body and our ears in particular. \"The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has made them both\" (Proverbs 20:12). 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