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Researchers have found that the flies are more
likely to go after all black animals or all white animals more than
they are striped a striped animal. While this clearly not a job one
would brag about it suggests that horseflies actually hate zebras
because of their stripes. It seems that the narrow, vertical
stripes of the zebra are specifically made to keep these pests away.
This would indeed provide a survival advantage since the flies can
transmit lethal diseases.
A creationist perspective on this offers two possibilities. One is
that the stripes are actually the original color of horses. We do
not have pictures of the horses that got off of Noah’s Ark so for
all we really know most other horses may have mutated pigment genes.
The other possibility is that of natural selection. Hair color
particularly black and white is just a matter of the amount of
pigment in the hair so it is not unreasonable to think that mutation
and natural selection played a role here since no new information is
required. Yes, creationists do not have a problem with natural
selection we simply do not have subscribe to it the magical
abilities that evolutionists do. |
