Creation Moments

Jonathan Cotton: Do spiders feel pain? The answer next, on today's Creation Moment. And now, here's our Creation Moment host, Ian Taylor.

Ian T. Taylor: Evolution has given people today the idea that there are higher and lower animals. As a result, many people have come to think, for example, that the so-called lower animals don't feel pain. But as our knowledge of the created world grows, even the Bible's language on this subject is being vindicated. When a spider catches an insect in its web, that is usually the end of the insect. But researchers were watching as a poisonous ambush bug caught in a web was about to be bitten and wrapped by a spider. As the spider moved in on its prey, the ambush bug stung one of the spider's legs.

To the researcher's surprise, the spider reacted immediately by dropping its injured leg and running back to the center of its web. This led scientists to wonder if the spider reacted like this because he felt pain. Further study showed researchers that spiders do indeed feel pain, and most living things probably do, too. Since living things are capable of experiencing life in similar ways, even our emotions and senses can be compared to God's, even though they are poor when compared to his. And for this reason, we should not be surprised to learn that his other creatures experience life as we do, without the false limitations imposed by evolutionary distinctions of so-called higher and lower life.

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