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Mark W. Cadwallader: What's so strange about the behavior of orchids? That's next on today's Creation Moment. And now, here's our Creation Moments host, Ian Taylor.

Ian T. Taylor: There are between 10,000 and 15,000 species of orchid. While you surely are not familiar with all of them, it sounds strange to talk about orchid behavior. This huge variety of orchids offers a multitude of different flower shapes, colors, and sizes.

Each unique shape, color, and size are perfectly suited to the bees, butterflies, bats, and birds that are involved in that orchid's pollination. Those orchids that use birds as pollinators have no scent. Instead, they offer the brightest of colors, appealing to the bird's strongest sense.

Evolutionists call this co-evolution. However, giving it a name doesn't explain it. How did these orchids know that the bird's strongest sense is sight? And how were these orchids able to perform genetic recombination upon themselves so that they could develop their bright colors?

Or, consider the bee orchid. It offers a flower that looks like a female bee. The purpose here is to attract male bees to a position that would load them with pollen. How can it be scientific to suggest that a plant purposely reconstructed itself to fool bees into pollinating it?

God has purposely made it impossible to explain the creation without Him. He did this not simply so that we would see that He is real. His purpose is much greater. God seeks a personal relationship with you and has made that possible through the saving work of His son, Jesus Christ, for us. It is to Christ that He would ultimately draw our attention.

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