Creation Moments

Jonathan Cotton: Do animals teach their offspring or do they learn by instinct? Find out next on today's Creation Moment. And now, here's our Creation Moments host, Ian Taylor.

Ian T. Taylor: Isn't it true that when we are very young, we think our parents know everything? And then when we become teenagers, we decide that our parents know virtually nothing. Finally, when we become parents ourselves, we discover how wise our parents really were. Learning and wisdom are supposed to be the products of human evolution, and for this reason, textbooks usually speak of instinct when referring to animals. But do animal parents teach their children and do they learn? Biologist Robert R. Warner of the University of California showed us that even adult fish teach their offspring the facts of life.

Warner's study involved moving fish called wrasses around to various reefs where they prefer to mate. He discovered that if there were no other wrasses at the reef, the young wrasses would establish their own mating sites. But if there were already adult wrasses at the reef, the young wrasses would share the mating sites that were taught to them by the established adults. In other words, the adults taught their traditional mating sites to the next generation. The creation teaches us that the intelligence of a creature has nothing to do with its supposed place in the evolutionary ladder.

Even fish teach their young. This teaches us that it is a natural part of God's plan that we learn from the experience of those who are older than ourselves.

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