Most readers would rather avoid the topic of mucous. It’s hardly a dinner-table subject! Regardless, our lives depend on this watery, mucilaginous material found in most creatures—vertebrate and invertebrate—including bacteria and yeast. Although gross to many, mucous is essential for life. 

Evolution is so flexible! It can be fast¹ or slow.² It can go forward or backward.³ It can add or eliminate structures—such as the alleged loss of parts of our voice box (larynx). Apparently, it can do anything that secular researchers need it to do.

Most of us are familiar with the incredible ability of different animal groups to migrate (such as birds).^1,2 But what about invertebrates?

Recently, scientists discovered that a moth called the death’s-head hawkmoth (as well as the dragonfly³) flies for miles, keeping on a path that’s narrow and straight.

We appreciate the beautiful butterfly, but not so much the pesky moth. However, the wing structure of both creatures is amazing, “The wings of moths and butterflies are densely covered in scales that exhibit intricate shapes and sculptured nanostructures.”¹