INTELLIGENT DESIGN: The Amazing Emperor Penguin of Antarctica

(EIGHT:THIRTY WATCH) — Imagine yourself dropped into an environment in which the daily high temperature rarely gets above zero (in January, the “summer,” it reaches about 20 degrees) and can plunge to -144 degrees at night.

But that’s not all to this frigid environment. The winds blow virtually all the time, often reaching hurricane velocities. There are no trees, thus no wood with which to start anything remotely resembling a camp fire.

You are at the bottom of the Earth, in the place known as Antarctica. Why any creature would make this its home to begin with is an interesting question.

But even more interesting is the question of how could you survive at all if you aren’t equipped from your first moment in this ultra-frigid environment with all kinds of ways to preserve your body’s internal warmth?

To begin to answer those and the many related questions that inevitably come to mind, check out this beautiful video produced by the John 10:10 Project about the Emperor Penguin.

Pay particular attention to what these creatures do up to three hours every day in the way of using a liquid sealant produced by a gland in their tail. And ask yourself why and how an evolutionary process could produce that gland from the get-go of the first Emperor Penguin’s life in the Antarctic:

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