Hummingbirds

R. UEBERGANG’S letter was spot on, good reading.

Scientists are wasting millions trying desperately to find another civilised planet as though we don’t have enough problems here on earth.

As to evolution, I read an interesting article recently. Surely something as complex as Hummingbirds could never, by any stretch of imagination, have evolved. A few facts on Hummingbirds.

They take up to 250 breaths a minute, their wings beat at about 200 beats a minute and their heart beats at up to 1250 beats a minute.

If our hearts were to beat at an equivalent speed we would simply disintegrate or burn up.

They use a figure-eight configuration when they flap their wings (as proved by slow-motion cameras) which allows them to hover while getting nectar from thousands of flowers a day. It enables them to fly backwards away from each flower (the only bird able to fly backwards) and it allows them to take off vertically too.

Hovering, their wings beat at 50 to 80 beats a second.

The term “eat like a bird” surely applies to them as they as they expend enormous amounts of energy doing all of this.

Hummingbirds have the fastest metabolism of all vertebrates.

They have other exceptional traits, all of which tells us that they had to be made as they are now. They truly could have never evolved into such remarkable little dynamos.

That these and millions of other species all perfectly formed and perfectly adapted for their individual place on earth, tells us that they had to be created as they now are.

Never in a billion years could have all these evolved. There are no half developed species.