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Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Earwig Origami

The earwig is an insect that inhabits almost every damp crevice and corner of your patio and lawn furniture in the summer. They're not big, about an inch long, but they look intimidating with two large but harmless pincers at the rear of their abdomen.

One fascinating aspect of these common creatures is the amazing way in which they fold their wings. They rarely fly, but when they do their wings unfold and refold in an astonishingly complex fashion.

We're told by evolutionary biologists that this folding evolved through blind, purposeless processes in which just the right series of genetic mutations accidentally resulted in this folding ability, but it takes more faith than I can muster to believe random chance could've produced this extraordinary piece of "origami."

In our experience an ability this complex doesn't just happen through a series of accidents, it requires intelligent engineering - a mind.

Watch the video and see what you think: