All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2012 by Larry Knox
All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2012 by Larry Knox
“I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.”
I recently witnessed the final death throes of a horned caterpillar as she hung to the stalk of a tomato plant stripped nearly bare by her only days before. The caterpillar had become the unwitting host of a dozen or so parasitic wasp larva which had been injected into her by their birth mother.
Devouring the surrogate from the inside out–careful not to eat the vital organs that might kill her too early, cutting off their food supply–the satiated young hornets emerged from their ravaged nursery to spin their rice-grained size cocoons.
When the time was right and with surgical precision, they cut off the cocoon tops to fly away and begin the process anew.
Life and death in this "Garden of Dreams"–one and the same.
" God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this,
making a world able to make itself. "
