As we all know, woodpeckers build their nests by boring holes in tree
trunks with their beaks. This may sound familiar to most people. But the
point many people fail to examine is why woodpeckers suffer no brain haemorrhage
when they beat a tattoo so vigorously with their heads. What the woodpecker
does is in a way similar to a human being driving a nail into the wall
with his head. If a man ventured to do something like that, he would probably
undergo a brain shock followed by a brain haemorrhage. However, a woodpecker
can peck a hard tree trunk 38-43 times in just two or three seconds and
nothing happens to it.(1)
Nothing happens because the head structure of woodpeckers is ideally
created for such a task. The skull of the woodpecker has a remarkable
suspension system that absorbs the force of the blows. Its forehead and
some skull muscles adjoined to its beak and the jaw joint are so robust
that they help lessen the effect of the forceful strokes during pecking.(2)
Design and planning do not end here. Preferring primarily pine trees,
woodpeckers check the age of the trees before boring a hole in them and
pick those older than 100 years, because pine trees older than 100 years
suffer an illness that causes the hard and thick bark to soften. This
was only recently discovered by science and perhaps you may be reading
of it here for the first time in your life; woodpeckers have known it
for centuries.
This is not the only reason why woodpeckers prefer pine trees. Woodpeckers
dig cavities around their nests, the function of which was not originally
understood. These cavities were later understood to protect them from
a great danger. Over time, the sticky resin that leaks from the pine trees
fills up the cavities and the outpost of the woodpecker's nest is thus
filled with a pool whereby woodpeckers can be protected from snakes, their
greatest enemies.
Another interesting feature of woodpeckers is that their tongues are
thin enough to penetrate even ants' nests in the trees. Their tongues
are also sticky, which allows them to collect the ants that live there.
The perfection in their creation is further revealed by the fact that
their tongues have a structure which prevents them from being harmed
by the acid in the bodies of the ants.(3)
Woodpeckers, each of whose characteristics is discussed in a different
paragraph above, prove with all their detailed features that they are
'created'. If woodpeckers had evolved coincidentally as the theory
of evolution claims, they would have died before they acquired such extraordinarily
consistent traits and they would be extinct. However, as they were
created by God with a special 'design' adapted to their life, they
started their lives by bearing all the vital characteristics.
