Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Little Thing #12: Chicken Feed



The best proof of I know for God is the chicken egg.  Nutrition-wise, it is one of the best single source food products one can find.  Versatility-wise, you can eat an egg in so many ways--boiled, fried, and baked.  And it goes well with so many other foods.

And it is so convenient.  You don't have to kill anything, butcher anything, or skin anything.  You just have to pick it up.  And you can get more every day.

Scientists say the shape of the chicken egg is one of the sturdiest possible designs for a thin shell.  Did the chicken dream-up the physics behind that shape?  And how does the chicken get that shell around the egg as it plops into the nest.  That is a miracle.

To paraphrase Shirley Temple, when asked why she thinks her chicken is so special, says, "My chicken can lay an egg.  Can you?"

And the chicken does it all by only using the raw material of chicken feed.  Imagine if we humans had to invent something as nutritious, versitile and sturdy as an egg.  I'm sure it would cost a fortune--not chicken feed. 

Yes, only a loving God could invent the chicken egg.