#2. WILDLIFE PARK SAFARI

We continue our series: ‘Holy Bible of Science’, following the first article: ‘Science Master in a twister’: http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/science-master-in-twister.html

Oh man, the Science Master is sure letting old Job have it!   Wasn’t he some big-time rancher out east?

Job had the largest spread of anybody but lost all his livestock in just one day!...7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen and 500 she-asses.
He still thinks he has a handle on astronomy as well: Arcturus, Orion, The Pleiades…even the starry southern skies!...and he knows the Earth ‘hangs on nothing’…but young Elihu had to remind him of the water cycle.                               

Hey, watch this! The Science Master is going to give Job a quick tour of His wildlife park with a slide show……

First up we have feed requirements of lions and ravens - two species Job wouldn’t want on his spread…especially not in times of drought.

Now we look at breeding cycles… 
Job would have had trouble farming mountain goats (~180 days gestation) and deer (~235 days). 

Yeah…‘Don’t Fence Me In’!

They’d be a cinch compared with the onager or even the intractable wild ox. This was the reem or rimu – probably what we called the ‘aurochs’ (Bos taurus) which became extinct in 1627 when the last survivor died in a game reserve in Poland.

I can’t see Job using a rimu to plow his fields and bring home the grain, let alone keep in a barn.

Waterloo - here we come!

Need for speed?...then how about the ostrich - faster than a racehorse but a pathetic mother - only really good for feather dusters.            

Not so fast but oh so powerful and fearless is the horse on the battlefield. Veterinarians tell us that the horse’s heart is not so large but is supplemented by the frogs of the hooves pumping venous blood back to the heart.

Now that is clever!

Finally we see creatures that can defy gravity…The flight capability and navigation skills of the hawk: the structure of the flight feather and its muscular control is nothing short of astonishing, and to this day, scientists cannot work out how birds navigate so skillfully. 


Adjustable winglets hey?

The eagle’s ability to soar by manipulating its wing-tip feathers has inspired the design of winglets on modern airliners and its colour-vision acuity is 8 times better than Man’s.

Now that’s what I call a brilliant veterinary presentation…albeit in layman’s terms we can all understand.

Job:                             Okay, I’ll shut up.

Science Master:      Not so fast. Are you better than your Master? You’ll give Me a proper answer yet.                      

                                  

NEXT:   'Huh?...dinosaurs in the Bible?' 
http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/huhdinosaurs-in-bible.html

 

Quotations from KJV Bible: Job 9:9 ; 26:7 ; 36:27 ; ch38&39                                                      
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