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Mr. VanOverloop is a teacher in Covenant Christian Hight School and a member of Faith Protestant Reformed Church, Jenison, Michigan. Previous article in this series: August 2005, p. 447. In the previous article we considered how God created the butterfly to undergo the process of metamorphosis, to change the body of a butterfly from the lowly caterpillar to the winged adult. Allow me to remind the reader that after metamorphosis the body of the butterfly has undergone a complete transformation. Everything, including its eyes, brain, intestines, legs, and stomach, has been dissolved. The imaginal disks, however, escaped destruction, and these...

Mr. Van Overloop is a teacher in Covenant Christian High School and a member of Faith Protestant Reformed Church, Jenison, Michigan. The metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly is one of those natural events that fascinate people. Its appeal stems from the marvel of the dramatic change and also from the mysterious processes occurring within the enclosed capsule from which it emerges. The Lord in His infinite wisdom surely created the butterfly to undergo just such a mysterious change with the intent of causing man to marvel at the “natural” world, and to leave him without excuse. However, for...