THE LOVING POISON DART FROG (Friday
Church News Notes, December 6, 2024,
www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-
4143) The following is from CreationMoments.com,
October 11, 2024: “The Choco Indians of Panama and
Colombia use the poison from the skin of the beautiful
poison dart frog to make their lethal darts. The bright
orange and deep blue skin of this frog serves to warn
predators that it is best left alone and its poisonous skin
untouched. Although it is deadly, the poison dart frog
is one of the most loving parents in the entire
amphibian world. The female will lay about a dozen
eggs in the leaf litter within her mate’s territory. Both
parents will stand watch over the eggs, keeping them
moist, until the tadpoles emerge. Then the female
allows each tadpole, one at a time, to wriggle onto her
back. She takes each tadpole, in its turn, to its own
miniature pond created by water trapped in the fronds
of jungle plants. The mother poison dart frog
remembers where each one of her tadpoles is and
returns on a regular schedule to lay infertile eggs for
the growing youngster to eat. I would prefer to think
that the care of the adult poison dart frogs for their
children grows out of a sense of love for their
offspring, and we know that God is the author of all
love. But even if this care is programmed instinct, we
must still find the ‘programmer’--and that takes us
back to the Creator once again. Such wisdom cannot
be said to come from nowhere