Why do birds get angry? Even birds have a sense of justice, especially when it comes to protecting their family (both hatched and un-hatched).  Have you ever seen a small bird chase away a larger bird? Protective parent birds will bravely and boldly attack a larger bird who crowds the home space of the smaller bird. Birds have a sense of space—“turf”—and they will defend it, to the death sometimes.

Of course, unlike the video game by Rovio Mobile (launched in 2009), in the real world, birds have observable wings and legs, and they don’t launch themselves out of slingshots; but they are bothered if someone tries to mess with their nest or what’s in it (hatched or un-hatched). In fact, in the real world, birds are so well designed and programmed that their detailed anatomies and behaviors are so spectacular that their very existence is an irrefutable proof of God’s glorious Creatorship (see, for examples:  http://www.icr.org/article/flight-migratory-birds/  and http://www.icr.org/article/survival-fitted-Gods-providential-programming/ ).  The proof is so strong that anyone who denies God’s Creatorship does so “without excuse” (Romans 1:20).

Isn’t it interesting that birds care about their un-hatched eggs? Likewise, most humans care about family members who are in the womb, waiting to be born. The miraculous building of a human baby, inside a mom, is a reminder that only God is smart enough and powerful enough to make a pregnancy produce a new baby human (see Psalm 139, in light of http://www.icr.org/article/made-his-image-human-gestation/).

To really recognize how special you are, and how your own personal origins make you the exact individual person you are, consider this short article about grackles: http://www.icr.org/article/grackles-gratitude/.  It begins with one hothead’s angry accusation that God did not “care” for people on a personal level.  Is that true?  If birds can care for their own, and humans can care for their own, how can we know that God cares for people on a personal level? (Click on the link and read the “grackles” article; then share your thoughts.)

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