Raccoons and Creation

The other morning, I was not in the best of moods. Cleaning up around the shed was needed because a raccoon got in and scattered garbage. While I was mumbling to myself and working, Rusty Swingset, foreman of the Darwin Ranch near Deception Pass, and his lady friend Jacqueline Hyde (who was almost herself that day) had ridden up. He said they decided to see how these new horses were and since they had some down time, swung by my place. I gestured and said, "Trash panda's been here." Rusty roared and Jacqueline giggled.

Raccoon, Unsplash / fr0ggy5

"I don't think either of us have heard that term before," said Jacqueline. "But they sure are mischievous." She pronounced it miss-CHEE-vee-us instead of MISS-chev-us, but I successfully hid my cringe.

Rusty scratched his scraggly jaw and chimed in, "Say, don't you believe they're designed to do this stuff? Those paws look like five-fingered li'l hands."

"Well, ya got me there," I replied. "I don't reckon they were designed for mischief, but they use their features. Smart things, too. If they were pack critters instead of mostly solitary, they might take over their own territories — and do it at night."

After a spell, they rode on and I finished straightening things up.

Raccoons don't see all that well, but those paws help make up for it because they use it to sense objects. Like cats, they were designed to minimize falling (which is helpful because they get into trees when needed). Darwinists have some ideas of their origins that are a mite convoluted, and creationists apparently have not nailed down which created kind they belong to.

The raccoon’s penchant to be an urban pest is well known—taking up residence in or around people’s homes, raiding trash cans, pet feeders, and whatever else they can scavenge food from. Such behaviour makes the ‘bandit mask’ appearance of their faces (fig. 1) seem fitting, but the raccoon, though sometimes a rascal, is one of God’s many wondrous creations that all glorify Him in their amazing and varied designs.

The rest of the article is found at "The rascally raccoon."