Bugs of the Underworld: Caddisfly

Bugs of the Underworld
Video showing the life history of caddisflies (Trichoptera)
Copyright Ralph and Lisa Cutter

[@--Paws--]

A very underrated video and an underrated insect. It seems they are the aquatic versions of butterflies and moths. The bagworm moth has a similar behavior of constructing a cocoon out of debris and scraps.

[@theworthysoul]

Yeah basically, they’re very closely related although not the same order.

[@hamishmacdonald6997]

What a great film.

[@Scarbis93]

Wow, this is amazing

[@judil3294]

There may be different types of caddisflies, much as there are different birds, but to be in this day and age of understanding the vast complexity of life and still believe in evolution takes a great effort in blindness. To believe life is a random accident is ridiculous.

[@elbretto6062]

Fine tuning argument (appealing to complexity) also applies to an intelligent creator. The bigger issue for evolution is time

[@johntuttle9544]

Your problem is that you cannot conceive of 4 billion years of Evolution here on Earth and can only imagine something arising in a fictional Eden, de novo complete. No man or woman can understand such time scale but it is revealed by Evolution. Now, if you want to argue that the Universe itself is miraculous in its perfection from the moment it came into existence, I cannot argue. But 14 billion years to create the materials for life and to have it arise slowly but surely requires a conscious design beyond our understanding. And that consciousness if it exists most assuredly is not sitting in judgement in some sky castle concerned with the foibles of mankind. We simply have ZERO evidence that it does. Evidence = verifiable fact. To believe so is both the height of hubris AND the height of child-like magical thinking. You simply must accept that you ARE a miracle, the endpoint of 14 billion years of creation (be proud of that) and at the same time accept that you are an insignificant mote of dust in the face of the Universe (so be humble). Regardless, your faith is not evidence of anything, whereas the power of Evolution is undeniable to anyone with an education and has been experimentally validated time and time again, literally thousands and thousands of times. I hope you can someday accept the miracle of Evolution. It is a beautiful thing to grasp.