Leaf Insects (Phylliidae) Intelligent Design
by Owen Omid Borville
August 14, 2020
Biology
Leaf insects (Phylliidae), also called leaf bugs or walking leafs, are commonly green colored insects that have flat bodies looking strikingly similar to plant leafs and have six legs for walking like an insect. Leaf insects eat plants and live in densely vegetated areas of South Asia and Australia. Leaf insects are one to four inches in length. In some leaf insects, their legs also look like leafs. Their bodies allow for great camouflage against predators because their bodies look so similar to leaves. They even have veins that look like those of leaves and their body color is so similar to the color of leaves that surround them. Some have bright green colored bodies that match the leaves around them. Other leaf bugs can be brown colored and some leaf bugs look like dead or decaying leaves. Some have bodies that look like a tree trunk. Young leaf bugs are actually reddish in color, but as they get older and eat leaves, their color begins to change to a greenish color. The leaf insect body even mimics a leaf by moving back and forth like a leaf in the wind. Males are usually smaller than females.
It is hard to believe that this similarity in coloration and body shape could be some random accident, but rather part of a special creation from an Intelligent Designer. Evolutionists claim that leaf bugs have been around for millions of years, however, a "47-million-year-old fossil of Eophyllium messelensis, a prehistoric ancestor of Phylliidae," displays many of the same characteristics of modern leaf insects, indicating that this family has changed little over time and that this lack of anatomical change indicates a short time frame of 6,000 years.
by Owen Omid Borville
August 14, 2020
Biology
Leaf insects (Phylliidae), also called leaf bugs or walking leafs, are commonly green colored insects that have flat bodies looking strikingly similar to plant leafs and have six legs for walking like an insect. Leaf insects eat plants and live in densely vegetated areas of South Asia and Australia. Leaf insects are one to four inches in length. In some leaf insects, their legs also look like leafs. Their bodies allow for great camouflage against predators because their bodies look so similar to leaves. They even have veins that look like those of leaves and their body color is so similar to the color of leaves that surround them. Some have bright green colored bodies that match the leaves around them. Other leaf bugs can be brown colored and some leaf bugs look like dead or decaying leaves. Some have bodies that look like a tree trunk. Young leaf bugs are actually reddish in color, but as they get older and eat leaves, their color begins to change to a greenish color. The leaf insect body even mimics a leaf by moving back and forth like a leaf in the wind. Males are usually smaller than females.
It is hard to believe that this similarity in coloration and body shape could be some random accident, but rather part of a special creation from an Intelligent Designer. Evolutionists claim that leaf bugs have been around for millions of years, however, a "47-million-year-old fossil of Eophyllium messelensis, a prehistoric ancestor of Phylliidae," displays many of the same characteristics of modern leaf insects, indicating that this family has changed little over time and that this lack of anatomical change indicates a short time frame of 6,000 years.
