Groovy Chameleons

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‘Tangled’ character Flynn Rider was never more wrong when he said that there was no difference between a lizard and a chameleon.

Nuance right?

Wrong.

In fact, the only way the words ‘chameleons’ and ‘nuance’ can fit in the same sentence is if you say that they’re not. They’re pretty amazing. Just how amazing? Well, lets just say that Evolutionists have a very hard time proving their theories with the Chameleon family around. Chameleons have been intricately made. Let me prove it to you.

Chameleons live mostly in Africa,Madagascar, lower Europe, Asia and parts ofAmerica. They like the warm habitats and their homelands vary from rain forest to dessert conditions. They are cold-blooded, meaning that (unlike humans and mammals) they can’t survive on containing their body-warmth via food and activity. Rather, they must control their body temperature by staying out of or in the different temperatures.

They eat insects, which they catch mostly by using their uncannily long tongue. Chameleon’s tongues can stretch out to a distance as long (sometimes even twice as long) as their whole body length! The tip of their tongue is thick and really sticky, so they have a nice big sticky part to ensure the insect getting stuck. The tongue strikes with lightening speed, doubling the chameleon’s chances of having a meal awaiting him on the far end of his tongue.

Their eyes help them stay alert at all times. The chameleon can rotate and focus each eye separately so as to watch two different things at different places at the same time! A chameleon can focus on one thing too and get a double good, clearer view. These intricate eyes give the chameleon a full 360-degree view around its body. Talk about great eyesight!

The toes and tail of this marvellous creation is also a thing well thought out on Gods behalf. The chameleon’s feet are zygodactyl, which means that the toes of each foot are arranged in pairs with some at the front and some at he back, like a parrots feet. The chameleons feet, claws and also their long tail gives them excellent grasp when clambering over, up or down anything of any width, from thin, twiggy branches to broad trunks. Their tails are prehensile, meaning that they are designed (note, note!) to hold and grasp things tightly. Having a prehensile tail also means though that the chameleon’s tail can’t snap off, like some other lizards can.

And then there’s the wonder of what chameleons are known best for: colour changing. The chameleon’s colours change depending on their mood and health, the weather, and the environment around them. I Googled how chameleons change their colours so efficiently, quickly and to such radiant or subtle measures, but the results I found were mostly seemingly not in English. But from what I could gather, it works out something like this: Chameleons have several different layers of special and certain-coloured cells under the outside layer of transparent skin. When light shines through the outside layer of skin, (according to the health and mood of the chameleon) the cell-layers will reflect and/or block the light; so creating the mix of colours. Groovy, huh? Males often show off a bright array of glamorous colours when showing off to the girls. Or if the chameleon is ill, then it’s normally to sick and tired to bother working its array of colours, and so stays a sick pale colour.

God did an incredible job when he created the chameleons. Such detail and splendour! How could people in their right minds possibly even think that these chameleons could have slowly evolved over millions or even billions of years? It just couldn’t work!

Psalm 139:14 says: “I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.”

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Thanks for reading!

Naomi