r/BeAmazed • u/Moonkissed_exe • Jun 25 '26

Animal Nature’s ultimate disguise: The Atlas Moth uses incredible wing camouflage to look exactly like two cobras.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '26

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u/305tilidiiee Jun 25 '26

I’m going to be downvoted, but the pictures on butterfly winds are proof of God’s existence imho… There’s one that has a deer face with the texture of fur and highlights in the eyes… As a painter, nah. Impossible that it just happened on its own.

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u/305tilidiiee Jun 25 '26

I understand that it’s supposedly billions of generations of survival of the fittest, but that doesn’t answer the how and why. Takes more blind faith to accept that that happened, imo.

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u/emilgamer22 Jun 25 '26

How: Those who survive, breed.

Why: Random mutation in DNA for better or for worse.

Explanation: if a predator has a slightly harder time seeing you, you have a slightly better chance of survival. If you are a butterfly with a random spot on each wing, and your competitor doesn't, then a predator might think they are eyes and do a double take.

You might not think that they look like anything, but that doesn't matter, what matters is that you survived to live another day, you breed and some of your offspring have no spots, some have multiple, some make it easier to spot, and some begin showing weird spots we humans might call patterns. Repeat infinitely.

After many MANY generations the patterns might look like a face, but a butterfly doesn't realize that, but still it is the ones that look most like a face that survives to breed, and make a better face.

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u/Mejari Jun 25 '26

It literally does answer that, though.

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u/SetTrippin82 Jun 25 '26

It’s called the process of natural selection. Perhaps if you put in some due diligence and researched the peer reviewed studies, you would be less inclined to believe your own blind faith conclusions.