The Peacock Spider Summary

In his article “The Peacock Spider” for Creation magazine, Michael Eggleton discusses a spider native to Australia. The Peacock Spider is covered in bright red, yellow, and blue scales that change depending on the location of the viewer. These scales are used by the male Peacock Spiders to attract the female spiders. Eggleton states that “consistent evolutionists will not allow the concept of added beauty or ‘beauty for beauty’s sake’.” Evolutionists suggest that aesthetic features like the Peacock Spider’s scales or the peacock’s tail came about as a part of natural or sexual selection. Eggleton says that these features are hard to explain by chance or natural selection. They would be considered to be against natural selection because they