ICR:Did you know...earthworms are highly specialized creatures?

   That earthworms are highly specialized creatures? They seem
obviously designed for their important task of burrowing through soil.
They burrow into the ground in all parts of the world, and make an
important contribution to the fertilization, aeration, and drainage of
the soil.

   Earthworms swallow huge amounts of earth, digest the nutritive
matter it contains, then cast up the remains onto the surface of the
ground or in their burrows. In this way, they work at a constant and
effective system of plowing. An average acre of soil may house three
million earthworms, which can move about 18 tons of soil in a year.
Their work is so thorough that in the areas in which they live almost
all the soil to a depth of many centimeters has passed through the
alimentary tract of an earthworm at some time.

   Could the earthworm's activities of loosening, stirring up, and
aerating the soil to make it more fertile be the result of evolution?
Could its valuable work come about through mutations or natural
selection via its struggle for existence (the supposed methods of
evolution)? Did the earthworm choose to dig everlastingly, to pass
countless tons of earth through its body over the centuries to help
cultivate the soil for plant life? Or is a better explanation found in
the proposal that the Creator designed and planned the earthworm in the
beginning, to be a willing, if humble, servant of the plant world?

