“Grue Jay” Discovered in Texas Puzzles Evolutionists

While not an official name, “grue jay” is one suggested name for a hybrid found near San Antonio, Texas. The odd-looking bird has a blue jay for a father and a green jay for a mother, and it is the first observed wild hybrid of the two species.

Green jays live in Central America, and blue jays live in North America. But in Texas, the two species are beginning to share a common range (the researchers attribute this to climate change—which may be the case, but keep in mind that climates have always changed, and when you start with the history in God’s Word, the changes we’re observing now are nothing to be alarmed about).

This new hybrid is surprising researchers,

The finding is particularly surprising because green jays and blue jays branched away from each other in the evolutionary tree seven million years ago. And as recently as a few decades ago, their habitats did not even overlap. . . .

“We were really caught off guard that, in some way, mating could occur. . . . That was really surprising to us.”

Of course blue and green jays hybridizing would be surprising from an evolutionary perspective because these two species supposedly split around the same time they think humans and chimpanzees split!

It’s ludicrous to think of a human/chimp hybrid because we are incredibly different, genetically and anatomically. And yet, in the same amount of time that an apelike creature supposedly developed into two creatures as vastly different as a chimp and anatomically modern man, these jays changed colors and developed a few other very minor differences but are still so similar that they can produce viable offspring. It simply doesn’t make sense!

When we start with God’s Word, we see that life was made according to its kind.

The evolutionary worldview has a difficult time explaining what we observe when it comes to species because they start from wrong assumptions. When we start with God’s Word, we see that life was made according to its kind.

These jays are part of the same kind and only diverged into what we today call two separate species sometime after Noah’s flood, which occurred just a few thousand years ago. Blue and green jays as we know them today have only existed for a few thousand years at most, and their kind has only existed since day five of creation week, a mere six thousand years ago.

This “grue jay” hybrid—like “grolar bears” (grizzly/polar hybrids), “coywolves” (coyote/wolf hybrids), or “ligers” (lion/tiger hybrids)—is no surprise to creationists. Each of these hybrid examples is simply reproducing according to its kind, with great variety (because of its created genetic diversity), as we’d expect starting with Genesis.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.