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Peacock |
 How does the peacock get his iridescent color? Amazingly, the peacock feathers haven no pigment in the feathers--the color is produced by light-processing structures formed by careful arrangement of the little barbs and barbules of the feather, which form a diffraction grating. The optical structures in peacock feathers which produce color were first documented by Hooke and Newton 1665-1704. The structure of these micro barbs in the feather is on the order of 100,000 dots per inch. which gives a grid spacing approximating the wavelength of light, and produces these incredible color effects. Since the giant, clumsy tail of the peacock obviously gives him a survival disadvantage, the evolutionists claim that it gives him a reproductive advantage (more attractive), so thatıs why he decided to evolve it. Thatıs ridiculous--this feather could not have evolved--it requires intricate knowledge of the principles of optical physics and the wave nature of light, not to mention the nano-scale design of the feathers to exploit the properties of light. The iridescent blue-green color is very similar to that produced by the optical structures of the morpho butterfly, but uses a totally different principle to cause the color to appear. If the peacock feather is viewed from the backside, the blue dot disappears. The color is truly in the eye of the beholder, not in the feather. |
