Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders
without number. (Job 9:10 KJV) “When Portuguese and early Dutch
colonists began to inhabit the small tropical island of
Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, from the early 1500s onwards,
they found the island to be the home of a very unusual bird.
This bird was as large as a turkey, of ungainly build, with
short curly tail feathers and tiny wings. It had a strong black
beak with a horny hook at the end. It was so unafraid of man
that the Portuguese named it doudo, meaning ‘simpleton’, because
it was so trusting they were easily able to hit it on the head
and kill it for food. Hence the English name dodo. Dodos were
slaughtered in large numbers by sailors and settlers, and pigs
which were introduced to the island voraciously ate the dodo
eggs. The last dodo was killed in 1681—less than 180 years after
it was first described.” (Creation 14(1):21 Dec, 1991, by Robert
Doolan) The Dodo was considered stupid or dull-witted because it
would let the sailors and tr