Creation or Evolution

I began to process the deer I got while hunting last Saturday on the first day of the season. I’ve just begun to use the word “process.” It’s much nicer than to say “butcher.” It somehow seems less crude, more refined to say the word “process” and in today’s world, I don’t want to offend anyone, but the results are entirely the same. Once the internal organs are removed, the processing of the animal requires a person to separate the edible meat from the boney structures. I spent most of yesterday doing that. I prefer to process my own deer for several reasons. I don’t like the grit created when other processors use a band saw to cut through bones of the deer. The bones of a deer are fragile and will sometimes splinter. The saw also creates “bone dust.” It seems that no matter how careful the person is, they still leave some on the meat. I remove the meat from the bones before I cut the venison into the various types of steaks and “chunk” meat I want. Chunk meats are smaller pieces that I will use to make jerky, bologna, or to can. I pressure can the jars of venison. When you want to eat it, I only need to do is to warm it up. It’s already cooked and removes the “gaminess” of the deer meat.

It also bothers me to find a hair from the deer’s coat on the meat. I am extremely careful to remove each and every hair as I separate the venison into the cuts of meat I want.

I won’t say that some professional deer processors are less than honest, but I want to be sure that the deer I have is the deer that I get back. I want to be sure it’s all the meat I sent to be processed is the amount of that is returned. I want to know how long my deer has hung and that it’s been handled and refrigerated properly. My deer isn’t USDA inspected, but I handle it “kitchen clean” the same care I use in my kitchen.

Each time I’ve processed the meat from the deer, I am astounded at the complexity of the animal. This is only the muscle and bone, not including the multitude of functions found in the internal organs. How the joints articulate, how tendons and ligaments are attached, how grooves and protuberances abound to make locomotion a reality. Sheaths of connective tissue allow the muscles to glide freely. Whoever says that evolution created such a remarkable creature has no idea what a wonderful God we have and how powerful and intelligent that God is.