Metamorphosis: The Beauty and Design of Butterflies

Throughout history, butterflies have fascinated artists and philosophers, scientists and school children with their profound mystery and beauty. In this video you will explore their remarkable world as few ever have before. The butterfly’s superbly engineered body is magnified hundreds of times to reveal compound eyes made of thousands of individual lenses, wings covered with microscopic solar panels, and navigational systems that unerringly guide Monarch butterflies on their annual migration from Canada to Mexico. How did these extraordinary creatures come into being? Are they the products of a blind, undirected process? Or were they designed for a purpose by an intelligence?