Nature Reveals
The earth is home to a cheetah cat that can run 70 mph; insects that can

Important!: The idea of purpose and design in the living world is known as
teleology.

Nature Reveals
The earth is home to a cheetah cat that can run 70 mph; insects that can
sleep for 17 years; Weddell seals that can remain underwater for 45 minutes,
diving to depths of 1,500 feet; eight-armed, ink-shooting octopuses that can
eat their own arms and grow new ones; archerfish that can shoot water 15
feet into the air and hit a bug; peregrine falcons that can swoop down on
their prey at 150 mph; iron-eating bacteria that live 10,000 feet beneath
the earth's surface enduring pressures of 3,000 psi and scalding
temperatures of 185° F; and so on.
Richard Dreyfuss, the academy award winning actor, commented on the
WNET/Nature program for February 26, 1997 in relation The Galapagos Islands.
As he watched an incredible display of sea lions surfing the waves on the
very islands that have become closely associated with Charles Darwin, in
amazement he stated; "I'm trying to understand the science of evolution.
But right now, all I can see is a miracle."

Important!: The idea of purpose and design in the living world is known as
teleology.

1. The Manx shearwater birds that live in Wales migrate from America to
home every year flying approximately 250 miles every day. A Manx shearwater
bird captured in Wales was transferred by plane in a crate to America. Then
scientists released the bird in Boston. Incredibly, the bird flew home
across the Atlantic Ocean to its home in Wales, more than 3,100 miles away
in only 12 days, although it had never flown over the ocean before.
How could this occur unless God implanted the knowledge of the bird's home
in its brain?

2. When a baby is made in its mother the genetic code that governs the eye
programs the baby's body to begin growing optic nerves from both the brain
as well as from the eye. Each eye will have a million nerve endings that
begin growing through the flesh toward the baby's brain. At the same time,
a million optic nerves will begin growing through the flesh towards the baby's
eye. Each of the million optic nerves must find a match up to its mate to
enable sight to exist.

3. The rattlesnake detects its prey using a small sense organ found between
the nostril and the eyes that is so sensitive it can detect a difference of
temperature of only one thirty-third of a dgree. This ability to detect the
precise temperature of an object in front of the snake enables it to
precisely measure the distance and direction of its prey. This ability to
detect such a small temperature variation is so difficult that only a
computerized thermometer device can detect so small a difference. How could
such a sensitive awareness of temperatures have evolved in the rattlesnake
by chance"?

4. The woodpecker has two toes in front and two toes in the rear allowing
it to grip the trunk of a tree firmly while pecking for insects. While all
other birds have their bill connected directly to their skull, only the
woodpecker has an unusual spongy tissue between its bill and skull that acts
as a shock absorber while it pecks forcefully at the trunk of a tree for
hours at a time seeking to locate insects. Also, unlike other birds, the
tongue of a woodpecker is not attached to the rear of its mouth.
Incredibly, the woodpecker's tongue is five inches long coiled within its
skull, allowing the bird to locate its insect prey deep within the tree
trunk.

Neo-Darwinism: is a modern and updated version of the original Darwinism.
Neo-Darwinists believe that the combination of natural selection (as
proposed by Darwin), geologic time (millions upon millions of years), and
mutations (based on the Mutation Theory) can explain organic evolution.
Triple- flaw of the theory: It is almost universally agreed that in nature
mutations produce less fit organisms, time (whatever length) brings death
and disintegration, and natural selection destroys unfit organisms, leaving
today's evolutionist without a mechanism for his theory.

5. The difference of neck length in the giraffe was long thought by
evolutionary scientists to be causedby mutation, thus further supporting the
evolutionary process. It is now known that the variation in neck length is
caused by differences in food, or by variation in the number of dominant
genes that control neck length.

6. Living along the seacoast within the tidal zone, the sea slug feeds
primarily on sea anemones. These sea anemones are equipped with thousands
of small stinging cells on their tentacles that explode at the slightest
touch. This explosion plunges poisoned harpoons into attackers paralyzing
them so that they can be drawn into the anemones' stomach to be digested.
The sea slug is able to eat the sea anemones without being stung, exploding
the stinging cells or digesting them. The amazing sea slug moves the
undigested stinging cells through ciliated tubes that are connected to the
stomach where they end up in pouches. The stinging cells are rearranged and
stored in these pouches to be used for the sea slug's own defense system!
Then, whenever the sea slug is attacked, it defends itself using the
stinging cells that the anemone manufactured for its own protection.
How this defense system ever happened is a question that evolutionists have
never been able to explain. Firstly, in order to prevent the stinging cells
from exploding, the sea slug would have to evolve some sort of chemical
means to temporarily neutralize them. It would also have to evolve a new
digestive system, which would digest the tissues of the anemone but not the
stinging cells. The sea slug would also have to cleverly evolve the
sophisticated ciliated tubes and pouches as well as a highly complex
mechanism for arranging, storing, and maintaining the stinging cells.
Finally, and contrary to evolutionary explanations, the anemone would have
to endorse the sea slug's plans by refraining from evolving countermeasures
which is exactly what the theory of evolution dictates a predator would do.

Important Fact!: Mutations are almost always (99.99%) harmful, if not
lethal to the unfortunate organism in which they occur.

Important Fact!: Mutations are not only harmful, but they are also very
rare. Only once in approximately every ten million duplications of a DNA
molecule do they occur. Also, mutations are random, not directional. This
makes them unpredictable so that they don't follow any ordered design or
plan.

7. The Bull's Horn Acacia tree of Central and South America has large
hollow thorns that are inhabited by a species of ferocious stinging ants.
The tree also supplies food to the ants through small bumps that exist on
the exterior. The ants receive food and shelter from this tree. In return
the ants protect the tree by viciously attacking any intruders. The truly
amazing thing about this relationship is that these ants are also gardeners
that make regular raids in all directions from their home tree, destroying
every green shoot that tries to grow near their home tree. Because of this
the ants' home tree always has lots of sunlight and space to grow, which is
a rare thing in the tropical jungles and forests where the competition for
these things is intense. Experiments have shown that when the ants are
taken away from one of these trees, the tree dies within two to fifteen
months.
Evolutionist cannot explain how a relationship like this would ever come
into being. They casually attempt to label it as a symbiotic relationship
and an example of co-adaptation. They fail however to explain how this
relation would develop through the evolutionary process.

8. Cleaning Symbiosis is a situation that ridicules the evolutionary
process. Large predatory fish, after feeding continually on smaller fish
and shrimp find that their mouths are littered with debris and parasites.
In this unique relationship the fish opens its mouth and gill chambers,
baring vicious-looking teeth, so that little "cleaner fish and shrimp" can
swim in, clean out the mouth of the much larger predator fish and swim out
again once the job is completed. Once the task is done the big fish swims
away. Although all parties obviously benefit from this relationship it does
not explain how the relationship itself ever developed. Remember that
survival can only be used as an argument after a relationship has been
established. To further complicate things for the evolutionist, this
situation exists with several species of predatory fish, cleaner fish, and
shrimp. If evolution were truly an option, wouldn't animal instincts and
self-preservation surely override any such unnatural suicidal tendencies
instinctively present in the small and quite vulnerable "cleaner fish and
shrimp?"

Also, to complicate things further for the evolutionist, there is a bird
called the Egyptian plover, that is willing to walk into the mouth of the
Nile crocodile to clean out parasites. He, too, leaves completely unharmed.

Important Quote!: "Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and
benevolent design lie around us.the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I
cannot put it into words."

Lord Kelvin, brilliant British physicist

9. The bombardier beetle is a small insect with a most impressive defense
mechanism. When threatened, this little beetle blasts irritating and odious
gases, which are at 212° F, out from two tailpipes right unto the
unfortunate face of the aggressor. Hermann Schildknecht, a German chemist,
studied the bombardier beetle to find out how this incredible chemical feat
is accomplished. The beetle makes his explosive by mixing together two very
dangerous chemicals (hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide). Also, the beetle
adds another chemical known as an "inhibitor" which prevents the chemicals
from blowing up and aids the beetle in storing the chemicals indefinitely
When the beetle is approached by a predator, like a frog, he squirts the
stored chemicals into the two combustion tubes, and at precisely the right
moment he adds another chemical (an anti-inhibitor). This knocks out the
inhibitor, and a violent explosion occurs into the face of the predator.
Could this complex and marvelous mechanism have evolved over millions of
years? According to evolutionists there must have been thousands of
generations of beetles improperly mixing these hazardous chemicals in fatal
evolutionary experiments, blowing themselves to pieces. Over time they (the
evolutionists) tell us that the beetles arrived at the magic formula.
What about the development of the inhibitor???? There is no need to evolve
an inhibitor unless you already have two chemicals you are trying to
inhibit. On the other hand, if you already have the two chemicals without
the inhibitor, it is already too late, for you have just blown yourself
up!!!!!!!
Then to complicate things further for the evolutionists, the beetle still
must create the anti-inhibitor so that it can be added to the solution at
just the right time. Furthermore, the beetle still needs to evolve two
combustion tubes, and a precision communications and timing network to
control and adjust the critical direction and timing of the explosion. To
think that the entire defense mechanism evolved all at once is simply
impossible.

10. The water beetle escapes his enemies by secreting a detergent substance
from a gland that accomplishes two things. First it propels the beetle
quickly away from its predator so that he is out of immediate danger.
Secondly, the detergent causes the surface tension of water to break down
causing the predator insect to sink into the water.

"O Lord, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all: the
earth is full of thy riches"
Psalm 104:24

11. The lesser white-throated warbler spends summers in Germany and winters
in Africa. As summer draws to a close the parent birds leave their young
and fly to Africa. The young birds leave several weeks later, flying across
thousands of miles of unfamiliar land and sea to rejoin their parents.
Experiments have shown that within the brains of these birds is the
inherited knowledge of how to tell latitude, longitude, and direction by the
stars, plus a calendar, a clock, and all the necessary navigational data.
This allows these young birds to fly, unguided, thousands of miles across
unfamiliar territory and water to rejoin their parents.

12. Other migratory animals include the golden plover that travels
approximately 8,000 miles south from the Hudson Bay region, crossing about
2,000 miles over the sea from Nova Scotia to the Caribbean countries, and
winters in Argentina. It returns by way of Central America and the
Mississippi Valley. The barn swallow migrates a distance of 9,000 miles
from northern Canada to Argentina. The arctic tern migrates some 14,000
miles each year traveling from pole to pole and back. Whales, fur seals,
bats, salmon, turtles, eels, lemmings, and various other animals also
migrate.

This incredible sense of direction causes an enormous amount of distress for
the evolutionist. How to explain that these gifts evolved bit by bit over
millions of years by mere chance without the guiding hand of an intelligent
creator is baffling indeed. Remember that these migratory instincts are
useless unless they are absolutely perfect!!!

Simply put, it is useless and lethal to be able to navigate perfectly across
only half an ocean.

13. Insects are the only invertebrates that can fly. They are more diverse
than any other invertebrates, with about 1 million species worldwide. The
wing of an insect is an amazing design that is capable of a very strong
sculling action. The wing movement is very complex consisting of elevation
and depression, fore and aft movement, pronation and supination, and changes
in shape by folding and buckling. Many insects can hover or even fly
backward. Some can even fly sideways or rotate about the head or tail by
utilizing unequal wing movement.
Some insects, such as bees, wasps, and flies must combine excellent flying
skills with a small wing area. For example, the honeybee could not function
in its hive with large wings. This reduction in wing size is compensated
for by a very rapid wing-beat. Such frequencies range from 55 "beats" per
second for some beetles, to over 200 "beats" per second for the honeybee.
The midge has an amazing wing-beat of 1,046 "beats" per second.

14. The decoy-fish is a type of anglerfish that lives in the waters near
Oahu, Hawaii. This fish uses its dorsal fin to attract its prey. When
dinner is in sight, the decoy-fish's dorsal fin goes up and appears to be a
separate smaller fish, complete with a mouth and eye. When the decoy-fish
raises its lure, it stops moving its gills, stops breathing, and the lure
becomes colored with a deep red coloring. At the same time the part that
attaches the lure to the decoy-fish becomes transparent, effectively
separating it from the fish. The decoy-fish then remains perfectly still
while moving the decoy lure from side to side, causing the "mouth" to open
and close. The unsuspecting fish comes close to the lure and the decoy-fish
eats it with lightning speed.
There are other types of lures used by a variety of angler fish. One fish
has a lure attached to a "fishing pole" suspended over its mouth. Another
type has the "fishing pole" coming out of its back with a luminescent "bulb"
at the end of it. Still another type of angler fish has a "light bulb"
hanging from the roof of its mouth. Small fish are drawn to it and swim
right inside the angler's mouth to their death. Another fish lures its prey
with a shrimp-like appendage that it moves backward in a darting motion just
like a real shrimp. Occasionally the "bait" gets nipped off. Fortunately
this was anticipated by the designer (evolution would not do this) as these
fish have the ability to re-grow the "bait". Incredibly the new appendage
starts to grow within a few days and is fully replaced in about two weeks.
Without this ability to re-grow their "lure" mechanism these fish would
probably perish.

15. There are endless amounts of visual beauty present throughout nature.
This has long been a puzzle to the evolutionist. How did such beauty
occur?? Surely the initial life forms in the evolutionary scheme did not
possess beauty of any kind. Much to the dismay of the evolutionist, visual
beauty is often quite useless except for the aesthetic gratification of man
and God.

Useless and hidden visual beauty is indeed an evolutionist's nightmare. To
his way of "thinking," everything that evolves must have a particular
purpose, or else it would never evolve. Evolution is supposed to be a
responsible process. The problem lies in that many of natures beautiful
structures are never seen. The Rhodicthys fish is of a bright red color yet
it lives in total darkness, 1.5 miles below the surface of the ocean. Also,
at the same unseen depths, you will find the deep-sea Neoscopelus
macrolepidotus, which is vividly colored with azure blue, bright red, silver
spots, and black circles! Even the eggs of some deep-sea creatures are
brilliantly colored.

In conclusion, if visual beauty is a natural consequence of evolutionary
progression, why is it that the lower forms of life display greater visual
beauty than the higher forms, such as man?? Evolutionary thinking fails
dismally in attempting to explain visual beauty and are constantly baffled
by natures endless, and widespread beauty that serves no practical purpose
other than the pleasure of both man and God.

16. Mimicry is a fascinating phenomenon of nature where one type of
organism imitates or "mimics" another type.

Spiders can disguise themselves as ants. This may at first not sound too
impressive but remember that spiders have eight legs while ants only have
six. The spider holds up his two front legs over his forehead and wiggles
them like antennae to fool the ants.

The caterpillar of the Lobster moth in Britain modifies its legs to hang
down like the scales surrounding the buds of the beech tree. Amazingly they
are the proper number, length, color, and shape for this very purpose. When
the larva is attacked it lowers flaps on its sides, which uncover black
"wounds" that trick the attacker into thinking that it has already fallen
victim to another parasite. Disappointed, the enemy departs.

Many insects "mimic" stinging or bad tasting models to fool predators. Many
species of butterflies imitate monarchs or other bad tasting butterflies or
moths. Some flies "mimic" bees or hornets. To bewilder evolutionists
further is the fact that sometimes only one sex of a species will mimic
while the other will not.

One desert lizard draws insects close using the corner of its mouth that
when opened resembles a small desert flower.

Certain female fireflies "mimic" the flashes of females of other species,
and when their excited would-be suitors arrive, they eat them.

The cuckoo of Europe and the cowbird of the United States both lay their
eggs in the nests of other birds and successfully manage to have their young
raised by the unsuspecting foster parents. Incidentally, the "foster
nestlings" eliminate all of the legitimate members of the family by pushing
them out of the nest.

Evolutionary "thinking" is completely incapable of explaining the origin,
development, or perfection of such mimicry, especially when it is
accompanied by the comitant (existing or occurring together) imitation of
shape, color, habit, and so on.

17. Convergence is the phenomenon that evolutionists use to describe how
similar organs, structures, colors, habits, and so on, exist in unrelated
types of organisms. They (evolutionists) explain this phenomenon to the
effects of similar environmental demands on different organisms resulting in
similar structures, habits and so forth. This concept is known as
convergence. The problem lies in explaining how a highly complex structure
developed just once. To try to convince someone that such amazing and
precise structures evolved independently from widely different ancestral
organisms, each time starting from a completely dissimilar structural
beginning, is sheer fantasy.

Take for example the highly developed sonar systems that are found in both
the bat and the porpoise. Or take the complex wing mechanism which has
supposedly evolved independently four separate times in insects, bats,
flying reptiles, and birds. To make matters worse for the evolutionist,
there are no fossil transitional forms that demonstrate the ability to fly
as having evolved.

Important note!: The modern evolutionary theory contains, and expects us to
believe, two of the most unbelievable scenarios that are 1) nothing created
the material universe, and 2) lifeless matter created all living diversity
in its endless life forms.

Because both assumptions are flat out impossible the evolutionary
scientist faces a rather obvious and serious dilemma. In the first
situation the evolutionary scientist has only nothing to work with-not
space, time, or quantum matter-only nothing. Now the evolutionary scientist
must explain how from nothing our amazingly ordered and magnificent universe
came to be. In the second story, there is at least something to work with-a
lifeless universe. Now from this lifeless universe science must explain an
entire series of impossible events-how pre-biological evolution occurred
(how unorganized matter organized itself into the chemical precursors of
life permitting upward evolution); how early microbial life evolved further
in the primeval oceans; how subsequent ocean life evolved from this; how
"water breathing" fish evolved into land animals; how reptiles evolved into
birds (and, as some would say, how birds evolved into dinosaurs); how cold
blooded reptiles evolved into warm blooded mammals; and how people came from
lower animals.

18. The earth is positioned at just the right distance from the sun so that
we receive exactly the proper amount of heat to support life. The other
planets of our solar system are either too close to the sun (too hot) or
else too far from the sun (too cold) to sustain life.

19. If the speed that the earth turns were to decrease by as much as 10% of
its present rate all plant life would either be burned to a crisp during the
day or frozen at night.

20. The amount that the earth's temperature varies is minimized because of
the nearly perfect circular orbit of the earth around the sun.

21. The moon moves around the earth at a distance of roughly 240,000 miles.
This causes the harmless tides of the various bodies of water. If the moon
were located 1/5th the distance away, the continents would be completely
submerged twice a day.

22. If the thickness of the earth's crust and the depth's of the oceans
were to increase by only a few feet it would alter the absorption of free
oxygen and carbon dioxide so severely that plant and animal life could not
exist.

23. The earth's atmosphere (ozone layer) provides a protective shield
against solar ultraviolet radiation that would otherwise destroy all life.
Also, the atmosphere protects the earth from approximately 20 million meters
that enter it each day at speeds of roughly 30 miles per second. The earth
is rotating at a speed of over 1,000 miles per hour at the equator. We are
moving around the Sun at roughly 67,000/mph. In the lifetime of an average
person the earth will move around the Sun 70 times traveling an incredible
41 billion miles. We are moving around the nucleus of the Milky Way Galaxy
at roughly 500,000/mph. The Milky Way Galaxy is speeding along at an
amazing 1.1 million mph.

Important Quote!: "This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and
comets could only proceed from the counsel and domain of an intelligent and
powerful Being." Sir Isaac Newton

TRY AND FIGURE THIS ONE OUT.

Our Sun makes up about 98% of the total mass of our solar system. It is
about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit at its core with a pressure 250 billion

this system is identical with the center of our galaxy."
(Astronomy Magazine; July 1997, page 25)

NOW. as you ponder the enormousness of the known universe remember that the
Big Bang Theory states that at one time all the matter in the universe, yes
everything, all of it was once compressed into an area no larger than the
point of a pin. Then over time it became all that we see in the heaven's
and see on the earth.all on its own.

Now remember this; The earth was created on the first day of creation.
Genesis 1:1 The sun, moon and stars were not created until the fourth day.
Genesis 1: 14-19

And remember this; "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament
sheweth his handywork" Psalm 19:1

And also this; "By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's
command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible."
Hebrews 11:3

24. The following two "laws" are proven scientific laws that have been
tested again and again under many different types of systems. No reputable
scientist doubts their validity and full applicability.

The 1st law of thermodynamics, also known as the law of energy conservation,
states that energy can be converted from one form to another but cannot be
created or destroyed. This law shows conclusively that the universe did not
create itself.

The 2nd law of thermodynamics, also known as the law of energy decay, states
that every system left to its own devices tends to move from order to
disorder. In layman's terms the universe is moving in a downward,
degenerating direction of decreasing organization.

Important Quote!: "If your theory is found to be against the second law of
thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to
collapse in deepest humiliation." Arthur Eddington, British
astronomer

Remember that evolution demands billions and billions of years of
continual, unsupervised order which is in constant and consistent violation
of the second law of thermodynamics!!!

Noted scientist Lynn Margulis, a professor of biology at the University of
Massachusetts states that history will finally evaluate neo-Darwinism (today's
form of Darwinism thus "neo") as "a minor twentieth-century religious sect
within the sprawling religious persuasion of Anglo-Saxon biology."
At some of her many public lectures, she asks the molecular biologists
attending to name a single unambiguous example of new species formation
through accumulated mutations. No one has yet accepted her challenge.