Posted on 07/04/2006 8:42:50 AM PDT by DouglasKC
In Asia, Africa and Australia lives a remarkable creature, the archerfish, that shoots down its prey from the air above it with a burst of water. It uses its tongue and the top of its mouth to form a groove similar to a gun barrel. Then, by compressing its gills, it squirts water up to six feet with deadly accuracyin spite of the distortion caused by seeing the target from below the surface of water.
What's so amazing about the archerfish's ability to shoot straight? When light passes between air and water, it is refracted, which causes a distortion. If an archerfish simply aimed at the object where it appeared to be from below the water, it could never hit its target! Yet scientists have found that archerfish are able to strike their target when sighting upwards at angles of 40 degrees!
More amazingly, marine researchers have discovered that these fish can hit their prey whether the amount of refraction is large or small. They have also found that the fishes' binocular vision allows them to see clearly at considerable distances above them, an ability other fish do not have.
An experiment
Here is an experiment. In a clear glass of water, hold a pencil at an angle halfway under the water and look at it from different positions. Notice how the pencil appears different below and above the water. That is the refraction of the light changing from the water to the air.
So how can the archerfish compensate for this distortion and know how to shoot at the right place?
Evolutionists don't know
Evolutionists still don't know how the archerfish got its amazing abilities. They can only wonder! Viewed through the distortion of evolution, they cannot explain how the archerfish gradually learned to not aim where its eyes see but to aim instead at a different spot where the target actually is.
Without its binocular vision, it could not see the object with such precision, and without the special shape of the upper mouth and a specialized tongue, it could not make the groove it needs to shoot the concentrated jet of water. Many factors have to appear togetherand be perfectly formedfor this shooting mechanism to work. This, of course, goes totally against Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory, which is based on a gradual, step-by-step process.
Darwin wrote in The Origin of Species, "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down" (1859, p. 171).
The archerfish offers precisely such an example, since several complex systems must all appear at the same time, perfectly and not gradually formedbinocular vision, a specialized mouth and tongue, specialized gills to compress and expel water and an aiming system based in the brain and not in the eyes. If any of these parts is missing, the mechanism will not hit the target and no survival advantage is created.
Shooting down Darwin's theory
When you get down to the facts, the archerfish with one squirt of its gills shoots down Charles Darwin's entire theory of evolutionand that by Darwin's own admission!
So evolution doesn't have the answer to this mystery. But the Bible does. Genesis 1:20-21 says that God created all the creatures that live in the water. He created a great variety of perfectly formed fish, including the archerfish with all its special features, such as binocular vision, other specialized organs and a built-in ability to compensate for the distortion of the water. VT
Christ mutating into a rat? hmmm. Is that evolution or a miracle?
God created x-rays to blast our DNA.
"Polonium halos in the granite - explain that."
Ask and ye shall receive ...
George
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/po-halos/
Debunking Polonim Halos:
Creationist Robert Gentry has argued that ring-shaped discoloration haloes in primordial granite rocks are the result of damage from alpha-particle emission by radioactive isotopes of the element polonium (Po). Since radiogenic polonium has a very short half-life (usually measured in fractions of a second), Gentry argues that, if granite takes thousands to millions of years to form as mainstream geology believes, any polonium originally present would have decayed away long before the granite could have formed and could not have produced these haloes. Therefore, he feels that their existence is evidence for an instantaneous and recent creation of these granite rocks, and by extension the Earth. The following articles point out the flaws in Gentry's argument.
"Polonium Haloes" Refuted
Professional geologist Tom Bailleul takes a second look at Gentry's claimed polonium haloes, arguing that there is no good evidence they are the result of polonium decay as opposed to any other radioactive isotope, or even that they are caused by radioactivity at all. Gentry is taken to task for selective use of evidence, faulty experiment design, mistakes in geology and physics, and unscientific principles of investigation and argument style.
Evolution's Tiny Violences: The Po-Halo Mystery
Amateur scientist John Brawley investigated Gentry's claims directly by studying local rock samples, and concluded that there is no good evidence that these "polonium" haloes are actually produced by polonium at all, as opposed to longer-lived radionuclides such as radon or uranium.
(Nothing I've ever done has looked very coordinated!)
Indeed...and I now notice a third person has provided the same link...indeed, if we really were a mysterious world-wide conspiracy, we would be much more coordinated...
But why are there still monkeys?
Oh, now you've got us...such an innovative, brand spanking new question to send those of us who support evolution running...you have outwitted us...
What do you mean? Its a holiday! Things will be more organized tomorrow, just you wait and see!
I think I should help out the newbies: Evolution Troll's Toolkit.
Another service of Darwin Central, the conspiracy that cares.
Indeed, there is that to consider...what with all the patriotic music, fireworks, tasty foods, and fine brews around here, being organized is not on my mind right now...having fun is more important for the time being...
Tomorrow its back to business, with the conspiracy...
A very fine idea...it would save them the embarrasment of repeating the same old stuff that we heard way too many times...I keep hoping for some original thoughts, not something taken from the Toolkit...
Original thoughts from a creationist? I'd like that.
.indeed, if we really were a mysterious world-wide conspiracy, we would be much more coordinated...
That's right. Someone should have told me....But then, I haven't been reading all of the newsletters and I don't answer the phone when I don't know the Caller ID...we need more phone numbers...I keep getting a busy signal when I call myself,.... err, ughh, I mean you.
I would like it as well...some new and interesting ideas would be welcome...I am not at all optimistic about it tho...
[Har-de-har-har! A genuine knee-slapper. Rolling on the floor!]
Plants? Amoebas? Fungi? Is it your contention that nothing died?
Ah, yes, there are really so few of us evos, to do so much work...
I am in hysterics...
I'm betting you don't have a clue as to what a polonium halo is. Something you found on one of those wacky creationist sites, right?
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