Marvel of God's Creation 6: The Angler Fish

From: Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Marvel_of_God'?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?s_Creation_6:_?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?The_Angler_Fis?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?h?= Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 21:10:50 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0227_01C3FFD1.ACDDA340"; type="text/html" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3314.1001 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0227_01C3FFD1.ACDDA340 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Location: =?iso-8859-1?B?aHR0cDovL3d3dy5oYXI=?= =?iso-8859-1?B?cnlwb3R0ZXJtYWdpYy4=?= =?iso-8859-1?B?b3JnL0V2b2x1dGlvbiU=?= =?iso-8859-1?B?MjBvZiUyMENyZWF0aW8=?= =?iso-8859-1?B?bmlzdC9NT0dDJTIwMDY=?= =?iso-8859-1?B?Lmh0bQ==?= Marvel of God's Creation 6: The Angler Fish

MARVEL OF GOD'S CREATION #6=20

The Angler Fish
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One of God's amazing creations is the = deep-sea=20 Angler fish. This fish makes its home more than a mile deep in = ocean=20 water. On her forehead the female has a "fishing rod" tipped = with an=20 "artificial worm". She dangles this "bait" over her mouth to = attract her=20 next meal. Ah, but there is a problem -- her next meal = cannot=20 see the bait, since it is too dark under more than a mile of sea = water.=20 Starvation sets in while she waits for her first deep sea fish = dinner.=20 At last, she realizes "I must do something about this darkness = problem".=20 But, alas, it is too late. She is dead and dead fish can not = evolve the=20 adaptations needed to rectify problems, even though evolution = says she=20 doesn't evolve something until her situation (or environment) = tells her=20 that it is needed to survive.

The only possibility is that God created the = Angler fish=20 with all the fully-functional equipment it needed to survive at = great=20 depths. To solve the darkness problem, God created a special = kind of=20 light on the bait. This light displays highly advanced=20 technology -- it gives off no heat! A compound called=20 Luciferin is oxidized with the help of an enzyme scientists = named=20 Luciferase, and this reaction produces heatless light. Ask an=20 evolutionist how a deep-sea fish could evolve the ability to = produce=20 high-tech light on an artificial bait dangled over the fish's = mouth? God=20 has made His creation to display His glory and power. No one = could look=20 at the Angler fish and say it is the result of the "impersonal = plus time=20 plus chance", unless that person had already decided to refuse = to=20 believe in the God of the Bible (Romans 1). The vain = speculations of=20 evolution lead to foolish thinking and impossible=20 conclusions.

Naturally, the Angler fish needs to reproduce = and has a=20 special way of doing this. In the darkness of the deep, it is = difficult=20 for the male and female to find each other. God designed the = eggs of the=20 female so that they float up through a mile of ocean to the = surface. On=20 the ocean surface the eggs form a jellylike mass and then hatch. = The=20 young fish, male and female, grow and mature in the surface = waters. At a=20 certain point in their development, the male finds a female and = bites=20 and holds on to her abdomen. Soon the tissues of the female grow = into=20 and attach to the mouth tissues of the male, and the female = drops to the=20 bottom of the ocean carrying her parasite male with her not to = separate=20 "til death do they part". He found her in the light of the = surface=20 waters, so he does not have to grope around in the dark of the = deep=20 looking for a mate. How could all of this evolve when it is so=20 ultra-specialized and unique?

Why does the female not chase the male away when = he bites=20 her abdomen? Evolution provides no explanation. What possible=20 evolutionary mechanism enables the male's circulatory system to = merge=20 with the female's? And from what creature did this peculiar fish = evolve?=20 Evolution has no answers.

A major difference between the Angler fish and = other fish=20 is the Angler's lack of a swim bladder, which is an air sac to = provide=20 buoyancy and to prevent sinking. If it had evolved without an = air=20 bladder, it would sink and die. If it had an air bladder and had = evolved=20 the bait and light in surface waters, it would be easy prey for = other=20 predators and "survival of the fittest" would force it into=20 extinction.

Another feature of the deep sea Angler is its = special=20 body, which is designed to prevent crushing. A pressure of over = 2,000=20 pounds per square inch is exerted on the body of the fish at one = mile=20 deep. It survives this great pressure with no problem. On the = other=20 hand, if the first Anglers were surface fish and lost their air=20 bladders, (through let's say, some unexplainable genetic = mutation) and=20 then sank to the bottom of the sea, they would have been = crushed. Dead=20 animals don't evolve any further.

The deep-sea Angler had to have been created = with all its=20 special equipment fully functional. God says that as we study = His=20 creation, it should cause our thoughts to focus on the Creator = and to=20 give Him thanks and honor Him as God (Romans 1).^[1]

^[1] For a super = treatment=20 of the Angler fish and other highly specialized animals read: The Natural Limits to = Biological=20 Change, by Lane P. Lester and = Raymond G.=20 Bohlin (Zondervan, 1984).

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